Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film)
A 2004 film adaptation of Jules Verne's novel, starring Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan.
Tropes used in Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film) include:
- Actor Allusion: Having been brought to work as a child by his parents at the French embassy in Hong Kong, Jackie Chan does know some French.
- Adaptation Decay: The 2004 movie wildly diverges from the original. Among other things:
- Fogg's peers are turned into actual villains.
- A subplot regarding a stolen Chinese idol is added.
- Aouda is replaced with a female French artist who joins the trip looking for inspiration.
- But to balance this, the Frenchman Passepartout is replaced by Jackie Chan.
- Fogg builds his own flying machine to win the race.
- Acrofatic: Sammo Hung as Wong Fei Hong, doubling as Actor Allusion as Hung has had a string of roles as famous martial artists that allegedly had a Historical Beauty Update.
- The Cameo: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Luke and Owen Wilson, Rob Schneider, Kathy Bates, and (thanks to Jackie) Hong Kong actors like Sammo Hung, Daniel Wu, and Karen Mok.
- Dragon Lady: The Chinese villainess in the '04 movie, who displays Surprisingly Good English (the actress Karen Mok went to university overseas).
- Fake Nationality: Chinese actor Jackie Chan as Passepartout (his nationality becomes part of the story).
- Faux Action Girl: the sadly underused Maggie Q.
- Historical Fiction: The movie adds cameos by Vincent Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Queen Victoria, Wong Fei Hong and even The Statue of Liberty!
- The Wright Brothers. Maybe an Indian prince.
- MacGuffin: The jade Buddha.
- The Ingenue: Fogg is portrayed a pretty clueless nice guy. He can't even tell that his valet doesn't really speak French!