#robur the conqueror

[20kmemesunderthesea]

💐Cute Date Ideas💐

Fighting a kraken.

Spelunking, discovering either a hidden biome or an underground city.

Exploring the ruins of Atlantis by the light of an underwater volcano.

Deciphering ancient runes.

Betting your life savings that you can circumnavigate the globe within a limited amount of time.

Scouring the globe for clues to the whereabouts of missing persons.

✨Revolution✨

Using a questionable mode of transportation to cross a large continent with limited supplies.

Getting kidnapped by airship pirates.

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The Changeling of Westminster: Intro to Dr.Jekyll/Mr.Hyde

Age: 58

Species: Human

Pronouns: He/Him

Description: Jekyll is tall, wears glasses, with dark thinning sideburns, and wide hands. Hyde is short, with long dark brown hair, acid green eyes, bulldog faced, snub nosed, with an underbite. Has long teeth, course, hairy hands, and spindly sharp nailed fingers. Everyone finds him deeply off putting and hates him on sight.

Backstory:

Dr.Henry Jekyll was from a well to do, good Christian upper class medical family. At Oxford he met Ian Griffin, including Hastie Lanyon, Gabriel Utterson, Abraham Van Helsing, Moreau, and Robur. Away from his restrictive home, Jekyll became known for practicing dark magic, heavy drinking, fighting, and beginning a relationship with Ian. On an expedition to the arctic Jekyll and Ian met Victor Frankenstein’s homunculus. Afterwards Jekyll went on the straight an narrow, cutting out his "bad associations", and becoming a respected member of the community. After years of no contact Ian blackmailed him into helping him hide the changeling, Henry, left in place of his nephew. At twelve Henry became Jekyll's apprentice. By then Jekyll had begun cracking under the pressure society and projected his issues onto Henry. Around this time he created the serum that turned him into his alter ego, Edward Hyde. Hyde has no inhibitions, is aggressive, violent, emotionally volatile, opinionated, brutally honest, promiscuous, openly gay, and practices outlawed magic. Jekyll uses Hyde as an excuse to not take responsibility for his actions. As the plot unfolds he turns into Hyde to stalk Henry's activity across London.

On the sliding scale of The Glass Scientists to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, my version of Jekyll and Hyde is somewhere in the middle. He's not a toothless Tumblr sexyman, but he doesn't go as far the Alan Moore version. His repressed traits are a mix of genuinely awful and only evil by Victorian standards. If anything he's more comparable to Clay Puppington from Moral Orel, a repressed, hypocritical and kind of pathetic patriarch who psychologically fucks up the wide eyed hero who idolizes him.

[20kmemesunderthesea]

I just read “The Master of the World” partly because of THIS post and I didn’t see any mention of my man Nemo. ☹️ Where was he mentioned? Did I miss something?

However, my personal headcannon is that the unidentified submersible in the ocean was actually The Nautilus rather than The Terror. 😏

I love so much when Monsieur Verne mentions his books in his other books. Captain Hatteras in the Fur Country, Captain Nemo in the Master of the World. This makes me very happy ♡♥︎♡♥︎♡♥︎

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I'm trying to get back into Robur the Conqueror (finally) while I’m drawing. Because I've always started it and never finished it. Like so many other things since I became a mum. Well… Sorry Jules, but I feel like I'm reading 20,000 leagues under the sea, but the aliexpress version 😂 I knew it had the very same construction but there isn’t any interesting character for now. Plus it's more than embarrassingly racist 🫠.

I found that Nab, from Mysterious Island, or the Papua naturals from 20,000 Leagues were much more « « « respectfully » » » approached than in Robur. It was the 19th century etc, so admittedly we could have done 10000x better today (ahem…) , but in Robur I … er … anyway. We'll try to finish for general culture but it's boring 🤨

[anumberofhobbies]

Jules Verne Albatros | flying RC model | 4K | Nesvacily 2023

Jun 13, 2024  ✪ Members first on May 8, 2024  #albatros #julesverne RC model Albatros, built as pictured in the book in Jules Verne's book "Robur the Conqueror", weight 10,5kg/23lb. Electric powered - 40 pcs electric motors, 40 pcs ESC, 78 pcs propellers, 10 pcs batteries. Builder and pilot Jaroslav Hrasek. RC model airshow Nesvacilske podivani 2023. RC model airport Nesvacily CZ, 9.9.2023.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Captain Nemo II - Aerial Boogaloo

Vincent Price as Robur - Master of the World (1961)

[nelc]

Movie poster for Jules Verne's Master of the World

[nautilus1954]

Just some random bullshit for my captains out there X]

[siryl]

A digital painting by Matthew Teevan of the airship Albatross from the 1961 film Master of the World.

[20kmemesunderthesea]

YES!

[20kmemesunderthesea]

Captain Nemo reviewing Robur’s designs for the “Albatross” and the “Terror:”

[bamisuke]

rob&nem

[jules-verne-propaganda]

I probably could have said this before, but five days ago I got my first tattoo and it's the "Terror"! ✨️🎉

[mrdrzezstchkowitzatyourservice]

I always see people comparing Robur the Conqueror to Captain Nemo and you know? I can definitely see it premise-wise, but as soon as you look beyond that it makes zero sense whatsoever because their personalities are so drastically different. Because Nemo, at least, has a desire to do good and to help people, (which may or may not be in the most appealing way, but anything works) while Robur, who does have the capacity for good, is more or less defined as a self-destructive, raging narcissist. Critics can scream “Captain Nemo ripoff!” all they want, but it doesn’t change the fact that one of these people would avenge me if I were wronged while the other would say “lmao don’t care” before shoving me off a 7 story building in a fit of rage

[brokehorrorfan]

Master of the World will be released on Blu-ray on August 31 via Kino Lorber Studio Classics. The 1961 science fiction adventure film comes with a limited edition slipcover.

William Witney (Adventures of Captain Marvel) directs from a script by Richard Matheson (The Twilight Zone), based on Jules Verne's Robur the Conqueror and Master of the World novels. Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster, and Richard Harrison star.

Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by actor David Frankham

Audio commentary by film historians Tom Weaver, David Schecter, Richard Heft and Vincent Price biographer Lucy Chase Williams

Richard Matheson: Storyteller

Theatrical trailer

A mad inventor known only as Robur (Vincent Price) kidnaps a team on a government expedition to investigate a mysterious crater in Pennsylvania. The team is taken aboard Robur's fantastically engineered airship, the "Albatross," which Robur plans to fly around the world to various military installations in his desperate desire to eradicate weapons of mass destruction, thereby bringing about world peace. The kidnapped team's leader, John Strock (Charles Bronson), responds by planning an uprising. 

Pre-order Master of the World from Amazon.

[jules-verne-propaganda]

Master of the World, 1961