Comments on: Mowgli from the Jungle Book Totally Looks Like Christopher Robin

By: Carolin Vasi

Carolin Vasi — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:51:32 +0000

Fantastic blog, many amusing details. I think 6 of days ago, I have viewed a similar post.

By: kelly

kelly — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:57:48 +0000

Yeah, Disney re use’s a lot of scenes. It’s too save money, and way easier then re-drawing the same things over and over

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:27:00 +0000

It is on purpose of course- notice they’re both Disney movies. Everything’s so perfect how couldn’t they be on purpose?!?

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:58:18 +0000

see reanimation http://www.cracked.com/article/231_5-things-hollywood-reuses-more-than-plots/

By: gengen6

gengen6 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:50:40 +0000

blah

By: gengen6

gengen6 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:49:16 +0000

yah thats pretty silly, they just want money.
its kinda stupid.

By: Aha

Aha — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:10:14 +0000

I’m glad I stumbled upon this comment… Since I first saw The Village, I couldn’t get past the fact that I just KNEW I had read a book with the same exact story line. Even when I watched the movie, when the girl had to leave to get medicine, I knew exactly how it was going to end and what the big secret was. Now I know where I read it!

By: Lolingrobot

Lolingrobot — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:46:50 +0000

same artist, same company. durr.

By: Kellie

Kellie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:01:17 +0000

HOW did you catch this?

By: Jules B

Jules B — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:54:56 +0000

Who ever caught this one is a sheer genius. I know Disney does some quirky stuff but wow!

By: Matt S

Matt S — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:05:20 +0000

This isn’t a coincidence. Disney did this with Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp, Robin Hood, and The Jungle Book to save money and time animating. They made templets that they used for different scenes in different movies.

By: Hollowcaust

Hollowcaust — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:32:51 +0000

This pretty much ruined a part of my childhood for me. Half sad, half wanting to burst out laughing at how pathetic Disney is.

By: maisychan

maisychan — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:21:43 +0000

true story, there’s actually a youtube video where you can watch a bulk of disney’s recycling scenes thnaks to someone’s keen eye and patience. crazy to watch..adn kind of sad

By: moonbaby

moonbaby — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:50:53 +0000

Good point! too true, too true.

By: moonbaby

moonbaby — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:49:48 +0000

She tried to sue them, but was threatened by their lawyers that it would take all her money and they would keep it in the courts for years and years. And it’s not just vague similarities. It’s the same story line exactly, all the way down to the girl having to leave her backpack at a certain place. She left to get medicine. The time-frame is the same. The premise is the same. Running Out of Time just doesn’t have monsters. They stole it. It’s plagiarism and just because Disney does it, doesn’t make it OK. Don’t try to defend them by calling ME paranoid.

By: Nadjuset

Nadjuset — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:35:12 +0000

Yea disney did repeat itself quite often….but it still didnt take away from their animated movies though

By: caleb

caleb — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:09:11 +0000

its called recycling animation….they just copy old frames to save time and money.

By: hahahaha

hahahaha — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:30:29 +0000

haha mosley xD

By: collagen

collagen — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:15:31 +0000

By seeing above pictures, I remember my childhood because in my childhood I used to watch Mowgli.

By: Jessi

Jessi — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:57:25 +0000

Urm, You’re wrong.

By: Ryan Thompson

Ryan Thompson — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:24:15 +0000

Disney recycled a lot of images back then. There’s a video on youtube talking about it.

By: dead-brains

dead-brains — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:37:55 +0000

I haven’t seen anybody mention that most of the animation recycling came about in the 70’s… After Walt died… while the studio was facing bankruptcy. They needed more movies and quickly to keep afloat. This was one of the tools that saved Disney.

By: Ruaridh

Ruaridh — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:07:27 +0000

Don’t think you’d be a masochist…

By: Elliot_Stone

Elliot_Stone — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:19:13 +0000

I like the fact that original animation are being used by later artists to base newer characters upon, it means the effort put into the first drawer lives on so to speak.

Also as a little trivia, the person who provided the voice for Mowgli also provided the voice for Christopher Robin.

By: unintentionallyfunnay

unintentionallyfunnay — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:49:29 +0000

“or else I’d whip it out.”

By: Flameow

Flameow — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:13:14 +0000

There are lots of YouTubez about this…Disney is lazy.

By: anonymiss

anonymiss — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:06:43 +0000

Word.

By: StCyr

StCyr — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:33:01 +0000

Paranoia much? Similar stories don’t always mean theft, and there are quite a few distinctions between the two stories once you get past the bare bones of an 1800s society living in modern day but apart from the modern world.

Granted I’m not saying you’re wrong per se, but do you have any proof? Anything other than a vague similarity that could be explained simply by people indepentently coming up with similar ideas?

By: StCyr

StCyr — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:25:27 +0000

Or the credits?

