Death voiced by Christopher Lee riding a motorcycle...then riding off a cliff into a fiery explosion only to then rock out and axe-smash the guitar so hard it killed the spirit of music itself. Just let that sink in for a moment. Take your time.
In every DW story and or movie, Death is my favorite character. His true strength is helping souls along, but his best strength is that he does have a ... soul ... of his own, and tries to use it as often as he can get away with it.
.............I.........Death........Rocks.........Christopher Lee..........Pratchett is my favourite author and I am blown away........I laughed and cried watching this and part one.........unmissable. If your a Pratchett fan you have to watch these.....fantastic
My thoughts exactly! Death has been my favourite character (that... and Bill Door...) but this was one of my favourite stories... who am I kidding! They all are!
The Day the Music Died.... 🎶*"And it's bye-bye, Ankh-Morporkian pie; We rode Binky to the brinkie, cause we think we could try; Them good ol' trolls was drinkin' sulfur and lye, Singin' 'This'll be the day that I die; This'll be the day that I die'...*"🎶
Kingsley Shacklebolt in the Harry Potter movies was played by the actor who voiced the troll Lias (Cliff). Didn't recognize his voice but I looked it up.
Soul Music was the first book of Pratchett's I've ever read. It has sparked my love for his work and I finished the last one a couple of months before he died.
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. --- Terry Pratchet
They do however say the key to winning such a game is to always sit opposite the dealer, always have the white chess pieces and to always bet on black! ;D -- Peter Cartryht
My favorite Discworld book. This was fun, though i wish they'd kept more of the band name puns. The best is the opening band calling themselves The Whom
I don't understand why people knock on the animation so much, it's passable and the team obviously put more of the budget into script, cast and music. It was made by Channel 4 also not the bloody BBC or some other big shot channel.
You have to remember this was one of the early animated screenplays, and they were still finding their footing so to speak. If you have read the books, then you'll probably enjoy this movie. And, I just loved the music!
Robert Byrd I do love this movie! I can complain about production values all day but in the end this is a very faithful adaptation. Who better than Christopher Lee himself to take on the mantle of Death?
And really, look how far along they came by "The Colour of Magic" and "Hogsfather". These early films segwayed into us getting those, both Excellent adaptations of the books.
More popular than cheeses. John Lennon got in trouble for saying that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus as a joke . Especially in America. I heard that and I lost it lol
It wouldn't be so bad to be Death. He has a nice job, he remembers things particularly easily, and he has a fine complexion that can't get ruined. Did I mention he has a loyal horse and a nice scythe?
Music Soul Guitar Thing: "You can't kill me" Me: "Oh my... saying that to DEATH? To literally Death? You got balls, I'd give you that... but not much else..."
Can I just say that these look, and sound like...extremely...well polished, is the phrase? Is this a really good indie project, or is this something professionally funded?
+charles Receski I don't think it's an actual song. It seems, that the composer they hired for the programm just wrote short bits of music "in the style of...". This one is very similar to the Jimi Hendrix signature style. Try "Purple Haze" or "Foxy Lady."
+RossOriginals I thought it was meant to be italy ? at least I know Leonard of quirm was modeled off of Leonardo da vinci n since he was italian I figured quirm was modeled after it.
***** Leonard is a bit of an anomaly, but the equivalent to Italy in Discworld is actually Brindisi. Quirm is definitely French, everything from the language to the food and even the local police force is distinctly Française.
+RossOriginals What about Klatch that is spose to be france also correct? The klatchian foriegn legion,and the people are always saying " If you will excuse my Klatch" ( I believe Albert is guilty of that the mot in the books)
***** Klatch appears to be an Arab/Middle-Eastern region -- Klatchians featured in the books tend to have similar stereotypes to Arabs and Indians, and in the book "Jingo" Ankh-Morpork goes to war with Klatch and so some of the City Watch actually go there -- there's lots of desert, people dress like Arabs, Nobby dresses as a bellydancer, much to everyone's horror, the Patrician wears a Fez, etc.
Klatch is definitely packed up with references to all things French, but it is set up in a Middle-Eastern-ish environment. Quirm, on the other hand, is a cluster of French references in a more Mediterranean-ish setting *While cities of Sto Plains are all loosely hinting at a few Polish traits, like fields of cabbage, and, of course "Sto" and "Sto Lat", meaning, respectively "One Hundred" and "One Hundred Years" - the last one is the Polish equivalent of "Bless you" when someone sneezes (In Poland they say "Sto lat" on such an occassion).
