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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom,rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: A bottomless pit of plagiarism
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:32:19 -0400 (EDT)
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Jerry Brown  <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>
>20,00 Leagues Under the Sea is a bit of an oddity in that Nemo is much
>nastier than in the book, and the ending was changed so that Nemo died
>despite surviving until "The Mysterious Island" book-wise. Imagine
>that nowadays, where the norm is to leave an opening for sequels.

That's a Hollywood code thing.  Bad people have to come to a bad end at the
end of the movie.  You don't see so much of that today, except of course in
Disney films.

>To counterbalance this, Disney did, of course, add some songs and
>slapstick humour via Douglas and Lorre's supporting characters.

It was so sad to see Lorre in that film.  The end of a great actor, 
reduced to playing this crap.
--scott


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