Around The World 80 Days Movie
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Okay, let's see what we've got here; a new movie version of 'Around the World in 80 Days' with Steve Coogan as Phileas Fogg. And one in which the top billing goes to the actor playing Passepartout. This should not work - but it turns out to be Jackie Chan's best American movie to date (admittedly the closest competition is 'Rush Hour,' but it's still an achievement), and it almost doesn't matter that he's the one playing Passepartout. The plot's been given some changing by the three credited writers (all of whom, curiously enough, are called David) - in every other version, including the Australian cartoon and the one with Willy Fog, our hero was a very English gentleman off around the world on a gentlemanly bet; this time Fogg is a man of a scientific, visionary bent who's challenged by the head of the Royal Academy of Science (Jim Broadbent) to travel the world in 80 days or never invent again (money is not a temptation here). The comedy is marked up here, both slapstick - like a fight between Chan and the Chinese pursuing him in an art gallery which results in their creating a painting - and more seamy (like Fogg dressing in woman's clothing and indicating he may have a taste for it) - but it's a tribute to Coogan's ability as a comic performer and an actor that he never truly comes across as a buffoon, more like an eccentric yet sincere genius. Such restraint isn't so clear elsewhere, especially with Ewen Bremner's Fix - along with the cameo from Rob Schneider, the most clear sight that this was from the director of 'The Waterboy.' Fortunately, like that movie, it's also very funny and attention-holding; like the most famous film version with David Niven, the movie's laden with cameos (most of which don't really add anything to the movie, apart from Arnold Schwarzenegger's hilarious turn as a prince, the Wilson brothers as the Wright brothers, and Kathy Bates as Queen Victoria - I mean, really, did we need Macy Gray to be there?), and Fogg's love interest here is a French artist (lovely Lucy from 'Twin Peaks' lookalike Cecile de France) instead of an Indian princess.
The movie does neglect the chance for a tense climax offered by the original book, the special effects by Rhythm & Hues, Jim Henson's Creature Shop et al are uneven and sometimes glaringly bad, and I can only blame the fact that Walt Disney Pictures has the North American rights for the decision to have the Baha Men (gak!) sing 'It's A Small World' (double gak!) over the end credits when more of Trevor Jones's score would have been better. But Coogan and Chan make a fun and winning team, it's speedy and colourful, and the movie's got all the fun and action notably lacking in the likes of 'Troy' and 'Thunderbirds.' Essentially, this really is one for the whole family - the kind of thing Hallmark used to be so good at making for television before 'The Snow Queen,' 'Dinotopia' and other sleep-inducers.
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Still from the 1956 film adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days, starring (from left) Robert Newton as Inspector Fix, David Niven as Phileas Fogg, and Shirley MacLaine as Aouda. Courtesy of United Artists Corporation SummaryPhileas Fogg, a gentleman of and unchanging habits, hires as his valet Jean Passepartout, a Frenchman who has had a variety of jobs, including performer, but now seeks a tranquil life. After reading in that a new in has made it theoretically possible to travel around the world in 80 days, Fogg bets his fellow members at the Reform Club that he will make that journey in 80 days or less; the wager is for the princely sum of £20,000 (half his fortune). Leaving that night, Fogg and a nonplussed Passepartout board a train bound for and to begin their journey.Shortly before Fogg’s departure, someone resembling him had robbed a bank, and Fogg’s sudden exit leads to believe that he was the bank robber.
Accordingly, a detective, Mr. Fix, is sent to, in British-ruled, to await the steamer Mongolia, on which Fogg and Passepartout are traveling. Fix befriends Passpartout, and, after learning that they will take the steamer to, he buys a ticket and joins them. The Mongolia reaches Bombay before the arrival of an arrest warrant, however. During the few hours before their planned departure for on the Great India Peninsula Railway, Passepartout visits a temple on, unaware that Christians are forbidden to enter and that shoes are not to be worn inside.
He is beaten by enraged priests and barely makes it to the train station on time. The train travels through India until stopping at the village of Kholby, where Fogg learns that, contrary to what was reported in the British press, the railroad is 50 miles (81 km) short of completion, and passengers are required to find their own way to to resume the train trip. Fogg purchases an and hires a man as elephant driver and guide.
The elephant-borne party later encounters a group of people preparing for an act of —the immolation of a widow on her husband’s funeral pyre. Fogg decides that they must rescue the young widow. Passepartout disguises himself as the body of the late rajah, and, as soon as the pyre is lit, he springs up and seizes the widow.
The party then flees before the ruse is discovered. They reach the railroad station in Allahabad and continue on their journey. In Hong Kong Passepartout attempts to secure cabins on a boat to and learns that its departure has been rescheduled for that evening.
Desperate to keep Fogg in Hong Kong until the warrant arrives, Fix tells Passepartout why he is following Fogg and offers to pay him to help delay Fogg’s departure. When Passepartout refuses, Fix drugs him with, preventing him from returning to Fogg.
As a result, Fogg misses the steamer. However, he finds another ship that will take them to, and he, Aouda, and Fix set sail.
In the meantime, Passepartout manages to stagger onto the ship for Yokohama.Passepartout arrives in Yokohama with no money and no idea where Fogg is. He joins a traveling circus, where Fogg, having caught a Yokohama-bound steamer from Shanghai, encounters him just in time for them all (including Fix) to board the steamer that will take them to. As has no jurisdiction in the, Fix is now as eager as the rest of them to get Fogg back to quickly. The group boards a train bound for.The train trip continues more or less uneventfully until it reaches Medicine Bow, Wyoming Territory, where a signalman tells them that the is too dilapidated to bear the weight of a train. However, the engineer believes that it might be possible to safely cross the bridge by going at top speed, and the plan works, with the bridge collapsing as soon as the train reaches the other side. In the train is attacked by a band of, who are on the point of winning the battle when Passepartout succeeds in uncoupling the train from its engine outside Fort Kearny, and the soldiers garrisoned there frighten the Sioux into leaving.
However, the Sioux capture Passepartout and two other passengers. Fogg rides to their rescue with a group of soldiers, but the recoupled train departs without them.Using a sail-powered, Fogg and the others travel over snow to, Nebraska, arriving just in time to board a train to.
From there they catch a train to, where they arrive 45 minutes after departure of the ship to England. Fogg finds an empty trading ship whose captain is willing to carry the group of four to,. After bribing the crew and imprisoning the captain, Fogg assumes control and sets course for, England. When a storm prevents the use of sails, the coal supply runs low. Fogg buys the ship from the captain and begins burning its wooden parts. As soon as they arrive in Liverpool, Fix arrests Fogg. Several hours later, though, Fix learns that another man was responsible for the bank robbery, and he releases Fogg, who orders a special train.
However, he arrives in London five minutes too late to win his wager.The following evening Fogg apologizes to Aouda for being unable to provide for her comfort as a result of losing the bet. She in turn proposes marriage to him, and he joyfully agrees. Passepartout is sent to engage a clergyman, and he learns that their journey through the time zones had gained them a day and that they are not too late after all.
He rushes back to notify Fogg, who arrives at the Reform Club with only moments to spare. Response and adaptationsThe richness and poetry of Around the World in Eighty Days, together with the lively narrative, won Verne worldwide renown and was a fantastic success for the times, setting new sales records, with translations in English, Russian, Italian, and Spanish appearing soon after it was published in book form. An 1874 stage version, written by Verne and French playwright Adolphe d’Ennery, was also wildly successful and ran for several decades. The novel inspired numerous attempts to travel around the world in 80 days or less, most notably by American journalist in 1889–90. The best-known film version, (1956), starred, and and won the for best picture.