How to ruin a book

[erastes]

1. Take a bunch of people no-one cares about, an English actor who's better than this but obviously thinks it will be a leg-up to Hollywood. Make Ford not at all memorable, or mad.

2. Take out all of the best jokes, especially about tea.

3. Change the lesser jokes and lines to American-speak, because no-one will understand "a girl who Arthur totally failed to get off with."

4. Change the plot in an attempt to make it more exciting. In this way you can tempt a Hollywood Heavyweight to play a role, even if that role didn't exist in the book. Who cares, right?

5. Make it a romance.

6. Completely fail to understand the concept.

7. Don't Panic?  You are joking, right?

And yes, it took me three years to see this film, and I wish I hadn't.

Comments

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Rickman was good as Marvin - admittedly. I also liked the fact that the TV series Marvin was in the queue at the Vogon office.

I was even quite pleased with Fry as The Narrator/Book - but I admit to sitting there thinking, "it's just a spoken part, why couldn't they have spliced Peter Jones in?"