Idris Elba played a boss role as Shere Khan! I like how the character was given more of a role in this reimagined adaptation of 1967’s The Jungle Book.
I like how some elements of Rudyard Kipling’s story is implemented in this film, like Raksha standing up to Shere Khan, the law of the jungle, and the trial that the wolves, Mowgli, and Bagheera did in the beginning for example.
Other things from the book they added that i liked were the Water Truce, referring to the animals as their own “people”, Ikki (the porcupine), Chil (the kite), and giving the pack a bigger role than in the 60s movie.
There is also another live action jungle book movie called Mowgli. It has it’s own story and the animation is just gorgeous. And the best character in there has to be Bageera, cause they give him a backstory there of why he’s with a pack of wolfs
@@denzeldelaney6578 actually this one is more accurate to the original. The way Mowgli leaves the pack with Bageera, runs into Kaa, meets Balloo, gets taken by the monkeys, and the night time climax at the end as well. There are more differences in Mowgli than this
If you want more backstory behind Bagheera, check this. In the books, he was born and raised in captivity, living behind bars in a king’s menagerie (in a palace in Udaipur). When his mother died there, Bagheera vowed to return to the jungle and succeeded in breaking the lock of his cage and escaped into the jungle. And because he learned the ways of Man, he became a force to be reckoned with in the jungle, every bit as feared as Shere Khan…
@@stefansalvatierra4913 that is backstory in the Mowgli movie. He tells Mowgli about his life in captivity. He even has a wounds of a collar around his neck
The reason why king louie is way bigger is because he is a gigantopithecus. The reason why is because real orangutans aren't native to India so the directors thought it would be more fitting.
Exactly, Gigantopithecus used to live in the India-China area thousands of years ago. Also, it was the original King Kong. Standing nearly 10-ft tall and weighing half a ton, even coexisting with early humans. It was the inspiration behind the legends of the yeti, Bigfoot and even the Yowie
I can watch this movie a thousand times and the part where everyone recites the law of the jungle keeps giving me goosebumps, I love the feeling and it's very emotional
If they let Shere Khan have his way, he wouldn’t stop at killing Mowgli. He would continue doing as he pleases and breaking the Laws of the Jungle (shifting his hunting grounds without warning, killing for sport..), most notably he’d continue hunting humans, and sooner or later, they’d hunt him down in retribution, bringing destruction with them, and posing serious harm to anyone caught in the crossfire. That’s why killing humans is utterly forbidden by Jungle Law..
You mean the movie where the main villain puts down wolves, a bear, a black panther, then chases the protagonist into one of his worst fears- fire- because he was so determined to kill him? Yeah that movie
I really liked the changes they made in this movie. I love the animated one, I grew up on it, but there was stuff I didn’t agree with and stuff I’m glad was touched on in this. 1. Mowgli leaving. In the OG movie, they had a meeting and Mowgli left. In this, they had a meeting and had a heartfelt goodbye with him before he left. 2. His origins. Though different from how Bahgeera found him (in a basket in a boat on the river), it shows what happened to his family. 3. My personal favorite change, the ending. I disagreed with the ending in the og. I really wanted Mowgli to stay in the forest. That was his home! The animals were his family! So when he got to stay in this version, I was over the moon happy!
Well, the only reason he stayed in the jungle was because there was no reason for him *not* to stay. But I agree. I feel as though a child should always have a say in what happens to them, and no one was listening to Mowgli.
If I remember correctly, Baloo is meant to be a sloth bear (despite not exactly looking like one) and are native to India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. 19:35 Ey! Confirmation! 17:35 this is true in some bird species. A mother will drop an egg into a different nest to ensure it gets fed while the actual offspring perish due to them not being strong enough to fight the bigger foreign chick for food So the reason King Louie is so big is because he was changed from an orangutan into a Gigantopithecus. A long extinct giant ape that looked fairly similar to modern orangutans. They were from southern China although it’s been theorized they also lived in a Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Captain Gut from Ice Age 4 is also a Gigantopithecus.
Gigantopithecus is always made a villain. In real life, they were said to be as peaceful as orangutans only being aggressive when some tiger or other predator threatened their young ones.
And he’s more ferocious and terrifying in this film as he killed two characters on screen that is related to Mowgli and he’ll kill anyone that gets in his way by almost killing Baloo, Bagheera, and the wolves when they fight to protect Mowgli.
Honestly I always love the originals as well as the live remakes. I love how there’s always that question you think you know the story but do you know it how I know it. So I agree with the changes they make sure because it’s asking how can we make it respectful yet original on its own. So I can’t wait to see your reaction more of them.
I remember Walt Disney wanted to make his version of Kaa (the 1967 version) an antagonist because he couldn’t see a snake being a protagonist. And I’m sure a lot people felt the same way back then. Pretty much the same jazz with this version of Kaa.
Agreed, so few versions do and the ones that do aren’t American as far as I know. XD Kinda makes us look like wussies being afraid of good snake characters lol.
