Unfortunately, he has his love for his uncle's ward on the brain, and the phrase he codes is that he loves her.
AFTER EARTH MOVIE AUTHOR CODE
Fee Fi Faux Pas: At the beginning of the book, the narrator, having broken an ancient explorer's code, shows his uncle how the code is written.Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: Everything's better with ancient marine reptiles.Eccentric Mentor: Professor Otto Lidenbrock of the Johanneum in Hamburg.Dub Name Change: Some editions of the novel change Axel's name to "Harry Lawson", Lidenbrock's name to " Von Hardwigg" and/or Graüben to Gretchen.Some editions avoid this by having them be carried up by water (which was the case for the first part of the ascent), the implication being that lava below has caused a geyser-effect to blow them out of the volcano. Convection Schmonvection: The explorers are carried up the tube of a volcano by lava on their raft of fossilized wood (an asbestos dish in the 1959 movie, a dinosaur skull in the 2008 one) which in real life would get them cooked alive (Axel notes the temperature rises to 70☌).Axel sees himself as the Only Sane Man, with Professor Otto Lidenbrock as the idiotic leader and Hans as the even more idiotic follower. Comic Trio: Notably lampshaded, proving that this trope is older than the Three Stooges.Most people who attend his lectures are there to watch him struggle with the recalcitrant term until he manages to spit it out. Come to Gawk: Lidenbrock has a problem saying certain complicated scientific words, leading to a lot of histrionics on his part.Cargo Envy: Axel's sweetheart Grauben is an amateur geologist who spends time classifying rock samples, and Axel states he's quite jealous of the minerals she's cleaning.Break the Scientist: Invoked, as Axel knows the whole concept of a hollow-earth journey makes absolutely no sense (see the "Science Marches On" entry on the Trivia page).Beneath the Earth: The bulk of the novel takes place in a mazelike complex of caverns beneath the Earth, going from lava tubes nearest to the surface to more and more complex cave systems deeper down, ending with the enormous cavern that houses the Lidenbrock Sea.Behemoth Battle: The Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur are so huge they're first thought to be five separate giant animals as different parts of their bodies emerge (a porpoise, an iguana, and a crocodile for the first, a sea serpent and giant turtle for the second).This is generally considered the only good thing to come from the awful 1871 translation. Some translations, including the German one, call her Gretchen instead. As Long as It Sounds Foreign: "Graüben" is not even close to an actual German name the sequence "aü" is virtually non-existent in German.