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Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 comedy/adventure film based on Jules Verne's novel, Around the World in 80 Days. It stars Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan and Cecile de France. Download high resolution version (550x806, 151 KB)Around the World in 80 Days movie poster, deemed fair use This work is copyrighted. ...
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The film' is set in 19th century England and centers on Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), here reimagined as an eccentric inventor, and his efforts to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. During the trip he is accompanied by his Chinese valet Passepartout (Jackie Chan). Phileas Fogg is the main fictional character in the 1872 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. ...
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Plot summary
The film starts with a man (later known to be Lau Xing played by Jackie Chan), robbing and escaping from the Bank of England. To escape from the police, he becomes, under the name Passepartout (Pass-par-too), a servant to Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), a scientist trying to break the 50-mph speed barrier. After succeeding to do so, and managing to avoid the police, they head to the Royal Academy of Science. Here Fogg is insulted by other 'brilliant minds', in particular the bombastic Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent),who believes that everything worth discovering had already been discovered and there is no need for further progress. The bank robbery is also discussed. In his blind rage, Fogg says that he's glad the bank was robbed because it is outdated and says that the thief could be in China in little over a month, which interests Lau Xing. Fogg places a bet to see if it would be possible (as his calculations said) to travel around the world in 80 days. If he won, he would become Minister of Science in Lord Kelvin's place; if not, he would tear down his lab and never invent anything again. Headquarters Coordinates , , Governor Mervyn King Central Bank of United Kingdom Currency Pound Sterling ISO 4217 Code GBP Base borrowing rate 5. ...
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Passepartout and Phileas retreat to Phileas's home, where he mourns on his rash decision; yet Passepartout said that to bet on something he believed in made the bet in no way foolish. Without losing a moment, they take a carriage and leave London, after crossing with Inspector Fix (Ewen Bremner), who was hired to stop them from traveling around the world.
They then travel to Paris, where Passepartout must evade minions sent by the murderous female soldier General Fang, out after what he stole: the Jade Buddha, which is a sign of good fortune. She had given the Buddha to Lord Kelvin in exchange for military assistance in her enterprises to conquer Lau Xing's village. Pretending to take Phileas to a convention with Thomas Edison, Passepartout leads him instead to an Art School, where Phileas meets Monique (Cécile de France), a would-be Impressionist. Realising how busy his boss is, Passepartout fights the minions using every material available: canvas, brushes, buckets of paint, etc. Meanwhile Phileas and Monique discuss Monique's paintings of 'impossible things', such as dogs playing poker. Moments later, Phileas sees a painting of a man with wings. To make a machine that could allow men to fly was always Phileas's dream; he therefore feels touched. All of a sudden Passepartout returns and tells his boss that they are late. The two men, accompanied by Monique, depart in a hot-air balloon. Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb. ...
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They then travel to Turkey, where they are greeted by none other than Prince Hapi (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Here, they were entertained for some hours in a swimming pool. The Prince, having become infatuated with Monique and ordered her to stay as his seventh wife while the men were ordered to leave. The men leave, but blackmail Prince Hapi into releasing Monique, using a prized but apparently flimsy statue of the Prince as a bargaining counter. The statue is a parody of Rodin's The Thinker made to look like the Prince. The statue is ultimately destroyed, though the three travelers escape. Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): ) (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California. ...
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Lord Kelvin, hearing of all this and of the theft of the Jade Buddha, becomes angry; he is later contemptuous when he learns that Fogg has been involuntarily abetting a thief's escape. Using this as an excuse to delay Phileas, he and his aides order the British forces occupying India to arrest both men. William Thomson, Archbishop of York, has the same name as this man. ...
In India, Passepartout sees notice of the price on his head and warns his companions. Disguised as local women, they evade the police, but are attacked by General Fang's agents. Using Inspector Fix and a sextant as weapons, Phileas and Passepartout defeat their assailants and flee to China. A sextant is a measuring instrument generally used to measure the angle of elevation of a celestial object above the horizon. ...
Guided by knowledge of China, Passepartout leads his friends to a village, where they are happily greeted. They spend several days here, during which Phileas discovers that Passepartout is in fact Lau Xing, a local warrior, and that the repeated attacks by General Fang's militia, the Black Scorpions, are part of a power struggle centered around the Jade Buddha. Phileas is disappointed by this, and more so by the revelation that Monique has known the truth for many weeks. Black cat, thought by some to cause bad luck (see superstition) Black is the shade of objects that do not reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum. ...
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Later, the village is attacked by the Black Scorpions. Phileas, Monique, and Lau Xing are held captive. In the next morning, Lau Xing challenges the arrogant young leader of the group that has seized him to a fight. Lau Xing at first fights alone, and is defeated; moments later, he is joined by the members of the "Ten Tigers" fraternity, of whom he is one. The Tigers, though outnumbered, drive the Black Scorpions from their village and free the Westerners. The Jade Buddha is reinstated in the village's temple. Ten can refer to: 10, a number AD 10, a year 10 BC, a year 10, a 1979 motion picture Ten, any one of a number of rock albums Network Ten, an Australian television network Trans-European Networks (TEN) Total Entertainment Network, an early-1990s attempt at an online server...
