The Jungle Book (2016) - Quotes

A Journey of Growth and Discovery

Live-Action Characters: * Kendrick Reyes {{small|(infant)}}

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Mowgli Reflects on His Journey and Identity

Live-Action Characters: [[w:Neel Sethi|Neel Sethi] ] as Mowgli

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Embracing Identity in Challenging Situations

Bagheera: [tackles Mowgli to restrain him from fighting Shere Khan] Stay here!

Mowgli: [trying to push Bagheera's paw away] But I want to fight with the wolves!

Bagheera: [Mowgli gets up, and runs by Shere Khan] You can't fight him like a wolf! You're not a wolf! Fight him like a man! Now, go!

Mowgli: Okay.

Bagheera: We'll hold him off.

Bagheera: [narrates] Over the years I have seen many things in the jungle but that night I saw something I will never forget I saw a child without a people come for the first time all over the jungle.

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The Law of the Jungle Explained

Baloo: This is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky".

Shere Khan: What is this?

Baloo: The wolf that keeps it may prosper...

Baloo and Bagheera: ... but the wolf that breaks it will die".

Shere Khan: You fools.

Baloo, Bagheera and Raksha: Like the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth over and back".

Shere Khan: Fine! Rise up, all of you! You want to put yourselves between me and the man-cub?!

Baloo, Bagheera and Raksha: For the strength of the pack is the wolf...

Baloo, Bagheera, Raksha and Mowgli: [further joined by the other wolves] ... and the strength of the wolf is the pack!

Shere Khan: I will have you ALL IN MY TEETH!

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A Moment of Uncertainty in the Jungle

Mowgli: Bagheera!

Bagheera: Mowgli? Stay there. We'll come around you.

Mowgli: Is it true?

Bagheera: [shocked] What?

Mowgli: Is Akela dead?!

Begheera: We were going to tell you.

Mowgli: [tearfully enraged] YOU KNEW! YOU BOTH KNEW! AND NOBODY DID ANYTHING ABOUT IT!

Baloo: Kid, just hold on a minute!

Mowgli: [tearfully runs off] SOMEONE'S GOTTA DO SOMETHING!

Bagheera: Mowgli!

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Conflict Between Mowgli and King Louie

King Louie: Where are you going, man cub?

Mowgli: STAY AWAY FROM ME!!

King Louie: You don't have anyone now. I'm your only hope. I can make it real good for you here. Where else you gonna go?

Mowgli: I'll go back to the pack! I'll go back to Akela!

King Louie: [Mowgli gasps in shock at what King Louie says about Akela] Akela? Oh. You didn't hear? Shere Khan killed him. Must've been on account of you.

Mowgli: [furious] NO!!! YOU'RE LYING!!!

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Desire for Power and Its Consequences

King Louie: [after singing I Wanna Be Like You, to Mowgli] Just one thing we need to reach our full potential. Bring me that Red Flower, and we will rule this jungle. I will protect you, and you will want for nothing ever again.

Mowgli: I can't...

King Louie: You can't or you won't?

Mowgli: I can't!

King Louie: [angered] YOU WILL!!!

Baloo: [enters the monkey temple; sees King Louie] Excuse me! Anybody? Excuse me, am I in the right monkey temple? Oh, my gosh, is that King Louie? This is so exiting. The legends do you no justice, sir. You are truly... ENORMOUS, ah-ha-ha, in the best way. Look at all of that... flesh just... squatting there on an ancient throne. How... how-how majestic.

King Louie: [annoyed; to his monkeys] Seize him.

Baloo: [while being attacked by monkeys] Hey! Hang on! Can you hang on? Can you just hang on? I climbed a mountain to see you - and I'm not a climber - just to be in your presence. For me this is a dream come true. Oh!

King Louie: Throw him off the cliff.

Baloo: [still being attacked by monkeys] Wait. Wait, wait, wait. I have no problem with that, I don't have any problem with that, I came up here without an invitation. It was extremely presumptuous of me. Let me interrupt myself, I just gotta say, you guys are so much handsomer in person than anyone knows, no one ever gets up close to you. I guess it's... why? Because of the smell. I mean, the smell is-is-is rough. But it's not just, "Oh, look at me." It's, "I got the brains." You guys got the know-how, you got the noggin. You came up with this stuff, with the thumb. Come on, show me. How do you do that? I can't do that. Look, I scratch, I rub, you know, I can grab a fish. But I was hoping, and you may not be open to this at all, but I was hoping, and once again, it's a dream, but I was hoping that I might become... a Bandar-log myself. Gosh, I wanna be like you. I am hitching my wagon to your star.

King Louie: NO ONE LEAVES!

Baloo: [starts to run outside] I can show myself out! Thanks, bye-bye!

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Jungle Lessons on Caution and Consequences

Mowgli: It's a honey stash for winter.

Bagheera: Have you lost your mind?!

Mowgli: You said you wouldn't get mad.

Bagheera: Did you listen to anything Akela taught you? There's no place in the jungle for these... tricks! You wanna do this, you do this in the man-village.

Mowgli: But I'm helping Baloo get ready for hibernation.

Bagheera: [to Baloo] Bears don't hibernate in the jungle. What are you teaching him?

Baloo: Not full hibernation, but I nap, a lot.

Bagheera: Listen to me, you con artist! He may not know your game, but I do. He's leaving now.

Mowgli: But I don't wanna leave!

Bagheera: You don't have a choice!

Baloo: Why don't we all just settle down for a minute? Look, it's gotten late. Too late to travel, so why don't we all just have a little honey...?

Bagheera: I don't eat honey.

Baloo: No problem. I'll eat the honey. Let's all get a good night's sleep, and we can talk about this in the morning.

