Maybe, but remember that a journey down to visit Atlantis would be like going to the moon in our time -- technically possible, but so difficult that for most people, even archeologists, such a trip would be highly unlikely.
Also, later travelers would certainly have looked for a more direct route to Atlantis than by going all the way to Iceland and working their way toward the Mediterranean, meaning that the route Lindenbrook followed would not likely have been used by anyone seeking only to travel to Atlantis. They'd have sought a route using the environs around the Italian volcano.
Anyway, in thinking it over, I'm not so sure Lindenbrook's party "wrecked the route" to begin with. If anyone did that (or tried to), it was Count Saknussem, carving fake marks in at least one place along the way. But while the explorers did things like break the crystal wall and cause that flood, there's no indication that actually destroyed the route -- after all, they made it to the center of the Earth even with accidents and false leads. The original route should still be basically intact, and as they showed, alternate passages also existed.
But they did destroy Atlantis, inadvertently but definitely.
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Beeracuda
11 years ago
But while the explorers did things like break the crystal wall and cause that flood, there's no indication that actually destroyed the route
It's been several years since I've seen the movie, but wasn't the location of the crystal wall along the false route planted by Count Saknussem? If so, then the original route that they had intended to follow, before being sidetracked, should still be intact.
I would have to also say that the deep chasm they encountered with a phosphorescent pool at the bottom would also be worth investigating by future explorers.
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hobnob53
11 years ago
The crystal wall wasn't along the fake route planted by Saknussem, but you do point to a problem with the plot.
Well, first, they realize they've gone the wrong way when Alec falls off a ledge and is nearly killed. They then go back and find the fake three notches made by Saknussem. However, there they discover they can go another way that Gertrude the duck had instinctively wanted to go in the first place -- but there were no three notches marking Gertrude's route.
Obviously they had found an alternate path -- which proves that the OP's fear that the party had destroyed the only route incorrect: there are other routes. The crystal wall was along the new way they accidentally found, not Saknussem's fake route, but not the route pioneered by his ancestor, Arne Saknussem, either.
The plot problem is that they continue to talk about following the three notches even though they're now off the trail blazed by the first Saknussem. Maybe at some point the routes link up again, but there's no indication or mention of any of that.
I agree with you that that phosphorescent pool would be worth further study -- too bad the narrow rock bridge collapsed after Alec walked on it. Of course, if it was that fragile, it would've collapsed under someone else's weight anyway. But then, everything they find is worthy of further exploration. And part of that process should include discovering new routes to the center.
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whitelion43
11 years ago
I saw it today and the chrystal wall was WAS off the main trail. Only Alantis was destroyed and that was located AFTER the center of the Earth. and even that was unintentional
Oh GOOD!,my dog found the chainsaw
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