Andrew Probert's
Waterline Nautilus
Andrew Probert's
Nautilus Interior
| Andrew's calls this the long version. He has taken a different approach to the impossible task of fitting the interior compartments depicted in the movie with the scale movie Nautilus exterior. Tom Scherman made many attempts to blend the two and it was always a compromise. In this version, Andrew has elongated the Nautilus body to fit the interior. The first picture is Andrew's "long" waterline model and below that is the adjusted interior diagram he is currently working on. |
Andrew states that both of the drawings below are the
same the same scale and now you can really appreciate
how much elongation has been applied. Additional comments by Andrew below these two drawings.
I just thought that people would get a kick out of seeing yet another interior so I sent my version. I was, however, so careful to maintain the submarine's general proportions that I didn't think about how much it would throw people's perceptions of how great the differences were.
Some areas are unlabeled like (from front to back) the chain locker, armory (with forward ballast below), crew's quarters (under the salon), and 'glory hole' below the crew's galley. Notice the door between the chart room & salon behind which is (in my mind) Nemo's galley on the starboard side, the port side having that corridor to the forward cabins and deck hatch. Notice also my playing with the idea of a door in the side of the dingy, as described in the book. And speaking of that, I was glad to see someone's posted page of interior comparisons from the original book. I also did a version from Verne's book and only transposed the salon & library to make everything work; an interesting exercise indeed.
Yes, I do understand that the movie interior & exterior sets were built to support a script. And the sets were so beautifully designed and lit (try to find all the lights,...an AMAZING job) that it all looks like it could work (except for that silly central corridor aft of the salon). Nevertheless, it is fun for us fans to imagine the rest of the...submarine or flying saucer or starship interiors, whatever, but it's usually frustrating because most Hollywood designers aren't trained to account for those 'unnecessary' spaces. Not needed, they become an indulgence for which production time doesn't allow. My Industrial Design education, however, makes it hard for me to ignore that sort of overall thinking when designing something, so I at least block in those unused spaces. As an example, here's an under-construction page from an unrealized film project I worked on: http://probertdesigns.com/Folder_DESIGN/STARHUNT_Int2.html
