Talk:Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film)

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Contents 1 Rework and cleanup needed 2 I think the triva need to be updated. 3 Loss for Studio? 4 50 MPH Speed Limit 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Movie poster Around the World in 80 Days.jpg

[edit] Rework and cleanup needed

This article needs a bunch of rework, sources need cited for many claims. In addition it reads as if it's been written by someone who entirely missed that this movie is a parody of all the other "Around the World in 80 Days" films and also missed the time stated at the beginning of the film "Before the turn of the century", meaning before 1901, probably roughly 1890. Examples of this being a parody:

• This version makes the sidekick the hero.
• There's a claim on the book page [not cited] that this in entirely filmed in Berlin, the same city as a version of the film early in the 20th century.
• Several obvious famous actors/actresees with bit roles like previous versions. In some cases, playing types very similar to the ones they've played on other well known films.

Joncnunn 19:47, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

While we're cleaning this up, I just can't understand what this sentence means. Can someone who understands it rewrite it in English? --P3d0 (talk) 23:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

To escape from the police, he observes from a window, two police officers searching for him asking an Oriental man in the street for his identification, and says "Passport...too", he becomes, under the name "Passepartout" (pronounced Pass-par-too), a valet to Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), a scientist trying to break the 50-mph speed barrier.

[edit] I think the triva need to be updated.

The trivia section states that "The American sailor claims he has lost his nipples to a shark attack. In reality, nipples are one of the only parts of the human body that regenerates; thus, they would have grown back on their own." However readings from the Liver#Regeneration states that "The liver is among the few internal human organs capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue; as little as 25% of remaining liver can regenerate into a whole liver again."

Do we need to get this cleared? billli 19:35, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Loss for Studio?

"However the film was a box office bomb and ended up generating a huge loss for the studio"

Which studio lost a lot of money? Disney or Walden Media? If I recall, this was an Walden Media production. This wasn't entirely funded by Disney.

-Jonyyeh 03:05, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 50 MPH Speed Limit

Watching the film I noticed a bit at the start where they are trying to break the 50mph human speed limit. Just wondering is this a real limit that used to exsist in the past or was it just made up for the film plot? Just that I cant find any other reference to it on Wiki. Cheers --MattyC3350 12:59, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

It was a plot device. Jon 16:48, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Movie poster Around the World in 80 Days.jpg

Image:Movie poster Around the World in 80 Days.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:16, 1 January 2008 (UTC)