Coyle’s performance might be a little more showy than that in the book, but if so, not by too much. Lipwig is played by Richard Coyle, who I recognized from his one-season cameo in USA Network’s spy thriller, Covert Affairs (good show). The character is a bit more serious in the book, but Suchet’s portrayal works for the movie. With long hair, an eyepatch, and evil to the core of his larcenous heart, Suchet gets to have fun with the character. The Clacks is run by Reacher Gilt, played deliciously by David Suchet, the personification of Agatha Christie’s fat Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot (who you read about HERE, of course…). That’s the groundwork, and from here on in I’ll discuss the miniseries, which does differ from the book a fair amount, though it’s still faithful to Pratchett’s work.
The post office is brought back to compete with the unreliable, monopolized Clacks. The Clacks are network of semaphore towers, that is Discworld’s pre-eminent communications network, with some internet overtones. There are, of course, many hurdles, including a golem named Pump 13 who ensures that he is not going to run away. Lipwig, who figures he can con his way out of things, reluctantly takes the job. He gives Lipwig the choice of walking out a door (which the nearly dead man discovers opens onto an almost bottomless pit) or reviving the post office. Vetinari wants to reopen the city’s Post Office an establishment that had essentially collapsed under its own weight – and greed.
Lord Vetinari, the Lord Patrician of Discworld’s biggest city, Ankh-Morpork, I think that Vetinari is one of the best fictional rulers ever created. Actually, he was only hung to within half an inch of his life. In his first appearance ( Going Postal), Von Lipwig is a con man who is finally captured and hung. Moist Von Lipwig is the protagonist of three Discworld novels: Going Postal, Making Money, and Raising Steam.
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I think an overview of the Discworld series would be a worthy post here someday.
I’m a huge fan of the Discworld books, and I’ve written a post on the City Watch, and one on Troll Bridge, a short story featuring Cohen the Barbarian. He used humor in a fantasy world as the vehicle, which probably causes many to dismiss how good he was at writing satire. To sign up for the PPM Hungary newsletter, have a look here.I think that the late Terry Pratchett was an elite satirist. Since our inception, our focus has been providing the best of the best in terms of local production resources, locations, cast and technical teams to ensure that whatever the production we’re charged to create, we do it with no compromise. PPM Film Services is a Budapest-based film company offering an inspiring and creative work atmosphere for its host of clients from around the world. Just one more example of a fantastic fantasy that was filmed in the cradle of technical expertise that is Budapest. The clip below gives you a good idea of the intricate, evocative effects used in Going Postal. Preditor, and Underworld, and studied under the tutelage of master effects creator Dick Smith. Indeed, the founder, Ivan Poharnok, cut his teeth working on other huge films of the genre like Alien vs. Our speciality is creating creatures, puppets, models, special make-ups and costumes or the combinations of them.” Having contributed to other Budapest-made films like Hellboy, Amusement, and Season of the Witch, the ten-year-old company is well placed to handle assignments of any size. In their own words, “Filmefex Studio is a special effects facility, where we design and create effects for the motion picture industry.
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The two-part TV film, made for British Sky One, and based on Terry Pratchett’s much beloved novel, was filmed in 2010 in Budapest and benefited greatly from local talent, especially the special effects house Filmefex Studio, who created the iconic look to the film’s post office golems. Take, for instance, the adaptation of Going Postal, one of the more recent fantasy films to be made in Hungary. But it’s not just the locations that make the city an ideal place for this type of film, it is the technical infrastructure available locally that allows for hugely advantageous conditions – both monetary and artistic – when undertaking a lengthy shoot. We are thinking of classics like Hellboy (both I and II) and the Underworld franchise. Typically derived from a comic book or fantasy novel, the city’s sometimes bleak and Gothic city-scapes make a perfect backdrop for modern ‘urban fantasy’ films.
Increasingly Budapest is becoming the go-to location for a certain type of film.