20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954) The Natives Attack

Ned Land escapes from the island

[@TMX1138]

I'm guessing this was the inspiration for Captain Jack Sparrow getting chased by cannibals on a beach in Dead Man's Chest.

[@dedrereads1474]

Except if Captain Jack's pursuers had had boats ready, Jack would have been TOAST!! XD

[@nathancruz9172]

Dedre Reads 0:22 😆

[@nathancruz9172]

TMX1138 0:11 that’s what I was going to say the same thing.

[@theobserver314]

I had the same thought!

[@nathancruz9172]

PHILOSOPHICAL THINKER me too.

[@turboking9238]

Ned Land: Captain we're under attack! Nemo: Naturally, since you invaded there privacy they have every right to invade ours

[@nathancruz9172]

Thomas Black 1:55-1:57 everything for what he said is true.

[@CashMoolah00]

So casual

[@kfures3469]

I love how Nemo is so fucking calm.

[@pechecordero9794]

I love how Nemo understood why the Natives were coming and remained cool, calm and collected.

[@turboking9238]

@@pechecordero9794 I wish I could be like Captain Nemo!

[@PhilMante]

I love how Nemo tells Ned that he knows he's full of it when he says "You may go ashore, but stay on the beach. The natives there are cannibals. They eat liars with the same enthusiasm as they eat honest men." Thats a candidate for my favorite line in the movie.

[@nathancruz9172]

Me too.

[@MasamuneChad]

I use it to this day to randomly catch people off guard. Their confused faces are so worth it.

[@youthfulcurmudgeon3627]

It's also quite fitting when you learn kirk douglas is a tribe member ✡️

[@johngriswold4303]

And then Captain Nemo reminded of Ned the fate of prisoners by trying to escape!

[@DenitaArnold]

Love it when the captain says "Naturally, since you invaded their privacy they have every right to invade ours."

[@nathancruz9172]

1:56 me too

[@actioncom2748]

In a time before CGI, they drew those electrical Sparks by hand.

[@jeffreysnydr]

1:56-1:58, the definition of what war or any conflict means for that matter. Also, I like how Nemo is entirely calm throughout this whole episode.

[@kursk_kuku141]

And the crew too... lol!

[@nathancruz9172]

TwilightSparkle3562 me too.

[@waynemacfarland1546]

I love how Captain Nemo is so calm and nonchalant, seeming quite to handle the gravity of the situation without panicking, while Ned and Conseil are so hysterical. It's like he was expecting Ned to attempt an escape only to be chased back to the Nautilus by cannibals.

[@PhilMante]

Of course he knew Ned would try and escape but also knew he would come running back and if he got captured by the cannibals he wouldn't have to deal with Ned anymore. It was a win-win situation for Nemo.

[@3piper]

To be fair, Captain Nemo did warn them , but Ned blew him off. No other crewmen wanted to go ashore which should have been a big tipoff

[@maxoverridemax]

Fun fact in the book Ned Land also got electrocuted. He was also cussing and pissed off.

[@Quandal3Dingl3]

That's not true

[@gabrielmeggiotto3561]

@@Quandal3Dingl3 yes, it is

[@Quandal3Dingl3]

@@gabrielmeggiotto3561 Did you have a different copy, cus I just read that part and it was only a native that was cussing

[@gabrielmeggiotto3561]

@@Quandal3Dingl3 No, i mean, it is true that Ned Land also got electrocuted. I have the 2 books edition haha

[@Quandal3Dingl3]

@@gabrielmeggiotto3561 I have the great illustrated classics version

[@TMX1138]

RIP Kirk Douglas (1916-2020)

[@sebastianemond5313]

Gotta know what his secret was for living past 100.

[@luisdauajare4842]

In the book is less dramatic, but funnier. The electric defense is not the deck, but just the rail of the stairs. When Ned Land tries to go up, he is shocked as well.

[@ThomasPH123]

This gives a whole new meaning to the saying “the natives are getting restless”. RIP Kirk, you were a man’s man.

[@tokyosmash]

It’s hilarious how calm Captain Nemo is at 2:27 when they toss a spear in

[@kurochan1911]

I like how Nemo warned Ned beforehand that the natives will eat liars as easily as those that tell the truth.

[@nathancruz9172]

1:56 me too.

[@johngriswold4303]

Then mentioned to Ned again about the fate of prisoners!

[@popeben825]

I just finished reading this book today. I hope one day somebody finds Captain Nemo’s box.

[@furrettheferret9562]

Prince Dreambert in the sequel mysterious island they do

[@JerseyWolf]

Nemo never turned the dial for the Nautilus's defense system the entire way. As he said a mild shock, that's relatively harmless. He has no intention of harming people that do not hurt others for the sole purpose of conquest and murder.

