Daily Dialogue — May 8, 2014

Scar: Now you wait here. Your father has a marvelous surprise for you.
Young Simba: Oooh. What is it?
Scar: If I told you, it wouldn’t be a surprise, now would it?
Young Simba: If you tell me, I’ll still act surprised.
Scar: Ho ho ho. You are such a naughty boy!
Young Simba: Come on, Uncle Scar.
Scar: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is just for you and your daddy. You know, a sort of… father-son… thing. Well! I’d better go get him.
Young Simba: I’ll go with you.
Scar: No!

[regaining composure]

Scar: Heh heh heh. No. Just stay on this rock. You wouldn’t want to end up in another mess like you did with the hyenas.
Young Simba: You know about that?
Scar: Simba, Simba, everybody knows about that.
Young Simba: Really?
Scar: Oh, yes. Lucky Daddy was there to save you, eh? Oh, and just between us, you might want to work on that little roar of yours. Hmm?
Young Simba: Oh, okay. Hey, Uncle Scar, will I like this surprise?
Scar: Simba, it’s to die for!

— The Lion King (1994), screenplay by Irene Mecchi and Jonathan Roberts and Linda Woolverton

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Lying.

Trivia: The team working on the movie was supposedly Disney’s “Team B”, who were “kept busy” while “team A” worked on Pocahontas (1995), on which the production had much higher hopes.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Scar is particularly adroit at lying as here in which the surprise is definitely not a happy one.

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