#the lion king live

[locallibrarylover]

*by live theatre i mean plays, musicals, operas, ballets, concert versions of musicals, staged readings, & things of that nature. EDIT: YES this includes amateur, local, kids, high school, & community theatre. almost every show i've seen has been local

if you want, list the names of the shows you've seen in the tags!

#(if you saw this before no you didnt. i wanted to add more options) #anyways! very curious about how much live theatre people on here see. #personally i've 22 shows? those being: sleeping beauty (ballet). mary poppins. the lion king. the sound of music. once on this island. #little shop of horrors. mamma mia! chess. annie. music man jr. jesus christ superstar. joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat. #something rotten! sam's room. the blender. bad auditions by bad actors. the 10 worst breakups of all time. drugs are bad. fairy tale court. #peter and the starcatcher. a christmas carol. & robin hood! all of those have been local/community except lion king ^_^ #(yes i also redid this because i forgot about robin hood & sleeping beauty...) #musings

[dareduffie]

when will people learn that live-action remakes will never be good as their original animated counterparts because the glory of animation is the colour, movement, and fantasy that's just untranslateable to live-action

#the WHOLE POINT of animation is that its NOT live-action #because if it's not live-action then it's not held back by realism #like. mcu costumes don't look the same as their comic counterparts because yes they would look silly! #and mind you the mcu will run too far with that but point being that you use the different mediums of art for different reasons #spiderverse would suck if it was live-action #i haven't watched the live-action atla and i'm not going to for several reasons #avatar the last airbender #winx club #riverdale #the lion king #disney remakes

[pftones3482]

I want to be excited for the live action Little Mermaid so badly

The Little Mermaid is my favorite Disney movie. Anyone who knows me knows I'm obsessed with mermaids as a whole and will watch any media that has them. Hell, I own my own tails and monofins. But every time I see a gif or a video for the new Little Mermaid, I cringe

(btw, this is NOT because of the casting. If you're against this movie because Ariel is black, you're a racist piece of shit and this post isn't for you)

My issue lies with the CGI. It just looks so FAKE. We've seen through the course of movies and TV shows that use it that CGI does not age well, and that's because technology is constantly improving. What was impressive in 2005 is not impressive in 2023 (Just look at Aquamarine, another movie about mermaids). And the CGI on Ariel and her sisters already looks fake and the movie isn't even out yet!

Compare this image from the trailer

To this screenshot from H20: Just Add Water (a TV show that came out in 2006):

You can see the details of the scales in the second image

The first image is flat. Sure, it's colorful, but it's flat. It's fake. Halle herself is the most beautiful and alive part of the image, because everything else is fake

The difference?

H20 had costume designers, ones specifically trained in mermaid tail making, HAND CRAFT every tail on the show. All of the scales were hand laid, all the tails molded to fit the actors/actresses perfectly, painted by hand

Let's even look at someone with no affiliation to TV or movies:

This is Mermaid Linden, a very well known (in the mermaid community) professional mermaid. You can tell her tail is not as high quality as the ones made for H20 (though it's still a VERY expensive tail) - but it still looks like it's a part of her. You can still see the details. Because professional mermaid tails are also all handmade and molded to fit each person. Even if they don't lay every individual scale, good professional mermaid tail makers are very meticulous about what they do.

This is what happens when Disney refuses to pay practical effects artists. We could have had beautiful, handmade tails that would look real on screen for decades to come and could be reused for promotional purposes - instead, they're underpaying and overworking their non-unionized employees to make CGI tails that don't even look real now.

(to be clear, I'm not shitting on the artists. As I said, they're being underpaid and overworked. This is not their fault)

And before anyone comes and says "But swimming in those is difficult!" Absolutely it is. You should never swim in a professional level tail (or even just fabric tails) without practice and training. Which Disney could have given the cast if they were willing to PAY people (the cast of H20 [a TV SHOW] literally learned how to be mermaids on set. It's been done before)

Disney's "Live Action" needs to be rebranded as "CGI with some real people tossed in" because that's all any of these remakes have been, and it's exhausting when I look at what we could have had.

#tlm #the little mermaid #h20 #disney #mermaids #professional mermaids #also trust me when i say i think all cgi mermaid tails look bad #but for some reason these ones just look so much worse #we saw the same thing happen with the 'live action' lion king #the lions looked SO BAD #but then you look at like???? aslan from chronicle of narnia????? which was made YEARS before the lion king #and he looked more realistic #and its disneys fault bc they WONT PAY PEOPLE

[hjbender]

“Good news! That cartoon show you loved as a kid is set to become the latest live-action movie!”

