3PO in America and Marvin in Europe

Lupe 2022-03-18 09:01:03

I love sci-fi movies, and I adore sci-fi writers because they are usually imaginative smart guys; I prefer hilarious sci-fi movie people because they can make a fool of himself and laugh about it. That's why I love 3PO and Star Wars so much, and I love Marvin and The Hitchhiker's Guide so much.

Almost every minute of the story is nonsensical and wise, especially the beginning and the end are strokes of genius. Marvin could be a sarcastic reinvention of 3PO. Because 3PO is a protocol droid that "simulates human emotions", Marvin is the prototype of GPP (genuine people personality) emphasizing that he is a "real" human personality. Well, this "real" representative of human character is not the image of an American who is chattering, timid, timid, but not annoying, like 3PO, but a middle-aged European who is "depressed" and who is not pessimistic and world-weary. Just like its size - a fat body with a huge bald head. From the thousands of jokes in this film, I can only choose one such as Marvin. Because it shows what makes this movie different from America's glittering entertainment blockbusters, which is the self-deprecating humor of Europeans, just as they can laugh at the insignificance of the earth and the arrogance and idiots of human beings.

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Extended Reading
  • Dedrick 2021-10-22 14:41:28

    If life can be so messy

  • Dedrick 2022-04-23 07:01:30

    Science fiction bible, if only the reading list was like this. Real sci-fi in the UK?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quotes

  • Humma KavulaCongregation: [singing] Oh mighty Arkleseizure, thou gazed from high above. And sneezed from out thy nostrils, a gift of bounteous love. The universe around us emerged from thy nose. Now we await with eager expectation, thy handkerchief, to bring us back to thee.

    [End singing]

    Zaphod: Hello Humma.

    Humma Kavula: Let us pray. Oh mighty one, we raise our noses to you blocked and unblown, send the handkerchief O blessed one that we may be wiped clean.

    [Everyone in the congregation sneezes simultaneously]

    Humma Kavula: Bless you.

  • Slartibartfast: You must come with me.

    Arthur Dent: Who are you?

    Slartibartfast: What? No. My name's not important. You must come with me, or you'll be late.

    Arthur Dent: Late for what?

    Slartibartfast: Well, um, what's your name, Earthman?

    Arthur Dent: Dent. Arthur Dent.

    Slartibartfast: Well, late as in *the late* Dentarthurdent. It's a sort of threat. You see?

    Arthur Dent: No.

    Slartibartfast: Your friends are safe, you can trust me.

    Arthur Dent: Trust a man who won't even tell me his name?

    Slartibartfast: Well, um, my name is, um, it's

    [hurriedly]

    Slartibartfast: Slartibartfast.

    Arthur Dent: What?

    Slartibartfast: I *said* it wasn't important.