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VanSandman posted:Jo Brand is obviously Nanny Ogg though, right? I will insist forever that the perfect casting for Nanny and Granny is French and Saunders. They can't be that far off the appropriate age anymore, surely. How old would the witches have been at the start of the series?
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Hogblob posted:I will insist forever that the perfect casting for Nanny and Granny is French and Saunders. They can't be that far off the appropriate age anymore, surely. How old would the witches have been at the start of the series? Nanny's youngest child Shawn is in his early 20s in L&L, which is two years after WS, so it's unlikely that Nanny was more than about 65 in WS. Gytha and Esme are roughly the same age. However, everything gets complicated by the 15-year timeslip in the middle of WS.
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Rush Limbo posted:Ridcully should be played by Billy Connolly What, did Brian Blessed die?
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VanSandman posted:Jo Brand is obviously Nanny Ogg though, right? Probably, but Miriam Margolyes could run her some decent competition.
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Jerry Cotton posted:What, did Brian Blessed die? He would also be a good pick. Probably better than Billy, tbh.
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Rush Limbo posted:He would also be a good pick. Probably better than Billy, tbh. Yeah I mean if you want a 1:1 fit he's your man. Connolly probably could "bellow" but he might get a sore throat after a few scenes of BUR-SAARing. e: I'm pretty sure he can actually act as well. double e: That's not to say Connolly can't. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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Rush Limbo posted:He would also be a good pick. Probably better than Billy, tbh. What's wrong with Timothy West? 
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Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry as Granny and Ogg.
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Hogge Wild posted:Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry as Granny and Ogg. Isn't Fry pretty tall? e: 196; too tall for Ogg.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Isn't Fry pretty tall? yeah, but he wouldn't need any makeup, just a wig and they could use the same tricks that peter jackson used to make him look shorter
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Hogge Wild posted:yeah, but he wouldn't need any makeup, just a wig Also I suppose they could cut bits of him off.
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(And I don't mean cutting off his fingers.)
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Drunken Baker posted:So I might shelve "Colour of Magic" for now as it's not quite clicking for me. The only other Pratchett book the local shop has is MORT so I might get that tomorrow. Good choice btw.
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chiasaur11 posted:My first Discworld was "Pyramids". A decent starting place, I think. Standalone, good enough to not be a turnoff, but not so good as to make the next book disappointing, and late in enough that Ankh Morpork was starting to feel proper. I started with Small Gods as a friend recommended. Going to the early Rincewind stuff after could only disappoint. I still recommend Small Gods to people who wouldn't even be interested in Discworld in general. It's just that good.
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Hate Fibration posted:I think Guards! Guards! is also an excellent place to start. I dissagree. Guards Guards was my third discworld book after Going Postal and Mort, and frankly I found it very boring. I had to shelve it for a bit. I am reading it now, and though it is slightly better than when I first tried, it's not that great of a book compared to Mort. Not saying Vimes and the gang are not great. I just find that Guards! Guards! was Terry trying to figure Sam and the gang out, and kind of set them up for what I hope to be great series. However the story is slow, and kind of boring.
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Hugh Laurie would actually be loving inspired casting for Granny Weatherwax. They'd hardly need to use any makeup either. "Headology" is something I can hear Dr. House saying, in my mind. Right now. And it's pretty good.
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I've never seen House. I have however seen this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyt4KFyVQQ8 You might be surprised to hear that Laurie as Granny doesn't quite work for me.
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tooterfish posted:I've never seen House. I have however seen this. I bet he could do a good Bursar though!
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He was always the Drumknott to my Atkinson Vetinari.
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Hogge Wild posted:yeah, but he wouldn't need any makeup, just a wig Stephen Fry on a completely green screened studio, weeping at tennis balls on sticks?
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SeanBeansShako posted:He was always the Drumknott to my Atkinson Vetinari. Oh, now that would be nice.
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Rich Fulcher as Nanny Ogg.
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yay the Brisbane Arts Theatre is doing a season of Guards!Guards! instant purchase
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My Lovely Horse posted:Rich Fulcher as Nanny Ogg. That is eerily identical to how she looks in my brain.
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Miriam Margolyes as Nanny Ogg, surely. E: either Eileen Atkins or Jean Marsh as Granny Weatherwax Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Oct 6, 2016 |
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Rush Limbo posted:Miriam Margolyes as Nanny Ogg, surely. How about Warren Clarke?
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My Lovely Horse posted:Fred Colon is surely Nick Frost. Frost and Pegg for Colon and Nobby.
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There is a Pratchett quote in the new Civ VI 
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He's in the big leagues now
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Argh bullet head returned. I wonder if readers wrote in to complain because he'd not used it for a couple of books.
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Fat Samurai posted:There is a Pratchett quote in the new Civ VI "You can't go around arresting the Thieves' Guild. I mean, we'd be at it all day!”
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I'm reading through Mo0nstrous Regiment again and it's nowhere near as bad as some people have claimed. It's not the basket of chuckles some Discworld books are, but it's a solid read and easily as good or better than any of the Tiffany Aching books. Maladict's 'Nam flashbacks are some of Pratchett's best examples of absurd humor and the rest of the book manages to convey the horrors of war without glorifying it -- the description of the gray-faced men with coats tightened over their torsos is haunting. I know some people claim the "twist" of all the main characters being secretly women being contrived, but that's no twist at all: the wars have gone on for so long that there aren't any fighting men left.
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It actually happened a lot in history. Women disguised themselves to be drummers, soldiers and pirates through the 17th and 18th century. In the French revolution there was even briefly female soldiers.
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Stroth posted:"You can't go around arresting the Thieves' Guild. I mean, we'd be at it all day!” TWO quotes, even The other is the one about a printing press being heavier than the siege weapon.
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Fat Samurai posted:TWO quotes, even Didn't know that one was in Civ
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