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Although Monty Python is the first example of British humor to spring to most people’s minds, another much-loved manifestation is Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker??s Guide to the Galaxy,” the ludicrous and endearingly funny story of Arthur Dent, one poor lost Earthling haplessly finding his way through the Universe after escaping the Earth shortly before its destruction to make way for an interstellar bypass...
Originally a radio play, “Hitchhiker??s” then moved on to become an increasingly inaccurately named trilogy of five novels, a BBC television series, and, most recently, a feature film. What the radio play and books had in common, and what the movie lacks, is a heavy emphasis on brilliantly witty dialogue and narration. As a result of this work’s adaptation to film—a visual medium—the ingeniously witty dialogue and narration necessarily move out of the spotlight in order to share the stage with the element...
...excited about the ‘Hitchhiker??s Guide’—I actually haven’t finished the books yet but from the trailers it looks pretty amazing. I guess I’ll see ‘Star Wars,’ too, just because it’s ‘Star Wars,’ but I don’t have high hopes. I’m also excited about the new Harry Potter book coming out this summer...
...Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White, and my blockmates sigh in envy, perpetually mourning the death of pleasure reading in college and wistfully nostalgic about the good old days when reading for fun wasn’t something fueled by the Improbability Drive of The Hitchhiker??s Guide to the Galaxy. Reading for fun—imagine that...