A recent Comic Relief series featured a celebrity relay version of this trip.It changed Palin's career into a star of a whole slew of travel series. A famous 1989 TV travel documentary starring Michael Palin of Monty Python fame where he takes the challenge to travel around the world without using aircraft, following Fogg's route as closely as possible. A 1989 TV mini-series starring Pierce Brosnan, which critics complained went at far too leisurely a pace for a story about a race against time.A famous furry 1981 animated version, Around the World with Willy Fog.A major 1956 film starring David Niven and Shirley MacLaine which includes the travelers taking a balloon ride part of the way, a travel option which the original Fogg dismissed as impractical.The book has numerous adaptations, first on stage and then on film and TV. With only moments left to the deadline, Fogg and company race to the Club and make it just in time. Passpartout is sent to get a vicar to arrange the wedding only to learn that the gang forgot they gained a day due to traveling east and actually arrived early. However, Aouda inadvertently saves the day, both in love with Fogg and feeling guilty that she may have cost him his bet, when she proposes to the now ruined Phileas and he joyously accepts. Although Fix later lets Fogg out of jail upon realizing he made a mistake, they are apparently too late as they arrive in London. So, as Fogg begins his race, Fix follows him, unsuccessfully trying to keep his quarry stationary and initially unaware of how far he is going until it becomes more worthwhile to help Fogg complete his journey back to England where Fix can arrest him.Īs the gang continues their race through more adventures, it comes to a screeching halt when they reach Britain where Fix arrests Fogg. Unfortunately, there is a bank robbery in London and although Fogg is completely innocent, his trip abroad seems too coincidental by Detective Fix's reckoning. Although Fogg tries to help her reach relatives in another safe British colony, this proves impossible and she becomes their fast companion for keeps who herself becomes more and more attracted to the dashing and intriguing Fogg. The most notable one in the first half is rescuing the beautiful Indian woman, Aouda, from being forced into a ceremonial self-immolation in India. Thus committed, Fogg begins his trip at once, bringing along his new manservant, Jean Passepartout, who ironically wanted a nice sedate job after years traveling about in various jobs such as an acrobat.Īlong the way, Fogg and Passepartout have numerous adventures as they struggle to keep to a strict schedule. In 1872 London, UK, the very proper English gentleman Phileas Fogg finds himself in a wager at his social club that he can travel around the world in eighty days, a seemingly impossible feat to Fogg's doubters. One of the all time great adventure novels and certainly the most famous non-science fiction one by Jules Verne. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace.
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