that's funny, just sad it just remembered me of this...
Roger Allers approached the edge of a deep ridge, looked over a sweeping valley full of galloping zebras and wildebeests, and had a vision.
By November 1991, the recently anointed codirector of The Lion King was three weeks into a trip to Kenya with a small group of animators and artists to scout, photograph, and sketch the region’s wildlife. Together they roamed the savanna by Jeep, stopping in silence to observe a hornbill hopping around, a distant rainstorm, or a pride of lions stalking its prey.
“We watched a mother and her two cubs,” Allers remembers. “The next morning, we saw their kill, a gazelle. The little cubs would poke their heads up from the carcass with their charming whiskers clotted with blood, and you go, ‘Wow, this is such a dramatic contrast.’ It was very inspiring.”
But for Allers, it was when he stared down at the valley from up high that the movie’s primary theme came into focus
“I almost don’t want to say it because it’s too corny, but I just had this ‘king of the mountain’ point of view,” Allers said. “You got to look over the kingdom, the kingdom of animals.”
huuum, ok, it was there that he had an epiphany... i'd say his vision came in a trip to Japan, not kenya.
Pizza is still good...
Roger Allers approached the edge of a deep ridge, looked over a sweeping valley full of galloping zebras and wildebeests, and had a vision.
By November 1991, the recently anointed codirector of The Lion King was three weeks into a trip to Kenya with a small group of animators and artists to scout, photograph, and sketch the region’s wildlife. Together they roamed the savanna by Jeep, stopping in silence to observe a hornbill hopping around, a distant rainstorm, or a pride of lions stalking its prey.
“We watched a mother and her two cubs,” Allers remembers. “The next morning, we saw their kill, a gazelle. The little cubs would poke their heads up from the carcass with their charming whiskers clotted with blood, and you go, ‘Wow, this is such a dramatic contrast.’ It was very inspiring.”
But for Allers, it was when he stared down at the valley from up high that the movie’s primary theme came into focus
“I almost don’t want to say it because it’s too corny, but I just had this ‘king of the mountain’ point of view,” Allers said. “You got to look over the kingdom, the kingdom of animals.”
huuum, ok, it was there that he had an epiphany... i'd say his vision came in a trip to Japan, not kenya.
Pizza is still good...