This is what I love about how Terry Pratchett writes Death. Given the choice, he is professional at least, kind and wise at best - yet when pressed in any way, he is still the Grim Reaper, and that fellow is not known for humoring fools.
@@Daniel-rd6st One that he truly dedicated himself to when he was replaced by a Death who saw himself as a king, a concept that offended him so much that he reaped his own repalcement
Part of what I always love about Discworld is that of all the immortal, supernatural entities in it, there's only one that consistently, and sincerely, gives a damn about humanity in every single appearance they make. HO. HO. HO.
Death is the one that knows humans best. He's seen them at their most vulnerable. Their most raw. At the moments of greatest sadness, heartbreak, resignation, and even nobility. Who can pity humans more - and see what potential they have inside - than the one who must always be there to take them in the end?
@@Jotari Not even for the fun of it. Rincewind's appointment kept coming up legitimately, but the Great Spell in his head wouldn't be said, and couldn't be lost, so it bent reality to change when his appointment would be. As a result of the Great Spell's influence, Rincewind's lifetimer doesn't look like an hourglass anymore, it looks like 'something made by a glassblower who had the hiccups', with multiple bulbs and glass tubes and the sand running up and down and side to side and sometimes around in circles. Death has never seen a lifetimer like it before or since, and honestly has no clue when Rincewind is supposed to die, which irks him. So he keeps the lifetimer on his desk, right next to his own, on the off chance that all the sand might one day end up in a single bulb, and whenever Rincewind has a near-Death experience, Death 'encourages' him to simply meet his appointment so the whole matter will finally be cleared up and Death can move on and put it behind him at last. Death is a professional, after all, and hates leaving a job undone.
@@GuukanKitsune Exceedingly well-put. I think my favorite interaction of theirs is when Rincewind is in prison in XXXX, and Death is eating prawns, just hanging out with him, and they talk about how your life is supposed to flash before your eyes before you die. And Death just goes, "Yes, it does. The process is called... living."
You're forgetting Soul Music. The entire plot of Soul Music. Death's daughter Ysabel and his son in law Mort die in a carriage wreck. Death has to do The Duty. And for the first time ever, he personally has to grieve. He doesn't handle it well, at all. A teenage Susan has to take up the Duty while she and Albert have to find him because he abandons The Duty to instead search for a way, any way, to forget, because the emotions he's feeling are too great for him to bear.
This is what we are giving to next generations. I love Terry Pratchett till my basic school. Now iam nearly 40. There are no words, how to thank Terry, what he gave to me. Iam better person because of his books. So folks, do not forget, its imagination, not inteligence, what makes us humans.
I too am a better person because of his gentle point of moral tales. I always remember when Captain Vimes was dealing with the vicious Werewolf * in the book, and he is "losing" the fight and the cruel werewolf is gloating and virtually torturing Vimes and the whole time taunting him about all the evil he had done and was GOING to do after he kills Vimes, then Vimes throws the explosive to kill it . . . and in his internal monologue he says something like "It must be done. He must be stopped. I could say some witty phrase now, like "Fetch" but THAT would make this murder". And the more you think about that, the more right it is, and the more explicit it is that the Movies like Dirty Harry and the Arnold movies are ACTUALLY morally repugnant. * And, of course, the werewolf was actually a literary stand-in for Upper Class exploiters of "The Common Man".
An epiphany I only now came to; why does Death come out of a snowman? Is it just a reference to the *other* Christmas movie that has a skeleton dressed as Santa Clause? I don't think so. The entire crux of the story involves how humans anthropomorphize aspects of nature and thus bring new entities into existence. This is the reason Death couldn't help directly; they were in a time/space before humans *began* anthropomorphizing things, hence why the Hogfather is not yet the Hogfather, why the Auditors are wolves (even though they're depicted as dogs), and why they *had* a chance to get rid of him in the first place. When Susan, as a human, in that time/space, openly declares her belief and faith in the Hogfather, she officially sets the stage for natural elements being anthropomorphized. Which is where Death, as the snowman, comes in. Winter is itself already synonymous with death, the most deadly thing about it being the extreme cold, killing off many plants and smaller animals, the scarcity killing off more, etc. That cold is best exemplified by ice. Icicles, snow, blizzards, frozen ponds, etc. By building a snowman, you give human features to that deadly ice and snow. The snowman is the *first* anthropomorphization of the concept of death. That's why the snowman shows up out of nowhere, and that's why Death steps out of it.
