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Unfortunately, there are no special features about the visual effects in the film and there is a slightly annoying re-use of the same shots throughout the cast and crew interviews. The bonus features represent typical fare of such things. This can obviously be attributed to Sir Terry’s direct involvement with the production. As a reader of Terry Pratchett’s books, I found the portrayal of the characters to be almost completely dead on with very few exceptions. television production in the last 30 years you will readily recognize most, if not all, of the actors by name if not appearance. “Star studded cast” is, often, an overwrought cliché, only in this case it is a completely appropriate and even necessary use of the phrase. The story certainly stands on it’s own and, as I stated above, having no prior knowledge of Terry Pratchett’s work will not hamper your viewing of this production. In fact, even if you’ve read the book there are several things that are missing that you won’t notice (unless you happen to have finished the book right before watching the movie or have read Going Postal several times). There are certainly some differences between the teleplay and the book, only you will not notice them if you’ve not read ‘Going Postal’. Having a television budget has taken nothing away from the production or the story, in fact it could be argued that television is a better venue for this particular piece as far too much would be lost in the compression of the story arc for sake of cinema timing. Ultimately it is in the Victorian age only instead of gunpowder and steam it’s crossbows and magic. The overall design of the film, much like it’s predecessors The Colour of Magic and Hogfather, is largely a Victorian England period piece with flavors of Georgian and Edwardian along with a sprinkling of mediaeval Europe which delivers a pretty amazing array of costume, prop and set pieces.
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All the while, the reluctant Von Lipwig faces fires, assassins, letters with a mind of their own and the ramifications and repercussions of his former career as a con-man including the fact that the person Von Lipwig wants and needs the most as his closest ally has the most reasons to be his nemesis. The competition between the Post and the Clacks heats up by way of ever more flamboyant one-upmanship between Lipwig and Gilt. The new Postmaster finds himself faced with not only reviving the post office but also somehow delivering thousands of unsent letters and parcels aided, so to speak, by his well-meaning but somewhat hapless post office staff of two and a well-meaning but quite literal minded golem. The Clacks is probably what would have happened if Charles Babbage designed the internet and is run by the ruthless and cynically enterprising Reacher Gilt (David Suchet). The Post Office’s main competition is a kind of “wireless optical” service called the Clacks. Lipwig is “adjured” by Ankh-Morpork’s Patrician, Havelock Vetinari (Charles Dance), to revive the long fossilized postal service by taking up the position of Postmaster. After receiving, literally, a new lease on life under the auspices of an offer he can’t refuse, Mr. Von Lipwig is the “bad guy who doesn’t know he’s bad” with the kind of moral ambiguity that would make any businessman or politician proud. And those are just the charges that can be proven. The story takes place, as I have mentioned, on the fabled Discworld and finds our hero, Moist Von Lipwig (Richard Coyle), awaiting execution by hanging on over 150,000 dollars worth of fraud. Fortunately, not only has the author collaborated on the teleplay, he also has a cameo in the film. That hardly ever works out as planned, apparently. Finally, I imagine that many of you are already cringing about the fact that a book has been translated into a movie. Despite the setting of the film, you will find many aspects of Going Postal are completely modern in context. One of the more interesting aspects of the overall story-line is that while the book Going Postal was published some years before the recent credit crunch and ensuing financial crises, the story kernel consists of an undercurrent of greed and profiteering and the ensuing results.
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You see, while all of the Discworld tales are interconnected they aren’t necessarily serial or even sequential.
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Do not let these numbers deter you this is a stand-alone story in the book series and originally aired in the U.K. Going Postal is the 33 rd entry in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld book series and the seventh teleplay adaptation of the overall series.
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Full Disclosure: This reviewer is a pretty avid reader of Terry Pratchett’s books.