Jeremy irons: A mufasa is golden like the sun, and scars, dark like the night. And he gets at a mufasa by going through his son,. By y by playing on the on the impulsivity and juvenile qualities of his son. There's some antagonism between these two as you can see by their facial expressions there. The shawman lives inside that tree. That's another way of thinking about a very, very common element in stories, write, the spirit of the ancient tree.