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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ned and Conseil try sending [[MessageInABottle messages in bottles]] with the location of Nemo's IslandBase hoping for a rescue; instead, the base gets attacked just as Nemo was considering sharing his secrets with the world.

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ned and Conseil try sending [[MessageInABottle messages in bottles]] with the location of Nemo's IslandBase hoping for a rescue; instead, the base gets attacked bottles end up in the hands of Nemo's enemies and they attack the base, just as Nemo was considering sharing announcing his intentions to share his secrets with the world.
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* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: The notorious GiantSquid sequence and the ExoticEntree mentioned below.
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* TheDyingWalk: [[spoiler:In the 1954 film, Nemo gives orders to scuttle the Nautilus, then staggers back to his room, collapses, and opens his viewport so he can look out into his beloved ocean one last time just before he dies.]]
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Captain Nemo, as well as most of his crew.]]
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* StrawNihilist: Nemo.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: Both Ned and Nemo each have their own. Ned's is the song that he sings early in the film, "Whale of a Tale". Nemo's is a piece called "Deep is the Mighty Ocean", which represents not only the depths of the ocean but also the depths of Nemo's soul.

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* {{Leitmotif}}: Both Ned and Nemo each have their own. Ned's is the song that he sings early in the film, "Whale "A Whale of a Tale". Nemo's is a piece called "Deep is the Mighty Ocean", which represents not only the depths of the ocean but also the depths of Nemo's soul. Both themes are used in different styles, depending on the scene of the film.



* NotableOriginalMusic: "A Whale of a Tale", a G-Rated BawdySong sung by Kirk Douglas in-character as Ned Land.

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* NotableOriginalMusic: "A Whale of a Tale", a G-Rated BawdySong sung by Kirk Douglas in-character as Ned Land. The song also becomes a {{Leitmotif}} for Ned.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: Both Ned and Nemo each have their own. Ned's is the song that he sings early in the film, "Whale of a Tale". Nemo's is a piece called "Deep is the Mighty Ocean", which represents not only the depths of the ocean but also the depths of Nemo's soul.
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* AllInTheEyes: There is a helpful close-up of Nemo's eyes when he's dancing on the thin edge of insanity.

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* AllInTheEyes: There is a helpful close-up of Nemo's eyes when he's dancing on the thin edge of insanity.insanity, as he has the Nautilus ram a ship full of explosives.
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* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: The dinner party. See also: ForeignQueasine.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Nemo during the climax, although he's [[ALighterShadeOfGrey not really a villain.]]]]

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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Nemo during the climax, although he's [[ALighterShadeOfGrey not really a villain.]]]]as he stumbles to the window to look at the ocean one last time.]]
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* RaceLift: Captain Nemo, who is definitely Caucasian in this version.
* [[spoiler:TakingYouWithMe]]: [[spoiler:After a mortally-wounded Nemo plants the bomb to blow up Vulcania and plans to take the Nautilus to the ocean floor for the last time, his understanding crew confines Ned, Arronax and Conseil to their quarters, intending that they go with him. However, this is averted as Ned rebels and escapes with Arronax and Conseil (and also Nemo's pet sea lion) in the nick of time.]]

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* RaceLift: Captain Nemo, who is definitely Caucasian in this version.
version, as opposed to the AmbiguouslyBrown character in the book.
* [[spoiler:TakingYouWithMe]]: TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:After a mortally-wounded Nemo plants the bomb to blow up Vulcania and plans to take the Nautilus to the ocean floor for the last time, his understanding crew confines Ned, Arronax and Conseil to their quarters, intending that they go with him. However, this is averted as Ned rebels and escapes with Arronax and Conseil (and also Nemo's pet sea lion) in the nick of time.]]
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* {{Foil}}: Ned is shown as one to Captain Nemo; Ned's red and white shirt contrasts with Nemo's dark blue uniform, Ned is warm and passionate where Nemo is cold and callous and Ned is obsessed with getting back to land where Nemo wants to be as far as possible from it.

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* {{Foil}}: Ned is shown as one to Captain Nemo; Ned's red and white shirt contrasts with Nemo's dark blue uniform, Ned is warm and passionate where Nemo is cold and callous and callous, Ned is obsessed with getting back to land where Nemo wants to be as far as possible from it.it- Ned is TheEveryman where Nemo is the {{Ubermensch}}.

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The whole \"Ned\'s a Designated Hero\" thing really stinks of Natter to me.


