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Old 04-29-2005, 05:19 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by El Capitano Gatisto
It's not unfair, it's just that made the book so good wasn't the plot, but the situations and the ideas, and realistically no movie would ever be able to include those. It's not that I am complaining, but that it will inevitably be disappointing.

The example used by the reviewer I heard today is that when Arthur is given the Babel Fish, apparently the Guide's explanation of how a book used the Babel fish as proof of why God cannot exist, because it proves he must exist.
I really don't remember the god part but maybe I missed it, they do occasionaly break from the "plot" for quotes from the book and the awesome scene where the missiles get turned into a bowl of petunias and a whale is in the movie as well.

Is it a literal translation of the book? No, but at very least it is Adams vision of a new telling for the story.
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