One of the saddest scenes from any Disney movie is the death of Simba's father Mufasa, after the evil Scar hurls him back into the stampede he just escaped from. Poor young Simba has to deal with discovering his father's body and heartbreakingly tries to wake him up. Animated films may anthropomorphise animals in a way that a real-life still image simply never can, but take away the Disney flourish and expressiveness, and you still have a son coming to terms with the untimely death of his father, and in any language, that's devastating, especially at such a young age. The heartbreak and sense of loss is something most of us are likely to feel one day when our own parents are no longer around, and as the saying goes, to children, their parents are like Gods, as is especially true in Simba's case. Whether we're 15 years old or 60, whether we still have our parents around or are in fact parents ourselves, for most of us that fear never totally goes away, and Disney have perfectly tapped into the universality of that feeling.
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