Brian's Huge and Comprehensive
(Read: I Have No Life)
Lion King Page!
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Welcome... to my humble home.
If the truth be known, I've never really been a true Disney fan-- that is,
an unconditional maniac of all things Disney has ever done. I've only
liked Disney since 1989. But what's appeared in recent years has been
phenomenally cool, and it's all culminated in The Lion King. This
film is what I consider to be Disney's deepest, most mature, most
enjoyable, best animated, best developed, best musically scored, best
voiced, and pretty much all-around "best" and "most" film they've ever
done. I have certainly become a die-hard fan, and I have been since the
first minute of the first time (of five) I saw it in the theater early
last summer. And to that end, I have compiled this Web page for the use of
like-minded fans. I've done my best to collect as much stuff-- images,
text files, scripts, etc.-- as I think would be interesting to most
visitors here. And I'm always looking for more. I appreciate your
patronage and welcome your feedback. So, have fun, and Ithabise! Busa
Simba!
New, with profuse thanks to Jennifer Sarantites, who generously designed
and wrote it: the Main Menu Page for this TLK
archive!
This page has made it to the limelight of print. Check out this
excerpt from
The Washington Times of May 1.
The text is from The Art of The Lion King, and it was graciously
typed up by Matt Robinson. Thanks, Matt!
The TLK
FAQ!
PIX!
Go here to see my latest Work In Progress.
My rapidly expanding Text Files
archive.
This place is cool. You'll find lots of QuickTime movies, JPEGs, text
files, etc. for several Buena Vista movies simultaneously. If you want to
go straight to the
TLK Press
Room and skip over the preliminary inline images, that's also cool.
You'll find a lot of TLK stuff straight from the lion's mouth: all the
promo JPEGs (the first ten in the Image
Archive listing), thirteen QuickTimes (all quite good), and a couple
of sets of credits and notes which are worth checking out.
Related Home Pages
Unfortunately, until I take over the world,
there are other people who
have more TLK stuff (and cooler general Disney home pages) than you see
here. So, to give them due credit, here are links to their pages:
-
Josh Wilmes' Awesome Lion King Home Page at RPI.
Pictures, QuickTimes, text files, links to lots more cool
stuff (as well as his authoritative
general Disney
page)-- and it has three TLK scripts, one of which is mine.
- Sean Rabbitt, aka
FDC Big Simba. Pictured below. Go here for information on
rec.arts.disney,
RADHAHA, and a bunch of delusions springing from his
monstrous split personality, which makes mine look really
amateurish. (I'm perfectly sane, and so am I.)
-
Scar's Home Page. Yet another admirable split
personality, that of Erick M. Summers of Purdue.
- ...And another:
Rafiki's Home Page. Or, for the humans in the audience,
Tim Norman at RPI.
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Nala's Home Page. The lair of Jennifer Sarantites,
better known as FDCMuck Nala.
-
The Compleat Lion King, which doubles as Phil "Leopold
Stokowski" Pollard's extremely cool Lion King page system.
-
The Lion King: The Complete Story, maintained
by Joshua Templin (FDC Kisasian).
-
Welcome to the Pride Lands (Stephen David Conley
presiding). DOWN TEMPORARILY.
-
The Lion King Central Archive, maintained by Christian
von Toerne. CLOSED.
- As mentioned above, in the Pictures section, here's
Joshua Landrum's
TLK page,with a depressing number of images.
-
Other Disney Home Pages, compiled by Phil Pollard.
Sites are rated on a 4-star system.
- And, certainly no less cool,
Scar's Links Page. He, again, is Purdue's own Erick M.
Summers.
- I... am
FDCMuck Timon.
Movie Details
Here's a link to the Movie Details,
including info on awards won (well, the Academy has decided against it--
except for the music), lots of reviews (both good and bad, both
professional and amateur) and pretty much a definitive list of general
stuff.
This is a complete listing of all the bloopers in the movie that
shouldn't have been made... but, well. Nothing is perfect, not even TLK.
Scripts
There are two semi-official scripts
out there, each with its own relative merits: one is ASCII and contains
minimal extraneous stuff, and is far more textually accurate than others
I've seen; the other one is formatted for MS Word for easy printing. Here
they are.
- The ASCII
version, v3.12: my TLK script. Last updated: May 6,
1995. This script is in a state of constant change, so
please mail me with any clarifications or additions or
subtractions or FDIVs you feel need to be
done to it. (To clarify: I merely did the majority of the
editing. It was actually compiled by Phil Pollard at
JMU. The credits are all at the end of the file.) This file
has (purported) advantages over the other one in
its conciseness of material (the ENTIRE script is there,
along with all directions and annotations, but it is minus
the more extraneous appendices that the other ones have)
and the African lyrics, as completely as I was able to
include them, from throughout the movie.
-
The MS Word 6.0 (PC) Version, V1.42, by Jello Biafra.
This too is very complete, and contains lots of extra
material culled from newsgroup discussions as well as a
huge set of footnotes. Enjoy. Note: This is a
binary ZIP file. You must have PKUNZIP (or an equivalent
program if you are using a Mac or a UNIX machine) to use
the file.
Also, since everybody seems to have his own personal HTML-format script,
here's mine. It indexes my entire image and sound archives as well as
other home pages and in fact a lot of the other info I have on this page.
I'm not counting it as a separate script, since it's essentially the ASCII
version above plus a lot of embedded HTML links.
My HTML Script
TLK Script for
HTML 3.0-- won't work without Netscape!
Translated by Jennifer Sarantites.
And, to be fair, here are scripts for Beauty and the
Beast and Aladdin.
These are compiled by Ben Scripps, and quite complete. Sorry, I haven't
found one for The Little Mermaid in my travels.
Scripts for Other Movies
(Yes, there ARE other movies out there. Incredible.)
And for the true die-hard Lion King fans (or at least those with a sense
of humor)...
The Rhythm of the Pride Lands hit store shelves nationwide on
February 28, 1995-- or at least that's what they like to tell us! Click here for the
account of my odyssey for it (which was, in time, successful). Also
click here
for my evaluation of the CD. That is, only if you want any further details
than "YES! YES! YES! This CD rules!"
(which, incidentally, is approximately what my roommate and everybody
within a half-mile radius hears all the time from me anyway).
Please register your
Feedback!
Credits
(So, what do you think-- do I need psychiatric help, or what?)
(FDC Hans Zimmer)
Minor (internal) revision and imagemap referencing by
Jennifer Sarantites
(sarantit@math.grin.edu)
