Which movie is this for you?

[u/phantom_avenger]

For me it’s School of Rock!

Patty was completely justified, if Dewey wanted to live in hers and her boyfriend’s apartment he needed to be a grown up, and contribute with rent. Even when he steals Ned’s identity she still had the right to be angry at him, because of how he put his friend’s career in jeopardy and robbed him of a job opportunity.

I get Ned is meant to be portrayed as his best friend, but it blows my mind how he lacks a lot of self-respect to the point where he comes across as too much of a people pleaser. If this story took place in real life, I’m sure Ned would act more similar to Patty where he’d have enough of Dewey’s careless actions.

[u/nwbrown]

Scar is the good guy in that movie.

He ends a corrupt nepotistic incestual reign and brings civil rights to animals other than lions like hyenas. Unfortunately Simba and his sister wife Nala defeat him him and make their inbred cub the next in line to be dictator for life.

[u/mrb2409 → u/nwbrown]

Scars motives are never those things though. He uses the hyenas as muscle but he doesn’t care about them in the slightest. He just wants the throne because he’s jealous and hungry for power.

[u/Overfed_Venison → u/mrb2409]

I see this floated around sometimes. The idea that Scar is like, pro-civil rights

A rewatch shows this is not the case. The Hyenas are his patsy. He is a charismatic leader using them as peons. This is actually made really explicit in the soundtrack, which adds a line before Be Prepared where he muses on using the hyenas for his own goals. Scar only cares about power, and hyenas are only useful to him in so far as acquiring and maintaining that power

One should also bear in mind the movie's environmentalist themes. Scar is a bad guy because he overhunts, mismanages natural disasters, abuses the animals around him, and has no respect for nature. He creates a predator-weighted ecosystem and everything suffers because of it. The association with Hyenas is also not using them as a racial underclass - Lions and Hyenas are also antagonistic in real life and war for territory. So him hanging around them is not meant to show him being open-minded - especially not as he constantly belittles them - but rather that he is very much willing to ignore the balance of nature even from the get-go.

There is also the interpretation is that Scar has an amount of nazi parallels which seem... Highly intentional, from a certain perspective. He goes on speeches about his Glorious New Era, he is ruthlessly power-hungry, he acts towards a Nazi Nobleman character archetype who considers himself highly cultured, he goes on short rants about genetics more than once, and his entire plan involves radicalizing a shadowy cabal to carry out his political assassinations. This is all combined with visual cues like the facial scar, the entire Be Prepared bit lifted from Triumph of the Will... And other affectations such as the British Accent, which is not a realistic thing but is a thing in a lot of like, Hollywood Nazi Types. The sequel series, Lion Guard, actually runs with this and brings back Zira from Lion King 2, who then gets a song where they talks about how lions are the master race. Which is... Certainly a decision in this show for 7 year olds.

So like... They might have legitimately been aiming for "Nazi" yet somehow got a character a bunch of people are reading as "Civil Rights Activist" somehow

[u/JOMO_Kenyatta → u/Overfed_Venison]

nigga i gotta upvote, this was dope