20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985 film) the other hand, Captain Nemo has a great respect toward his men as well as the oceans of the world and their creatures. At the beginning of the voyage, the Nautilus is attacked by a giant squid that grabs Nemo but is killed by Ned. In the waters off India, Nemo saves a pearl-diver from a hungry shark and gives her a pearl. He then prevents Ned from killing a dugong. Ned, the professor, and Conseil escape the Nautilus by rowing to a tropical island but are chased back to the Nautilus by natives, whom Nemo scares away with electricity.
Captain Nemo Phileas Fogg". "Nemo" is Latin for "no one". "Nemo" is, moreover, the Latin rendering of Ancient Greek "Outis" ("Nobody"), the pseudonym adopted by Odysseus, in Greek mythology—a ruse employed to outwit the cyclops Polyphemus. This appears to be the intended meaning, since in "The Mysterious Island", when addressed by Cyrus Harding as Captain Nemo, he replies, "I have no name!" Nothing concerning his past is revealed in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", except his dislike of imperialism (and of British imperial society more generally) and the apparent loss of his family in the past. In "The Mysterious Island", Captain