The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) and South Padre Island Convention Centre: Difference between pages

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Difference between pages)
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
 
The Anomebot2 (talk | contribs)
Bots
1,037,728 edits
Adding geodata: {{coord missing|United States}}
 
Line 1: Line 1:
The '''South Padre Island Convention Centre''' is a {{convert|45000|sqft|m2|sing=on}} facility located in downtown [[South Padre Island, Texas]]. It can accommodate groups from 20 to 2,500 in size. It hosts the annual [[South Padre Island Invitational]], a [[college basketball]] tournament.
{{Infobox Film
<gallery>
| name = The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Image:SPICCRear0217.jpg|Rear
| image = Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.jpg
Image:SPICCwalkway.jpg|Walkway
| image_size =
Image:SPICCpatio.jpg|Rear Patio
| caption = Theatrical poster
| director = [[Garth Jennings]]
| producer = [[Douglas Adams]]<br />''(posthumous credit)''<br />Derek Evans<br />[[Robbie Stamp]]
| writer = '''Novel:'''<br />[[Douglas Adams]]<br />'''Screenplay:<br />'''[[Karey Kirkpatrick]]<br />Douglas Adams
| narrator =
| starring = [[Martin Freeman]]<br />[[Mos Def]]<br />[[Zooey Deschanel]]<br />[[Sam Rockwell]]<br />[[Bill Nighy]]<br />[[Anna Chancellor]]<br />[[John Malkovich]]<br />[[Warwick Davis]]
| music = [[Joby Talbot]]
| cinematography =
| editing =
| distributor = [[Touchstone Pictures]]
| released = {{flagicon|UK}} {{flagicon|Ireland}} {{flagicon|AUS}} [[April 28]], [[2005]]<br />{{flagicon|USA}} [[April 29]], [[2005]] <br />{{flagicon|Malaysia}} [[June 23]], [[2005]]
| runtime = 110 min.
| country =
| language = English
| budget = [[United States dollars|$]]45-50,000,000 (est.)
| gross = '''Worldwide:'''<br />[[United States dollar|US$]]104,478,416
| preceded_by =
| followed_by =
| website =
| amg_id = 1:295710
| imdb_id = 0371724
}}
'''''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''''' is a [[Comic science fiction|science fiction comedy]] film based on the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book)|book of the same name]] by [[Douglas Adams]]. Shooting was completed in August 2004 and the movie was released on [[April 28]], [[2005]] in the [[United Kingdom|UK]], [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]], and on the following day in the [[United States|USA]]. It was rolled out to cinemas worldwide during May, June, July, August and September.


</gallery>
The screenplay was begun by Adams, and completed by [[Garth Jennings]] and [[Karey Kirkpatrick]] after Adams's death in 2001, and the film is dedicated "for Douglas."

==Plot==

The movie begins with the narrator (voiced by [[Stephen Fry]]) quoting the 23rd chapter of the original book, explaining that [[dolphins]], the second most-intelligent [[mammals]] on [[Earth]] (humans being the third and mice being the first), have been trying to warn mankind about the impending destruction of Earth. Their backflips and swimming patterns, according to the Guide, are their way of communicating with humans. Humans, however, interpreted their warnings as amusing attempts to whistle for tidbits or punch footballs. Considering their mission a failure, the dolphins decide to leave, after passing their final message ''So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish''. (This was misinterpreted as an attempt to do a double-backflip somersault through a hoop while whistling [[The Star-Spangled Banner]].)

One morning, waking to the sound of bulldozers encroaching upon his house, [[Arthur Dent]] realizes that his home is going to be destroyed to build a highway bypass. He tries to prevent the destruction of his home by lying in the path of the bulldozers. His attempts are interrupted by his friend [[Ford Prefect (character)|Ford Prefect]], who persuades Arthur to accompany him to the local [[public house|pub]], where he reveals that he is actually an alien from the region of [[Betelgeuse]] (and not from [[Guildford]] after all). Arthur nonchalantly comments "Well, that explains the accent."
[[Image:Vogon poetry2.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ford and Arthur are "tortured" by Vogon poetry.]]

When Ford first came to Earth, he thought that cars were the dominant life form (which explains his name, Ford Prefect, a popular British car) and tried to shake a moving one's hand. Arthur pulled him out of the road before he was run over. As a favour for saving his life, Ford rescues Arthur from certain death when the Earth is demolished by the [[Vogon]]s to make way for a hyperspace expressway. They hitchhike aboard a Vogon ship, where they are discovered and tortured by being made to listen to [[Vogon#poetry|Vogon poetry]] (the third-worst in the universe). Although Ford is visibly affected, Arthur expresses his admiration. The Vogons throw them out of the ship anyway.

