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This is the second attempt to fabricate a movie out of a Terry Pratchett new and it succeeds rather well. In this case, the movie is based on the first two novels in the ‘Discworld’ series, ‘The Colour of Magic’ and ‘The Light Fantastic’.
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Rincewind (David Jason), an inept wizard, is expelled from Unseen University. On a dare, he snuck a watch at the Octavo, the book broken-down to do the world, and one of the eight grand spells lodged in his head.
At the same time, Twoflower (Sean Astin) arrives in Ankh-Morpork to “glance at it”. He’s the Discworld’s first tourist and he travels with the Luggage, a box made of sapient pearwood that moves about on hundreds of miniature legs and will follow it’s owner everywhere.
After conning Twoflower, Rincewind is dragged to the Patrician’s palace and ordered by Lord Vetinari (Jeremy Irons) to guide Twoflower safely through the city.
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Twoflower, introducing the notion of fire insurance to Ankh-Morpork, inadvertently causes the entire city to burn down and he and Rincewind dash and Rincewind is plunged into several life threatening situations which he survives by sheer luck.
The beneficial parts of this movie are Jeremy Irons as the Patrician and Tim Curry as Ymper Trymon, second in swear of one of the eight orders of wizardry at the university. Both play their roles with luxuriate in and Curry’s performance is as respectable, if not better, than that of Cardinal Richelieu in ‘The 3 Musketeers’.
The dreadful parts? Well, a lot of the beneficial scenes in both novels are left out. There is no travelling shop, no Hrun the Barbarian, no flying rock and no Tethis the sea troll. There is also no gingerbread cottage or broomstick flying.
Also, they unfortunately chose a white actor to represent Twoflower, when it’s made sure in both ‘The Colour of Magic’ and ‘Interesting Times’ that Twoflower is Chinese. A right shame, but Sean Astin does a extraordinary job at portraying Twoflower’s attitude of looking at the world through rose coloured glasses.
And they got Cohen the Barbarian’s (David Bradley) teeth outrageous.
Although this movie takes a while to procure going, it does acquire funnier as it goes along and there are some stout one-liners. “I am having a advance Rincewind experience.”
Christopher Lee reprises the command of Death, as he did in the keen versions of ‘Soul Music’ and ‘Wyrd Sisters’ and he has some of the best parts in the movie.
Aside from the exiguous annoyances, the movie is quite respectable, the actors are favorable, it’s got all the wittiness you’d put a question to from Pratchett, and I loved it.
A live-action Terry Pratchett movie is either doomed to fail in every contrivance, or succeed in practically everything.
And “The Colour of Magic,” adapted from the first two novels in Pratchett’s luminous Discworld series, is more the archaic than the latter. This one is no “Hogather” — it has rather behind direction at times — but it preserves Pratchett’s wry satirical sense of humour. And of course, it’s all about a mercenary, cowardly failed wizard.
Rincewind (David Jason) is ejected from the Unseen University, on the very day that Twoflower (Sean Astin) arrives with his many-legged Luggage. He’s reach to the Disc… to “study at it.” But after Rincewind tries to con Twoflower, the Patrician (Jeremy Irons) orders Rincewind to be the guide/bodyguard of the Disc’s first ever tourist.
After a massive fire sweeps through the city, the two slay up fleeing Ankh-Morpork and running into all sorts of strange things — a very assertive magic sword, a floating island corpulent of see-through dragons, a dramatic dragonlady in a leather bikini, astrozoologists trying to resolve Stout A’Tuin’s gender, the obsolete Cohen the (retired) Barbarian, druids, and even getting thrown distinct off the Disc in a exclusive spacecraft. And you notion YOU had problems.
Unfortunately the Unseen University is having troubles of its occupy — the magical book Octavo is acting unfamiliar, and power-hungry Trymon (Tim Curry) is scheming against the Archchancellor. Even worse, a unusual red star has appeared in the sky, and the world is facing destruction. The only thing that can put it is the spell in Rincewind’s head.
Perhaps it’s because it’s based on the first, roughest Discworld books, but “Colour of Magic” is not quite as silly or tightly-written as its predecessor, “Hogather.” The writing is not quite as complex or as witty, and the direction sometimes feels a bit unhurried (such as the bar fight scene, or Trymon skulking and schemind around the University) .
But despite these drawbacks, “Colour of Magic” is aloof a vastly keen memoir — it has a solid plotline and it chugs away nicely after a somewhat indolent beginning, and blossoms into full-out complexity about halfway through. Once it gets underway it starts to resemble a road-trip through fantasy-land, with our quirky tourist and wizard bungling their plot across the Disc.
Along the blueprint there’s some fun action (an upside-down duel), laughable dialogue (”You weren’t born with a mysterious birthmark in the shape of a crown, were you? “), and a general air of tongue-in-cheekness. Best of all, it’s a fantasy spoof — Vadim Jean preserves Pratchett’s clever satire aimed at the staples of your average fantasy: fantasy babes, prophecies, magic swords, retired barbarians, mighty artifacts, and even the belief of reality warping itself to put the “hero.”
Jason is wonderfully snivelly and sour as Rincewind, a failed wizard who basically finds himself repeatedly swept up into bizarre, deadly circumstances even though he didn’t want to be eager. Astin is even better as the hilariously oblivious Twoflower, who regards every grief as yet another tremendous adventure (”We’re going to bustle out of world!” “I have to gape that!”) .
And there’s a talented supporting cast — Curry chews the scenery with sneering aplomb, Karen David plays a humorously over-the-top dragon-lady, and Irons has a limited but extraordinary role as the wintry, efficient Vetinari. And of course, the gleaming Christopher Lee takes over as an increasingly disappointed Death.
“Colour of Magic” isn’t as tightly directed as it could have been, but it quiet manages to be clever and quite comical.
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