“Long live the King.”
– Scar (Jeremy Irons) to Mufasa (James Earl Jones) before letting Mufasa plunge to his death in The Lion King (1994), screenplay by Irene Mecchi and Jonathan Roberts and Linda Woolverton
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Ooooh, good one. That's a particularly wicked scene.
'course it doesn't hurt that the line was delivered with that slippery sneer of Jeremy Irons.
agreed.
I often wonder how many other parents of toddlers have been called into the living room (time and time again) to fast forward that bit.