Analyzing The Lion King

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Analyzing The Lion King

• Through a Marxist lens and a Feminist lens, we
  can be enlightened and critical of a major film
  of our childhooda film that conditions/forces
  Americans to think certain things/ways, right?

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Lion King under a Marxist and Feminist Lens
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Lion King voices

• Three hyenas three subjugated populations
• Whoopi Goldberg as Shenzi, Black woman
• Cheech Marin as Banzai, Hispanic man
• Jim Cummings is the voice of Ed, the insane
  man

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James Earl Jones is Mufasa, though

• Mufasa is supposed to be the white, big, strong,
  studly, cool, jock-like, brawn-over-brains,
  capitalistic leader.
• A critic would get around Joness blackness by
  saying that Jones sounds white though
  according to what American society has deemed
  white-sounding. This is said often about
  President Obama. (white smart)