[quote="Majordomo"]What do you mean "What little character there was to begin with.." ? Zazu has plenty of character. There's an easy way to tell whether or not a character is essential and that is to hypothesize what the movie would be like without that character.
Without Zazu...
- Mufasa would have absolutely no way of knowing that Simba and Nala were in trouble, and they would've been shredded in seconds.
- Simba would have nobody to defy, particularly in the "I Just Can't Wait to be King" scenes
- There would be no bridge between the generations of Mufasa and Simba
- There would be no mediation between the opposing sides of Mufasa and Scar
- There wouldn't be anybody to offer witty retorts to Scar's snark, taking away a LOT of the comedy of the movie (not just from Zazu, but from Scar as well)
- Most of us would never have even heard of the coconut song
Believe me, there's more character than you realize. Now, I can understand if you don't like the character, and it tends to happen to comedic characters that they're either loved or hated, but to say that his character is underdeveloped and nonessential?[/quote]
lol, I just had to meet the one Zazu fan in the entire world. ^^ j/k. I know what you mean and I acknowledge that fact but any creature could have done Zazu's job. The Gopher that tells Zazu about the hyenas in the Pride Lands for instance. He could have done the same thing. It probably wouldn't have been quite as entertaining that way, but I just feel that TLK would have been fine without him. Only my opinions though. ^^