They are rescued by the ''[[Heart of Gold (spaceship)|Heart of Gold]]''. The ship was stolen by Galactic President [[Zaphod Beeblebrox]], accompanied by [[Trillian (character)|Tricia McMillan]], now calling herself Trillian, and [[Marvin the Paranoid Android]].

Aboard the ship, Zaphod reveals his intention to visit the planet [[Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Magrathea|Magrathea]] using the ''Heart of Gold'', which he stole for this purpose. He introduces the other characters to the story of the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, via a Magrathean data archive cube. Long ago, the people of Magrathea built the ultimate supercomputer, [[Minor_characters_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Deep_Thought|Deep Thought]], to learn the Ultimate Answer. After seven and a half million years of pondering, the computer declared that the Answer was "forty-two", and explained that the Ultimate Answer didn't make sense to them because no one knew exactly what the Ultimate ''Question'' was, an even more mysterious truth that even Deep Thought wasn't powerful enough to figure out. Deep Thought then told the people about an even more advanced computer which could be built which ''could'' ask the Ultimate Question. The recording ends, however, before the new computer's name could be announced.

They take a detour, however, when they encounter the planet of Viltvodle VI, home of the [[Races and Species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Jatravartids|Jatravartids]] and Humma Kavula, who was Zaphod's opponent in the election for President of the Galaxy. Kavula has a small red cube that contains the coordinates to Magrathea, and offers it to Zaphod in exchange for a gun (the [[Point-of-view gun]]) that can be found near [[Minor_characters_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Deep_Thought|Deep Thought]]. Kavula requires a "hostage" in order to ensure that Zaphod will complete the quest, and removes Zaphod's second head (which is turned into a [[hula]] dancer [[bobblehead]]). Zaphod appears to lose the function of his third arm, suggesting that it was controlled by his second head.
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Ford-Arthur-Zaphod.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Ford, Arthur, and Zaphod attempt to save Trillian on Vogsphere.]] -->

During their departure from Viltvodle VI, Trillian is captured by the Vogons and brought to their homeworld, Vogsphere. Arthur, Ford, and Zaphod go to the Vogon homeworld and try to rescue Trillian. Upon stepping off their ship they briefly encounter subterraneous fauna that attack people who exhibit original thought by slapping them in the face, which they manage to evade once they reach an urban area. The excessive [[bureaucracy]] associated with many governing bodies is parodied when they are confronted by the amount of [[red tape]] that they must forge through to rescue Trillian.

As Trillian is processed, she learns of the destruction of the Earth, which Arthur had not told her about. She also learns that Zaphod was the one who absent-mindedly signed the demolition order for Earth (thinking it was an autograph request, he signed it "Love & Kisses, Zaphod"). Arthur, Zaphod, and Ford manage to fill out the appropriate Presidential Prisoner Release forms to have Trillian released just before she is fed to the [[Races and Species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal|Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal]].Then the crew escapes Vogsphere.

Throughout the film, the Vogons remain in pursuit of Zaphod and the ''Heart of Gold'', at the behest of the Galactic Vice-President [[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Questular Rontok|Questular Rontok]] who wishes to "rescue" the President from his abductor (Zaphod abducted himself when he stole the ''Heart of Gold''). The ''Heart of Gold'' heads for Magrathea. Zaphod, Trillian, and Ford meet Deep Thought and learn that the computer which could tell the Ultimate Question was in fact Earth itself, with the actions of all the creatures upon it part of the calculation. Arthur, having lost the others, meets a man named [[Slartibartfast]], and learns of Earth's true origin and how Slartibartfast worked for a company where planets like Earth were custom made, and even won an award for building the coasts of Norway. While touring the Magrathean Planet Factory Floor, Arthur is introduced to the Earth Mark II, a backup copy. He is eventually led to a perfect recreation of his home in England.

Meanwhile, beneath Deep Thought, Zaphod, Trillian, and Ford find the Point-of-view gun, the object sought by Humma Kavula. According to the ''Guide'', it was built by Deep Thought for a council of angry housewives who were tired of ending arguments by complaining to husbands that "you just don't get it, do you?" When fired, the Point-of-view gun causes the target to experience the [[perspective (cognitive)|point of view]] of the wielder. Trillian uses it to make Zaphod understand her conflicting feelings about their relationship.

