20000 Leagues Under The Sea - Tumblr Posts
Bookish people from tumblr, what is the best classic book you have ever read. I am making a list now that my love for those came back.
i talk at length about it in my video essay i'm working on, but without spoiling too much about that and/or the book itself, this bit in 20k is why the book NEEDS aronnax as the narrator. aronnax isn't just A sheltered white european academic, he's Symbolic Of sheltered white european academics. for all his talk about logic and science and being above emotion, he's still completely overtaken by victorian concepts of race, colonialism, and eurocentrism. and again without spoiling everything, nemo is driven by his incredibly complex relation/opposition to exactly that, and exactly the type of person aronnax is and represents. for how close they are the rest of the time, chapters like these force aronnax to show his hand and reveal why he can never truly meet nemo where he is.
too early to make assumptions, but the fact that disney is rewriting captain nemo's backstory in their upcoming series so he steals his submarine from the english instead of building it himself feels gross to me
If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading
HELLO DOWN THERE (Dir: Jack Arnold, 1969).
Frank Miller (Tony Randall) and his family must spend 30 days in a prototype house located 90 feet below the surface of the ocean, or Frank loses his job. In tow are his daughter's fiance and brother who along with the Miller kids make up the bubblegum pop quartet Harold and the Hang-Ups.
Read the full review on my blog JINGLE BONES MOVIE TIME! Link below.
Media I like that's set on submarines
The Abyss
The Hunt For Red October
Subnautica (mainly mid/late game)
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Alien (I know it's a space ship, but it has the same vibes)
As someone with adhd, this passage feels like a warm hug