Basically the only live-action remake I love that Disney's put out. And of course I love the ending where he stays in the jungle vs going off with the girl
25:15 for an interesting fact is when John Faverau said to Richard Sherman that he’s making King Louie a Gigantopithecus, Richard was thrilled on that word and rewrote the the lyrics.
"Theres a strange odour today, what is it? The smell that I'm on? When was it? We came to adopt man into the jungle?" Every villain has such great lines
This movie is amazing. Great story, great characters, and an amazinggg villain introduction scene. Right from the beginning Shere Khan is shown to be a highly dangerous and feared villain, this is the without a doubt my favorite version of him in my opinion but the 67 one is definitely the most iconic.
(At 12:58) Shere Khan was a handicap tiger with a crippled front leg and is often nickname "the lame one" doing as he won as he's so pleases including, trespassing, killing, and eating the villagers and their cattle. Anyway he finds some villagers by campfire and as he's about to pounce on them, he lands in the fire burning his front paw, that was crippled, scaring the villagers away. Not noticing they abandoning their helpless offspring. I don't know if the wolves found him first or if Bagheera, who is more carefree than responsible while minding his own business and witnessing, found him and brought him to the wolves. But the council of wolves also had to put a vote on who would vouch for the Wolf family who'd agree for him to stay and be raised in the jungle.
I have mixed feelings about the live action remakes, but I consider this one and Aladdin to be the best ones so far; they’re the ones that seem to have the best idea of what to bring over from the original animated movie, and where they could get away with doing something different. Plus The Jungle Book has the added benefit of including a lot of stuff from the book, which is great because the original (as much as I adore it) ignores the book pretty much entirely.
The reason a lot of stuff from the original book was left out of the 1967 adaptation was because Walt Disney's writer, Bill Peet, wrote a darker draft of the animated movie which was very close in tone to the book. With elements from the first jungle book and Kipling's the second jungle book. where the Bandar Log have a hidden treasure beneath their abandoned city and Mowgli making a new enemy in the village. A hunter named Buldeo who wanted to hunt Shere Khan just to boast about his victory over the tiger. King Louie was also less comical in that version. Walt felt it was too dark and depressing for children to handle and demanded script changes. Peet refused and left after a lot of arguing with Walt.
@@BillCipher200 Yeah, the whole story behind the making of the movie is very interesting. I actually recently got a book about it called *Walt Disney’s Jungle Book: Making A Masterpiece.* It tells about everything from Walt’s idea to disregard the book, to his death before the movie was finished, to the film’s legacy.
They did the best job with this version! I’m not the biggest fan of the cartoon, especially not after reading the books and seeing how epic they were in comparison, but this movie did the story justice for sure. “I don’t think you want to either, we kinda suck.” LOL!
Hi Cody, I just want to say I love this live action remake of The Jungle Book, and Idris Elba ruled his role as Shere Khan. I also wanted to ask if you saw the trailer for Jurassic World Dominion that was released today?
It puzzles me how they managed to give the animals in this movie emotion, while still making them look highly realistic, while the Lion King remake couldn't.
I love this remake! I wasn´t a big fan of the original, but this was so awesome! The only Live Action adaption, that is better than the original, in my opinion! :)
This film is so underrated. I find it as Disney's best remake alongside Aladdin and found this better than the original. Shere Khan was easily Disney's most terrifying villain yet, and he was even better portrayed than how Disney did Scar and Jafar in their remakes. I'm hopeful that at some point if Disney wants to make better remakes, they need to follow the amazing example of Jungle Book, and hopefully, they do the same for future remakes like The Little Mermaid and Lilo & Stitch.
When Shere Khan says "How many life's is a man-cub worth?" That question is stuck on my mind for a long time. And that is a very threatening question. I think you should check out the remake of the Lion King.
Cody: The heck are those things? Me: Their called Civets. Civets are small and mostly nocturnal mammals native to tropical Asia and Africa, especially the tropical forests. I didn’t know what they were at first either
Shere Khan: does my face not remind you of what a grown man can do? Baby/man-cub becomes man and man is forbidden. The river will rise and when this rock disappears, that truce will end. You want to protect him fine, how many lives is a man-cub worth? I love these lines
The reason king Louie is so big is because he isn't actually an orangutan in this movie, but a Gigantopithecus (he even says it in "I wanna be Like You), which is an extinct species of ape as well as the largest that ever lived.
Fun fact Sher Kan and Baloo battle happens in the wild more than you think cuz bengal tigers actually go out of their way to hunt sloth bears sometimes
(At 12:23) Kaa is a yellowish Indian rock python who is more than several meters long and old (still in his prime) due to his long extended age and lifespan of the centuries, which I don't think was naturally explained. You have no idea how big he is measured in width (being thick) compared to length (being long). I say despite this movie to do so good, they got Kaa character "half right" from the book.