By: StCyr

StCyr — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:19:36 +0000

If by “full minute-plus” you mean bits and pieces here and there… And even if they re-use some of the choreography (even as much as 2 minutes in a 90-minute movie), it’s a little over-dramatic to say it’s “watching the same movie with a different skin.” Since when are movies all about choreography and not at all about plot? When you watch the celebration in Robin Hood, you’re probably not thinking hey, I think I saw that exact movement in Snow White.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:37:41 +0000

Good call, Orlanda. Well put.

By: HistoryMaker

HistoryMaker — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:48:19 +0000

Oh, I get it now. Thanks. That makes sense.

It would be cool to see the original footage.

By: ToZ

ToZ — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:07:41 +0000

ok wait. HIS NAME IS MOWGLI!!!!!!! pronounced (mow-gley)

By: megan

megan — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:53:16 +0000

omg ive totally noticed that over the years of watching that! i knew it!

By: Jessi

Jessi — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:14:07 +0000

Actually, no, number one is true, but only on the original packaging for the VHS tape. I have mine somewhere in storage, or else I’d whip it out, but yeah, on the original packaging for The Little Mermaid, one of the spires of the castle was a penis.

By: Jessi

Jessi — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:10:22 +0000

I’ve noticed a few of them, but it was always kind of like a common thread running through the movies, tying them all together for me. It was never an irritant. It’s nice to know that a Disney Princess is a Disney Princess, you know?

Did that make any sense at all? It’s freakin’ early here and I haven’t had my caffeine yet.

By: CUPCAKE!

CUPCAKE! — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:39:26 +0000

I can’t blame them for reusing…hell i never noticed it, never would have. Maybe somebody has a little bit too much free time on thier hands, hmm?

By: chuckles

chuckles — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:28:10 +0000

OMG theyre exactly the same right down to the little line on the twig by the leaves

By: snuzzle

snuzzle — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:33:41 +0000

I’m so glad someone else mentioned the rotoscoping. It was also expensive to do back in the day, if I recall correctly, so using it only once would have been a fiscal waste. Using it over again, especially the Snow White/Maid Marian scenes where the character looks entirely different is not a bad thing. It’s not like they were tracing their older works or anything, so I don’t see what’s so evil about this. Though certainly, I’m sure they hoped they would never get it shoved in their face like this.

By: moonbaby

moonbaby — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:28:22 +0000

FURTHERMORE . . . while I do think it’s wonderful that Disney re-uses THEIR OWN work (because that means it’s ok if I do it too with my own work), I do draw the line at their underhanded schemes to rob the intellectual property of others and then use their mighty power to intimidate the injured parties.

Anyone ever read or heard of a book called Running Out of Time? Disney and Shyamalan STOLE the story from Margaret Peterson Haddix and used it as a template for the movie, The Village. I’m holding the book in my hand. It was published in 1995. In my other hand is the DVD of the Village, which came out in 2004. Of all the underhanded . . . They didn’t give her a dime and MNSh…head took all the credit for writing it! Oooh! As an author myself, that makes me SO MAD!!!

By: moonbaby

moonbaby — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:51:30 +0000

I think it’s brilliant.

No one at Disney has ever denied the use of templates. In fact, there’s a whole attraction at Disney___ (oh crap, is it Land or World — they kinda run together after a while) that shows how they do it.

Disney is not being “busted” by this [now ancient] revelation. It’s just that every time someone new thinks they’ve discovered it, they have to put it up here.

MM isn’t a money grubbing rat — he’s just drawn that way. lol.

By: Riei

Riei — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:58:39 +0000

Keep dancin’ you crazy cats

By: phred

phred — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:49:58 +0000

FAIL – Mowgli, not Mosley or Mogley. Haven’t you ever read the book version?

By: O_O

O_O — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:26:13 +0000

It’s Mogley, not Mosley.

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:16:03 +0000

You sir are a troll. 1 that is just an illusion made by you. SEX never happened in a movie. It was the letters SFX in the lion king ONLY. and I dont really know about #3

By: Ruza

Ruza — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:26:28 +0000

Aren’t those called Easter Eggs? I noticed a few too, Ithink it’s cool

By: Neko

Neko — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:56:11 +0000

haha yeah, pretty much…

By: swipemypictures

swipemypictures — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:22:54 +0000

I like it!
but it looks fake, you sure you didn’t make that yourself?

By: Earbrass

Earbrass — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:57:38 +0000

The Disney version of Winnie-the-Pooh has to rank as one of the great cultural crimes of the 20th Century, and is the ultimate proof that the US is indeed the Evil Empire.

By: Bigdaddycoon

Bigdaddycoon — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:21:27 +0000

For those of you dissin’ the re-use of template/animation cells, trust me, if you had to hand draw/animate 30 cells/frames per 1 second of film, you’d be an idiot or a masochist not to do the same thing, and say what you will, but Disney animators were no idiots.