A Voyage to Lilliput

The book by Jonathan Swift begins with a very short preamble in which Gulliver, in the style of books of the time, gives a brief outline of his life and history prior to his voyages. He enjoys travelling, although it is that love of travel that is his downfall.

On his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and awakes to find himself a prisoner of a race of people one-twelfth the size of normal human beings, less than 6 inches (15 cm) high, who are inhabitants of the neighbouring and rival countries of Lilliput and Blefuscu. After giving assurances of his good behaviour, he is given a residence in Lilliput and becomes a favourite of the court. From there, the book follows Gulliver's observations on the Court of Lilliput. He is also given the permission to roam around the city on a condition he not harm their subjects. Gulliver assists the Lilliputians to subdue their neighbours the Blefuscudians by stealing their fleet. However, he refuses to reduce the country to a province of Lilliput, displeasing the King and the court. Gulliver is charged with treason and sentenced to be blinded. With the assistance of a kind friend, Gulliver escapes to Blefuscu, where he spots and retrieves an abandoned boat and sails out to be rescued by a passing ship which safely takes him back home.

In the film set in our time, Lemuel is a lowly mailroom guy working at a newspaper for over 10 years and dreams of being a writer. Stuck in a dead-end job, the Guitar Hero/Star Wars fanboy decides he has had enough.

Pepped by his assistant who becomes his boss in a span of two days, he approaches his long-time crush and the paper's travel editor Darcy Silverman (Peet) and in a bid to impress her, applies for a job as a trainee travel writer.

He is asked to give a writing sample, but cannot seem to come up with anything. He does a copy-paste job from a website and presents the piece to Darcy as his own. She likes what she sees and assigns Lemuel to go to the Bermuda Triangle and meet a man claiming to know its 'secret'.

Gulliver boards a boat that gets caught in a storm and eventually gets sucked underwater by a whirlpool of sorts.

When his eyes open, he finds himself tied down (literally) by several tiny men. One announces himself as the general, Edward and calls Gulliver 'The Beast'. He presents the giant to his king Theodore (Connolly) and princess Mary (Blunt).

As a captive, Lemuel is initally assigned slave duties, becomes friends with a guy named Horatio (Segel), who has a thing for the princess and has been held captive by the general for daring to.

A few rescues later (he saves the princess from a kidnapping attempt and the king from a fire), he becomes a honorary general and is given a grand mansion to live in, he builds a replica of Times Square and even does his own bootlegged versions of blockbusters like Titanic, Avatar et al.

The rival kingdom of Blefuscia attacks. In a freak revelation, Gulliver finds that he's indestructible and defeats them. Edward switches sides, creates a giant robot and shows Lemuel for the little man that he is. Shamed, he's asked to leave.

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