I have to admit that I read the book 15 years ago, so I won’t be able to correlate the series with the original source. But they feel like they are not far from each other. Although it is worth admitting that the heroes and their adventures have undergone strong changes.
Philias Fogg is an arrogant, self-taught inventor who has an idea. The idea is large-scale and difficult to implement. How do you go around the world in 80 days in Victorian England, where there are no planes, no cars, no high-speed trains? And now he's going to show us.
In the satellites he will take his new servant Passparta and a girl named Abigail Figgs. As usual, they have their own interests to participate in this crazy enterprise.
From the very first series, the creators took a serious tone. I don't remember the characters being exposed to such serious dangers in the book, and certainly not in the 2004 film. Further, the intensity of passions does not decrease, giving the heroes a reason to reveal themselves, subjecting them to trials from which they must come out victorious, because this is their duty to each other and themselves. They face another French revolution, the Klan, and a direct threat to their lives and even values.
The character of Fogg, quite unambiguous in the book, in this adaptation does not pull at all on the typical Englishman. He is no longer just a picky, ambitious and non-poor gentleman, he is an adventurer. He has a long-held dream and hidden ambitions, he has accomplices who sincerely empathize with him in his quest to win the argument at all costs. Which, about the middle of the series, will take on high meaning and become a matter of honor, not just a bet on money.
An enterprising journalist, tired of the complaints of her eminent father, Abigail Figgs will go with him purely out of principle and a thirst for adventure. She needs to prove her worth as a professional journalist in front of her father and his newspaper. It will help, unwittingly, to reveal Fogg as a sensitive and virtuous person.
A Frenchman who fled his homeland in search of other adventures. This time he runs away from the new shelter after Fogg. In this adventure, even he experiences an unprecedented experience, sometimes traumatic. That's his life - to do things and dump in new places. He has already visited many countries, he has various skills, he is far from stupid, he knows several languages. And what turned out to be the most important thing for Fogg – he is committed to the idea.
I really liked the music, as if counting seconds. I liked the light steampunk raid. I liked the story, of course. Actors, costumes and scenery were on top. I really liked the modernity and relevance of the series. You can spit all you want from the destruction of gender attitudes and the rejection of racism, but time does not stand still. It takes courage and determination, like Philias Fogg and his companions, to move progress forward.
Decided to somehow British aristocrat, a determined suffragette and a black adventurer to circumnavigate the world in 80 days.
Sounds like a joke, right? This is how the series begins.
Positioning itself as an adaptation of Jules Verne's famous novel Around the World in 80 Days, the series ultimately has little to do with the original. In fact, the similarity of the two works is limited to the general concept and names of the main characters (and then not completely). In the book, the main character, Philleas Fogg, was a man mysterious, intelligent, brave, calculating and extremely noble. In the series, we have a miserable sight. Serial Philleas is a pathetic, completely incompetent, cowardly and completely devoid of reason person who only by miracle and thanks to his incredible luck manages to get out of difficult situations over and over again. His future wife, Auda, whom he and Passepartu saved in India from a terrible death, is completely cut from the series. Instead, we were given a single-minded and strong female journalist with questionable motivation, whose name I completely forgot 10 minutes after watching the final episode. In this series, there is not a drop of the atmosphere that was in the book. How the adaptation of the series completely failed.
What about historical authenticity? It's bad. One of the main problems of the series is that it, like many others before it, tries to show us the realities of today in the scenery of the 19th century, which looks unnatural and absolutely implausible to anyone who has even a little idea of the realities of the time.
I personally have no complaints about acting, directing, staging and scenery - everything is at a high level.
Conclusion: the series was not so bad if you consider it as a separate work. But for a person who has read the book and is even remotely familiar with the history of the 18th and 19th centuries, what happens on the screen will seem like a silly set of clichés of the modern Western agenda.
It looks easy, the work of the artists is very felt, the title musical theme turned out well. Even if you’re not familiar with the source, as I did before, this series is a great way to have a good time.
.. . The Scotsman in the role of the Englishman Fogg, the Malian in the role of the Frenchman Passpartoux and the German in the role of Mr. Fix so memorable to the reader and viewer (namely ' German' and precisely 'Mr.'!). The one who always has a plan. Everything is mixed in the new series: events, times, people.
