This concept is highly interesting, because formatting the movie this way makes it almost seem like a sequel to the 1864 novel. The trio understands that significant deviation could lead to their deaths, like Max’s brother, who they find out died in the Earth’s center. Instead of just having a similar story for the sake of it being an adaptation, Trevor, Sean, and Hannah make it clear the importance of following the directions outlined in the book. Both book and film characters believe that if they want to make it out of the center alive and back to the Earth’s surface, they would need to follow the timeline and steps laid out by Verne. As the movie progresses, it becomes clear just how much the plot is like that of the original book, with the characters’ actions mimicking the ones made in Verne’s original novel. Another similarity the movie and its source material share is establishing the main characters as highly intelligent, but also strongly driven to find answers to the questions that plague them. The books not only work similarly in terms of the plot, but they also seem fairly mundane, and only the main characters understand the significance of the notes written in their respective books. Making this choice was an interesting idea, as in the original novel the thing that starts the plot is also a book. ![]() This adaptation, however, uses the actual book as a reference for the characters to use, and it is the thing that jump starts the plot. This film is quite unlike the average adaptation, which often just takes the story originally given and then either copies it as much as possible, or only takes names and creates a relatively new story. Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth-1874.jpg In this blog post, I will look at how the adaptation is different from other films based on books and how this affects the characters and their actions. The three find themselves going deeper in the Earth, and eventually reach the center. When they get up to the site, a lightning storm starts and the three end up trapped in a cave system, and with no way out are forced to go further into what turns out to be a mine system. Hannah agrees to be Trevor and Sean’s guide up the mountain where an instrument used by Max is strangely working again after being inactive for 10 years. When they get there, the two meet a woman named Hannah (Anita Briem) whose father believed Verne’s books included factual accounts, like Trevor’s brother did. In the book, there are extensive notes and Trevor, along with his nephew, go to his brother’s lab to figure out what the notes mean, and the two soon realize they will need to travel to Iceland to get answers for themselves. ![]() When Sean’s mother drops him off, she gives Trevor a box of his brother’s things, which includes a copy of Jules Verne’s novel Journey to the Center of the Earth. While trying to deal with this, his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) comes to visit him for 10 days. The film starts with volcanologist and lecturer Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser) as he finds out that his late brother, Max’s, lab is being closed. ![]() It is an adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1864 novel of the same name. Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 2008 American science fantasy action-adventure film directed by Eric Brevig and stars Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, and Anita Briem.
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