Making of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Thanks for this DB!
Oh dudes, you know I'd totally tap that...Wait that's a robot, not a keg.
Props on Sam Rockwells part, that animal hasn't made a bad film yet.
@Ruckus Your're welcome, dude, no problemo.
@Koog-meister Rockwell qualifies as a dude perhaps?
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Quote from: DigitalBuddha on April 15, 2012, 10:37:40 PM
@Koog-meister Rockwell qualifies as a dude perhaps?
I would say so. Throw em on the list!
i suspect i will have to fire up the dvd player later tonight to enjoy the full movie now this thread has sparked my appetite :)
Quote from: milnie on April 16, 2012, 11:28:04 AM
i suspect i will have to fire up the dvd player later tonight to enjoy the full movie now this thread has sparked my appetite :)
Its a great flick, zesty coitus with Trilian would be cool. ;D Fuckin' eh!
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you wait years to see some thing awesome and they produce this crap.Total dissapointment.All the characters were wrong.
agreed the film is flawed, not a patch on the original BBC series or even better the radio series (just worked out I must have been 8 when I first heard it), although I must admit you can't do any harm with the addition of Zooey.
Quote from: Zen Dog on October 23, 2012, 04:57:56 AM
you wait years to see some thing awesome and they produce this crap.Total dissapointment.All the characters were wrong.
Douglas Adams was heavily involved in the film right up until he died. I would hope they didn't mess too much with what he did.
If you look at different incarnations Adams continued to play with the story. Compare the original radio series (the one on the vinyl) to what is released on CD (both have huge divergences), to the TV series (again different), to the books.
I don't think you can blame all of the changes on the film , Adams was an itinerant fiddler when it came to H2G2.
The BBC Radio drama and Adam's books were British in flavor; British humor, British culture, British terminology - "like going Basil Stone round-a-bout on a moped." When Disney took it over (a decidedly American company) that changed the feel of the story to one strongly affected by American movie culture, but with an American attempt to leave in some of the British innuendo, so what they ended up with was a hy-brid movie of both cultures; that is to say American actors and American style trying to cope with and deliver some humorous British culture and view point.
It worked to some degree, but if you were like me, someone who has listened to the BBC radio drama for years, it took some getting used to. You could almost say the movie was only "inspired by" Douglas Adam's books and the BBC drama, but it was more than just inspired by it given that the movie did adhere to much of the, as meekon5 points out, itinerant fiddling of Adam's, who was famous for re-writing key elements of the story line after they had been published or performed.
Yes, there were British actors in the movie; but the fact of the American influence in it's production had a profound affect on what the final theater offering was. It's an American version of a strongly British story. I chock it up as another chapter in the now classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy franchise and history.
;D Have to say; one thing they got right, the female form, Trillian.........
See - http://spacewiki.com/Trillian_%28Tricia_McMillan%29 (http://spacewiki.com/Trillian_%28Tricia_McMillan%29)
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Also check out - http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy.html?id=zhOCPwAACAAJ (http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy.html?id=zhOCPwAACAAJ)
A typical British round-a-bout...........
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.....This is all just like my opinion, man.
DB Note; only Douglas Adams could come up with something like an "SEP" ...the "Somebody Else's Problem" field. See - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Problem)
SEP field works for me all the time.
That round about is quite famous in civil engineers circles as I think it is one of three in the uk where you drive round it the wrong way, ie anti clockwise.
And on topic, the spade in the face scene still cracks me up
Quote from: milnie on October 24, 2012, 05:09:45 PM
That round about is quite famous in civil engineers circles as I think it is one of three in the uk where you drive round it the wrong way, ie anti clockwise.
And on topic, the spade in the face scene still cracks me up
LMAO!! Yeah, that is a classic scene!
FYI; the BBC produced a mini series of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy with most of the characters from the Original BBC Radio drama of it. I have it on my computer. In many ways, IMHO, it's a lot better than the movie.....
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