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Alec McKuen

posted 9 years ago by nedeljkodjukic88
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Great movie, loved it as a kid, loved it after I saw it today. But, today I noticed that that character - Alec McKuen - was behaving too reckless and pretty annoying during the expedition. Almost every time we see him walking, he doesn't look in front of himself and often gets away from the group without paying attention at all on how he should get back. And he's a member of an expedition underneath of the Earth surface! Professor Lidenbrock was worried about taking a woman with them - he should've been worried about McKuen.

[–] puirt-a-beul 9 years ago

Agreed. I assume he took McKuen because it was he who gave him the lava chunk that contained the plumb-bob, not because he was a star pupil.

Mind you, the Prof isn't so canny himself. For instance, he knows Göterborg was murdered by Saknussem to steal the expedition information, so should have expected to encounter Saknussem somewhere along the way -- but he doesn't think to look for him either at the crater on the one day the path will be revealed, nor in the caverns afterwards. And every time Carla says she hears other people moving in the dark, he says it's just her imagination. Even if only to protect themselves from attack, they should have tried to know where Saknussem was.

In the end, he's lucky Saknussem was there; without him, they would have still been stranded on the shore of the underground sea.

You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

[–] aliholly-62819 8 years ago

He's not nearly as bad as his equivalent in the book, Harry (I believe his name is). My word he was annoying in the book

[–] 8 years ago

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[–] aliholly-62819 8 years ago

In the version I read the characters were Professor Hardwigg and Harry.