They released "Hogfather" on DVD after the BBC had run it, let's hope this comes out soon!Over the bank holiday, we were treated to a Pratchett fest, with some four hours of the latest adaptation from the Discworld series, Going Postal. An expensive adaptation, I would reckon, given the bejewelled cast, all dressed up with strange ears, weird skin tones, lighty-up flashy eyes and stupid names. Charles Dance and Timothy West, for example, as well as David Suchet and Andrew Sachs, who, for once, did not have to use a false Spanish accent or defend the honour of his granddaughter. The story concerned a con man called Moist von Lipwig (yes, yes, I know), played with great gleeful panache by Richard Coyle, who is given the choice between being killed or reopening a post office; unsurprisingly, he chooses the latter option. But the post office may be haunted, and he faces interference in his work from the Clacks telegraph company and its evil, eye-patched boss (Suchet). By Von Lipwig’s side is a mild-mannered giant golem called Mr Pump and, more often than not, a sneery, poutylicious goth babe played by the minxy Claire Foy.
It kicked along, this production, with a modicum of decent special effects and a rather canny evocation of faux-gothic Dickensian squalor. Somehow it seems less juvenile to watch this sort of stuff than read it, and within 15 minutes or so all my elitist snobbery and pretentiousness had vanished, almost. At the very least, it was cheering to see a period drama into which the producers had not felt it necessary to shoehorn sex — and, indeed, a drama at all that was not about downtrodden but gritty northern people trying to come to terms with the futility of their existence. Hugely enjoyable, actually, and Foy looked great. I like a girl who looks like a corpse.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 142668.ece
One for Jammies (and me)
One for Jammies (and me)
and any Pratchett fans out there...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: One for Jammies (and me)
Garth the Goth Redneck Jew would love it... or hate it. I dunno gotta see it.
