Jungle Book Revisited Remake

ungle Book Revisited Remakes are one of Hollywood’s most trusted way to reduce financial risk. Stories that have been made throughout movie history are still being made again and again. “Hollywood seems obsessed with remaking extremely well-known properties that are well-known purely because of how near-perfect they were the first time.” (Mendelson 2013) This is true of the Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book written in 1894. The Jungle Book was the number one remake of 2016, making just shy of a billion dollars worldwide. It was the fifth top grossing film of the year and the only remake on the top ten. The Jungle Book is a good example of Hollywood reusing a story countless times. as it has inspired T.V. shows, other books and many other famous

How much has Disney changed the original book to adapt it to their audience? This article was found on the library website and gives us a lot of the hard statistical data for quantitative analysis. The researchers in this article hypothesis that a movie remake is usually successful if it applies sensations and familiarity for the audience to respond to Using a “dataset of 207 remakes released in North American theaters between 1999 and 2011 and a matched sample of other movies”, they created models and answer questions about the strategies behind making remakes. This analysis of the Jungle Book looks at culture and how this story addresses it. The article analysis the social movements of the 60’s and Disney’s lack of representation. It looks at drug culture, rock and roll, black, homosexual and women’s rights and many other movements going on at the time. Metcalf claims that Disney “presented caricatures of those changes he saw as threats to his America.” This is part of the qualitative analysis for our project looking at Disney’s psychology which affects the messages in his