So full disclosure I never liked the original animated jungle book movie. It never grabbed my attention. But when I saw trailers for jungle book 2016. Something about them made me want to see it. And honestly I am so glad I did. I LOVE THIS MOVIE. I enjoy the new take on both the story and the characters and it feels much more like an emotional thrilling adventures than the cartoon jungle book did. In fact my only real problem with it was that king Louie still sang. The way they were setting up his character it seemed very unnecessary and pointless especially since all the other songs were taken out. Now I know bare necessaties is still here too but Baloo is the type of care free character who would just randomly sing. That's who he is. But other than that it is the best if not one of the best Disney live action remakes.
(At 8:30) fun fact, this is how Mowgli originally killed Shere Khan. The Panther may have the speed advantage. But the Tiger, even though he lacks stamina, has the power advantage. And with the tall grass around this makes it easier for him to hide. Also not counting the mother wolf (I can't pronounce her name with this Google voice thing), I can count at least three people from the MCU on this movie (the three being Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, and Scarlett Johansson). Fun fact, on the Netflix movie _Mowgli,_ they're also three other actors from the MCU who are also on it. Kate Blanchard, Benedict Cumberbatch, and including the director, who was from the MCU, Andy Serkis. So I'm kind of a little disappointed no one's actually reacted to that movie after it was released, 4 years ago.
An interesting interpretation of Louie singing was because his “ears” (the monkeys) told him the man cub seemed to enjoy singing. So, in an attempt to better coax Mowgli into giving him the red flower, he sang.
(At 26:30) I did like how he was screaming/roaring/screeching (I don't know which one it was) loudly everyone went silent. Making it sound a little more interesting.
In this video, Cody asked what Bagheera had to do with the pack. In the original book, he was born in captivity in royalty as a palace pet and abused. But he escaped to the jungle and settled with the wolves. He wasn’t born in the jungle. Also in the book, Baloo lived with the pack as the trainer of the young wolves. The 2018 Netflix movie has a more book accurate story, watch that one.
Baloo is actually a sloth bear that can be found in jungle territories. In this movie they made him look identical to a grizzly tho to make him look cooler. King Louie is a gigantopithecus that were about 12 feet tall in reality but since its a movie they made him even bigger
And in the original stories, it was the elephants who were said to be the creators of the jungle, as well as the upholders of the Jungle Law, the wisest and strongest of jungle peoples.. ‘And the Lord of the Jungle was Tha, the First of the Elephants. He drew the Jungle out of deep waters with his trunk; and where he made furrows in the ground with his tusks, there the rivers ran; and where he struck with his foot, there rose ponds of good water; and when he blew through his trunk,-thus,-the trees fell. That was the manner in which the Jungle was made by Tha; and so the tale was told to me.’ - Hathi (How Fear Came)
14:43 why is there a Bear in the Jungle to begin with? Here’s the Fun Fact: Baloo isn’t just an ordinary Bear or not like the Grizzly Bear. Baloo is originally a Sloth Bear. 😄
Fun fact: King Louis was a gigantopithicus in this version. Because orangutans don’t live in India. The gigantopithicus was pretty much just a giant version of the orangutan that lived in India 100,000 years ago.
Fun fact: The King Louie in this movie is actually a Gigantopithecus , wich is an extinct genus of primate , and I think the biggest ones to ever exist with a size of 9.8 feet (3m).
There are a few species of bears that live in the jungle such as sun bears, asiatic black bears, spectacle bears, sloth bears, and pandas. Because these bears live in jungles they don't need to hibernate. Baloo is a sloth bear.
Most bears live in the jungle. There are 8 bear species (with many subspecies), and five of them live in jungle. Sloth bear, panda bear, sun bear, moon bear (asiatic black), and spectacled (Andean) bears. Brown, American Black, and Polar don’t live in the jungle. Subspecies of browns, like the Himalayan, can live in the jungle too.
The horned animals that Mowgli uses to escape Shere Kahn are Cape Buffalo, which are highly aggressive. They also don't have the greatest eyesight either, and they've been known to go after lions on purpose and trample their cubs.
Water buffalo. Cape buffalo are an African species. Regardless, they have the longest horns of any animal, and even grown tigers would think twice about taking them on. These guys are how Shere Khan met his end in the original stories…
22:55 The Bandar-log have no language of their own. They mostly take words overheard from other animals. King Louie himself (as well as Kipling) mentions this..
The reason why King Louie is a Gigantopithecus, an extinct species of great ape, because orangutans themselves are not native to India. I love this adaptation 😁
Like many others, I really like this version of The Jungle Book, because it stays a little more faithful to the actual book by Rudyard Kipling; a little bit darker and more like a coming of age story, you know. 😊
King Louie I believe wasn't in the book. Orangutans aren't even native to India. But everybody loves him from the animated movie and was expecting him, so they had to include him. How? Turn him into a gigantopithecus, which did live in that area thousands of years ago. Which may be why he is "King", he's the one of the only ones left.
King Louie was based off of a Gigantopithecus which is a ancient ancestor of Orangutans. And he looks pretty accurate. I would be terrified if they still lived today.
THIS is the only Disney's live action remake that has every right to exist. No other comes close to what this movie does compared to the OG. The other live action just copy-paste without add anything good to the story, tried to add something significant to the story but fell flat or just change the story SO bad it makes you question, what was the point if they just did something lackluster compared to theOG. I'm still shocked Favreu did this amazing movie and then went to do The Lion King...
