The Jungle Book (1994)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The jungle Book |
| Original title | Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stephen Sommers |
| script | Stephen Sommers, Ronald Yanover , Mark Geldman |
| production |
Edward S. Feldman , Raju Patel |
| music | Basil Poledouris |
| camera | Juan Ruiz Anchía |
| cut | Bob Ducsay |
| occupation | |
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The Jungle Book (original title: Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book ) is an American adventure film by Stephen Sommers from 1994. It is a live- action film adaptation of the literary original by Rudyard Kipling produced by the Walt Disney Company .
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Colonel Geofferey Brydon is given a new post in British colonial India . On his way through the jungle, his camp is attacked one evening by the feared tiger Shere Khan. Mowgli, the expedition leader's little son, gets lost in the jungle. Away from civilization, Mowgli grew up in a pack of wolves and befriends the panther Bagheera and the bear Baloo. When a bracelet that Colonel Brydon's daughter Kitty gave him before Shere Khan's attack is stolen by monkeys, he comes to a sunken city. The snake Kaa tries to kill him in the treasury of the overgrown palace. But Mowgli manages to overpower them, and the Monkey King, an orangutan named King Louis, finally gives him back his bracelet.
One day, in the jungle, Mowgli runs into Kitty, who has matured into a young woman. As when he was a little boy, he tries to kiss her and gets into a fight with Captain William Boone, who claims Kitty for himself. When Boone orders two of his men to shoot Mowgli, Baloo and Bagheera help Mowgli escape. To see Kitty again, Mowgli sneaks into the fort where she lives with her father and enters her bedroom via a balcony. When Kitty sees his bracelet, she recognizes the boy to whom she had once given it. However, Captain Boone has Mowgli, who carries a valuable dagger from the sunken city, brought to the dungeon. There he wants to have Mowgli tortured to find out where he found the dagger, since such a piece of jewelry can only come from a treasure chamber.
Kitty eventually persuades her father to release Mowgli. She wants to help him to live in civilization again and, with the support of Dr. Julien Plumford brings back the language he has forgotten. Mowgli is only too happy to have her teach her to dance. However, when Colonel Brydon announces Kitty's engagement to Captain Boone at a ball and the guests present laugh at Mowgli's mishap, Mowgli realizes that he does not belong in the civilized world and he returns to the jungle. Kitty, who tried to persuade him to stay, returns her engagement ring to the jealous Captain Boone. At the behest of her father, she is now to return to her English homeland.
Captain Boone and several men including the jungle guide Buldeo, Lt. John Wilkins and Sgt. Harley go in search of Mowgli. They shoot Baloo as he tries to protect Mowgli from them and then bring Colonel Brydon and Kitty under their control to force Mowgli to lead them to the treasure of the sunken city. However, Mowgli can escape them. While searching for him, Sgt. Harley gets caught in quicksand and dies. Meanwhile, Mowgli finds the injured Colonel Brydon and has an elephant bring him back to the fort. Boone, who still has Kitty in his hands, continues to search for the sunken city with Buldeo and Wilkins. When they are startled by Shere Khan's roar, they part ways. Wilkins accidentally shoots Buldeo in the leg and is killed by Shere Khan shortly afterwards. Meanwhile Boone and Kitty and Buldeo reach the sunken city. There Buldeo tries to shoot Mowgli, but triggers a mechanism and is buried alive under a sinking part of the palace ceiling. In the treasury there is finally a fight between Mowgli and Boone. Mowgli injures Boone's arm and escapes with Kitty. Loaded with treasure, Boone falls into a pool of water and is killed by the snake Kaa. Suddenly Shere Khan stands in front of the palace in front of Mowgli and Kitty. Mowgli faces the tiger and shows no fear, whereupon the tiger accepts him as part of the jungle. Mowgli finally brings Kitty back to civilization, where her father greets her with relief. Like Brydon, Baloo, thanks to Dr. Plumford is well again, and Mowgli receives the kiss he has longed for from Kitty.
