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back in the bris for awhile to come. travel to get to places and back was... an effort. but the time spent with people and doing things made it worthwhile...
but, while i was sitting in the airport with little to do, at one point, i found myself thinking about the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
now, the movie version takes a few hits from detractors about how it's not what should have been made, complaints about pacing, humour and other failings of the productions which seems to be that they just didn't get it, not like true fans...
after sitting in many rooms filled with travelers, particularly those who had left the united kingdom and were returning to the fold i had a minor revelation about the film.
now, i liked the film. it had new content in it to keep the story fresh and so you could not be sure what the ending would be. the diversion from the original material made me think, not just repeat the experience of the books/radio play/tv show with different faces and voices. zaphod and the placement of head 2 were over the top. trillian was much less annoying than the u.k americanisation, the voice work for marvin and the book were top notch and ford was effectively reduced to a background character, but dent, arthur dent....
was not british enough. the core of the bookradiotelly, for me was that dent had been kidnapped from his home, before it blew up and was never happy with his situation. the first three books and simon jones gave us a dent who was never satisfied with the majesty of space and the wonders that surrounded him, new experiences were eschewed in favour of having a nice hot cuppa. the very british sentiment of "why should i try this foriegn muck?" he was not, as some people try to paint him the "everyman" of earth, but he was definitely a gestalt of the englishman overboard with no way of getting home. he'd rather sit in the corner and pout than admit he might be having a good time....
martin freeman's dent has no time to react to the universe around him. whisked away and back with the girl he wants, he finds himself wandering around in a constant state of unawareness dragged from scenario to scenario with barely the time to recover and the guide having even less time to tell him anything. he comes across as clueless, naive and you want him to win trillian, while with simon jones, you know why he was never going to get back with her, last women left alive or not...
so, the character of dent has changed too much to allow the same situations to affect him in the same way. zaphod comes across as a jerk when he belittles him. sure he was a jerk when he said the same lines in the previous one, but you could feel he was justified in acting like a jerk with such an uptight dude. the movie dent is less up himself and more exasperated.
so, that's my call on it. dent was not mean and petty enough with his rescuers. and that's why you hated it.
the fiend
the face slapping things were awesome, so there...
but, while i was sitting in the airport with little to do, at one point, i found myself thinking about the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
now, the movie version takes a few hits from detractors about how it's not what should have been made, complaints about pacing, humour and other failings of the productions which seems to be that they just didn't get it, not like true fans...
after sitting in many rooms filled with travelers, particularly those who had left the united kingdom and were returning to the fold i had a minor revelation about the film.
now, i liked the film. it had new content in it to keep the story fresh and so you could not be sure what the ending would be. the diversion from the original material made me think, not just repeat the experience of the books/radio play/tv show with different faces and voices. zaphod and the placement of head 2 were over the top. trillian was much less annoying than the u.k americanisation, the voice work for marvin and the book were top notch and ford was effectively reduced to a background character, but dent, arthur dent....
was not british enough. the core of the bookradiotelly, for me was that dent had been kidnapped from his home, before it blew up and was never happy with his situation. the first three books and simon jones gave us a dent who was never satisfied with the majesty of space and the wonders that surrounded him, new experiences were eschewed in favour of having a nice hot cuppa. the very british sentiment of "why should i try this foriegn muck?" he was not, as some people try to paint him the "everyman" of earth, but he was definitely a gestalt of the englishman overboard with no way of getting home. he'd rather sit in the corner and pout than admit he might be having a good time....
martin freeman's dent has no time to react to the universe around him. whisked away and back with the girl he wants, he finds himself wandering around in a constant state of unawareness dragged from scenario to scenario with barely the time to recover and the guide having even less time to tell him anything. he comes across as clueless, naive and you want him to win trillian, while with simon jones, you know why he was never going to get back with her, last women left alive or not...
so, the character of dent has changed too much to allow the same situations to affect him in the same way. zaphod comes across as a jerk when he belittles him. sure he was a jerk when he said the same lines in the previous one, but you could feel he was justified in acting like a jerk with such an uptight dude. the movie dent is less up himself and more exasperated.
so, that's my call on it. dent was not mean and petty enough with his rescuers. and that's why you hated it.
the fiend
the face slapping things were awesome, so there...