The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy was created by Douglas Adams, originally it was a radio series and then it was turned into a 6 book trilogy. The most popular book, and the one that was made into a movie, was The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
Now, i believe that every person should read the books and watch the movie, and in this case it doesn't matter what order because both were brilliant (the book was obviously more so than the movie, but the movie defiantly does the book justice)
Here are some beautiful quotes and clips from both the beginnings of the movie and the book that will defiantly get those people who haven't read the book or seen the movie interested in reading the book and seeing the movie. AND if you have read the book and seen the movie, then enjoy reminiscing.
Now, i believe that every person should read the books and watch the movie, and in this case it doesn't matter what order because both were brilliant (the book was obviously more so than the movie, but the movie defiantly does the book justice)
Here are some beautiful quotes and clips from both the beginnings of the movie and the book that will defiantly get those people who haven't read the book or seen the movie interested in reading the book and seeing the movie. AND if you have read the book and seen the movie, then enjoy reminiscing.
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descendant life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has- or rather had- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole of it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descendant life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has- or rather had- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole of it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Richmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be ,and a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.
This is not her story.
This is not her story.
But it is the story of that terrible, stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences."
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
These quotes and clips are from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the movie made about the book, no copyright intended. This is not my work, this is the work of a brilliant genius named Douglas Adams. He is brilliant.
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