Reviews of Mort (1987) and related work
- Spin-off: Wyrd Sisters (1988)
- Adaptation: Wyrd Sisters (1997)
- Spin-off: Guards! Guards! (1989)
- Spin-off: Pyramids (1989)
- Spin-off: Moving Pictures (1990)
- Spin-off: Men at Arms (1993)
- Spin-off: Soul Music (1994)
- Spin-off: “Troll Bridge” (2019)
Mort (1987
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Terry Pratchett (writer).
‣ Wyrd Sisters (1988)
Terry Pratchett (writer).
Most centrally, Macbeth (1606).
Probably the first time Pratchett found a really rich premise for the Discworld. His witches are an improvement over the trio in The Black Cauldron (1985), a similar compromise between stereotype and character.
‣‣ Wyrd Sisters (1997
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Seen in 2018.
Oddly faithful. It preserves even the most literary jokes, which doesn’t make sense for a film, and it animates the silent movie gags instead of using film. It’s also too cheaply produced to bring any visual pleasure to the adaptation, and it adds a few stereotypes (like the enhanced appearance of WxrtHltl-jwl, pronounced here) but its overall faithfulness is sort of endearing.
References here: “Troll Bridge” (2019).
adaptation animation fiction moving picture series
‣ Guards! Guards! (1989)
Terry Pratchett (writer).
‣ Pyramids (1989)
Terry Pratchett (writer).
‣ Moving Pictures (1990)
Terry Pratchett (writer).
It’s got little to do with fantasy.
References here: Soul Music (1994).
‣ Men at Arms (1993)
Terry Pratchett (writer).
The silicon brain heat sink is the perfect symbol of Pratchett’s Discworld: The mad genius of a late-night D&D session, building a world by probing its limits, including its limits as fiction.
‣ Soul Music (1994)
Terry Pratchett (writer).
Like Moving Pictures (1990), it’s too thinly connected to the secondary world to achieve much.
‣ “Troll Bridge” (2019)
Seen in 2021.
Cohen the Barbarian.
Crowdfunded, with end-credits filk. It has the same basic problem as Wyrd Sisters (1997), being too straight an adaptation, too literary, with almost no concern for differences in media.