Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Congratulations on the new fax number! John Collier On 1-May-05, at 7:21 PM, Marc James Small 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 >