The Lion King Page #13

Shenzi shoves him.

BANZAI:

-- urf. I said "Que pasa!"

SCAR:

Good.

SHENZI:

Yeah. But we're still hungry.

SCAR:

It's the lionesses job to do the hunting!

BANZAI:

Yeah. But they won't go hunt.

SHENZI:

Make 'em. You're the big cheese.

BANZAI:

Whose got some cheese?

PUMBAA:

You noticed!

TIMON:

Why, I bet you could feed a family of four!

PUMBAA:

At least!

a beat

Picture me rollin' in butter. Roley-poley, roley-poley, roley-poley.

WITH SIMBA AND NALA - CONTINUOUS

As the hyenas' attention is diverted by Timon and Pumbaa, they pass behind them.

WITH TIMON AND PUMBAA - CONTINUOUS

TIMON:

Okay, my roley-poley buddy, I say it's time we turn into FAST FOOD!

And they run off, pursued by the hyenas.

WITH SIMBA as he hears:

SCAR (O.S.)

calling

SA—RAAA-BIIII!!!!!!!!!!!

SCAR'S ECHO

Sarabi-Sarabi-Sarabi!!!

SIMBA'S POV

Of Sarabi walking the gauntlet from the back of the crowd to the front, head held high. Nobody moves. The hyenas stare at her ominously. An eerie wind WHOOOSHES across the plain.

WITH SCAR AND SARABI

The wind whips Scar's mane. Lightning strikes in the distance.

SARABI:

Yes, Scar?

SCAR:

Where is your hunting party? They're not doing their job.

SARABI:

Scar, there is no food. The herds have moved on.

SCAR:

No! They're just not looking hard enough.

SARABI:

It's over, Scar. There is nothing left. We have only one choice. We must leave Pride Rock.

SCAR:

We're not going anywhere.

SARABI:

Then you are sentencing us to death.

SCAR:

Then so be it.

SARABI:

You can't do that.

SCAR:

I am the king, and I can do whatever I want!

SARABI:

If you were half the king Mufasa was, you would never do --

SCAR:

I AM TEN TIMES THE KING MUFASA WAS!

Scar strikes Sarabi, and she falls.

SCAR'S ECHO

Mufasa-Mufasa-Mufasa --

Heat lightning flashes. The thunder becomes a ROAR.

SEQ. 19 (THE FIGHT)

EXT. PRIDE ROCK - DUSK

The ROAR continues. Heat lightning illuminates the shadowy FIGURE of a LION. It is Simba, who has witnessed Scar's treachery. Simba charges down the rock.

SCAR skitters away in fear:

SCAR:

Mufasa? -- No! -- It can't be. You're dead! Go away. Go! Leave me alone!

Simba stands near his mother. Sarabi lifts her head, unsure of who the stranger is.

SARABI:

groggy

Mufasa?

SIMBA:

No. It's me.

SARABI:

weakly

Simba -- You're alive.

SIMBA:

I'm home.

Scar regains his confidence.

SCAR:

Simba!

nervous laugh

Simba. I'm a little surprised to see you --

glares at hyenas

alive.

ANGLE - SHENZI, BANZAI & ED

HYENA TRIO:

Gulp!

And they duck behind a rock.

WITH SIMBA AND SCAR

Simba silently stalks Scar, who backs away. Scar tries to hold him off:

SCAR:

Stroke of bad timing your showing up when you did.

SIMBA:

I'd say I'm right on time.

Simba lunges at Scar. They tussle. Scar gets away.

SCAR:

Oh, Simba -- You must understand. The pressures of ruling a kingdom --

SIMBA:

interrupting

Are no longer yours.

Simba leaps for him again.

SIMBA:

Step down, Scar.

SCAR:

patronizing

Oh. Well, I would, of course. But there is one little problem.

WE HEAR eerie laughter of the hyenas.

HYENAS (O.S.)

Hee-hee-hee-hee.

ZIP PAN:

TONS OF HYENAS rush in, LAUGHING violently. They are all over Simba, who desperately tries to fight them off.

ANGLE - SARABI

SARABI:

Simba!

SURROUNDING FLATLAND - CONTINUOUS

Lightning strikes closer to Pride Rock, igniting the land.