Oh come on, a Britsh author writes a magical motorcycle into his novel and you *weren't* expecting someone to call it a Triumph? We can't very well let the audience think they're looking at a fantasy Harley, did you? XD
it's a referance to deaths bathroom. and previous books and events. basically albert had to get plumber for the bathroom because not even death could figure out plumbing.
Heh, the thing of it is that Death can't create... or do art more specifically I guess. It seems Terry thought that plumbing was as much art as science.
iirc the problem in this regard is that Death now how it looks but not what function it has (rock hard towels that look like soft towels... unusable soap...)... so since Death doesnt have to use anykind of bath stuff he knows how it looks... but doesnt know what it does or how it works
I can forgive the animation style for being more or less of its time, but the timing of the jokes is just off for a lot of them. It's a shame since it's otherwise a really loyal adaptation.
It's not discworld. it's a fun movie but it's skips way too many important points and events it shortens alot of scenes which contains important parts of the story.
well, mostly scenes with regular characters on the Discworld series. Is not as much as Mr.Bubblebox implies, but a good amount of extra content is missing. Still; the "main plot" is there.
I can't argue with you here, the animation was not up to snuff, but it was still enjoying to watch, even if only to listen to the music they played. I'd love to have a full length soundtrack with all the sone they pay.
Except Imp does make a different choice, and that choice is what set the entire story in motion. By going to Quirm instead of Anch he is embracing his life instead of being of the Music.
Never said or ever implied that Imp making his own way rather than have it dictated to him wasn't a noble endeavor. All I made note of was that, last time I checked, mind control was looked upon as an evil, even if the person doing it thinks they're doing it for a really good reason. And having that 'person' be the fabric of your universe after smashing a guitar rather than just having everyone walk away after the guitar was smashed, memories intact, doesn't make it any better.
No, that's not what Death is doing. Terry Pratchett occasionally refers in the Discworld novels to the tendency of people to rewrite their own memories to fit their perceived reality. The guitar and music had come from one of the alternate universes anyway, and overtook people too quickly. It didn't fit Ankh-Morpork or Discworld reality. Take away the major physical evidence of the past few days -- specifically the band -- and people will forget their own unusual behaviour, especially if it's embarrassing. They'll put it down to dreams, or just deny and forget it.
This animation is awful. It's like Zelda CGi had been made into a full length feature film. The timing is awful, the voice acting barely matches the faces, and everybody is scowling and leering constantly.
Ah yes. But if you are willing to give a bit, you may come to find that you may like it sometime. Reading the book first always helps in my experience.
Are you kidding? If anything, that makes it even worse- compare the finale of the book, (spoilers: Death saves the day by playing the only song he can play- the chord that ends the universe- and forcing the Music to un-James-Dean the band so they can stop the ensuing apocalypse) with this rubbish, where he just riffs on the guitar a bit and then smashes it.
Exactly what I thought. Looks like the same studio that did the Zelda cgi games. But this has glorious writing that makes up for the animation deficits
@@quelltech That's the eternal problem with books vs films. Films are simply too short to put everything from the books into them. And far too often they simply cannot be translated into a movie. They have to make sacrifices in order for the movie to work. That's why the only the shortest books can be translated into movies and still retain the excellence of the books.
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Death is such an awesome guy. Especially when he's voiced by Christopher Lee.
Coral Roper DEATH ROCKS.
Vidar Solaas And rolls.
Death voiced by Christopher Lee riding a motorcycle...then riding off a cliff into a fiery explosion only to then rock out and axe-smash the guitar so hard it killed the spirit of music itself. Just let that sink in for a moment. Take your time.
+DirgeOfCerberus111 Death Metal aw yeah!
Felix Kütt Damn, your right! Completely missed that opportunity! XD
Death always wins in the end. Usually. Mostly.
Still makes me laugh as you just hear him go "Oh bugger..."
*Lays down on the floor* My life is completed take me now....
In every DW story and or movie, Death is my favorite character. His true strength is helping souls along, but his best strength is that he does have a ... soul ... of his own, and tries to use it as often as he can get away with it.
He's the only Grim Reaper you would hug on a business call.
.............I.........Death........Rocks.........Christopher Lee..........Pratchett is my favourite author and I am blown away........I laughed and cried watching this and part one.........unmissable. If your a Pratchett fan you have to watch these.....fantastic
That's what I"m talking about!
My thoughts exactly! Death has been my favourite character (that... and Bill Door...) but this was one of my favourite stories... who am I kidding! They all are!