King Louie in this film is actually not an orangutan but a Gigantopithecus, a relative of the orangutan. The setting of the film is India, and the filmmakers wanted only animals from India to appear in this film. Orangutans don't live in India so they had to use its relative, the Gigantopithecus, instead which did live in India before they died out.
in the original novel bageerha didnt have much to do with the pack, he bought mowgli's place in the pack and from what im aware he didnt find mowgli, mowgli found raksha and his father
Baloo is a sloth bear Cody! They live in the same jungle as tigers do, they’re one of the most volatile and aggressive species of bears on earth because of this. Oh and king Louie? He’s not an orang! He’s actually a Gigantopithicus! Many people people that’s where the Bigfoot origins started.
the same year this came out, Disney had another "remake" come out, although the director says its a different movie, just with the same title: Pete's Dragon, and it was much better than the original!
It has been a lot of live action movies coming out this year is coming out Peter Pan and Wendy from the original film jude law he will be playing Captain Hook
I actually like this version better than the original. I never liked the original animated movie even as a kid. I know that's almost taboo but I found most of the songs annoying, I didn't like the weird hairstyles they gave to some of the creatures. Moglwi was annoying in the original and selfish because he would just complain. Least in the remake he proved himself and even understood that everyone was trying to protect him. He had selfish moments too as no kid is perfect but he grew and did prove that he deserved to stay in the jungle. The old movie needed this remake in my opinion. Also Shere Khan actually killed others and was intimidating. They didn't just speak of him. He SHOWED why he was feared.
(At 24:57) oh my God! Even now everyone else trying to make a cover of this song, is just making it WORSE as the years go by. And none of them were close as good as the original song.
14:45 He's meant to be a sloth bear but they made him Into a brown bear for some reason. Sloth bear's can be found In the forest's of India wich kinda explain's why there's just a bear In the jungle
this is such an underrated movie!!!!! i like mowgli too, maybe even better tbh, even though people didnt like it! i think the bts work for it are incredible, but i will say this one definitely got shere khan down just bc of the way mowgli made the characters with cgi and made them more human looking rather than making them look realistic like this one. i could go on, but ill stop lol
Idris Elba played a boss role as Shere Khan! I like how the character was given more of a role in this reimagined adaptation of 1967’s The Jungle Book.
5:50 I like the detail that they added his roar while he's talking. That's how he is sounding for those who don't speak animal.
I like how some elements of Rudyard Kipling’s story is implemented in this film, like Raksha standing up to Shere Khan, the law of the jungle, and the trial that the wolves, Mowgli, and Bagheera did in the beginning for example.
Other things from the book they added that i liked were the Water Truce, referring to the animals as their own “people”, Ikki (the porcupine), Chil (the kite), and giving the pack a bigger role than in the 60s movie.
There is also another live action jungle book movie called Mowgli. It has it’s own story and the animation is just gorgeous. And the best character in there has to be Bageera, cause they give him a backstory there of why he’s with a pack of wolfs
Oh yeah, Mowgli Legend of the Jungle, that one is more close to the real jungle book story, it's so under-appreciated
@@denzeldelaney6578 actually this one is more accurate to the original. The way Mowgli leaves the pack with Bageera, runs into Kaa, meets Balloo, gets taken by the monkeys, and the night time climax at the end as well. There are more differences in Mowgli than this
If you want more backstory behind Bagheera, check this. In the books, he was born and raised in captivity, living behind bars in a king’s menagerie (in a palace in Udaipur). When his mother died there, Bagheera vowed to return to the jungle and succeeded in breaking the lock of his cage and escaped into the jungle. And because he learned the ways of Man, he became a force to be reckoned with in the jungle, every bit as feared as Shere Khan…
@@stefansalvatierra4913 that is backstory in the Mowgli movie. He tells Mowgli about his life in captivity. He even has a wounds of a collar around his neck
@@purgeblue your wrong, Mowgli legend of the jungle is more accurate to the book
The reason why king louie is way bigger is because he is a gigantopithecus.
The reason why is because real orangutans aren't native to India so the directors thought it would be more fitting.
Which makes sense because Louie was pretty big for an orangutan in the original
Exactly, Gigantopithecus used to live in the India-China area thousands of years ago.
Also, it was the original King Kong. Standing nearly 10-ft tall and weighing half a ton, even coexisting with early humans. It was the inspiration behind the legends of the yeti, Bigfoot and even the Yowie
I can watch this movie a thousand times and the part where everyone recites the law of the jungle keeps giving me goosebumps, I love the feeling and it's very emotional
Ah yes. The movie where the silly Monke is actually a far bigger threat than the main villain.
If they let Shere Khan have his way, he wouldn’t stop at killing Mowgli. He would continue doing as he pleases and breaking the Laws of the Jungle (shifting his hunting grounds without warning, killing for sport..), most notably he’d continue hunting humans, and sooner or later, they’d hunt him down in retribution, bringing destruction with them, and posing serious harm to anyone caught in the crossfire. That’s why killing humans is utterly forbidden by Jungle Law..
