Tonight: 20,000 Leagues Under dee Sea
Jules Verne was a veritable prophet. Before automobiles hit the road, he imagined electric submarines, journeys to the moon, global communication, television, and dozens of other zany advances. But his greatest creation has got to be Captain Nemo, a hero for both the 19th and 21st centuries. The courageous captain of the Nautilus, Nemo is an anti-imperialist who creates a sustainable underwater community, his blue and green paradise away from the gray industrial revolution (The Nautilus, it has been said, was a zero emission, VOC-free vehicle). Nemo is a vengeful self-exiling cynic, irrevocably heartbroken and purely ingenious. In other words, Literary Perfection. But best of all, he is his own master, removed from our messy, nefarious, landlubbing world.
Tonight, Silent Movies Mondays at Paramount Theatre presents 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The first film in the November series Adventure Stories to Silent Classics, which includes The Adventures of Prince Achmed (11/9) and The Lost World (11/16), this is of course the 1916 silent version of Verne’s sci-fi classic, so don’t expect the 1954 Walt Disney take with full-color Kirk Douglas. The ’16 version may not have Disney’s extraordinary, still-jaw-dropping, giant squid scene, but tonight it has something better, the music of Mighty Wurlitzer Organist--and first time Paramount Silent Film organist--Jim Riggs.
6 p.m. // Paramount Theatre // $12
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