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More on H2G2, Including an Early Review
mwilli writes "Ain't It Cool has an early review of the upcoming Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. Along with the review is a short video showing Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, and Trillian and some pictures. Also, 'I understand that in the movie, Zaphod's second head is inside his nostril. And this all ties in with the increased prominence of the Church Of Arkleseizure in the movie (a race with fifty noses, and the first to develop the aerosol deodorant before the wheel) and their leader John Malkovich, who also has a second head, and Zaphod's unwillingness to sneeze.'"
Just a couple of points before anyone says "X isn't like the book".
a) The book and radio shows were quite different in a number of ways.
b) Douglas Adams actually wrote quite a bit of the script to this film. He said that it would be different to the books and the radio show.
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That's funny, since the news page on Douglas Adams Continuum where the picture link goes to, has this to say:
THE NATURE OF ZAPHODS SECOND HEAD REVEALED?
"In an additon to his test screen review on Ainitcool.com news earlier this week, "Cracker Thompson" makes an effort to set the reckord straight within the confusion his report caused, and to which a spoof news site added with stating that Zaphods head was located in his nostril:
"1) I was worried about Mos Def because the only thing I had ever see him do was General Cornrow Wallace on the Chappelle Show. Not because I didn't think he would screw up the character seeing as I haven't read the books.
2) Mos Def DOES NOT do a British accent in the movie.
3) Zaphod does have his third arm, and his second head DOES NOT come out of his nose, rather it comes from underneath his already existing head."
If this person has really seen the test screening, then this is the shit. Further speculation would in that case be rendered obsolete."
That's yesterday news, posted 21 dec.
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I think there is some confusion here.
The great green Arkelseizure was the creature who's nose the universe was sneezed out of. It is worshipped by the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI, which lives in fear of the time of the coming of the great white hankerchief.
It is in fact the Jatravartids that developed deodorant before the wheel, but it's because they had more than 50 ARMS each, not noses.
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a race with fifty noses, and the first to develop the aerosol deodorant before the wheel
Wouldn't that be fifty arms? Seems like a much more logical solution... (and the correct one, if I correctly remember the book...
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You can buy them from the BBC shop.
The newest one is pretty lame, as it DNA didn't write it - stick to the original ones (primary/secondary phases).
You'd have found it a lot funnier had you read the book. Best Two-page-chapter ever.
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Stephen Moore narrated the TV series as the 'voice of the book' Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
That's the Heart of Gold??!
It's a little smaller than I imagined it...
Blatant karma whoring, but still...
...
Lallafa had lived in the forests of the Long Lands of Effa. He lived there, and he wrote his poems there. He wrote them on pages made of dried habra leaves, without the benefit of education or correcting fluid. He wrote about the light in the forest, and what he thought about that. He wrote about the darkness in the forest and what he thought about that. He wrote about the girl who had left him and precisely what he thought about that.
Then, shortly after the invention of time travel, some major correcting fluid manufacturers wondered whether his poems might have been better still if he had access to some high-quality correcting fluid, and whether he might be persuaded to say a few words to that effect.
They traveled the time waves; they found him, and did indeed persuade him. In fact they persuaded him to such effect that he became extremely rich at their hands, and the girl about whom he was otherwise destined to write with such precision never got around to leaving him, and in fact they moved out of the forest to a rather nice pad in town and he frequently commuted to the future to do talk shows, on which he sparkled wittily.
He never got around to writing the poems, of course, which was a problem but an easily solved one. The manufacturers of correcting fluid simply packed him off for a week somewhere with a copy of a later edition of his book and stacks of dried habra leaves to copy them out onto, making the odd deliberate mistake and correction on the way.
Many people now say that the poems are suddenly worthless. Others argue that they are exactly the same as they always were, so what's changed? The first people say that that isn't the point. They aren't quite certain what the point is, but they are quite sure that that isn't it. They set up the Campaign for Real Time to try to stop this sort of thing going on. Their case was considerably strengthened by the fact that a week after they had set themselves up, news broke that not only had the great Cathedral of Chalesm been pulled down in order to build a new ion refinery, but that construction of the refinery had taken so long, and had had to extend so far back into the past in order to allow ion production to start on time, that the Cathedral of Chalesm had now never been built in the first place. Picture postcards of the cathedral suddenly became immensely valuable."
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I know that Douglas Adams changed elements of the plot himself - inconsistency is fine (welcome, in fact). It's just that I can't quite see a chronically depressed robot as cute and adorable. We're talking about a robot who who caused a computer to commit suicide by telling it his view on life, and all the while I can't help comparing the costume design to a mechanized teletubby. It just doesn't seem to fit somehow.
The only reservations I have (from what I know so far) are issues of production design rather than plot. As far as I know (and I may well be wrong) Douglas Adams wasn't involved in costume or set design for the production.
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"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
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Hey guys. Thought I'd pop by and offer some info. Douglas wrote the entire script. It was modified by Karey Kirkpatrick, director Garth Jennings and exec producer Robbie Stamp, who was friend and collegue of Douglas. Zaphod does not have a second head. It's a second face. It nests under his chin, and he brings it out by tilting his head back. The red flying bubble is the Heart of Gold rescue pod. The story will be losely, losely, based on the first novel. Every version of Hichhikers has been different, and the movie is no different. Ok, thanks. Dukey http://www.douglasadams.se
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It's science geek humour:
HHO == H2O
HHGttG == H2G2
Why do some people assume that anything they don't understand is "dumb"??
H2G2 is:
H2 = Hitch Hiker's (2 H's)
G2 = Guide (to the) Galaxy (2 G's)
When Adams put together the Internet version of the guide, he put it up at: http://h2g2.com/ It's still there, in fact...
If anything needed an abbreviation, it's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... Even just typing "Hitchhiker's" is somewhat cumbersome. I wouldn't blame this one on elitism.
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