'Goodnight, sweet prince.'
The Big Picture Here's an ice-cold take: Disney movies can be really dark sometimes. Look anywhere on the internet, and you'll find some listicle about the scariest, or most depressing, moments to come out of the Happiest Place On Earth. Parents die a lot, and villains die almost all the time and in quite brutal ways – there are moments that can come out of nowhere that can become a core memory of fear, especially for young children.
The final battle is also pretty intense. Scar’s murderous conspiracies are revealed as he stands atop the burning Pride Rock. Then, in one of the most dramatic final stands in Disney cinema, he and Simba, the one true king, fight to the death on top of it. It’s certainly one of the most horrific villain demises, if only in implication. Simba stands on Pride Rock after the battle, the heavens open up, and the land is restored when the one true king wears the crown.
The ending starts about the same, with Simba and Scar battling on top of a burning Pride Rock, but instead of Simba's reign beginning in triumph, it was going to begin in defeat. In the film’s alternate ending, Simba ends up in the same position as his father, dangerously close to falling off the ledge of Pride Rock. After the utterance of "Goodnight, sweet prince," a direct reference to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Scar flings him off the ledge.
The Lion King’s darker alternate takes were gone, but they weren't forgotten. In fact, when The Lion King expanded past one movie and became a franchise, we saw some of the fossils of the film's lengthy production uncovered. In Julie Taymor's revolutionary stage adaptation of the film, which is running on The West End and Broadway to this day, we got "The Madness of King Scar," and with it, the scene where he makes the moves on Nala.
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