![]() One can even see him as a successful poseable action figure. While he looks nothing like the Indian envisioned by Kipling, played by Sabu or drawn by Disney artists for their animated “The Jungle Book,” the star of “Dragon” makes an admirable and appealing hero. This new “Jungle Book” casts Jason Scott Lee, that lithe and catlike all-purpose Asian/Polynesian/Indian/Eskimo, as the post-adolescent Mowgli. Geldman, who cooked up the story for this new Mowgli tale, have taken that brief if decisive incident and spun from it an enjoyable but bogus picture that might be called, “The Third Jungle Book, With Apologies to Rudyard Kipling.” But upon seeing a girl coming down a path on the edge of a village, Mowgli opts for life with the Man- Pack. ![]() The settings and characterizations are drawn from Kipling’s own experiences during his nineteenth-century travels around the British Empire, and include locations like India, Afghanistan and the Bering Sea. ![]() In the final tale of “The Second Jungle Book,” the Indian child raised by the Seeonee wolf pack has decided to return to the jungle. The Jungle Book was published in 1893, and is actually a collection of seven short stories. These new adventures of Mowgli might better be titled “Indian Jungle boy and the Temple of Doom.” ![]() “Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book” is a misnomer. ![]()
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