by TheLionPrince » June 8th, 2013, 1:23 am
[quote="DGFone"]
The Lion King, while based off Hamlet, is still quite an original story. It's an adaptation, but it does't steal, copy, or homage individual scenes from other movies. Because The Lion King, in terms of screenplay, is original, there are going to be parts that people like and don't like.[/quote]
What about the little "homage" to Reversal of Fortune?
Simba: "You're so weird!"
Scar: "You have no idea."
Alan Dershowitz: "You are a very strange man."
Claus von Bülow : "You have no idea."
There was also a reference to Gone with the Wind when Scar says Scarlet O'Hara's famous line, "[You'll] never go hungry again," and the camera zooms out identically just like in Gone with the Wind.
I'm not sure about this "reference", but remember when Timon and Zazu were exchanging simultaneously "Let me out! Let me out!" and "Let me in! Let me in", this seems to reference the 1985 comedy film, Clue:
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Not to mention the most obvious reference of them all, "They call Mister Pig!", a reference to In the Heat of the Night's "They call Mister Tibbs!"
