Discworld Movies (Part 2)
(Yes, we have to be proper and add a title! It would have been in picture form, but photobucket doesn’t like me and I’m not really in the mood to go and play with photoshop, or whatever it’s called.)
Movie: The Colour of Magic (3 hrs. and 17 min. long)
As you can probably guess from my last post, The Colour of Magic is the movie adaption of the popular novel by the same name that was written by Terry Pratchett. The “main” character of the novel is Rincewind (who, for some reason, I’ve always thought of as Rincewood). He’s a failed wizard who only knows one spell, but that one spell is incredibly powerful, as it’s one of the eight housed in the (oops, let me look up the spelling) Octavo, the most powerful, magical book in existence… on the disk, at least. At the start of the movie, he’s expelled from the Unseen University for never reaching Level One in his 40-something years as a wizarding student.
When I read The Colour of Magic I was spending the summer up (down?) at my fathers house and happened across an old, tattered, red book in his living room that had a briefcase on the cover. Without anything better to do I read the book and almost at once fell in love with the Discworld and all it’s inhabitance (one of my favorite characters being Death, oh how delightful it is to explain that to people who’ve never read Terry Pratchett books). Soon after, I amassed a large collection of Terry’s works and had read almost every book he’d ever written (until he went and wrote more).
What that has to do with the review of the movie, I’ll never know.
Back to the story. After being expelled we next see Rincewind standing on the edge of the Ankh river, planning to jump (though, if you’ve read the book you’d wonder why he would – considering the Ankh is less like a river and more like… well, let’s put it this way: it’s easier to suffocate then it is to drown in the Ankh). Before he jumps, however, his attention is caught by something shiny and gold. Can you hear the giggles of many strange people who are attracted to shiny things, myself included? I certainly can. Or maybe that’s something else I’m hearing…
The shiny, gold thing that attracted Rincewind’s attention happens to be a coin held the first-ever Discworld tourist, Twoflower, who has thousands of gold coins just waiting to be spent, all safely tucked away in The Luggage (another of my favorite characters, or rather, one of my favorite things in the Discworld) – a great big, walking trunk with lots and lots of little legs.
I’d really rather not give you a play-by-play of the entire movie, so I’m going to get onto the review part now. In truth, despite being a good movie, I rather preferred Hogfather. That may be in part because several of my favorite scenes were removed from The Colour of Magic movie, or simply because I like the feel of Hogfather more. That’s not to say I wouldn’t highly recommend watching TCOM (sorry, I got tired of writing out the entire title every time). It has good acting (Twoflower is played by the same actor who played Sam in Lord of the Rings), great effects, and several good laughs in it, but because of the length you’ll want to be ready to invest an entire afternoon in it.
There. I’m done, for now. I hope you all enjoyed this, if you’ve seen the movie feel free to drop me a line telling me what you thought of it. I do love hearing opinions from other people.
Lots of hugs, Sarah.
