I have nothing to say about this movie yet except that I am grooving on this. <3 I love Mr. Teatime, and I ALSO love Susan.
Noting for the record that like @moira I am sadly NOT very versed in the work of Sir Terry. This is my first encounter with any version of this story at all.
You're both one of today's lucky 10,000!
https://xkcd.com/1053/
@RamenCatholic @annathepiper @moira So am I!
I mean, I've heard a fair amount about them but never read any of the books (though I want to)
@diazona The #Discworld series is over 40 books across multiple genres, I re-read them all this year.
The #DiscworldWitches and #Death books are my favorite. And the #CityGuard books. And the #TiffanyAching books. And ....
@PurpleyWitch @RamenCatholic @annathepiper @moira This might have to be my next reading project! (after I finish #WheelOfTime soon) Although I doubt I could make it through 40 books in a year
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accusing #GNUTerryPratchett of exploiting his fans & other stuff that had not yet had a chance to happen *1 so sadly as I was one of the picked this got cancelled to smooth things over amongst various parties.
*1 In almost all of my interactions & observations of/with pTerry he was great with his fans*2 occasionally resorting to bite comments & Irony
*2 I once saw him shout at a fan for understandable reasons & even then he apologised later.
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But later a lot of the would be fan extras & other fans were invited down to the official Premiere of #Hogfather at the Curzon Mayfair Cinema where they showed the 1st part of the film which I think is done so it can be entered in film categories as well as TV categories this happened for all the Sky#Disworld films.This premiere IIRC went smoothly. I Must have been hanging around with the right people as somehow I ended up in the cellar pub
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Where the cast & crew after party was & the pub was decked out with props from the film including 10's if not 100s of the life timers I spotted a few of the stars of the film & Michelle Dockery who played Susan came over to the fans in fancy dress maybe that was how we got into the party dressed as a Wizzard must be on the list π& chatted to us for a while all in all a good night out after all these years I am hazy on some of the details but next...
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The second officially unofficial #Hogfather premiere did not to those involved run quite as smoothly.
A bit of background at that time in December there was an annual #Discworld event in Wincanton the town officially twinned with Ankh-Morpork which may have caused some upset in UK political circles but that is another story.
As I have said elsewhere #GNUTerryPratchett has been good to & he persuaded the producers to let the 2nd part of
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#Hogfather be shown in a hall in Wincanton provided of course there was no recording etc etc & for complicated reasons this officially did not happen despite all the witnesses π
Well at fan events some things often need a few volunteering helping hands especially if you have certain skill sets & over the years I have benefited from & sometimes contributed too sorting things out moving stuff about holding ladders etc so I was in a good position to
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Seen what happened behind the scenes as it were. Well #GNUTerryPratchett or Rob IIRC had the freshly burnt DVD the #Discworld Emporium shop around which the event was centred had hired at that time a new fangled video projector capable of large scale projection well big enough for the hired hall but late on the afternoon of the day when the premiere was to be shown it was found that the screen onto which the film was to be projected was missing...
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And that late in the day we could not get a screen from anywhere in time.
This was not the biggest of #Discworld events but there was probably a couple of hundred if not more fans in Wincanton awaiting the evening showing of the film.
Over the years I have been impressed by what a group of #Discworld fans can do on short notice, we had mostly all read the books & some bright spark said in "Moving Pictures" the early clicks were shown on bedsheets
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So we raided several bedsheets from the local pub/hotel the π¬ Dolphin π¬ which was often well frequented by #Discworld fans & was also said to be where Douglas Adams wrote a lot of the Hitchhiker book again I digress but also worth a read. We managed to get hold of various bits of cordβ€΅οΈ to hold up the sheets across the halls stage I held one of the ladders steady as the screen was constructed from bedsheets etc. So we were almost ready for the
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show to go on. Well apparently we could not get hold of a snow machine to provide extra atmosphere for the fans entering the hall but someone was able to get hold of a semi professional bubble machine so a hmm(what health & safety)number of power extension cords π β‘ were daisy chained from somewhere & I held a step ladder steady whilst another fan held the bubble machine over the doorway to the hall giving a snow effect as the queuing fans went in
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Well we found out that the bubble machine had a leak when not all of the queue had filed in so with one hand I held the rickety step ladder steady & the other held the end of the extension cord with the plug in it out of the way whilst soapy water dripped on me. Fortunately nothing else went wrong banged corn πΏ was served everyone seemed to have a fun night.
To cap it all Bernard the Cunning Artificer himself told us that several fans had told him
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That they thought it was an excellent idea to project it on to bedsheets it made it more #Discworld ly & how well run and smoothly the event had gone with fans of all ages enjoying themselves.
If only they knew being in the background I did see signs of genuine panic before things got sorted out.
And that ends my story of the two #Hogfather premieres hope you all enjoy 2nd part later whichever time zone you are in.
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@SANEAlex π€ I'm glad you got to meet him, but sorry you missed out on the feast!
We'll see you for #Monsterdon next year, right?
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Well it was disappointing at the time but I can't complain I have been very lucky over the years in my interactions with various bits of #Discworld fandom & did end up as a character in one of the books & an extra on two of the films I may have missed out on the hat-trick but #SoItGoesπ€·ββοΈ
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