An added bonus is the fleeting nature of the snowman itself. It, too, shall perish one springtime comes. Not just a personification of death, but the herald of change.
Actually your emotional center come from your brain.Death may not have a physical brain but he has a mind!Death has a vastly brilliant mind and you never know what it might be capable of!Glands give you external feeling while the mind is responsible for the feelings within such as anger!So Death gets angry at the world's injustice!The mind is a powerful tool no one should underestimate especially if it belongs to Death! He's a extremely complex character! He has many layers metaphorically speaking of course!Afterall you can't judge one upon their outward appearance!Cleary there is more than meets the eye with Death!
YEES. THERE *ARE* RULES. AND YOU *BROKE THEM* HOW DARE YOU... HOW *DARE YOU!* Terry Pratchet pointed out at this point... When DEATH is using an exclamation point, you *REALLY* F'ed up!!!
Read a book bought as a present by my wife when I was in my 20s, "The carpet people" Enjoyed it immensely, only discovered 6 months ago, it was the first published work of an unknown writer named Terry Pratchet who I've read and loved ever since without realizing it!
I have great memories of that book as a teen, I remember there was a quote from it that stayed with me for a while, but now I've lost it. Guess I should read it again!
Sooo.. by taking physical bodies, the Auditors became closer to living beings the longer they stayed in them, til the point they couldn't fully turn back into Auditors?
Yes they would die there senses start to be so limted that they would die from a sensority overload normaly they are expected to be able to auditor everything in Existenz in order to manage reality
@@Siegberg91 Another thing to consider, when you start looking into it, is that the Death we know is a portion of the Death of Universes, Azrael, and also his direct suboordinate - And good ol' Death here is in charge of the deaths that occur on Discworld. All of them, even if he doesn't handle them personally. Meaning that, in essence, technically the Auditors are above him - until they either put themselves under his power or he reminds them that he answers directly to the Death that handles EVERYTHING. Not just the death of Discworld, or anything specific like that - ALL UNIVERSES. Everything. Meaning that, eventually, even if they weren't handled here, the Auditors would've had to answer to him in some way or another eventually. Death can go for the longest of all cons.
I think it's about how once they know what it's like to be alive you can't go back. The body's overwhelming demands to survive as an individual and the emotional experiences attached eventually make them really believe they are alive, and so they die.
From what I can tell, as far as the Auditors are concerned, to have a personality is it be a being with a beginning and an end. To be an individual is to live and to live is to die and for beings who know eternity the time in-between is considered insignificant. They are not used to experiencing emotions and so they can be easily overwhelmed by them once they have them. Since they are a necessary part of the universe to function, anytime a Auditor or Auditors dies they disappear and will be replaced with new ones. So this serves as an example to be avoided more than anything else. So there will be four new Auditors to replace these ones, but maybe they will think twice before trying something like this again.
DEATH is actually the KINDEST, most moral, andmost caring entity on the Disc (after book 1, that is), He's spent so much time around humans, helping their souls to cross, that he's actually developed a true love and affection for them, he's merciful, and kind, as long as you don't piss him off, then he becomes your worst nightmare... he's willing and able to "bend the rules" or outright break them if he feels that it's not fair, he's Humanity's strongest defender, strongest friend on the Disc if you're a good person, and follow the rules, he will be kind,, compassionate, and caring, he's broken the rules many times because it suits his purposes, one of the best examples being the Little Match Girl in the Hogfather novel, do a CZcams search for "No Better Present", or even better, purchase a copy of the Discworld live action DVD.
