20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 Village Roadshow film)

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For the 1997 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea film by The Hallmark Channel, see 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 Hallmark film).

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1997 TV movie produced by Village Roadshow Pictures, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Contents

Cast

Events

Spoiler warning: The words below are about parts of the story or how it ends.

In this version:

The Nautilus has been sinking and damaging ships and is at first thought to be a giant narwhal.

The Nautilus gets its power by extracting the sun's heat from the sea water: this is impossible technology, and the movie wrongly calls it hydroelectricity.

Pierre Aronnax and Ned Land and Cabe Attucks fall off the USS Abraham Lincoln and are picked up by the Nautilus

Pierre Aronnax's father Thierry Aronnax is with the US naval party.

Nemo is setting an underwater domed city under the Atlantic south of West Africa. To avoid earthquake risks to it, he is first setting up a network of unferwater explosives to release all Earth's geotectonic tensions at once and thus ensure that no more build up for a long while. During this a Chinese-looking pearl diving girl accidentally activates one of these devices and the Nautilus rescues her in time.

Nemo has a daughter called Mara.

The US Navy finds where Nemo's base is by a concentrated area of sightings of the Nautilus. The USS Abraham Lincoln sails to the place.

At site, damage caused by Ned Land, and torpedoes fired downwards by the Abraham Lincoln, force the Nautilus to surface. The Nautilus's crew come out on deck and are not rescued or captured but summarily machine-gunned by the Abraham Lincoln's Gatling guns. Mara and some others escape in one of the Nautilus's diving bells. Pierre Aronnax and Ned Land and Cabe Attucks get onboard the Abraham Lincoln. A US naval man boards the Nautilus and shoots Nemo and another survivor on sight. Nemo, before dying, activates a switch which makes the Nautilus explode.

Pierre Aronnax's account of these events finds its way to Jules Verne, who uses it as a basis for his novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

References

External links

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at the Internet Movie Database

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