The Whole Hog: Making Terry Pratchett's 'Hogfather'

An Excellent Adaption, Discworld Fans and Casual People will both like!

Cluney Castle, Balgowan, Highland, Scotland, UK

Charles Dance, Richard Coyle, Tamsin Greig, Andrew Sachs, David Suchet, Ian Bonar, and Claire Foy in Going Postal (2010)

David Jason, Nigel Planer, Marc Warren, and Michelle Dockery in The Whole Hog: Making Terry Pratchett's 'Hogfather' (2006)

Richard Dormer, Ralph Ineson, Marama Corlett, Lara Rossi, Craig Macrae, Adam Hugill, and Joni Ayton-Kent in The Watch (2020)

Terry Pratchett's 'The Colour of Magic': The Making Of

Terry Pratchett's 'The Colour of Magic': The Making Of (2008)

What would have happened if you hadn't saved him?

A mere ball of flaming gas would have illuminated the world.

All right, I'm not stupid. You're saying that humans need fantasies to make life bearable.

No. Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.

Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and THEN show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet... you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.

But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

Marnix Van Den Broeke in Hogfather (2006)

Joss Ackland, David Jason, Nigel Planer, Marc Warren, Michelle Dockery, and Marnix Van Den Broeke in Hogfather (2006)

Madeleine Rakic-Platt, Michelle Dockery, and Hugo Altman in Hogfather (2006)

David Jason, Nigel Planer, Marc Warren, and Marnix Van Den Broeke in Hogfather (2006)

David Jason

Marc Warren

Michelle Dockery

Vadim Jean

Terry Pratchett

It&apos;s Hogswatch (equivalent to Christmas) on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened.

Hogfather

Things just happen. What the heck

It&apos;s that time of the year again... Hogswatch. It bears a lot of similarities to your Christmas. However, The Hogfather(Santa) is being attacked. Death takes up his job, and we also follow a school of wizards... and these take up a lot of time and leave to relatively little pay-off. Then again, it is fun to see the odd gang of criminals(led by Mr. Teatime... pronounced Te-ah-tim-eh) undertake a creative plan to take care of the symbol of the end-of-the-year Christian celebration. You have probably figured out by now that this is set on Discworld(a disc-shaped planet carried by four elephants atop a turtle floating through outer space), Terry Pratchett&apos;s famous universe. I have not read much by him, but it was enough to know that imitating his writing style is impossible. It&apos;s far too literary. What they have done here is a good solution to this issue, and the humor(with sharp wit), quirk and commentary is largely intact. I have already touched upon the biggest problem with this... the pace is drab, and unless you *love* the comedy(with cleverness, silly stuff, verbal material and in general a &quot;realistic&quot; interpretation of a world with magic, complete with bureaucracy), you will not watch all three hours of this(even if the first of the two episodes do end with a cliffhanger). There are annoying characters, many jokes do not work and the FX range(the Grim Reaper&apos;s face is just a mask(the mouth doesn&apos;t even move!) and CGI is OK). The sets are nice. There is a dark tone, and bizarre and creepy instances in some of this. This has memorable bits as well, such as a computer run by ants and hamsters running in wheels. What I enjoyed the most about this was the exploration of faith and hope. This is a running theme, and the moral of this is smart and well-delivered. I personally found it worth the investment of time, but if you aren&apos;t interested in philosophy and religion, you may not. There is disturbing content and a little moderate language in this. I recommend this to fans of the author of the books. 7/10

It's that time of the year again... Hogswatch. It bears a lot of similarities to your Christmas. However, The Hogfather(Santa) is being attacked. Death takes up his job, and we also follow a school of wizards... and these take up a lot of time and leave to relatively little pay-off. Then again, it is fun to see the odd gang of criminals(led by Mr. Teatime... pronounced Te-ah-tim-eh) undertake a creative plan to take care of the symbol of the end-of-the-year Christian celebration. You have probably figured out by now that this is set on Discworld(a disc-shaped planet carried by four elephants atop a turtle floating through outer space), Terry Pratchett's famous universe. I have not read much by him, but it was enough to know that imitating his writing style is impossible. It's far too literary. What they have done here is a good solution to this issue, and the humor(with sharp wit), quirk and commentary is largely intact. I have already touched upon the biggest problem with this... the pace is drab, and unless you *love* the comedy(with cleverness, silly stuff, verbal material and in general a "realistic" interpretation of a world with magic, complete with bureaucracy), you will not watch all three hours of this(even if the first of the two episodes do end with a cliffhanger). There are annoying characters, many jokes do not work and the FX range(the Grim Reaper's face is just a mask(the mouth doesn't even move!) and CGI is OK). The sets are nice. There is a dark tone, and bizarre and creepy instances in some of this. This has memorable bits as well, such as a computer run by ants and hamsters running in wheels. What I enjoyed the most about this was the exploration of faith and hope. This is a running theme, and the moral of this is smart and well-delivered. I personally found it worth the investment of time, but if you aren't interested in philosophy and religion, you may not. There is disturbing content and a little moderate language in this. I recommend this to fans of the author of the books. 7/10

It's Hogswatch (equivalent to Christmas) on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened.

bappamtv

Hogfather

🎭 Top Cast

🎬 Technical Specs

🏷️ Keywords

🎯 Categories

⭐ Featured Review

💡 Did You Know?

🎬 More Like This

📖 Synopsis