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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71_p8P_PVXo
One of the most important if not the most important scene in the entire film. The message it sends is powerful once it’s analyzed. Simba represents the black race, Rafiki represents our culture and history and Mufasa represents our faith. Once you are conscious of who you are mentally, spiritually and culturally, no one can tell you who you are. This is turn establishes intense confidence, high self-esteem, unity, peace, strength, love, pride, dignity, trust and everything we lack as a race.
Key Points:
- “The past will hurt but you can learn from it or you can run from it.” We have been running from our past for far too long. WE must research our history, learn our true identity and LEARN from it. WE must also learn from this past as a whole as well as a race.
- “I’m not the one confused, you don’t even know who you are.”: Again, very important we have forgotten who we are as a race. We are confused, murdering each other because we don’t fit in the current system. We confused racially, emotionally, mentally and it’s time to become informed. Really informed. Watch Hidden Colors.
- “You have forgotten who you are so you have forgotten me.” Mufasa symbolizes many different things to me. In this instance, forgetting him I decoded as forgetting our history, our story, our culture, our land and most important our ancestors. We have forgotten our brothers and sisters laying at the bottom of the ocean, the ones who slaved in the fields, who encouraged a civil change in society. As Mufasa lives in Simba, our importance lives within us and we have to bring it to the surface and restore our image.
- We must remember who we are it’s important.
Rafiki: [singing] Asante sana Squash banana, wewe nugu mimi hapana.
Adult Simba: Come on. Will you cut it out?
Rafiki: Can’t cut it out. It grow right back!
Adult Simba: Creepy little monkey. Will you stop following me? Who are you?
Rafiki: The question is who are you?
Adult Simba: I thought I knew. Now I’m not so sure.
Rafiki: Well, I know who you are. Ssh, come here. It’s a secret. *I KNOW WHO WE ARE, DO YOU?*
[starts singing in Simba’s ear]
Rafiki: Asante sana Squash banana, wewe nugu mimi hapana
Adult Simba: Enough already! What is that supposed to mean anyway?
Rafiki: It means you’re a baboon and I’m not.
Adult Simba: I think you’re a little confused.
Rafiki: Wrong! I’m not the one who’s confused. You don’t even know who you are!
Adult Simba: Oh and I suppose you know?
Rafiki: Sure do. You’re Mufasa’s boy!
Rafiki: Look down there.
[Slowly Simba walks to the edge of the watering hole and peers inside. His reflection stares back at him]
Adult Simba: That’s not my father. That’s just my reflection.
Rafiki: No. Look harder.
[Rafiki touches the water which causes waves that change Simba’s reflection into Mufasa]
Rafiki: You see? He lives in you.
Mufasa’s Ghost: [From above] Simba.
Adult Simba: Father?
Mufasa’s Ghost: [He appears in the sky as a group of stars] Simba, you have forgotten me.
Adult Simba: No. How could I?
Mufasa’s Ghost: You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of life.
Adult Simba: How can I go back? I’m not who I used to be.
Mufasa’s Ghost: [Now fully formed in the sky] Remember who you are. You are my son and the one true king. Remember who you are.
Adult Simba: [Mufasa’s ghost begins to disappear] No! Please! Don’t leave me!
Mufasa’s Ghost: Remember.
Adult Simba: Father!
Mufasa’s Ghost: Remember.
Adult Simba: Don’t leave me.
Mufasa’s Ghost: Remember.
Script Credit: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000591/quotes
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