Back at Arthur's house, Arthur is reunited with Ford, Zaphod and Trillian, who are busy enjoying a lavish meal provided by the mice. But it is a trap to enable the mice to restrain Arthur and extract his brain, as it was one of the only components left from the Earth after its demolition, and is believed to have the Ultimate Question in it. Faced with his demise, Arthur finally expresses his love for Trillian, breaks free from his restraints, and squishes the mice with a teapot. The flattened mice morph back into the representatives of the builders of Deep Thought before fading out of Earth's dimension.

The heroes exit Arthur's house, only to find themselves surrounded by a [[battalion]] of Vogon soldiers, who try to kill them. While Zaphod attempts to operate Arthur's "spaceship" (which is in fact just a [[travel trailer|caravan]]), Arthur and Trillian try to retrieve the dropped Point-of-view gun, but are forced to use the caravan as cover from the wild hail of fire the Vogons direct at them. Being the worst shots in the universe though, they don't hit a thing. Marvin goes to catch up with the rest, but he is hit in the back of the head by a Vogon blast. Just as it seems that they are doomed, Marvin reactivates and picks up the nearby Point-of-view gun. He fires, hitting all of the Vogons and exposing them to his perspective on life; they all instantly become incredibly depressed and collapse.

As the depressed Vogons are taken away and the final touches are applied to Earth Mark II, Slartibartfast asks Arthur if there is anything that the new Earth could do without; Arthur replies, "Yeah, me." Earth's life cycle is restarted just as it was before the Vogons demolished it, and the movie ends with Arthur and his companions, Rontok in tow, reboarding the ''Heart of Gold'', bound for ''[[The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]]'', briefly heading towards the other end, which results in the ship making the sound of screeching brakes and turning around. This is a minor flaw, for Marvin states, "the restaurant is at the ''other'' end of the universe," while the restaurant is at the end of time, not the end of space.
The ship then speeds towards the screen, morphs into several objects, finally becoming a replica of [[Douglas Adams]]' head.
Afterwards, before the Credits begin rolling, the words "for Douglas" appear on screen.

==Cast==
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Ultimate Question.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Principal cast of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'']] -->
*'''[[Martin Freeman]]''' as '''[[Arthur Dent]]''': An "ordinary Earthman", from England, who winds up travelling the galaxy in his pyjamas and dressing gown.
*'''[[Mos Def]]''' as '''[[Ford Prefect (character)|Ford Prefect]]''': A researcher for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". He saves Arthur from the destruction of Earth because Arthur had saved his life years earlier. He carries a towel, a hitchhiker's most essential tool.
*'''[[Sam Rockwell]]''' as '''[[Zaphod Beeblebrox]]''': President of the Galaxy, who has kidnapped himself and stolen the ''[[Heart of Gold (spaceship)|Heart of Gold]]'' to pursue his dream of learning the Ultimate Question.
*'''[[Zooey Deschanel]]''' as '''[[Trillian (character)|Tricia McMillan]]''': Who shortens her name to "Trillian" (because it's "something a little more spacey"). She ran away from Earth with Zaphod Beeblebrox just before most of the events in the movie, but over the course of the movie, she comes to dislike him.
* '''[[Bill Nighy]]''' as '''[[Slartibartfast]]''': A coastline designer who reveals the real [[history of Earth]] to Arthur Dent.
* '''[[Warwick Davis]]''' as '''[[Marvin the Paranoid Android]]''': Part of the equipment on the ''Heart of Gold''. He is voiced by '''[[Alan Rickman]]'''.
*'''[[John Malkovich]]''' as '''[[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Humma Kavula|Humma Kavula]]''': A religious leader on the planet Viltvodle VI, and Zaphod's vanquished opponent in the recent Presidential election. This character was devised by Adams as the villain for an additional subplot of the movie, not present in previous incarnations of the story.
*'''[[Anna Chancellor]]''' as '''[[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Questular Rontok|Questular Rontok]]''': Vice-President of the Galaxy, she has allied with the Vogons to track down Zaphod.
*'''[[Jack Stanley]]''' & '''[[Dominique Jackson]]''' as '''[[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Lunkwill and Fook|Lunkwill and Fook]]''': The two people in charge of asking Deep Thought to calculate the Answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything
*'''[[Steve Pemberton]]''' as '''[[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Mr Prosser|Prosser]]''': The builder in charge of demolishing Arthur's house.
*'''Albie Woodington''' as '''The Barman'''
*'''[[Jason Schwartzman]]''' as '''[[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Gag Halfrunt|Gag Halfrunt]]'''
*'''[[Simon Jones (actor)|Simon Jones]]''' as "'''Ghostly Image'''": a pre-recorded hologram that tells visitors to Magrathea that the planet is "closed".
*'''Mark Longhurst''' as "'''Bulldozer Driver'''"
*'''[[Su Elliot]]''' as "'''Pub Customer'''"
*'''Terry Bamber''' as "'''Technician'''"
*'''[[Kelly Macdonald]]''' as "'''Reporter'''"
*'''[[Helen Mirren]]''' as The voice of '''[[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Deep Thought|Deep Thought]]'''
*'''[[Bill Bailey]]''' as The voice of '''The Whale'''
*'''[[Thomas Lennon]]''' as The voice of '''[[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Eddie|Eddie the Shipboard Computer]]'''
*'''[[Stephen Fry]]''' as The voice of '''[[The Guide (character)|The Guide]]'''
*'''[[Ian McNeice]]''' as The voice of '''[[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Kwaltz|Kwaltz]]''': A '''[[Vogon]]'''
*'''[[Richard Griffiths]]''' as The voice of '''[[Vogon#Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz|Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz]]''': Leader of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.
*'''[[Mark Gatiss]]''', '''[[Reece Shearsmith]]''' and '''[[Steve Pemberton]]''' ('''[[The League of Gentlemen]]''') as The voices of the '''[[Vogon]]'''
*'''[[Garth Jennings]]''' as The voice of '''[[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Frankie and Benjy Mouse|Frankie Mouse]]'''
*'''Zoe Kubaisi''' as The voice of '''[[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Frankie and Benjy Mouse|Benjy Mouse]]'''