WITH SCAR AND SIMBA

The hyenas pulverize Simba. Scar finally shouts an order:

SCAR:

Enough!

The hyenas immediately stop and part down the center.

Scar cooly walks through the parted crowd, toward Simba, who is weakened by his injuries and dangerously near the edge of the promontory. Simba struggles to keep from sliding off the rock to his death. Loose stones give way, causing him more trouble. Scar looms in for the kill.

SCAR:

Poor pathetic Simba. Ever since you were a cub, wherever you went, disaster followed.

SIMBA:

Step down. Scar.

SCAR:

Always rushing headlong into trouble -- But "Daddy" was always there to save you. As I recall, "Daddy" died trying to save you.

SIMBA:

It was an accident.

SCAR:

And that's why you ran away?

to Sarabi

Not very kingly, eh, Sarabi?

SIMBA:

I was wrong.

SCAR:

You were always wrong. And lооk where you are now. But this time -- "Daddy" isn't here to save you.

Simba slips back off the promontory and SCREAMS:

SIMBA:

Aaaaaa!

He dangles off the edge of the rock, his claws losing their hold with each passing second.

Simba doesn't know it, but he is in the exact sane position his father was before his death. Scar savors the monent.

SCAR:

Now this looks familiar. Where have I seen this before? Let me'think --

brightening

Oh, yes -- I remember! That's just the way your father looked before I killed him.

Simba ROARS and leaps for Scar, hitting him like a freight train. They fight. Simba flips Scar. The hyenas freeze while and Simba holds Scar down:

SIMBA:

You killed him! All this time, I hated myself -- when you're the one who did it!

Scar calls to his army:

SCAR:

Help me, you idiots!

Scar's legions rally around him. Scar and Simba fight through the crush of hyenas.

WE HEAR:
the lionesses ROAR.

ZIP PAN TO:

NALA AND THE LIONESSES

ready to leap into the fight.

ANGLE - THE HYENAS

bug-eyed, as the lionesses run in and start driving them off. One hyena gets tossed airborne. It is Banzai.

WITH BANZAI:

airborne -- He flies in:

INT. SCAR'S CAVE - CONTINUOUS

He crashes into Zazu's ribcage prison, smashing it, freeing Zazu.

EXT. CAVE - MOMENTS LATER

Banzai runs out with Zazu WILDLY PECKING him. Banzai screams in pain:

BANZAI:

Ow! Oo! Ow! Oo! Ow! Oo! Ow! Oo!

Ed runs to help Banzai.

WITH BANZAI AND ED

They've got Zazu. Banzai leers:

BANZAI:

Hasta la vista, Birdie!

REVERSE ANGLE:

Timon, aboard a charging Pumbaa, runs in, war whooping:

TIMON:

Eeeee-yaaaaa!

TOP OF HILL:

Pumbaa and Timon butt the hyenas off the cliff.

BANZAI AND ED - LONG SHOT

catapulting through the smokey sky. As they tumble:

ED:

Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee!

BANZAI:

It's not funny, Ed.

WITH TIMON, PUMBAA AND ED

Watching the hyenas fly toward a flaming tree.

BANZAI AND ED hit the burning tree.

WITH SIMBA Breaking free of the fighting hyenas.

Simba looks around the area. There is no sign of Scar.

LIGHTNING FLASH reveals Scar, sneaking up Pride Rock.

SIMBA runs after Scar, through flames and smoke up the steep incline.

EXT. TOP OF PRIDE ROCK - MOMENTS LATER

Simba emerges from a wall of flame, his mane smoking.

SIMBA:

Murderer!

EXT. TOP OF PRIDE ROCK - DUSK

Scar cowers at the edge of the promontory. Simba stalks him.

ANGLE - SHENZI

Unseen by both Scar and Simba, she creeps up behind then.

ANGLE - SIMBA AND SCAR

Scar tries to calm Simba by being his same old, in-control, manipulative self.

SCAR:

Simba, you don't understand. It wasn't me. I didn't kill your father. It was the hyenas. They're evil. They'll stop at nothing. I was outnumbered. I had to say that.

ANGLE - SHENZI

Reacting to the betrayal. That's it. She's gone.

WITH SIMBA AND SCAR

Simba is neutral. We aren't sure what he thinks about Scar's new information.

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