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When he's in the marshes where mattresses are born, he's talking about his broken leg that he replaced (unknowingly) with the splinter from the Cricket....thing.
The Wicket Gate...which sealed away Cricket. No, I'm not one of those "HURHUR I KNO EVRYTIHNG ABOUT A BOOKE" assholes, I just reread the trilogy fairly recently.
And yeah, there was mention of an H2G2 movie awhile back, or something...I think they might've made a British TV series.
Yeah, they made a TV film or something in the 80-ies that's supposed to be very bad. I haven't seen it.
I saw a program about Douglas Adams a while ago, where they mentioned that THGTTG would eventually be made by those Wallace & Gromit guys, Chicken Run you know, which sounded like an exellent idea to me.
But alas, appearently this is what we get instead. Let's hope it will be good.
I honestly think the design works--not what I imagined, but he does look like the sort of robot that walks around terminally depressed. Like someone said though, I'm wondering how they'll deal with the three-armed, two-headed Zaphod without making it look totally fake.
Well, I was slightly disappointed with the TV series but a book can never really be put on screen excatly the way you picture it. Having a black dude as Ford is gonna be hard to stomach for me seeing as I'm incredibly biased due to the TV series, but you never know. Douglas Adams has spent a huge portion of his shot-cut life trying to make a film out of the books and I'm happy it's finally getting done; I'll be in line the day it comes out.
Meh. Read a bit of the first book (whatever it's called) a long time ago. Doesn't seem to me like the kind of thing that would work as a movie, but that's only from what I read (and remember).
The Jim Henson company is fairly competent with their work. If you've watched Farscape any, you'll know what im talking about. They've had tons of practice so im sure they can pull off a three armed creature.
They may change it to 4 arms. Unless they think of doing it crab like. You know how fiddler crabs have a large arm and a small arm? They could do it like that, but have two small arms on one side and a large one on the other.
Eh, sorry, I haven't read the books, watched the show, etc.. so that may have been blasphemy to some here :-P
I just don't think it would look good any other way though. Like coming out his chest or back. That'd be grotesque and unbelievable.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. " -John 3:16
Hopes. Dreams. You have to live these things. If not, they will remain prisoner within the confines of your mind for the rest of your life.
I think it should definitely be an insectoid type thing though. Or arachnid like. It'd look better anyway.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. " -John 3:16
Hopes. Dreams. You have to live these things. If not, they will remain prisoner within the confines of your mind for the rest of your life.
i always thought of marvin as more square, not quite so sleek and futuristic, but i also thought ford was white. i'm not saying the movie characters will be bad, i'm actually kind of interested in the dynamic between ford and arthur.
regardless i'll see the movie anyway because i bet it'll be funny as shit, despite what some of the nerds will say.
after this they need to do a Red Dwarf movie. talking cats, toasters and holograms are definitely the way to go.
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
-- Winston Churchill
Two heads and three arms on a human? Kinda reminds me of the ugly centaurs from Fallout. I suppose it could still look good if they do it right, but maybe they should lose a head?
Hmm.. I dunno. The two heads sounds like it would be too hard to do without totally messing it up.
Oh well, im just glad im not having to design it and stuff. Whatever they do to rectify it, it will be funny when the fans react to it. Fans can be the biggest hurdle when people want to make a movie/game from a popular book. Its like fans are their own worst enemy and don't even know it.
If I were doing it, I'd have Zaphod insectoid to make it work better. Especially if he's some kind of alien (the name doesn't sound very normal anyways). And lose one of the heads. Or turn the extra head into another character if it was relevant.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. " -John 3:16
Hopes. Dreams. You have to live these things. If not, they will remain prisoner within the confines of your mind for the rest of your life.
The question of the actor playing Ford Prefect has been heavily debated at the imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/board/nest/5760431 . And according to some of the posts, Douglas Adams didn't want FP to be either black or american ( although, another user posted a quote from Adams himself: "'When it comes down to it, my principle is this - Arthur should be British. The rest of the cast should be decided purely on merit and not on nationality.'" )... They base this on the TV-show, I think? But I haven't got any idea if they're on the right track or anything.
Plus, an interesting idea rose up: Jude Law as Ford Prefect would be just... well, Perfect (a pun intended, yes). That's how I always imagined the guy.
They're all right. The first couple are pretty funny, and the last three degenerate into idiocy sometimes, but they can still be funny.
Good if you're bored.
suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. suddenly somebody will say like 'plate' or 'shrimp' or 'plate of shrimp', out of the blue, no explanation.
