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	munchkinott 2004-03-22 11:07 pm UTC (link)
	You know you're old when you can remember similar HHG wanks going round cons etched on stone tablets. I swear they'll unearth a cave painting one day with "Ug 4 Ford Prefect? Ug noooooo OMG!Buffalo!Antelope!!!" on it. headdesks repeatedly (Reply to this)(Thread)

	crickets 2004-03-23 02:11 am UTC (link)
	Ug noooooo OMG!Buffalo!Antelope!!! I have no idea why that made me laugh so hard. I'm just glad I wasn't sipping my coke at the time. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	els_chan 2004-03-23 04:23 pm UTC (link)
	I swear they'll unearth a cave painting one day with "Ug 4 Ford Prefect? Ug noooooo OMG!Buffalo!Antelope!!!" on it. has died giggling with tears streaming down her face comes back as zombie...again Too funny. And like the others said, I have no idea why. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	calluna 2004-03-25 07:31 am UTC (link)
	Buffalo/Antelope OTP!!! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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meshou
2004-03-22 11:19 pm UTC (link)

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Wasn't Ford Prefect a white middle-aged English guy (by all appearances)? And isn't Mos Def a young black man from Brooklyn? If so, why are they arguing over his hair? *boggles* I might just be perverted by older portrayals, but that was my impression of him.

I have seen redheaded (what I assume to mean ginger-haired) black guys. Malcom X had red hair. Looks unnatural, but it happens. I'm sure Mos Def can pull off having his skin look like it was pulled back from his nose, smiling big, not blinking, and getting his hair dyed. It's already "wirey," so no problem there.

I've seen some things he's acted in. He's pretty damned good. I'm sure he can learn an accent. *walks off muttering to herself*

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	serai 2004-03-27 11:04 am UTC (link)
	The really funny thing is - Ford Prefect is an ALIEN. So he could be ten feet tall with crocodile feet and it still wouldn't make any difference. (Well, actually, it would, since he's supposed to blend in with humans, but you get my point...) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pooka 2004-03-22 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	I can't believe people actually took the time to do all that research on....hair color. Because one character with the wrong Feria hue will ruin the whole movie, for sure. Yes, it would be. We only got rid of a letter in the word that isn't needed and made it less... well... French. snorf (Reply to this)(Thread)

	alden 2004-03-23 01:25 pm UTC (link)
	Please allow me to say that I hope Feria is not used in the film. Or anywhere. It is by far the worst haircoloring agent I have ever used... and that includes Kool-Aid. [/idiot] Other than that tiny detail, I agree. Overreactions all 'round. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	resmiranda 2004-03-22 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	... Mos Def???? I don't know who picked him, but... um... hehehe, awesome. I bet he'll do a great Ford. /has nothing intelligent to say (Reply to this)(Thread)

resmiranda
2004-03-23 12:07 am UTC (link)

Also, Jesus. I have a copy of the Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide wherein Zaphod Beeblebrox, blonde beach bum president, is portrayed by a black man. How did they get around this? By adding an extra footnote that says this: Subjective impressions may vary according to local reality miscalibrations and the perceptual systems of the observer. For instance, any entity suffering from HSSE, or Mad Human Disease, will probably perceive the President's hair as being short and dark, and should consult a qualified Peripsychosemiolothanatician immediately.

Douglas Adams even appeared in the book himself as a character, so bitches, PLEASE.

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	(Anonymous) 2004-03-22 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	Hee. Marvin the Paranoid Android, as played by Professor Flitwick. I sense some HP spooge six-degreeing its way into somebody else's fandom. (Reply to this)

	cleolinda 2004-03-22 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	Heh. Reminds me of--what's that line from Shawshank Redemption? Something about "Why they call you Red?," and Morgan Freeman says, with this great little twinkle, something like, "Cause I'm Irish." Something like that. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	friendly_cow 2004-03-23 12:27 am UTC (link)
	Well, I'm still miffed that the kid they picked to play Harry Potter in the movies is not a real wizard. Or that Frodo was not played by an actual hobbit, nor Sauron by an actual flaming eye of evil doom. Sacrilege, I say! I feel their pain. God, do I feel it. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	ladysorka 2004-03-23 01:08 am UTC (link)
	No one could possibly play Ford Prefect correctly, as he's not from England or America. I refuse to see the film unless we get an honest to goodness alien from the vicinity of Betelgeuse! Some people. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	musette 2004-03-23 01:36 am UTC (link)
	God, there is nothing like pseudo-intellectual sci-fi wank. Personally, I want to see Robin Williams play Zaphod. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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liarliar
2004-03-23 01:59 am UTC (link)