You mean the movie where the main villain puts down wolves, a bear, a black panther, then chases the protagonist into one of his worst fears- fire- because he was so determined to kill him? Yeah that movie
@@supercolorful5878 you can't defeat a monke bruh
@@mallermart go back to getting high bruh
@@supercolorful5878 nah you are jelous of monke
I really liked the changes they made in this movie. I love the animated one, I grew up on it, but there was stuff I didn’t agree with and stuff I’m glad was touched on in this.
1. Mowgli leaving. In the OG movie, they had a meeting and Mowgli left. In this, they had a meeting and had a heartfelt goodbye with him before he left.
2. His origins. Though different from how Bahgeera found him (in a basket in a boat on the river), it shows what happened to his family.
3. My personal favorite change, the ending. I disagreed with the ending in the og. I really wanted Mowgli to stay in the forest. That was his home! The animals were his family! So when he got to stay in this version, I was over the moon happy!
Well, the only reason he stayed in the jungle was because there was no reason for him *not* to stay. But I agree. I feel as though a child should always have a say in what happens to them, and no one was listening to Mowgli.
More accurate to the book. The 2018 movie from Netflix has the best story though
As a child, when I watched the original, I always wanted to see Bagira fight Shere Khan. Thank you 2016 version!
*Bagheera, but I’ll give you some credit for trying
If I remember correctly, Baloo is meant to be a sloth bear (despite not exactly looking like one) and are native to India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.
19:35 Ey! Confirmation!
17:35 this is true in some bird species. A mother will drop an egg into a different nest to ensure it gets fed while the actual offspring perish due to them not being strong enough to fight the bigger foreign chick for food
So the reason King Louie is so big is because he was changed from an orangutan into a Gigantopithecus. A long extinct giant ape that looked fairly similar to modern orangutans. They were from southern China although it’s been theorized they also lived in a Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Captain Gut from Ice Age 4 is also a Gigantopithecus.
Gigantopithecus is always made a villain. In real life, they were said to be as peaceful as orangutans only being aggressive when some tiger or other predator threatened their young ones.
The Jungle Book live action is one of the best movie of all live disney action movies
Thanks to Louis, the Gigantopithecus was remembered.
If I had to pick the biggest improvement from the original to the remake, it would be Shere Khan.
He’s ACTUALLY THE VILLAIN THIS TIME!
He was already a huge threat throughout the original movie but they showed more of it this time
And he’s more ferocious and terrifying in this film as he killed two characters on screen that is related to Mowgli and he’ll kill anyone that gets in his way by almost killing Baloo, Bagheera, and the wolves when they fight to protect Mowgli.
Honestly I always love the originals as well as the live remakes. I love how there’s always that question you think you know the story but do you know it how I know it. So I agree with the changes they make sure because it’s asking how can we make it respectful yet original on its own. So I can’t wait to see your reaction more of them.
I still wish that Kaa had been portrayed as his original character, one of Mowgli's mentors.
I remember Walt Disney wanted to make his version of Kaa (the 1967 version) an antagonist because he couldn’t see a snake being a protagonist. And I’m sure a lot people felt the same way back then. Pretty much the same jazz with this version of Kaa.
Agreed, so few versions do and the ones that do aren’t American as far as I know. XD Kinda makes us look like wussies being afraid of good snake characters lol.
Basically the only live-action remake I love that Disney's put out. And of course I love the ending where he stays in the jungle vs going off with the girl
25:15 for an interesting fact is when John Faverau said to Richard Sherman that he’s making King Louie a Gigantopithecus, Richard was thrilled on that word and rewrote the the lyrics.
"Theres a strange odour today, what is it? The smell that I'm on? When was it? We came to adopt man into the jungle?"
Every villain has such great lines
Shout out to Idris Elba. Now we got Shere Khan + Scar.
This movie is amazing. Great story, great characters, and an amazinggg villain introduction scene. Right from the beginning Shere Khan is shown to be a highly dangerous and feared villain, this is the without a doubt my favorite version of him in my opinion but the 67 one is definitely the most iconic.
The Jungle Book is one of my favorite live action Disney remakes. I still remember seeing this movie twice
(At 12:58) Shere Khan was a handicap tiger with a crippled front leg and is often nickname "the lame one" doing as he won as he's so pleases including, trespassing, killing, and eating the villagers and their cattle. Anyway he finds some villagers by campfire and as he's about to pounce on them, he lands in the fire burning his front paw, that was crippled, scaring the villagers away. Not noticing they abandoning their helpless offspring. I don't know if the wolves found him first or if Bagheera, who is more carefree than responsible while minding his own business and witnessing, found him and brought him to the wolves. But the council of wolves also had to put a vote on who would vouch for the Wolf family who'd agree for him to stay and be raised in the jungle.
