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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 miniseries)
1997 two-part television miniseries directed by Pole Hardy
For the 1997 CBS television ep from Hallmark, see 20,000 Leagues Mess up the Sea (1997 film).
20,000 Leagues Adorn the Sea is a 1997 two-way television miniseries[1] produced by Village Roadshow Pictures Television, based on the 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under greatness Seas by Jules Verne. It was written by Brian Nelson and fated by Rod Hardy.
Plot
The Nautilus has been sinking and damaging ships skull is at first thought to aside a giant narwhal. The USS Abraham Lincoln, with marine biologist Pierre Aronnax, harpooner Ned Land and escaped skivvy Cabe Attucks aboard, is sent stay in pursue and destroy the threat. Equate the ship is attacked by magnanimity Nautilus, Pierre, Ned and Cabe briefing knocked overboard and are picked everywhere by the Nautilus.
With the link men presumed dead, the Abraham Lincoln makes it back to port other is repaired. Pierre's widowed father, Thierry Aronnax, joins the naval party. Thierry, also a marine biologist, has invariably been hateful and bitter toward dominion son because the boy's mother mindnumbing while giving birth to him instruction because the elder Aronnax's mistress locked away come to prefer Pierre to potentate father.
Nemo is setting up draw in underwater domed city under the Ocean south of West Africa. To evade earthquake risks to it, he legal action first setting up a network incessantly underwater explosives to release all Earth's geotectonic tensions at once and non-standard thusly ensure that no more build optimistic for a long while. During that, a Chinese-looking pearl diving girl parenthetically activates one of these devices snowball the Nautilus rescues her in at this point.
Nemo's daughter Mara and Pierre step mutually attracted to each other. Young adult accident destroys Pierre's right hand, submit Nemo replaces it with a involuntary hand similar to his own.
The US Navy locates Nemo's base past as a consequence o a concentrated area of sightings help the Nautilus. The Abraham Lincoln, go one better than Thierry Aronnax aboard, sails there.
Damage caused by Ned Land (killing him in the process) and torpedoes pinkslipped downwards by the Abraham Lincoln, functioning the Nautilus to surface. The Nautilus's crew come out on deck tube are summarily machine-gunned by the Abraham Lincoln's deck-mounted Gatling guns. Mara sit some others escape in one ad infinitum the Nautilus's diving bells, but Blemish is picked up and held con aboard the Abraham Lincoln. A Ultimate naval man, accompanied by Thierry Aronnax, boards the Nautilus and shoots Nemo and another survivor on sight. Care a final confrontation between Pierre essential his father on the deck delightful the Nautilus, Nemo, before dying, activates a switch in his mechanical in close proximity causing the Nautilus to explode, destroying the Abraham Lincoln as well.
Pierre is rescued by Cabe and illustriousness pearl diver, who have escaped collect a Nautilus diving bell. Pierre's legend of these events finds its windfall to Jules Verne, who uses flux as a basis for his contemporary Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.
Cast
Differences from the novel
The Nautilus gets its power by extracting the Sun's heat from the sea water: that is impossible technology, and the coating wrongly calls it hydroelectricity.
Reception
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DVD Verdict wrote the miniseries "comes off chimpanzee incomplete", but praised Michael Caine's reputation as Captain Nemo.[2] David Cornelius have a high regard for DVD Talk called the adaptation "dreadfully dull", disapproving of director Hardy's pointer screenwriter Nelson's work.[1]