Terry Pratchett on Going Postal
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Going Postal is the sensational new Sky 1 miniseries based on the novel by bestselling author Terry Pratchett.
Here Terry Pratchett talks about the up and coming Going Postal. He also delves into Discworld and reveals his love for the efficient Victorian mail system, stamps and the colourful characters that brought his novel to life. - Розваги
At this moment somewhere in the world someone is reading a Discworld novel. Mr Pratchett will continue to live for many decades to come.
And in L Space they continue to be written.
Alas, only to be read by the Librarian
OOOK
This comment was such a good one🙏👍
Ive been listening to them on audio books on the ride to work, Ive introduced my brother to them and he loves them as well.
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yep. that's me right now
They say we die twice. Once a physical death, and again when the last person says our name.
Terry Pratchett will live on for millennia.
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Is it not the 3 deaths ? One when you die, another when people stop mention you and the last when the last person stops thinking of you.
@@-JustHuman- And then there is that one guy who sold bad copper back in Mesopotamia.
Kushim - is a scribe on some transactions of Barley from Uruk from around 3200 BCE .... his name is still said ...
May the name Terry Pratchett still be said in 5200 years time ...
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2019 - I miss Terry Pratchett. :(
Same here Joseph
Aye, me too
I miss him dearly, one of my all time favourite authors and a personal hero of mine.
I still have his last book in a draw unread.
Yeah I was on the edge of crying all the time when I read his latest book, with the little witch, and the bees, and the things he wanted to perpetuate, god this comment is hard to write, I must not think about it to finish it, R.I.P.
Years and years ago, this movie was playing on the channel I always used to watch as a kid. Having nothing else to do, I decided to watch it, and I fell in love; I kept the recording of it on the TV and rewatched it occasionally. About two years ago, the name “Terry Pratchett” showed up again when I watched “Good Omens”; I decided to buy one of his books-it was “The Colour Of Magic”. I didn’t read it immediately, because I found the writing a bit too hard as a non-native speaker, but my progress in English allowed me to read it soon after. I have since read the first 11 Discworld books, plus “Going Postal”, as it was my introduction to this world. I am completely in LOVE with Pratchett’s writing, his world has brought me so much joy. Sometimes I wish I could forget all about it, just so I could discover it anew; but the feeling of knowing Discworld and its inside jokes, if you will, also makes me feel warm inside. It will forever break my heart that, by the time I decided to start reading the Discworld series, he was already long gone. But he will live on in all of our memories, and in his brilliant books, and I like to think that he got taken away by his Discworld Death, because that makes it less sad. I hope Death took good care of him-no, I know he did. RIP, Terry Pratchett, we all love you so, so much.
Eleven books means you already know they are good, and you have met my all-time favourite watch commander, but the best is yet to come. O how I envy you.
I give you one two many thanks!
I can't imagine ever being clever enough to read a book in a second language. I doff my cap to thee sir.
Pratchett's books have the curious characteristic of being eminently readable over and over again - You just need to allow them to stand fallow for a few years and you're good to go all over again.
I suspect its not because of the story line itself but the characterisations and the thousand little covert jokes & puns.
To be able to get that in a language which is not your native tongue is an immense achievement Tam.
@@Farweasel thanks :) I know I missed a few jokes here and there, and it took a while to get into the right rhythm for his humour and writing in general, but I am quite proud of the level of understanding that I have of his books. Can’t wait to revisit them in the future and catch on to even more of the jokes he sprinkled across Discworld!
You may be gone Terry but you certainly are not forgotten, I hope you gave Binky a sugar lump or two.
Don't. They give him terrible indigestion, if I recall correctly. Do note that, unlike Death, I don't speak in ALL CAPS.
what a truly nice thing to say!
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@@666Tomato666 - Indeed, Terry shall forever remain in the clacks. The senders will remember.
Before any of the movies came to be, I fell in love with the Discworld novels. While I found the movie presentations very enjoyable, there is so much more to be found in the pages which do not make it to the screen. Hands down, Sir Terry Pratchett is my most beloved author. I was devastated with his passing.
When I read Granny Weatherwax's passing in The Shepards Crown I cried because it was like Terry Pratchett was telling us that even though he was going it would all be ok.
I was sitting on the "Fantasy Reading Island" on the Leipzig Book Fair when they announced the news to the audience there. So sad. :(((
I was first introduced to the Discworld series through the movie, "The colour of magic" my dad rented it at a blockbuster or something and I remember thinking it was going suck because he always got the cheesiest straight to video movies. But I turned out to be the best movies I ever seen.
Years later I found out there was a book and I immediately bought it so I'm torn on what I prefer I'm pretty sure I like the book more though.
Scott Burton I do not emorionally care about him, but it is a great loss that his books and creative criticism is at an end. Him and douglas addams has taught me to not take life to seriously, and that is of life saving importance to me. So while I am not devestated, I do owe him a ”thank you” for his work.
have all the discworld books, i liked his joking with our world the wizards= politicians, the witches=psychologist ens. and i really enjoyed Nightwatch i could see all the charters that works with me in the police
if you *mean* something to someone... if you help someone... or loved someone... if even a single person remembers you... then maybe you never really die at all. he will live forever
I didn't expect Terry's voice to sound like that. :o
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Rebecca Pucci I completed an conversion course in Computer Science since I last read the book. Hence I only now realise that GNU in the real world is a Unix system. (I'd forgotten about the reference in Going Postal).
> GNU in the real world is a Unix system
So... you haven't actually learned what GNU means, then? ;)
Me either. I was so surprised at how utterly peaceful and calming it was.
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I had to come and watch this after watching the trailer for “The Watch” just so I could remember that there are people who can to a faithful adaptation of Disk World.
Its always a bitter sweet thing seeing Terry Pratchett when he was well and speaking on the work he loved being put on screen.
I'll always treasure my signed copies of my favourite books. (Masquerade and Hogfather.)
An avid reader from an early age,Terry Pratchett took me to a new place in terms of reading. The books became my friends. Not only did Terry die too early, but all his characters died with him. I will never know what happened to little Sam, nor Tiffany. It took me so many years to recover the wish to read again. As with so many of you, I still miss him. Perhaps one of the 'small gods' took him and he's still writing, surely the God of books will look favourably on this great man.
Indeed, the sense of loss was and still is immense, but as Sir Terry said, "words have power" so part of me imagines that the essence of Sam Vimes, Tiffany Aching, and all the others still exist somewhere in the ether. The characters are alive in our heads but there's no-one to tell their stories any more, and _that_ is what we grieve for.
Those we knew and loved in the Discworld books were not lost forever, like the characters from Blackadder in that overwhelming final scene, they simply lost their voice.
Yep.... I would go with that. I've read all the books many times but the ones I come back to most are The Watch series. I think Vimes is the most developed character in the books and the supporting cast are brilliant. Nobby, Colon and Leonard of Quirm in the "Submarine" with Vetinari, in Jingo, was hysterical. Every one of those books is a gem and Snuff is a touching piece of magic.
Sam Vimes is probably the most complete character in any genre of modern literature.
This movie introduced me to Terry Pratchett's work! (It was a very good day.)
We lost a shining light that generated millions of smiles. See you soon enough, Terry.
I love you and miss you, Sir Terry Pratchett. Hope you're having a great time up there.
Up there?
He was an Atheist.
Down there.;)
@@levizjaperdije8499 If that's the case,I'm jealous of Satan (having Terry recite all of his work in person).
Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Anyone I ever knew and loved, anyone I would like to know are down there, if it really existed of course.
As long as you speak a person's name, they are not dead.
Here is to you, Sir Terry Pratchett - may your name be spoken forever more!
i am 15 and i have been reading terry pratchett for five years. I NEVER GET TIRED OF IT!
Your 22 now, feel old yet?
This is a terrific mini-series. Stellar cast and cracking story
Don't often get character translations this exceptional. Up there with like LotR (first three ofc) and ... ... ...
I love the cast. And Richard Coyle is full of charm! He's absolutely stunning.
Here I am, nine years after this video was posted, Sir Terry is gone, and I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE GOING POSTAL MINISERIES EXISTED! Can't watch the rest of this video, I have to go find Going Postal and watch it rightaway!
Here's me, 5 years after you posted that comment, and I flipped on the Apple TV mid-video to see if it was streaming anywhere. (It is, and I'll be watching it over dinner tonight.)
I hope they do Night Watch next. Would love to see Sir Samuel Vimes in action :)
Eddie G one of my favourites. I loved the fight in the dungeon were Sam takes down Swing with a ruleler. Ooo THUD would be a good one to.
@Matthew - lool... thx for reminding me of "Vimes boot theory"
Night Watch is my favourite Discworld book, but they'd have to do the other Watch books first, and... Horribly miscast David Jason as... I don't know, Nobby or something.
@@BrianFlyingPenguin I've no particular favorite,I just enjoyed ALL of Terry Pratchet's novels.Nuff said.
They are actually making it now, and vetinari and the head of the assassins guild are somehow women now.
Death: No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...
May you keep on living in the hearts of people Sir Pratchett.
We all loved and miss Sir Terry 😪
They missed out Bloody Stupid's post sorting machine. :(
To this day, one of my favorite movies! Long Live Sir Terry!
Well, now I have to watch this show.
So happy. Thank you!
Tywin Lannister vs Hercule Poirot is not what expected to ever see.
The youtube algorithm decided the next video should be _the origins of the term going postal_ - a mailman going on a mass shooting.
I thought that this was about the game series postal, but this was a welcome surprise.
We always watch Hogfather as a Christmas tradition. 4 days from Christmas eve I find out about this movie. *face palm* >.< ...Does Amazon do extra speedy deliveries?
The book was really good, I honestly don't think there is a book I don't actually like. I mean, I have my favorites, but he writes such cleaver, witty, imaginative stories!! Honestly, I was relieved after reading the first book lol I finally found something I *really* enjoyed reading.
What Terry was saying about troll underarm products, ironically he also refers to this in the book Unseen Academicals, Glenda actually sells those products to the trolls to supplement her income.
so after a success that was Good Omens can we have more Discworld books made into movies or short series?
@Robertson Thirdly They PCed it
@@justsomeotherguy5743 wasn't that one of the running gags of the Watch? when ever some one complained that the watch didn't care about the plight of, klatchnians, dwarves, trolls, the undead, they were offered a job... the complaints didn't stopp, and often got worse saying that they new hire disregarded the plight even more dispite being one of them. in the end they had whole squads of dwarves, a small army of trolls, an igor, gargoyles, an orangutan, a golem, werewolf, vampire and even a Nobby Nobbs
@Robertson Thirdly Thats just what Lord Vetinari wants you to think
Robertson Thirdly by making Sybil a thin young black woman, making Angua Carrots superior, making Vetinari, Downey, Lupine Wonse(now a wannabe wizard) and Dibbler(now a criminal overlord) into women. Changing Cheery from a female dwarf into being nonbinary(not necessarily that much of a issue, but considering everything else, it will be done poorly).
Bottom line, lots of changes for the sake of making the show look “woke”. Which considering the sheer amount of social justice issues PTerry masterfully tackled is fucking ridiculous.
@@Waffletimewarp I read that also, I'm not going to watch (pun intended) this travesty of some of the most beloved characters in fantasy being destroyed for the sake of the BBC woke diversity nonsense.....its a travesty.
First time I hear Pratchett's voice. It's higher pitched than I imagined.
It's a wonderful voice isn't it? It's got a wonderfully mischievous quality to it
Currently, I read "Wintersmith".
Woah this is 9 years ago was expecting to be some 2019 premiere or 2020 haha
Considering who he's played in the past, it seems pretty fitting that Richard Coyle should star in a Discworld movie.
Claire Foy dressed like that will obsess me for eternity.
I miss him as if he was my favourite uncle.
I'm rocking through the Discworld series now
What an absolute delight
I love the terry prachett's books and the movie was just genius.
Claire Foy was at her absolute sexiest in this.
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If Going Postal had been made in the 1930's, I'd have cast Cary Grant as Moist von Lipwig and Katherine Hepburn as Adorabelle Dearheart. They're who I hear when I read the book.
Oh my that's genius....
Can't believe I haven't seen it yet. Unless its The Man stopping me!!!!!
I really enjoyed this movie, it was very faithfully adapted and the cast was great. I hope Richard Coyle gets his big break soon.
RIP SIR TERRY!
i so very much want to see this...read the book (as most posting here have) and loved the characters and their personalities...
Shhh but I watched it on daily motion...I never read the book but v the movie is one of my alltime faves.
I really miss Sir Pratchett, but I'll always have the books.
I love this movie. The chemistry between Moist and Adorabelle is amazing. I hope they do Making Money next.
Kushim - is a scribe on some transactions of Barley from Uruk from around 3200 BCE .... his name is still said ...
May the name Terry Pratchett still be said in 5200 years time ...
This got made into a movie?! Hogfather is a movie too?!
WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT THIS!?!?!?!
weird sisters and soul music also are movies older animated oens but movies none the less,
I love Drumknott's expression at around 3:40 :D
It's Terry's "Love Letter" if you will 😇
What a genius!
Fucking Alzheimer's. We could have had another couple of decades of Discworld novels. We've been cruelly deprived.
I love the Moist books. It's a shame that he started the so late and therefore there's too few of them. I liked the movie but they did stray from the character a bit.
loat all my Discworld Novels in a move :( i miss them so
did he said the set was in hungary...?
bojler eladó!
Death, can you just bring him back?
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WHY?
We all need hiiim
AND WHAT DO YOU THINK I NEED?
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oh...
you mean, now he Writing his brilliant books only for a ONE FAN???😕😢😁
damn please release this here in Canada...PLEASE!
A master... if you don't compare him with a Flaubert, Dumas, Dickens and the list can go on much longer ;) Introduced as the new Douglas Adams, and finished his career explaining that he didn't steal the idea of a wizard university from the whoever Harry Potter lady. Their key to success is that very few people actually get past enough books to have a frame of reference and, understandably, mistake popular writers for good ones.
Such a good book. These adaptations are okay too but just read the books, they're so good.
This looks really good.
I wanna Vimes and Ramkin get a showing on the screen....plus everyone else XD
Think this Vetinari was awesome
Wait, where can I find this? I never knew it existed till now.
Damn...what a beard.
Read this book 3 times now xD
Is this music track available anywhere?
the "SPOON" was a great touch, possibly the best "gotcha" moment ever.
The amount of thought going into some of Pratchett's writing is amazing. The concept of a ruler setting up a fake way out just to keep the prisoners calm and occupied is such a crazy idea, and then you see how well it works. Amazing.
Frankly, despite some of the commentators understandably wishing for more adaptations, I kinda wish they don't. Without his presence to reign them in I have no faith in the film or TV media to create without inflicting their biases.
I wish the same people would make the sequels: Making Money and Raising steam.
I loved the book and movie, but I do wish they had been better with the element of the letters being alive and wanting to be read.
"Underarm lichen" 😂
Come on; where's Night Watch?
We'd need to start with Guards! Guards! first.
needs a TV series for the night watch starting from sam vimes first day
wow i should watch this
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Going Postal imo was his best book, 2nd being Night Watch
@wildufo Attól még nem lesz magyar film, hogy Itthon forgatták és magyarok is részt vettek a készítésében. Az Index mindig túloz egy kicsit...
Now that's a beard.
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I'd say he doesn't really gain his sauvity? sauveness? Until Making Money, he appeared to be very close to a bundle of nerves from what i remember of reading 'Postal.
sneaky puppy. Didn't he kind of turn in to the postal god for a moment ? In the book when all the old postmen are there just after the dogs where he goes on in a trance about getting the letter back and the long counter and something else that had been gone for a long time. I would have loved a book just about bloody stupid Johnson. So many things he made. New PI The organ the HOHOs and all the other wonderfully dreadful things.
I love Terry Pratchett's work SO MUCH. I just wish at some point he would've addressed how many of his books have hints of racism in them towards many different heritages.
@Ei Dirst what? It's true... he absolutely goes out of his way on multiple occasions to come up with ways to mention racial traits in a negative/ mocking way it doesn't usually add to the story its just a little bit overdone on some occasions that's all I'm saying. I love these books so so much and I want to share them with my daughter but I have to explain dumb racial terms and racist comments during some of the books 🤷🏻♀️💜 Bless.
@Ei Dirst Thank you! I just really really love the entire discworld universe and that's literally the only thing that ever made me smh in disbelief. I know no world is perfect but that one comes really really close for me otherwise.
@Ei Dirst I would love to discuss this with you! I haven't yet reached it on my list but I'm tempted to move into it right away just for a chance at intellectual conversation with someone who also loves this author. 😁🖤
@Ei Dirst I sometimes pick a character and run with them through time. Granny Weatherwax and Rincewind being the main favourites but if I had to choose my favorite "person" in the Discworld it would be the Librarian. He happens to be in many other places I've pleasantly found. If the racial cringe was able to be passed over in written form turns out it's downright uncomfortable in audiobook form 😬
@Ei Dirst I agree entirely! Please friend me on fb ❤ The void of dragons is my banner photo just look for the city of Orlando
Yep....I can see where that came from :) Great story!
Sir Terry Pratchett should be considered a god!
If we believe in him enough, he will be!
feel free to inspect my KEM, the last one is a bit of a snaketrap! BEWARE! put a hook init!
Isn't that down to personal taste? Personally, I like Thud and The Fifth Elephant!
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When my red-haired librarian sister introduced me to Pratchett she saved me from a deep, clinical depression and helped my children become amazingly literate. I read the series regularly.
Good for you. Everybody needs something to help them through life and the Pratchett books are a pretty good one. Good luck to you, your children and your future.
thank you terry, we'll miss you.
Honestly, I loved 'Going Postal' but to me I feel like his last 10-15 or so books would be best described as "the New Discworld series" which were far more about development, technology, politics and civilisation than the original books, which were a purely utterly nonsensical, fantastical, unrestricted and completely untamed great and open world. The series shifted from beautifully phantasmically imaginatively illogical, to inspirational, vivid, well written and charactered logical modern fantasy.
I love Discworld, BUT I feel the Moist von Ludwig books have a huge drawback that is only magnified in the movies. And that is Moist von Ludwig himself. I feel he is by far the least interesting, least likeable main character TP has played with. He has a very interesting concept, and the Going Postal story is an interesting one, but I feel his stories are enjoyable despite him, not because of him. Susan & Death, the Watch, the Witches, Tiffany, even Rincewind; They all contribute to the enjoyment I feel with their stories in a way that Moist von Ludwig just never matches.
@@glenbe4026 Honestly, I loved Moist's character; the witty rogue flying through the situation by the seat of his pants and still coming out on top.
@@willieoelkers5568 Agreed. I absolutely loved Moist as a character. I found him boundlessly entertaining.
@@glenbe4026 to each their own I guess. For me Rincewind was by far the most boring one.
Its arguable, finely balanced, far from clear cut but sod it ........
I'm going out on a limb and asserting the *most* *endearing* *character* is the *Librarian*
Unless its Death........
Or just maybe Gytha Ogg.
Everybody's brilliant in this. loved the fan part - see other making of videos. but i wonder everyone missed the best about filming in Budapest; some of the city playing part of Ankh-Morkpork, as it were. not all was props what seen in film. it is a twin city - twin cities - on river Danube, Buda on one bank and Pest on another. merged only recently in history. comparatively. like Ankh and Morpork on river Ankh. :D
Damn, you're right! Well spotted!
Pest-ilent mopork eh?
So well done
CHARLES DANCE AS THE PATRICIAN. Effing AWESOME.
He was born for it.
But... imagine Rowan... completely serious, deadpan...
I liked Jeremy Irons patrician, too.
Just imagine if the part ever went to Sir Christopher Lee...
@@Tarantio1983 He voiced Death in the animation of Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music as well as the Color of Magic film.
Now there's a man who was born for a role.
@@GahMehGrrrr I thought he sounded a bit too much like Eddie Izzard impersonating Sean Connery (yes, I know, I'm weird). Casting Charles Dance was a stroke of genius.
Terry pratchett really makes me feel this soft kind of happy
Seth Leoric just reading his books makes me smile. I've been able to fine most of them in the U.S. except for the one about the unadulterated cat.
Frozen Hawk mmm
I got a copy of the Unadulterated Cat as a gift, it was so hard to find I had already given up. No idea where it came from. Not his best, obviously, but good for a chuckle. Try Amazon?
VU IBG thanks most of the big book sellers I've tried have never herd of it. I am still missing I thinks the mc feegale books. Just started watching the live action shows they did. Did they ever make any of the Rinsewind ones or Conn barbarism? 😃 the ones with both of them always makes me smile.
@@FrozenHawkHunter unfortunately sky1 only did the 3 of them. The Hogfather, Going Postal and The Colour of Magic (which is The Light Fantastic too). However Prime is bringing out their version of Good Omens this year so I'm looking forward to that. When I was younger BBC did episodes of Johnny and the bomb, which is not a Discworld series but still good. The Nac Mac Feegles or Wee Free men are excellent. You can find them mostly in the Tiffany Aching series due to her being their wee big kelda.
"I never, ever sit down and plan a novel."
Me: (sound of jaw hitting the floor.)
It's actually a common style. Many authors are as we call "stream of consciousness" then go back and clean up what they made and it goes out from there.
It's how I write. Well, there was one story I outlined, but I never did it again.
@@whiterabbit75 How many did you get published? Most authors plan even when they don't create an outline. Its part of writing talent that the process happens in their head.
@@morlanius Never published. Would like to someday, though. I plan, in that I have an idea of where the story will be going, but like I said earlier, I've only outlinded once. Having an idea of the ending and outlining are two different things.
@@whiterabbit75 Well, there is a good book, a little cheesy in places and I'm not a fan of the authors writing style (just my opinion but a bit too much pitching) but worth a read. Story Engineering by Larry Brooks. Its focused on making your stories coherent and publishable. Good luck :)
You should never compare a movie to a book, but I never got over how the movie presents Richer Guilt as an incompetent bumbling buffoon (with no Igor) rather than a highly intelligent and ruthless master criminal.
it's the scene where he goes mad and beats Horsefry to death with a poker rather than carefully making sure Horsefry got home safe... before sending his personal killer after him that really put me off this adaptation. I mean it still had enjoyable moments because it is Pratchett after all, but a hero's only as good as his villain and to completely reverse who the villain is really stuck in my craw.
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
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and there is unlimited paralel realities. so nobody ever dies. well everybody dies but nobody just once
Never saw or heard Terry before this and had read many of his books, and his voice is so much better than I had imagined.
He also appears in both live-action movies, Stan Lee-like.
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