![]() Chan's Passepartout has stolen the Jade Buddha from the Bank of England and must return the Buddha to his small Chinese village in order to save his people. ![]() The second, and more glaring, departure from Verne's novel is Jackie Chan as Passepartout, Fogg's "French" valet (the 1956 version featured a memorable performance from Mexico native Cantinflas as the quirky sidekick). In the novel, Fogg's wager is 20,000 pounds, not necessarily his reputation and lifestyle as an inventor. Note here the first of many departures from the original story. If he loses, he must forfeit his right to invent and he must steer clear of the Academy. Fogg accepts the challenge with the understanding that, if he wins, he can assume the title of Minister of Science within England's Royal Academy. However, this film version does maintain the book's basic premise in that members of an elite English club challenge Fogg to travel around the world in, you guessed it, 80 days. Verne also incorporated his fascination with science by writing of Fogg's great inventions and ideas-things that would be difficult to put to film convincingly, even in our high–tech world of Computer Generated Images (CGI). Verne wrote a novel in which the story and characters traversed several continents and met a wealth of diverse people in a wealth of odd situations. ![]() To be fair, 80 Days is not an easy story to film. Cecile de France, Steve Coogan, and Jackie Chan ![]()
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