Okay, not so much a "circle" as a "food chain". Norwegians and Swedes think their beer is too expensive and cross the water to buy it in Denmark (or Finland, but we don't talk about that). Danes just think beer is too expensive in Scandinavia as a whole and cross the border to buy it in Germany. And Germans buy their beer in...nah, I could go on forever.
Yup, they're singing drinking songs. The first is a Swedish drinking song that is sung all over Scandinavia. The second is of course German.
@Rayati
No, it's not based on Hamlet; that's part of the misinformation Disney spread to mask how they straight-out stole one of their highest-grossing films ever from another studio.
The Lion King movie borrows VERY heavily from a Japanese comic and animated series, "King of the Jungle" a.k.a. "Kimba, the White Lion". The visuals, the characters, the storyline... nearly every aspect of it aside from the fur colour of the protagonist, copied from one of the most popular masterpieces of Asamu Tezuka, (sometimes called "the Japanese Walt Disney").
Disney started production of "The Lion King" almost immediately after Tezuka died.
It would almost be forgivable if Disney hadn't refused to give Tezuka any credit and heavily marketed TLK as "Disney's first ORIGINAL story!" No, it's just another rebranded classic story, same as they've always made... except this time they hardly needed to do rewrite a thing, because the work had been done for them.
Even more messed up? After the beloved Tezuka died, a Japanese film studio started work on a film adaptation of the later chapters of his comic, titled "Jungle Emperor Leo", right about the same time production started on TLK on the other side of the world. They were a smaller studio with vastly less money and fewer lawyers than the giant, Disney. Their production had some challenges and their film didn't release until a few years after Disney's TLK. When they aired it at a Toronto film festival, Disney sent them a Cease & Desist order claiming it was a copyright infringement of THEIR version of The Lion King. The might of Disney's Lawyers prevailed, and no public screenings of either Kimba the White Lion, or Jungle Emperor Leo have ever been permitted in North America since.
It was the 1990s, and the Internet was still warming up to become the border-ignoring mass of easily accessible information it is today, so Disney got away with it all, and made millions.
@Hinoron @Rayati
Previous sources alleging plagiarism have been very unreliable regarding any comparisons. Truth is: there is hardly any similarity between the original series of Kimba and TLK. What similarity there is, is in very broad strokes. So broad in fact, that if we were to claim plagiarism on those points, every story written for the past several centuries would be a plagiarism on an older story.
As for the similarity of their names: Simba is Swahili for lion. Tezuka changed it to Kimba to make it easier on japanese audience.
Production on Jungle Emperor Leo, released 1997 (note that The Lion King released in 1994) began after the announcement of TLK. Many (if not most) comparison videos use footage from the 1997 Kimba movie, and it's no surprise they look similar, because JEL copied TLK.
See this video for an indepth analysis of the controversy with all available sources, including every Kimba related media and even the court documents available from the lawsuit: https://youtu.be/G5B1mIfQuo49
And this one for a response from one of the biggest advocates claiming Disney copied Tezuka: https://youtu.be/2-eVWy5fzUM
Time for some communion with some porter or stout. I've given up on finding that trippelbock I found once in San Diego. It had to be sipped like liqueur. Surprisingly smooth!
Beer is the foundation of our civilization. Scientists theorize that people in Anatolia stopped being nomads and settled down to become farmers because they discovered that if you left your barley porridge sit overnight something wonderful happened. You could cook it to make barley cakes or you could add more water and it would turn the water to a magical fluid that removed cares.
@MrEvers
Okay, that comment means all-out-total-beer-war.
Just kidding. Had to reinforce some German stereotypes, right? ;-)
Normal Belgian beer is great and all, but some of the stuff you are allowed to put into beer is downright nasty.
Come on, strawberry beer? I laughed so hard when I saw that.
"Yup, they're singing drinking songs. The first is a Swedish drinking song that is sung all over Scandinavia."
A porly sung, drunken version of it with the last part of each line altered from the Swdish "sjung hopp faderallan lallan lej" (which actually is even more gibberishly than the chearing "hurrah"'s they've replaced it with in the comic)
Actually, the song goes "Helan går, sjung hopp farellallan lallan lej" if you will have the correct swedish one. Maybe it's a little different in Denmark, but that's how it is sung in Sweden.
Canada tends to make and drink our own beer, for the most part (we do import some European beers too) however, since most of the big supermarkets like Wal-mart are American companies, there's still some American beer available for those who desire it.
...You know, in case you need something to water your plants with, or whatever. ^_^
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