Verne nemo9/15/2023 ![]() ![]() Initially, Verne’s narrative was influenced by the 1863 uprising of Poland against Tsarist Russia. She praised Verne’s two early novels Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), then added: “Soon I hope you’ll take us into the ocean depths, your characters traveling in diving equipment perfected by your science and your imagination.” Thus inspired, Verne created one of literature’s great rebels, a freedom fighter who plunged beneath the waves to wage a unique form of guerilla warfare. But the specific stimulus for this novel was an 1865 fan letter from a fellow writer, Madame George Sand. First as a Paris stockbroker, later as a celebrated author and yachtsman, he went on frequent voyages-to Britain, America, the Mediterranean. 126 years later, a Time cover story on deep-sea exploration made much the same admission: “We know more about Mars than we know about the oceans.” This reality begins to explain the dark power and otherworldly fascination of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.īorn in the French river town of Nantes, Verne had a lifelong passion for the sea. Jules Verne (1828-1905) published the French equivalents of these words in 1869, and little has changed since. “What goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the water? It’s almost beyond conjecture.” “The deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us,” admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel. The poor fellow was done for Introduction Portrait by Bertrand, engraved by Guillaumot In Latitude 47° 24’ and Longitude 17° 28’ The Mediterranean in Forty-Eight HoursĢ0. Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacificħ. Verne’s novel features a tour of the major oceans, and the term Leagues in its title is used as a measure not of depth but distance. This is accurately translated as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SEAS-rather than the SEA, as with many English editions. The French title of this novel is Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. The paintings of Illinois watercolorist Milo Winter (1888-1956) first appeared in a 1922 juvenile edition published by Rand McNally & Company. WalterĬopyright (C) 1999, Frederick Paul Walter.Ī complete, unabridged translation of Vingt mille lieues sous les mers by Jules Verne, based on the original French texts published in Paris by J. It's one of my favorite movies, and it's probably my best work."Īnd most importantly to me, Cage's response to whether or not he would do a Face/Off 2? A resounding "Yes.Translated from the Original French by F. The movie feels rather like a folk song to me or a poem, and the character of Rob was contending with tremendous grief and self imposed isolation and I think we as a group of people experiencing a pandemic in 2020-21 we’re probably also having similar feelings of loss and isolation and it communicated to a nerve we were all experiencing. I was interested in returning to a more quiet, naturalistic style of film performance, having done a series of more operatic performance styles. Cage started talking about the film when asked why he decided to do it and how it was different from a lot of his work. One of the turning points recently for Cage was his work in the Michael Sarnoski film Pig. I mean who makes a joke about cabbage, except him? It’s just not funny!" And it made me wonder if he was a method actor and was in character and adding a kind of confused dimension to the Javi role, or if he genuinely thought the cabbage was amusing. Such as comment about the appearance of a cabbage in a cabbage field. It’s the kind of sense of humor where I don’t know if he’s really making a joke or he isn’t making a joke. Second he has a very unique sense of humor. "You couldn’t ask for a nicer more pleasant person to work with. "First and foremost, Pedro Pascal is a genuinely nice man," he wrote. One of the questions he was asked was about working with co-star Pascal in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and any stories he'd like to share. The movie has been met with rave reviews and Cage took to Reddit's famed AMA to answer some questions from his fans about his work and his new movie. In The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Cage is portraying a fictionalized version of himself who goes to a birthday party for an eccentric millionaire who loves the actor named Javi (played by Pedro Pascal). Nicolas Cageis getting ready to play his toughest role yet: Nick Cage. ![]()
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