It’s called “Around the World in 80 Days.” And removed - as timidly the titles say! - based on the novel by Jules Verne! The one to violence over the creative heritage of which the world, in general, is already used. I don’t think it has anything to do with the original text. From the word "at all." The absolutely author’s plot is prosthetically prosthetic by the creators in the Veronovo-Etzelevsky plot with the skill of a modern dentist: whatever you have these teeth – down with rotten roots and insert new ones! Modern! Who all grind, mixing in eight-day eight-episode and Paris commune (however Verne himself did not sympathize with her in his time!), and the uprising of the Sepoys (which he also quite worried), and a number of events, and indeed united though one nineteenth, but still - century! And mixing more cynical than a newly optimized school history textbook.
But it's not the same thing.
It's different. From the enthusiastic hymn of the value of scientific knowledge and human unbreakable perseverance, the authors made an absolutely modern, uncomplicated and primitive pathos hymn to racial tolerance and feminism. You could probably... It's time. Today, as in an old Soviet joke, like a machine gun made of parts for a baby stroller, a plot about blacks, lesbians and feminists is obtained from any basis. For some reason, there is nothing about the second. I watched carefully. Although...
And the great actor David Tennant... No, no, I don't think so. Definitely beautiful! But he clearly didn't read Verna. Or read. tormented with boredom, in childhood from under the stick, and all his life dreamed of the book and the author to take revenge by getting rid of Fogg. What he did with a special cynicism, portraying him as the most convincing white “creature without rights”: pathetic, cowardly, complex. And his hero is beaten in the process of film narration by anything: from the whip to the handbag. And he, poor, suffers so much, so much. It immediately becomes clear that the first forty years of growing up in a boy is indeed the most difficult. And for eight episodes, in front of an admiring viewer, the nominal protagonist grows up under the wise supervision of real ones: a Negro servant and an emancipated journalist. And in the end, suddenly emboldened and strengthened, he even stomps with a leg! More than once...
At the beginning of filming, one of the authors of the series still had a desire to at least start reading the original source. Because they suddenly realized that the real Fogg, contrary to the script, is not only intellectually self-reflective, but very resourceful and scientifically and technically savvy. And then he was given the opportunity to save a little boy, a victim of parental violence, moving the train on bare thin rails hanging over the collapsed bridge, something brilliantly calculated and boldly put forward a working hypothesis! But that's it. The rest of the series shows us that only women and blacks perform feats. Who else is actually capable of them? . .
And now it's important! Surprisingly, in fact, not all of the above is written.
The amazing thing is that I liked the film. Yeah, yeah. Just I resolutely rejected all the previous experience, laid to rest the rich inner world, and watched the movie undisturbed, so to speak, look.
And you know what I'm going to say?
And a good overall, spectacular movie came out! At a good full-length level, the picture, quite a rhythmic plot dynamics, the actors are much more skillful than many of our serial ones, and to them also the scenery, costumes, landscapes (not everywhere painted!) are competently attached ... And I swear to God, you can hear the words “I believe.” You just have to accept that this series is a separate work of art. Adventure. For children aged 30-50.
And old Verne could not have been harnessed at all. Although – a story with a bet and crossing the date line in this case would evoke the idea of plagiarism. And the authors, judging by the finale, started the franchise. And in turn - the same composition - 'Nautilus'!
If you forget the original source, this version looks good! And it is without looking at Verne that you should look at her. In no case, without sacrificing for the sake of watching sleep or skiing. But – flying on a plane, eating on a train, lying in the hospital (what the hell?) – you can. And even with pleasure. In the end, this is not the most shocking version of “80 days”: I remember a Japanese-Spanish cartoon with animals under the same name scared me much more.
It is just necessary to accept that the authors did not have an exposition, but an essay on a given topic, in which - about everything! For every taste. There is one series – Robinsonade, another series – Western, the third – Indian cinema, the fourth – detective. You can continue the list of genres exploited by authors up to 8.
Exactly in the number of series, in each of which at different crossroads of the planet, this insignificant world, loosely thrown out of crooked and hairy, but weak male hands, invariably save strong female!
And all this to the music of Hans Zimmer. It’s also a pretty good one.
I can’t say I was looking forward to this series. When I heard about the shooting, I did not pin any hopes on this project, without doubting only that the lead actor David Tennant would do a good acting job. The series I watched met my expectations. And I watched it with interest.
