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Re: mysterious island 1973 mini series

From: Jean-Pierre Boutin <boutin~at~versailles.inra.fr>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:23:01 +0200
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

> 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.

You are quite right Tom, the film features Kirk Douglas and not Burt
Lancaster who was also the producer of the film ... sorry for the
mistake ... By the way you are almost right, Douglas and Brynner cast
as Vasquez (renamed Will Denton in the movie and of US origin) and
Kongre (renamed Jonathan Kongre in the movie).
Jean-Pierre


Le jeudi, 21 juil 2005, à 20:13 Europe/Paris, thomas mccormick a écrit :

> 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 Fri 22 Jul 2005 - 11:23:08 IDT

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