Remaking iconic movie scenes in video games is a popular trend lately, but a crossover between Rocket League and The Lion King is one even the biggest fans of the original works couldn't have been expecting. The scene in question, Mufasa falling to his death after Scar's betrayal in The Lion King, is one of the most memorable and saddest scenes in animated film history.
Usually when a player makes a film recreation that takes the internet by storm, the characters in the game are humans or at least anthropomorphic, which makes it easier to envision them as the characters they're portraying. A lot of these remakes have used Animal Crossing: New Horizons as their canvas, which lets players easily manipulate the camera and even dress their own villager to look like a specific character. That's a lot harder to do in Rocket League, however, where there's not a humanoid to be found, but plenty of cars.
In a video recently posted to Twitter, user edurph shows how two completely unrelated works of art can become an unlikely but perfect combination. The video opens with the iconic "Circle of Life" theme playing as the Rocket League opening credits are overlayed on top of The Lion King's famous sunrise scene. After the credits roll, the film cuts to the scene where Mufasa is dangling from a cliff and calling out to his brother, Scar, for help. Except this time, there are no lions and there is no cliff.
In the Rocket League recreation, a yellow car and an orange car are positioned on top of a goal post with the yellow car hanging perilously off the edge. Both cars are fittingly wearing cat ears, adding just enough of a feline look to the cars to really sell the crossover. The audio from the film's betrayal scene plays as the orange car bumps the yellow one off of the goal, presumably sending it to its death. The yellow car is then edited over footage from the iconic scene from The Lion King of Mufasa falling into a herd of wild animals, and thus concludes the dramatic crossover.
Luckily, there is a lot more where this came from. Edurph has posted a few other Rocket League meme videos to his Twitter feed, each just as enjoyable as The Lion King crossover. Hopefully, edurph will continue to produce these works of art, as they're well done and fun to watch even by those who aren't fans of Rocket League.
Source: edurph/Twitter