Arthur must be English. Other than him, (and Trillian) it's all up in the air. They could have blue skin, and who would care? (Personally, I'd find it very amusing if Ford had blue skin and nobody noticed--after all, it'd be Somebody Else's Problem.)

Mostly, I wanna hear "Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it!" again. It's been way too long since I read these books/watched the movie/listened to the radio show.

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smirnoffmule
2004-03-23 02:02 am UTC (link)

This is all really ridiculous, because they're fighting about the adaptation of a series that has *never* had anything resembling fluid continuity between adaptations, and frequently mutates from medium to medium...

Even more ridiculous because they're arguing over a line from the book, and the book wasn't even the original medium. If you want to be a pedantic purist, at least go to the source. The radio show came first, and Ford was never described in that at all.

And the award for the least relevant post ever goes to:

Ginger is a reddish brown, like auburn. Or, it can also mean homosexual. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

For some reason, I want to pat this poster on the arm and say "there, there, dear."

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	marginalsanity 2004-03-23 02:41 am UTC (link)
	Silly, silly people. He's from another planet...not earth. The same standards that may or may not hold on earth certainly do not hold in Adams' books. That should be a definitely, perhaps. (Reply to this)

	serinatia 2004-03-23 07:59 am UTC (link)
	Uh, who cares what colour hair the character has? He can dye it. These people should wait for the actual movie before wanking about hair colour. I'd be worried about accents more than anything else, but that's just me. (Reply to this)

	maryavatar 2004-03-23 11:26 am UTC (link)
	headdesk Okay, I have to admit, when I heard about the casting, my first reaction was '...the fuck?' But I have learned to keep an open mind about such things. If Tom Cruise can pull off Lestat, then anything is possible. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	ruaha56 2004-03-23 02:07 pm UTC (link)
	Is it dark brown? Is it brown-red? Is it red? Do we care? 42. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	byagghametta 2004-03-23 05:51 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, I have never seen Americans fight with Brits of the etomology of Brit slang like this before. "Ginger is dark brown, you effing BRITS!" "Shut up, you American loser! Ginger is RED!" Holy Christ in a chicken basket...just split the difference and dye Mos Def's hair Auburn. XD (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	And may I just mention how ridiculous is screenname is? (Anonymous) 2004-03-24 02:46 am UTC (link)
	from boynamedsue you'd think since your country spawned the language you might speak it. Funny ol' world, innit? (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	(Anonymous) 2004-03-24 02:50 am UTC (link)
	I might add that one cannot expect Americans to distinguish hues when they are incapable of spelling "colour". However that would be churlish and patronising! My, my, it would, wouldn't it? blinks And may I add, I just WISH i could have a 'what the shit?' icon. (Reply to this)

serai
2004-03-27 11:02 am UTC (link)

The other night I was having a discussion with Spike about Scarlett, the TV movie adaptation of the GwtW sequel. She a big original GwtW fan, and she objected to the casting of Joanne Whaley as Scarlett because she didn't have blue eyes.

So I asked her how eye color mattered. Did it impact on the plot? Did the fact that Joanne has brown eyes change anything about the story? She had to admit it didn't.

So that's the rule I apply - if it doesn't have any impact on the plot, the characters, the interactions, etc. - it makes no damn difference.

Ford Prefect doesn't have "ginger" hair? Who gives a rat's ass? He didn't have "ginger" hair in the TV series, either (unless "ginger" means, um, BROWN) - how did that change anything? And that series was produced with Douglas Adams's blessing, for gods' sakes.

Feh.

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