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Beyond the Sea: Echoes of Jules Verne in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

2018; University of Texas Press; Volume: 60; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.7560/tsll60207

1534-7303

Alissa Burger,

Cinema and Media Studies

Wes Anderson’s films often contain intertextual connections to literary predecessors in a relationship that’s not quite adaptation but more a series of interconnected allusions. Anderson’s Life Aquatic shares several common themes with Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1870), including spectacles of design in the Nautilus and the Belafonte that overtly connect these ships to their captains, their troubled protagonists, and competing versions of masculinity highlighted by interaction with other male characters.