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My concern with "live action remakes" isn't the fact that it's "not new" or that it's unnecessary (which tbf it's totally unnecessary), but the fact that it's... live-action. It encourages the mindset that no one is allowed to like cartoons, cartoons are only made for the entertainment of young children, and never as an art form; Sophisticated Movies™ can only be live-action, because cartoons are for babies.
I think you are projecting your own issues a bit.
Quote from: Zapper on December 09, 2018, 05:40:14 AMI think you are projecting your own issues a bit.I don't agree, I think that assessment is spot on. Yeah, this is going to be all CGI, but it's all "realistic" CGI as opposed to, like, Toy Story. Beauty and the Beast . . . live action. Cinderella . . . live action. Mulan . . . live action.What we are not seeing is "we remade this classic animated feature as a new animated feature!" Because a lot of people, and apparently Disney, sees a live action (or "so realistic it looks like live action") movie as somehow being more legitimate than a cartoon. And I think it's a shame.
It also reminds me of a discussion in the shoutbox about Watership Down, a new animated version of which is airing on TV in the UK at least over Christmas, and the idea that it couldn't be a kid's story, because the film is brutal - but the story was written for the author's kids who were six and eight at the time. (I know this as weirdly there was an interview with said daughters in a magazine here this week). So I think the concept of what is for kids and what isn't, whether animation is or isn't is much more complicated. (I also don't think Watership Down is particularly disturbing, but that's largely because as a kid I watched the animated episodes of FArthing Wood which were brutal as a kids' show, and read the books, which were more so) so I wonder if even kids really need everything to be happy and shiny :/
This thread has inspired me to listen to some of the songs from the Broadway Show. I hope they will keep that section of the score from when Mufasa appears to adult Simba. I think it's one of my favorite scores in the movie. I'd love to see more of Scar destroying the land/letting the hyenas take over than we saw in the original movie. It would be nice if they found unused lyrics or songs that were inteneded to be in the orginal film but were cut. The live action Beauty and the Beast included lyrics for "Gaston" that didn't make it in to the animated film and the Little Mermaid on Broadway added "Her Voice" I think Aladdin's "Proud of Your Boy" was also meant to be in the animated flim but was cut also. Ponyfan