Chapter 314
The ups and downs outside did not affect Lin Han's determination. Since the name of the new book had been announced, he had never thought about changing the book.
Lin Han first saw "The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy" in "Science Fiction World" magazine. It was around 2004. He was immediately attracted by the unexpected plot in the novel and the British humor flashing between the lines.
A year or two later, the movie of the same name of this novel was officially released. You can watch the strange universe adventure depicted in the book with your eyes and present it on the computer. This excitement is something that many people have never experienced before!
But this movie is mixed, and people who like it especially like it, and people who don't like it hate it. It is one of the most well-known anti-genre films in the history of films, and is not much the same as the movies we usually see.
The famous film magazine "Empire" rated this movie as the most serious and absurd global disaster. The whole movie was almost messy, but its reputation and box office were really not low.
Those serious, serious, and those who have taken over advanced sex education probably won’t like this movie. The director of the movie is a lunatic, and he made such films that have no theme, no suspense, no storyline, no acting skills, and no effect. If you use a Chinese movie to compare it with it, it is probably the crazy "Everything is the best" or Stephen Chow's comedy.
Same absurdity, same fun.
However, the movie is obviously more intuitive compared to the novel. You can feel a considerable part of the content in two hours. This movie is still very popular online for ten years, and it is probably a classic.
Every movie adapted from a novel will be troubled by the original fans. It is simply that the movie has lost the essence of the original, lost too many things or changed the characters.
But if a novel with a value of more than 100,000 words is shown in two hours, it is very necessary to delete it appropriately. Lin Han doesn’t think there is anything wrong with this. If all the elements are preserved, the movie will definitely be a bloated monster!
Back to the point, Lin Han has already begun to prepare to make drastic changes to this novel in his mind, not only the character background, even the language style and humorous things, but also the corresponding science fiction part involved.
Even if this is just a soft science fiction novel, "The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy" also contains these contents, which are all products of the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the wonderful ideas in the novel have been realized, and some of them cannot keep up with the trend of the times and need to be replaced.
These are the simplest things, and language style is very difficult. The most attractive thing about this novel is its funny and unique British humor, which has weak storylines, but the fun and ridicule index reaches the highest.
Its interesting lies in the language, narrative structure, and even humorous methods are extremely imaginative. Some people say that the wild jokes are the biggest selling point of this book. The author Douglas is different from other science fiction writers. He directly tells you a truth, not telling why, and writing science fiction stories carelessly!
The title of "The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy" comes from a book of the same name in the novel story. It is a guiding work for travelers in the Galaxy. It is the most outstanding and successful book ever written by Star Bookstore.
The book is all-encompassing, explaining various questions encountered during interstellar travel and giving suggestions and help. The book cover also has a very heavy slogan printed: "Don't panic!"
In the original novel, "The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy" has many highlights. The author uses humorous vocabulary expressions and simple and vivid metaphors to make it the treasure that readers want to have the most.
After Lin Han reviewed the content of the novel in his mind, he began to devote himself to writing. English humor was changed to Chinese humor. The jokes in China are not bad, and they are closer to people's lives. Whether it is daily terms or online jokes, they are very suitable for this novel.
"In the unspecified silent void at the end of the western spiral arm of the Milky Way, a small yellow sun hanging from it. A totally insignificant blue-green asteroid runs in orbit about 98 million miles away. The life forms on this planet evolved from apes are surprisingly primitive, and they even think that the light brain is a very amazing idea."
The beginning of this joke sets the tone of the whole book. Lin Han slightly revised one of the words, because the original text said that electronic watches are an amazing idea, which was a speculation in the 1970s and 1980s, and now it needs to be updated.
This unique writing technique is very interesting, and Lin Han did not intend to correct this. He even wrote a few similar jokes before to find a feeling for himself, so that he could better grasp the context of his writing.
For example, he once rewrites the sentence "The Winter Solstice of Chengdu people eating mutton and the Mayan doomsday" into the novel style of "The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy".
The details are as follows: Cultural differences are very common in the Milky Way. For example, on the third planet of a star at the end of the third spiral arm, an ancient nation in the Western Hemisphere believes that December 21 will be the end of this planet according to their calendar; and for a branch of the ethnic group at the eastern end of the Eastern Hemisphere's continent lives in the southwest basin, this day is more like the doomsday of a four-legged walking mammal with two horns on its head on this planet!
After Lin Han wrote several similar words in succession, he found the feeling and began to devote himself to the writing.
"This story is about a book called The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy, which is not a book on Earth, which has never been published on Earth, and until that terrible disaster, no one on Earth had seen or heard of it.
However, this is definitely an extraordinary book.
In fact, it is probably the most extraordinary book ever published by the great publishing companies of Ursus. Among many more open civilizations on the eastern outer edge of the Milky Way, The Wandering Guide to the Milky Way has replaced the great Encyclopedia of the Galaxy as the standard of all knowledge and wisdom.
Despite the fact that it contains a lot of false or at least inaccurate information, it transcends the more obsolete and rigid work in terms of both machines.
First, it is a little cheaper; second, it is written in large and friendly font on its cover with the phrase “Don’t panic”.
The beginning of this story is related to a house.”
After writing the introduction of the novel, Lin Han breathed a sigh of relief. Everything was difficult at the beginning, and now he started slowly. When others were having a leisurely Spring Festival, he buried his head in writing, which seemed to be faster.
