Les œuvres de Jules Verne

[Darunia]

If Darunia engaged in any kind of interpersonal interaction of any kind and the swearing of eternal hatreds was absent, I would have to do IP checks to make sure his account wasn't hacked. I wouldn't want some imposter exercising moderating powers. Imagine the mayhem!

I'm glad somebody gets me on here.

ABF, recommend me more Mark Twain.

I read a lot of his stuff in college, and I ADORED his early short stories... the funny ones... I recommend A Day at Niagara, The Stolen White Elephant, and Political Economy.

I wrote a huge rant on how awful it was on here, I wish we still had it (we don't have archives from 2002, right?). They replaced the ultra-faggoty subservient Smithers clone Consiel with a different character - Professor Arronax's daughter who dressed like a man to get on the ship that collides with the submarine in the beginning - so they could tie in a torrid love triangle between her and Ned and Captain Nemo. God damn I was pissed.

I saw several minutes of the same version and arrived at the same conclusion. But don't be so quick to dismiss Conseil. Verne seems to always employ peon assistants in his major works... in Around the World, it was the faithful and loyal Passepartout... who is, basically, the exact same character as Conseil. I think that Vernes' employing strictly male main characters is reflective of the Victorian era world in which these were written. Women just weren't thought of in that light; exploring the world and going on adventures was a man's domain. That said, their having replaced Conseil with a daughter... is taking SO MUCH FUCKING LICENSE to alter something that should not be altered...

I think I was even more mad that they didn't have giant squids, but instead, an awful CGI giant manta ray of some kind. What a crummy budget, and an even worse script, no wonder it was only a stupid made-for-TV movie. Fuck you, Rod Hardy and Brian Nelson (director and teleplay writer).

I never saw that part, and I'm glad. I imagine a manta ray must have been much easier to animate than a squid, what with all the moving tentacles.

By the way, have you seen the Disney version? It was a good, fun film, but (of course) not even close to a faithful adaptation of the novel. The ending in NO WAY resembled the actual end of the book. Disney also, sad to say, took quite a bit of free license in their version.