Re: A bottomless pit of plagiarism

Jerry Brown  <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

>
20,00 Leagues Under the Sea is a bit of an oddity in that Nemo is much
nastier than in the book, and the ending was changed so that Nemo died
despite surviving until "The Mysterious Island" book-wise. Imagine
that nowadays, where the norm is to leave an opening for sequels.

That's a Hollywood code thing.  Bad people have to come to a bad end at the
end of the movie.  You don't see so much of that today, except of course in
Disney films.

To counterbalance this, Disney did, of course, add some songs and
slapstick humour via Douglas and Lorre's supporting characters.

It was so sad to see Lorre in that film.  The end of a great actor,
reduced to playing this crap.
--scott


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