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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.'"
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(Sorry, couldn't resist, gotta read that book though)
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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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I, for one, welcome our new snot-nosed gods.
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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 would be very disappointed if the movie failed to achieve the level of inconsistancy that we have all come to expect.
;)
"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
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.
do your worst...
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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It is quite clearly this kind of senseless mucking about in the space time continuim that has caused so many problems in the universe today (and yesterday and tomorrow). We at the Campaign for Real Time will not stand for this blatant disregard for historical preservation, by which we mean actually preserving history itself and not only its relics.
You sir may expect a call for our lawyers. I certainly hope you had the foresight during your forrays into the past to deposit a few cents in a high interest bank account because you will need that money.
Have a nice diurnal anomoly.
And don't panic.
"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
Just a quick story. Several years ago I had the misfortune to work for a rather a large but crap european company. A fellow contractor reached his limit and decided to quit. Just before leaving the building, he mailed the _entire_ and I mean entire company mailing lists, staff, clients, suppliers, everyone with the message "So long and thanks for all the fish".
Shortly afterwards the mailservers melted under all the "Fish? what fish?" responses. Nice.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Everyone read the books. NOW.
Before the film comes out.
It might get popular after the film or something and not be so geeky...
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
.. is destined to be the next great sex symbol for nerdy sci-fi fan adolescents and straight-men-preteding-to-like-indie-art-movies alike. Comic Book Guy and The Critic both agree that she's hot. Look out Natalie Portman and Liv Tyler. Move over Daria and that chick from "Ghost World". And she can sing, too.
where there's fish, there's cats
"Also, how is he supposed to look depressed if he doesnt have a face!!" The radio series conveyed Marvin's depression exceedingly well, and I don't remember seeing his face...and anything is better than the BBC TV version. As long as Warwick Davis is a good as Stephen Moore (who played him on the BBC series)...
But he does look depressed! See the sad little triangles he has on the lower half of his droopy head!
That last one at least isn't entirely true, I really hope that this movie is as great as the book(s). Even the BBC Radio and television series were all well done, and entertaining, and I remember fondly comparing (heatedly) the differences in all of them with my friends like bible scholars compare the different gospels
But with DA gone, I wonder if the spark went with him. I hope not.
I saw a trailer for this at the beginning of "National Treasure" this last weekend. It showed the earth in space, while Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" played in the background. Then the earth blows up... and they say the tagline "The greatest adventure in the unverse begins when the world ends." Enter H2G2 logo, cut, print.
...But I digress. TREMBLE PUNY HUMANS!ONE DAY MY SPECIES WILL DESTROY YOU ALL!
Nice to see you, Mr. Wallace. How's that wheelchair treating you?
You ever think that maybe they cast him because they felt he'd do a good job in the role? And calling Mos Def a thug is pretty entertaining, considering he's consistently put out some of the more literate, intelligent hip-hop out there.
I am sure that your $8 will be missed, as will those of your fellow American Independent Party members.
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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).
Somehow, I doubt that there are any money problems.
Computer animation has gotten to the point where even cheesy "B" movies can afford some decent (although not entirely realistic) animation. And I saw the "Disney" logo on the preview -- they have a few bucks to burn. This is a sci-fi movie where special effects are par for the course. If they can have plummeting whales, strange planets, and spaceships, then there is no reason that they can't have a 2nd head.
I fully expect a 2nd head to be in the final release of the movie, and I shall hold my breath until I turn blue if it is not there.
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
Let's see.... Aliens from other galaxies, folks with random numbers of body parts growing from who knows where. Rich characters that have been killed innumerable times by the same other character. A depressed robot. A cow suggesting what portion of him is the best to eat....
All this, and I would have to agree with you; Douglas Adams would never have had the imagination to include anyone but whites....
In the BBC TV series, Marvin was played by David Learner
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...
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."
Any story that begins with the destruction of the Earth, almost has to be good.
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Impossible means not yet done." ~~ Julia Ecklar
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
http://www.douglasadams.se - Douglas Adams Continuum
I always imagined that the inside of his head was a dimensional pocket similar to the Tardis in Dr Who.
I had no idea what movie it was until then.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
You ever think that maybe they cast him because they felt he'd do a good job in the role? And calling Mos Def
Don't kid yourself, he's the required Token Black Guy.
I don't really approve of having actors that look nothing like the character's past known appearance, but in the good ol' Land of the Free (tm), if you don't have a prominent black character, your movie is labelled racist and you get lots of angry people protesting it.
What I want to know is: Is this movie starting in england, or in the U.S.A.?
If it's the latter, the character's name should be Ford Escort. If it's in the states and he's named Prefect, I take this as the travesty, not the fact that he's black.
P.S. I don't know who Mos is, I looked at his website, nothing rings a bell. Maybe he's a good actor (I hope).
P.P.S. I hate the racist right, and I hate the racist left, but I hate unecessary changes to a story made by marketing people even more.
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Where the book was SUPERB and the movie sucked monkey balls!
Personally, in some aspects I find the books about Dirk Gently (Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency and Lond dark tea time of the soul) even better than hitchhikers guide. At least the latter one (tea time) is for me one of the funniest books I ever read. Sure, it probably helps if you're a scandinavian, but just the first 5 pages in tea time makes you laugh on your floor.
:-)
The hitchhikers guide to the galazy is a masterpiece, but don't forget his other work
Albert
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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