Ingles Reporte

CREDITS:

TITLE AND YEAR:

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, 2004

GENRE:

ADVENTURE AND COMEDY

DIRECTOR:

FRANK CORACI

PRODUCER

BILL BADALATO

SCREENWRITER:

JULES VERNE (NOVEL)

DAVID N. TITCHER,

DAVID BENULLO

DAVID GOLDSTEIN

MUSIC OR SOUNDTRACK:

TREVOR JONES

MAIN ACTORS:

JACKIE CHAN,

STEVE COGGAN,

CÉCILE DE FRANCE

SUMMARY

The film starts with a man (then known as Lau Xing) stealing and escaping from the Bank of England. To escape from the police gets into a tree, which turns out to be in the garden of the mansion of Fog, from which go to Phileas Fog with his old valet, a French geezer, who with reasons why the evidence that his trade he leads to do when the test to overcome the barrier of 50 mph is a failure and the valet just flying through the air and falling This waiver. Fog is asked how he will get a new valet, because the Agency does not want to send more (everyone had the same end than the last), and at that time the thief falls out of the tree. Surprised, Fog asked for their identity, what Lau Xing responds membership of a long dynasty of French valets, explaining his Chinese accent by the fact that his father was a Frenchman who never spoke, and that his mother was china that did not stop talking. Fog accepts him and invites him to his house, showing his prototype plane, its lights that light up with a hiss, whose invention attributed to Thomas Edison's inspiration and speaks about their way of life and your organization. When she asks his name, Lau Xing looks out the window and sees 2 police officers asking the passport a few foreign men her new name comes up with: Passe-partout.

After this, are aimed both at the Royal Academy of Sciences. There Fog is discredited by other brilliant minds, particularly the conservative Lord Kelvin, who proclaims that everything had to be discovered because it has been, while dreamers as Fog are still talking about "radio waves", "evolution" and "travel air". When the news of the robbery of the Bank arrives at the Academy, Fog expresses his joy that it has passed, because like the Academy, the Bank is an example of stability in the past. Estimated at the time that perfectly the thief could have taken a steamboat up to France, from there the Orient Express to Istanbul and have come to China in a little more than a month. This fact draws the attention of Passe-partout, which runs the voice of ear to ear of the possibility of challenging Fog to

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