* FakeNationality: Arronax is French, and Paul Lukas is Austrian-Hungarian-born.



* {{Foil}}: Ned is shown as one to Captain Nemo; Ned's red and white shirt contrasts with Nemo's dark blue uniform, Ned is warm and passionate where Nemo is cold and callous and Ned is obsessed with getting back to land where Nemo wants to be as far as possible from it.



** An oddity, though, compared to later versions of Steampunk is that the ''Nautilus'' is powered by a nuclear reactor made a century ahead of its time, rather than a steam engine.



* WhatTheHellHero: Ned Land frequently gives these to Nemo, despite being the usual cause of the predicaments in the first place.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Ned Land frequently gives these to Nemo, despite being the usual cause of the predicaments in the first place.Nemo.
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* BigBad: [[AntiVillain Captain]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist Nemo]], the man responsible for the ship attacks that get our heroes involved in the first place, imprisons them, and [[spoiler: nearly kills them all when he lets the ''Nautilus'' sink at the end.]]
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* {{Steampunk}}: Harper Goff's design of the ''Nautilus'' may well be the TropeCodifier, as was Disney's decision to stage this as a period piece rather than attempt to modernize it (as did the earlier ''War of the Worlds'').
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* [[spoiler:TakingYouWithMe]]: [[spoiler:After a mortally-wounded Nemo plants the bomb to blow up Vulcania and plans to take the Nautilus to the ocean floor for the last time, his understanding crew confines Ned, Arronax and Conseil to their quarters, intending that they go with him. However, this is averted as Ned rebels and escapes with Arronax and Conseil in the nick of time.]]

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* [[spoiler:TakingYouWithMe]]: [[spoiler:After a mortally-wounded Nemo plants the bomb to blow up Vulcania and plans to take the Nautilus to the ocean floor for the last time, his understanding crew confines Ned, Arronax and Conseil to their quarters, intending that they go with him. However, this is averted as Ned rebels and escapes with Arronax and Conseil (and also Nemo's pet sea lion) in the nick of time.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: Ned Land arrives in the middle of the giant squid attack, harpoons it right in the eye and saves Captain Nemo from drowning.

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* BigDamnHeroes: BigDamnHeroes / SaveTheVillain: Ned Land arrives in the middle of the giant squid attack, harpoons it right in the eye and saves Captain Nemo from drowning.
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* [[spoiler:TakingYouWithMe]]: [[spoiler:After a mortally-wounded Nemo plants the bomb to blow up Vulcania and plans to take the Nautilus to the ocean floor for the last time, his understanding crew confines Ned, Arronax and Conseil to their quarters, intending that they go with him. However, this is averted as Ned rebels and escapes with Arronax and Conseil in the nick of time.]]
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The film featured an all-star cast (KirkDouglas as Ned Land, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax, Creator/PeterLorre as Conseil, and James Mason as Captain Nemo) and a memorable design for the ''Nautilus'' as well as the memorable giant squid attack. It has become one of Disney's classics.

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The film featured an all-star cast (KirkDouglas AllStarCast (Creator/KirkDouglas as Ned Land, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax, Creator/PeterLorre as Conseil, and James Mason as Captain Nemo) and a memorable design for the ''Nautilus'' as well as the memorable giant squid attack. It has become one of Disney's classics.
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The film featured an all-star cast (KirkDouglas as Ned Land, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax, Creator/PeterLorre as Conseil, and James Mason as Captain Nemo) and a memorable design for the ''Nautilus''. It has become one of Disney's classics.

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The film featured an all-star cast (KirkDouglas as Ned Land, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax, Creator/PeterLorre as Conseil, and James Mason as Captain Nemo) and a memorable design for the ''Nautilus''.''Nautilus'' as well as the memorable giant squid attack. It has become one of Disney's classics.
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* FakeNationality: Arronax is French, and Paul Lukas is Austrian-Hungarian-born.
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The film featured an all-star cast (KirkDouglas as Ned Land, Creator/PeterLorre as Conseil, and James Mason as Captain Nemo) and a memorable design for the ''Nautilus''. It has become one of Disney's classics.

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The film featured an all-star cast (KirkDouglas as Ned Land, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax, Creator/PeterLorre as Conseil, and James Mason as Captain Nemo) and a memorable design for the ''Nautilus''. It has become one of Disney's classics.

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* BadassBeard: Captain Nemo.