Kitten, I’ll be honest, Daddy’s about to start killing people.

#danny phantom #gundam wing #cowboy bebop #the lion king #atla #i swear to god #not every cartoon has to be live action #stop trying to milk nostalgia from this generation challenge #just hearing rumors is bad enough

[thegoldenavenger]

Binghe is definitely the type of protagonist to get crowned king of a biome he has never been to.

#kamaeteDRAWS #svsss #bingliushen #luo binghe #liu qingge #shen qingqiu #i went way too hard on that bg..... #and liu qingge actually lives and thrives in the biome binghe is crowned king of HAH #lion tiger fair

[youruinedmylifebynotbeingreal]

Inspired by (x)

#night at the museum #night at the museum Kahmunrah Rises Again #animation #animated #live action #Cinderella #beauty and the beast #Aladdin #the lion king #101 dalmatians #cruella #live action remakes #Mulan #the jungle book #Disney #winx club #I know winx is a show but it COUNTS #personal #100 #500 #1k

[angelosearch]

It's an oddly specific gender... (technically Razer has facial tattoos but that's a form of scarring!)

#does roronoa zoro count too? seemed like it in the live action #I imprinted on Squall Leonhart at a young age and now all my s-tier favorite characters are clones of him #s-tier=squall tier #too late to the party? #zuko #squall leonhart #lion king kovu #hunter toh #razer green lantern #keith voltron #favorite gender #bad editing yeesh

[mxbaggins]

Big Theatre: “we can’t record live theatre shows, then no one will come see them!!!!” 😡

Me, watching Phantom of the Opera for the millionth time: “I would give literally anything to be sitting under than chandelier again.” 😭😭😭

#musicals #theatre #musical theatre #musical theater #theater #phantom of the opera #live theatre #les miserables #the lion king #newsies #mamma mia #grease #the lightning thief #les mis #avenue q #something rotten #rent #heathers #jersey boys

[gothfoxx]

Prepare the rave crabs

#news #king charles lll #rave crabs #long live the king but make it lion king

[yen-sids-tournament]

Sequel Movies Grand Finale: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest v The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

#disney #yen sids poll #sequelmovies #final round #the lion king 2 #simbas pride #pirates of the caribbean #dead mans chest #captain jack sparrow #elizabeth swann #will turner #simba #kuvo #kiara #davy jones #rafiki #filmento #drawpinion dump #disney animated movie #disney live action

[bonefall]

Just wanted to sneak in and say the idea of Riverstar x One Eye would immediately become 100x funnier if one were also to ship them in Better Bones

Here's the God of Summer. He eats people and hates everyone except his RiverClan bf and daughter /j

Quick shout back to you to tell you I'm trying to provide room for it

I love OneRiver too much to not give some kind of opportunity where they could have had some sort of positive relationship, and it's just a genuinely cool idea. That Riverstar was able to see the mysterious stranger before he revealed his true colors, and always felt... odd, about his peculiar energy.

A friendly tenseness. A mutual parting where neither one quite knows what to make of the other. The feeling in Riverstar's gut is like locking eyes with a tiger, just before it turns away.

So what I'm thinking is that in Thunderstar's Justice, after the carnage at the First Battle that summons the God of Summer like a dinner bell, One Eye comes to peruse. He visits each Clan, spends a short amount of time there, and then moves onto the next. He finally stops in Skystar's Clan, but it would give him some room to hang out in the River Kingdom.

Since it's Thunderstar's story though, he would be getting this information secondpaw from his ally and old friend, King Riverstar. One Eye would have a very... tense, predatory feeling to Thunderstar.

Like he's tracking something very powerful and very dangerous as it prowls through the undergrowth.

In truth, One Eye is scouting. He's looking for what was responsible for that delicious smell on that sticky, sweltering summer day. His stops in each group to understand them better, see what sorts of things they want and what they're currently doing, but finds that none of the other Four Founders are the warlord he's looking for.

A wise, ancient, well-spoken being, he was interested in Riverstar for a little longer than the others. Not as his target. Just as a curiosity.

What a poetic story, this peaceful prince had. Desperate to avoid the stressful responsibilities that would be thrust upon him, he sought friends where there should have been enemies, and made peace in spite of tyrants. But his nonchalance became carelessness, and he was made hostage by his underestimated enemy.

He ended up sparking the very battle he had sought so hard to avoid, his father's heroic death to save his son landing the crown upon Riverstar's head. A tragedy. A tale of inevitability. To a God of War, it's a wonderful story to hear.

