Historical tie-ins to animation...

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Narba

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I recently read some works by George Orwell,one of which included a biographical account of his younger years when he was a British solider in Africa and had to kill an elephant.Well,in The Lion King,Zazu was a Britsh bird in Africa.Keeping on this same topic,there was that scene also LK where Scar has his hynea troops marching like a Nazi army in preparation for his dictatoral role,much resembling Hilter in Germany.
 
Lion King is one of the few Disney movies I never had much interest in. As for George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair) who lived in the era of Empire expansion before and shortly after WWI. You'd be hard pressed to find a British, German, French, Belgian, or even American (one the few countries not claiming territory in Africa at that time) who hadn't killed an elephant. Cartoons of India and Africa reek of history of the Colonial Era. (My favorite Riki Tiki Tavi) Their governments are still based,,, or corrupt from it. It's a very interesting time in world history, but it's very complicated. And watch mixing ideas from Imperial Britain and Nazi Germany. Germany was still a Monarchy during WWI and Britain I believe was down to Ireland, India and parts of the Middle East by the end of WWII. Not counting Hong Kong.
 
I love history too!But...how does what you typed fit into animation?Look at how WWI influenced a lot of the classic Warner Brother cartoons with partonism and basically just marching around like an American soilder.

THAT is what I mean.
 
Yeah,maybe not the greatest example.I was really into Orwell's Animal Farm.
I really mean just stick with the other example in my first post then. ;)
 
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