The Jungle Book (Disney film): Difference between revisions

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* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: Kaa was one of Mowgli's allies and mentors in the original book, saving him from the Bandar-log, giving him advice for battle against the dholes, and never threatening to harm him. In fact, Mowgli was the only character able to resist his hypnotic dance. In the movie, he's a more comical villain, but is a genuine threat to the level that Bagheera is afraid of him when he's angry. In the sequel, he's pretty much a [[Butt Monkey]] and loses almost all of his original menace.

** It also seems worth to note that all the while, the python threatening to predate Mowgli sounds for all the world like [[Winnie the Pooh]] with a lisp.

*** And well he should. See [[Hey It's That Voice]], in the Trivia section.

*** And well he should. See [[Hey, It's That Voice!]], in the Trivia section.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Nearly all of the [[Rogues Gallery]] have some amount of charm to their personality and valid reasons for their wrathful intentions (Kaa for food, Shere Khan for his hatred and self preservation from man).

* [[Analogy Backfire]]: When discussing the idea of letting Mowgli stay in the jungle...

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* [[Big Bad]]: Shere Khan.

* [[Big Friendly Dog]]: Two members of Mowgli's wolf family. In the beginning of the film we see them tackle Mowgli and give his face a good licking.

* [[Bratty Half Pint]]: Mowgli, who refuses to leave the jungle and continuously runs from his guardians in a stubborn fit (usually straight into danger). He tones down a little in the sequel.

* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]: Mowgli, who refuses to leave the jungle and continuously runs from his guardians in a stubborn fit (usually straight into danger). He tones down a little in the sequel.

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: A lot of later adaptions of the original novels, while usually more faithful to the original source material, tend to borrow elements from the Disney movie. Variations of King Louie appear in the [[The Jungle Book (Film)|live-action movie]] and Shonen anime for example. Characterizations such as that of Shere Khan and Baloo are also occasionally borrowed vaguely from their Disney interpretations.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Baloo's "You better believe it".

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* [[Distracted By the Sexy]] / [[Love At First Sight]]: Mowgli instantly loses all control of his mental faculties the moment he sees Shanti and hears her singing, a reaction [[Show Some Leg|she quite deliberately uses to allure him into the village]] - by the time she blinks her eyes at him he's [[Catch Phrase|gone, man: solid gone]]. Funnily enough, in the sequel he has absolutely no problem cheerfully admitting it, but Shanti apparently finds it embarrassing and [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|fervently denies doing any such thing]].

* [[The Dreaded]]: Shere Khan.

* [[Early Bird Cameo]]: The elephants in this film actually all made an appearance in [[Miscellaneous Disney Shorts|the short subject]] ''Goliath II'' before actually making their official debuts here.

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: The elephants in this film actually all made an appearance in [[Miscellaneous Disney Shorts|the short subject]] ''Goliath II'' before actually making their official debuts here.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Kaa dislikes Shere Khan's wrathful reasons for hunting Mowgli rather than hunting merely for food and criticizes him for "picking on that poor defenseless boy" once he knows he's safely out of earshot. [[Hypocritical Humor|Then he remembers that he's currently got that "poor defenseless boy" in his coils]].

* {{spoiler|[[Everybody Lives]]: There are no deaths in either film, which is admittedly odd even for a [[Disneyfication|Disney adaptation]].}}

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* [[In Name Only]]: This film is radically diffrent from the original. To Wit:

** It turned Kaa into a literal [[Smug Snake]], Baloo into a hedonist, and Bagheera into something of a godfather.

*** Mowgli is changed from a [[Noble Savage]] to a [[Bratty Half Pint]].

*** Mowgli is changed from a [[Noble Savage]] to a [[Bratty Half-Pint]].

*** At one point in the Kipling stories, Kaa the python hypnotizes a troupe of monkeys into becoming his helpless (ahem) dinner guests; later on, Mowgli singes Shere Khan's fur with a burning branch, and when that fails to get rid of him, Mowgli and the wolves stampede a herd of water-buffalo over him. As if that wasn't enough, in the story "Red Dog", Mowgli causes the marauding dogs of the title to be attacked by millions of angry bees; those who survive this by jumping into the river are attacked by Mowgli with a knife, and any that are left must then face Mowgli and his enraged wolf pack. Incidentally, Mowgli does most of this while he's naked. It should come as no surprise that none of this makes it into the Disney version.

*** Using fire against Shere Khan does show up in the movie.

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* [[Narrator]]: Bagheera in this version.

* [[Nobody Here but Us Statues]]: Bagheera does this, as there are a bunch of statues of panthers in the ruined human city, with one conveniently empty spot for him to sit in and assume the same pose as the statues. Even though he's solid black and they are light gray, he goes unnoticed by the monkeys who pass right by him. But then Baloo [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee|opens a door onto him]].

* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]] / [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Shere Khan, claws extended, fighting Baloo near the end:

* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] / [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Shere Khan, claws extended, fighting Baloo near the end:

** Also implied again in the sequel, this time on heckling vulture Lucky:

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* [[Old Windbag]]: Col. Hathi

* [[The Other Darrin]]: For rather obvious reasons, none of the original voice-actors reprise their roles in the sequel. It's most obvious with Shanti, who sounds ''nothing'' like she did in the first movie, but it's also notable with Mowgli and Baloo. The other voice actors imitate the original actors with various levels of success.

* [[Pale Females Dark Males]]: The wolves and the elephants.

* [[Pale Females, Dark Males]]: The wolves and the elephants.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Baloo in drag with the monkeys.

* [[Pigeonholed Voice Actor]]: Phil Harris would basically go on to play Baloo again in Robin Hood as Little John and in ''[[The Aristocats]]'' as O'Malley.

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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Baloo is Red, Bagheera is Blue

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Bagheera loses his temper with Mowgli and leaves him to fend for himself at twice over. He quickly darts back at the thought of leaving him with [[The Slacker|Baloo]] however.

* [[Shout Out]]: Near the end of the film, {{spoiler|Bagheera delivers a eulogy to the apparently dead Baloo as the background music plays}}. Surprisingly, this background music is a [[Grief Song]] called "Chorale for Snow White", a shout-out to the 1937 film ''[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Disney)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]''.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Near the end of the film, {{spoiler|Bagheera delivers a eulogy to the apparently dead Baloo as the background music plays}}. Surprisingly, this background music is a [[Grief Song]] called "Chorale for Snow White", a shout-out to the 1937 film ''[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Disney)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]''.

* [[Show Some Leg]]: Shanti blatantly does this to Mowgli at the end of the first movie (which she attempts to deny in the second). Lampshaded by Baloo and Bagheera.

{{quote| '''Baloo:''' (furious) She did that on purpose!<br />

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'''[[Deadpan Snarker|Bagheera]]:''' Well, that shouldn't take too long. }}

* [[Stock Footage]]: The scene where Mowgli is licked by the two wolves uses the same animation sequence from ''[[The Sword in The Stone (Disney)|The Sword in The Stone]]'' where Wart gets licked by Tiger and Talbot, the castle dogs. Shere Khan also spends some time sneakily stalking a deer whose death had already traumatized a generation of Disney Kids. (Thanks again, Bambi). Various shots were also recycled within the movie, chiefly those involving the elephants and Kaa.

** Watch closely at the animation of almost all the scenes involving the wolf pups. [[~~One Hundred and One~~ Dalmatians (Disney)|Seem familiar?]]

** Watch closely at the animation of almost all the scenes involving the wolf pups. [[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|Seem familiar?]]

** Also, animation from ''[[The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney)|The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad]]'' was actually reused for the scene where Baloo and Bagheera rescue Mowgli from the apes.

* [[Super Persistent Predator]]: Played with and averted. Shere Khan tracks Mowgli all throughout the jungle in both movies, but both times he is out to kill him for being human rather than hunting him for food. Meanwhile, Kaa (who ''is'' hunting for food) only chances upon the main characters and quits pursuing them once they prove to be more trouble than they're worth.

* [[Super-Persistent Predator]]: Played with and averted. Shere Khan tracks Mowgli all throughout the jungle in both movies, but both times he is out to kill him for being human rather than hunting him for food. Meanwhile, Kaa (who ''is'' hunting for food) only chances upon the main characters and quits pursuing them once they prove to be more trouble than they're worth.

{{quote| '''Kaa:''' If I never seen that skinny little shrimp, it'll be too soon.}}

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Mowgli does this a lot. The most obvious example: Kaa first appears ''immediately'' after Mowgli tells Bagheera "I can take care of myself", and he nearly gets himself (and Bagheera) killed.

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*** In the final film, [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|he instead steals the vultures' number]].

* [[Weak-Willed]]: Mowgli and Shanti are both easy victims for Kaa (this is ironically in contrast to the original novel where Mowgli was the only one resistant to Kaa's hypnotic dance).

* [[What Song Was This Again]]: "Bear Necessities", having a pun-based title, really doesn't translate well. In the Swedish version, the gist of the song is the same, but the pun is replaced by a different bear-related pun. The French version is entirely punless, as is the German version, whose title translates as something like "Let's try it the cozy way".

* [[What Song Was This Again?]]: "Bear Necessities", having a pun-based title, really doesn't translate well. In the Swedish version, the gist of the song is the same, but the pun is replaced by a different bear-related pun. The French version is entirely punless, as is the German version, whose title translates as something like "Let's try it the cozy way".

* [[With Catlike Tread]]: The elephants searching for the lost man-cub.

{{quote| Shere Khan: Element of surprise? Oh, I say... ''(laughs)''}}