Thinking with children about what they are allowed to see or not, and about what they can know or, better to say, ignore until they are a little older, is controversial. The age rating of films is needed for something, but there are adults who confuse their worldview prejudices, their phobias and what they hate with what the younger ones have no right to know. Nonetheless alternate ending The Lion King (1994) is different.
Considering that the spirit of this film, directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, is like the spirit northern man (2022) and its frightening story is the story of a Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet (1603), already has some elements some creepy maturity. Despite the nonsense of Timon and Pumbaa, who should not be opposed either, because children can take more severity than we imagine, and in many cases their parents’ gingerbread is an exaggeration.
Apart from joking about the trauma of Bambi or Nemo’s dead mothers in their respective Disney and Pixar films (1942, 2003) and ignoring absurd homophobic controversies with very justified Light year (2022) it seems an auction that resolved the conflict is more appropriate from The Lion King, with Scar, the antagonist voiced by Jeremy Irons, at the mercy of the devoted hyenas and even the noses of their insults. because alternative could be overkill.
Traumatic alternate ending for the Lion King villain
As Courtney Mason explains in ScreenRantbroken version is revealed”the most terrible“. The battle between Simba and the villain “remains largely the same, with the exception of Scar’s death.” Because “in their battle, the flame surrounds” just like “Pride Rock and spreads rapidly, creating a fiery backdrop for the final battle.” Scar throws his nephew from a height “and thinks he’s dead”, not knowing that the other one is “hanging on a branch over a cliff”.
Thus he feels triumphant and master and master of the place. But “the flames quickly spread to where he is, and he is engulfed in them.” And here’s the disturbing part, which reminds us of how Mowgli manages to scare off Shere Khan by tying a fiery branch to his tail, in The jungle book (1967): “Alternative closure shows Scar burns alive laughing how they bring it to a fiery end.” Think of the eyes as saucers of children with an image of this caliber.
