Let's play Name That Movie! A young prince is cast into exile when his uncle kills the king. There, he makes friends with the local-yokels, and grows to adulthood. Eventually, he realizes who he really is, and comes back to combat his evil uncle. An epic battle ensues, wherein the evil uncle is killed, and the prince gets the girl of his dreams.
Nope, not Hamlet. Hamlet dies, and Simba doesn't.
I think that the Lion King might have been one of the first Disney movies that I ever saw, and is still one of my favorite 2-D classics. (Some of the others are Robin Hood and the Sword in the Stone.) It came out in 1994, so that's only 4 years difference between this movie's birthday and mine.
A lot like other movies, I see myself in it. We are all children of a Heavenly King, and have been sent to this world where we can't really see our father. We have to make do with what we have, here in the jungle, and for the most part, we just go about our lives. Eventually, we come in contact with God, whether that be through a ranting baboon or a personal experience. Either way, we start realizing who we really are, and what we have the potential to become. If we will follow the path that our Father has indicated, we have the potential to become kings.
Let's go to it.
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