Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have been a fan for many a decade and I thought it was brilliant. So there. On 5/1/05, Marc James Small <msmall@infionline.net> wrote: > At 01:03 AM 5/2/05 +0000, mcyclwritr@comcast.net wrote: > >This is pretty much off topic. Or "OT" to the time-crunched, Internet-hip > linguists in the audience. > > > >"Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy." See it. The cinenamatography is far > better than the 1970's videotape production that once aired on PBS. So much > for the photographic content. > > Good God. > > First, the "Hitchhiker's Gude" was orignally a magnificent BBC radio > production, and then a series of books by Douglas Adams. I never > encountered any sort of videotape version of it and I would have avoided > that one like the plague had I known of it, as I shall avoid this Mother of > All Turkeys. > > My God, they have ruined the entire concept of the original show. Putting > USians in as characters? What bloody madness! The show requires UK > denizens, and there are dozens of fine UK actors and actresses who would > play magnificently to US audiences. > > One minor, but singificant, example: a character in the original is "Ford > Prefect". That is the name of a pedestrian car produced in the 1960's by > Ford at Dagenham, and would be the same as a US program of the time having > a character entitled "Ford Mustang" or "Ford Galaxie". In this horror of > an embarrassment, he has simply been renamed "Ford" thus missing the entire > point of a significant joke. > > I have not and will not watch this offensive joke of a jerkoff of a decent > tale, but I would guess that they have also eliminated references to that > mystic sysmbol which marks all civilizations -- and which turns out to be a > Cricket wicket. > > I have been a fan of the GUIDE for too long to be so abused as to view > trash like this. > > How low the mighty have fallen. > > Marc > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >