Monday, December 7, 2009

Daily Dialogue -- December 7, 2009

"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

3 comments:

Jeff said...

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.

Peter Dwight said...

agreed.

Kiwichick said...

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.