I have mixed feelings about the live action remakes, but I consider this one and Aladdin to be the best ones so far; they’re the ones that seem to have the best idea of what to bring over from the original animated movie, and where they could get away with doing something different. Plus The Jungle Book has the added benefit of including a lot of stuff from the book, which is great because the original (as much as I adore it) ignores the book pretty much entirely.
The reason a lot of stuff from the original book was left out of the 1967 adaptation was because Walt Disney's writer, Bill Peet, wrote a darker draft of the animated movie which was very close in tone to the book. With elements from the first jungle book and Kipling's the second jungle book. where the Bandar Log have a hidden treasure beneath their abandoned city and Mowgli making a new enemy in the village. A hunter named Buldeo who wanted to hunt Shere Khan just to boast about his victory over the tiger. King Louie was also less comical in that version. Walt felt it was too dark and depressing for children to handle and demanded script changes. Peet refused and left after a lot of arguing with Walt.
@@BillCipher200 Yeah, the whole story behind the making of the movie is very interesting. I actually recently got a book about it called *Walt Disney’s Jungle Book: Making A Masterpiece.* It tells about everything from Walt’s idea to disregard the book, to his death before the movie was finished, to the film’s legacy.
They did the best job with this version! I’m not the biggest fan of the cartoon, especially not after reading the books and seeing how epic they were in comparison, but this movie did the story justice for sure.
“I don’t think you want to either, we kinda suck.” LOL!
Baloo is usually portrayed as a sloth bear, the only bear that lives in India but in this movie, he’s portrayed as a Himalayan brown bear
Hi Cody, I just want to say I love this live action remake of The Jungle Book, and Idris Elba ruled his role as Shere Khan.
I also wanted to ask if you saw the trailer for Jurassic World Dominion that was released today?
The trailer have me Goosebumps and this is the only live action Disney movie that's will never be forgotten
Bill Murray was the voice of Baloo.
We finally get to see Shere Khan and Bagheera at the same scene.
It puzzles me how they managed to give the animals in this movie emotion, while still making them look highly realistic, while the Lion King remake couldn't.
"Why is there a bear in the jungle?" Baloo is a Sloth Bear and they are native to the jungles of India.
India have himalayan brown bear and himalayan black bear bro and india have asiatic lion too ... 700 lion rule in indian jungle bro
I love this remake! I wasn´t a big fan of the original, but this was so awesome! The only Live Action adaption, that is better than the original, in my opinion! :)
The 2018 Netflix adaptation has a better story more like the book but this has better visuals
This film is so underrated. I find it as Disney's best remake alongside Aladdin and found this better than the original. Shere Khan was easily Disney's most terrifying villain yet, and he was even better portrayed than how Disney did Scar and Jafar in their remakes. I'm hopeful that at some point if Disney wants to make better remakes, they need to follow the amazing example of Jungle Book, and hopefully, they do the same for future remakes like The Little Mermaid and Lilo & Stitch.
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When Shere Khan says "How many life's is a man-cub worth?" That question is stuck on my mind for a long time. And that is a very threatening question. I think you should check out the remake of the Lion King.
Cody: The heck are those things?
Me: Their called Civets. Civets are small and mostly nocturnal mammals native to tropical Asia and Africa, especially the tropical forests. I didn’t know what they were at first either
8:32 I remember watching this part the first movie I saw the movie in theatres. That made me jump so hard when Shere-Khan started pouncing at Mowgli
Shere Khan: does my face not remind you of what a grown man can do? Baby/man-cub becomes man and man is forbidden.
The river will rise and when this rock disappears, that truce will end. You want to protect him fine, how many lives is a man-cub worth?
I love these lines
God I love Idris Elba's British accent.
The reason king Louie is so big is because he isn't actually an orangutan in this movie, but a Gigantopithecus (he even says it in "I wanna be Like You), which is an extinct species of ape as well as the largest that ever lived.
(At 15:35) Mowgli/Nicolas Cage: No. NO! *NO!* NOT THE BEES! *NOT THE BEES!*
Fun fact Sher Kan and Baloo battle happens in the wild more than you think cuz bengal tigers actually go out of their way to hunt sloth bears sometimes
But this is himalayan brown bear ... this is big
(At 12:23) Kaa is a yellowish Indian rock python who is more than several meters long and old (still in his prime) due to his long extended age and lifespan of the centuries, which I don't think was naturally explained. You have no idea how big he is measured in width (being thick) compared to length (being long). I say despite this movie to do so good, they got Kaa character "half right" from the book.
OMG FINALLY SOMEONE REAcTS TO THIS
It's one of the only Disney remakes i like lol
So full disclosure I never liked the original animated jungle book movie. It never grabbed my attention. But when I saw trailers for jungle book 2016. Something about them made me want to see it. And honestly I am so glad I did. I LOVE THIS MOVIE. I enjoy the new take on both the story and the characters and it feels much more like an emotional thrilling adventures than the cartoon jungle book did. In fact my only real problem with it was that king Louie still sang. The way they were setting up his character it seemed very unnecessary and pointless especially since all the other songs were taken out. Now I know bare necessaties is still here too but Baloo is the type of care free character who would just randomly sing. That's who he is. But other than that it is the best if not one of the best Disney live action remakes.
