Against All Odds

[andrewducker]

Well I'm not 100% convinced by the new Hitchhiker's Guide trailer, but I'm happy to say that Ford actually seems about right, as does everyone else.  It's not the book, but it seems to be taking much the same jumping off points and touching on similar bits and pieces as the book/tv series/radio series (which were also all different to each other).  It looks generally 'larger' and more visually oriented, but I'm willing to give that a go.

Anyway, take a look at the trailer here (I've removed the trailer from the surrounding Amazon page, so it's full screen)

Comments

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

I wonder when they were filming up at Llangatoch.

Always fun seeing old climbing sites turning up in films...

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

hmmmmm. I found the concept of an American-accented Ford a bit weird, but hey, like you, I'm willing to give it a go.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

The american Ford didn't bother me, but Zaphoid appears to have only one head and Marvin looks like he was made using four odd sized ping-pong balls.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I thought the 2nd head does appear (briefly) in the trailer from under his jacket somewhere. But i just watched it again and couldn't spot it. Damn!

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Ah, got it. It is there. Towards the end. Or am I misinterpreting a brief visual image???

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

I watched it again and you are right there are indeed 2 heads and 3 arms. They only appear from under his cloak in one scene in the trailer though. After doing a bit of digging, it would seem that the extra head and arm only appear in a few scenes in the film. The decision to keep them hidden in most of it was taken because of a small special effects budget.

Small budget! Blimey the BBC managed to give us 2 heads and 3 arms, for a whole 6 episodes, on a budget of 2 shillings and sixpence.

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

Yes, but that head looked like crap.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

It did, but it served it's purpose. The original was made in an era when visual effects were unimportant and plot and content mattered more.

Modern films (and TV) seem obsessed with unsing the latest SFX, which often cost a fortune, when an old fashioned model would do just as good a job, something I think George Lucas in particular needs to rermember.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Better to have an extra head an arm which only appear occasionally than an extra head and arm which are constantly there, but do nothing and are obviously made out of plastic, I'd have said.

[andrewducker]

Papier-mache heads that looked bloody awful tho.

[sweinberg.livejournal.com]

Wow, you made it bigger! Thanks!

And I'm 90% totally sold on this trailer. I really liked it a lot.

I dug that quick shot of them slipping through space from ship to ship. I haven't read the books in several years, but that sequence came flooding back during the trailer.

I gotta dig through my garage to find my big D. Adams tome...

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

Now I'm all bouncy.

Which befits the icon shown above, I guess....

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

Do you think that's music from the actual score, or have they just stolen some music from Men In Black as a trailer stop-gap?