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When people ask me what my favorite Disney movie is (which they ask much less frequently these days --the Mouse House is seriously falling as a movie dream-making factory) I invariably answer with a quick respectful "
Sleeping Beauty" or a giddy, 'wasn't the 1991 Oscar race cool' "
Beauty & The Beast". But if you had asked me as a little kid I pro'lly woulda shouted out "JUNGLE BOOK" I was crazy for that movie. Had the vinyl soundtrack album. Knew all the songs. Danced around like a madman (as uninhibited little kids do) to "I Wanna Be Like You". One of the main reasons I loved it so? Cats! Two of the best ones in the movies. You've got your classic evil tiger (Shere Khan) and you've got one of my favorite Disney characters ever: the panther
Bagheera.
I knew as a kid that I was supposed to get the biggest kick out of the comic relief characters like Baloo and King Louie but my heart was always with the protective and serious Bagheera. I sided him with him in every scene and absorbed his feelings while watching the movie. Baloo just made me crazy. He's gonna get that little human killed! So irresponsible.
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So today I salute one of my favorite wild felines from childhood. Thanks for saving little Mowgli my man! (He turned into
quite a looker when he grew up...and he couldn't a done it without you.)
1 comment:
My fave is another cat-filled movie (moreso), The Lion King. I watched it every day on VHS (!!) when I was 9 and got it for my birthday during one of Disney's one-year-only releases. Plus the soundtrack is wonderful.
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