[@nathancruz9172]

2:57 exactly

[@kursk_kuku141]

I like how Ned Land and Conseil are laughing their ass off while the Nautilus crews are not amused. In their minds: 1st crew: “5th time this week.” 2nd crew: “Mmm hmm. Thank god nothing bigger will destroy the electric device...”

[@nathancruz9172]

kenns kuku 3:18-3:21 I liked it how they enjoyed watching them get electrocuted.

[@Garrettk41]

Check out the Hanna Barbera animated version. There, we see not only Ned and Arronax laughing but even Nemo himself.

[@patrickwilson1459]

I can imagine if they were to never go near another submarine or a ship after walking on electricity. I love how Mr. Land is holding the arrow like he was thinking Captain Nemo was going to order him to throw it back at them.

[@dragonblood4005]

HEY! HEY WAIT FOR ME!

[@nathancruz9172]

Blaze The Dragon 0:00-0:15 😆 0:35 right before, dead man’s chest.

[@joltagegyronicthehedgehog4911]

Lol

[@brettbarnett3465]

Also you left out the best part where Nemo is beyond pissed with Ned disobeying his orders

[@mkaplan1383]

"And speaking of hospitality, may I say Mr. Land you have abuse my hospitality for the last time. I've warned you about any attempts to escape and the fate of all prisoners. But since you're persistent in being treated like one, I have no choice but to oblige you. Take him in charge!" "You left the island with the intention to escape. The only reason you came back because the natives forced you. You're going to regret that decision."

[@Garrettk41]

"I should have taken my chances with the cannnibals!"

[@nathancruz9172]

Brett Barnett 2:17 I know, right?

[@johngriswold4303]

The fate of prisoners!

[@Zack91974]

Happy 101st birthday Kirk Douglas

[@nathancruz9172]

Zack91974 he passed away at the age of 103 years old this year on January at natural causes.

[@Quandal3Dingl3]

@@nathancruz9172 I was in Disneyland when he left...😭

[@nathancruz9172]

BurningAces 731 how old were you at the time?

[@Quandal3Dingl3]

@@nathancruz9172 12

[@Quandal3Dingl3]

@@nathancruz9172 I went in January- February

[@fergthediddly3238]

0:43 most funny scene😂😂😂😆

[@PhilMante]

That was actually not planned. Before shooting that scene, the boat originally had ballast that made the boat lower but it was removed. Beforehand, Kirk Douglas was expecting the boat to be lower, so when he tried to row the boat his oars didn't catch enough water, he put too much torque on them and fell over backwards.

[@jamesgallagher100]

Yeah

[@Divad6686]

Fun fact: Ned falling backwards trying to row the boat was a blooper but the director thought it was so funny that he kept in the finished film!

[@myfriendchaplinproductions8701]

I first saw this movie when I was 8, and even then I remember saying “oh shit” when I saw the natives had boats.

[@dedrereads1474]

Honestly I didn't expect that, but also honestly I should have, since they're an island nation XD

[@kursk_kuku141]

Not really... I went “OH SHIT!” when the ENTIRE NATIVE are chasing Ned. That’s sort of an overkill... ish.

[@nathancruz9172]

MyFriendChaplinProductions I also remember watching this movie on 📀 from blockbuster video store, when I was 8 years old.

[@jackbuckley7816]

Nice animated electrical effects there, very realistic. This scene probably would be considered non-pc today in the depiction of the natives, I fear.

[@MafiaKingfishNOLA]

Oh yeah, today if you shock a bunch of native cannabals you would be called a racist.

[@jackbuckley7816]

@@MafiaKingfishNOLA Right. We must understand their behavior from THEIR perspective; after all, the oblivious, arrogant westerners are invading THEIR territory. The natives' reactions are totally justified, their culture & habits as valid as the Caucasians, if not more so. While this may be true as viewed in today's pc-light, it has nothing to do with the story as originally written by Verne. The film simply is presenting Verne's plot, turning it into a visual adventure in spectacular fashion.

[@danielpitti896]

It also appears in The book From which is based, published in The 1870s...sensibilities didnt change too much in the 1950s

[@andrewcolinwilson1]

2:55-3:22, Dance, cannibals! Dance!

[@nathancruz9172]

3:01 😆

[@brettbarnett3465]

Nemo told him to stay on the beach so ned deserved to be chased out of their territory.

[@WorldWar2freak94]

Brett Barnett Yup, that’s why Nemo just used the electric shock and not order his men to rebel boarders. He wanted to get them off his ship, but did not want to kill them.

