Kimba vs Lion King

   Kimba The White Lion

  Known as Jungle Taitei in Japan and translates as "The Jungle Emporer."  It was a colour anime series created and produced by Osamu Tezuka, through his own company named Mushi Productions, released in Japan in 1966.

Let's follow him to a better world Where all the animals and humans unite And let's just walk along The friendship's golden line

Kimba Storyline

   Before Kimba is born, his father Caeser is killed trying to free Kimba’s mother Snowlene from lion hunters. The lion hunters are hired by the game warden to kill Caeser who is always releasing the natives' livestock as he wants all the animals to live a free existence. Snowlene is taken away on a ship to be sold to a zoo, and it is aboard the ship that Kimba is born in a cage.

    His mother convinces him to jump overboard. He later sees the wreckage of the ship in the water and realises the ship must have sunk, with his mother who is now dead.Kimba swims ashore guided by the memory of his father and the voice of his mother with her image being formed from a group of stars in the dark sky. 

   In his travels to reach the jungle he sees the great cities of the humans and decides if he ever reaches the jungle he will teach the animals to be civilised like the humans. When Kimba reaches his home he is against fighting Claw who has taken over as king of the jungle from Caeser, and it is not until Kimba is captured by hunters and saved by a human that he realises that ‘sometimes you have to fight for what's right.’

  He comes back stronger, defeating Claw and, like his father, becomes king. Kimba believes that destroying fellow animals is wrong, no matter what (even though he kills a few in the series), and that animals should not eat one another but learn to farm and be vegetarians.

                     
 

Characters in the Kimba Story

            Kimba's Enemies

   Claw the Lion and Tom and Tab (two hyenas) 

Friends

      Daniel Baboon, his wisest and closest friend.

 Pauley Cracker (a parrot) and friend, Dodie Deer and Bucky Deer with enemies including Cassius a black panther,

Charcters in the Lion King  

   Uncle Scar 

  Mufasa's brother the evil cunning betrayer and the enemy to Simba"s throne.

Hyenas 

                     Scar's followers and evil assistants.

Zazu   The Hornbill 
Mufasa's trusted advisor, Zazu is a hornbill with a strong sense of personal dignity.He would give his right wing for the Lion King.

   Mufasa Simbas father 

   Regal, commanding and majestic, Mufasa is a great king with a kind, generous heart. Concerned with teaching his son Simba to  be wise,responsible king.

      Nala Friend

Best buddies who fall in love.
      Rafiki wise baboon

   Like A tribal medicine man or an ancient shaman. Rafiki travels his own road, sings his own songs and knows what he knows. After anointing newborn Simba, Rafiki wanders off on his mystical way. He returns again to guide Simba back to the path he was meant to follow.

 

Did the Disney studio steal Kimba The White Lion and rework it as their "original story", The Lion King? 

  Jungle Emperor was the original title for Kimba The White Lion.It seems quite simple; Kimba had been kept out of sight in North America for 20 years by that time. And once you can see the two together I believe the similarities are there for all to see. 

The names , Kimba - the"K"and Add a "S" is Simba.

In early production stages, Simba was white.

 The rights to Kimba the White Lion were tied up in legal battles for many years, beginning when the original production company, Mushi Productions, went bankrupt in 1973. The US contract to the show ran out in 1978. Nobody had the US rights to it from 1978 until 2000.

The Disney corporate stance, that none of Disney's people knew of Kimba before the movie was released, has been exposed as untrue.

http://www.kimbawlion.com/transcript.htm 
http://www.hemmy.net/2007/04/28/disney-lion-king-ripped-off-from-kimba/ 
http://www.lionking.org/characters/ 

The Lost City Of Z

The Lost City of Z

David Grann

This is my highlighted book this week..
The Lost City of Z was optioned by Brad Pitts plan b production company and Paramount Pictures for a movie without  a current release date.

