![]() ![]() The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Jennings, 2005) is based on the 1979 novel of the same name. Like most book to film adaptations, the film departs from the written text in some ways, but the movie maintains the endearing characters and improbable technology from its textual source however, the film begins to lose its Sci-Fi base as it switches to more of a Hollywood-esque romantic comedy in its concluding minutes. The film follows the group’s journey across the galaxy as they search for the planet Magrathea and the supercomputer who contains the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything. Accompanying the President is Trillian, a woman who once had a short relationship with Dent before she disappeared from Earth. Ford and Dent catch a ride with the spaceship Heart of Gold, a craft under command by the self-kidnapped Galactic President Zaphod, an egotist searching for the the planet Magrathea. Dent is rescued from imminent doom, as the Earth is destroyed, by his best friend, Ford, an incognito alien. At the same time, an intergalactic government run by the Vogons (a alien race of slimy, jowled caricatures of bureaucrats and politicians) has marked the Earth for destruction to build an intergalactic bypass. The film revolves around Arthur Dent, a rather plain Englishman whose house has been marked for destruction in order to build a bypass. The dolphins departure signals the imminent destruction of the planet in this absurd space adventure. “So long, and thanks for all the fish!” sing a pod of dolphins as they depart planet Earth in the beginning of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Jennings, 2005). ![]()
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