Trailer dissection

Totta · Forum irregular Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Location: Sweden

Arthur's house. Observe the caravan to the left

Arthur's alarm clock. Check out the time (7:42). Also check out the Vonnegut book "Slapstick" and who is that on the ID?

Sleepy (and probably hungover) Arthur Dent

Bumping of the head

Hot toasts

Horse and Groom looks like a nice place to be

Ford Prefect

Arthur's demolished house. Anyone see any bulldozers? At least Ford has his towel

Vogon Kwaltz

Where is this?

London panicking?

Sub-etha thumb hitching a ride for our friends

Check out Ford's cool glasses

Still no bulldozers and the caravan seems smashed

Silent as birds. Huge as office blocks

The earth goes booom

The cover of the Guide

Interior of the Guide

Index of the book I believe. You can read some of the entries.

A vogon ship certainly exhausts lots of smoke

Ladybugs or Vogons?

Airlock sequence. Mind the towel

The heart of gold makes it's entrence

Our heroes are rescued

Marvin

Zaphod Beeblebrox

Tricia McMillan

Zaphod, Ford and Arthur

Size comparison. Vogon ship in the background. HoG as the little gray marble in the lower part of the pic

Now what is this? Looks like something from a Jarre outdoor concert.

The Heart of Gold prepulsion system

Now there's a heart if I have ever seen one

Humma Kavula

Humma's legs

The small HogPod. This image looks very much like the concept drawings

Cheering crowd and Deep Thought in the background

Deep thought

Ford has a girlfriend. Ford har a girlfriend

Trillian is abducted by someone (something)

Slartibartfast to the right. Doesn't seem to have a beard in the version

The Magrathea workplace

Zaphod's third arm

Zaphod's second head

This looks like a frozen spaceship with motors to the left and right

Vogons shooting at Marvin

Zaphod gets down on a dance floor

The HogPod with the HoG in the background

Jeltz (Jenz) reading some poetry

Some spaceport maybe?

Soon a sperm whale and a petunia?

Yet another HHGG-logotype

Fly swatter on Vogospere soil?

Nice touch. Check out the debris from the swatter
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MJ Simpson · Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Location: Leicester, UK

Excellent work, sir!

There are some shots in there that I hadn't even noticed in amongst the frenetic editing and poor-quality image.
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Tony · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:04 pm Post subject:

Well rinse my towel, that's good! Cheers Tota!
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Wowbagger · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:09 pm Post subject:

Nice work Totta
I didn't notice the Heart shape behind the HoG.

Waux Trident · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:27 pm Post subject:

Very good, Totta.

Oh, and I love this better-quality Humma pic.

(Even though I haven't seen the movie yet, I just simply like this new character. Interesting...)
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Hooloovoo · Forum Shade of Blue Joined: 10 Dec 2004

Super Totta!! These are wonderful.... Thanks!

moongoddess · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:11 pm Post subject:

Excellent!

Chris Casino · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject:

Good job, Totta!

Arthur most definitely (no pun intended) is indeed hungover. That's why he hits his head on the ceiling. If it turns out to be otherwise (which it probably won't), it's dumb.

I think it's cool we get to see Arthur inside his house just so we can see how dull his daily life is. (emphasizes his status as the ultimate everyman).

I also think the fact that they kept Arthur's job as whatever he did for the BBC because you could say Arthur and Ford (who's supposed to be an out-of-work actor) met on one of those rare occasions when Ford got a job and it was for BBC Radio 4.

Does anybody but me think it's puzzling that with so many wonderful visuals in this trailer, they did such a piss-poor job with Zaphod's other head (unless it's not finished in the trailer, which I'm starting to think is the case)?

Could the large woman Ford talks to be Eccentrica Gallumbits?
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stejacorca · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject:

Wowee Totta, that's a whale of a job you did there!!! I'm not that familiar with the dictionary but aren't those yellow machines next to Arthur's house diggers, which are closely related to bulldozers according to recent DNA analysis?

Good lord, I really wrote DNA without referring to DNA at all Embarassed

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Tony · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject:

stejacorca · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:38 pm Post subject:

Thank you very much for providing this educational picture, Tony

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Tony · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject:

z.f.c · Joined: 20 Jul 2004

good work!

the radio telescope is Jodrell Bank in Cheshire. Near where I live. I think the guys looking thru window at it is added on later and not from the actual complex next to it.

http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/

i wonder if the ID card is Martin Freeman's actual BBC pass?
and is the picture behind Freeman when he wakes a picture of Canterbury Cathedral? He played Tim Canterbury in the Office. and also Doug gets mentioned in BBC's Canterbury Tales in 2003.

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OddBrian · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:30 pm Post subject:

Totta:

Great work. I nominate you for Forum Frood of Froods.
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stejacorca · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:33 pm Post subject:

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The Duke of Dunstable · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject:

I was there when they shot this scene. I'm standing about 10 meters to their left. It was hotter than hell in there, everybody (of the cast) was acting freezing except Zaphod, who was relaxed and already cool.
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I thought it was Vogons carrying off Trillian. (2 of them)

Tony · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 10:05 pm Post subject:

homsar · Age: 22 Joined: 06 Nov 2004

Thanks a ton Totta
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Isnt this the Scene we see in the coming soon vid, here

http://www.kingstreetmedia.tv/hhg/index.htm , shot from above?

Was gonna post earlyer but school comps dont let me log in
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Loki · Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Location: Wiesbaden, Germany

Great pictures!

Bluebottle · Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I think the copy of "Slapstick" is a reference to the movie made from the book... "Slapstick of another kind"... probably the worst adaptation ever made...

maybe it's the film equivilent of crossing your fingers.

Shocked

i liked how arthur had set his alarm for 7:42... such a "random" number.

Loki · Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Location: Wiesbaden, Germany

Apart from Slapstick, there seem to be guidebooks and maps and such under the alarm clock. Maybe even a Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe?

Totta · Forum irregular Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Location: Sweden

Oh no I did it again.

Now almost all screencaps are updated with better versions from the new trailer. More details are visible that way.
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Totta · Forum irregular Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Location: Sweden

My favourite picture:

Look at the text on the styrofoam hand.
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OddBrian · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:32 am Post subject:

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Tony · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:42 am Post subject:

The Court Jester · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:34 am Post subject: Re: Trailer dissection

OddBrian · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:42 am Post subject:

Anyone else notice the Gimp masks the Vogons are wearing in the bit where Arthur & Ford are being pushed down the hallway?

Also, the HOG isn't circular. It's more like a thick hoop.
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ururk · Joined: 06 Dec 2004

I know this was partially covered in another thread, but I noticed (and didn't see it mentioned elsewhere) when Ford tells Arthur he is an alien, it appears his lips do not move with the words he is speaking. This should corroborate with comments that the audio in the trailer is not that of the movie.

Anyone else confirm this? I'm looking at the Large version in .mov format...

John

moongoddess · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:26 am Post subject:

Someone who had seen the test screening reported that it had the traditional dialog rather than the abbreviated version heard in the trailer. I'm just not sure if they posted that here (may have been Moriarty) or if I read it in one of the many reviews DarthBastard linked for us.

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