Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Ocean, unlike the original "Nautilus". He is played in this version by the British actor James Mason, with an English accent. No mention is made of any Indians in the film. Finally, Nemo was depicted as Indian in a Soviet 3-episode TV film "Captain Nemo" (1975), which also includes some plot details from the "Mysterious Island", Jules Verne's sequel to the novel. , obsolete translation by Lewis Mercier, 1872 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A Tour of the Underwater World (, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the "Seas": A Tour of the Underwater World")
Cultural influence of Jules Verne Cultural influence of Jules Verne Jules Verne (1828–1905), the French writer best known for his "Voyages extraordinaires" series, has had a wide influence in both scientific and literary fields. The pioneering submarine designer Simon Lake credited his inspiration to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", and his autobiography begins "Jules Verne was in a sense the director-general of my life." William Beebe, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Ballard found similar early inspiration in the novel, and Jacques Cousteau called it his "shipboard bible". The aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont named Verne as his favorite author and the inspiration for his own