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The film project was initiated by the Indian producer Raju Patel on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first publication of Rudyard Kipling's literary model. The characters of Captain William Boone and Katherine Brydon appearing in the film do not come from the original. Director and screenwriter Stephen Sommers rewrote the plot with additional characters so as not to have to compete with Disney's cartoon version from 1967. In addition, it did not seem possible for him to combine the several original stories about Mowgli into a coherent film plot, as Zoltan and Alexander Korda had attempted with their real film version from 1942. Rather, Sommers wanted to direct a romantic adventure film in the style of his favorite director Michael Curtiz . In particular , Sommers took his films Under Pirate Flag and The Lord of the Seven Seas as a model for his Kipling adaptation. In the course of this makeover, a large part of the plot was moved to an Indian fort owned by the British colonial masters.
Filming took place from mid-March to mid-June 1994 in the United States and India. The interior shots were taken in the Mehboob Studios in Bombay . Numerous jungle scenes were filmed in Jodhpur for more than four weeks , where the historical fortress of Meherangarh also served as a backdrop. Because it was difficult to ship a wide variety of trained animals, including tigers, leopards, wolves, bears, elephants, horses, and monkeys, to India, some jungle scenes were captured on Fripp Island in South Carolina , Fall Creek Falls State Park, and Cumberland Mountain State Park realized in Tennessee . The production design for the film, which had a budget of 30 million US dollars , was designed by Allan Cameron . The costumes were designed by John Mollo , who received an Oscar for Gandhi in 1983 . The snake Kaa is the only one of the animals shown in the film to be computer animated.
The film premiered in New York on December 23, 1994 and grossed over $ 43 million in US cinemas. On March 30, 1995 it was shown in German cinemas. It was released on video on September 18, 1995, and on DVD on April 26, 1999.
Reviews
According to the lexicon of international films , Sommer's Kipling adaptation is "[completely] geared towards action and adventure". Because there is a lack of tension, “the film lacks both an examination of the different ways of life and the charm of earlier films”. Cinema found the film, directed by Stephen Sommers "with wit and real animals", was "[a] ction-rich" and "still pleasantly old-fashioned".
Prisma said that "[w] hat starts out like a more action-packed and greasy version of the well-known cartoon by Rudyard Kipling, [...] will soon develop into an exciting adventure-fantasy film with great show value". This stands "[i] n the tradition of gripping adventure films à la Tarzan " and manages to pull the audience under its spell as a "really well-made real film adaptation", whereby "the actors - above all 'Monty Python' John Cleese - are brilliant." put up ".
Roger Ebert wrote in 1994 in the Chicago Sun-Times that the film had little in common with the novel and that Mowgli had been replaced by an " Indiana Jones clone". However, the adaptation is entertaining and Jason Scott Lee shows talent. Brian Lowry of Variety spoke of an "ambitious mix of Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ". It is a "technically first-class adventure"; the narrative changes between nature, love and action films are, however, too volatile.
Awards
The film was nominated for the Saturn Award in 1995 in the category of Best Action / Adventure / Thriller Film , but was subject to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction .
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Mowgli | Jason Scott Lee | Philipp Brammer |
| Captain William Boone | Cary Elwes | Martin Umbach |
| Katherine "Kitty" Brydon | Lena Headey | Madeleine proud |
| Colonel Geofferey Brydon | Sam Neill | Wolfgang Condrus |
| Dr. Julien Plumford | John Cleese | Thomas Danneberg |
| Buldeo | Stefan Kalipha | Klaus Kindler |
| Sgt. Harley | Ron Donachie | Rainer Basedow |
| Nathoo | Faran Tahir | Ekkehardt Belle |
Web links
- The Jungle Book in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Jungle Book at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Robert F. Moss: Mowgli We Know, but Who Are Major Boone and Kitty? . In: The New York Times , December 25, 1994.
- ^ Paul Robbins: Pax Disney: The Annotated Diary of a Film Extra in India . In: Tim Cresswell (ed.), Deborah Dixon (ed.): Engaging Film. Geographies of Mobility and Identity . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Boston 2002, ISBN 0-7425-0884-6 , p. 160.
- ↑ Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling's The . In: Dave Smith: Disney A to Z: The Updated Official Encyclopedia . Hyperion, New York 1998, ISBN 0-7868-6391-9 .
- ↑ cf. boxofficemojo.com
- ↑ The Jungle Book. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
- ^ Roger Ebert: Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book . In: Chicago Sun-Times , December 25, 1994.
- ^ Brian Lowry: Rudyard Kipling's the Jungle Book . In: Variety , December 18, 1994.
- ↑ The Jungle Book. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on February 24, 2020 .