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New Cast Information For 'Hitchhiker's' Movie
Kathleen writes "I was listening to the old Hitchiker's radio plays, and feeling nostalgic, I decide to check out how the movie version was going along. Well, they've filled out some important parts, Zaphod and Marvin have been cast. Zaphod is played by Sam Rockwell who's most recently been in Matchstick Men and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Marvin is being played by Warwick Davis (Who was Willow Ufgood in Willow). Slartibartfast will be played by Bill Nighy. This news is a little distressing, since I was under the impression that Stephen Moore would still be handling the voice of Marvin."
Who is playing the Vogons? I vote for Jim Carrey, but that might be too graphic for most people. I mean, I can't handle him reading normal lines. What will Vogon poetry sound like in the mouth of the child of satan himself?
SAILING MISHAP
I, for one, welcome the return of our old Vogon overlords.
c++;
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There once was a robot from Sirius
His lust for my gold was quite serious
He let out a cry
As I punctured his eye
Now he's depressed and delirious!
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I'm Thrilled!
This means that one of my favorite stories will feature one of my favorite Televsion personalities!
Bill Nighy the Science Guy will be in HHGTG!
Wow. What's that? Nye? Not Nighy?
James Earl Jones would be good, though a more British accent would probably fit better. Maybe Sean Connery? Picure James Bond saying, "Oddly enough, the only thought that went through the bowl of petunia's mind was, 'Oh no, not again.'"
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And why not cast Darl as a Vogon?
-- "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong." -- HL Mencken
Movies never live up to the books, I predict critics will give this a SIX * NINE out of a hundred rating.
This explains soooo much! He wasn't a paranoid android, he was just self-conscious about his height! Really, there needs to be a support group for midget robots.
Wait, no, that's not politically correct! What is the PC term for those like Marvin?
"Little Androids?"
"Dwarfbots?"
"Vertically Challenged Metallic Artificial Persons?"
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Almost as bad as Vogon poetry.
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
OK, so does this mean that we're getting a Marvin of small statue and squeaky voice? I do hope not. In the pevious discussion I made some snide remarks about the studios changing Marvin into a C3-PO like character. Maybe I didn't go far enough with my cynicisum, they maybe making him into a cross between R2-D2 and an Ewok. (eek! :-))
I can see that the producers might be one of the first against the wall when the revolution comes. (After the board of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, of course.)
Agrajag: "Oh no, not again!"
Since it's not a BBC production, it stands a chance of having production values above that of a 2nd grade art class.
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
Wait a minute. That second single quote be escaped.
New Cast Information For 'Hitchhiker\'s' Movie
Still, if he gets to wear Dr. Theopolis as bling...
But with these clothes it's not seen
To it I will write
An ode full of spite
As a leprechaun, I'm most obscene
A finitely improbable clover
Of these I am no lo-ver
But even look at me gold
And a grudge I will hold
And for you, it will all be over
The size of a planet, my brain
For me gold, I'll cut you in twain
And then you'll be dead
The last thought in your head
Will be "Oh no, not again."
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I too would like to subscribe to his newsletter, if only to teach him how to swear more effectively.
Nunshitting Jesusfucker! Cuntpunching Popefelcher! You couldn't swear your way out of a Baptist church Easter brunch social, you impotent swillfuck! Jackdaw canner! Guttersnipe! Lame excuse for metabolisation! MOLESTER OF BEACHED WHALES. My fucking dead squirrel-eating grandma swears better than you, you shitfucking asspansy!
(Is my grandma a fucking dead eater of squirrels or a live fucking eater of dead squirrels? Pick one!)
Mouthbreathing monosyllabistic skin-waste! You're a disease, a fistula of unrelenting remorse! A fire-hydrant once refused your twisted and regrettable sexual advances. You're a mistake even in your own eyes! Your mom only birthed you because she couldn't stand touching you! You're an offal-eater! A fencepost humping wretch! Crow-eater! Scab-picking filth! Shitpissing fucktard of unrelentingness! Ni!
Man, in some ways that picture is almost as disturbing as the 912 robot/manlove one.
Yeah, the robot is tall. The chest cavity where the little person is stuffed is not.
I imagine the casting document went something like this:
Needed: Little person with a SAG card, a bit of marquee recongnition, and a proven ability to turn in a mechanical performance.
Pretty much narrowed the field down.
Kinda like when Rob Reiner was asked why he took a chance on casting Andre the Giant in a movie:
"The script said "giant.""
KFG
...as ford prefect :)
Sam Rockwell is Zaphod...
Who plays the other head???
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Which of these looks more like the kind of product that would actually be marketed as "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with?"
Oh yeah. I really need my sarcasm detector serviced.
here's a snippit, I doubt anyone can place this piece... heh...
title: "On the daft"
'Hardy', says Jip Bottomless, 'Have you sworn to the daft?'
'Of course moose', saible Hippy Shambles 'eye boat the kindness of dislodging the lives and diapers of follow hungells!'
'Follow hungells! They bar exemptifies. They bar Confusilistic Picks!', yellops Jip Bottomless, 'I thunk the arly defisition we Ameranians shook may obble one. Obble Abbly, Naibly, Air Faible, or Maible.'
'Wax the diversifixion between Ameranians & Raxations? Deer all hungells! Nobble bumby should have two sworn to the daft. Nobble bumby should hax in dislodging the lives and diapers of follow hungells!!'
'Well we have to seed the armble vase glowing, because they harble more nookly-hobble-boobs then we. Besides they slopped dapped our arlycopter from the spies, so we have to venge of gettance!' exlamps Jip Bottomless.
'Venging gettance won't proud anyhomble' says Hippy Shambles, 'and remuddle what Ghumby says, 'an eyesore for an eyesore mabbles the hip hungell vase blind.'
Actors are absolutely the worst things in the world, and there are none worse than Stephen Moore. Of course, Warwick Davis is even worse than that. His very presence gives me a pain on all the diodes down my left side.
I suppose it's to be expected, what with my brain the size of a planet and everyone being so dreadfully stupid. I suppose an excrutiatingly bad representation of Marvin is as inevitable as the rest of the unspeakably dreary monotony that is my life. Life! Don't talk to me about life. I'm not getting you down, am I? Because I'd hate to think that I was getting you down.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Doesn't Sean Connery pretty much have his own accent, independent of any country?
Example phrase: "Well, isn't that interesting?"
English (cockney): "Wew, in't da' intrestin', luv?"
Scottish: "Wael, ehsn't dat interestin', ya bloody bastard?"
Sean Connery: "Wahl, izhn't thaht intereshting, Alexsh? I believe I had sexsh with your mother lahsht night..."
Of course, IANADC* so I admit the above may be a bit crude in translation, but I think it makes my point (all apologies to the English, Scottish, and Alex Trebek's mother).
*DC = "Dialect Coach"
"OK, what's the pitch?"
"Well, these alien Vogons destroy Earth so this English guy chases them across the Galaxy, destroys the Universe in revenge, and then learns the ultimate meaning of everything from some mice."
"I like it - but we have to make some changes...
Let's change Ford Prefect to Ford Pinto, Arthur Dent to Art Bump, Vogons to Russians (with English accents, the mice to Santa Claus, and the answer to the ultimate question is a big hug. Then the kid says, 'I love you Daddy'. Now that's a movie!"
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