There are always things in one’s life that will stay with him or her forever. It just so happens that it is different, it is special, and it has that little something. It’s like falling in love in a way. I think you all know what I’m talking about. Probably there are also some images flashing before your eyes. There you are, again, reliving that moment…it’s really nice isn’t it? I had one of these moments lately too. It can be caused by many things, for example by this dejavu feeling, I think we are all familiar with it, or a movie and the list could go on much further. For me lately it was called forth by a movie.
I was watching videos on YouTube and I bumped into a video of Lion King 2 with a really nice song. I loved the first one. When I was a child we went to the cinema to watch it about 4-5 times. It’s one of the kind of films that change who you are. Since then I was waiting for a sequel. It came in ’98 but somehow I missed it and slowly forgot all about it. Until that very day, that’s almost 14 years! Wow, I never really realised it’s been THIS long. So I decided to watch it, I sort of owned that to my little self.
There is something about sequels, the succession of them is for me somehow measurable in absolutes. They are whether great or a piece of garbage. I experienced both, actually in the same movie franchise, Spider-man. You know: first one great, second even better, third disappointment. Since I love both Spider-man and The Lion King very much I had this “what if it happens again?” feeling in me. Well I simply had to take a shot.
On Saturday I got the movie, and finally watched it. I’m not going to write about what happened in it because you all have probably seen it, or would like to. It’s really a great movie, a sequel definitely worth watching. I was invited of a little time trip: to my childhood, and to a time when there were nice animated films, like this one, not just these CG garbage movies we got to see nowadays. I really miss those “good old days”.
6 comments:
Although I was a big fan of The Lion King when I was a child, I haven't seen the second part.
On one of my aesthetic lessons recently, I heared something interesting: its story can actually be seen as the summery of the gnostic school. These philosophers ask the same questions as the main characters: who are you? where are you from? what is your task?
It is said that the story was constructed conciously along these messages.
I like your blog entry. I saw
the Lion King when I was child and again for few years and I remembered all these feelings which I felt that time... it was amazing, like a being a child again of course just for an hour:)
I wasn't so keen on Lion King when I was a child. I prefered cartoons about princess, like Cinderella, Anastasia or Arielle. But I think the feeling they gave me are similar to yours.
Zsuzsi I see I am not alone with being a big fan of The Lion King and haven't seen the second part as a child:) I found your comment very interesting because I have never thought about it this way.
Kerubino go and watch the second part,it's great ;)
Adri it's the same feeling, you know I'm more for these cartoons which are seen on as "boy cartoons" but I really love these classic Disney animated movies and as I said I miss them having around.
Hakunamatata... I do not see the point at LK2... (and 2nd part of other cartoons neither):)
It's like... as I watched the Little Mermaid 2... I felt that I would run away from the world. :D
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