[@johngriswold4303]

And Nemo finally bought up Ned about attempting to escape the fate of prisoners that was fair enough though as I felt for Ned wanting to Escape of what he was into stuck in and seen going on! But first it was the two guys the professor and the sad looking innocent guys fault for getting into the nataulis without anyone in it and Ned floated around looking for them trying to get them out of the nataulis and got caught by captain nemos men! Peer pressure can get you in trouble or killed!

[@TrainzAlexCarrStudios2003]

I’ll be amazed how they threw all there arrows and spears yet not a single one manage to hit them or the boat.

[@MafiaKingfishNOLA]

No doubt their aim was affected by their hunger. They had not eaten anybody in a while.

[@George-Hawthorne]

I'm more amazed that Ned was able to keep ahead of them considering he's rowing a metal boat by himself, while the cannibal's boats are lighter more streamlined and rowed by at least four men.

[@Juscz]

As they say, it's a Disney movie.

[@emperorconstantine1.361]

Rest in piece Mr. Kirk Douglas.

[@nathancruz9172]

Emperor Constantine 1. 1916-2020

[@jamesgallagher100]

3:11 Ned: i gotta see this Conseil: this is amazing

[@asch7906]

I came here because yet another dude stupidly died on North Sentinel Island.

[@nahnaw1222]

lol dead on

[@garcalej]

Native be like “I spent all f***ing month carving those scary faces outta tree trunks. How hard is it for these white men to read a No Trespass Sign?”

[@asch7906]

@@garcalej That dude was Chinese-American.

[@smegwilson5907]

As a kid it was hard to appreciate how good of a job those actors did, since everyone involved in that scene was a real person.

[@evilhomer5894]

Negril beach Jamaica before the hotels, restaurants and resorts. Looked more paradisical back in the 1950s when this was filmed.

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Looks can be deceiving.

[@sparkshark789]

This is the equivalent of chasing kids from your lawn all the way to their bedrooms…with their parents arming their tasers.

[@dentistjohn3223]

They just don’t make Disney movies like this anymore, it’s all the same stuff, just sequels with big budgets😑 there’s no original stuff from them

[@etebbel]

2:54 now they’re in for a shock

[@trainwaysrails76]

POV: You land on North Sentinel Island in 2018

[@JamesJohnson-wb1lg]

Now that's what I call a shocking defeat

[@nathancruz9172]

James Johnson 3:01-3:16 👍🏻

[@puterboy2]

Or a hot foot.

[@davidwesley2525]

Shock Treatment. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💖💖💖

[@Thomas_H._Smith]

Ba dum Ching.

[@tylervenkersammy2365]

2:55 - 3:32 Electricity sound effect.

[@charliedallachie3539]

Legend is those cannibals are still there today (not kidding). Michael Rockefeller went missing somewhere near there.

[@thenumbah1birdman]

There is actually a good amount of evidence that Rockefeller was killed and eaten by tribesmen near the Fly river in retaliation for a dutch incursion a year or 2 before the incident.

[@hemming57]

@@thenumbah1birdman It's been confirmed.

[@thenumbah1birdman]

@@hemming57 nothing is entirely confirmed about his death, but the general consensus is that the white man they killed and ate was indeed Rockefeller. Unless something has come up.

[@robertcorbell1006]

@Why so serious? I bet they were hungry again in an hour...

[@johngriswold4303]

Also green inferno it was like hell In that film!

[@Toysinaction.TV.]

wow never knew the could make such a well filmed movie in color for the 50's

[@JohnnySplattWadd]

Everything after 2:55 reminded me of "Soul Train" such talent.

[@chialeux514]

When the giant squid attacked, it was about 10 minutes before electricity was invented

[@briantedder1093]

LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!

[@nathancruz9172]

2:55-2:57, 3:05-3:19, 3:35-3:44 Captain Nemo: how about a little ⚡️, cannibals? 😆

[@jamesgallagher100]

What a shocking development for the cannibals lol 2:54

[@luzcameraemocao]

Inolvidable película.

[@Mrvwcc11]

I like Ned Land

[@nathancruz9172]

Mr. Problem solver 89 0:19 me too.

[@joltagegyronicthehedgehog4911]

LOL They get zapped at 2:53

[@nathancruz9172]

James Gallagher you mean at 2:55-3:02

[@joltagegyronicthehedgehog4911]

@@nathancruz9172 it's a shocking development

[@ScribblyPoppo]

Shocking.

[@nathancruz9172]

123kspencer 2:55 it’s like you’ll get tased by the 👮🏻.

[@DenitaArnold]

Yeah literally

[@Garrettk41]

"Get me a harpoon, quick!" And Conseil just stands there stupefied.