==Production==
In a [[Slashdot]] interview, [[Robbie Stamp]], one of the film's [[executive producer]]s, noted the following about the cast of the film:<ref>[http://slashdot.org/articles/05/04/26/1952248.shtml?tid=97&tid=133&tid=214 Slashdot interview with Robbie Stamp.]</ref>
*The hardest character to cast was "the voice of the Guide itself and in the end came back to somebody who was one of the people Douglas himself had wanted, namely [[Stephen Fry]]."
*"Douglas himself is on record as saying that as far as he was concerned the only character who had to be British, indeed English, was [[Arthur Dent]]."
[[Image:Don't panic.JPG|thumb|275px|left|Preparations for the premiere of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Leicester Square]]
Stamp also commented on how much role the studio and screenwriters other than Adams played in making the film:
*"I think that a lot of fans would be surprised to know just how much of a free hand we have been given in the making of this movie. I know how easy it is to see every decision to cut a scene as 'studio' pressure but it was always much more to do with pacing and rhythm in the film itself."
*"The script we shot was very much based on the last draft that Douglas wrote....All the substantive new ideas in the movie...are brand new Douglas ideas written especially for the movie by him....Douglas was always up for reinventing HHGG in each of its different incarnations and he knew that working harder on some character development and some of the key relationships was an integral part of turning HHGG into a movie."

==Differences from preceding versions==
{{main|Differences in versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}

The sequence of events in the film generally resembles the story in prior editions. Although the radio series, books and TV series are famous for their inconsistencies, they each describe the same story until the characters get to [[Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Magrathea|Magrathea]], except for some narrative rearrangement. The movie also rearranges the narration, but to a far greater extent than any of the other media. Not only are scenes omitted and reworked, but entire new storylines, characters and locations are introduced, such as the Point-Of-View gun, which Trillian uses on Zaphod. Also when the main characters use the improbability drive the second time they go to a planet on which Zaphod's rival "Humma Kavula" resides.

==Soundtrack==
{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
| Type = Soundtrack
| Artist = [[Stephen Fry]], [[Joby Talbot]]
| Cover = H2G2 Movie Soundtrack front.jpg
| Released = [[April 12]], [[2005]]
| Genre = Soundtrack
|}}

The complete motion picture [[soundtrack]] was released as an [[iTunes Store|iTunes Music Store]] exclusive (in the US and UK) on [[12 April]] [[2005]], two weeks before the scheduled CD release. The iTunes Music Store also has two further exclusive sets of tracks related to the movie:
*''The Marvin Mixes'' are remixes of a new version of ''[[Reasons To Be Miserable]],'' here performed by [[Stephen Fry]], as well as a new vocal and a new instrumental track for "[[Marvin (song)|Marvin]]," also performed by Fry. [[Stephen Moore (actor)|Stephen Moore]] had recorded the vocals of both tracks in 1981.
*The ''[[Guide Entries]]'' are new spoken "Hitchhiker's Guide" entries, all read by Fry, with accompanying music by [[Joby Talbot]] (with further orchestrations by [[Christopher Austin]]), who wrote the [[film score]].