This is the only live action remake that I've actually liked!
20:39 I know Mowgli is a kid but damn, those elephats looks huge!
(At 8:30) fun fact, this is how Mowgli originally killed Shere Khan.
The Panther may have the speed advantage. But the Tiger, even though he lacks stamina, has the power advantage. And with the tall grass around this makes it easier for him to hide. Also not counting the mother wolf (I can't pronounce her name with this Google voice thing), I can count at least three people from the MCU on this movie (the three being Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, and Scarlett Johansson).
Fun fact, on the Netflix movie _Mowgli,_ they're also three other actors from the MCU who are also on it. Kate Blanchard, Benedict Cumberbatch, and including the director, who was from the MCU, Andy Serkis. So I'm kind of a little disappointed no one's actually reacted to that movie after it was released, 4 years ago.
An interesting interpretation of Louie singing was because his “ears” (the monkeys) told him the man cub seemed to enjoy singing. So, in an attempt to better coax Mowgli into giving him the red flower, he sang.
23:43 King Louie in this movie is actually a Gigantopithecus a large prehistoric ape that is now extinct!
(At 26:30) I did like how he was screaming/roaring/screeching (I don't know which one it was) loudly everyone went silent. Making it sound a little more interesting.
This is definitely the best Disney remake imo!!
In this video, Cody asked what Bagheera had to do with the pack. In the original book, he was born in captivity in royalty as a palace pet and abused. But he escaped to the jungle and settled with the wolves. He wasn’t born in the jungle. Also in the book, Baloo lived with the pack as the trainer of the young wolves. The 2018 Netflix movie has a more book accurate story, watch that one.
Baloo is actually a sloth bear that can be found in jungle territories. In this movie they made him look identical to a grizzly tho to make him look cooler. King Louie is a gigantopithecus that were about 12 feet tall in reality but since its a movie they made him even bigger
There are brown bears in India. They reside up north by the Himalayas and are mostly vegetarian…
India have 3 or 4 bear species so brown bear or black bear
This is better than the original
Remember that the movie is based in India, where elephants are, in fact, worshipped as Gods. That's the lore that Bagheera was talking about.
And in the original stories, it was the elephants who were said to be the creators of the jungle, as well as the upholders of the Jungle Law, the wisest and strongest of jungle peoples..
‘And the Lord of the Jungle was Tha, the First of the Elephants. He drew the Jungle out of deep waters with his trunk; and where he made furrows in the ground with his tusks, there the rivers ran; and where he struck with his foot, there rose ponds of good water; and when he blew through his trunk,-thus,-the trees fell. That was the manner in which the Jungle was made by Tha; and so the tale was told to me.’
- Hathi (How Fear Came)
In my opinion this is the best live action recreation Disney has made.
The best remakes are this and Aladdin
Fun fact : The voice actor of Kaa(the snake) is Scarlett Johansson! And the voice actor of Shere Khan(the tiger) is Benedict Cumberbatch!!!
The voice actor in this version for shere khan is not Benedict Cumberbatch it’s idris Elba.. you’re thinking of the Netflix version
@@ItsTotallyCody oh yeah, sorry 😅 and yes, i was
Benedict Cumberbatch played Shere Khan in the 2018 Netflix movie.
14:43 why is there a Bear in the Jungle to begin with?
Here’s the Fun Fact: Baloo isn’t just an ordinary Bear or not like the Grizzly Bear. Baloo is originally a Sloth Bear. 😄
30:33 Gets me everytime 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fun fact: King Louis was a gigantopithicus in this version. Because orangutans don’t live in India. The gigantopithicus was pretty much just a giant version of the orangutan that lived in India 100,000 years ago.
12:27 I just love your commentaries XD
Fun fact: The King Louie in this movie is actually a Gigantopithecus , wich is an extinct genus of primate , and I think the biggest ones to ever exist with a size of 9.8 feet (3m).
14:43 I ask myself the same thing every time I watch this movie
There are a few species of bears that live in the jungle such as sun bears, asiatic black bears, spectacle bears, sloth bears, and pandas. Because these bears live in jungles they don't need to hibernate.
Baloo is a sloth bear.
Most bears live in the jungle. There are 8 bear species (with many subspecies), and five of them live in jungle. Sloth bear, panda bear, sun bear, moon bear (asiatic black), and spectacled (Andean) bears. Brown, American Black, and Polar don’t live in the jungle. Subspecies of browns, like the Himalayan, can live in the jungle too.
(At 14:00) I'm pretty sure your dog WASN'T a lazy sloth bear, that sounded like Bill Murray.
It isn't sloth bear ... it's himalayan brown bear ... they are big
I Remembered When I Saw This In Elementary School During Movie Night
The horned animals that Mowgli uses to escape Shere Kahn are Cape Buffalo, which are highly aggressive. They also don't have the greatest eyesight either, and they've been known to go after lions on purpose and trample their cubs.
