By GFR | Published
The old proverb says, “Death is easy. But comedy is difficult.”
Well, science fiction comedy is much more difficult.
There were a lot of attempts when it came to the world of films, and the box office failure is cinematic bodies like Pluto Nash AdventuresBurn alive with the Hillary Paczine pile.
The closest science fiction that occurs regularly to comedy in adventure films with a healthy group of comedies, such as excellent Men in black Or different Galaxy guards Croats.
But while these films have laughter to spare them, they are not the primary purpose of these stories.
This almost changed in 2005 when the beloved comedy author tried more than the time of All Time to convert fun science fiction novels into a large budget Hollywood comedy.
It almost succeeded, until the tragedy struck and destroyed not only his movie, but perhaps the future of its entire concession.
Why the Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy failed
the Hitchhiker guide to the galaxy The film opens with Dolphin’s music number and ends with Douglas Adams floating heads.
You believed that a movie with BONKERS BOOKENDS would have acquired Spirit of Adams, which changes Hitchhiker Guide, and a popular series of projects that started as a radio series for 1978, and in the end it led to many awards for awards and showed on the acronym and all other media that you need to name yourself with suitable shines.
The movie started in the right way. Adams wrote the script and participated directly in the project.
Then, his body made an exceptionally rude decision to stop working.
Douglas Adams died tragicly on May 11, 2001 at the age of 49, and gave birth to a new draft of the scenario just a few days ago.
Without Adams as part of the project, it seemed as if no one wanted to lead the movie. It ended in the film directed by Garth Jennss, known as filming the videos of the famous bands such as Blur and FATBOY SLIM.
Douglas Adams dies, but the show continues
After the death of Adams and the addition of Jennings to production, the writer Carrie Kirkpatrick was brought to rewriting the Adams scenario. The Kirkpatrick wallpaper was mostly in children’s films with credits on good films such as Rescuers belowand The road to the DoradoAnd Run the chicken.
But KIRKPATRICK, Hot Off writing the Jonathan Lipnicki Star, The Little Vampire, definitely looks a kind of writer who was brought to give a text of the possibility of a fully approach. This is the man who wrote the movie “Zendaya is Meechee” Yeti, O people. Sorry, but it is not Douglas Adams.
Although the Kirkpatrick sharing is likely to reduce any of the potential edges of Adams, there is still a healthy amount of the author’s tone and sound in the final product. Perhaps this was sufficient to make this film work if it does not make a series of decisions that fans find at best and fracture in the worst case.
Yasiin Bey was photographed as Ford Governor, Comrade for Personality leaders Arthur Dent. At that time, you went before the title of Moss Dave as part of his musical character.
While he was behaving for more than a decade by the time he threw it Hitchhiker guide to the galaxyHe hinders him in the governor of Ford through the decision to distinguish from many of his lines, which makes his dialogue sometimes difficult.
This may be comprehensive representation instructions for the rest of the actors. Add another level of voice ambiguity by making actors talk about each other and mix the sound for their voices. Perhaps AdR in this movie was not a fun time.
The result is a film based on a franchise known as a wonderful and interim dialogue in a wonderful way, with all the dialogue that was delivered in a way that fills many of its potential comedies.
Dreamer
despite this , Hitchhiker guide It has no bright spots.
Martin Freeman is a beautiful option that Arthur is a dent. He plays the character with the confusion of her resignation appropriately, as Arthur wanders through the galaxy in the dirty green bathroom robe.
Stephen Fry is the sound of the actual evidence. Douglas Adams and Douglas Adams were right. Fry’s voice is easily the most powerful of the film.
The guide is a background in the movie and is used as a device that the characters can consult and the audience besides overcoming the following plot.
Aside, if you never read Hitchhiker’s books, we strongly recommend listening to the versions of the audio books narrated by Fry.
Sam Rokwell should have been the perfect Zaphod beeplebrox. By 2005, he had already established himself as a representative of the personality of the ODBALL parts. Unfortunately, a victim of the same dialogue issues that affects a lot of this film.
The film’s budget was not great enough to give Zaphod two heads and three arms, which is likely to disturb fanatic fans in source materials. Instead, the film settles on half a measure that had only a kind of head, and its third arm is kept hidden.
ZoEy Deshanel is Trillian, the only survivor for the destruction of the Earth unlike Arthur, not really giving anything to work with him. Regardless of her short shore that must indicate that she is treated as a bit of a distinctive hot symbol girl and hot student and a little more.
It is not a big budget as you think
The film’s budget was $ 45 million, so it is slightly more than $ 70 million today. A big budget but still less than you expected from well -known property in the hope of starting the privilege of a great movie.
Thanks to this, the design of production and practical effects has mostly continued after twenty years.
But there are some clear functions when you start searching for them. Whether that sprays a set of fog around groups or transferring characters to a comfortable desert, it is clear that this is a film that works against its budget rather than really supporting.
For example, they may have been cutting this scene with John Malcolich. Digital FX does not work, and does not serve his character any real purpose in the story.
However, the film deserves to be praised for what it had obtained correctly. The heart of gold, an unlikely championship in the midst of the story of Douglas Adams, gives a lot of love.
They even discovered a way to imagine the ability to possibility, which is the gag of success every time the crew is forced to use it.
The first half of Hitchhiker guide It appears to be going well, and you are watching it. Our doubts are that this part of the movie extends closer to the original text of Douglas Adams.
As the movie continues, things begin to collapse and it turns out that production does not contain money or will to take the story as you need to go.
By the time the movie reaches Magrathea, the end point in this version of Hitchhiker guide The story, you are ready to end, after spent 20 minutes you feel bored to death by a handful of Vogons.
There is a lot of Vogons. Many Vogons. For some reason, we go to Vogon Home Planet, although we were told from the beginning that they are the most boring species of existence. Therefore, the film spends 20 minutes to hang out in the most dull places in the universe.
It is logical of the terminology of films to depict Vogons as an explicit wicked, but they end up with the film to be withdrawn to something less unique and interesting than the source materials.
Bookness and reception window
The film got a strong marketing boost and managed to open it in the first place at the box office, where he finished his career with more than 51 million dollars in the United States, and another $ 53 million from international markets.
Although this looks like a decent success, the context is the key. Vision Hitchhiker guide to the galaxy The budget and the fact that it was expected to start the full movie concession, this bean meters did not see anything with investing more money.
Perhaps they will have if the film can pay a lot of support from critics, but the reactions were mixed with SpawnOne of the biggest fans, Roger Ebert, who gives the film two stars.
In addition, there is no kind of support for the film as soon as it comes out in the world. The new arrivals did not find it an exciting entry point enough for the privilege, and the fans often resigned to explain the film to the work of Adams or not really recognized it.
The worst thing about him Hitchhiker guide to the galaxy It is perhaps our only shot in obtaining a large -scale budget on Adams’s imagination.
The failure of the film has killed most Hollywood interests as a drug, and if this interest is revived, it will take a person from Adams’s talent to do this correctly. Unfortunately, this is a very rare company.
While we get satirical simulation like Space balls or Galaxyquest From time to time, a rare and rare scientific comedy films feel. The best that comes to mind is the honor of Edgar Wright, the excellent The end of the world. It seems that we only get something really original and focus on comedy like Back to the future Once generation.
When it comes to science fiction comedy, we seem to be more likely Pluto Nash Adventures or Heartbeeps. I forgot a lot of happy memories with my loved ones, but my mind refuses to allow me to forget Heartbeeps.
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