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HitchHiker's Documentary Scheduled for May 11 Release
Trazk writes: "Taken from the DA News Website: One year to the date of his death, Douglas Adams, renowned author of the best-selling cult classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, will be remembered in an 80-minute documentary film entitled Life, The Universe, and Douglas Adams. The production, by Joel Greengrass and Rick Mueller, will be available May 11 on VHS.
The press release can be found at the Douglas Adams' Website"
...but I sure hope the film does something to highlight the quality for which he is most beloved. Strange that the press report didn't mention it.
Do you suppose the movie will be funny?
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Is this a record?
I attended a talk given by Douglas at the University of Washington a few years before he passed away. It was amusing, but for someone who is not familiar with him or his work, he would have appeared somewhat run of the mill.
That was the remarkable thing. It reminded me that many of us, free to imagine, invent, and run amok can create things to amuse and amaze. Most of us appear unremarkable, but we don't have to be. We only have to let ourselves escape the adulthood we have been trained to achieve and have fun with life.
I will forever remember Douglas Adams as a person who inspired me to be free and fun.
It's disturbing to know that after 2 million years, we are still making documentaries of each other. At least we, sooner or later, did invent fire and the wheel. Come to think of it, we ARE using green paper as our currency... hmm and destroying all the forests... worrying about what color our computers are going to be.. damn, where's my towl? It's nice to know, though, that Billy Gates and company will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
so don't forget to be nice to each other,
Doug
The production, by Joel Greengrass and Rick Mueller, will be available May 11 on VHS.
Did Rick's brother Stavros put up the money for this?
Perhaps if the documentary is popular enough the market will be demonstrated for a movie. The screenplay is already written and there *IS* a worldwide fan base. CGI might well reduce the costs to where a profit could be made.
And to the people saying "well, he wrote ONE good book" and the like a simple question: what wildly beloved and world famous work have YOU done?
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."
Anybody else remember a TechTV's "Big Thinkers" where they interviewed Adams just a few days before his death? I found it to be a good memory of him after watching that one. Douglas' books are fun and hilarious, I've read the first 2 hitchhiker's books so far and I want to read Last Chance To See by him as well, I heard good things about it.
Actually, if you're going to argue that Adams only had one great work, you should push for the radio series. The radio series was brilliant, and was really the foundation for everything else. Personally I like all the books except mostly harmless, which had some good bits but overall seemed to be DA desperately trying to put a VERY final stake in HHG so he wouldn't be asked to write any more of them. I think he might've actually said that at some point...
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Actually, he wrote the HHGTTG radio series (really, the first sci-fi/humour ever), upon which the first three books were based, then followed up with 2 (almost 3) more books, both of which are quite good. The series also inspired both the Starship Titanic book and game. There was a TV series based on the radio series. Adams also made the HHGTTG game, and made another text-based game, Bureaucracy. He also wrote two Dirk Gently novels, a couple of good short stories, and co-authored Last Chance to See, The Meaning of Liff, and its expansion, The Deeper Meaning of Liff. As mentioned, he wrote some Doctor Who episodes. He also helped start the beginning of a Guide, h2g2.
BTW, J.D. Salinger's only actual book so far, was The Catcher in the Rye; Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird, and I'd like to see you argue that Salinger or Lee was mediocre to an English teacher. And if we want to do as you did, we can say that all Tolkien did was write Middle-Earth books, that James Fenimore Cooper only wrote the Leatherstocking Tales, that Frank Herbert only wrote Dune and sequels to it, and that Orson Scott Card only wrote Ender's Game and sequels to it. Few people know of more than one work by Ken Kesey, William Golding, Herman Melville, or Miguel de Cervantes. On the other hand R.L. Stine wrote masses of Goosebumps books, and he is not a great author. It is best to write masses of great/good books, but it is better to write one great or a few good books than it is to write masses of mediocre books.