ALT Schumacher: There was another moment that probably informed Chris. At the end of Mulan, she says, "Father, I bring you treasures from the emperor to bring honor to the Fa family!" She hands him all this stuff, and he throws it on the ground. He grabs her, hugs her, and says, "Having you as a daughter is the greatest honor of all." It makes me cry every time I watch it. I'm actually tearing up telling you the damn anecdote. We screened it in New York for Michael Eisner. And Mulan didn't nudge Michael at all. At the end, he literally screamed, "Who's the guy on the bench?!" Chris was sort of jumpy about Michael's notes after that.

ALT Sanders: I happened to sit right behind Michael Eisner at a Lion King screening. He'd had a very difficult morning. We'd heard about it before: "He's had some bad meetings." Everybody had a light-up pen, so you knew when somebody was making a note because you'd hear a click and a little light would go on. I was waiting for Michael to write stuff down. But I think he was just consumed with what had happened earlier in the day. When he was watching the film, he would put his head down and he'd look to the side, and then he'd put his head down again, look around, and put his head down again. He kept doing that through the film. At that pivotal moment - when Simba has grown up and runs into Rafiki, who tells him to look into the water. Simba says, "I see nothing." Rafiki says, "No, look harder."

ALT At that moment, Michael Eisner looks down. So Mufasa's ghost appears, and he says, "Simba, you are more than what you have become. You are the one true kingỊiand Michael looks down the entire time. Mufasa says, "Remember who you are." The clouds recede. And then Michael looks up. We went to the meeting afterward, and Michael said, "I don't even know why Simba went back home." I couldn't stand up and go, "He missed it! He didn't see it!" Jeffrey Katzenberg says, "Well, Mufasa's ghost came back for him." Michael goes, "Oh, I didn't get that at all." Jeffrey's like, "How could you miss that?" Michael's like, "I don't know. I just didn't see that. What happened? Mustafa who?"