[Reporter Xu Shiying/Comprehensive Report] The French movie "Little Lion King" is based on the theme of a young lion's journey of looking for a home over 3,000 kilometers across France and Africa, bringing out a moving and tearful relationship between grandfather and grandson Family affection has made the animal protection issue of smuggling and trafficking lions much attention from the audience. The biggest highlight of the whole film is the cute and lovable lion protagonist "Jin". The crew recruited a 6-month-old lion cub to participate in the performance.

"Little Lion King" finds a young real lion as the protagonist for the first time, and is not afraid of the super cute appearance of the camera.

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The lion cub was lucky enough to meet the help of the enthusiastic siblings in the film, and decided to escort it back to its hometown of Africa. On the way, it was even helped by the siblings' grandfather. The three grandfathers and grandsons embarked on an exciting and touching adventure in France.

Coincidentally, this little lion actor had the same fate as the character "Jin" in the film. He was also trafficked to Europe by a smuggling group and was lucky enough to be found by a rescue group before he escaped the smuggling group's clutches. Therefore, it can be said that he performed the film. is very convincing.

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Director David Morrow said that due to the rapid growth of lion cubs, the body shape can be greatly changed in just a few months, so there is no way to confirm the lions participating in the performance in advance, and it was only quickly finalized on the eve of the filming. This little lion, who has the same background as the character, starred.

"Little Lion King" star lion filming in June is not NG.

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The heroine Lulan Brecht, who interacts most closely with "Jin" in the film, also spends 24 hours a day with "Jin" especially in the first two weeks of filming, so that he can familiarize himself with his own scent, so that the filming can go more smoothly.

What's interesting is that "Jin" is not only not afraid of the camera in front of the camera, but also actively responds to every scene, allowing the director to easily capture the cute and emotional expressions of animals, becoming the actor with the least NG in the film, and the crew praised him. The lion, only a few months old, is a "natural actor".

And this little lion king "Jin", who showed his wonderful acting skills in the film, after the filming ended, with the assistance of the crew, he returned to the African wildlife sanctuary, where he was professionally nurtured and returned to nature.

The producer and director said in an interview a few days ago that although the story of "Little Lion King" was inspired by Disney's classic animation "The Lion King" and Steven Spielberg's sci-fi film "ET Alien", when they were doing script field research, But unexpectedly found that the natural enemy of the lion is not the more ferocious animals in nature, but the greedy and unrestrained human nature.

Due to the fierce image that lions give to the world, many people consider them to be a symbol of power, which has led to an endless stream of illegal smuggling incidents. Among them, the indiscriminate arrest and transnational trafficking of African lions is particularly serious.

Through the wonderful adventure of a brother and sister and a lion cub, this film profiles the issue of animal protection of wildlife being trafficked across borders, making the film both tearful and educational.

"Little Lion King" will be released in theaters on September 30.

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