The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, is a unique piece of literature that captures absurdity through humor. Douglas Adams use of absurdity sheds a light on the broader human emotions using ridiculousness and silliness. He uses the incongruity theory of humor, when something violates our mental patterns and expectations, to mix humor and irrational events to bring laughter. While the book and the movie have many differences, they both still hold the theme of absurdity, where very few things end up fulfilling our expectations. In the book we we see it through the dialogues between the characters and the events that occur from the time Arthur is on Earth to the suicide of the computer Marvin plugged himself into. While in the movie not only do
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In the movie we not only see the a craziness of the story through the dialogue between the characters but also through the visual effects of the movies. During the movie when the vogues destroyed Earth I was waiting for this dramatic moment of explosions, fire, and chaos but none of that happened; it was just gone with a blink of an eye, turned to dust. Not only that but also the camera angle backing away showing the magnification go the Vogon ship next to the Earth it really takes into essences of the story and its predicaments and situations that occur from nothing rational. Another scene in the movie that really kept the true identify of the book of absurdity although it didn’t actually happen in the book was when Humma Kavula makes ideal with Zaphod Beeblebrox in exchange for the coordinates to Magrathea, Zaphod had to bring back a special weapon from the planet. After Ford, Trillian, and Ford Magrathea and get a hold of the Point of View gun, created by angry housewives in the extraterrestrial world tired of ending every argument with their husbands “you juts don’t get it, do you?,” they start shooting it at themselves and each character, mostly the men begin to understand the feelings …show more content…
While the movie did stay true to the theme of the books absurdity and the use of Adams wittiness and humor there were many new additions to the movie that never occurred in the story. But the most that stood out to me was the changes of characters, especially
In the movie we not only see the a craziness of the story through the dialogue between the characters but also through the visual effects of the movies. During the movie when the vogues destroyed Earth I was waiting for this dramatic moment of explosions, fire, and chaos but none of that happened; it was just gone with a blink of an eye, turned to dust. Not only that but also the camera angle backing away showing the magnification go the Vogon ship next to the Earth it really takes into essences of the story and its predicaments and situations that occur from nothing rational. Another scene in the movie that really kept the true identify of the book of absurdity although it didn’t actually happen in the book was when Humma Kavula makes ideal with Zaphod Beeblebrox in exchange for the coordinates to Magrathea, Zaphod had to bring back a special weapon from the planet. After Ford, Trillian, and Ford Magrathea and get a hold of the Point of View gun, created by angry housewives in the extraterrestrial world tired of ending every argument with their husbands “you juts don’t get it, do you?,” they start shooting it at themselves and each character, mostly the men begin to understand the feelings …show more content…
While the movie did stay true to the theme of the books absurdity and the use of Adams wittiness and humor there were many new additions to the movie that never occurred in the story. But the most that stood out to me was the changes of characters, especially