The Fabulous World of Jules Verne

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne Czech Vynlez zkzy , literally The Deadly Invention or An Invention for Destruction is a 1958 Czechoslovak adventure film directed by Karel Zeman. Based on several works by Jules Verne, primarily his 1896 novel Facing the Flag, the film evokes the original illustrations for Vernes works by combining live actors with various forms of animation.

The main literary source material for Vynlez zkzy was Vernes 1896 novel Facing the Flag. Zeman also drew on themes and concepts from other Verne novels for example, the undersea sequences include references to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and the aircraft Albatross from Robur the Conqueror also makes an appearance. Another Verne novel, The Mysterious Island, may also have supplied some details. Rather than a straightforward literal adaptation of Facing the Flag, Zeman conceived the film as if the story had been rewritten by one of the books characters, the young engineer Simon Hart. The presence within Facing the Flag of many memorable Vernian motifsincluding submarines, volcanoes, mysterious figures in possession of powerful technologies, and other themes and ideasfacilitated Zemans process of letting elements of other Verne novels shape the adaptation.The film also pays tribute to the style of the pioneering early filmmaker Georges Mlis. Zeman likely saw Mliss work at the Czech National Film Archive in Prague, where handcolored prints were available of The Impossible Voyage 1904, The Witch 1906, and The Diabolic Tenant 1909. Zeman freely used details from Mliss style as inspiration for example, the pistonpowered steam engine and submarine in Vynlez zkzy are creatively adapted variants of those in The Impossible Voyage. Other possible cinematic sources include Fritz Langs 1927 film Metropolis, Sergei Eisensteins 1925 film Battleship Potemkin, and possibly even Stuart Patons 1916 version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. ........

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