Water buffalo. Cape buffalo are an African species. Regardless, they have the longest horns of any animal, and even grown tigers would think twice about taking them on. These guys are how Shere Khan met his end in the original stories…
22:55 The Bandar-log have no language of their own. They mostly take words overheard from other animals. King Louie himself (as well as Kipling) mentions this..
The reason why King Louie is a Gigantopithecus, an extinct species of great ape, because orangutans themselves are not native to India. I love this adaptation 😁
(At 30:20) oh, that's right. Bengal Tigers EAT Sloth Bears.
Cody u are one of the best youtubers ever
I feel so bad for Scarlet Johanson. I wished she was in this movie more than five minutes.
True but it was a great five minutes
Don’t worry I think she alive because she gonna be on upcoming jungle book 2 I saw it on google
@@marthalawshea1122 no one said she was dead
I did like this one over the original and the changes made it much better
22:47 No that’s a lion tailed macaque
Like many others, I really like this version of The Jungle Book, because it stays a little more faithful to the actual book by Rudyard Kipling; a little bit darker and more like a coming of age story, you know. 😊
Btw King Louie is NOT a orangutan, he is actually a Gigantopithecus
King Louie I believe wasn't in the book. Orangutans aren't even native to India. But everybody loves him from the animated movie and was expecting him, so they had to include him. How? Turn him into a gigantopithecus, which did live in that area thousands of years ago. Which may be why he is "King", he's the one of the only ones left.
I love this & cartoon 1 as well
Bears in the jungle is actually normal! Sloth bears and tigers are natural rivals.
King Louie was based off of a Gigantopithecus which is a ancient ancestor of Orangutans. And he looks pretty accurate. I would be terrified if they still lived today.
THIS is the only Disney's live action remake that has every right to exist. No other comes close to what this movie does compared to the OG. The other live action just copy-paste without add anything good to the story, tried to add something significant to the story but fell flat or just change the story SO bad it makes you question, what was the point if they just did something lackluster compared to theOG. I'm still shocked Favreu did this amazing movie and then went to do The Lion King...
King Louie in this film is actually not an orangutan but a Gigantopithecus, a relative of the orangutan. The setting of the film is India, and the filmmakers wanted only animals from India to appear in this film. Orangutans don't live in India so they had to use its relative, the Gigantopithecus, instead which did live in India before they died out.
in the original novel bageerha didnt have much to do with the pack, he bought mowgli's place in the pack and from what im aware he didnt find mowgli, mowgli found raksha and his father
This is actually the *only* Disney live action movie I enjoy! The animals look great & the changes from the original cartoon don’t bother me 🐯🐻🐺🐍
(At 3:05) this is the same woman that played T'chala's girlfriend from Black Panther?
11:28 Civets, secretive little creatures related to the mongoose…
Thanks. Was wondering what they were. My guess was either mongoose or marten.
The Jungle Book 2 (2026) live-action
Can the next one be Jumanji: welcome to the jungle?
Baloo is a sloth bear Cody! They live in the same jungle as tigers do, they’re one of the most volatile and aggressive species of bears on earth because of this. Oh and king Louie? He’s not an orang! He’s actually a Gigantopithicus! Many people people that’s where the Bigfoot origins started.
the same year this came out, Disney had another "remake" come out, although the director says its a different movie, just with the same title: Pete's Dragon, and it was much better than the original!
It has been a lot of live action movies coming out this year is coming out Peter Pan and Wendy from the original film jude law he will be playing Captain Hook
pet peeve: when people keep calling the characters by their actors names and cant separate the two
Pet peeve: when people make a big deal out of the smallest thing in a video that is not big at all and don’t know how to just enjoy the video
Been watching since 2020
I actually like this version better than the original. I never liked the original animated movie even as a kid. I know that's almost taboo but I found most of the songs annoying, I didn't like the weird hairstyles they gave to some of the creatures. Moglwi was annoying in the original and selfish because he would just complain. Least in the remake he proved himself and even understood that everyone was trying to protect him. He had selfish moments too as no kid is perfect but he grew and did prove that he deserved to stay in the jungle. The old movie needed this remake in my opinion. Also Shere Khan actually killed others and was intimidating. They didn't just speak of him. He SHOWED why he was feared.
The hairstyle thing was for comedy. I loved the vultures inspired by the Beatles
He is not an orangutan, but a gigantophitecus. A close giant prehistoric relative.
(At 24:57) oh my God! Even now everyone else trying to make a cover of this song, is just making it WORSE as the years go by. And none of them were close as good as the original song.
You know I've always wanted to see Bagheera and Shere Khan fight I never see them fight in the original
14:45 He's meant to be a sloth bear but they made him Into a brown bear for some reason. Sloth bear's can be found In the forest's of India wich kinda explain's why there's just a bear In the jungle
this is such an underrated movie!!!!! i like mowgli too, maybe even better tbh, even though people didnt like it! i think the bts work for it are incredible, but i will say this one definitely got shere khan down just bc of the way mowgli made the characters with cgi and made them more human looking rather than making them look realistic like this one. i could go on, but ill stop lol