First of all, a slightly different image of Philias Fogg himself is striking. This character differs from the original book, and from previous film adaptations, where we were shown a little crazy, enterprising, optimistic looking at all the dangers of a person who challenges everyone and everything. In the new series, Fogg is less eccentric, but more fearful, prim and even vulnerable. On the one hand, the hero is far from the original, on the other hand, he is the most realistic. Before us is a true representative of a gentleman’s club, most of whose members have done little worthwhile in life, living, as a rule, on income from their possessions. The more unusual and dangerous it seems Fogg's act - a trip around the world. We believe that Mr. Fogg Jules Verna will be able to make the journey. Mr. Fogg from the new series makes a different impression, and we would never believe in him if we did not know the denouement of the book initially. This new image turned out not as before, but interesting and finished. Thank you, of course, to the actor.
Fogg's companions in the new series are also different from previous images. I can say that Passepartou, played by a black actor, did not surprise me at all. With the current trends, and, in general, with the modern racial situation in France and Europe, this decision, as they say, lay on the surface. And at first, it seemed that the color of the skin will not be accentuated in the film (like all modern historical films with African Europeans and African Americans). However, as the ending approached, the subject of race became more and more vocal. On the one hand, it took the film away from the original story, and on the other hand, such problems have always existed in America. The other issue is that blacks were also involved in the revolutionary events in France, and even though at the end of the 19th century, not the first generation of such people actually walked around the country, I do not think that their participation was so noticeable. However, in the series, this worked to reveal the image of Passepartout as a person who experienced a lot in life, but at the same time remained essentially a pacifist.
Female image, for many years invariably accompanying Fogg in the film adaptations & #39; Around the world ... & #39; also reflected modern trends. But only modern? We were shown in the image of Miss Fix a wilful girl, embarking on a journey for her own interests, abandoning the role prepared for her by society. Such women began to appear more and more at the time when the series takes place, and by the end of the 19th century, they wrote about the emancipation of women. So in this case, the desires of modern filmmakers coincided with the real phenomena of that time. Plus, Ms. Fix reflected the image of the same, not stopping at anything for the sake of good material, a journalist who, if he regrets that he offended someone, then after the case.
Against the background of his fellow travelers, Fogg looks weaker and gloomy. And it would seem why they need it. But no one canceled the funds and connections of the gentleman. Everyone traveled around the world to satisfy their own interests. But by the end of the way, the heroes almost completely got to know each other, which contributed to the birth of true friendship. And Philias Fogg was the true gentleman who was ready to endure hardship, insults and even rods for the sake of not only achieving the cherished goal, but also for the sake of others. For all the inadaptability of the main character to the world, he was really strong in spirit.
Heroes were placed in the atmosphere of the really last century, which is emphasized by a beautiful picture. The costumes and decorations are excellent. The distant motives of the book are interspersed with the desire to pay respect to the old writer. One of the characters of the series speaks practically in the words of Jules Verne, believing that humanity is capable of much, just progress has not yet reached the right moment. And all this fiction is no longer fiction. The same idea works and the episode with a balloon, and with a destroyed bridge.
The plot of the series is not so much action, little funny moments, but a lot of melodramatic and really sentimental moments. Some scenes are quite naive. I wanted to start with a neutral assessment. But once again reflecting on this project as a whole, I decided to evaluate it positively. In modern cinema and especially TV series, there are not many examples of kind, bright and relaxing films. Despite the fact that the characters are shown not at all ideal, but gradually coming to an understanding of true values. The original book is read without problems by teenagers, the film, perhaps, will be slow for them, but you need at least sometimes to take a break in the meaningless flow of information. Yes, we were shown the racial and feminist stereotypes of modernity. But that was all, and it was appropriate in those years. Minimum blood and violence, no jokes below the waist, hints on ' modern ' types of relationships and so on. In return, a good acting, a good picture, and a constant reminder of how important love for your brother, wife, bride, parents, children and your real friends is.
Davecha, I remember, scolded me ' Battalion' for the fact that there is the same historical consultant as in 'Admiral'. It's a good thing, but...
In the credits of this series, the historical consultant is not mentioned. Maybe it's a Western tradition, but I don't think there was any historical consultant. And if I did, I took my name off the credits and I understand it.