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* AntiVillain: Nemo.
* BadassBeard: Captain Nemo.
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The film featured an all-star cast (KirkDouglas as Ned Land, Creator/PeterLorre as Conseil, and James Mason as Captain Nemo) and a memorable design for the ''Nautilus'', and has become one of Disney's classics.

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The film featured an all-star cast (KirkDouglas as Ned Land, Creator/PeterLorre as Conseil, and James Mason as Captain Nemo) and a memorable design for the ''Nautilus'', and ''Nautilus''. It has become one of Disney's classics.
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''''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'''' is a 1954 film produced by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] and directed by Richard Fleischer. It is based on [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea the novel by Jules Verne]].

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''''20,000 '''''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'''' Sea''''' is a 1954 film produced by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] and directed by Richard Fleischer. It is based on [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea the novel by Jules Verne]].

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''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'' is a 1954 film by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] based on [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea the novel by Jules Verne]].

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* BoisterousBruiser: Ned Land

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* BoisterousBruiser: Ned LandLand.


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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ned Land.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Nemo during the climax, although he's [[ALighterShadeOfGrey not really a villain.]]]]
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''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'' is a 1954 film by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] based on [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea the novel by Jules Verne]].

The film featured an all-star cast (KirkDouglas as Ned Land, Creator/PeterLorre as Conseil, and James Mason as Captain Nemo) and a memorable design for the ''Nautilus'', and has become one of Disney's classics.

!!This film contains examples of:

* AllInTheEyes: There is a helpful close-up of Nemo's eyes when he's dancing on the thin edge of insanity.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Esmerelda the sea lion, although it's partly because Ned is deliberately training her to do tricks and/or imitate him.
* BadassBeard: Captain Nemo.
* BattleInTheRain: The fight against the giant squid.
* BigDamnHeroes: Ned Land arrives in the middle of the giant squid attack, harpoons it right in the eye and saves Captain Nemo from drowning.
* BoisterousBruiser: Ned Land
* ChronicBackStabbingDisorder: Ned Land, apparently unable to go a scene without attempting to betray Nemo in some small way.
* CoolShip: [[http://www.julesverne.ca/images/imgjvmodels/nautilus_disney_50th-anniv_march_2004_.jpg The design of the]] ''Nautilus'' in the film is considered the iconic look for the submarine.
* CulturalTranslation: Ned Land's ambiguously American in this version, where in the novel he was unambiguously Canadian.
* ExoticEntree: Nemo serves a sauté of unborn octopus.
* ForeignQueasine: The dinner party.
* GrudgingThankYou / EmbarrassingRescue: After Ned saves Nemo from the giant squid. It's the former for Nemo and the latter for Ned, despite the fact that he did the rescuing.
* ILoveNuclearPower: While the original novel used electric power itself as Nemo's AppliedPhlebotinum, the movie had him splitting the atom decades before his time.
* MyFistForgivesYou: Ned punches Conseil before admitting friendship. And then, generously, allows Conseil to [[HitMeDammit hit him in return.]]
-->'''Ned''': "Go ahead!" [sticks out chin]\\
'''Conseil''': "Well if you insist." [punches Ned in the stomach]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ned and Conseil try sending [[MessageInABottle messages in bottles]] with the location of Nemo's IslandBase hoping for a rescue; instead, the base gets attacked just as Nemo was considering sharing his secrets with the world.
* NotableOriginalMusic: "A Whale of a Tale", a G-Rated BawdySong sung by Kirk Douglas in-character as Ned Land.
* OminousPipeOrgan: Nemo plays one. Cut to Ned tuning him out with a homemade banjo.
* OldMediaAreEvil: Some subtext to this, when the reporters unabashedly twist Professor Arronax's words.
* RaceLift: Captain Nemo, who is definitely Caucasian in this version.
* TeamPet: Esmeralda the sea lion, who changes loyalties from Nemo to Ned through the film.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Not quite, but in the opening scenes of the movie we see 3 ships sunk or crippled on-screen by the Nautilus and it's clear that several other ships have met similar fates in a short amount of time. But once the main characters come on board, Nemo and his men become the Pirates Who Hardly Do Anything, only attacking one ship on-screen over the course of many months - and dialogue supports that this is the only ship attacked in that time period, so we know he didn't go after anything else during any time jumps.
* WhatTheHellHero: Ned Land frequently gives these to Nemo, despite being the usual cause of the predicaments in the first place.
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