The soundtrack CD was released on [[April 26]], [[2005]], by [[Hollywood Records]], a division of [[The Walt Disney Company]]. The CD has the same 33 tracks as the previous iTunes release. The enclosed booklet includes acknowledgements from Joby Talbot and notes on the creation of the song "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish," written by Garth Jennings.

The track "Huma's Hymn" on the soundtrack is notable for the fact that it was sung in St. Michael's Church in [[Highgate]], [[London]] by members of local church choirs along with a congregation consisting of members of the public. The recording was open to anyone wishing to attend, and was publicised on the internet, including in a post to the Usenet group alt.fan.douglas-adams.<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.douglas-adams/msg/5e102640862d2ec9 Message announcing the recording of "Humma's Hymn" on the alt.fan.douglas-adams newsgroup.]</ref>

The first version of the song "So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish" is a [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]-style and lively version sung by the dolphins before they leave Earth. The second plays over the end credits and is in the style of 1950s male singers. The song was written by English composer [[Joby Talbot]], conductor [[Christopher Austin]], and Director [[Garth Jennings]] and performed by the [[Tenebrae (choir)|Tenebrae Choir]]. [[Neil Hannon]], founder and frontman of the Irish pop group [[Divine Comedy (band)|Divine Comedy]], lent his vocals to the version of the song played during the end credits. The song, in its "bouncy", opening version, was [[translation|translated]] into and performed in [[Spanish language|Spanish]] for the [[DVD region code|Region 4]] [[DVD]] release.

==Box office earnings==
*The movie made £4,200,000 million in its first week in the UK.
*The movie made $21,103,203 in the USA in its opening weekend, opening in first place.
*The movie remained in the US box office top ten for its first four weeks of release.
*The movie's total box office gross was $104,478,416 worldwide (as of December 2006).<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hitchhikersguide.htm Box office statistics]</ref>

==Releases==
{{Cleanup-section|date=September 2007}}
The movie was released on DVD (Region 2, PAL) in the UK on [[5 September]], [[2005]]. Both a standard double disc edition and a UK-exclusive "Gift Set" edition were released on this date. The standard double disc edition features:
*Making Of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy''
*Additional Guide Entry
*Deleted Scenes
*Really Deleted Scenes (scenes that were never meant to be in the movie)
*Sing A Long
*Audio Commentaries
*Set Top Games Marvins Hangman
*''Don't Crash'' (68 minute UK exclusive "making of" documentary, directed by [[Grant Gee]])
The "Gift Set" edition includes a copy of the novel with a "movie tie-in" cover, and collectible prints from the film, packaged in a replica of the film's version of the ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' prop.

Single disc widescreen and full-screen editions (Region 1, NTSC) were released in the [[United States|U.S.]] and [[Canada]] on [[September 13]], [[2005]]. They have a different cover, but contain the same special features (except the ''Don't Crash'' documentary) as the UK version.

Single disc releases in the [[Universal Media Disc|UMD]] format for the [[PlayStation Portable]] were also released on the respective dates in these three countries.

The movie was made available as a paid download in the [[iTunes Store]] starting in September 2006, for the U.S. market only. A [[Blu-ray]] version was released on January 2007.<ref>Buena Vista Press Release [http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061114/latu007.html?.v=74]</ref>

==Marketing==
The film trailer featured voice over work by Stephen Fry as the Guide, describing the ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'''s entry on [[movie trailer]]s.

The '''Guide Entries''' are a collection of [[sound recording]]s read by [[Stephen Fry]], set to music by [[Joby Talbot]] and written by [[Tim Browse]] and [[Sean Sollé]] (with the exception of the ''How to be Cool'' entry, which was also co-written by [[Yoz Grahame]]). Four were released on the [[iTunes Music Store]] to promote the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)|Hollywood movie version]] of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', and a fifth, the Guide to Websites, can be heard on the official UK movie website.