If I were asked to describe this series in one word, it would be 'nonsense'. Two - ' enchanting nonsense'. I have no other characteristics for the expensive and high-status British series with the Zimmer soundtrack for you.
All right, it's a subpoena in your teeth. There is one black man in the West, one progressive woman. It's not bad, and it's certainly not bad. Another bad thing: under these characters, the main one was destroyed, and the whole idea - along with him.
Fogg was the original Iron Man, a walking machine, a clockwork going from point A to point B, and his road was straight like a school corridor: the Frenchman Verne now ironized him, then admired him, because under the outer steel he had a kind and noble heart, and never once when there was a dilemma ' time or man' he chose not time, did not act against conscience - although losing his bet, he lost everything he had. No wonder he was portrayed as a lion in an old Spanish animated series, much more coincident with the original than the current craft, despite the fact that all the characters were anthropomorphic animals. And there was a hamster-in-the-bad, an eternal sacrifice that cannot be abandoned, for the characters of the beast - but only in a good way.
And even this hamster was much stronger than the main character of the current production. No, it's not a joke; yes, it's played by David Tennant, a stunningly charismatic actor who perfectly portrays the new Fogg, and I wish he hadn't. For the new Fogg is the king of drama, the whiner and the rag, the stupid nothing, the weak and the talentless. The funny thing is that if in the incorrect original, Fogg was followed, feeling the strength, will, reliable steel of an exemplary gentleman, then the current politically correct heroes trust their lives to a complete idiot who, if not for the willfulness of the writers, would quickly destroy themselves and others. And this discredits both the very convincing black Passepartu and the charming Annabel Fix - for several episodes they try to understand why they are following the awkward and arrogant jerk, who is here called Phileas Fogg, and so do not find a satisfactory answer. At some point, it turns out that the antagonist told Fogg never to travel anywhere - and he may be a scoundrel, but he's right about that. There are almost no things in this series that the original Fogg and the new would do the same – simply because the former was not clinically stupid.
It’s not just his problem, the series is clinically stupid. Verne did not have a capacity for drama, he took his excellent knowledge of the world in general and its physical side in particular. Of course, in some ways he fell victim to the delusions of his time - but still he was pathologically intelligent and calculating, and the deadline of 80 days is not a figure from the ceiling, it is a result that can be reached with the slight difficulties on the road, and in the original Fogg overcame these difficulties with the will of the icebreaker breaking the ice - because time was close. In the new adaptation, the team of travelers, firstly, loses time in the flat place in the style ' the old Fogg went flat, the new chose to cross the desert, wanting to show determination, which he does not have', secondly, they are wonderfully, incredibly lucky - and constantly.
This is the second major failure of the series: I don’t know what kind of universe the authors live in, but in this universe everyone who knows anything, including Verne, who wrote the novel 150 years ago, knows some simple truths. For example, the planner Fogg has never used a balloon on a trip - because it does not fly where you want, but where the wind blows, and if it blows in the opposite direction - you fly there. You can't just drop a lifeboat off a full-speed ship. If this lifeboat gets into a severe storm, it almost certainly sinks with the inhabitants, rather than throwing them on a desert island. Understanding of social reality has also rattled: a gentleman's word in 1872 weighed more than all the porn on your old hard drive. It opened doors, it gave guarantees, and a happy gentleman's status could be released by the police at his word; in the series, all this communism was corrected, so that Fogg suffers from the British administration - in reality, built so as to maximize the assistance of people like him. In half the collisions of the series, one word of a member of the reform club would be enough to settle everything in an instant - it is clear that the authors hate colonialism, however, instead of showing its unsightly rear side, they distort the front.
Well. I am not once a gentleman, I am a worker-peasant cattle, but old Fogg, with his old-fashioned generosity, will and dignity, commanded me unfailing respect. I am at least as familiar as the authors with the hidden plagues of good old England - but I would never dare to scold them in this way. You could take old Fogg and show him the other side of being on the way - of course, his noble heart would be on the side of the oppressed. You could make Phileas Phyllis and instantly turn a stubborn colonialist into a progressive feminist, almost without changing the author's text. It was best to transfer the action to our time, adding to the bet the condition ' no planes ' - and to give a stunningly interesting story about the trip of an Englishman through the Trans-Siberian Railway, then to the United States in a cargo container, then across the States on Route 66 ... The authors did not go any of these ways, they preferred to humiliate the main character, thereby humiliating his companions, urinating on the corpse of the deceased empire, simultaneously scoring on any historical and physical realities.
