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 sacred Author of all things! ... Nothing more is now wanting to our island". His emblem, as given in a description of the flag he raised when claiming Antarctica, is a large golden N on a black field. The motto of the "Nautilus" was "Mobilis in mobili", which may be roughly translated from Latin as, "moving amidst mobility", "moving within the moving element", or "changing in the changes". In the initial draft of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", Nemo was a Polish noble, a member of the szlachta, resenting the murder of his family during the Russian repression of