As the next page reveals, this is just the begin of a whole wave of ships from all kinds of different navies! They are all actively hunting the Nautilus II!
So does this mean that submarines can't really communicate while being submerged??
Huh.
I didn't know that.
(Seems Tom Clancy I am not...)
So yeah, let's go with the floating wire explanation...
(I mean, that sub was designed by a team Babette was part of, so they likely found some ingenious solution...)
Yes exactly, the ship's name is indeed supposed to be a "War of the Worlds" reference!! :-D
(Thus mixing H.G. Wells with Jules Verne, since this chapter overall is based upon 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea...)
Of course there also was: "Lashing ropes and smashing timbers
Flashing Heat Rays pierced the deck
Dashing hopes for our deliverance
As we watched the sinking wreck
With the smoke of battle clearing
Over graves in waves defiled
Slowly disappearing
Farewell Thunder Child!
Slowly disappearing
Farewell Thunder Child! [Repeat x 2]
When the smoke had cleared, the little steamer had reached the misty horizon,
And Carrie was safe
But the Thunder Child had vanished forever,
Taking with her man's last hope of victory
The leaden sky was lit by green flashes, cylinder following cylinder,
And no one and nothing was left now to fight them
The Earth belong to the Martians. "
But, it still stood no chance against Orson Welles.
The musical is a basic standard in every album collection. Despite some notable musicians, too much "pop" for my taste (although not so bad as most other musicals.), while the infamous Orson Welles radioplay is still haunting today - at least the first "realistic" part.
For Verne, well, just Zeman and Zeman again.
Ah yes, I remember Zeman getting mentioned in the "obscure movies & TV-shows" thread!
I think I may have glimpsed one of his Verne-related works in TV once - but his Reise in die Urwelt/Urzeit (or Journey to the Beginning of Time in English, or of course Cesta do pravěku in the original Czech) is one of my all time favorites!!
OK, yesterday I watched Erfindung des Verderbens and Burg in den Karparten...
Erfindung the Verderbens:
Everything being in this "copperplate engravings" style, as if those illustrations in Verne's books came to life, that was really awesome!
It was also vaguely familiar, so this may have actually been the movie I glimpsed on TV once. (However, I also remember certain elements that I didn't see in yesterday's movie. But maybe my memory simply is mixing several movies together...)
Burg in den Karpaten:
This one went for a more humorous tone, it was quite funny.
I didn't know this particular story (neither the book nor any adaption of it), but I know that the handful of famous stories that get adapted over and over again are just the tip of the iceberg of what Jules Verne wrote. (The Roman numerals are barely readable, but in the next page, my character is supposed to have al 54 of Verne's Voyages extraordinaires in his book shelf.)
The original story "Burg In Den Karpaten" is even quite close to the one told in the movie, except for the funny parts. But it alread has the "video machine" part, were lifelike animations revive the dead singer. (Similar ideas in Robida and Kraft about the same time, the latter one even using an interactive mode to change directions in a "driving" ship.) The only really humoresque story of Verne I read is the one were the professor "poisons" the lethargic inhabitants of a sleepy village with oxygene as an experiment. I forgot it's name, something like "professors xy's experiment".
The accuracy of Verne's predictions regarding future inventions can be quite astonishing sometimes!
(Which, it seems, can thus make it easy for 20th/21st century movie makers, because in order to represent those inventions, they can simply use the tech that actually exists...)
Her name doesn't get mentioned anywhere, but if it had, she would be Mrs. Notuhura. ;-D
Huh.
I didn't know that.
(Seems Tom Clancy I am not...)
So yeah, let's go with the floating wire explanation...
(I mean, that sub was designed by a team Babette was part of, so they likely found some ingenious solution...)
(Thus mixing H.G. Wells with Jules Verne, since this chapter overall is based upon 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea...)
"Lashing ropes and smashing timbers
Flashing Heat Rays pierced the deck
Dashing hopes for our deliverance
As we watched the sinking wreck
With the smoke of battle clearing
Over graves in waves defiled
Slowly disappearing
Farewell Thunder Child!
Slowly disappearing
Farewell Thunder Child! [Repeat x 2]
When the smoke had cleared, the little steamer had reached the misty horizon,
And Carrie was safe
But the Thunder Child had vanished forever,
Taking with her man's last hope of victory
The leaden sky was lit by green flashes, cylinder following cylinder,
And no one and nothing was left now to fight them
The Earth belong to the Martians. "
But, it still stood no chance against Orson Welles.
For Verne, well, just Zeman and Zeman again.
I think I may have glimpsed one of his Verne-related works in TV once - but his Reise in die Urwelt/Urzeit (or Journey to the Beginning of Time in English, or of course Cesta do pravěku in the original Czech) is one of my all time favorites!!
The next best Verne adaption was not Zeman, but czech, too, a filming of Verne's very interesting, but often overlooked "Burg In Den Karpaten".
Erfindung the Verderbens:
Everything being in this "copperplate engravings" style, as if those illustrations in Verne's books came to life, that was really awesome!
It was also vaguely familiar, so this may have actually been the movie I glimpsed on TV once. (However, I also remember certain elements that I didn't see in yesterday's movie. But maybe my memory simply is mixing several movies together...)
Burg in den Karpaten:
This one went for a more humorous tone, it was quite funny.
I didn't know this particular story (neither the book nor any adaption of it), but I know that the handful of famous stories that get adapted over and over again are just the tip of the iceberg of what Jules Verne wrote. (The Roman numerals are barely readable, but in the next page, my character is supposed to have al 54 of Verne's Voyages extraordinaires in his book shelf.)
(Which, it seems, can thus make it easy for 20th/21st century movie makers, because in order to represent those inventions, they can simply use the tech that actually exists...)