Say what you want about the cocky old Phileas Fogg, he would never do that. Like his father, the king is not lyricists, but physicists Jules Verne.
There seems to be a time when the endless revision of the past devours the revisionists themselves. I sincerely hope that there will be no second season and that showrunners Pharoah and Barron will finally get a wolf ticket; however, unlike Phileas Fogg, retribution is not always quick and unforgiving. We are probably waiting for a lot of expensive nonsense - however, when was it different in the dream factory?
But they make the habit of reading books relevant again. Jules Verne would be happy.
'Around the World in 80 Days' - spent budget and viewing time
The plot is known and understandable, the work of Mark Twain does not leave indifferent, but about this series this can not be said even with a stretch.
The cast is average, Stanislavsky would say about the acting: - 'I don't believe!'.
Cheap melodrama and poorly executed.
The whole film irritates Philias Fogg - a man of whining, who can do nothing himself, everything is done for him by a servant, all the main character can and does is say loud phrases and raise his voice if something goes wrong as he fantasized.
It is unlikely that the author of the work conceived his hero like this.
The girl does all the film that persuades him, soothes, cheers, etc. The two reasonable people in the movie are a girl and a servant, the protagonist is a total sucker.
The plot line is sucked out of the finger, the script is no, there is no intrigue, humor, too. In an adventure film, you want more dynamics and a change in the picture, there is not one or the other.
The most stupid film adaptation of an outstanding work.
The energetic trailer for the series Around the World in 80 Days gave hope for a new exciting British series from the BBC: a beautiful picture, David Tannath in the title role, the atmosphere of Victorian England and a story based on the novel by Jules Verne. What could have gone wrong? The trailer showed all the positive aspects of the series, but hid the tarspoon of the series - a bad script.
From the first series, one could see the clichéd Western problems with the black Passepartout, his black brother, the French revolutionary and the heroine of the first plan with the habits of modern feminists. All of this could be ignored if these clichés did not become the defining plot. Because of the boring script (in the adventure series!), the writers had to dilute the story with a sucked-out drama.
If you have ever watched bad Russian melodramas, you will understand how the narrative of this series is built: you will hear a dull melody every time someone tries to convince us that the cardboard character suffers from cardboard problems, ridiculous music will play at every ridiculous comedy moment, and the predictability of the plot will help you not strain your brain and calmly fall asleep under another boring series.
The worst thing is that the camera work, scenery and acting are very pleasing to the eye. It’s a shame that potentially cool projects are taken up by those people who, apparently, have read a lot about racial, gender and other discrimination, but they have heard about scripts only from Russian writers of cheap TV melodramas for grandmothers.
6 out of 10
In our age of spacewalks and private jets, it is elementary to forget that in the late nineteenth century, circumnavigating the world was extremely difficult. The new BBC adaptation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel of the same name is a perfect reminder of this. Around the World in 80 Days is set in a Victorian era full of huge steamers, powerful puffing steam locomotives and balloons. It's 1872 and the men are sitting in a London reform club tired of boredom. The air is filled with the musty smell of empire, but we are aware of the possibilities of the great expedition that will soon follow. In the new BBC version, Phileas Fogg is a still, silent figure. Before he decides to accept a £20,000 bet on a race around the world, he spends most of his time staring at his clubmates with a missing expression, as if his thoughts were endlessly elsewhere. David Tennant is a natural fit for the role of gentleman-adventurer Phileas Fogg, who has the inimitable wide-eyed poker face that made him such a fan favorite of Doctor Who. When he looks at a balloon, you can just believe he's seeing it for the first time, and when he insists on it flying "like a bird, like an angel," you'll probably notice nodding in delight. This makes the protagonist very cute, although a little frustrating in those moments when "too much talk, too little adventure."
