The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Explained

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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:50 Starting the league
10:44 Paris
17:06 Venice
24:10 M's Summer Retreat
33:02 Favorite and strongest member
34:55 Final Thoughts

[enriquecabrera]

The legend says AFRICA wont let Alan die. He died outside of Africa. When he was brought back, Africa would deny him death.

[teejaylecapois]

Stuart Townsend was born to portray charming, sociopathic Immortals. He rocked as Lestat the vampire and as Dorian Gray. Great actor. This was Sir Sean Connery's last big movie. RIP to an absolute Legend.

[geoffchurchill]

you have to realise that Quartermain is a fiction hero too, from the book King Solomon's mines, he's basically the blueprint for Indiana Jones so He's an early superhero too

[George-Hawthorne]

30:10 Actually Alan figuring out who M is makes sense, since there were several clues sprinkled out beforehand.
1) During the fight at Dorian's house One of the Phantom's main henchmen says, "Run James." as he fights Alan.
2) In the audio recording a woman says "Ready Professor."
Between these, it wouldn't be hard to figure out that the M stands for Moriarty.

[Darkwarlord]

This, Mummy 1/2 and Van Helsing are peak early 2000s kino

[ItsAVolcano]

Nemo felt like a character from another movie that we never got a chance to see. I would've loved even a small flashback of his operations against the British in India.

[Cyrath]

Dorian is my favorite. I like the elegancy and his snarky comments 😂 "im an immortal not a gazelle!"

[stephanieandstephenvanzant]

You so right about Batman, even the car is like the Bats, just white.

[Thomas-fyyc]

The biggest problem with this film is that the average audience is pretty ignorant of these classic characters, so without the exposition that is present in most modern movies to provide backstory, I’ve always had to pause the movie to answer questions from family watching this with me.
As an enthusiast of these stories, I thoroughly enjoyed this film and always had hoped for a sequel that never happened.

[ginastelladifuoco]

In the original Dorian Gray novel, the guy who painted the portrait was the devil in disguise and granted Dorian's wish. Dorian was also a serial killer.

[felixfeliciano]

It is worth noting Tom Sawyer isn't just a random American Classical character thrown in for name recognition. In the books, Tom is an adventurous kid with a fairly strong sense of justice and authority. So of course he would be the one to want to join a group of superheroes to stop a supervillain.

Favorite character is probably Captain Nemo but all of them are great in their own way and I love them all.

[greyhawk]

Mina is absolutely gorgeous, and the actress was and still is. I love the way they portrayed every character. No one could have done Quatermain but Connery. The casting was awesomely done. I still would have liked a bit more though. Perhaps a few reveals along the way of the back stories. Excellent video thank you 👏 👏 👏

[DehydratedDiety]

I do like how its the same actor playing both Jekyll and Hyde...Hyde is like 90-95% practical too. The CGI was reserved for Skinner and that abomination at the end lol

[zerocash]

Dorian grey - Oscar Wilde
The invisible man - H.G. Wells
Nemo - Jules Verne
Mina - Bram Stoker
Allan Quatermain - H.R. Haggard
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert L. Stevenson

Brilliant charaters and a genius move by the comic book creators putting them togheter

[Mereologist]

Actually, Jules Verne explained Captain Nemo's background more fully in the work, 'The Mysterious Island'. He actually is Prince Dakkar, the son of an Indian raja of the region of Bundelkhand, and a descendant of the Sultan Fateh Ali Khan Tipu. He lost his entire family in a rebellion and then devoted his life to science. So the movie invented none of this.

[itsamindgame]

The whole crystals and radio frequencies has nothing to do with new age mysticism. Crystals really do vibrate at certain frequencies, which is why quartz watches exist and crystal radio sets.

[hasturthekinginyellow]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is one of my favorite movies ever, the whole idea of notable characters of literature all working together is one that really tickles my brain.
I actually made my own League with my favorite book characters (Adam Frankenstein, Wilbur Whateley, Sandokan, Jean-Baptise Grenouille, Ishmael & Queequeg, etc) and even wrote some stories but i have lost them.

[davidmoore]

I loved this movie so much. Still makes me laugh that apparently it flopping was why Sean Connery stopped acting. Everything I've heard about it was he passed on the role of Gandalf for LOTR thinking it wouldn't do well and when LOTR took off he realized he's a bit out of touch with what people want to see, so when he saw another movie he thought would flop he went "Clearly this will do well since I don't like it!"

[alansoler]

Bro this is one of my favorite movies and definitely is

[starhalv]

If she has the same weaknesses as Dracula, Mina can survive sunlight but cannot transform while under it. And can't cross running water, which in this story probably just means she can't swim and that's why if the ship sank she would be pretty much dead