During the film, why they didn't include a running tab on the day number they were on in each scene? They had 80 days and it is not known on how close they were to that number. I would have thought that would have made it more "suspenseful".
shareYes, but that way, the audience would have known that Fogg still had a day left at the end, having miscalculated the date. I guess Mike Todd wanted to stay true to Verne.
On the other hand, as Alfred Hitchcock said, to evoke real suspense you have to give the audience information. The audience would have been on the edge of its seat yelling at Fogg that he still had a few hours left, even as he fussed around doing nothing but ruing his defeat.
Then again unlike now Most people had read the book before they went to see the movie so they would of been in on the Joke. An why would you need to know what day it was on a count down like that it would of been useless information for the audience to handle.
There is more Gravy about you then the Grave. Scrooge.
I don't think knowing what day it was would have been "useless" to the audience. But on the other hand it wasn't really necessary. And we do get some updates on Fogg's progress throughout the film (as the boys back in London keep tabs on his whereabouts).
shareMost people had read the book before they went to see the movie
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"That's not how I remember it."
I too doubt that most people had read the book in 1958, although it was probably on many high school and college reading lists. However, the suspense could have been upped without giving away the whole ending if there had been some clue about the International Date Line somewhere (not, obviously, in any conversation that included Fogg).
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