Kamerdiner Passpartu (Ibrahim Coma) and Fix (Leony Benes) are Fogg's companions on the journey. Passepartu and Abigail Fix Fortescue are doing a tremendous job pushing Fogg into action. The two characters differ from their literary backgrounds: Passepartout's valet is now a persecuted French revolutionary, and Fix is a determined young journalist and the daughter of the kindly, extraordinarily progressive Daily Telegraph editor Jason Watkins in Fix's book, a Scotland Yard detective who secretly believes Fogg is the notorious bank robber. In the series, the villain is Fogg's friend, a member of the London Reform Club, Niall Bellamy, with whom Fogg enters into a fateful deal, where his journey begins, and played by Peter Sullivan in a delightfully oily manner. The route around the world is also changed: the first stop in France gives the opportunity to get acquainted with the past of Passepartout. The plot does look worse in terms of the broader storyline - there is sometimes a sense of disunity and haste - although perhaps that's part of the writers' plan when it comes to racing around the world; there are so many jerks going through train stations that the viewer may not be able to stand. However, there are a few scenes in which you will blink and you will miss them, for which it would be useful to slow down the pace a little, and such sharp storylines can sometimes leave viewers lost.
The eight episodes of this series depend on the relationship between the characters. Actors do their best with limited time and dialogue, and Tennant is always good. The bigger problem is that the scale and budget of modern television has outgrown production of this kind. If you take a famous novel like Around the World in 80 Days and post it on BBC One for the New Year, you have to give it credit. London and Paris look almost the same here, perhaps both shot in the same block in Romania. In each frame, you feel the cutting of corners. The scene of the mass revolution is transmitted through a shot from Paris and some audio recording. The joy of the source text for readers was that it was truly exotic, jumping from Egypt to India, China, Japan and across the US. When you watch a series like ZeroZero, shot on location in Italy, Mexico, Senegal, the United States and Morocco, the authenticity simply cannot be seen from the screen. Television can finally remake Around the World in 80 Days.
However, in general, the series is a festive adventure, ideal for family watching. It is full of fun and wonderful scenery, so promises to be the perfect antidote to any gloomy January restrictions.
The series can be watched on the Kinopoisk platform.
Film ' based on ' Jules Verne, but far from him like the moon! In addition to the main ideas of the plot, this series focuses on completely different topics. . .
Black Passepartout, the servant of a British gentleman of the time, having a love affair with a British lady and hanging out in the high light of British society of the time, is absurd in historical perspective. If you look closely, you will even see the moment when a white gentleman kneels before a black servant! It seems to have become a tradition... Or they have there in the contracts for investments spelled out: ' no bowing white knee to black, - no investment'
The gender-racial theme in the film is the main leitmotif. The white protagonist Fogg is insecure, fragile, sentimental and feminine, as directly stated in the dialogues. He is contrasted with an energetic, resolute, strong white woman-lady with an uncharacteristic dream for women of that time and a black, pumped up, insolent, adventurer Passpartu. All these characters are no longer Jules-Vernoff characters, but rather typical imposed images of modern Western cinema.
It is clear that there are trends in modern society, but the rejection and rewriting of history is disgusting.
Philias Fogg, a native Englishman, once receives a mysterious letter without a return address with the signature ' Coward'. After reading the article and thinking about an unusual trip, he agrees to a very dubious journey and makes a bet on emotions. On the way, he is joined by unexpected colleagues who also have skeletons in the closet. She is a combat-savvy Frenchman of African descent Passportou and a desperate journalist and author of the article, Abigail Fix. Together, they must overcome obstacles, prove that not everything was done for the sake of argument and have time to reach London in 80 days.
Actors: I’ve heard a lot of dissatisfied, protesting and complaining that Frank Corchai’s film with Steve Coogan and Chan – aka Jackie – is the best film adaptation of Jules Verne. In my childhood, the film was also poured mud and I remember enough negative on this score. If Korchai's film was the purest comedy film, and the Tennath series is positioned on the genre of comedy, then it does not mean anything. He is wise, vital, a little dramatic and understandable adventure. In addition, I really liked the voice of Tennatn from Bai Bako TV, which at one time revived the voice of Matt Smith in the face of Alexei Kuznetsov. This is my sincere thanks to ours, Bravo. Tennant being the 10th doctor takes the helm of a great hero, not yet aware of his greatness. He breaks into battle, not realizing what will happen when he runs into the first gypsy kids. He is accompanied by questionable travelers to whom he does not tell the whole truth. Including who owns - or owns - the treasured flask that gave Fogg life. His hero will undergo a significant transformation from France to London. By balloon or train. Never mind. The main thing is that he will show his skills perhaps not in vain, because in the second series he will save many lives on the way to the goal. Including invaluable support for Fogg will appear from the little Alberto (Christian de Vergori). The son of an Italian tycoon (Patrick Kennedy) who became famous for building railways and who in turn almost killed his loved ones.