[@Dqalex]

Looks like a home invasion in Newark NJ

[@stevenkunker2049]

Good stuff...

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Just realized how Pirates 2 paid homage to this.

[@sr.AnnaOnline]

I'll escape (Im not surprise) hahahhaha next "wait for me"

[@hsuehhs1]

Anna Catherine Kowalsky I would just left him there

[@joltagegyronicthehedgehog4911]

Anna Catherine Kowalsky lol

[@azaharhossain313]

Pleaae give me the movie link please please.

[@raidenjewett5971]

This movie is groundbreaking for film and impressive for sure. This scene, like many in films at the time and in other Walt Disney films (Peter Pan, for example) makes it clear how little Disney and the entire movie crew knew about or understood the world they were filming. Real cannibals are not dark-skinned islanders intent on killing and eating anyone new, white, or otherwise different any time they see them. Cannibalism has been a feature of many cultures across the globe, cultures not including "cults" or individuals like Hannibal Lector (or the real-life counterparts: psychopaths and sociopaths). I mean people that have existed in groups much older in their region than, say, Americans in the USA. These people live in tribes or similar group structures with rules, religions, ideas, and family structures as complex and important as any other culture in the world. Cannibalism itself is not very exciting or complex; some cultures have spiritual or legal beliefs that place importance on the physical material of a human body, and together with other variable factors they find it necessary to eat parts of the human body after death in order to do a number of practical and spiritual things ritualistically, such as sending a loved one into a death state or afterlife, or gaining strength from them in a social sense. People that have cultural cannibalistic practice do not want to eat anybody and everybody; they eat food and drink like anybody because they are people in need of sustenance they could not get from a human body. Additionally, killing is not always, and not often, the preparation necessary for cannibalistic ritual; this is a ritual that often takes place after someone dies of some other cause than murder. Also, in times when people do kill others it is not for fun, out of anger, or generally aggressive; it is a repulsive event to kill someone to most peoples and, for example, there is a large tribe in Papua New Guinea (the location featured in this scene) that may still practice cannibalism today. They believe that sometimes a demon-like evil spirit (spirits being part of their religion) will enter a loved one or relative and they bring harm to their people. In order to stop this from happening, they kill the person (who they believe is now only evil) and eat parts of them to get rid of the evil spirit and save their tribe. My point is that real cannibalism is a far cry from the cannibalism featured in this scene. The only reason films exist including cannibalism is because someone in 1940 made a movie featuring "cannibals" for the first time and it was taken up by the movie creators who did a lot of copying at the time. This coincided well with the Jules Verne novel which features the cannibals shown in the film in a similar way, also a demonstration of the racism and ignorance that was normal at the time. I must add, the movie does not actually employ any Papua New Guinean people and therefore has given no contribution to them in any way while gaining from their use as characters, making them a cultural slave to the movie company. This happened and still happens often in media across the globe, especially coming from the USA.

[@thewindthatblows]

I now find this scene is like Buster Keaton's The Navigator, an earlier US movie (I remember it's from the 1920s) involving cannibals and a submarine

[@joltagegyronicthehedgehog4911]

That’s funny getting chased by cannibals and zapping them on the submarine when they try to getting aboard

[@nathancruz9172]

James Gallagher at 3:18-3:20, I liked it how Ned and his friend 😆 and enjoyed seeing those cannibals gets zapped, while Captain Nemo’s crew are taking seriously.

[@joltagegyronicthehedgehog4911]

@@nathancruz9172 it’s so funny

[@joltagegyronicthehedgehog4911]

@@nathancruz9172 at 2:55

[@nathancruz9172]

@@joltagegyronicthehedgehog4911 yes, it does.

[@joltagegyronicthehedgehog4911]

@@nathancruz9172 the natives get a charge out of it

[@mkaplan1383]

Speaking of hospitality, may I say Mr. Land you have abused mine for the last time. I've warned you the fate of prisoners who attempt to escape. Since you insists on being treated like one, I have no choice but oblige. Put him in charge! You left the island with the intention to escape. The only reason you've returned because the Natives forced you. You're going to regret that decision. When we clear this reef, I'll see to it that you will no longer trouble me.

[@chrispollard341]

Now THAT'S what I call an Electric Boogaloo!! 😉

[@mr.kultra6375]

I'm sure this movie is going to be cancelled soon.

[@ericpogorzelski904]

those natives that got electric shocks are scardy cats

[@rudesiobinhanrabemarcelinh691]

Ned land is so brave

[@nicolamcguinness8689]

It’s Mark Fleming in 2000 leagues under the sea

[@nathancruz9172]

Nicola Mcguinness 1:35-1:38 I remember watching this movie, when I was 8 years old.

