Comments on: Oh @#$! you, Michael! http://numb.blackbirdslullaby.com/?p=45 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: morgaine2005 http://numb.blackbirdslullaby.com/?p=45&cpage=1#comment-22 morgaine2005 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:39:16 +0000 http://numb.blackbirdslullaby.com/?p=45#comment-22 Hey, there's nothing wrong with The Lion King, I like to think of it as adapting Hamlet for a younger audience. AND Michael is forgetting that Shakespeare might be highbrow now, but when he wrote he was writing as much for the groundlings as for the people in the box seats. Hence the sex jokes (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern's "liv[ing] about [Fortune's] waist, or in the middle of her favors" -- "her privates," they were. For about a minute). Only Disney couldn't include sex jokes and keep a G rating, so they changed them to fart jokes. SO THERE, MICHAEL! Hey, there’s nothing wrong with The Lion King, I like to think of it as adapting Hamlet for a younger audience.

AND Michael is forgetting that Shakespeare might be highbrow now, but when he wrote he was writing as much for the groundlings as for the people in the box seats. Hence the sex jokes (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern’s “liv[ing] about [Fortune's] waist, or in the middle of her favors” — “her privates,” they were. For about a minute). Only Disney couldn’t include sex jokes and keep a G rating, so they changed them to fart jokes.

SO THERE, MICHAEL!

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