In recent years, Disney has been committed to creating various live-action IPs, such as "Beauty and the Beast", "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms", "Dumbo", "Aladdin's Lamp" and so on. What is touching and looking forward to is that the CG live-action (lion) version of "The Lion King" is back for release today !
Get a sneak peek at the trailer released by Disney!
I have to say, whether it is the animated version or the new CG version, every frame is a teardrop, and every frame is full of calls from Africa.
When the familiar "Hakuna Matata" sounds, I really want to go back to my childhood, back to the carefree time.
In this story about "Brave and Responsibility", from the scenes, characters to the plot, there is no doubt that the inspiration is drawn from the African land. And those iconic locations are almost all in the animal kingdom - Kenya .
So if we want to "tour the Holy Land" once "The Lion King", where should we go?
First stop: Samburu National Reserve (Samburu)
After the release of the animated version of The Lion King, the director revealed in an interview that it was the landscape of the Samburu region that provided the inspiration for Pride Land in the film.
Samburu National Reserve is in the ecological core circle of Rift Valley Province, Kenya . The Ewaso Nyiro River passes slowly, bringing sufficient water and food to the wild animals in this area.
In the Samburu area, it is easy to find a high-view location similar to the " Glory Stone ", and the immediate sense of "the place where the sun shines is the territory of the king of all things" comes to you.
Remember to grow up with Simba, teach Simba to face the new world and learn new things, the two friends of "Hakuna Matata", Pumbaa and Timon ?
Whether in the animated version or in the new trailer, the zebra's appearance as a group is always impressive.
Second stop: Borana Conservancy
There are very few people who know this place. The reason why it was successfully discovered by the majority of movie fans is because it has been confirmed by the staff of the camp in the reserve: the Disney creative team came here and stayed in the camp for several days.
At any time, the Borana version of "Glory Stone" has a very high degree of restoration. There are often tourists from all over the world who visit the "Glory Stone" in Borona, and they take pictures and punch cards excitedly. They also want to show the classic scene of the wisdom wizard Rafiki baptizing little Simba on the PS. Manually follow Simba's friends. frame. To tell the truth, the synthesized photos do not look inconsistent.
Disney gave the sword antelope the first animal shot in the new trailer. Is the East African antelope that haunts the Borana Lodge camp handsome and cute?
Third stop: Hell's Gate National Park
The fact that Disney's creative team went to Hell's Gate National Park to collect folks was announced on the Twitter official of "The Lion King".
Hell's Gate National Park is about 90 kilometers from the capital Nairobi , near Lake Naivasha . Among the 56 national parks in Kenya , the gate of hell is not large, but it is the most special one. The chilling-sounding name of the park comes from a cliff fissure here, which evolved from a prehistoric tributary of a lake and is a spectacle.
What was once the current meanders down the canyon, carving its path through the rock formations. After growing up, Simba returned to the Kingdom of Glory, and the scene where he found the scar and confronted the Jedi and fought back was shot in the cliff crack of the gate of hell .
Let's look at Fischer's Tower at Hell's Gate. The mountain posture is very close to the cliff behind the Glory Stone in the new trailer.
If you are a rock climber among movie fans, then the Hell's Gate version of the "Glory Stone" is perfect for you. Rock climbing is one of the hottest events at Hell's Gate.
Climbing up the cliff, every step up is closer to the meaning of life.
Just like Simba who stood on the top of the Glory Stone at the end of the play, he finally mastered the tacit understanding and balance of the life of all things and grew into the real king of the forest.
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