2022年2月1日 · Phileas Fogg is famous for travelling around the world in a hot air balloon. So the story goes, anyway – doesn’t it? Well, no! In Jules Verne’s 1872 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. Phileas Fogg attempts to circumnavigate the world in …

2017年3月10日 · It is amazing the amount of times that Jules Verne’s novel “around the world in 80 days” and its main character, the phlegmatic Phileas Fogg, have been used as a reference to hot air balloon flights.

2016年11月13日 · Phileas Fogg does not travel in a hot air balloon in Around the World In Eighty Days. Yes, there is a mention of such travel in Chapter 32, but the idea is dropped. The iconic symbol of the hot air balloon became associated with …

2022年1月18日 · Did you know that in Jules Verne’s Around The World In 80 Days, Phileas Fogg never actually flies in a hot air balloon? The hot air balloon is practically synonymous with the story,...

2014年7月19日 · The 1956 film adaptation starring David Niven, Cantinflas, and Shirley MacLaine added a bit where Fogg and his valet Passepartout travel from Paris to Spain in a hydrogen balloon (not even hot air). There were of course also other changes and additions, including a bullfight in Spain, partly to enhance the role of Passepartout, played by the ...

2023年4月5日 · Phileas Fogg makes significant use of a hot air balloon on his journeys, and that method of conveyance became the indelible image associated with Around the World in Eighty Days. In the original novel, a balloon is briefly mentioned as a possible means of travel and then never spoken of again.

Incidentally, Verne’s traveler Phileas Fogg does NOT use a hot air balloon in the book version of Around the World in Eighty Days. In the novel, Fogg travels by rail, boats (mostly steamers), an elephant, and a wind-powered sledge.

1999年3月29日 · Since 1981 there have been nearly 20 attempts to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon. Steve Fossett, a Chicago millionaire who attempted the feat five times, plunged into the Coral Sea after...

2024年6月27日 · Traveling around the world in a hot air balloon might seem a little crazy, but that’s exactly the premise of the Oscar-winning film Around the World in 80 Days 1956. The movie follows Englishman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) and his travel partner, Passepartout (Cantinflas), who, in answer to a bet, try to go around the globe in those 80 days.

On the way trying to get round the world in 80 days, Mr Phileas Fogg has stopped to help the Allies against the enemy. To help, Phileas is going up in the air in his hot-air balloon and mapping the enemy territory as well as locating and bombing enemy shacks.