The "Hitchhiker's Guide to Technology" claims that if you make yourself a cup of tea, and then attempt to get an object working, if the tea goes cold before you finish, you are dealing with technology. Other guides include the '''Hitchhiker's Guide to Blogging''' and the '''Hitchhiker's Guide to Deadlines'''' and the '''Hitchhiker's Guide to How to be Cool'''which discusses how an individual can truly '''be''' cool, instead of by following crowds, but concludes by suggesting the listener attend a showing of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''. The '''Guide to websites''' [http://www.hitchhikersmovie.co.uk HitchhikersMovie.co.uk] describes a website as "a wonderful new invention that allows people you neither know nor care about to inform you what they had for breakfast this morning, without all that tedious mucking about in the postal system". The ''''Guide to fanboys''', written by [[Touchstone Pictures]]' copywriters as part of their promotion of the movie, only ever appeared as website text. Though released at the same time as the iTunes entries, it was never intended to be recorded and is otherwise unconnected with the Fry/Talbot/Browse works.

==References to Adams and his works==
===TV and radio series===
*At the beginning of the film, [[Mos Def]] as [[Ford Prefect (character)|Ford Prefect]] pushes a cart filled with cans of beer past a sign for the village of "Cottington" &mdash; a reference to [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases#Fit the First|the radio series]].
*The original Marvin prop from the 1981 TV version of the story can be seen in one scene, in a queue on Vogsphere, albeit with yellow eyes, instead of the original red. Arthur, while passing, does a double-take at this Marvin.
*The song "[[Journey of the Sorcerer]]" (written by [[Bernie Leadon]] and originally recorded by [[The Eagles]]), which was used as the theme tune for the BBC radio and TV series, is used in the film with a new arrangement by [[Joby Talbot]].
*"[[What a Wonderful World]]," sung by [[Louis Armstrong]], was used as background music for the first part of the film's teaser trailer. This song was also used at the conclusion of the first radio series and at the conclusion of the BBC TV series, both set on prehistoric Earth.
*[[Simon Jones (actor)|Simon Jones]], who played Arthur Dent in the radio and TV series, makes a brief [[cameo appearance]]. He is credited as the "Ghostly Image," a floating head which appears when the ''Heart of Gold'' approaches Magrathea, and warns them that the planet is currently not open for business. When they continue approaching the planet, he reappears and politely informs them that two [[thermonuclear]] missiles are headed towards the ship, and their (presumably imminent) deaths "may be recorded for training purposes." He then grins and floats away.

===Book series===
*[[Ford Prefect (character)|Ford]]'s last name is never mentioned in dialogue in the film, though the character is listed as "Ford Prefect" when first introduced in the screenplay and when listed in the credits. Also, Ford is called "Ix" by Zaphod when they meet on the ''[[Heart of Gold (spaceship)|Heart of Gold]]'', which is Ford's previous nickname; this is the first time in any format other than the book that the nickname is mentioned, though it is without context in the film. (This corrects a continuity error of the previous formats, where Zaphod greets "Ford", despite the fact that this was a name adopted for use on Earth.)
*In one of the trailers, as Arthur Dent wakes up and shuts off his alarm clock, it reads "7:42". The alarm clock is sitting on a book by Kurt Vonnegut, whose own writings Adams' were compared to, and next to a BBC ID badge for Arthur Dent. This was not used in the actual movie.<ref>[http://video.movies.go.com/hitchhikersguide/global/index_main.html?countryID=us Hitchhiker's Guide DVD site, with the second trailer and clips.]</ref>
*The theatrical release of the film includes references to the titles of every Hitchhiker novel.

===References to other Adams works===
*One of the planets in the Magrathean display case is [[Shada]], from the incomplete ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial of the same name that was written by Adams in 1979.
* Trillian's desire to visit [[Madagascar]] also relates to a trip Douglas took to study some of the vanishing species of the island for his book ''[[Last Chance to See]]''.

