Traci MacWalter had an excellent idea about having trivia on cities. A few place names were mentioned. Please give me names of places you'd like me to explore for you! I'll start this tomorrow for Trivia Tuesdays! Now on to Movie Mondays.....
Today for your enjoyment, let’s talk about The Jungle Book. Many of you may have already seen this one.
Plot:
The man-cub Mowgli flees the jungle after a threat from the tiger Shere Khan. Guided by Bagheera the panther and the bear Baloo, Mowgli embarks on a journey of self-discovery, though he also meets creatures who don't have his best interests at heart.
Trivia:
• In The Jungle Book (1967), King Louie was an orangutan; in this film, he's a gigantopithecus, an ancestor of the orangutan whose range is believed to have included parts of India. This change in species was made to make the film more fantastic and since orangutans are not native to India.
• This is the first time that Kaa the Snake is portrayed as a female, rather than a male. Jon Favreau said the change was a deliberate one, as he felt there were too many male characters in The Jungle Book (1967).
• Bill Murray voices Baloo in this film; his older brother Brian Doyle-Murray had voiced Baloo in The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998).
• Amid the treasures in King Louie's temple, one of them happens to be the Genie's lamp from Aladdin (1992).
• This is Garry Shandling's final film, released less than a month after he died of a Sudden Heart Attack. He provided the voice of Ikki the Porcupine, a character from Rudyard Kipling's original novel, who was not present in the 1967 film. Similarly, The Jungle Book (1967) also had a posthumous performance: Verna Felton, the voice of Winifred, Colonel Haithi's wife, in that incarnation, who starred in many other previous prominent Disney animated film productions, such as Dumbo (1941), Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), Lady and the Tramp (1955), and Sleeping Beauty (1959), up until her death on December 14, 1966, the day prior to the death of the producer of The Jungle Book (1967): Walt Disney.
Goofs:
• When Shere Khan pounces on Mowgli in the dead tree, his claws rip through his chest and you can see a deep cut wound, however in the next and last scene when Mowgli's mother Raksha becomes leader of the wolf pack, this wound is not seen, not even a scar, while all his other wounds are still very prominent.
• After Mowgli arrives at King George's lair, Mowgli has new bloodied wounds on his back and chest, not to mention the bee stings. When Mowgli escapes, he runs down the stone steps, and not one wound is seen on the front of him. Later, as King George looks for him, Mowgli's wounds reappear.
• One of the creatures which appears is the Jerbao, the rodent with large ears which is not a native of the Seonee jungle. Similarly Baloo the bear is a sloth bear as per Kipling's book, while the Baloo of the films is a Brown Bear which is not found in the Indian jungles.
• The character Kaa is supposed to represent an Indian or Burmese python. While they are the largest pythons in the world, the maximum size of a specimen for both species being around 21 ft, Kaa is clearly over that already awesome size, estimated at around 100 feet.
• The movie clearly depicts African-size elephants in the movie. While there are elephants in India, they tend to be rather smaller in size compared to African elephants.
• Also, the wolves are not depicted accurately either as they posses dense fur compared to the real Indian wolves which, due to the heat, tend to have rather short fur. The wolves in the movie closely resemble Tibetan wolves.
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