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Re: Vernian Inspirations

From: WILLIAM JONES <wbj514~at~sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:29:54 -0700 (PDT)
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Perhaps. But my pop-culture guess would be that if there is a Vernian inspiration present at all, it has been filtered through Michael Todd, circa 1956. Ricky Nelson's "Travelin' Man" travelogue video (1961) is arguably as likely a deep-background hommage ("Pretty Polynesian baby..."). I somehow doubt that anyone connected with the Donna Summer video was making the passing-by-the-Sandwich-Islands=Hawaii connection, assuming that they had read Verne's novel in the first place. But who can say what was in the producers' minds?
 
--Bill Jones
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