Excerpt Chapter One

  On a cold January day in 1925, a tall, distinguished gentleman hurried across the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, toward the S.S. Vauban, a five-hundred-and-eleven-foot ocean liner bound for Rio de Janeiro. He was fifty-seven years old, and stood over six feet, his long arms corded with muscles.
  Although his hair was thinning and his mustache was flecked with white, he was so fit that he could walk for days with little, if any, rest or nourishment. His nose was crooked like a boxer's, and there was something ferocious about his appearance, especially his eyes. They were set close together and peered out from under thick tufts of hair. No one, not even his family, seemed to agree on their color -- some thought they were blue, others gray. Yet virtually everyone who encountered him was struck by their intensity: some called them "the eyes of a visionary." He had frequently been photographed in riding boots and wearing a Stetson, with a rifle slung over his shoulder, but even in a suit and a tie, and without his customary wild beard, he could be recognized by the crowds on the pier. He was Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, and his name was known throughout the world.
  He was the last of the great Victorian explorers who ventured into uncharted realms with little more than a machete, a compass, and an almost divine sense of purpose. For nearly two decades, stories of his adventures had captivated the public's imagination: how he had survived in the South American wilderness without contact with the outside world; how he was ambushed by hostile tribesmen, many of whom had never before seen a white man; how he battled piranha, electric eels, jaguars, crocodiles, vampire bats, and anacondas, including one that almost crushed him; and how he emerged with maps of regions from which no previous expedition had returned. He was renowned as the "David Livingstone of the Amazon," and was believed to have such unrivaled powers of endurance that a few colleagues even claimed he was immune to death.

Reviews

Outstanding ... A powerful narrative, stiff lipped and Victorian at the center, trippy at the edges, as if one of those stern men of Conrad had found himself trapped in a novel by Garcia Marquez ... A kind of magical non­fiction ... Terrifically entertaining.”

— The New York Times Sunday Book Review

“The story of Fawcett is brought vividly alive ... Poisoned arrows, cannibalism, impenetrable canopies of rainforest, incomprehensible maps, utility-pole-size pythons, stiff upper lips, gray-bearded geographers, steam packets, naked jungle folk and incessant drumming ... all figure boldly in the epic. ... What makes Mr. Grann’s telling of the story so captivating is that he decides not simply to go off in search of yet more relics of our absent hero—but to go off himself in search of the city that Fawcett was looking for so heroically when he suddenly went AWOL.”

— Simon Winchester, The Wall Street Journal

“A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.”

— John Grisham

Interview with David Grann

 http://fora.tv/2009/03/05/David_Grann_The_Lost_City_of_Z

 

Dark Tower The Gunslinger

Stephen King

Twelve years have passed since the fateful Battle of Jericho Hill and the fall of the gunslingers. Since the Affiliation's resistance against John Farson became little more than a faint memory. Since the friends that stood by young Roland Deschain burned to ash in the Good Man's razing of Gilead. But Roland survived...and now he stalks the desert, hunting the spectral Man in Black in his quest for the Dark Tower.

Book Reading Of The Week

Stephen Kings Pet Semetary

Dark Visions

Kaitlyn Fairchild has always felt like an outsider in her small hometown. Her haunting eyes and prophetic drawings have earned her a reputation as a witch. But Kait's not a witch: She's a psychic. Tired of being shunned, Kait accepts an invitation to attend the Zetes Institute, where she can have a fresh start and study with other psychic teens.

Learning to hone her abilities with four other gifted students, Kait discovers the intensity of her power -- and the joy of having true friends. But those friendships quickly become complicated when Kait finds herself torn between two irresistible guys. Rob is kind and athletic, and heals people with his good energy. Gabriel is aggressive and mysterious, a telepath concealing his true nature as a psychic vampire, feeding off of others' life energy. Together, Rob and Gabriel's opposing forces threaten the group's stability.

Then one of the experiments traps the five teens in a psychic link. A link that threatens their sanity and their lives. And Kaitlyn must decide whom to trust...and whom to love.