Ibrahim Koma is in front of my eyes for the first time, so frankly, he plays a torn personality. His hero has been to many jobs, but when he has to leave covering his tracks, he unexpectedly goes on a journey for Philias, and finds support in Madame Fix (Leonie Benes), desperate to prove that the man is not in charge, and she has the right to publish an article about an unexpected journey.
Everything else: a good plot, brilliant acting. Nothing to complain about.
The plot is absolutely predictable, the characters are cardboard, comedy does not smell here, although it is stated as ' comedy'. Sometimes, while watching the series, she returned to the 2004 film to remind herself what Comedy was. The 2004 film is much better, but there is more drama. Each series begins with a start, some conflict and you already in the first 3 minutes can predict the whole story and how it will end. The ending is absolutely terrible, cardboard, does not give a sense of satisfaction, rather indignation and sensation ' some kind of stupidity' I wouldn’t recommend it to kids because it’s a drama. The love line is completely stretched, because ' so it is necessary '. From the first episode, it was clear that they would be together. There is no intrigue.
Plus, empathy for the main character, if you put yourself in his place. And not in the plan ' I'm helpless and can't even button myself', but in the plan ' I'm a homebody, I didn't see anything further than my comp, and then I decided to go on a trip and encircle the Earth' And here comes the feeling of a living character surrounded by cardboards. And you sympathize with him because of the lack of living characters. Cardboard works according to a cardboard pattern and there is no one who would give the hero advice, which would give him, say, you. Because you'd be depressed and just want to go home to bed every day. But no one understands GG, because everyone acts according to cardboard principles, without a goal, because ' so it is necessary'.
But the ending ruins everything. And even GG becomes cardboard at the end.
The series is inspired and based on the book by Jules Verne.
At first glance, the picture may seem unremarkable with the exception of David Tennant in the title role, but this is far from the case. The series from the very first minutes catches the atmosphere, characters, high-quality picture and setting of the frame.
The authors especially managed to convey the spirit and atmosphere of 1872.
The plot is based on the story of far from young Phileas Fogg.
Fogg is a gentleman with a solid income, which is why he leads a routine lifestyle. You never get anywhere outside the city, especially the country. Everything new learns only from the latest editions of newspapers. He is in a gentlemen's club, where he spends all his time reading newspapers, drinking strong drinks and discussing fresh gossip. On one of these days, Fogg notices an article that India has completed a railway and now it is possible to travel around the globe in 80 days. While in high spirits, Fogg began sharing the news with his friends and clubmates, telling them that it was indeed possible now that technology was moving forward and the world was rapidly moving in the right direction. Unfortunately, not everyone shares Mr. Fogg's joy, resulting in conflict and then bets. Bet that he will be able to circle the globe and return to the same place in exactly 80 days. Not only is Fogg's reputation at stake, but a hefty sum of £20,000. At this very moment, Fogg realizes that it is time to change something in life and this is the moment. Fate itself gives him a chance to change himself and the world around him, and it’s not about money and reputation. He doesn’t know where to start, what to take with him, how to cope with everything alone, what he can expect tomorrow, but in his heart something tells him that he is doing everything right. So Mr. Fogg embarks on an exciting and dangerous adventure of 80 days.
The series tells the story of a difficult journey in which the characters change more than once. They have to find a common language with each other, come to compromises, feel what real friendship is and get acquainted with the world outside their home country.
There is room for humor, but it is still more of a drama. Many personal experiences and torments of the characters, which are revealed in the course of the plot.
Despite the fact that throughout the series all attention is focused on the main character, played by David Tennant, other actors manage, if not to stand out against his background, then accurately show themselves and their brilliant performance.
Personally, I haven’t heard of any of the actors or seen them before (except Tennat), but now I’m sure I’m going to see them for the future. All without exception showed everything that was required of them. Everyone looks very harmonious with each other. With each series, you get so immersed in the plot and characters that there is no doubt about the choice of actors for their roles. There is a feeling that he is watching a true story about these people.
Personally, he noted a big plus that the series is divided into many languages. Not limited to one or two. In almost every series you can hear several options. In addition to languages, different cultures are represented. Their way of life, traditions and outfits. It’s all very amplifying, both the series and the characters.