[@nahnaw1222]

captain nemo coulda fried them dead if he wanted to.

[@dedrereads1474]

Good-guy Nemo

[@nathancruz9172]

Dedre Reads 2:55 at least, he didn’t killed them. He just scared them off with mild electrocuted on their 🦶🏻.

[@EdricLysharae]

Ned: The other white meat.

[@jonathanruano4973]

Can't film that movie scene anymore.

[@apocalypsepow]

Where was this filmed??

[@PlayNiceFolks]

A soundstage and maybe a real Island for some parts

[@codytaylor2663]

1:43

[@MrGovtCheese]

The natives are like the storm troopers from Star Wars. In reality, they would have shot them full of arrows or quickly overrun the metal rowboat with the outriggers.

[@nathancruz9172]

MrGovtCheese 2:03-2:55 now, you mentioned it.

[@JimBeamFiend53]

Well this aged well!

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Kinda. Nemo is on the side of the Natives over Ned.

[@PlayNiceFolks]

And, in the scene after this clip, Nemo tears Ned a new one for being a white imperialist dog. Kind of.

[@eperez7744]

The natives look like they're dancing 😂😂

[@wilberforceenterprises7259]

despite his classic cut-glass english accent, presumably the director made james mason say "pry-vacy" rather than "priv-acy" for the sake of an american audience?

[@rankoorovic7904]

African tribe on a Polynesian island??????

[@TMX1138]

Ranko Orović Actually, this was filmed in Jamaica.

[@rankoorovic7904]

@@TMX1138 How does that explain the africans there?

[@TMX1138]

Ranko Orović I mean, Jamaicans are also black. Ditto with The Bahamas.

[@rankoorovic7904]

@@TMX1138 Yeah,but these guys don't look like slaves that were broth to the americas they look like they never left Africa.

[@TMX1138]

Ranko Orović I think this was because the Caribbean islands were used as a stopping post during the slave trade (as several islands were European territory). Several modern Caribbeaners have descended from former slaves, like how a lot of Black/African Americans descended from former slaves.

[@africadancehall]

Il ressemble grqve a mcfly mdrr

[@youthfulcurmudgeon3627]

0:50 No comment 😉

[@wakeupjudah219]

Black Natives! I knew it

[@warrenschrader7481]

Culture shock

[@MafiaKingfishNOLA]

If you had a scene like that in a movie today some SJW would call it racism.

[@PlayNiceFolks]

It would be portrayed slightly different. But in the sublimely simplistic parlance of our times, Nemo is being quite "woke" here. He rebukes Ned for so casually entering their territory, and in the scene after this, he further lambasts the brash white man for his assumed privilege.

[@DestroyThoseThatDestroyUs]

Were the natives Black in the book? I don’t think so. Seems like Hollywood made the change 🤔

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Yeah. They certainly weren't white.

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Keep your weird neo politics out of this. This movie is a Holy Relic and is to be respected.

[@Turnajon]

This is the only part of the movie that I find objectionable. I don't like seeing Natives portrayed as bloodthirsty cannibals.

[@blockmasterscott]

A lot of them were.

[@asch7906]

It is not the tribal state (many tribes around the world welcome peaceful contact), it is rather the isolation, being stuck on that island since the dawn of humanity. The Sentinelese might not be cannibals, but they behave just like in that video with anyone who lands on their island. They even shoot arrows at helicopters.

[@Yngsatchvai]

I don't think it's being bloodthirsty as much as it is fear of anything unknown. About how I'd treat a grey alien plundering my bedroom. Id run or beat it down 😁

[@bluewolvesstudios2822]

If im not mistaken, they were off the coast of New Guinea and for centuries, most of the Polynesian, Melanesian, & Micronesian cultures were considered cannibalistic. Yet its been debatable over the years.

[@andrewlaxton50]

blockmasterscott maybe, but this is filmed back when Walt Disney was still alive 😬

[@wilfridwibblesworth2613]

I am offended! There is a shocking lack of diversity in the depiction of those cannibals, not one of them is white.

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Go away

[@thesenate2676]

0:47 is such a stereotype

[@asch7906]

Sentinelese people: "Hold my beer!" (*shoot at helicopters with arrows*)

[@razorshark9320]

This is one of my favorite parts of the movie. Love how Nemo is as calm as a gentle sea breeze and when the natives get shocked it's so funny. This movie is a masterpiece.

[@johnblackburn2237]

Happy 103rd Birthday Kirk Douglas

[@nathancruz9172]

John Blackburn but, he recently passed away of his natural causes for 3 months.