Love the Wyrd Sisters cartoon too!
Reading is best though. Genius.
Easily one of the most beautiful experiences ive ever received from an animated movie. Terry Pratchett was nothing short of a genius.
The Day the Music Died....
🎶*"And it's bye-bye, Ankh-Morporkian pie;
We rode Binky to the brinkie, cause we think we could try;
Them good ol' trolls was drinkin' sulfur and lye,
Singin' 'This'll be the day that I die;
This'll be the day that I die'...*"🎶
Daaaaw, Death is my absolute fav, loveliest grand dad ever! XD
And yes, Christipher Lee absolutely rocks!
"We're more popular than cheeses."
Oh good Lord the puns!
I'm not sure Sheogorath would agree.
Imagine there's no fermantaion, no dairy to..
"You can't kill me" Says the embodiment of music to Death of all beings.
It was a poorly thought out *GENERIC VILLAIN BOAST 116* on its part...
I bet the Death of rats could kill the band Ratt.
Christopher Lee as drunk Death. Classic
The more I rewatch these movies the more I wish there were more of them. Absolutely hilarious, touching, and amazing rolled into one.
Kingsley Shacklebolt in the Harry Potter movies was played by the actor who voiced the troll Lias (Cliff). Didn't recognize his voice but I looked it up.
"One word from me and you'll be a frog looking for a princess with a frog fetish!!"
...Wow. xD
Soul Music was the first book of Pratchett's I've ever read. It has sparked my love for his work and I finished the last one a couple of months before he died.
Another great Pratchett story, they always say Motorbikes are death machines.
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of
His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any
of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure
and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for
infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
--- Terry Pratchet
They do however say the key to winning such a game is to always sit opposite the dealer, always have the white chess pieces and to always bet on black! ;D -- Peter Cartryht
G-d is bored. We are here for entertainment purposes.
Nope, Pratchett got it completely wrong about God, for His plan is available for all who are willing to look.
Paul Owens ?
Talk about... *puts on sunglasses* ...DEATH METAL
My favorite Discworld book. This was fun, though i wish they'd kept more of the band name puns. The best is the opening band calling themselves The Whom
Not to mention "We're Certainly Dwarves."
Damn that was one hell of a ride! Pratchet's a genius, i bet alot of artists in real life make a deal aswel and thats why they die so young
Been having a pratchett day, highly recomend it, lots of excellent movies 😋
I like how the "Death of rats" was pictured at the end killing the "rats" of humanity.
As marvelous as part one, with some utterly unexpected musical references! Congratulations to all concerned - again Guy x
The music and songs were actually really good!
I just love how they act like it's an everyday thing to see a walking skeleton with a black cloak and walks and talks.. I love it.
People carnt see death in front of them, kind of remember a person but carnt remember what he looks like.
I don't understand why people knock on the animation so much, it's passable and the team obviously put more of the budget into script, cast and music. It was made by Channel 4 also not the bloody BBC or some other big shot channel.
Very good. Elvish :-)
I love every scene with the wizards
Mr. Pratchett makes it look like a scene of a parent with his/her rebellious teenagers
Especially 36:39
I can remember when i first saw this at age 10 it was my first introduction to the disk and i never looked back
29:38 -- look carefully at the back of the crowd.
+warlock415 Lol well spotted good sir:)
warlock415 thank you
Wow! I wasn't expecting that! :0
I wonder how they got away with that
I tried to see what you were talking about, but the screen darkened so I couldn't see. Who is it?
I, I think... I'm high. Is this what drugs are like? Bill and Ted meeting never ending story and rock of ages with a dash of Christopher lee!?
A dash???
Michael Heffner discworld, it’s a great book series.
Pratchett deserves better production value than this. I still liked it though...
the roughness actually adds to the charm, imo. wouldn't want it any other way...
You have to remember this was one of the early animated screenplays, and they were still finding their footing so to speak.
If you have read the books, then you'll probably enjoy this movie. And, I just loved the music!
Robert Byrd
I do love this movie! I can complain about production values all day but in the end this is a very faithful adaptation. Who better than Christopher Lee himself to take on the mantle of Death?
And really, look how far along they came by "The Colour of Magic" and "Hogsfather". These early films segwayed into us getting those, both Excellent adaptations of the books.
to be fair, these were made on a budget in the 90's
More popular than cheeses. John Lennon got in trouble for saying that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus as a joke . Especially in America. I heard that and I lost it lol
That was great. Liked it alot more then weyrd sisters
We're bigger than cheeses, what a fantastic line.John Lennon will be laughing in the afterlife.
