The writers tried to overcome this, and you catch references such as “Belgian bummer”. My biggest problem with the movie was how much they left out, but of course the movie would be 12 hours long in everything was in. I’ll admit I saw the movie before I read the books, but I went and bought the first book the next day and have since devoured the entire series. Plus, the first book is over 200 pages long and there is at least one brilliant line on every single page. If it helps, the radio shows contradict the books as well, since Douglas Adams’ rewrote parts of the story depending on the setting. Of course it isn’t as good as the books, because you can’t contain the genius of Douglas Adams into two hours.
I know there were a lot of upset people when the movie was released because of the changes. Not just for the people who have read the books and get the inside jokes, but for those who haven’t read them. The movie itself is based mostly on the first book of the Trilogy in Five Parts, though it does borrow parts from other books (the vanishing dolphins, for instance). They had previously been adapted into a TV series and were born as a radio program on the BBC. Though the 2005 movie was the first theatrical adaptation, it wasn’t the first time the books had come to life. The script is based in part on the one Douglas Adams worked on before he passed in 2001. The entire series has a fanatical following, and for good reason.
Originally published on October 12, 1979, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was written by Douglas Adams when he was 27 years old. He doesn’t realize the danger he is in, but luckily his friend Ford does, because Ford is actually an alien and much more aware of the workings of the Universe than Arthur does… So begins The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the story of Englishman Arthur Dent, whose home is scheduled for demolition. Orbiting this sun at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. This week in honor of the book’s 30th anniversary on Tuesday, we bring you The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Every other week, we will bring you a new set and tell you how true to the book it’s movie is.
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