When winter comes, the air quality in Yanjing City is not good, and the haze is very serious. Lin Han cannot even open the windows for breathability. When he sees through the glass window, it looks like there is a natural curtain, which is gray.
According to Lin Han's idea, the protagonist, who was originally named Arthur Dent, would change from his British background to a Chinese background. Although the first chapter would destroy the earth, this background still needs to be modified, so the protagonist was called Dent. Who made the surname Deng in the Baijia surname?
The story begins in an ordinary small Chinese town. Dent is an ordinary Chinese man. Someone came to demolish his house to build a highway and told Dent that the project plan had been in the office for more than a year.
In order to defend his home, Dent wanted to be the strongest nail house, and he lay in front of the bulldozer to stop these people.
At the same time, in order to build an interstellar multidimensional space expressway, the Milky Way Gallery Multidimensional Space Planning Commission sent a construction fleet of the Wogong Stars to demolish the "blocking the way" Earth.
Dent's friend Fulin is actually an alien. He brought Dent into the universe at the moment the earth was demolished, took the ship of the Wogon Stars, and became a hitchhiker for the space travel.
Then they were discovered by the Wogons and threw them out of the spacecraft, but they happened to be caught in a state-of-the-art spacecraft called "Kinder Heart" that the president of the Galaxy secretly came to, and formed another surviving Earthling, Teresa and robot Marvin, forming a small group.
During the subsequent space trip, Dent discovered that towels were the most useful thing in the universe, and experienced the new meaning of life, and found that everything he needed to know was actually written in an electronic book called "A Wandering Guide to the Galaxy".
After experiencing the difficulties, they accidentally discovered that there was a factory in the universe that specializes in creating planets for investors, and the one who paid for the customization of the earth was the mouse!
The absurdity of the novel is vividly reflected in the plot. The earth here is demolished because it wants to build the interstellar expressway, while the president of the Galaxy Empire announced that the non-probability spacecraft was successfully studied, and the destruction of the earth suddenly became meaningless.
42 is the simple answer to the ultimate question. When deep thinking this computer answers the question, it says it can only design the most powerful computer in all time and space. After 10 million years of operation, this computer will be able to give the answer. Deep thinking has even given the name of this computer, called the Earth.
However, ironically, when the earth was still 5 minutes away from the end of the calculation, it was destroyed by the Wogong Stars because of the interstellar highway!
In fact, the book does not have much content, only more than 80,000 words, and 35 chapters together. These short tens of thousands of words condense too many things, and at best it is a novella.
This is less than many books Lin Han has written before. If he published a book, it may be as thick as half of the "Three-Body Problem", and it is probably not heavy when he holds it in his hand. But he has not spent a lot of thought on it at all. After carefully crafting the 80,000 words, Lin Han felt that he might not be able to complete it in a month.
In fact, 80,000 words are just the beginning of an online novel, and it is possible that the author, who has not even entered the main topic, can finish so much in one or two days.
In fact, Lin Han once thought of writing the last few movies of "The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy", after all, they are a complete whole, "The Restaurant of the Universe Lens", "Life, the Universe and Everything", "Goodbye, Thank You Fish" and "Basically Harmless" are one whole.
However, the project volume is quite large. For Lin Han, it will take more than one or two months to modify the "Handler Guide to the Galaxy". He is striving for excellence and does not want readers to find out the problem, so he can only keep revising it. So the next few movies will be temporarily out of the plan and will be discussed when he has time.
The heating emanated from the room. Lin Han got up and took a glass of water, and then put it into work again, writing and stopping, saving this version, and then opening a document to continue writing. Different versions are piled up in folders.
"Wine is a colorless, volatile liquid that is fermented by sugar. At the same time, the Encyclopedia of the Galaxy also mentioned that wine has the effect of intoxicating life forms composed of carbon.
The "Galaxy Wandering Guide" also mentioned wine, which said that the best drink that exists is "Pan Galaxy Gargle Blasting Medicine". Drinking a glass of Pan Galaxy Gargle Blasting Medicine, it feels like being smashed into pieces by a large piece of gold brick wrapped in lemons."
Lin Han could not help but feel happy as he wrote, "The Guide will also tell you which planets can be equipped with the best pan-galactic gargle and blasting medicines, how much it will cost to buy one, and what volunteer organizations can help you recover after drinking it, and even teach you how to prepare a pan-galactic gargle and blasting medicine."
Lin Han wrote the sarcasm and sarcasm at the beginning, but this is not the reason why he was lazy and delayed the manuscript. As a self-controlled author, Lin Han never needs editors to worry about, which is something that many authors cannot do.
After connecting the absurdity in the novel to reality, this rich imagination and mean sense of humor become a mockery of human society. Various phenomena in human life are made to make fun of every detail, but all this needs to be a degree.
The little mouse in the laboratory actually built the earth. After criticizing politicians, bureaucracy was immediately followed. The main character Dent's home was demolished and the earth was demolished for the same reason. The Wogong Star Headquarters is even a bureaucratic base.
This book cleverly turns cynical critical realist novels into hilarious science fiction novels. It can make people think deeply while hilarious. It is really a fine product in soft science fiction!
I recommend you to watch the movie "The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy". Just search on Bilibili, so that everyone can understand the plot of the novel. The movie starring is the actor of Watson in Detective Sherlock.
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