• @EdibleFriend
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    166 months ago

    People were mad it didn’t follow the book when Adam’s was very insistent all versions of Hitchhiker’s should be different.

    • @chiliedogg
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      96 months ago

      Yeah. The radio play, books, TV series, and film were all different.

      • @EdibleFriend
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        96 months ago

        isn’t he the one who flat out said its boring to just tell the same story again?

          • @EdibleFriend
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            36 months ago

            Honestly that’s the other thing in my mind. I know Adams was very clear he just wanted to change up the story but it was either him or some major comic writer who specifically said adaptations being the same story over and over are just boring.

        • @Cosmicomical
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          26 months ago

          That’s a very silly take imo, I’ve watched some movies 20 or more times, and if I go watch a movie from a book I would like to see the story from that bloody book.

          • @EdibleFriend
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            76 months ago

            Then complain that the book was a departure from the radio play he based the book on lol

            • @Cosmicomical
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              6 months ago

              So you are saying I don’t even know the real thing, now I’m really pissed off. My point is if uou want to tell a different story, give it a different name.

    • VindictiveJudge
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      66 months ago

      He even wrote most of the movie. Including the bits that really pissed off book fans.

      • @EdibleFriend
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        46 months ago

        I know it went through a lot of rewrites after he died but i never really heard what of his survived. what was his that pissed people off the most?

        • VindictiveJudge
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          56 months ago

          The one I saw get brought up a lot was the Arthur/Trillian romance. He had actually experimented with that in drafts for other versions, too, but the movie was the first time it got all the way to the final product.

          • @EdibleFriend
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            36 months ago

            aaaaaaaaaah yeah. that definitely pissed people off.

    • @Cosmicomical
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      56 months ago

      I was mad that they removed all the good jokes