Louie believes Mowgli is just playing coy, and continues to seek answers, but he is soon interrupted by the sudden appearance of scat-singing, female orangutan. A distracted Louie becomes smitten and the two engage in a song and dance routine, though by the end of it, the female orangutan is revealed to be Baloo the Bear in disguise, having infiltrated Louie's palace alongside the panther Bagheera to rescue Mowgli.
A chase ensues, and in the midst of the chaos, a supporter is destroyed, forcing Louie to abandon Mowgli for the sake of upholding his damaged palace. Baloo, however, tickles Louie to loosen the ape's grip, but the bandar-logs intervene to assist their king, only to destroy another supporter by accident. As Louie's kingdom falls apart, Mowgli escapes with Baloo and Bagheera, leaving Louie within the ruins of his fallen empire.
He is not seen again for the rest of the film. Not much is known of Louie after these events, but in a storybook follow-up , Louie and Bagheera tried to help Baloo deal with the fact that Mowgli is living in the Man-Village, implying that the three discarded the event and made amends.
King Louie does not appear in The Jungle Book 2 , but a puppet of him can been seen in Mowgli's puppet show at the beginning of the film and was mentioned by Mowgli and Baloo when they traveled to the Ancient Ruins in the middle of the film. Their conversation follows:.
Louie's whereabouts were unknown, but according to Baloo, he and the monkeys turned the ruins into a hangout spot for the popular, party-loving members of the jungle.
He was originally going to appear but due to issues with Gia Prima the widow of Louie's original voice actor Louis Prima , his role was given to Flunkey. Squat, hairy, and always quick with a wisecrack or song, Louie is one of the most colorful characters a pilot will ever meet. The scat-singing, tree-swinging owner of Louie's Place, Louie has made a name for himself by transforming a remote South Seas island into a haven for weary cargo pilots the world over.
With his outgoing personality and party-loving nature, Louie has become the friend and familiar of every thirsty hedgehopper from Cape Suzette to Thembria. Little is known about Louie prior to the establishment of his club and rise to stardom-of-sorts.
Reportedly raised in Cape Suzette, he never mentions anything about his family. In fact, Louie's only known relative is the wild, party-loving ace pilot Louise L'amour, five-time winner of the Scatmandu Championship Air Race and one family tie Louie would prefer to forget.
Working as a small-time entertainer in Cape Suzette, Louie was a gifted musician and expert bartender. Drifting from one nightclub to the next, Louie and a group of friends performed a few numbers per night and mixed fruit-juice cocktails afterwards. Eventually, Louie came up with an idea for a place of his own, a jungle-themed nightclub that would serve Louie's special blend of scat music and refreshments.
It was a move several colleagues felt would ruin his career, but Louie was willing to take the chance. Scrounging every last penny of his hard-earned savings, Louie acquired a remote island property in the middle of the South Seas, several miles away from Cape Suzette. Lush and unexplored, the island was the perfect setting for his dream club and was conveniently situated near local air shipping routes.
Building around an old sailing ship wreck on the shore, Louie constructed his club piece by piece with the help of several friends and fellow band members. Five years later, Louie's Place has become the "garden spot of the South Seas" and its owner a celebrity among pilots everywhere. Louie is a born musician, always marching to his own beat. Easygoing and carefree, he breezes through life much like his longtime pal Baloo. His specialty is band music and singing — particularly with scat lyrics — and Louie is known to take the stage himself during overnight jam sessions.
Louie's life revolves around music and partying; even his speech has a rhyming, somewhat musical quality. Louie is also an expert when it comes to bartending, a skill which he displays with remarkable speed and flourish. His fruit drinks and desserts are world-famous, especially his flaming "Krakatoa Special".
He is also known for making delicious pizzas — although not with anchovies, the only food that Louie is allergic to. Louie values good times and friendship above all else.
Even though he barely manages to squeeze a living out of his club, Louie cherishes Louie's Place as the symbol of the things he holds dear — mirth, music, and good friends. No amount of money can replace that for him. While this means that Louie has turned down several lucrative offers for his club, it also reveals him to be a very devoted and sentimental person.
Of course, Louie is never lacking in friends. He has a special place in his heart for the flyers who "stuck with him like a bad habit" through the first difficult years of his club, and made Louie's Place what it is today. He values their friendship, especially the friendship of his "main man" Baloo, Louie's oldest pal and one of his first customers.
