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An old saying is: “Dying is simple. But comedy is difficult. “
Well, science fiction comedy is much more difficult.
There were many attempts when it comes to the world of films, and the cemetery of cash failure is overloaded cinemas like The adventure of Pluto NashLively with his stack of Hillary Bucks.
The closest science fiction comedy is in adventure films with a healthy frequency of comedic elements such as the excellent Men in black Or the different ones Guardian of the galaxy Flicks.
But while these films have laughter, it is not the main purpose of these stories.
That changed almost in 2005 when the most popular comedy author of all time tried his funny Sci-fi Novels in a blockbuster Hollywood comedy with a large budget.
And it almost worked until the tragedy not only hit and destroyed his film, but also the entire future of his franchise.
Why Hitchhik’s guidelines for galaxy failed
The Trailer for the galaxy The film begins with a dolphin music number and ends with the floating head of Douglas Adams.
You would think that a film with these Bonkers-Buchenders would have led the spirit of Adam’s pioneering Hitchhiker’s Guide franchise, a popular series of projects that started as a radios series from 1978, and finally to numerous award-winning novels and a show on television and all the other media that you have to be called as a real franchis.
The film started the right way. Adams wrote the script and was directly involved in the project.
Then his body made the exceptionally rude decision not to work anymore.
Tragically, Douglas Adams died on May 11, 2001 at the age of 49 and entered a new design of the script just a few days earlier.
Without Adams as part of the project, it looked like nobody wanted to guide the film. The film was shot by Garth Jennings, which was known to make music videos for popular bands like Blur and Fatboy Slim.
Douglas Adams dies, but the show continues
After Adam’s ‘Death and Jennings’ supplement to production, the writer Karey Kirkpatrick was made to rewrite in the Adams script. Kirkpatrick’s background was mainly in children’s films with credits with good films such as The rescuers down underPresent The street to El DoradoAnd Chicken run.
But Kirkpatrick, who wrote the Jonathan Lipnicki Star Vehicle, The Little Vampire, definitely seems to be the type of writer to give a script a certain approach to the AGE. This is the guy who wrote the Yeti film “Zendaya is Meteechee”. Sorry, but he is not Douglas Adams.
Despite Kirkpatrick’s participation, which is probably one of the potential edges from Adams, there is still a healthy amount of the tone and the author’s voice in the end product. This could be enough to get this film up and running if it had not made any series of decisions later, at best the fans would find astonishing and, in the worst case, sacrilege.
Yasiin Bey is occupied as a Ford Prefect, the companion who leads the character of Arthur Dent. At that time, Bey went to the nickname Mos Def.
And while he was over a decade when he was occupied Trailer for the galaxyHis attitude to Ford Prefect is hindered by the decision to mumble many of his lines, which sometimes makes his dialogue difficult.
And that could have been a general instruction for the rest of the occupation. Add another level of the audio confusion by talking about each other and mixing the sound to mix your voices. The ADR in this film was probably not a fun time.
The result is a film based on a franchise that is known for an excellently written and hilarious dialogue and provides the entire dialogue in a way that veils so much of its potential comedy.
The occupation
Despite it, Supporter Has its bright spots.
Martin Freeman is a pretty precise choice to be Arthur Dent. He plays the character with a correspondingly receding confusion when Arthur trudges through the galaxy in his dirty green bathrobe.
Stephen Fry serves as the voice of the actual leader. He was the choice of Douglas Adams and it was not surprising that Douglas was right. Fry’s voice is easily the strongest capital of the film.
The guideline serves as a background counting in the film and is used as a device that the characters can consult in order to bring them and the audience to the next stroke of action.
Apart from that, if you have never read the Hitchhiker driver’s books, we strongly recommend hearing the audio book versions told by Fry.
Sam Rockwell Should be the ideal zaphod float. Until 2005 he had already established himself as an actor for Oddball parts. Unfortunately, he becomes the victim of the same dialogue problems that plague a large part of this film.
The film’s budget was also not big enough to give Zaphod two heads and three arms, which probably bothered die -hard fans of the source material. Instead, the film opts for half a measurement in which it only has two heads, and its third arm is kept hidden.
Zooey deschanel is Trillian, the only other survivor of the destruction of the earth than Arthur, nothing really essential. Apart from their short shorts that should indicate that they are treated as a token hot nerd girl and a little more.
Not as big budget as you would think
The film’s registered budget was 45 million US dollars, i.e. a little more than 70 million US dollars today. A considerable budget, but still less than you expect from a well-known property, in the hope of starting a blockbuster-film franchise.
The production design and practical special effects have largely adhered to his honor twenty years later.
But there are some clear patchwork jobs when you look for you. Regardless of whether it is a lot of fog or the characters are conveniently transported into a desert, it is clear that this is a film that works against his budget instead of really feeling supported by him.
For example, you should have cut this scene with John Malkovich. The digital FX does not work and its character serves no real purpose in history.
Nevertheless, the film deserves praise for what it did correctly. The heart of gold, the unlikely Spaceship A lot of love is given in the center of Douglas Adams.
They even found a way to visualize the unlikely drive, and it is a success gag if the crew is forced to use it.
The first half of the Supporter Seems pretty well when you look at it. Our suspicion is that this part of the film takes closer to Douglas Adams’ original script.
When the film continues, things fall apart and it becomes clear that production does not have the money or the will to take the story in which it has to go.
At the time when the film reaches Magrathea, the end point in this version of the Supporter History, they are ready to be to the end after boring from a few vogons for 20 minutes.
There are many vogons. Too many vogons. For some reason we go to the Vogon Home Planet, although we are told from the start that they are the most boring species. So the film spends 20 minutes to hang out at the most boring place in the universe.
It makes sense to occupy the Vogons as complete villains, but in the end they pull the film into something less unique and interesting than its source material.
In the box office and reception
The film received a solid marketing thrust and managed to open 1 at the box office. He ended his run with just over 51 million US dollars in the USA and another 53 million US dollars from international markets.
Although that sounds like a decent success, context is the key. In the face of The trailer guideline for the galaxy of the hitchhiker Budget and the fact that it was expected that the bean counters did not consider this as something with investing more money.
Maybe if the film had managed to drum a lot of support from critics, the reactions were mixed with SpawnRoger Ebert, the biggest fan that gives the film two stars.
In addition, there was no reason to support the film when he was in the world. Newcomers did not find it as an exciting entry point for the franchise, and the fans were mostly either with the interpretation of Adams’ work through the film or just don’t really recognize it.
The worst on The trailer guideline for the galaxy is that it was probably our only attitude to get a widespread Big Budget that Adams took on pioneering fiction work.
The failure of the film killed most of Hollywood’s interest in him as property, and if this interest revived, it would make someone of Adam’s talent do it right. Unfortunately, the exceptionally rare society is.
While we get parodies like Spaceballs or Galaxyquest From time to time, sci-fi comedy films feel less often and less frequently. The best thing that comes to mind is Edgar Wrights excellent homage The end of the world. It seems that we just get something really original and comedy focus like Back to the future Once a generation.
When it comes to science fiction comedies, it seems that we get more The adventure of Pluto Nash or Heart ability. I forgot so many happy memories with my loved ones, but my brain refuses to be forgotten Heart ability.
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