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Re: mysterious island 1973 mini series

From: thomas mccormick <tom_amity~at~hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:13:58 +0000
To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il

Dear Gamt de Vries and Jean-Pierre Boutin,

The television version of Mysterious Island of which you speak (with Omar
Sharif) is available dubbed in German and French, but was originally
Spanish. I have been told that there is an English dubbed version also, but
I have not confirmed that.

It is correct to say that this version is more faithful to the book than was
the 1961 film (with Herbert Lom as Nemo) or the other TV version that is now
in production (with Patrick Stewart in the same role). But to be more
faithful than either of those two is no achievement, since those two hardly
follow Verne's story at all and introduce fantastic elements that have
nothing to do with Verne's conception. These elements include giant insects
created by Nemo! Needless to say, whoever made these versions was not
interested in Verne.

As for the version you are discussing, its major divergences from the book
occur toward its conclusion. Its authors are interested in the theme of
survival on a deserted island, and they explore this theme rather well, but
they seem to have very little notion what to do with Nemo, and little
understanding of why Verne put him in the story to begin with.

As for the film "Light at the Edge of the Wolrld", it features Kirk Douglas
and Yul Brynner, and you can read reviews of it by accessing the Intrernet
Movie Database (search for IMDb). I haven't read the reviews, but I suppose
Douglas and Brynner are cast as Vasquez and Kongre respectively. I don't
believe Burt Lancaster is in this film.

Tom McCormick

>From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
>Reply-To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
>To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
>Subject: Re: mysterious island 1973 mini series
>Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:09:55 +0200 (CEST)
>
>On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Jean-Pierre Boutin wrote:
>
>>I also bought it but not receive it yet. The fact that there is no English
>>version is a real problem and restricts the diffusion to French speaking
>>people (my opinion is that you are such Garmt).
>
>Yes, it's a shame. There's a difference between talking to francophone
>people, when you can ask to speak a bit more slowly, and watching a movie
>with background music, fast-speaking characters, etc.
>
>I had the Decourt Strogoff miniseries on video, taped from TV5. Now TV5 has
>the useful habit of subtitling, in French, their films that are spoken in
>French. Later I bought the DVD set, which didn't include subtitles. So,
>even if DVD has the advantage of better image and sound quality, and easy
>scene selection, in this case it did have one drawback as compared to the
>video tape.
>
>Do you know that series of animated Voyages Extraordinaires? You can choose
>French, English or Italian language, and they have subtitles in French and
>in English. These animations are quite well done, by the way, and include
>some less famous stories like Etoile du Sud and Jangada.
>
>>About the "Ile Mystérieuse" mini series, it's a very reliable adaptation
>>of the JV novel but some comments say that it is somewhat tedious...
>
>I'm looking forward to having a lot of free time (yeah right... as if that
>will ever happen), so I can watch it...
>
>>The same editor re-published also a movie from “Le phare du bout du Monde”
>>featuring Burt Lancaster etc. There are 2 DVD, one with the French
>>version, the other with the original (English) version.,”The light of the
>>edge of the world”.
>
>Yes, I saw it at amazon. How silly can you be, making two separate discs
>with the same movie, only in a different language? Very strange...
>
>But, despite all these shortcomings, we can be happy that a couple of
>movies are now commercially available.
>
>Cheers,
>Garmt.
Received on Thu 21 Jul 2005 - 21:14:11 IDT

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