I think that what happened is that Death could not directly move against the Aurators, but Susan wasn't under the same restrictions. When she knocked one of them off the cliff, it scared the others so that her Grandfather could drive the rest of them off.
An awesome depiction of the scene in question... except for the bit where the Auditors die, which was... kind of naff. I mean, the despairing screams sounded more bored than anything.
I mean... They're the bureaucrats of the universe who happen to find expression in the form of creativity and personality the worst thing ever... I think this is just how they would scream actually
@@joshuabrown3525 The Auditors here have decided to become wolves. Living wolves. By this point, they're not normal Auditors, but by some definition alive. When they do, they start to get taken over by life and can feel things normal living things do. Of course, being alive, they can now die. So they will.
Ironically,... Discworld died along with the passing of Sir Pterry. No, I don’t mean no disrespect, it’s just that along with his wishes,... there are no more stories to tell,... so ... it died. All we have now are the memories.
Just as the imagination is infinite, so too are the worlds he built. Perhaps Discorld is indeed gone. Or maybe stories are still happening, for an audience we don't know.
Prachett said so himself "nothing truly dies long as someone speaks its name" (that is paraphasing). Long as we remember it and speak about Discworld won't die and Death can rest knowing he doesn't have to do his job one day.
A tad late in reply so you may already have the answer but no, there are more live adaptations though I cant recall all of them, at least two others from what I remember :)
Good omens book could be counted but it was a collabration between pratchett and gaiman and a great TV show now. Think I saw something about the book Guards! Guards! from discworld with sam wimes and the nightwatch was gonna be made into a TV show but not sure if it is still going on?
I find it interesting Death is not harming the Auditors directly. Since they have taken mortal form, they are no falling under his jurisdiction, but Death can not harvest the souls from still living bodies, so he intimidates them into jumping.
Yes, it's an important point in Pratchett's work: Death isn't "evil", it just consciously does its job. and of course, it doesn't kill ... it just collects souls
In Hogfather , the Death is voiced by Ian Richardson In the Witcher , the golden dragon (Villentretenmerth /Borch Three Jackdaws) is played (and also voiced ?) by Ron Cook
SirJedi Consular They change back into the dog shape (they are not real dogs exactly) and cannot become Auditors again properly because as Death pointed out "life gets under your skin". They made themselves dog shapes and in the Discworld if you become or are changed into a certain thing you take on some of that things characteristics, in this case the most important was simply being alive, which put their ending in Deaths jurisdiction as it were. The Rules they are referring to have never been fully explained beyond that fact the the Auditors in some way "are" the rules, rules like "gravity cannot suddenly multiply by 100 and laminate all organisms to the bedrock". What they probably meant here was that Death is not supposed to turn on them and just kill them, but as I said before, once they became alive then they were subject to him. And since he was not very happy with them at that moment, he made sure they ended up in a situation were his services really would be needed.
Valen123456 Thanks. I only started reading Discworld (I'm gonna start Mort as soon as I finish The Light Fantastic). But for the record, I knew what the quote meant. I was just using it to pinpoint the moment I was talking about.
Beings like Death and the Auditors are not supposed to interfere in mortal affairs, but the Auditors broke those rules by directly trying to kill the Hogfather after their assassin failed. Yet they hypocritically try to appeal to Death with the rules that they themselves just broke.
It's also possible that Auditors cannot be hurt in any way as long as they follow the rules of universe. But the more they break the rules, the less invincible they become. After all even Death's daughter managed to kill one, so killing them didn't need superpowers.
