Tag: The Lion King

Saw the Der König der Löwen musical - I'd long dreamed of seeing this show live. It would have been better in English, but German is fine too, since I know all the songs and almost all the text, except for a few scenes that are only present in the musical. I'll need to read the original script.

Circle of Life, He Lives in You and To Die For are powerful, the last one especially so now... Interestingly, the song Chow Down sounds better in German than in the original. Does German suit the hyenas better?)

Shadowlands is also powerful, but Endless Night in this rendition somehow didn't move me, whereas the original gets to you.

On 28 July 2011, the Ukrainian premiere of the animated film "The Lion King 3D" took place. It was the world's first open premiere of the 3D version of the film — before that, it had only been shown at a festival in Scotland. I couldn't pass up such an opportunity, so on the day of the premiere I headed to the "Multiplex" cinema in Mykolaiv, since in Kherson there's still no place where you can properly watch a film on a big screen.

I hadn't been to a cinema in about seven years and had never seen 3D films, while I've watched TLK countless times, so I won't be able to assess what I saw adequately. Likewise, I'm not Russian and can't judge how "hilarious" the Ukrainian translation is.

From September 21 to October 17, visitors to London will be able to see the first exhibition dedicated to the musical "The Lion King". The display will be located at the National Geographic Store on Regent Street.

Visitors will see the entire creative process of preparing the musical from the inside, including sketches, original models, and photographs. Costumes, masks, and video interviews with the creators of the famous show will also be presented at the display completely free of charge.

The musical, which is currently running at a West End theatre in London, has already been seen by 8 million people in the capital and around 52 million worldwide.

During his recent visit to London, where filming of Tim Burton's new movie "Frankenweenie" is about to start, producer Don Hahn confirmed the report that Disney will subject the cartoon "The Lion King" to 3D conversion.

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Interesting news, and right on the eve of the film's sixteenth anniversary. I'm starting to think about a 3D TV and a region-free BD player, though if it comes out everywhere at once or without protection, I could get by with a PS3.

I've watched the show up through the tenth episode of the second season. Just a great show — rarely do I laugh so much and get so many positive emotions from watching. I don't watch current comedies — 22 minutes not every week is too little. But the old ones are very nice to watch, rewatching several episodes at a time.

I don't know whether I'll watch the last two seasons with Charlie Sheen in the lead role. I just really like Michael J. Fox, this is his last big role on television. He left "Spin City" because of Parkinson's disease, and after that he mostly appears in supporting roles and voices leading ones.

One interesting thing is that in "Spin City," in two episodes the main character's mom was played by the same actress who played the mom of Fox's character in the popular 80s show "Family Ties" — for him that was his first big role on television. To be honest, I hadn't heard of the actress Meredith Baxter until now; as I understand it, she's popular. I'll have to also watch Family Ties — its first five seasons are available to download. It's just a shame that without English subtitles I miss a lot in sitcoms, and these shows weren't translated into Russian. I only found English subtitles for the first two seasons of Spin City.

Another interesting observation: in this show TLK is mentioned a couple of times. Once in the sixth episode of the first season:

- This is exciting. Chance to see democracy in action. Allowing the citizens to speak directly to the people responsible for governing them. I'd like to be a part of that. What? - I've just never seen this side of you before. This is the side that loved The Lion King, right?

And once more, already in one of the last seasons:

Charlie: I couldn’t face have lost my father, and I runaway from my home. I lived alone, without my family, but, I lived many adventures, and I have many friends. Psychologist: Well Charlie, that’s very interesting. Caitlin: Of course it is, it’s The Lion King!

In the next show from Bill Lawrence, "Scrubs," it's also mentioned, but that one isn't hard to find. Scrubs also featured many of the main actors from Spin City in important guest roles, including Michael J. Fox.

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P.S. The long-promised Wi-Fi is finally working at the Mykolaiv bus station. I just took the photo, handy :)

Congratulations to everyone who cares about this date. I know that this year many decided to mark the date of the limited release of "The Lion King", but in past years more attention was given to the film's all-American premiere, and I've gotten used to July 24th — after all, this number has meant something to me for almost five years now, since back in 2003 I read a congratulatory message on the cartoon's release in the guestbook of some website. And besides, I'm too lazy to change passwords :) I only learned about the 15th not that long ago anyway.

To honor such an occasion, I decided to watch the classic theatrical version of the cartoon, the one given a wide release 14 years ago. I probably last watched it on a videotape with a voice-over translation, back before the SE version came out. This time I'd be watching it from a licensed DVD with the original soundtrack. I also decided to check how the Xbox 360 plays video, since my main nineteen-inch LCD monitor is connected to the console anyway, and I was once again too lazy to reconnect it to the laptop, while the regular TV and the seventeen-inch CRT monitor were out of the question. Naturally, the first film I watched on the Box was TLK.

The disc read fine, although a quick search for information said that consoles play region 2, not region 5 — maybe it's because the disc is Ukrainian, or maybe the drive's firmware plays a role. I'm too lazy to figure it out; the main thing is that it works. The picture turned out good, no different from what the computer produced — a shame, of course, that there's no way to watch DVD and HD on something bigger. But the sound was a pleasant surprise: for the first time I could enjoy the audio at maximum volume without the extraneous noise that was always there when output through the built-in sound card. And the music in this cartoon is one of its main components. Now I can think about getting a proper sound system to replace the pair of speakers with a subwoofer.

As for the viewing itself, there's no point going on about it — others have said it all already.