The Lion King: Movie Analysis

In a society where major forms of entertainment are lodged in cinema and theater, it’s easy to come across a few films or movies that have very similar concepts to the point of practically being the same. When there are well over a thousand movies in just the United States alone, it’s easy to comprehend why originality may be a challenge. There are three movies in particular that hold true to this statement and they are Pocahontas, James Cameron’s Avatar, and The Lion King. These movies hold very similar ideologies in regards to nature and greed. However, they tend to differ in their cinematographic approaches in revealing the underlying and, or, obvious, ideologies. To begin with, all three movies have a constantly repeating theme, and that theme is the respect for nature. In Avatar, there is a very intimate respect for Mother Nature on Pandora. The native people see that every living and non-living existence has a purpose. There is no such thing as waste of resources in Pandora. For example, every time an animal is hunted for food, there is a long “prayer”, so to speak, held to thank the animal for the sustenance that it provides to
The evil is represented by the invasive white settlers and the good is represented by the natives of the land. The white settlers in Pocahontas intend to take the land from the Natives and claim it as their own without any regards to those who were there before them. The Natives represent the good because they only act in violence when their lives and the well-being of their world are being threatened. The Natives only resort to violence as a means to an end, after several failed attempts of peace. This concept is practically the same as Avatar. For instance, both movies show native people being invaded by greedy humans who seek to unrightfully take what is not theirs, leaving the native peoples to resort to violence in retaliation to the cruel men and