Atlantis in popular culture: Difference between revisions

Before 1900 there was an overlap between verse epics dealing with the fall of Atlantis and novels with a pretension to fine writing which are now regarded as pioneering genre fiction. [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|20,000 Leagues Under The SeaSeas]]'' (1869/71) includes a visit to sunken Atlantis aboard Captain Nemo's submarine ''[[Nautilus (Verne)|Nautilus]]'' – with protagonists walking for miles over the sea bottom until reaching the impressive sunken ruins, an obvious impossibility (Verne was not aware of [[water pressure]] in the ocean deeps).<ref>[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/20,000_Leagues_Under_the_Seas_%28Walter%29/Chapter_33 Ch.33, "A Lost Continent"]</ref> In [[Elizabeth Birkmaier]]'s ''Poseidon's Paradise: the Romance of Atlantis'' (San Francisco 1892), the island sinks following an earthquake.<ref>Available [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t8w951q8r;view=1up;seq=9 online]</ref> [[C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne]] also depicted the end of Atlantis in his fantasy ''[[The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis]]'', first published in 1899. The main character there, the soldier-priest Deucalion, is unable to prevent the tragic decline of his continent under the rule of the evil queen Phorenice. And according to D. Bridgman-Metchim, the author of ''Atlantis, the Book of the Angels'' (London 1900), his account is an interpretation of the [[Book of Genesis]] which covers all the events which immediately preceded the [[Flood myth|Flood]], as recorded by one of the fallen angels.<ref>Available [https://archive.org/stream/atlantisbookofan00bridiala#page/n9/mode/2up online]</ref>

* In 1989–1990, Gainax of the NHK group of Animation producers in Japan based an Atlantis story on [[Jules Verne]]'s 1870 science fiction novel ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaSeas]]'', called ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]''. It has been speculated that many ideas from the Disney film ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]'' came from this Japanese anime television series, leading many of ''Nadia'' fans to accuse the film of plagiarism. The main character, Nadia, is a descendant of the Atlanteans, the lost princess of Atlantis. And the series' main villains, the Neo-Atlantean empire, pretend to recover the lost Blue Water stones of Atlantis and use them to rule the world.