015a – The Jungle Book Part 1

Cinema Story Origins

Paul J. Hale

History, Story, Disney, Cinema, Movies, Tv & Film, Origins, Film, Society & Culture, Adaptation, Films

4.7 • 946 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Comparing and contrasting Disney’s “The Jungle Book” and thier 2016 live-action remake, with the original “The Jungle Book” and “The Second Jungle Book By Rudyard Kipling. This podcast contains certain copyrighted works that were not specifically authorized to be used by the copyright holder(s), but which we believe in good faith are protected by […]

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0:00.0	This episode is produced by Ashley Brown, Carolyn Pizato, Sierra Kaufman, Courtney Hickling,
0:06.6	Eric, Hena Kay, Isaac, Isaac Thompson, Jeremy Simmons, Kathleen Hale, Tamara Dairy, Taylor Minton, Tracy Hanson, Saoud Al Hassan, and
0:17.6	Vaughn M Dennis. It stays true to Rudyard Kipling's original Mogley stories and contains violence and material some might not
0:25.6	find suitable.
0:27.5	Discretion is advised. Oh, oh, no, no. Hello and welcome to Disney Story Origins episode 15A The Jungle Book Part 1 X, I'm The Jungle Book is a collection of short stories that were first published in magazines between 1893 and 94.
1:32.0	The tales in the book as well as those in the second
1:35.1	jungle book which followed in 1895 and includes five further short stories
1:39.1	about Mowgli are tales using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to teach moral lessons.
1:45.0	The stories in the Jungle Book were inspired in part by the ancient Indian fable texts
1:51.0	such as the Panchatunra and the Jadakka tales.
1:55.0	For example, an older moral-filled man-goose and snake version of the Rikitiki-tavi story by Kipling is found in book five of Ponchatonra. In a letter to American author
2:06.1	Edward Edvert Hale, Kipling wrote, The idea of Beast Tales seems to me new, in that it is a most ancient and long forgotten idea.
2:15.7	The really fascinating tales are those that the Bodasat tells of his previous incarnations
2:20.7	ending always with the beautiful moral. Most of the native hunters in
2:24.8	India today think pretty much along the lines of an animal's brain and I have
2:28.9	cribbed freely from their tails. In a letter written and signed by Kipling in or around 1895, Kipling confesses to
2:37.4	borrowing ideas and stories in the Jungle Book. I'm afraid that all that code and its
2:42.0	outlines has been manufactured to meet the necessities of the case.
2:45.7	Though a little of it is boldly taken from Southern Eskimo rules for the division of spoils,
2:50.8	Kipling wrote in a letter. In fact, it's extremely possible that I've helped myself
2:56.3	promiscuously, but at present cannot remember from whose stories I've stolen.
3:02.0	After the release of 101 Dalmatians, the main story man for the movie,
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