[ SECRET POST #6173 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6173 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I think a lot of Hitchhikers fans really misunderstand the franchise. They probably still find digital watches pretty cool, and Dire Straits too.

They certainly misunderstand the joke about the B-Ark. All the people that designated those folks worthless to society died because they no longer were there to do their supposedly worthless jobs.

[(Anonymous)]

I've loved every single iteration of HHGttG I could get my hands on. The movie was no exception.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I love some of the choices they made in this.

[kamino_neko]

Even the text adventure?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it is "keeping with the vibe" or whatever but sometimes one just hankers for a visual retelling that really sticks to the books. But I've always considered HG to be unfilmable, because what really makes the books sing is the completely non-visual narrative. Random chapters of the guide. Stories that seem to interrupt the flow only to have some sort of connection to the plot half a book later. Adams' writing style. You can't film the way he describes the eternal sunset beach where the Guide's HQ is, visuals would never do those bizarre surreal words justice.

[(Anonymous)]

You do know it was a tv show already? And a radio show too, the radio show came first so it still had guide segments interrupting a performed narrative even before the book was written.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't mind the movie. I had some issues with it less because it was "unfaithful" and more because some parts were paced in a way I didn't care for. Couldn't tell you which parts those were, though; haven't watched it in well over a decade.

As for adaptations in general, I tend to take the view that you do. I also think it needs to be considered that different things work with different media: there are things you can do with a written work that you can't do with a visual one, and vice versa; and when it comes to visual media, TV show is going to work differently than a miniseries is going to work differently than a movie etc. That said! An adaptation absolutely can go too far in terms of what it changes, to the point that it loses something (or many things) that endeared fans to the original in the first place.

[iff_and_xor]

To me, it was the first adaptation that felt like it made big tonal changes rather than mostly plot/character changes.

Before that, I had enjoyed each new spin on the story from radio to book to TV. They felt like the same broad universe, with the same sense of humour even when the details changed.

On Youtube, Dominic Noble has a video analyzing the movie adaptation that I really liked. One of the things he mentions is that scene with the “Vogon slapsticks” and how the concept feels like it belongs (a defensive measure that smacks you in the face to stop you having any good ideas about invading) but the execution really doesn’t (the characters “solve” the problem by just running through the field faster, getting smacked along the way).

[(Anonymous)]

I unapologetically love this movie! It was my first non-book exposure to THHGTTG. If the show ever aired in my country in the early 80s, I missed it. The OG radio show didn’t air here. The book was all I knew about for a couple decades before that movie came along and it was a very fun telling of it.

[(Anonymous)]

People who expect an adaptation to be completely faithful to the original drive me a bit nuts, honestly. Most times, things need to be changed to fit the new format.

That said, and admitting that I only saw the Hitchhikers movie once, right after it came out, I just remember it as a bad movie. Like... BAD. I'd read the book, seen the TV show, and listened to the radio adaptation, I knew they were all different, and the movie would have to be much more compact due to its running time. I barely remember it now, just walking out feeling that some good actors had been wasted in drivel, and everyone I knew felt the same.