A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG) (2005) Directed by: Gareth Jennings Written by: Douglas Adams, Karey Kirkpatrick Based on:    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams Starring: Martin Freeman, Yasin Bey (as Mos Def), Zooey Deschanel, Sam Rockwell, Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Helen Mirren, Warwick Davis, Anna Chancellor, Bill Nighy, John Malkovich The Book : The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. More popular, certainly more successful than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus , better selling than Fifty-Three More Things to do in Zero Gravity , and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is This God Person Anyway? On April 29, 2005, one day after its London premiere, the long-awaited film adaptation of Douglas Adams' sci-fi comedy novel  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ...

Die Hard (1988) Directed by John McTiernan Written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza Based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman, Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Alexander Godunov, Paul Gleason Hans Gruber : [addressing the hostages] I wanted this to be professional, efficient, adult, cooperative. Not a lot to ask. Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way... so he won't be joining us for the rest of his life. We can go any way you want it. You can walk out of here or be carried out. But have no illusions. We are in charge. So, decide now, each of you. And please remember: we have left nothing to chance. Although action films have been around since Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery (1903), the genre became dominant in the 1980s with the success of summer blockbuster like Raiders of the Lost Ark, 48 Hrs, First Blood, and Lone Wolf McQuade. Though these films have different ...