1994 was a good year. 1994 in retrospect was probably one of the greatest years in film history. Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, and The Shawshank Redemption were all released that year. 1994 was also great because that was the year of my birth. It is no coincidence that so many great movies came out the year I was born. Anyways, there was also one movie that was released in 1994 that is a personal favorite of mine. The Lion King was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff. The screenplay was written by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton. The Lion King was released in the midst of the Disney Renaissance, the period between 1989 and 1999 when Disney returned to its animated musical roots that made the studio so successful in years past. The Disney Renaissance was an unprecedented run of success for the studio. In this ten year period Disney released The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Bea...
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