My Dad and I used to watch this movie every year, like many other great movies, however now since my Dad passed away I can't enjoy movies anymore I can only think of the sad music at 13:30 very sad. I'm very glad for you all that can still enjoy it ,, enjoy it as much as you can.
Thank you for sharing. My daughter and I enjoy movies too,so I understand. It's going to be ok.Prayers for you that you will find joy again and have faith. I know you will see your dad again......
Robert Corbell How about one to hold on to the Nautilus, one to hold on to James Mason and eight for the computers? I think you're right though, Good Catch!
Nemo was the true hero of the story. Land and the others were frozen in a time when they couldn't see the future, or even imagine that it was coming. It was a sad thing to see the harbinger of things to come killed because of contact with the world of the present.
Magnificent masterpiece! At the time of production of this marvelous movie, people simply believed in the progress of science and the new discoveries accompanying thereto. Good, old happy days!
All of the True Disney Classics were made under the Leadership of Walt Disney . The vast majority of these Films would not be made by Disney today . Thank Goodness for Walt .
10:45 What plays in the heads of aliens when Cletus and his buddies show up with their shotguns and pickups. Also, my favorite scene in the book and film growing up.
My favorite piece. Great music has come from films. Warsaw Concerto comes to mind. These pieces rival the most respected classical music in the world or surpasses it.
The movie was simply grand, and for me this production and Mary Poppins were the Disney Studio at its zenith. Everything was just so-- writing, cinematography, cast, music, costumes, sets. You couldn't ask for better fantasy entertainment that a family could enjoy together. Today that's a rare thing in cinema, from what I understand.
This is fantastic! i've been looking for this films soundtrack since i saw it a few years ago. My only problem is that it doesn't have the music from the undersea funeral. That is the motiff i remember most vividly, aside from the two main ones.
This movie is one of those rare instances where I prefer the movie over the original source material. The Jules Verne novel was good, but a completely different animal from the Disney movie. The JV novel seemed like a bunch of random episodes not necessarily tying together. I felt as though I was reading a marine biology textbook half the time, since all the animal names are in Latin. Every 5 minutes I'd have to Google whatever it was I saw on the page, which got kind of annoying, but I digress. I like *most* of the changes Disney added: the redesign of the Nautilus, Nemo's backstory, etc. IIRC, the novel does not give very much info about Nemo himself. I would love if Disney produced a series about a young Nemo, and how he became the Captain we saw in the 20K movie (i.e. his young life, getting married, getting captured and forced to work slave labor, his family dying, escaping and finding the island of Vulcania, constructing the Nautilus, etc.)
The trip to New Guinea and the angry Asmat warriors (the tribe of cannibals and headhunters) was always my favorite part of both the novel and the film.
Irwin Allen was inspired by the new atomic powered submarines of the 1950's, such as the USS Nautilus and the USS Triton. The Nautilus has recently sailed under the North Pole from the Pacific to the Atlantic and the Triton had circumnavigated the world while submerged. (Except they had to surface for a short while to take a sick crewman off who needed medical care that couldn't be treated on the sub).
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A wonderful movie with music that is not among its outstanding features. Not bad, but nothing distinctive, either. Many fine movies have scores that serve the need without really standing out musically. This is one of those. Someone wondered what Bernard Herrmann would have done with this - indeed!
mikesmovingimages I have heard this assessment before however I have the full score and know well and Smith uses a number of highly complex musical cues throughout. For example during squid sequence as Ned throws the final and successful harpoon the score switches from ”Nemo’s Theme” to ”A Whale of a Tale” as the two crescendo together before switching back. This type of detail is not found in all soundtrack.
If you really want to know what a Bernard Herrmann score would have sounded like for this film it's easy enough to find out. Just RU-vid the score for Mysterious Island.....Nemo's there.....quite different but pretty cool too, with Herrmann's own sense of science and technology natural majesty.
@@Russell_Huston Thanks for the tip. I looked up Fred's suite for Mysterious Island. Herrmann's richer, far more interesting music better matches the production values of Disney's movie. Intriguing to imagine this movie with a score like that.
@@mikesmovingimages I think both the scores we're talking about are interesting. You can tell the Myst. Island score is from the same guy who wrote for Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho. Spectacular in parts but also kind of stark and cold, a little bit unfriendly. That's why I like Paul Smith's score better specifically for Disney's 20K leagues. It's warmer, lusher and while definitely sad where it needs to be (Nemo's epilogue and the Nautilus sinks) it fills the watchers mind with impressions of an underwater wonderland garden, like walking through an Eden beneath the waves. (all you need is a mermaid to share it with!) It reflects Nemo's vision of the underwater world as Paradise. "Look how peaceful" he says, looking out the lounge window.
Albert Mesa Yes, but nuclear energy rather than solar power. Captain Nemo couldn't risk leaving the Nautilus lying exposed on the ocean's surface for hours while charging its batteries.
Nemo operates super advanced weapons technology; he has surrounded himself by uniformed, fanatically loyal followers; he is the supreme authority of Vulcania; his submarine sinks ships, especially warships, of various countries; he makes an enigmatic reference to "that hated nation" responsible for Rorapenthe, an island of white-skinned slaves; he zaps uninvited Africans coming aboard "Nautilus" to everyone's amusement; he loves German, classical music; gold is less important to him than his "new way of life"; Ned says the Captain is insane; the outside world unites to destroy Nemo, who prefers to die amid his own creation, surrounded by his suicidal associates; Vulcania is obliterated by a series of immense explosions. Now, what historical figure does Nemo most resemble?
Blimey. A bodacious soundtrack. What would I excise from the movie? Maybe Kirk Douglas's singing solo. Maybe the stupid pet seal. The ending bothered me as a kid. So did Nemo's antiheroism. I get it now. They got that part right.
SlickVega Hello! For looking for soundtracks and all kinds of releases, visit soundtrackcollector.com . Anything is listed there! There are indeed no LP recordings of this score, except a Disneyland LP with narration and a 45RPM with two songs, sung by Kirk Douglas. All the best! :-) Fred