===References to Adams himself===
*Deep Thought has a logo for [[Apple Computer]] just to the right and above its electronic eye (which can be seen in closeups when Ford, Trillian and Zaphod are speaking to the computer). It is said Douglas Adams owned the first two Apple Macintosh computers to enter the UK and that Stephen Fry, who is the voice of the Guide, allegedly owned the third. (It is elsewhere reported that Adams owned the ''second'' Macintosh in the UK, while the ''first'' belonged to Fry.) Adams and Fry were both passionate Macintosh enthusiasts and were friends.
*The scene where Arthur Dent and Trillian meet at the party contains a nod to Douglas Adams' interest in evolution. Arthur stands reading ''[[The Selfish Gene]]'' by Adams' friend [[Richard Dawkins]], and Trillian is dressed as [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]].
*During the panic scenes in the beginning of the movie several members of Adams' family participated. The elderly woman calmly reading a newspaper is Douglas Adams' mother.
* A Douglas Adams-shaped planet can be seen under construction on Magrathea.
* In the last sequence of the Improbability Drive activating before the end credits, the face/head of Douglas Adams is clearly seen as the final morph of the Heart of Gold before it disappears.
* All of the sculpted noses on the planet Viltvodle VI were fashioned after Douglas Adams' own. The creators used a 3D model he had created for the game ''[[Starship Titanic]]''.

==Production notes==
*According to the DVD audio commentary, director [[Edgar Wright]] plays one of Deep Thought's on-screen technicians. Wright had previously directed ''Hitchhiker's'' stars Martin Freeman and Bill Nighy in ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' and would later direct them again in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''. The director of ''Hitchhiker's'', [[Garth Jennings]], appears in an uncredited cameo role in ''Hot Fuzz'' as a [[Kalashnikov]]-carrying crack dealer; this is shown in the behind-the-scenes features on the ''Hot Fuzz'' special edition DVD.
*In the flashback scene where Arthur saves Ford from being hit by a car, the car was an actual [[Ford Prefect (car)|Ford Prefect]].
*The animations of the book were made by the [[United Kingdom|UK]]-based design studio [[Shynola]].
*The dolphin scenes at the beginning of the film were made at [[Loro Parque]] in [[Tenerife]].
*[[Su Elliot]], credited as "Pub Customer", reportedly played Trillian in one of the stage adaptations of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''.
*This PG-rated film was originally slated as a [[Hollywood Pictures]] release, but was instead released by [[Touchstone Pictures]], because Hollywood was retired as a distributor.
* During Simon Jones' cameo appearance as the warning system at Magrathea, it appears as if he would become three-dimensional with red-and-blue [[3-D glasses]], but during the audio commentary, the director says you must have a pair of red-and-green 3-D glasses to view him in 3-D. The torpedoes, however, are reversed and cannot be viewed in 3-D with the same glasses.
*The song "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" was considered for a [[Longlists for 78th Academy Awards|possible nomination]] (coincidentally, out of a list of '''[[Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything|42]]''' songs) in the [[Academy Award for Best Song]] category for the [[78th Annual Academy Awards]]. Ultimately, the song was not nominated.
*In the U.S. release of the DVD, in the second half of the Deep Thought scene, the computer's declaration that the [[Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything]] is '''42''' approximately coincides with the timer for the film reading 42:00.
*An [[Easter egg (media)|Easter egg]] can be found on the DVD. Occasionally when pressing the "Improbability Drive Button" which takes you to random scenes on the DVD, the [[cartoon]] that Deep Thought was watching will come up and one can view it in its entirety. If played in [[Windows Media Player]] or [[VLC]], this comes up as Title 52.
*In the scene when Arthur and Slartibartfast are in the place with the planet examples, right behind them is a display case containing the doll of Marvin from the wool scene.

==Awards==
The movie was nominated for seven different awards and won one of them. It won the Golden Trailer Award under the category Most Original.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Golden_Trailer_Awards/2005 Golden Trailer Awards for 2005 at IMDb]</ref> It was nominated for: the Artios award from Casting Society of America, USA under the category Best Featured Film Casting-Comedy in 2005; the Empire Awards from Empire Awards, UK under the categories Best British Film and Best Comedy in 2006; the Golden Trailer from Golden Trailer Awards under the category Best Voice Over; and Teen Choice Award from Teen Choice Awards under the categories Choice Movie: Action/Adventure and Choice Rap Artist in a Movie: Mos Def.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/awards Full list of all award nominations for] ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' at IMDb.</ref>

==Sequel==
While members of the cast had been signed for a potential sequel, the movie's modest box office gross earnings, particularly in the United States, have made any prospects of a potential sequel movie very unlikely. Garth Jennings commented in May 2006, "There won't be a sequel. We were all signed up but it didn't make enough money." Later in the same interview Jennings jokingly added, "It might get dusted off - I might still be contracted to do it!".<ref>Interview dated [[May 9]], [[2006]] in July 2006 issue of the [http://www.zz9.org/mh ZZ9 magazine] ''Mostly Harmless''</ref>