#better bones au #BB!DOTC #BB!One Eye #Spirituality Overhauls #So perhaps not explicitly romantic but... Interesting. #An amusement to the god and a prickling trial for the prince #BB!Riverstar who always tries to see the good in people. But the God of Summer is no longer entirely a person. #He simply wears the skin of one. #When the leaders come together near the end to battle him I feel like it would be funny if River was the least hurt lmao #He lays low the combined strength of FIVE armies and swallowed a cat in two bites but he just picks up King River #And then YEETS him as far as he can throw. #Like. Wind gets bit and shaken like a rabbit until several lives fall out. You hear the Mario One Up sound #But River just gets thrown. He like lands in a lurch offscreen lmao #Doesn't even lose a single life from confronting the Cave Lion God Of Violence #Maybe River was so hospitable to him when he was in the skin of a mortal that he was like ''I owe him one <3''

[life-in-toontown]

Hey look it’s Simba, I mean Nala, I mean Mufasa, I mean Kiara, I mean…

Man, if only there was an easier way to be able to tell the characters apart…like 2D animation or something 🤔

#this is a live-action remake hate blog #yes I know this is a sequel to a live-action remake but you know what I mean #disney #disney live action remakes #the lion king #mufasa: the lion king

[velvet4510]

Note: I’m not including “Lavender’s Blue” from Cinderella (2015) because it was not written for the movie. It’s a 17th century English folk song.

#disney live action #live action remake #the little mermaid 2023 #aladdin 2019 #beauty and the beast 2017 #the lion king 2019 #disney music #disney songs #disney polls #music poll #naomi scott #josh groban #celine dion #elton john #dan stevens #beyonce #awkwafina #halle bailey #jonah hauer king #wild uncharted waters #evermore #speechless #spirit #never too late

[artist-issues]

If you actually hate how Rachel Zegler disrespects the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, do not go see or stream the remake.

If you actually hate how Disney has turned the Lilo & Stitch live-action into a bad statement about race, do not go see or stream it.

If you actually believe that the original The Little Mermaid was perfect and needed no adjustments, and Eric was not a bland prince, do not go see or stream the remake.

If you actually thought that Emma Watson misread and mishandled the role of Belle, who, in the original, was expertly characterized, do not go see or stream the remake.

If you actually believe that the Genie wanted to be free, and Aladdin learned to trust, and Jasmine taught them both how, while the Live Action version ruined that, do not go see or stream the remake.

If you actually believe that the original Lion King movie was perfect and needed no bland NatGeoWild embellishment, do not go see or stream the remake.

If you actually believe that the Cinderella (2015) movie was a good remake, go out and buy the DVD—and then don’t go see and stream the other remakes.

Don’t do it. They don’t read our tumblr rants or watch our rage reels, but they count how many of us go see the new stuff. And they count our money as it goes into their bank account to fund the next one. And they count the time we spend on their streaming services. Teach them that we have standards, and the standards aren’t spectacle, and you can’t just buy us with soulless puppets of our favorite movies.

When you’re tempted to go hear the soundtrack play and listen to the dialogue you miss, just go watch the original. That’s what you really love.

#NotMyDisney alienated me with these last few movies, so I’m not playing the games anymore. Make movies for me, as if I’m the smart child you raised on good movies, or else I won’t go see them. If you guys want me, I’ll be waiting for the day that the Live Action Remake comes out, and then immediately streaming the original on Disney+.

Let ‘em measure how many seats are filled in their theaters, versus how many streams of the originals are playing on the same day.

#Disney #woke Disney #notmydisney #not my Disney #live action remake #the haunted mansion remake put me over the edge #Snow White 2024 #the little mermaid 2023 #the Lion king 2019 #Lilo and stitch 2024 #Esmeralda justice #do not go see it #do not stream it

[somnimagus]

Hi i totally dont mean this in a mean way but the way u draw lions makes it really look like u liked the lion king when u were a kid

the 'i don't mean this in a mean way' made me nervous at first but this took me out oh wow...

i got curious and wanted to doodle something to compare, but once i realized scar was the best choice for vibes, not visuals i already had this

#sorry you sent me this presumption ages ago but to answer you yeah... i did really like lion king as a kid haha #it's not an active inspiration but maybe it still lives in my subconscious somewhere #asks #i guess i should i tag this? #my doodles #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers

[writebackatya]

Whenever I see people compare the “live-action” Lion King to the original, I always see Simba’s reaction to the stampeding wildebeests

Which is a great example but I think they should also compare it to the Kingdom Hearts 2 cutscene because yeah it looks goofy as hell compared to the original, but it’s still showing more emotion than the remake’s scene

#the lion king #simba #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts 2 #disney animated movies #disney live action