![]() ![]() With the Jungle Book, Favreau and his technical team (there were hundreds listed in the credits - with many Indian sounding names, indicating a lot of post production work may have been done in India) have given us the best possible narrative cinema using today's cutting edge technology. Today's audience, including children, teenagers and even adults, have been exposed to realistic computerised images with a healthy dosage of violence and gore, in the form of video games. Under Favreau's guidance The Jungle Book - entirely shot in the Disney studios in the suburbs of Los Angeles - is the right product for our times. The new film, based on Justin Marks' screenplay (his only feature film credit to date is the 2009 Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li), is a thrilling adventure that will remind viewers of the edge-of-the-seat moments from films like steven Spielberg's The Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park (the first one) and Peter Jackson's 2005 remake of King Kong. ![]() ![]() Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book is a hugely entertaining film with a nod to the 1967 classic, but yet very different in mood and texture. So the purist in me was rather dismissive about the news the Disney was updating The Jungle Book making it into a live-action film with one actor ( Neel Sethi, an Indian-American kid from New York City) and with a star cast (Ben Kingsley, Bill Murray, Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson among others) lending their voices to CGI-created animals. The song and its composer, Terry Gilkyson, was nominated for an Oscar. ![]()
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