Placing The Lion King On The Disney Timeline
A few years ago, a graphic appeared online putting all the animated Disney films in order on a timeline. As a Disney fanatic, this graphic made me undeniably happy. It made watching a Disney film more fun to me because it allowed me to think about possible effects the film before had on the one I was currently watching. However, one part of it bothered me. I consider the 1994 film of The Lion King to be a spectacle and one of the greatest movies the studio has made. On the timeline, The Lion King was placed in 1994 since that was the year of it's release. That didn't sit well with me and so I thought and theorized about where this amazing film could fit on the timeline. The more I thought, the more one of the other films of the Disney Renaissance came to me as a potential sister piece to The Lion King . That film is Tarzan which was released in 1999 and is considered by many to be the ending of one of the most successful financial times of the company. The more I com...