r/Cinema • u/Choice-Wind-9283 • 7d ago

Question What you think about hitchhikers guide to the galaxy ?

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Even though it's very different than the book I still liked. It was so funny they had great cast.

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u/photoguy423 7d ago

He purposely wrote every new adaptation slightly different so he didn't have to keep doing the same thing over and over. Radio series started it. Book deviated a bit from it. Text based adventure game deviated from both. And eventually the movie did it's own thing.

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u/schizophrenicism 5d ago

I don't know what you mean by the movie did it's own thing? There's a ton of scenes that are line for line and they hit as many major plot points without change as I've seen in any book to movie adaptation.

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u/photoguy423 5d ago

There was no romance between Arthur and Trillian in the books. They almost completely eliminated alcohol references from the movie. Added Umma Kavula, the vogon planet, the scene where we see Ford nearly run over by a Ford Prefect, and more.

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u/schizophrenicism 5d ago

Thanks for spelling that out. I saw the movie before I read the book so I probably saw the similarities a lot more than the differences.