The Lion King

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The Lion King is a 1994 Disney animated film in which a lion cub and heir to the throne of Pride Rock learns his place in the world. It centers on a guilt ridden lion cub who, after being tricked into thinking he killed his father, flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King.

Directed by Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff. Screenplay by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton. Songs by Tim Rice and Elton John. A Broadway musical production of the same name began in 1997. Disney later produced two related movies: a direct-to-video sequel, The Lion King II: Simba's Pride; and a direct-to-video part prequel-part parallel, The Lion King 1½.

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[edit] Simba

  • [calls out to the sky] You said you'd always be there for me!
  • Danger? Hah! I walk on the wild side. I laugh in the face of danger. [laughs in determination]
  • [after defeating Scar] Run. Run away, Scar. And never return.

[edit] Scar

  • [First lines, spoken to a mouse he's about to eat] Life's not fair, is it? You see, I … well, I shall never be king. And you … shall never see the light of another day. Adieu.
  • [Simba: Hey, uncle Scar, when I'm king, what does that make you?] A monkey's uncle.
  • Run away, Simba. Run. Run away, and never return.
  • [To the hyenas, resulting in Simba's exile] Kill him.
  • I'm ten times the king Mufasa was!
  • [Slowly] Yes … of course. As you wish, your majesty! [Slaps ash into Simba's face, then attacks him]
  • [Digs his claws into Mufasa's paws] Long live the king. [throws Mufasa off the cliff]

[edit] Dialogue

Mufasa: [about Scar] What am I going to do with him?
Zazu: Well, he'd make a very handsome throw rug.
Mufasa: Zazu!
Zazu: And just think, whenever he gets dirty, you can take him out and beat him.
[Mufasa laughs]
Mufasa: Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
Simba: But dad, don't we eat the antelope?
Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great circle of life.
Zazu: [stops on a nearby rock] Good morning, sire!
Mufasa: Good morning, Zazu.
Zazu: Checking in with the morning report.
Mufasa: Fire away.
Zazu: Well, the buzz from the bees is that the leopards are in a bit of a spot...
Mufasa: Oh, really?
[Simba pounces at a grasshopper and misses]
Zazu: And the baboons are going ape over this. Of course, the giraffes are acting like they're above it all...
Mufasa: [to Simba] What are you doing, son?
Simba: [looks in his empty paws] Pouncing.
Mufasa: Let an old pro show you how it's done.
Zazu: ...The tick birds are pecking on the elephants. I told the elephants to forget it, but they can't...
Mufasa: Zazu, would you turn around?
Zazu: Yes, sire. [continues immediately] The cheetahs are hard up, but I always say ...
Mufasa: [whispers] Stay low to the ground.
Zazu: Cheetahs never prosper.
Zazu: What's going on?
Mufasa: A pouncing lesson.
Zazu: Oh very good, pouncing. [reacts] Pouncing?!
Shenzi: Well, well, well, Banzai. What have we got here?
Banzai: Hmm. I don't know, Shenzi. Uh... what do you think, Ed?
Ed: {Crazy laughter}
[They circle around the cubs and Zazu.]
Banzai: Yeah, just what I was thinking. A trio of trespassers!
Zazu: And quite by accident, let me assure you. A simple navigational error. Eh heh heh...
Shenzi: Whoa, whoa, wait wait wait... I know you. You're Mufasa's little stooge.
Zazu: I, madam, am the king's majordomo.
Banzai: [To Simba] And that would make you...?
Simba: The future king.
Shenzi: Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdoms?
Simba: Puh. You can't do anything to me.
Zazu: Uh... technically, they can. We are on their land.
Simba: But Zazu, you told me they're nothing but slobbering mangy stupid poachers.
Zazu: [Aside to Simba] Ix-nay on the oopid-stay...
Banzai: Who you callin' "oopid-stay?!?"
Zazu: My, my, my! Look at the sun! It's time to go!
Shenzi: What's the hurry? We'd love you to stick around for dinner.
Banzai: Yeah! We could have whatever's... "lion" around! {background} Get it? Lion around! {laughs}
Shenzi: Oh wait, wait, wait. I got one, I got one! Make mine a "cub" sandwich. Whatcha think?
[Mufasa is standing over the hyenas]
Mufasa: If you ever come near my son again...
Shenzi: Oh, this is - this is your son?
Banzai: Oh, yours?
[the hyenas begin to laugh]
Shenzi: Did you know that?
Banzai: No! Me? No, I didn't know, no! Did you?
Shenzi: No, of course not!
Shenzi and Banzai: Ed?
Ed: [Nods enthusiastically]
Mufasa: Simba, I'm very disappointed in you.
Simba: I know.
Mufasa: You could have been killed! You deliberately disobeyed me! And what's worse, you put Nala in danger!
Simba: I was just trying to be brave like you.
Mufasa: I'm only brave when I have to be. Simba, being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble.
Simba: But you're not scared of anything.
Mufasa: I was today.
Simba: You were?
Mufasa: Yes. I thought I might lose you.
[Timon and Zazu are cornered by the hyenas]
Timon: Please don't eat me!
Pumbaa: Drop 'em!
Banzai: Hey! Who's the pig?
Pumbaa: Are you talkin' to me?
Timon: Uh-oh! They called him the pig.
Pumbaa: Are you talking to me?
Timon: Shouldn't have done that.
Pumbaa: ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?!
Timon: Now they're in for it!
Pumbaa: They call me... MR. PIG!!!
[he screams and charges at the hyenas]

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