The Jungle Book (2016)

Ben Kingsley: Bagheera

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• 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 , Bagheera : "... but the wolf that breaks it will die ."

  Shere Khan : You fools.

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

  Baloo , Bagheera , Raksha , 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!

• 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 : You can't fight him like a wolf! You're not a wolf! Fight him like a man!

• Mowgli : [en route to a man village]  But I want to stay in the jungle. Why do I have to go there?

  Bagheera : Because the jungle is no longer safe for you. You're being hunted by a tiger. Only man can protect you now.

• Bagheera : NOW he can climb.

• Baloo : [having sent Mowgli away]  Well, I did it. And that's about the hardest thing I've ever done.

  Bagheera : I know.

• Baloo : What'd I tell you? He's special.

  Bagheera : I know he's special. I raised him.

  Baloo : Then don't make him leave, Bagheera. You gotta let him be what he is.

  Bagheera : You don't understand. The boy's in danger.

  Baloo : I know. He told me. He's being hunted by a tiger.

  Bagheera : Not any tiger. Shere Khan.

  Baloo : Shere Khan's hunting him? Oh. But if you send him back to the man village, they'll ruin him. They'll make a man out of him. We should send him back to the wolf pack. Who's their alpha? Akela. He can protect him.

  Bagheera : Akela is dead.

  Baloo : What?

  Bagheera : Shere Khan killed him. He will stop at nothing until he has this boy. Nothing. The only way we can save him is if he goes to that man village. Please, Baloo. You're the only one he'll listen to.

• Bagheera : Maybe I can be of help. The boy's right. Maybe it's time he found another people.

  Raksha : No!

  Bagheera : I'm the one who brought him to you, and now I'll return him to where he belongs.

  Raksha : [goes in front of Mowgli]  I won't let you. He's MY cub!

  Akela : We knew this day would come.

  Raksha : We are the only family he's ever known!

  Akela : Raksha, it's the only place he'll be safe.

  Mowgli : [walks to Raksha]  It's okay, ami, I won't go far. I-I'll come back and visit.

• Bagheera : Mowgli.

  Baloo : Where is he?

  Bagheera : In the pit.

  Baloo : In the WHAT?

  Bagheera : Is this your teaching?

  Baloo : Oh, come on! You know I'd never teach him to mess around with elephants.

• Mowgli : Don't be mad, okay?

  Bagheera : Why would I be mad?

  Mowgli : 'Cause you're always mad when I do stuff. You gotta promise not to be mad THIS time.

  Bagheera : Show me, then I'll decide.

• Mowgli : It's honey stacks 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 want to do this, you do this in the man village.

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

  Bagheera : Bears don't hibernate in a 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.

• Bagheera : When I found him many years ago he was just an infant abandoned in the woods. If he was going to survive, I knew he needed a people. A people to protect him. That's why I entrusted him to the wolves.

• Bagheera : You must be the very worst wolf I've ever seen.

  Mowgli : Yeah, but if that branch didn't break, I would've made it.

  Bagheera : Crossing upwind, breaking from your numbers. If you can't learn to run with the pack, one of these days you'll be someone's dinner.

• Bagheera : He never listens.

• 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...

  [Shere Khan leaps roaring from the tall grass. Mowgli ducks and Bagheera deflects the attack. The two cats fight while Mowgli runs to the ravine. Shere Khan knocks Bagheera out, sees Mowgli and pursues] 

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

• Mowgli : Bagheera!

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

  Mowgli : Is it true?

  Bagheera : What?

  Mowgli : Is Akela dead?

  Bagheera : We were going to tell you.

  Mowgli : You knew! You both knew! And nobody did anything about it!

  Baloo : Kid, just hold on.

  Mowgli : Someone's gotta do something!

• Baloo : [climbing a cliff, frightened]  A bird. That can't be a good sign.

  Bagheera : [alongside him]  Baloo, look at me. Look at nothing but me. You're doing fine.

  Baloo : All right I'm coming. I'm coming.

• Baloo : I did it! Ahh...

  Bagheera : Well done, old chap. He must be in there. Follow me.

  Baloo : No, no. We're on level ground here. I'm in charge, and I've got a plan.

• Baloo : Uh.

  Bagheera : I'll take it from here.

  Baloo : No, I... I'm coming. I... it's-it's doable if I don't have to go too high.

  Bagheera : Good. Let's get going.

  Baloo : All right.

• [first lines] 

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

• Blackbuck : Whoa! Don't forget the truce!

  Bagheera : I know the law, bucks.

• Bagheera : I realize you weren't born a wolf, but couldn't you at least act like one?

• Bagheera : We'll try to hold them off.