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I've been re-reading Hitchhiker's Guide the past few days. (Guess what it's still good). The movie always struck me as being under-rated. It's visual direction and emphasis on practical effects are stellar.
ANYHOW, VOGONS.
ANYHOW, VOGONS.
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No, they were more like caricatures of bureaucrats, specifically the kinds content to while away their lives in stuffy offices, never aspiring for anything more than to get done with the paperwork given to them, go home, eat dinner, and repeat the same daily cycle endlessly. Except, unlike us, it's perfectly natural and expected for a Vogon to enjoy it, unlike a man, who may commit suicide than take another day of it, under some of the worst conditions. They are pretty far from, say, The Ferengi from Star Trek, who embody every greedy and untrustworthy Jewish miser stereotype since before even Shylock from The Merchant of Venice. Heck, I even thought the way Ferengi treat their women was the only thing that wasn't specifically an exaggeration of old Nazi era Jewish stereotypes, then I found out how damned repressive strict Orthodox Jewish households can be towards women, and then I realized that was viscious and unkind stereotype too.
My one complaint about the movie is that, compared to the book, the first trip through the Infinite Improbability Drive was really lackluster. I mean, sofas are fine, but it hardly compares to fever-dream word-salad a la Salvador Dali and one perfectly-safe penguin. (I struggle to think of a more British line of dialogue than "Ford, you're turning into a penguin, stop it.")
True enough. I do definitely love the movie, but it's one of those cases where I have to recommend the book to anybody who liked the movie (or just anybody who likes witty humor interlaced with snarky commentary on modern society, like most of Zaphod Beeblebrox's character traits and the footnotes during his introduction).
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