It was called Around the World in Eighty Days (1972-1973). Although they have a minimum in common, but the spirit managed to convey, and this already means something.
Around the world in 80 days is a lamp series that will brighten up your evening and leave a pleasant aftertaste.
Watched the first episode of the English adventure series 'Around the world in 80 days'. In general, everything is quite good: there is dynamics, humor and a pleasant atmosphere with good acting work. But, unfortunately, even here, the authors painfully emphasize the current agenda of today, where women are stronger and braver than many men, blacks are brave, and generally good, and white heterosexual men, as always, are worse, weaker and stupider than everyone else. Once again, excessive twitching and playing in one gate slightly spoil the overall impression of viewing.
David Tennant is immaculately beautiful in his caricature of a cowardly gentleman, who at heart is actually a very brave and courageous man, but desperately restrains his inner lion. A young journalist, who desperately declares her exclusivity at every step, is a little tired, but at the same time causes positive emotions, because she is kind, responsive and light. But as for the valet Passpartu, here the authors tried their best, making it multifaceted, full-fledged and with a large supply of emotional cargo, because the hero has a very rich, complex and dramatic fate with multiple ups and downs. It is not as simple as it may seem at first glance. Passapartu speaks many languages, is educated and experienced. In a sense, he can even be called the leader of a group of travelers.
In general, in the framework of an entertaining adventure series, this is a curious thing, but nothing more.
The New Phileas Fogg: 80 Days of Trial and Suffering
Obeying a sudden and inexplicable impulse, a silent and unremarkable gentleman from the Reform Club named Phileas Fogg makes a crazy bet that he will tour the world in 80 days. On the journey, he sets off with a new valet, Passepartu, who magically appeared on his doorstep, and on the way, they are joined by the daughter of a major newspaperman, Abigail Fix, who dreams of a career as a journalist. And the first stop on the way of the companions is Paris, where again, once again in history, popular unrest rages.
The first thing that every future viewer of this series should know is NOT the Jules Verne adaptation. Yeah, that's it. It seems to me that this fact should be obvious already by the composition of the companions, but for some reason I still encounter surprised comments on the network, why there is something there and not this. Because this is a series inspired by Verne's book, a series based on it, but certainly not a film adaptation.
The second thing to consider when starting to watch is not a hilarious comedy adventure, it is a story rather in the spirit of Jack London, a story about a journey full of difficulties and trials that change characters. So there are more dramatic moments with the experiences of the heroes here than humor.
And the third thing that is useful to learn before viewing: not only the images of Passepartout and Mr. Fix, who became an ally and in general turned into a miss, have undergone changes. Phileas Fogg, although he retained the appearance of the book character, at least gender, origin, nationality and approximate age, internally underwent a serious metamorphosis. We can say that Phileas Fogg ' turned inside out' - decided to tell about what could be hidden behind the facade of a prosperous phlegmatic gentleman who suddenly decided on the largest adventure in his life. And for this idea, for this interpretation and for the actor chosen for the role, I applaud the authors.
Even in two episodes it is clear that David Tennant, as always, got an accurate, deep, vivid image, the best, the most correct Phileas Fogg of all possible. Who doubted that it would be different? But probably not everyone will like it. And all because it's too honest again. Painfully honest.
Tennant once again played a completely different character, unlike any of his former heroes, either externally or internally. Those hoping to see someone like the new Doctor traveling with satellites run the risk of being disappointed. David plays Fogg in his restrained manner, and by nature Phileas does not resemble a chatty alien. But that’s the great thing about his new job. Tennant again breaks stereotypes, makes you see the hero from a new side and encourages viewers to think about important things. For example, wherever you go, you take your fears, insecurity and your past with you. And in this sense, the series is certainly not just entertainment.
At the same time, the adventure canvas itself is not yet complex. At least in the first episodes, the authors follow the precepts of Jules Verne in terms of free treatment of the laws of physics and do not bother to invent original plot twists, clearly focusing more on revealing the characters through their relationship with each other and with the world around them. What this will ultimately lead to is not yet clear. But the fact that it will be eight episodes of Tennant's diamond game and another believable, lively and empathetic character is already obvious. In 99% of cases, this is enough to make a movie.
For the first two episodes,