Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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