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TIL that film score composer Hans Zimmer saw the Lion King as a metaphor of a son loosing his father at a young age, which tragically also happened to him. "Suddenly I am writing a requiem for my father, and the whole thing became intensely personal”. The score landed him an Oscar for best music.

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