History WesternAnimation / TheJungleBook1967

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One of Col. Hathi's elephants has bloodshot eyes, doesn't seem quite all there and otherwise appears completely stoned... not something usually portrayed in a film squarely aimed at children.

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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: King Louie and his monkeys subvert this because they did kidnap Mowgli.

* AdultFear: Rama initially hesitated about adopting Mowgli, until the baby charmed him. A few moons later, Akela tells Rama that they need to find a way to protect Mowgli, and send him back to his people. Akela protests, saying that he can't just abandon his child. Akeela then delivers the bad news: the pack isn't strong enough to protect the boy. Rama faces a SadisticChoice of saying farewell to one of his children to save his family from imminent slaughter and only trusts Bagheera to escort Mowgli safely.

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* PinballProtagonist

* InvoluntarySmileOfIncapacitaion Many if not all of Kaa's victims develop a dopey smile when he mesmerizes them.

* NaiveAnimalLover: The Disney version of Mowgli insists he has all the necessary skills to survive in the jungle when he clearly doesn't, and as such, he thinks he can handle animals that want to kill and/or eat him on his own. The most notable example of this is before the final battle with Shere Khan. Despite the Vultures' insistence to run away, Mowgli refuses to move. Khan probably would have succeeding in killing him, too, if not for Baloo holding him back by his tail at the last second.

** When Mowgli wraps his arms around a small tree while refusing to go to the man village, Bagheera bites down on his shorts and tries to pull him off and drag him there. The underwear stretches about three feet behind him, and Mowgli is just barely holding on and trying to kick Bagherra in the face. Good thing Bagherra slipped and lost his grip, or things might've gotten worse.

* {{Sssssnaketalk}}

* NotSoDifferent: Baloo and Louie, which explains why they're such good friends in the spin-offs.

%%* AttractiveBentGender: Baloo's female orangutan disguise.
%%* BadassBaritone: Shere Khan.

%%* BigGood: Bagheera.

%%* HandGagging: A monkey does this to Mowgli.

* LoinCloth: Mowgli's standard outfit. [[MagicPants It's proven to be pretty tough, too, since it didn't get damaged when Bagheera bit down on Mowgli's shorts trying to pull him off the tree. It just stretched three feet back and went back in its original position when Bagheera lost his grip.]]

** To a point. The elephants clearly aren't concerned in the slightest about Shere Khan and it's very obvious that he steers clear of them.

* {{Expy}}:
** The elephants are actually expies of the elephants from [[WesternAnimation/MiscellaneousDisneyShorts the animated short]] "WesternAnimation/GoliathII". In fact, all of the elephants' designs from this short were actually reused for this movie!
** Baloo's personality is basically Phil Harris' comic persona developed on ''Radio/TheJackBennyProgram'', minus the heavy drinking. In fact, this movie is much more entertaining if you're familiar with Phil on that show before seeing it.

* RealityEnsues: It's one thing for Mowgli to claim he doesn't run from anyone to Shere Khan's face. But when the tiger actually attacks, Mowgli flinches.

* IllKillYou: Uttered by Shere Khan at the end just right before he attacks Baloo.

* VillaiousBreakdown: Par for the course in a Disney movie, Shere Khan snaps and begins (literally) tearing into Baloo for causing him to miss his chance to kill Mowgli.

* TooDumbToLive: Mowgli to an extent for aforementioned reasons. Especially during his second encounter with Kaa, where, ''knowing'' Kaa wants to eat him, he still takes him at his word that he wants to help him, and even looks into his eyes long enough to be hypnotized. If Shere Kahn hadn't shown up, Mowgli would have been dead.

* WeakWilled: Mowgli is an easy victim for Kaa (which is ironically in contrast to the original stories where Mowgli was the only one resistant to Kaa's hypnotic dance).

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Bagheera gets this in ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin''.
** And let's not say anything about poor Rocky the Rhino.

* DeadpanSnarker: Bagheera. See StealthInsult section. Also...

* {{Disneyfication}}: As the quote atop the page shows, Disney was aiming for a LighterAndSofter flick instead of following Kipling, to the point where the film is an InNameOnly adaptation of the first book.

** King Louie is played by Louis Prima, whose nickname was "The King of the Swing". In King Louie's song, "I Wan'na Be Like You", he refers to himself as the "King of the Swingers".

* AdaptationalBadass: Shere Khan in the film is far more menacing than he was in the original stories, in which he was not so much feared by the other animals as disdained for being lame and a man-eater; not because man are respected, but because they are seen as easy prey. On the other hand, the books' Shere Khan is smarter and a lot more influential, succeeding in turning almost the entire wolf pack against Mowgli and Akela.

** Kaa, who is a powerful badass and much more deserving of respect in the book. He is the only animal in the jungle that the monkeys fear, and even Baloo and Bagheera are wary when approaching him.

* AdultFear: Rama initially hesitated about adopting Mowgli, until the baby charmed him. A few moons later, Akeela tells Rama that they need to find a way to protect Mowgli, and send him back to his people. Akeela protests, saying that he can't just abandon his child. Akeela then delivers the bad news: the pack isn't strong enough to protect the boy. Rama faces a SadisticChoice of saying farewell to one of his children to save his family from imminent slaughter and only trusts Bagheera to escort Mowgli safely.

* CoversAlwaysLie: [[http://www.impawards.com/1967/jungle_book.html The original poster]] depicts Baloo as brown, while he's gray in the movie. Also, he is seen grasping Kaa by the throat on the VHS cover, despite the fact that the two characters never interact.

** Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/JungleBooks'' (yes, two of them) depict the orphaned Mowgli growing into a strong and intelligent young man whose jungle upbringing will make him something of a NobleSavage. Baloo was a sleepy [[GrumpyBear grump]] with a HiddenHeartOfGold, rather than a kindly GentleGiant. Kaa, while large, intimidating, and alien, is one of Mowgli's ''allies'', not enemies. Hathi the elephant is wise and powerful and when he tells Shere Khan to clear off ("How Fear Came"), the tiger does so -- he is not a pompous ass who fancies himself a Victoria Cross-winning British Army colonel.
** There is quite a lot of violence, too. At one point Kaa hypnotizes a troupe of monkeys into becoming his helpless (ahem) dinner guests; later on Mowgli and the wolves kill Shere Khan by a stampede of water-buffalo over him. (In the Disney version he doesn't even die!) The story "Red Dog" has Mowgli cause the marauding dogs of the title to be attacked by millions of angry bees; those who jump in the river to survive are attacked by Mowgli with a knife; and those left then face Mowgli ''and'' his enraged wolf pack. And incidentally, Mowgli does most of this while he's naked. It should come as no surprise that none of the violence or nudity makes it into the Disney version, but Disney not only censors the story but effectively throws out every last original plot thread.

-->'''Mowgli:''' (''once out of Kaa's grasp'') You told me a lie, Kaa! You said I could trust you!\\

* EverybodyLives: There are no deaths in the film, which is admittedly odd even for a [[{{Disneyfication}} Disney adaptation]].

* HumiliationConga: Happens to Kaa - he is pushed off of a tree, hitting his head several times, gets a knot in his tail, and the momentum causes him to fold up like an accordian. Mowgli is ''quite'' amused.

* JungleJazz: This movie, like with a few other Disney films, contains some upbeat jazz numbers, in this case sung by the more fun-loving jungle animals. Most noteworthy are "Bare Necessities" sung by Baloo the sloth bear, and "I Wan'na Be Like You," sung by King Louie and his apes. The latter was sung by Music/LouisPrima, who also lent his name to CanonForeigner King Louie as well as played him. Prima also played the Trumpet Solo whiles his band, Sam Beutera and the Witnesses, performed the initial lyrics. The scat exchange between Louie and Baloo was originally supposed to be Baloo repeating Louie's scat, but actor Phil Harris' improvised Scat impressed Prima enough to be included in the song. The soundtrack version has Beutera in the role of Baloo and merely repeating the scat of Prima's Louie.

* LargeHam: King Louie, at least during "I Wan'na Be Like You".

* MercyLead: Impressed by Mowgli's lack of fear of him, Shere Khan decides to give him a ten second head start. However, when he gets to four, as soon as it becomes clear that Mowgli really ''isn't'' scared of him and plans to fight back, he quickly counts down the rest and attacks Mowgli; if it wasn't for Baloo, Mowgli would most likely be tiger food at that very moment.

* MindControlEyes: Anyone whom Kaa hypnotizes. Also Baloo when caught up in the music of King Louie and the Monkeys.

** The celebration after Shere Khan's defeat very quickly changes gear to solemness over Baloo's DisneyDeath.

* NervesOfSteel: When Mowgli meets Shere Khan face to face, he states straight out to the tiger that he isn't scared of him, and when Shere Khan decides to give him a MercyLead, Mowgli instead grabs a stick and tries to fight him directly.

** Before that, Baloo, albeit reluctantly, went back on his word that Mowgli could stay in the jungle with him, when he takes Bagheera's advice and tells Mowgli he needs to go back to the man-village. This causes Mowgli to run away and put himself in even more danger than ever. Baloo even comments that he will never forgive himself if something happens to Mowgli.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Sher Khan unwittingly saved Mowgli's life. Kaa had Mowgli fast asleep and in his cluches, just as Sher Khan dropped by and asked Kaa about Mowgli's whereabouts. This distraction was enough for Mowgli to wake up and escape.

* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Bagheera does this, as there are a bunch of statues of panthers in the ruined human city, with one conveniently empty spot for him to sit in and assume the same pose as the statues. Even though he's solid black and they are light gray, he goes unnoticed by the monkeys who pass right by him. But then Baloo [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee opens a door onto him]].

* OddFriendship: [[RedOniBlueOni Baloo and Bagheera]], who start the movie knowing but not particularly close and end the movie good friends through taking care of Mowgli - though if ''WesternAnimation/JungleCubs'' is to be believed they were always friends but not too close in the movie's beginning. Whether or not they are the OddCouple or just an OddFriendship depends on whether one considers them or Mowgli the major protagonists.

* ParentalSubstitute: Baloo acts as this to Mowgli for the brief time they are together. Prior to him, he was RaisedByWolves, his adoptive father Rama even referring to him as being "like a real son".

* ScavengersAreScum: Averted with the vultures. They are good-natured, somewhat lazy individuals who are introduced when they can't agree on an activity to do. They later try to stand up to BigBad Shere Khan. The keyword being "try".

* SidekickSong: "The Bare Necessities"! Also, "I Wan'na Be Like You" and "That's What Friends Are For".

* SpannerInTheWorks: Kaa and Shere Khan each accidentally foil the other's attempts to catch Mowgli simultaneously. Kaa comes across Mowgli and pulls him up into his lair just as Shere Khan passes through hunting for him, and his lie causes Shere Khan to just miss him. At the same, Shere Khan distracts Kaa just as he is about to eat Mowgli, which allows Mowgli to escape.

* SuperPersistentPredator: Shere Khan tracks Mowgli all throughout the jungle, but both times he is out to kill him for being human rather than hunting him for food. Meanwhile, Kaa (who ''is'' hunting for food) only chances upon the main characters and quits pursuing them once they prove to be more trouble than they're worth.

* {{Wedgie}}: Mowgli is victim of this twice: