Creators |
Terry Pratchett (writer). |
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Spin-off:
Wyrd Sisters (1988)
Creators |
Terry Pratchett (writer). |
Subject |
Most centrally, Macbeth (1606). |
Commentary |
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. |
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Adaptation:
Wyrd Sisters (1997) IMDb
Extent |
Seen in 2018.
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Commentary |
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. |
animation fiction moving picture series |
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Spin-off:
Guards! Guards! (1989)
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Spin-off:
Pyramids (1989)
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Spin-off:
Moving Pictures (1990)
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Spin-off:
Men at Arms (1993)
Creators |
Terry Pratchett (writer). |
Commentary |
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. |
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Spin-off:
Soul Music (1994)
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