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

==References==
*''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' UK Region 2 DVD Release, 2005. Includes commentaries by Garth Jennings, Nick Goldsmith, Martin Freeman and Bill Nighy, and Robbie Stamp with Sean Sollé. Also includes the documentary ''Don't Crash: The Making of the Film of the Novel of the Radio Series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''.
*{{cite book | author=[[Robbie Stamp|Stamp, Robbie]], editor | title=The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Filming of the Douglas Adams Classic | publisher=Boxtree | year=2005 | id=ISBN 0-7522-2585-5}}


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.sopadre.com/meeting/meetingplanner_spi_convention.php South Padre Island Convention Centre website]
{{wikinews|Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie in theaters}}
{{wikiquote|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)}}
{{Portal|Hitchhiker's}}
* {{imdb title|id=0371724|title=The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)}}
* [http://www.douglasadams.se/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2288 "Hitchhiker Movie FAQ with FUA"]

===Owners' sites===
* [http://www.hitchhikersmovie.co.uk/ Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Movie Site (UK)]
* [http://www.hitchhikersmovie.com/ Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Movie Site (USA)]
* [http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy/ Official Teaser Trailer]

===Interviews===
* [http://slashdot.org/articles/05/04/26/1952248.shtml?tid=97&tid=133&tid=214 Interview with executive producer Robbie Stamp], from [[Slashdot]]
* [http://www.douglasadams.se/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3973&highlight=robbie+stamp Online chat with executive producer Robbie Stamp]
* [http://www.douglasadams.se/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6494&highlight=garth+jennings Online chat with director Garth Jennings]

===Independent reviews===
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/28/AR2005042800677.html Washington Post] "...more than a pleasant surprise."
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/29/DDGSHCG5TR14.DTL&type=movies San Francisco Chronicle] "The movie hangs together and gets by with more than a margin of goodwill because the dazzle it offers is one of the mind."
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/movies/29hitc.html?oref=login New York Times] "...hugely likeable..."
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4461899.stm BBC - Review: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] "Don't panic - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is not as bad as I had feared. Then again, it is not as good as I had hoped."
* [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/29/h2g2_review/ The Register] "The film version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is faithful to author Douglas Adams' legacy. The trouble is it's simply not especially funny."
* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy/ Rotten Tomatoes] Reviews by professional critics.
* [http://www.yoursdaily.com/culture_media/movies/hitchhiker_s_guide_to_the_galaxy__1 YoursDaily.com] Review of the movie in comparison with the book.

{{Box Office Leaders USA
| before = [[The Interpreter]]
| date = May 1
| year = 2005
| after = [[Kingdom of Heaven (film)|Kingdom of Heaven]]
}}

<br clear="all"/>


{{coord missing|United States}}
{{HitchhikerBooks}}
{{CinemaoftheUK}}


[[Category:Convention centers in Texas]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (film), The}}
[[Category:Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
[[Category:Indoor arenas in the United States]]
[[Category:2005 films]]
[[Category:Sports venues in Texas]]
[[Category:Touchstone Pictures films]]
[[Category:Comedy science fiction films]]
[[Category:Films based on science fiction novels]]
[[Category:Films shot in Super 35]]
[[Category:Space adventure films]]
[[Category:British films]]
[[Category:Directorial debut films]]
[[Category:Screenplays by Douglas Adams]]


{{Texas-stadium-stub}}
[[cs:Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii (film)]]
[[de:Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis (Film)]]
[[fr:H2G2 : le guide du voyageur galactique]]
[[ko:은하수를 여행하는 히치하이커를 위한 안내서 (영화)]]
[[it:Guida galattica per autostoppisti (film)]]
[[hu:Galaxis útikalauz stopposoknak (film)]]
[[pl:Autostopem przez Galaktykę (film)]]
[[ru:Автостопом по галактике (фильм)]]
[[fi:Linnunradan käsikirja liftareille (elokuva)]]
[[sv:Liftarens guide till galaxen (film)]]
[[tr:Otostopçunun Galaksi Rehberi (film)]]

Revision as of 10:39, 13 October 2008

The South Padre Island Convention Centre is a 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m2) facility located in downtown South Padre Island, Texas. It can accommodate groups from 20 to 2,500 in size. It hosts the annual South Padre Island Invitational, a college basketball tournament.

  • Rear
    Rear
  • Walkway
    Walkway
  • Rear Patio
    Rear Patio

External links

Stub icon

This article about a sports venue in Texas is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(film)&oldid=244964043"