Lion King is This Generation's Star Wars

Star Wars embodied and promoted the ideals that Generation X embraced.  As Klosterman noted Generation X didn't require happy events, functional families, or respect for authority.  One can generalize seeing these qualities in Generation X.  To say that Lion King is comparable isn't exactly a shot in the dark.  It is a film that represents my generation a.k.a. Generation Y.  Both films have been put on shelves repeatedly throughout the years and re watched by new generations of children.  Although Lion King came out in 1992 it has been reproduced and replayed in theaters.  Tragedy is also seen in both films.  For instance, Mufasa dies in the Lion King leaving cub Simba to fend for himself.  At the end of the first Star Wars film viewers were left to ponder what might have happened and the hero wasn't victorious at the end of the second film.  There are also dysfunctional families in both films.  For instance, Luke Skywalker discovers that his father is the supreme evil he has been fighting.  In Lion King, Simba's Uncle Scar tries to have the cub murdered and sabotaged throughout the entirety of the movie.  One can also observe a lack of respect for authority figures in both films.  Simba refuses to stay within the borders of the kingdom his father has set for him and later runs away because he thinks he is accountable for his father's death.  Luke Skywalker was anti authority in many of his actions as well.  There is however a voice of wisdom and reason in both films provided for both generations. In Star Wars its the little green guy named Yoda and in Lion King its the obnoxious baboon, Rafiki.  Both of these movies defined and developed generations.