The Lion King -

I still remember seeing this in the theatre, and I still remember a scene that stunned me. Over halfway through the movie, a bunch of leaves lift into the air and spell out the word “SEX”, but as a kid I thought that the leaves spelled out “SFX”. I was shocked and didn’t know what to think. It distracted me for the rest of the movie. Why would the SFX crew think that it was necessary to distract the audience from the film purely to draw more attention to themselves? It struck me as incredibly arrogant and conceited. Why should the SFX crew be deserving of such a semi-cameo when the voice-actors, animators, and artists are just as responsible for the movie’s creation? Even though I now know that I just misread it, and the leaves didn’t spell “SFX”, I still can’t unsee it, even though it has now been removed from the movie because of the confusion.