The Lion King 2019

[Sanju]

(01-14-2019, 01:58 PM)brotherbear Wrote:

(01-14-2019, 10:20 AM)Sanju Wrote:

(01-14-2019, 01:15 AM)brotherbear Wrote: I read both Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling. He made it crystal clear that Baloo is a brown bear ( even though Disney called him a sloth bear ). The only brown bear in India is the Himalayan brown bear; also called the red bear. He may very well be the smallest of the world's brown bears and ( for a brown bear ) a sweet disposition.

Jungle Book by Rudyard happened in Seeonee's Pench Tiger reserve (or mowgli tiger reserve) of Madhya Pradesh (central India) and there are no brown bears (himalayan) except Sloth bears. Though in Jungle Book I loved it to see brown bear in Movie... One of the best films of my life.

This is true, I'm sure. But while Rudyard Kipling was a great writer he was no animals expert. He made it exceptionally clear in his Second Jungle Book when he writes Baloo the Brown Bear with three capital B's. Perhaps he simply preferred a brown bear to a shaggy black sloth bear. It is pure fiction after all.

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@brotherbear See in the movie too, the story of the character, his life style and food habits or diet are of sloth bear's. but Disney felt better to place a Brown bear in physical appearance. ^ the above picture and the scene Bhageera replying to baloo:

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See Asian elephants head i.e.., twin-domed head but the spine but back should be either straight or slightly convex, while in this movie they designed it like African elephant's back which has a concave shape... except the head, rest of it looks like african elephants. See:

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At the end, see how the brown bear became like a Sloth bear in the Rudyard's Jungle "book" at the end. Remember Sloth bears climb trees not Brown bears (sometimes but very very rare and not in India as they are no brown bears in central India's tropical forests and jungles). It is the sloth bear in the story but the physically depicted or picturised as brown bear. Why? Coz it is good and attractive to have a cute and cuddly brown bear (teddy bear) in the movie than a sloth bear. We all know what disney does... it makes movies which people like and I like the movie. BTW the above series of pictures is the most fav part of the movie coz it's nostalgic and music was heart touching (makes me cry).

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