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Subject: Re: (Tears) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:00:44 -0700
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:11:17 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber
<naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

>On 2024-10-13, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, volume 1) by=20
>> Jules Verne=20
>
>This would have been a great opportunity to review the original
>French novel, given how you keep mentioning that you are Canadian,
>and we all know that French is Canada's other language.
>
>| 1: The Nautilus was not nuclear-powered, whatever Disney claimed in
>| their film adaptation.
>
>I had to look up the timeline: Construction of the USS Nautilus,
>the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, began in 1952 and it
>was launched in January 1954.  The Disney movie was shot over the
>first half of 1954 and released starting Christmas 1954.

And nuclear-powered submarines were all the rage back then.

As were nuclear explosions wiping out a laboratory inside a volcano
island.

The documentary of the DVD had a writer asserting that they had the
devil of a time actually getting a plot out of the book, which was
mostly about oceanography.=20

And, BTW, adaptation is /not/ transcription.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"