{"id":12734,"date":"2014-11-15T15:35:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T20:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=12734"},"modified":"2014-11-16T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T16:29:53","slug":"macbatty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/macbatty\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBatty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just discovered that Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters<\/b><\/i> was made into a movie. It’s not the Discworld novel I would have chosen \u2014 Granny Weatherwax is my least-favorite of Pratchett’s recurring characters, and I’d have preferred a good adaptation of The Light Fantastic<\/b><\/i> ((The title was deliberately chosen to annoy Robbo<\/a>.)) \u2014 but it’s still funnier than most alleged comedies. Chrstopher Lee is a resonant Death, though his voice doesn’t have “all the warmth and colour of an iceberg.” Although Wyrd Sisters<\/b><\/i> is animated, Nanny Ogg’s abundant presence renders it not quite suitable for children. She sings a bit of her hedgehog song, too.<\/p>\n

\"Groucho<\/a><\/p>\n

There are some things in the movie that I don’t remember from the book.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: It turns out that a lot of Pratchett has been dramatized, and much of it is available and inexpensive \u2014 downright cheap, sometimes, if you buy used. I just ordered these:<\/p>\n

The Colour of Magic<\/a><\/b><\/i> (which also adapts The Light Fantastic<\/b><\/i> ((“You know when we were flying and I was worried we might hit something in the storm and you said that the only thing we could possibly hit at this height was a cloud stuffed with rocks?”
\n“Well?”
\n“How did you know?”)) )<\/p>\n

Soul Music<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

Hogfather<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

There’s also a Discworld calendar<\/a>, but since I already have four other 2015 calendars ordered, I think I’ll pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just discovered that Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters was made into a movie. It’s not the Discworld novel I would have chosen \u2014 Granny Weatherwax is my least-favorite of Pratchett’s recurring characters, and I’d have preferred a good adaptation of The Light Fantastic ((The title was deliberately chosen to annoy Robbo.)) \u2014 but it’s still … Continue reading “MacBatty”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-and-horror","category-occidental-animation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4xam3-macbatty","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12734"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12744,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734\/revisions\/12744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}