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Plot
Summary by John Vogel (source IMDB)
“English
nobleman Phileas Fogg, a very strict and emotionless man, gets wound up
in a bet at his gentlemen's club: He has to prove that it is possible to
travel around the whole world in only 80 days. Together with his new butler
Passepartout, who expected a different first day at work, he takes off
instantly to Paris, where they miss the train to Marseilles. But a travel
agent called Thomas Cook offers them his captive balloon, which carries
them to Spain instead. Passepartout's skills are necessary in a bullfight
in order to get them a ship that should take them back onto their planned
route. An ominous Mr. Fix starts crossing their path more and more often,
he somehow seems to try to hinder their forthcoming. In the deep jungles
of India, the butler's skills are again needed in a case of rescuing beautiful
Princess Aouda, who is to be burnt alive at the side of her dead husband.
In Hongkong, Passepartout meets drugs in a involuntarily manner and in
the United States, the wild, wild west takes its toll. All the time, Mr.
Fogg has his usual timetable and meal schedule running at normal pace,
so that all the waves have to be broken by Passepartout. And he won't get
paid much, because he left the gas running, back in London. When the journey
comes to a dramatic returning to England, Mr. Fogg has to cope with the
facts that he seems to have lost the bet by some hours, but gained something
he never seemed to have: emotion.” |