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* So in this film, King Louie has undergone an AdaptationSpeciesChange, whereas he was a real orangutan in the original, here he is a Gigantopithecus (although he still looks a lot like a giant orangutan). Apparently it was done in order to avert MisplacedWildlife, as orangutans are native to Borneo and Sumatra and not India, while Gigantopithecus fossils have been found in India. But how did King Louie (or his ancestors) survive all those years. Even if we assume Louie is the LastOfHisKind, Gigantopithecus became extinct thousands of years ago. It would actually make more sense for him to be an orangutan that escaped captivity.
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* So in this film, King Louie has undergone an AdaptationSpeciesChange, whereas he was a real orangutan in the original, here he is a Gigantopithecus (although he still looks a lot like a giant orangutan). Apparently it was done in order to avert MisplacedWildlife, as orangutans are native to Borneo and Sumatra and not India, while Gigantopithecus fossils have been found in India. But how did King Louie (or his ancestors) survive all those years. years? Even if we assume Louie is the LastOfHisKind, Gigantopithecus became extinct thousands of years ago. It would actually make more sense for him to be an orangutan that escaped captivity.
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** He also could've just pumped his legs and swung the swing closer to a living tree (one less likely to be burning), climbed down, avoided the worst of the blaze, and gotten away safely.
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** He probably wanted to either capture Mowgli himself to make certain that he couldn't get away, or didn't trust his monkeys enough with a full-frontal attack (they captured Mowgli because they got the drop on him, but if the kid had more warning then he ''might'' have escaped).
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** We aren't given an ''exact'' time here, so it could be that this was early enough in Earth's history for a Gigantopithicus or two to still be alive, but late enough so that a human village could pop up (and hunt in the jungle often enough for most animals to develop a healthy fear of humans).
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** Maybe there was some sort of pocket population that existed which had managed to avoid contact with humans but had slowly started to die out.
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* So in this film, King Louie has undergone an AdaptationSpeciesChange, whereas he was a real orangutan in the original, here he is a Gigantopithecus (although he still looks a lot like a giant orangutan). Apparently it was done in order to avert MisplacedWildlife, as orangutans are native to Borneo and Sumatra and not India, while Gigantopithecus fossils have been found in India. But how did King Louie (or his ancestors) survive all those years. Even if we assume Louie is the LastOfHisKind, Gigantopithecus became extinct thousands of years ago. It would actually make more sense for him to be an orangutan that escaped captivity.
* So in this film, King Louie has undergone an AdaptationSpeciesChange, whereas he was a real orangutan in the original, here he is a Gigantopithecus (although he still looks a lot like a giant orangutan). Apparently it was done in order to avert MisplacedWildlife, as orangutans are native to Borneo and Sumatra and not India, while Gigantopithecus fossils have been found in India. But how did King Louie (or his ancestors) survive all those years. Even if we assume Louie is the LastOfHisKind, Gigantopithecus became extinct thousands of years ago. It would actually make more sense for him to be an orangutan that escaped captivity.
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**Remember he needed to convince Mowgli to leave and decided to be CruelToBeKind.
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* Why did Baloo have to be so mean-spirited in convincing Mowgli to leave? "Kid, you're cool and all. But Baggerah told me the details about your predicament with a tiger. We both agree you should return to the man village for your own good." Bam done! Unlike in the animated version, Mowgli isn't as dead-set on staying in the jungle. So telling him shouldn't be such an issue.
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** He went there to make clear that the wolves had not done as he wanted by turning the man-cub over to him (instead of Bagheera removing Mowgli from the pack without their consent, perhaps), and so that he could kill Akela as a means of drawing Mowgli back to him.
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** The scene immediately prior to Akela’s death shows that Shere Khan was lying in wait for Mowgli as he was complaining about having to go to the man-village. He could’ve reasoned based on that that Mowgli would remain in the jungle once separated from Bagheera (which he did), if he even knew how to get to the village without Bagheera’s guidance.
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*** "Killed Akela out of spite" is in Shere Khans character all right. In his mind, getting rid of Mowgli was the wolves way to weasel out of trouble from the tiger. He's still angered that they raised Mowgli and even stood up to him to protect the mancub.
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** Mowgli'd probably watched birds make nests by threading and knotting bits of creeper and grass to twigs, and built upon what he'd seen them doing. But apart from lightning, there's nothing in nature that regularly makes fire for Mowgli to observe.
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** Mowgli'd probably watched birds make nests by threading and knotting bits of creeper and grass to twigs, and built upon what he'd seen them doing.do in his own uses of string and rope. But apart from lightning, there's nothing in nature that regularly makes fire for Mowgli to observe.
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** Mowgli'd probably watched birds make nests by threading and knotting bits of creeper and grass to twigs, and built upon what he'd seen them doing. But apart from lightning, there's nothing in nature that regularly makes fire for Mowgli to observe.
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*** Baloo has a full set of upper front teeth, which means he can't be a sloth bear. Possibly Bagheera doesn't know that bears ''other'' than sloth bears exist.
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***Actually Bagheera said he was a sloth bear, which is found in the jungle of India.
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** If you listen closely, some of the monkeys' noises sound pretty close to human words. For example, the first one to meet Mowgli squeaks out "Hi!" Then outside of Louie's temple, a larger ape grunts "Go! In!" at Mowgli. Maybe he can't understand them well because Mowgli has been raised [[SpeaksFluentAnimal speaking Animal all his life]], and [[FridgeBrilliance the monkeys are trying to speak Human to him,]] or at least what little they know.
