The Jungle Book (Disney film): Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"Here's [[The Jungle Book (Literature)|the novel]]. Now the first thing I want you to do is [[Did Not Do the Research|not read it]]."''|'''Walt Disney''' to his writing staff}}

Based on a collection of stories of the same name published around 1893 by [[Rudyard Kipling]], Disney found ''[[The Jungle Book (Literature)|The Jungle Book]]'' and loved at least some of its ideas, so they chose it for [[Disney Animated Canon|one of their]] [[Animated Adaptation|Animated Adaptations]]. The result was and is widely considered a great Disney film, the best and perhaps most original animated Disney film of the 1960s. That said, this adaptation of ''The Jungle Book'' was one of the greatest cases of [[Adaptation Displacement]] in history, so great a case that Disney felt free to use some of Mowgli's friends and foes and rivals far, far away from the books and jungles where they were conceived, and so it considers them its own.

One of Disney's most publicized features, the film spawned two [[Animated Series]] [[Spin-Off|Spin-Offs]]: ''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|Tale Spin]]'', an [[Anthropomorphic Shift]] Animated Series that puts three of the main characters from Disney's version of ''The Jungle Book'' into an [[Alternate Continuity]], and ''Jungle Cubs'', which focuses on [[Spinoff Babies|the infant lives of the animal residents of the film]]. ''The Jungle Book'' also received its inevitable sequel titled ''The Jungle Book 2''.

** There's another one in the sequel. If you pay very close attention during the scenes with the vultures, you'll hear Jess Harnell doing his Ringo Starr impression. [[Animaniacs (Animation)|Again.]]

* [[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.

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: King Louie, despite his [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] status and appearances in previous media such as ''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|Tale Spin]]'' and ''Jungle Cubs'', does not appear in the sequel (allegedly due to fears of a lawsuit issued by Louis Prima's widow over caricature of his voice).

** Bagheera gets this in ''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|Tale Spin]]''.

* [[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]].

* [[Everything's Better With Monkeys]]: King Louie and his monkeys subvert this somewhat.

* [[Everything's Worse With Bears]]: Baloo, despite Bagheera's fears of his [[Toxic Friend Influence]] on Mowgli, averts this hard.

* [[Expy]]: Baloo proved so popular that Disney used Phil Harris to play essentially the same character in their next two animated features, ''[[The Aristocats (Disney)|The Aristocats]]'' and ''[[Robin Hood (Disney)|Robin Hood]]''.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Baloo is getting ''visibly'' [[A Date With Rosie Palms|sexually aroused]] during ''Bear Necessities'', when he starts scratching himself with the rock wall.

* [[Line in The Sand]]: The elephant brigade all step back, (except for one, who immediately steps back, as well), when asked to volunteer.

* [[Recycled Script]]: The sequence where Baloo and the monkeys kept taking Mowgli away from each other is pretty much a shot-for-shot remake of a similar sequence from ''[[The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney)|The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKER9K9QozA Watch and see.]

* [[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]]''.

* [[Spared By the Adaptation]]: In the original book Shere Khan was killed by Mowgli, to the point of he almost [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]. However the tiger survives in ''all'' of Disney's adaptions of the stories and character to date.

* [[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. [[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.

* [[Worlds Shortest Book]]: This exchange:

* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: [[Lazy Bum|Baloo]] is phlegmatic, [[The Stoic|Bagheera]] is melancholic, [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|Shere Khan]] is choleric, [[Keet|Louie]] is sanguine. Hathi and Kaa qualify as supine.

* [[Jerkass]]/[[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Shere Khan, depending on the episode.

* [[Not Even Bothering With the Accent]]: Bagheera, Shere Khan and Hathi all have American accents in the show, this is made all the more jarring due to "Born To Be Wild" replicating their original British voices for their adult forms.