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Phileas now desires to continue alone, having been disappointed by his companions. He travels to San Francisco, where he is tricked out of his money. He attempts to replenish his supply with the aid of a beggar (Rob Schneider), but fails. He is recognized by Lau Xing and Monique, who have come to find him. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...
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It was in the desert that they found the Wright brothers (brothers Owen and Luke Wilson), and the 3 inventors discussed the flying machine. Taking a look at the plans (which Wilbur Wright claimed to be his silly brother's doing), Phileas found them brilliant and suggested a few mere changes (Wilbur says he was proud of his brother and had always believed in him). Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer. ...
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Lau Xing (still called Passepartout because of force of habit on the other people's part), Monique and Phileas' next stop was New York, where a massive crowd who had placed bets for against Phileas winning, greeted them and made it impossible for them to pass and reach their ship. A policeman allowed this to be possible, by taking them through a building he called a shortcut. Here more minions awaited them, ready for one last face-off. They made arrangements with Lord Kelvin to take Lau Xing's village and tap the jade reserves underneath it, but if Phileas wins the bet, Lord Kelvin will not have the means to help them.
A major battle between the three friends and General Fang and her minions started in the workshop where the statue of liberty was made, with Lau Xing using his skill to stop his enemies and the other two using luck. In the end the three friends were victorious, or so it seemed, as the minions had stalled them enough to make them lose their ship to England. Though Phileas could have gotten to the boat, he decides to miss it to help Lau Xing.
Phileas felt like he had lost, but the other two said they might still make it if they caught the next ship. Phileas knew the unlikelihood of this yet chose to carry on. The old ship was owned by a sailor who had lost both his nipples in an attack by a shark. Phileas told the captain they weren't going fast enough, and after a lot of talking, he managed to convince the captain to let him build a plane out of the old wood from the ship, in exchange for a new ship and a surgery to give him new nipples.
The building started and soon was over. Using the changed Wright brother's plans, Phileas built a machine that seemed to work. On it was Lau Xing (pedaling), Phileas (driving), and Monique (commenting). The machine was working fine and soon they reached London. Then, the machine began to fall apart and they had a crash-landing in front of the RAS. Lord Kelvin sends police to stop them from making it to their actual destination, the top step of the RAS, and the clock soon strikes noon, which is the time Phileas started.
Lord Kelvin proclaims himself the victor. Several people, such as Monique, Fix, and other ministers, begin attesting to Kelvin's unfair methods and his bullying nature, but Kelvin scoffs at them. However, in the process he insults the Queen of England, who is nearby listening. He was arrested.
Phileas is also lucky enough not to have lost the bet; he is one day early thanks to crossing the international date line, yet believed himself late because of an error on the part of Lau Xing. He ascends the stairs of the Academy and there embraces Monique, victorious in his bet.
Response Around the World in 80 Days was not very well received by film critics, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 31% "Rotten" rating [1]. It was criticised for having little to no resemblance to the novel it is based on and for its laboured attempts at comedy. With production costs of about US$ 110 million, and estimated marketing costs of $30 million, it earned US$ 24 million at the US box office, and US$ 72 million world wide.[2]. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Notes - Frank Coraci, who directed this film, makes a brief cameo appearance.
- In true Jackie Chan tradition the film includes a cameo by Sammo Hung. In this film, he briefly appears in the role of Wong Fei Hung, a real-life Chinese martial arts master of the period, who leads an equally legendary group of martial artists known as the Ten Tigers of Canton (Jackie's character being one of the ten).
- Many of Fogg's discoveries were from people such as Thomas Henry Huxley (dinosaurs), Charles Robert Darwin (evolution), Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot (automobiles), James Clerk Maxwell (radio waves) and Orville and Wilbur Wright (flying machines).
- This is the first live-action Walt Disney Pictures movie Chan has ever been in.
- Featured the first and only time Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger appear in a motion picture together. They would later appear in a 2005 advertisement against movie piracy.
- It was also the second film to feature Chan and Owen Wilson together with an appearance of Queen Victoria after Shanghai Knights.
- Many of the gaps between the different scenes (usually animations of the world) are very different and virtually impossible, such as a trip over the Himalayas and across the whole China in less than a month. This trip would have taken place on horse or on foot on poor roads and lasted much longer than 80 days alone. The route was changed from that described in the book. The entire nation of Japan is omitted.
- Particularly the last parts of the film contain an almost Monty Python style of humour. Not at all surprisingly John Cleese also appears near the end of the film as a London bobby.
- Around the World in 80 Days was produced in Super 35 mm film cinematographic format.
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- BBC Interview with Jackie Chan about Around the World in 80 Days
- Recap with Sarcasm at TarsTarkas.NET
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