I'm a real nostalgic of The Lion King great times, when Disney movies were still simple, almost stark in their graphics and drawings, and, exactly for that, unforgettable and charming for grown up people as well as for children. I think Disney still knows how to make such a spell with its productions, but I also think that times are really changed a lot. Even children's best friend went undergo a change, following the natural course of inevitable time development, changing in stories as well as in technologies.
On Friday night, with all my almost 20s, I saw "UP", Disney Pixar tenth full-length movie; I liked it, but I found out just one feature of old Disney movies (and I could say "my" Disney movies), which is exactly the reason why I was remain at Peter Pan and not Ice Age. This feature is the fact that they are (and, probably, always will be) even better if you're not a child anymore. With its so topical and hard matters, UP is surely enjoyable for kids, but if you see it with your grown old eyes you can no doubt appreciate it more. In this viewing we have abortion, death, cruelty, hard relationships with parents, loneliness, difficulties of both childhood and oldness...nothing is left behind. But what can a child actually understand or elaborate in the right way of something like that?
I was just 4 when I saw The Lion King for the first time; now it's my favourite movie ever, but at that time I was just able to be so sad because of Mufasa's death, in front of Scar's cruelty and Simba's loneliness and guilt; I think just Timon and Pumbaa's presence comforted my sense of disorientation and save my childhood! When you're just 4, how can you metabolize a story in which a baby loses his father because of the envious uncle who blame his own nephew for that too? C'mon! Alright to be precocious, but there's a limit to everything. For years, the wildebeest stampede scene has scared the hell out of me and Mufasa's death moment has made me cry a flood of tears.
Fact is, Friday night I had a great time, but I was sad too, because the story of this cute old man, who could absolutely be our all grampa, is very moving...and maybe that's exactly the problem: since Disney exist, we keep on seeing in its characters people we love and care the most; we just empathize with them. But "we" means we who are not children anymore, except for the kid we still carry inside our heart.
So, and I speak from my almost 20s, just long live to Disney and its magic.
...that's what I'm talking about: a great lesson from the great Lion King...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykbx-yzFgBo
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