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Disney's animated Lion King will always hold a special place in people's hearts.

But the 2019 version takes the opportunity to correct some of the crazy plot holes, goofs,

and mistakes fans have spotted over the years in the original.

Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, I'm Jan and in this video I'm explaining how The Lion King

remake fixes many of those issues from the 90s classic.

Some spoilers ahead, so take care if you haven't seen it yet.

Don't forget my Lion King giveaway is still running, so be sure to subscribe and leave

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The animated Lion King's opening scene and 'Circle of Life' song are iconic moments that

the remake mostly reproduces shot-for-shot, however, it also fixes a few crucial errors

Just before Simba's presentation, Rafiki anoints him, breaking open a fruit to release a red

liquid which he paints on the young cub's forehead, before dusting his face to dry the

The fruit that Rafiki brings with him appears to come from the ancient baobab tree that

he lives in, and the problem with the original scene is that a baobab fruit doesn't contain

a red liquid and is actually dry inside with white pulp and large seeds.

In the new movie, the filmmakers have fixed this by having Rafiki use some red roots which

It's also this red powder that makes little Simba sneeze rather than Rafiki dousing the

poor little cub in a handful of dust as he did in the animation.

The 2019 movie also changes the hand that Rafiki uses to anoint Simba from his left

This is consistent with the fact that Rafiki is right-handed when he's fighting the hyenas

Rafiki himself was misrepresented in the original movie as, although he's modelled after a mandrill,

in the film and the screenplay he's referred to as a baboon.

Some of the Disney animators even thought of him as a "mutated" monkey and gave him

physical features such as a long tail which is incorrect for a mandrill.

"It means you are a baboon, and I'm not."

That baboon reference has been eliminated from the new movie and Rafiki's design has

also been corrected, by replacing the long tail he had in the animation with a short

stub that's biologically accurate for his species.

Another mistake corrected in the new Lion King is the colour of Simba's eyes.

In reality, new-born lion cubs start life with blue-grey eyes.

Then after two or three months, a cub's eyes turn an orangey-brown colour.

The remake reflects this as you can see young Simba has dark-bluish eyes at the time of

And once he's grown up a little, they're a darker yellowy-orange colour.

In the animation, as a new-born cub Simba simply has dark eyes and when he's older his

And to make us connect with the characters and their feelings even more, the original

animators gave the lions eyes that were very like humans, so they have a pupil, an iris

and a white of their eyes which is sometimes coloured yellow.

Even though real-life lions don't have whites in their eyes.

Scar's bright green eyes have also been changed for a better sense of realism in the reboot.

The original movie was also guilty of featuring numerous wild animals that aren't native to

For example, when Simba sings "I Just Can't Wait To Be King", various animals construct

a crazy tower and on the very top are a group of giant anteaters.

Giant anteaters are only native to Central and South America and so wouldn't be seen

So, this time around, the filmmakers have made sure there's no giant anteaters in the

Other non-African animals that were also scrubbed from the latest film include the tail-hanging

monkeys that also make an appearance during "I Just Can't Wait to be King".

And the gopher that pops up during Zazu's "morning report" also hit the cutting room

One mistake which has been left in the new version is the inclusion of leaf-cutter ants.

These appear in the opening sequence in both movies even though they're only native to

I think they kept these misplaced ants in the film for two reasons.

First of all, the filmmakers wanted to keep the Circle of Life sequence more or less shot-for-shot.

And secondly, the ants play a special part later in Rafiki discovering that Simba is

The animated movie often emphasises how dim-witted the hyenas are:

"Zazu, you told me they're nothing but slobbering, mangy, stupid poachers."

But this doesn't reflect the fact that in real-life hyenas are intelligent, skilled,

Which is why Shenzi, who's voiced by Black Panther's Florence Kasumba, is a lot more

And although the hyenas are still antagonists in the remake, the Nazi goose-stepping scene

has been cut to fit the new film's more realistic and grounded approach.

Hard-core Lion King fans may have noticed a small change in the new movie when Simba

In the original film, as they rub their heads together you can also hear them purring, much

However, in the remake Simba and Nala's purring has been removed, likely because animal experts

believe lions either don't purr at all or the noises they make are technically different

Following Simba and Nala's reunion is "Can You Feel The Love Tonight?" which the original

filmmakers described as "perhaps the most steamy love scene in any Disney film."

During the song, Nala gives Simba what the filmmakers have called a "Come Hither" look.

In the new film that moment is replaced with Nala giving Simba an affectionate lick, which

fits with the remake's much more realistic depiction of animal behaviour.

In the 1994 movie, Rafiki discovers that Simba is still alive after the lion flops down on

some plants and the earth and leaves which scatter are magically carried by the wind

all the way to the wise monkey's tree where he reads the leaves in an empty tortoise shell.

The new movie has a quite ingenious and perhaps more feasible method for Rafiki to discover

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