Baloo and Louie have been friends through thick and thin, sharing many adventures together during Baloo's days as a freelance pilot. Baloo still frequents Louie's Place as a regular customer, a favor which Louie is glad to return by overlooking Baloo's hefty tab.
Louie's friends have since broadened to include the whole Higher for Hire crew. They are special friends of Louie's, particularly Ms. Rebecca Cunningham — although she loudly and repeatedly claims there is nothing between her and that "pile of matted fur. While atrociously uncouth at times, around females Louie acts charming and gracious and highly competitive if Baloo's interested in the same pretty face.
After five years, Louie's Place has grown from a deserted island into the single most heavily-trafficked spot in the South Seas. However, no matter how popular his club becomes, Louie will always be the same scruffy orangutan that he is.
Louie appears as a young cub, referred to as Prince Louie , who dreams of being king of the apes. Louie also stars in the show alongside Baloo , Bagheera , Shere Khan , Hathi , and Kaa , who were all a group of friends. A fast-talking prankster, he takes the troupe from one madcap adventure to the next.
Louie is a genius inventor and natural-born leader. This verbose orangutan always has something brewing, and is one of the founding members of the band "5 Bananas". His scats deliver positive messages, proving that he is more than just a goof-off and has the potential to someday be king. During the first season, he appears to have a crest-like hairdo and is voiced by Jason Marsden , while in the following season, this crest disappears and his hair goes down.
Additionally, his replacing voice actor is Cree Summer , giving him a more feminine, yet recognizeable voice similar to his voice as an adult. After the news swarmed around the jungle, everyone, even Baloo, felt Louie would make a lousy king. It is not until a volcanic eruption broke out that everyone was able to see Louie actually has the potential of protecting the jungle's inhabitants from dangers. Jim Cummings reprises his role from TaleSpin.
King Louie made several cameos in the animated series House of Mouse , usually sitting alongside Mowgli. He could also be spotted alongside the rest of The Jungle Book cast in the lobby during the opening sequence, and one episode even gave him a close-up cameo after a cartoon ended. Due to the above-mentioned lawsuit by Gia Prima Louis Prima's widow , Louie never spoke in any of these cameos.
In " Unplugged Club ", he was seen grabbing Kaa who was hanging above next to him by the neck and shaking him like a rattle as Mickey Mouse went over to thank Zeus for using one of his lightning bolts to repower the club. The episode was actually originally supposed to star Louie, but had to be changed so as not to upset Gia Prima. These transformations here are a reference to TaleSpin.
In Mickey Mouse , Louie, Flunkey, and two of his monkey minions make a cameo appearance in the episode " Mumbai Madness ", chasing after Mickey Mouse during the travel montage. A slightly different version of the character appeared in the Disney live-action movie. Once again he is an orangutan, and the "leader" of a group of monkeys that make their home in an abandoned human city. His name arises in this version from the vast wealth that humans left behind in the city, and in particular to his habit of wearing a crown similar in appearance to that worn by the King of France, Louis XIV.
Kaa appeared to serve him, being summoned with 9 claps of his hands. Louie uses Kaa to ward off or even kill intruders, the latter for his own amusement.
At first, he acts a rival to Mowgli, but later warms up to him after seeing him defeat Kaa. Louie would later on appear during the battle between Mowgli and Captain William Boone the villain of the film , as he is seen cheering for Mowgli. In the credits for this film, he is listed as "King Louis". His lyrics were rewritten so there could be no mistake about his identity.
So Ooo I wanna be like you I want to use that flame Just the same as you can do. Oh how magnificus it would be A Gigantopithecus like me Could learn to do like you humans do. Frankly, who knows. The beast is well and truly extinct, and despite nearly a century of hunting, all that has been found are a handful of jawbones and thousands of teeth.
Porcupines are thought to be to blame for that. What of its size? The species that lived in India, G. Some have suggested G. Christopher Walken, who plays King Louie in the film , said he is 12 feet tall — although we think that must be sitting down. It is thought to have gone extinct around , to , years ago, long before humans arrived in the region.
Realistically, if anyone bumped into Gigantopithecus , it would have been Homo erectus. But heck — this is Hollywood. Ciochon says Gigantopithecus was evolving to be bigger still when it went extinct.
If this were true, the largest great ape may well have been larger still, and could have met the first Homo sapiens to arrive in Asia.
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