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(1994)

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Title The Jungle Book
Year 1994
Director Stephen Sommers
Genre Romance, Adventure, Family

Interpreted by

  • Cary Elwes
  • Lena Headey
  • Sam Neill
  • John Marwood Cleese
  • Jason Flemyng

Plot – In 1871 in India a caravan led by British Major Brydon and the guide Nathoo is attacked by the tiger Shere Khan. Nathoo dies and the camp is set on fire, the horses are scared and flee. Mowgli, Nathoo's son, is onboard and disappears in the jungle. He survives and he's adopted by the panther Bagheera. The child befriends the bear Baloo and grows with a pack of wolves. Chasing a monkey, Mowgli discovers a ghost town in the jungle where he finds a precious dagger and takes it. Meanwhile, Captain William Boone meets Mowgli and Kitty Brydon recognizes him as her childhood friend because he still has the bracelet she gave him when they were children. Boone forces Mowgli to show him where the treasure is, but the Captain is attacked by the python Kaa and dies. Shere Khan arrives too, but as the tiger feels Mowgli is a creature of the jungle, she lets him go.

All actors – Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, John Cleese, Jason Flemyng, Stefan Kalipha, Ron Donachie, Anirudh Agarwal, Faran Tahir, Sean Naegeli, Joanna Wolff

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“The Jungle Book” Quotes 13 quotes

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    “There are conventions, formalities. Things that are just not done. I must do what is civilized.”
    Lena Headey - Kitty

    [Tag:civilization, rules]

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    “The more I learn what is a man, the more I want to be an animal.”
    Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli

    [Tag:animals, human nature]

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    “I am not a man! And I am not an animal.”
    Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli

    [Tag:animals, human nature]

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    “- Dr. Plumford: You saved my life, Mowgli.
    - Mowgli: Yes, Doctor. Now I need you to save the life of another.”

    John Marwood Cleese - Dr. Plumford
    Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli

    [Tag:doctors, life, rescue]

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    “The jungle speaks to me because I have learned how to listen.”
    Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli

    [Tag:forest, nature]

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    “Life is a spinning wheel, it has been said. With each spoke, a tale to be told. So keep silence along the banks, and I will tell you one of these tales; a story as enchanting as the jungle itself. It is about pride, and power, and treasure... and about fangs, and claws, and talons... but mostly, it is about love.”
    Sam Neill - Brydon

    [Tag:life, love, storytelling]

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    “- Buldeo: Shere Khan! King of tigers!
    - Nathoo: He's angry because these men with their guns have gone into his jungle and killed more than they can eat.
    - Buldeo: What does a tiger care? A few animals here or there.
    - Nathoo: Would you allow someone to break into your house and steal your food?”

    Stefan Kalipha - Buldeo
    Faran Tahir - Nathoo

    [Tag:anger, animals, killing]

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    “- Boone: This is a personal favorite of mine. You thrust it into your opponent's belly like that, see? And then you twist it a little and rip out his stomach.
    - Mowgli: And then do you eat him?
    - Boone: No, of course not.
    - Mowgli: Does he want to eat you?
    - Boone: Why, no.
    - Mowgli: Then why kill him?
    - Boone: Because he's your enemy.
    - Mowgli:...” (continue)
    (continue reading)Cary Elwes - Boone
    Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli

    [Tag:enemy, hatred, weapons]

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    “- Kitty: If you could have spoken to me the first time in the jungle, what would you have said? Did you, uh... did you feel anything?
    - Mowgli: Fire.
    - Kitty: Fire?
    - Mowgli: Great fire.”

    Lena Headey - Kitty
    Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli

    [Tag:falling in love, fire, talking]

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    “- Kitty: So can you speak with the animals?
    - Mowgli: Yes, but they speak not as men speak. With animals, every move, every look, every sound, has a meaning.”

    Lena Headey - Kitty
    Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli

    [Tag:animals, talking]

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    “- Boone: I hunt animals, you know.
    - Mowgli: Maybe someday, you hunt me.”

    Cary Elwes - Boone
    Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli

    [Tag:animals, hunting]

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    “I run with the wolf pack, you must run with the man pack. It is the proper thing.”Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli

    [Tag:animals, company, mankind]

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    “- Mowgli, age 5: The holy man says I'm half a tiger.
    - Nathoo: You are half a tiger?
    - Mowgli, age 5: He said that when I see Shere Khan and show no fear, then I be whole tiger.
    - Nathoo: Where did you see this holy man Mowgli?
    - Mowgli, age 5: In my dreams.”

    Sean Naegeli - Mowgli, age 5
    Faran Tahir - Nathoo

    [Tag:courage, dreams, fear]

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