Labor Day and many leagues under the sea
Sep. 6th, 2010 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sergebroomToday being Labor Day, from 6:30am until 10:30am I weeded and weeded the backyard until the sun became too hot. I probably have 4 more hours left before I’m thru with this monsoon-induced eyesore. After taking a much needed shower, and after writing a maybe-not-much-needed future entry for my blog, I watched the DVD (graciously lent by local fan Patricia Rogers) of 1916’s ”20,000 Leagues under the Sea”.
At first, it begins like a condensed version version of Verne’s novel. After Arronax and others are rescued by Santa Claus…
I mean… after they are rescued by Captain Nemo, the action shifts to Union soldiers who escape from a prison of the South in a balloon until they crash on a Mysterious Island where they find, not giant crabs, but a Child of Nature.
The action shifts back to the Nautilus, which just happens to be cruising by. Feeling in a good mood, Nemo secretly drops off a bunch of supplies that’ll make life a bit easier for the castaways. Later, a man shows up on the island. He is ravaged by guilt at having killed the wife of one Prince Daaker years before and at having left their very young daughter on the island after he was temporarily shipwrecked there. Yes, you can see where this is going. Nemo blows up the Bad Guy’s ship, we find out that he really is Prince Daaker, Nemo discovers that he young lady is his long-lost daughter, and, after a tear-filled reunion and a long flashback explaining everything, Nemo kicks the bucket, his heart finally giving out from the weight of all the story coincidences piled upon it.
On tonight's program, our DVD of Joshua Logan’s 1955 ”Picnic”, starring William Holden & Kim Novak.
At first, it begins like a condensed version version of Verne’s novel. After Arronax and others are rescued by Santa Claus…
I mean… after they are rescued by Captain Nemo, the action shifts to Union soldiers who escape from a prison of the South in a balloon until they crash on a Mysterious Island where they find, not giant crabs, but a Child of Nature.
The action shifts back to the Nautilus, which just happens to be cruising by. Feeling in a good mood, Nemo secretly drops off a bunch of supplies that’ll make life a bit easier for the castaways. Later, a man shows up on the island. He is ravaged by guilt at having killed the wife of one Prince Daaker years before and at having left their very young daughter on the island after he was temporarily shipwrecked there. Yes, you can see where this is going. Nemo blows up the Bad Guy’s ship, we find out that he really is Prince Daaker, Nemo discovers that he young lady is his long-lost daughter, and, after a tear-filled reunion and a long flashback explaining everything, Nemo kicks the bucket, his heart finally giving out from the weight of all the story coincidences piled upon it.
On tonight's program, our DVD of Joshua Logan’s 1955 ”Picnic”, starring William Holden & Kim Novak.
