As we’ve learned from advance publicity (and the kind of press that might as well be publicity), Favreau directed his voice actors as real performers on a black-box-theater soundstage rather than as speakers at a music stand. Even as a cub, Simba speaks effortlessly, with each facial muscle making its own micro-adjustment to every attempt at humor or poignancy. Lip motion may be the main thing we remember about Jon Favreau’s dutiful remake of The Lion King. When we think of George Miller’s glorious Babe diptych, do we immediately recall how the hero’s mouth moved? No, that’s the last thing we think about because our memories are awash in the director’s robust comic vision of an empathetic young pig bringing city and country together via his Lancelot-like courage and purity of heart. Images from The Lion King (Jon Favreau, 2019)
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