The Jungle Book (Collins Classics)

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Production [ edit ] Development and writing [ edit ] The Jungle Book was the last animated feature to be produced by Walt Disney before his death in December 1966. After Phil Harris was cast as Baloo, Disneyland Records president Jimmy Johnson suggested Disney to get Prima, whom he thought to be great as a foil for Harris' character. Disney later made a live-action adaptation of the film, which was more of a realistic action- adventure film with somewhat-more adult themes. So there was Lord of the Rings aspect to that; the fire was almost like the ring in that was going to give someone ultimate power, but corrupt them as well as create destruction".

For those who don't know Hindi: the letter ṃ ( anusvara) usually represents a nasal consonant homorganic with the following stop, i. Disney asked the siblings if they had read Kipling's book and they replied that they had done so "a long, long time ago" and that they had also seen the 1942 version by Alexander Korda. The film was released in the Dolby Vision format in Dolby Cinema in the United States, [34] and is the first film to be released in Dolby Vision 3D (in a few select theaters in New York City and Chicago).Johansson said that "For [her], the opportunity to play Kaa as envisioned by Jon [Favreau] was so exciting", [9] and described Kaa as "the mirror into Mowgli's past". Weta was responsible for animating the King Louie sequence, with visual effects supervisor Keith Miller adding that, "It was important for Jon to see Christopher Walken in the creature. The story of the film is not independently taken from Kipling's works, but also borrows cinematic inspirations from other films, including the child-mentor relationship in Shane (1953), the establishment of rules in a dangerous world from Goodfellas (1990) and the use of a shadowy jungle figure in Apocalypse Now (1979). On Wednesday, April 19—its twelfth day of release—it surpassed Furious 7 to become the highest-grossing Hollywood/foreign release of all time there.

Main article: List of The Jungle Book characters A promotional image of the characters from the film. The film was released once again as a 2-disc Platinum Edition DVD on October 2, 2007, to commemorate its 40th anniversary. This was because Disney felt that the story should be kept simple, and the characters should drive the story. Mac of Slant Magazine wrote, "Jon Favreau draws heavily on his film's animated predecessor for plot, characterizations, songs, and set pieces, but doesn't know how to fit these familiar elements into his own coherent vision".Charles Solomon, reviewing for the Los Angeles Times, thought the film's animators was "near the height of their talents" and the resulting film "remains a high-spirited romp that will delight children—and parents weary of action films with body counts that exceed their box-office grosses". On Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, the film holds an approval rating of 94% based on 330 reviews and an average rating of 7. A behind-the-scenes exhibition titled Walt Disney’s The Jungle Book: Making a Masterpiece, guest-curated by Andreas Deja took place at The Walt Disney Family Museum from June 23, 2022, to January 8, 2023. David Bailey was originally cast in the role, but during the film's production he hit puberty, and his voice changed. Despite being born with a crippled leg and derisively nicknamed "Lungri" ("The Lame One") by his own mother, Shere Khan is ruthless, aggressive, violent, arrogant, self-centered, and sees himself as the rightful lord of the jungle.

Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote the film was "really, really good Disney indeed, and nobody needs to say a great deal more.A boy is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther, who teach him the "Law of the Jungle".

of the film's opening-weekend gross, respectively, the later broke the record for the biggest April Disney release IMAX opening. It became one of the few surprise hits and one of the highest-grossing films of the year, alongside Finding Dory, The Secret Life of Pets, and Zootopia, centered around talking animals to dominate the year-end chart.

Colin Greenland reviewed The Jungle Book for Imagine magazine, and stated that "the last film the old boy worked on himself and I reckon the last good animated feature in his traditional mode - not least because of some rather jolly jazz which, legend has it, Walt himself resisted, and was added after his death. The event celebrated the film's 55th anniversary by displaying over 600 pieces of rare artwork, manuscripts, photos, animation drawings and cels as well as ephemera. An extensive companion book, Walt Disney's The Jungle Book: Making a Masterpiece also written by Deja was originally slated to be published by Weldon Owen on September 20, 2022, [115] before it was changed to November 1, 2022. He, however, felt the two songs were rather unnecessary and distracting, and believed the film to be a little too frightening for children.