It may be a long time before viewers can appreciate the 2019 remake of "The Lion King"
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It may be a long time before viewers can appreciate the 2019 remake of "The Lion King" as a freestanding work
instead of judging it against the original. The 1994 version was "Hamlet" plus "Bambi" on the African veldt: a childhood-shaping
Oscar-winning blockbuster
the second-highest grossing feature film of its calendar year
one of the last great hand-drawn Disney animated features (Pixar's original "Toy Story" came out 18 months later)
and a tear-producing machine. This remake was controversial long before it opened
mainly because it seemed to take the Walt Disney company's new branding strategy—remaking beloved animated films as CGI-dependent "live action" spectaculars—to its most drastic conclusion. It serves up the same story with different actors
different arrangements of beloved songs and soundtrack cues
a couple of original tunes
a few fresh scenes and sequences
and
It may be a long time before viewers can appreciate the 2019 remake of "The Lion King" as a freestanding work, instead of judging it against the original. The 1994 version was "Hamlet" plus "Bambi" on the African veldt: a childhood-shaping, Oscar-winning blockbuster, the second-highest grossing feature film of its calendar year, one of the l
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