Kenji Wrote:If I can understand the jokes, maybe I can read it in English.
Blake Wrote:Well, the humor is definitely very British, and Douglas did sometimes use word play in his humor. Here's an example from Life, the Universe, and Everything, after a sofa has mysteriously appeared out of nowhere, floating in the middle of a field:
“Why,” he said, “is there a sofa in that field?”
“I told you!” shouted Ford, leaping to his feet. “Eddies in the space-time continuum!”
“And this is his sofa, is it?” asked Arthur, struggling to his feet and, he hoped, though not very optimistically, to his senses.
It's a very funny sequence, but I'm not sure how well the humor comes across if English isn't your native tongue. In fact, I'm very curious to see how it would be translated.
Other examples include Douglas simply making up words purely for the humor value. For example:
The mattress flurred and glurried. It flolloped, gupped and willomied, doing this last in a particularly floopy way.
I imagine some people just learning English might be confused when they don't find some of those words in a dictionary!
Blake
nijimeijer Wrote:and there's a fully orchestrated version of Journey of the Sorcerer, which is nice.Damn, you beat me to a reference of Journey of the Sorcerer. I love that song. Scott knows that I caught it.
The cast did quite well--I'm not sure about where they went with Zaphod's character from a writing perspective, but Sam Rockwell was great. Martin Freeman was fabulous as Arthur, and Mos Def, while the most uneven of the bunch, fit the shoes of Ford Prefect.
jimbow8 Wrote:So Long and Thanks for all the Fish - sing along
Scott Hajek Wrote:For those of you who haven't seen it, or are planning on a second viewing, bring your 3-D glasses. I just found this from an interview with the director:To which sequence is he referring?
[indent]Simon Jones was just great as Arthur Dent, and we needed a face and voice for that sequence. We actually shot it in 3-D, so if you wear red and green glasses, he actually jumps out. I haven't really told the studio that I did that. I thought it'd be more fun if we just did it. No one really knows. But I just couldn't resist doing it.
[/indent]Sounds like fun.