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Look pretty sweet actually but why has Zaphod only got one head?
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It looks like he's got one head, but then towards the end of the trailer, a second head emerged from below the actor's head. I heard they were going to graft a second head on with CGI: maybe it just looked weird next to the actor's real head, so they thought they'd do it this way instead. I dunno. It all looks a bit shiny and expensive to me.
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It does look sweet, even if it has been somewhat altered, but that's progress for you. I might have to venture out to the local picture house to sample that.
(Do you remember the old days when you could actually download these things using the interweb ? Ahh the Halcyon days.....)
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What bits could be missing ? I mean there’s book bits missing from the radio shows, radio show bits missing from the TV series and probably bits of both missing from the film and a few new bits added for good measure.
I know what you mean though despite the fact that I love the TV series its still just an amalgamation of two books and two shows crammed together to give the whole thing a sense of clarity rather that allowing it to roam in the more holistic way that Adams originally penned the saga.
I guess it’s because cinema goers and T.V watchers like a beginning a middle and an end, still we'll have to wait and see.
According to the blurb though the film is based on bits of everything and as Adams wrote a large chunk of it pre death I’m hoping it’ll be loyal to the H2G2 history but new enough to excite.
Next trailer in 2 weeks with talking Marvin.
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My current squeeze is doing the special effects on this he said that it didn't get the budget it deserved and often they are told to stop working at a certain point because of the money.
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I am all smiles today, that's for sure. Yes Darryn, a Belgian living in London, not over far from my good self. He bought me posh chocolates from Fortnum & Mason. I'm liking the Belgian
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Belgos do (did?) this thing where they had a selection of pictures of famous Belgians on the back of the menu and if you named them all you got free dinner, or someting along those lines. Not one of them was Poirot or Jean-Luc De Meyer which is the sum total of famous Belgians we could come up with.
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That's just annoying Abby, now I can't mention Magritte (Surrealist), Bruegel and Bosch (pre-surrealist-painters of the bonkers) or Simenon (Nazi Collaborator/Maigret author). All Begiums, all famous, all on that bloody website.
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That is some list - I looked through it, and as someone who until recentley lived in the week in Brussels surprised myself by recognising 4 of them - Herge, (the great) Plastic Bertrand, Samson the dog (and he's only a puppet) and Eddie Merckz. But where is Sarah Bettens (K's Choice)? And how come Herge gets two mentions (both under his alias and his real name?)
I think that list is primarily a self reassuring list for Belgians, as only they would have really heard of most of the prime ministers and the cyclists.
Belgium is a distinctly odd country - it's biggest problem is that they just keep arguing over what language to speak (to explain the peasants of old spoke Flemish (Dutch basically, but gayer), whilst the gentry thought it fashionable to speak French) - Nowadays it seems that the majority of Flemish speak fautless French, whilst the French speakers can't speak a bloody word of Flemish. How's that for equality?
Also they have an unhealthy fixation with their excretia which is absolutely gut-churningly foul and it's little wonder that their capital city reeks of the stuff.
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Whilst at college we had to watch a Belgian film which involved an urban academic having an affair with a woman who lived in a shed in a swamp. Much less fun than it sounds, honestly.
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Talking of life, the universe an everything I think I just committed a major office faux pas. Returning new Mum-on-maternity-leave just bought in her 2 week old baby boy. Very cute. The ladies are cooing and holding and cuddling and it's my turn with the pleasantries and I'm offered a hold and I decline stating that I was really too tired to hold a newborn today. I think that you are not meant to decline holding babies or something from the looks I got and the frost that spread through the open plan office. But I was scared that I would drop him! I am a hungover wretch today. Perhaps I shouldn't have babies after all, I obviously have no maternal instinct
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Don't be so down on yourself. Lesbians are taught to caress babies like a giant inflamed clitoris very early on in their sexuality. Larger, more shaven bonced lesbians adopt the maternal role and hand on this knowledge.
Straight girls don't get that kind of tutorage. Bi-sexers are merely allowed a wooden crate to stand on to help peer through the misty classroom windows.
It's true dat. Thorn said so.
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I'm not seeing the Belgian anymore although he did tell me that Tim Burton* "likes a drink" and is seeing Helena Bonham-Carter. Did everyone know this already or is this a monumental scoop that I should sell to the tabloids or something? Should I put allegedly in there somewhere?
*The Tim Burton connection is to do with the next film he is working on.
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I believe this is already known to more than the two people who obviously are going to know anyway. Plus you just told a board of people, plus your Belgian will have told other people, so one way and another quite a few people know now. The key with a secret is not to tell anyone.
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he said that it didn't get the budget it deserved and often they are told to stop working at a certain point because of the money.
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