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Re: MYSTERIOUS ISLAND TV SERIES (fwd)

From: Michael Crisafulli <michael_crisafulli~at~compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:53:12 -0500
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

Re: << I wonder why so many movies have Nemo using nuclear
power for his Nautilus. What's wrong with good old-fashioned electricity? >>

It was the Disney movie that started this, but I think THAT change from
electricity to nuclear energy, implied but never stated, was a good
updating. When Verne wrote 20,000 Leagues electricity was in its infancy
and a new, mysterious, and perhaps frightening force. In the 1950s,
electricity was mostly commonplace and nuclear power had supplanted it as
the new force. So like Harper Goff's updating the Nautilus from the cigar
shape, new and strange in the mid 1800s, to the sea monster craft that would
be strange to movie goers who'd seen submarines for half a century, the
switch to nuclear power was valid.

I agree that after nearly another half-century the edge is gone from the
change, but perhaps the newer screen writers, who may take more from Disney
than from Verne, can't conceive of electricity as a great force.

Michael Crisafulli
http://home.att.net/~karen.crisafulli
Received on Sat 12 Feb 2000 - 18:48:57 IST

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