Talk:The Lion King

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• Barker, Martin; Austin, Thomas (2000). "In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle". From Antz To Titanic: Reinventing Film Analysis. Pluto Press. pp. 105–119. ISBN 0745315844.

Potential grammar/wording issue, plot

The sentence "The hyenas are friends of Scar, who then plot with them to take over the Pride Lands" seems weird. Who is them? It should either say "who then plots with them" or "who then plot with him" depending on whether Scar or the hyenas are doing the plotting.

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Can we added this hyperlink highest grossing animated Traditional film

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Requested move 14 January 2024

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) BilledMammal (talk) 17:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

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The Lion King → The Lion King (1994 film) – The 2019 film is now old enough that I'm sure that most people today are familiar with both films. Georgia guy (talk) 17:28, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose per WP:PT2. – Hilst [talk] 18:40, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose per Hilst. —El Millo (talk) 04:28, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose This is the clear primary topic, especially in terms of long-term significance. InfiniteNexus (talk) 08:15, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose most people would search for the 1994 film not the 2019 one. This would be the clear primarytopic. GabrielPenn4223 (talk) 09:33, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
• Weak support the 2019 film has 159,248 views compared with only 125,137[[1]] for this one, there is also the franchise which apparently is also one of the original uses. Move The Lion King (disambiguation) here. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:22, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

  Still doesn't really matter. https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en&title=The_Lion_King_%28disambiguation%29 Check and the 1994 film has 59.4 of this month's clicks. 2019 with just 0.04. GabrielPenn4223 (talk) 11:43, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

  Pageviews are not the only thing that matters. WP:PT2. InfiniteNexus (talk) 07:56, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

  @Crouch, Swale If you look at WikiNav, most of the clicks are from the 1994 movie. GabrielPenn4223 (talk) 02:33, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

  The pageviews don't support a PT though, we otherwise would need to ask why the 2019 film has more views. Crouch, Swale (talk) 08:50, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

  WP:PT2, Look at this darnnn shortcut! Pageviews are not the only things that matter GabrielPenn4223 (talk) 02:58, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose. Clear primary topic by long-term significance. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:06, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose, per above, primary topic and long-term significance. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:01, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose has been and will always be the primary topic. igordebraga ≠ 04:37, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose Clear primary topic, not even close. JDDJS (talk to me • see what I've done) 16:14, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

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The lion king june 24 1994

That release date is already in the article. The info box uses the U.S. release date which was earlier. RudolfRed (talk) 03:55, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Pride Lands location

How do you know that they are in Tanzania? They could easily be in Kenya, Mozambique, southern Ethiopia or southern Africa as well. Did you even use a reference for that statement? Jtadesse (talk) 00:46, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

I can look for an official statement, but the film uses Mount Kilimanjaro in the opening number, with animals trekking to Pride Rock. Also, it includes Victoria Falls, which is over 2000 kilometers away. I would urge the Tanzania mention be removed since it's never directly stated in the film. PrinceArchelaus (talk) 01:56, 7 July 2024 (UTC)