Bagheera: Fine, but we're leaving first thing.

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Confrontation Over the Man-Cub's Fate

Shere Khan: I suppose you know why I've come?

Akela: The man-cub has left the jungle.

Shere Khan: I thought I made myself clear that I wanted him to be handed over to me.

Akela: We no longer harbor him. He's left the pack

Shere Khan: And where may I ask has he gone?

Akela: He's with his own kind now.

Shere Khan: So, the Man Cub has left the jungle.

Akela: [last words before his death] That's right. You and I no longer have to quarrel and, most importantly, we have peace.

Shere Khan: [pivots around, leaps forward, and crushes Akela's neck with his teeth] Well, I guess it's done, then... ...unless, I can draw him BACK OUT!!!

Raksha: [shocked] AKELA!

Shere Khan: [throws Akela's body off the cliff; to the wolves] Have I got your attention now?! I didn't want it to be this way; I made it so simple. All I asked for was one thing, and YOU DENIED me! Well, that ends now. Spread the word! Until I have the mancub, these hills are my hills. You did not respond to reason! So now you will know fear!

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Navigating Danger in the Jungle

Bagheera: [softly and urgently] Down!

Mowgli: What, now we have to bow at the buffalo, too?

Bagheera: Listen to me. This is not a game. You're gonna run to that ravine.

Mowgli: What are you talking about?

Bagheera: Go to the north where the sky glows at night. I'll find you on that path.

Mowgli: Bagheera, I'm not taking one more step until...

Bagheera: [calls out, unable to rise] RUN, MOWGLI! Run!

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Conflict Over Mowgli's Presence in the Jungle

Shere Khan: [spots Mowgli] Everyone comes to Peace Rock, so many smells to catch up on. But, um, I can't help but notice there's this strange odor today... What is it, this scent that I'm on? Almost...almost think it was some kind of man-cub.

Akela: Mowgli belongs to my pack, Shere Khan.

Shere Khan: Mowgli? They've given it a name. When was it we came to adopt man into the jungle?

Akela: He's just a cub.

Shere Khan: [shows his scars] Does my face not remind you of what a GROWN man can do? Shift your hunting grounds for a few years, and everyone forgets how the law works. Well, let me remind you: a man-cub becomes man, and man is FORBIDDEN!!!

Raksha: What do you know about law?

Akela: Raksha.

Raksha: Hunting for pleasure, killing for power, you've never known law. The cub is mine, mine to me. So, go back to where you came from, you burned beast!

Akela: The tiger knows who rules this part of the jungle. I'm sure he doesn't mean to come here and make threats. Especially during a water truce.

Shere Khan: Though I'm deeply respectful of these laws to keep us safe. So, here's my promise. Nothing lasts forever. The rains will return and the river will rise. And when this rock disappears, that truce will end. You want to protect him? Fine. But ask yourselves: How many lives is a man-cub worth?

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The Tale of Mowgli in the Jungle

Bagheera: [narrates] Many strange tales are told of this jungle, but none so strange as the tale of the cub we call Mowgli.

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Ikki's Advice on Staying Dry

Ikki: [last lines] Keep it dry, keep it dry, keep it dry. These quills get stuck on everything.

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A Comedic Assertion of Ownership in Nature

Ikki: [Ikki's quills poked Mowgli's leg] No, that's my stick! Let go of my stick. It's A WATER TRUCE! Sorry. My bad. It's involuntary. I could pee on it.

Ownership and Attachment to Belongings

Ikki: Seriously, that's my stick.

Ikki's Attachment to a Stick

Ikki: Oh, that's my stick.

Ownership and Discovery in Nature

Ikki: [first lines] My leaf. This is mine. Mine, mine, mine. There some other--There's a rock. That's mud. That's just mud. There's a rock. That's my rock. That's my rock. Nobody touches my rock. There's another rock. Two rocks. Three rocks. Peace Rock? Peace Rock! It's the Truce! The Water Truce! It's Water Truce!

The Power of the Red Flower

King Louie: Just one thing we need to reach our full potential. Bring me that Red Flower, and we will rule this jungle. I will protect you, and you will want for nothing ever again.

King Louie's Assurance of Protection

King Louie: Kid, I got ears. My ears got ears. Only I can protect you.

The Dual Nature of Man's Fire

Kaa: Mostly, men stay in their village, far from the dark of the jungle. But sometimes, they travel. And when they do, their caves breathe in the dark. They call it... the Red Flower. Man's creation. It brings warmth and light and destruction to all that it touches.

Kaa's Temptation and Manipulation in the Jungle

Kaa: [from trailer] Are you alone out here? What are you doing so deep in the jungle? Don't you know what you are? I know what you are. I know where you came from. Poor, sweet little cub. I'll keep you close. Let go of your fear now... and trust... in me.

Shere Khan's Threat of Inevitable Danger

Shere Khan: [last words before his death; realizes that the branch he's standing on is about to crack] Did you think I would let you grow old? Either I'll devour you or the Red Flower will. It's just a matter of time. How long did you really think you'd survive against me? Longer than your father did? Longer than... Akela?

A Call to End the Conflict

Shere Khan: [about to kill Bagheera after defeating him in fight] It's time we put an end to this!

The Deception of the Cuckoo Bird

Shere Khan: [while talking to the wolf cubs; turns toward Raksha] The one you really have to look out for is the cuckoo bird. Do you know how the cuckoo bird survives? By preying on a mother's weakness. The cuckoo bird is much too clever to raise its own young. Instead, it lays its eggs in another bird's nest. The mother bird is fooled, and it cares for the new chick. But do you know what happens to her own chicks? They starve and die from neglect. All because a mother loved a chick that wasn't even her own.