20000 Leagues Under the Sea story
A film adaptation of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.
13 total · 6 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human vs. captivity | major | Arronax, Ned Land, and Conseil were held captive aboard the Nautilus by Nemo. |
| misanthropy | major | Nemo harbored a deem resentment of humankind, and sunk ships with his submarine when the opportunity arose. |
| science for war or peace | major | Nemo was against sharing his revolutionary energy production technology with humankind for fear it would be used for war. |
| speculative submarine | major | Nemo built a super high-tech submarine to explore the ocean depths among other things. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | Nemo hated humankind over having been treated with inhumanity in his early life (also his wive and child had been murdered), and he sought ought vengeance. |
| voyage under the sea | major | Nemo and Arronax explored the ocean depths together in the high-tech submarine the Nautilis. |
| coping with bad cooking | minor | Ned Land was disgusted by the delicacies from the sea that Nemo had had prepared for him. |
| cryptid | minor | The US government organized a naval expedition to investigate reports of a sea monster. |
| greed for riches | minor | Ned Land put his life at risk to make his way off the submarine with treasure that Nemo was using as ballast. |
| human vs. beast | minor | The US government sends a naval expedition to destroy a supposed sea monster that turned out to be Nemo's submarine. Also there was a battle with a giant squid and a tense encounter with a shark. |