Thank you.
It wouldn't be so bad to be Death. He has a nice job, he remembers things particularly easily, and he has a fine complexion that can't get ruined. Did I mention he has a loyal horse and a nice scythe?
An embuggerance of a schedule though.
I know from all the books and movies death really is a personality.hes awesome.
So many Beatles references in this movie. :)
AWESOME DEATH IS SO COOL
"We are more popular than cheeses"
ahhhhh, the nostalgia.
Music Soul Guitar Thing: "You can't kill me"
Me: "Oh my... saying that to DEATH? To literally Death? You got balls, I'd give you that... but not much else..."
I feel like Soul Music is trying to teach us something about death that we'd have to have been there to fully understand.
*OHH BUGGER*
[1:1:35] repeat button to appreciate both drama and... Epicness.
This was fucking amazing, I can't believe that I haven't seen this before now.
1:06:40 hour's of friggin musical
bliss
good music, too
Any chance of Part 1 coming back up? I can't seem to find it anywhere :/
Can I just say that these look, and sound like...extremely...well polished, is the phrase? Is this a really good indie project, or is this something professionally funded?
What is with the music which plays during the Musicians Guild conversations?
i love that dwarf
Epic!
56:28 IT'S DEATH RIDER!
58:12 Oh my god, it's the Italian job! AHA HA HA HA!
Have read the story more than once and missed the Meatloaf Homage. LOL
I'm a bit sad they didn't do the scythe guitar pick thing
Anyone know if the Song Last Goodbye is an actual song and who sings it?
part 1 of 2 please?
this thing is just way to long and certain scenes are just to good for the animation to be lackluster like this.
Oh bugger!
Death: "Why does my Telephone always dies?"
31:41What is the name of the song that the band plays in Sto Lat stadium? It is totally epic!
+charles Receski I don't think it's an actual song. It seems, that the composer they hired for the programm just wrote short bits of music "in the style of...". This one is very similar to the Jimi Hendrix signature style. Try "Purple Haze" or "Foxy Lady."
The Messenger
we are more popular than cheesus LOL
There are so many hilarious music puns and references in this. :D
I nearly laughed! HA HA HA!
Robert Byrd I definitely did. I was watching this at lunch at my desk at work, so it was a bit awkward.:D
"Cheeses", but the pun is still there.
That pun went right over my head until I read it spelled like that. Thanks for the laugh.
Cliff, Grot and Asphalt? Dead?
TheEyez187 No, they didn't die. Death reset time--read the book.
More popular than cheeses. Heh.
Shame they didn't make Quirm more... French. It's meant to be French. Ah well.
+RossOriginals I thought it was meant to be italy ? at least I know Leonard of quirm was modeled off of Leonardo da vinci n since he was italian I figured quirm was modeled after it.
*****
Leonard is a bit of an anomaly, but the equivalent to Italy in Discworld is actually Brindisi. Quirm is definitely French, everything from the language to the food and even the local police force is distinctly Française.
+RossOriginals What about Klatch that is spose to be france also correct? The klatchian foriegn legion,and the people are always saying " If you will excuse my Klatch" ( I believe Albert is guilty of that the mot in the books)
*****
Klatch appears to be an Arab/Middle-Eastern region -- Klatchians featured in the books tend to have similar stereotypes to Arabs and Indians, and in the book "Jingo" Ankh-Morpork goes to war with Klatch and so some of the City Watch actually go there -- there's lots of desert, people dress like Arabs, Nobby dresses as a bellydancer, much to everyone's horror, the Patrician wears a Fez, etc.
Klatch is definitely packed up with references to all things French, but it is set up in a Middle-Eastern-ish environment. Quirm, on the other hand, is a cluster of French references in a more Mediterranean-ish setting
*While cities of Sto Plains are all loosely hinting at a few Polish traits, like fields of cabbage, and, of course "Sto" and "Sto Lat", meaning, respectively "One Hundred" and "One Hundred Years" - the last one is the Polish equivalent of "Bless you" when someone sneezes (In Poland they say "Sto lat" on such an occassion).
Hey! Who killed the music?
55:28 its a triumph
i laughed harder than i should have
Oh come on, a Britsh author writes a magical motorcycle into his novel and you *weren't* expecting someone to call it a Triumph? We can't very well let the audience think they're looking at a fantasy Harley, did you? XD
No but maybe i expected some elequency in the execution
A lot is lost in the transition from print to video, yes. Discworld doesn't translate especially well.
