final word on Hitchhiker's, the movie

[acroyear]

if you don't like the differences between the movie and the "original" (whether your original is the radio show, the records, the tv series, or the book), blame douglas.  aside from one or two scenes, every major change is in douglas's final script prior to his death, and most of the ideas were in the earliest drafts and discussions with Jay Roach prior to his leaving the project.  This includes the (significant) trimming of "act 1", the entire "act 2" with john malcovitch and the rescue trillian subplot (douglas felt that the original never had an act 2 as such, and magrathea was always act 3), the p.o.v. gun, and the romance triangle and resolution between arthur and trillian.  douglas wrote it all, knowing he was writing a "movie based on..." and not just rehashing the original scripts.

but i don't want to hear anymore about "the changes they made to what i always knew/loved" -- douglas made the changes first.