I'm just watching the Jungle Book movie... And I have nothing against the fact they decided a woman should perform the role of Kaa, I just don't know what ScarJo brings to the role. Were they trying to go the seductive route? I don't think it was very effective.
Her voice just didn't match the scene, in my opinion. It's not a bad performance, it just doesn't seem right to me.
Since I haven't had the pleasure of communicating with a snake I can't compare the too. Sorry for the sarcasm but I had to say it. Guess we have to accept snakes have different voices.
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I completely agree - all I could hear was Scarlett Johansson not Kaa, it kept taking me out of the scene. I think someone like Shohreh Aghdashloo would have been a much better choice, honestly. The whole "seductress" thing so "hey, let's go with ScarJo" thing was a bad choice, imo. Kaa is supposed to be sinister and (yes) hypnotic, but getting ScarJo to play a snake to "seduce" a human boy is just bizarre (and doesn't say much for what the director/writers/producers think of ScarJo, beyond "hey yeah, she's sexy I bet she could distract the crap out of this little boy" - just weird and kind of gross.
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How many giant snakes have you talked to. The ones I talk to all sound like that.
They really should've kept it male
shareI think that her voice was meant to be a seductive addition to the slipperiness of the snake. It is her singing voice that I have doubts about.
shareI found her delivery to be kind of boring and lacking depth. It just did not fit, perhaps and she did a little more with the part. She just sounded like a normal person you might run into on the street, no real character or distictiveness about it.
shareI liked her VOW.
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I disagree, I thought she was fine and if I didn't know it was her doing the voice before hand I wouldn't have picked up on who it was.
Her voice doesn't really standout much.
I did have to check if that was her singing at the start of the credits and thought maybe they could have used part of her singing in the film.
I think we'd have all been more forgiving had the character of Kaa actually been relevant to the story.
It was nothing but a fan-service cameo both for the character and Scarlett.
Kaa's presence was extremely limited and added absolutely nothing to the story. Even Mowgli's backstory, delivered as a pure flashback of which we do not even know when or how Kaa could have knowledge of in the first place, serves no narrative purpose. Mowgli never develops a sense of shock or revenge due to it.
And Kaa doesn't interact meaningfully with any other character than Mowgli.. and the only meaningful thing she does in that case is try to eat him. Any random predator of any species could do the same. It's not even needed to set up Baloo, since Mowgli could have remained unconscious on a log and Baloo could have rescued him from a crocodile, or waterfall... or heck, just found him on the riverbank and lied about a heroic rescue. It actually would have fit BETTER than the laid-back and somewhat cowardly Baloo (his initial personality) fighting a giant serpent out of the blue over a boy he doesn't know in the least.
Erf, the more I think about it... the worse the writing becomes. And I wasn't too pleased with it to begin with.
The character motivation of Baloo and Kaa is non-existant, and Louie's scene comes across as atonal and less meaningful than it could have been had Louie been merely an orangutan again and as escaped exotic pet from some Indian rajah, which would have given him the opportunity to view man working with fire but not necessarily ever see the method required to light one from scratch (in a palace, fire would have simply been transferred from vessel to vessel and never kindled in his presence), and this you'd have EVERYTHING for his motivation.
Maybe I should have written this movie... 😉