The Lion King (1994)

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Wikidata Q36479, film, IMDb tt0110357, TMDB 8587: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the note “1994 animated”.

Also said as The Lion King (1994 animated): the same Wikidata item, so listed here.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Mulan: 2 lines contrast ×1 verdict ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Mulan → The Lion King. Amanda says Mulan did not stay with her like The Lion King, partly due to age and her Elton John fandom.
    “it just didn't stay with me the way that, um, the Lion King did, but I think that's because of age and also because I'm like the world's number one Elton John fan.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:16:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)

Aladdin (live action remake): 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Aladdin (live action remake) → The Lion King. Amanda says the live action Aladdin was off-putting because the sex was on the main text, unlike the original's subtext.
    “the thing that made the live action Aladdin so weirdly off putting was that the sex was just on Maine. It was just out there.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:08:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

Elton John: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): The Lion King → Elton John. Amanda says Elton John's career is the master class in turning sex into subtext.
    “if there's anybody that knows how to put, uh, put, uh, turn sex into subtext, it's Elton John's entire career.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:08:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Mulan → The Lion King. Amanda says Mulan did not stay with her like The Lion King, partly due to age and her Elton John fandom.
    “it just didn't stay with me the way that, um, the Lion King did, but I think that's because of age and also because I'm like the world's number one Elton John fan.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:16:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Aladdin (live action remake) → The Lion King. Amanda says the live action Aladdin was off-putting because the sex was on the main text, unlike the original's subtext.
    “the thing that made the live action Aladdin so weirdly off putting was that the sex was just on Maine. It was just out there.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:08:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): The Lion King → Elton John. Amanda says Elton John's career is the master class in turning sex into subtext.
    “if there's anybody that knows how to put, uh, put, uh, turn sex into subtext, it's Elton John's entire career.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:08:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Mulan → The Lion King. Mallory ranks 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' first and Lion King's 'I Just Can't Wait to Be King' second in her Disney song top five.
    “number one, I'll make a man out of you. Number two, I just can't wait to be king.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:52:38 · Mallory Rubin (0.85 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about The Lion King: Amanda notes 'SEX' famously flashes across the screen in the original Lion King, and jokes about the love song playing while lions frolic.
    “I just X literally flashes across the screen in the original Lion King.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:07:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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