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Line 1: {{work}} {{Infobox book [[File:Twenty-Thousand-515I1TwFNcL.jpg\|thumb\|280px]]▼ \| title = Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A World Tour Underwater \| original title = Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin ▲~~[[File:~~ \| image = Twenty-Thousand-515I1TwFNcL.jpg~~\|thumb\|280px]]~~ ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'' is an 1869 adventure novel by [[Jules Verne]]. It scores a solid 5 on [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]] and has a strong focus on technology, existentialism, and marine biology.▼ \| caption = \| author = Jules Verne \| central theme = \| elevator pitch = \| genre = \| franchise = Sea Trilogy \| followed by = In Search of the Castaways \| publication date = 1870 \| source page exists = yes \| wiki URL = \| wiki name = }} ▲''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' is an 1869 adventure novel by [[Jules Verne]]. It scores a solid 5 on [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]] and has a strong focus on technology, existentialism, and marine biology. During a visit to America, Professor Aronnax, a famous French marine biologist, is invited to join a [[Yanks With Tanks\|US Navy]] expedition in the hunt for a mysterious sea monster (believed to be a giant narwhal) that has attacked and damaged two ships. Once they find the narwhal, it attacks, causing Aronnax, his trusty manservant [[The Stoic\|Conseil]] and Ned Land, the ship's [[Canada, Eh?\|Canadian]] harpoonist, to fall overboard (well, Conseil ''jumped'', to rescue the Professor). They clamber onto the only dry spot in the sea, namely the narwhal's back, expecting to drown as soon as it dives. Then a hatch opens... Line 13 ⟶ 26: [[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)\|In 1954]], [[Walt Disney Pictures]] made a big-budget [[The Film of the Book\|movie]] based on the book - its first live-action science fiction film. The film featured an all-star cast ([[Kirk Douglas]] as Ned Land, [[Peter Lorre]] as Conseil, and James Mason as Captain Nemo) and a memorable design for the ''Nautilus'', and has become one of Disney's classics. Fun fact that people sometimes forget: the title refers to the distance the ''Nautilus'' travels horizontally over the course of the book, not the depth it dives to. 20,000 leagues vertically would be impossible, being 80,000 kilometers,<ref>Verne used the metric league, which is 4 km</ref> or twice the circumference of the Earth. The [[Blind Idiot Translation\|translation is partly to blame]]; a closer translation would be ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the ''''Seas'.''''' A ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch with guest host Kelsey Grammar as Nemo [[Lampshade Hanging\|lampshaded]] this misconception. {{tropelist}} Line 229 ⟶ 242: {{reflist}} [[Category:Films of the 2010s]] [[Category:~~Nineteenth~~Literature ~~Century~~of ~~Literature~~the 19th century]] [[Category:Sea Stories]] [[Category:Literature]] [[Category:Universal Horror]] [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:French Literature]] [[Category:Film]]