Disney offered Jason a one-time payment of $2 million to sing as young Simba in 1994's The Lion King. His mother was able to negotiate a $100,000 fee and royalties instead. He still receives checks today?‼️🤔
Do you think this was blatant racism in America after Hall of Famer Terrell Davis was handcuffed on a plane in front of his terrified children and heartbroken wife after simply tapping a flight attendant on the shoulder on @United?
Or is this just living while Black? Yes or no?
Terrifying. WATCH:
Never forget: Ilhan Omar’s family didn’t flee Somalia as the oppressed. They fled because her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, was a senior colonel in the Somali National Army of the genocidal communist dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, the regime that systematically slaughtered up to 200,000 people, mostly Isaaq civilians, in one of the worst genocides in modern African history.
Her father wasn’t some low-level nobody or a teacher who just happened to be around. He was an esteemed senior officer who commanded a regiment, trained in the Soviet Union, and stayed in the military hierarchy of that brutal Marxist-Leninist dictatorship for years.
When the regime finally collapsed under the weight of its own mass murder, famine, and civil war in 1991, the family ran, not as victims of the dictatorship, but as people tied to the apparatus that had just spent years bombing cities, executing civilians, and turning northern Somalia into a killing field.
Now this same family is in the US, where Omar stands up and lectures Americans about justice, accountability, morality, and “genocide.” The hypocrisy is sickening. A daughter of a colonel from the regime that carried out the Isaaq genocide has the gall to moralize to the country that took her in after her father’s side lost power.
Her father came to the U.S. as a “refugee,” just like Yusuf Abdi Ali, who was accused of war crimes and later found liable for torture in a U.S. civil court. Yet, as far as publicly available information shows, her father never faced comparable scrutiny or accountability. Consider this: Ali was deported from the US only two years ago, after a survivor pursued justice through the courts. It took a survivor’s determination to bring his abuses before a judge and jury.
That’s the record.
For James Cameron’s Titanic (1997), the most insane angle isn’t the romance: it’s the fact that Cameron built a working replica of the doomed ocean liner, then engineered its destruction in real time.
Here is exactly how he pulled off one of cinema’s greatest achievements 🧵👇
1/6 Building a Studio From Scratch
No soundstage on Earth was big enough for Cameron’s vision.
In 1996, 20th Century Fox bought 40 acres of waterfront land in Rosarito, Mexico, to build Fox Baja Studios specifically for this single movie.
2/6 17 Million Gallons of Ocean
Crews excavated two massive water tanks:
A 17-million-gallon horizon tank built
against the Pacific Ocean for uninterrupted views.
A 5-million-gallon indoor tank to submerge luxury sets like the Grand Staircase.
3/6 An 85% Scale Titan
Using original blueprints from Harland & Wolff (the ship’s actual builders), they constructed a 775-foot-long ship replica.
It sat on hydraulic jacks that could tilt the ship up to a 60-degree angle to simulate the final sinking moments.
4/6 The Towering Crane
To film the sprawling ship, production installed a 200-foot-tall Akela crane on a custom track running along the set.
At the time, it was the largest crane camera platform in movie history.
5/6 The Mirrored Ship Illusion
To save money, they only built the starboard (right) side of the ship.
When filming the Southampton boarding scene, Cameron shot everything in reverse. Every sign, button, and luggage tag was mirrored, then flipped in post-production.
6/6 Real Water, One Take
The interior sets were built out of real solid oak and glass.
When 90,000 gallons of water rushed into the Grand Staircase, the force ripped the stairs directly off their steel foundations. There were no second takes.
Cameron didn’t just use CGI or tiny miniatures. He built an entire world, and then destroyed it, milliliter by milliliter, to bring history back to life.