Christopher Lee is the first and only ghost rider take that Marvel
DID THEY JUST TOSS DEATH INTO THE RIVER???
Wow
Well you can’t throw him in the street. He’d block traffic, that’d be rude.
Plus the solid nature of the river usually kills quicker than drowning.
Is that Adrian Edmondson doing Quoth?
i want the soundtrack
iTunes has it
Motorbike from the grave thing? Lemmy did it first. . .
That time with the plumber huh~?
it's a referance to deaths bathroom. and previous books and events. basically albert had to get plumber for the bathroom because not even death could figure out plumbing.
Heh, the thing of it is that Death can't create... or do art more specifically I guess. It seems Terry thought that plumbing was as much art as science.
iirc the problem in this regard is that Death now how it looks but not what function it has (rock hard towels that look like soft towels... unusable soap...)... so since Death doesnt have to use anykind of bath stuff he knows how it looks... but doesnt know what it does or how it works
55:53 to 55:58 should be a gif, ita fucki g gold
I would really like to see gurads gurads in this style of proggam weloce to the discworld ha:)
I can forgive the animation style for being more or less of its time, but the timing of the jokes is just off for a lot of them. It's a shame since it's otherwise a really loyal adaptation.
0:58 THAT GUY
Nobby is too human here
It's not discworld. it's a fun movie but it's skips way too many important points and events it shortens alot of scenes which contains important parts of the story.
Such is the fate of all good books
It's 2 and a half hours and they STILL forgot scenes?!
well, mostly scenes with regular characters on the Discworld series. Is not as much as Mr.Bubblebox implies, but a good amount of extra content is missing. Still; the "main plot" is there.
Taro. reread the book I had it next to me when i watched this it skipped several characters and plot points that would come up again in later books.
MrBubblebox in terms of Discworld continuity: you're right. In terms of a single movie flick, is quite alright.
at 20:30 shit gets deep.
26:03 Ok that was the worst transition I've seen in my life
I can't argue with you here, the animation was not up to snuff, but it was still enjoying to watch, even if only to listen to the music they played. I'd love to have a full length soundtrack with all the sone they pay.
fab fab fab
Susan just sounds stroppy here...
Stealing people's memories and rewriting them with no intention of telling them so they can learn better? No wonder I'm beginning to hate Disc-World.
Except Imp does make a different choice, and that choice is what set the entire story in motion. By going to Quirm instead of Anch he is embracing his life instead of being of the Music.
Never said or ever implied that Imp making his own way rather than have it dictated to him wasn't a noble endeavor. All I made note of was that, last time I checked, mind control was looked upon as an evil, even if the person doing it thinks they're doing it for a really good reason. And having that 'person' be the fabric of your universe after smashing a guitar rather than just having everyone walk away after the guitar was smashed, memories intact, doesn't make it any better.
No, that's not what Death is doing. Terry Pratchett occasionally refers in the Discworld novels to the tendency of people to rewrite their own memories to fit their perceived reality. The guitar and music had come from one of the alternate universes anyway, and overtook people too quickly. It didn't fit Ankh-Morpork or Discworld reality. Take away the major physical evidence of the past few days -- specifically the band -- and people will forget their own unusual behaviour, especially if it's embarrassing. They'll put it down to dreams, or just deny and forget it.
I've never seen such an idiotic person.
This animation is awful. It's like Zelda CGi had been made into a full length feature film.
The timing is awful, the voice acting barely matches the faces, and everybody is scowling and leering constantly.
Ah yes. But if you are willing to give a bit, you may come to find that you may like it sometime. Reading the book first always helps in my experience.
Are you kidding? If anything, that makes it even worse- compare the finale of the book, (spoilers: Death saves the day by playing the only song he can play- the chord that ends the universe- and forcing the Music to un-James-Dean the band so they can stop the ensuing apocalypse) with this rubbish, where he just riffs on the guitar a bit and then smashes it.
Exactly what I thought. Looks like the same studio that did the Zelda cgi games. But this has glorious writing that makes up for the animation deficits
tobalt1
It’s much smoother than those games
@@quelltech That's the eternal problem with books vs films.
Films are simply too short to put everything from the books into them. And far too often they simply cannot be translated into a movie.
They have to make sacrifices in order for the movie to work.
That's why the only the shortest books can be translated into movies and still retain the excellence of the books.
these show was a waste of my time the animation, the story and the format was quite terrible.
You should might as well read the book