![]() ![]() The one hit song – the Academy Award-nominated “Bare Necessities” – was the one remaining tune by folk singer Terry Gilkyson, whose other songs – and the original book by Bill Peet ( 101 Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone) – were deemed too dark by Disney, and discarded. Still, there was a likeability factor bolstered by the songs of the Sherman brothers (of Mary Poppins fame). Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 collection of quasi-folk tales set in the rain forests of India became a very Americanized adventure romp, more like the Uncle Remus-inspired Song of the South (1946) than the later, more completely imagined and consistently stylized The Lion King (1994). Not one of the great animations to grace the Disney studio, 1967’s The Jungle Book was certainly a product of its time. But The Jungle Book goes back to Disney's original version of it in 1967, and then even further back, to when Rudyard Kipling first wrote the story in 1894 (yeah, that's right, The Jungle Book is over a century old).FIRST DISNEYFIED AND NOW ZIMMERMANNED, THIS MUSICAL CAN’T SEE THE JUNGLE FOR THE TREES So, sure, the King Louie scene wasn't filmed in a real temple. "If the kid was walking 12 feet, we built 12 feet of jungle," director Jon Favreau told Variety. A few of the settings in Neel Sethi's scenes, as he played Mowgli, were built, but mostly, the magic was in the green screen. ![]() Sadly - and impressively - the entire shooting of The Jungle Book took place in a Los Angeles film studio, and most of the surroundings were digitally rendered. What about the places in it, though? Is the Jungle Book monkey temple real, or at least based on a similar temple? If it is, can you visit it? The 3D production has a look and feel that's incredibly lifelike - although the talking animals should give viewers a clue that the movie is pretty CGI-heavy. Disney's newest version of The Jungle Book has been leaving audiences across the country pretty spell-bound. ![]()
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