I apologize for the very, very late answer on this one... This is explained more clearly in the book: several of the Auditors were so desperate to see the Hogfather ended that, when Teatime failed to deliver, they assumed corporeal form as wolves/dogs and chased the Hogfather down. They were freely able to shed those corporeal forms and become the ghostly entities that we see throughout the movie/novel, and their intention was to do so once the deed was done. One of the Auditors briefly does this when he tells Death that there are rules. However, when Death appeared, they experienced fear for possibly the first time, and that fear - a terribly mortal thing - anchored them to their canine forms. They tried to flee at his arrival, but found that they'd become so lost to the moment that they couldn't change back. The closest that they got was the one talking about the rules, but Death's answer was so terrifying that it forced the Auditor back into a physical body, and they were animals in all but thought. In that form, unable to flee, they were vulnerable to Death, and their ending was true and mortal. Other Auditors would be made to replace them, but that did little to help them.
Everyone is gangsta 'til The Grim Reaper emerges from a snowman and starts quoting Father Christmas in Ian Richardson's voice.
"It was at that moment, they knew. They fuqed up"
This is what I love about how Terry Pratchett writes Death. Given the choice, he is professional at least, kind and wise at best - yet when pressed in any way, he is still the Grim Reaper, and that fellow is not known for humoring fools.
Well a professional who didnt really like his job, tried a couple of times to get rid of it which never ended particulary well 🙂
@@Daniel-rd6st One that he truly dedicated himself to when he was replaced by a Death who saw himself as a king, a concept that offended him so much that he reaped his own repalcement
@@BlueMageDaisen
Nᴏ ᴄʀᴏᴡɴ. Oɴʟʏ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴀʀᴠᴇsᴛ.
Part of what I always love about Discworld is that of all the immortal, supernatural entities in it, there's only one that consistently, and sincerely, gives a damn about humanity in every single appearance they make.
HO. HO. HO.
Yes Death cares that's why l like him!It's one of his best qualities which why that makes him the best Discworld character!
Death is the one that knows humans best. He's seen them at their most vulnerable. Their most raw. At the moments of greatest sadness, heartbreak, resignation, and even nobility. Who can pity humans more - and see what potential they have inside - than the one who must always be there to take them in the end?
Not in the first book. There he just wants to kill Rincewind for the fun of it.
@@Jotari Not even for the fun of it. Rincewind's appointment kept coming up legitimately, but the Great Spell in his head wouldn't be said, and couldn't be lost, so it bent reality to change when his appointment would be.
As a result of the Great Spell's influence, Rincewind's lifetimer doesn't look like an hourglass anymore, it looks like 'something made by a glassblower who had the hiccups', with multiple bulbs and glass tubes and the sand running up and down and side to side and sometimes around in circles. Death has never seen a lifetimer like it before or since, and honestly has no clue when Rincewind is supposed to die, which irks him.
So he keeps the lifetimer on his desk, right next to his own, on the off chance that all the sand might one day end up in a single bulb, and whenever Rincewind has a near-Death experience, Death 'encourages' him to simply meet his appointment so the whole matter will finally be cleared up and Death can move on and put it behind him at last.
Death is a professional, after all, and hates leaving a job undone.
@@GuukanKitsune Exceedingly well-put.
I think my favorite interaction of theirs is when Rincewind is in prison in XXXX, and Death is eating prawns, just hanging out with him, and they talk about how your life is supposed to flash before your eyes before you die. And Death just goes, "Yes, it does. The process is called... living."
I want to point out how friendly those dogs looked. They were clearly very good dogs who enjoyed making movies xD
0:45 HO HO HO. The Discworld version of "SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER."
+Seamus Burke
What TV Tropes calls a "Crowning Moment of Awesome".
Or Fabricati Diem PVNC!
Oh, I forget! That was Commander Sam Vimes!
"AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER."
So sad!
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.....
DAMNIT.
Even 5 years later, thinking about the Final Three Tweets makes me tear up.
@@kecenavrtep A man's not dead while his name is still spoken.
@@andrewweitzman4006 Or, when he's remembered and cherished for the time that he was here.
This applies to everyone both great and small.
"you broke them HOW DARE YOU!!!" the only time I believe in any novel that DEATH shows real emotion.
he get even more pissed with new death
I would argue that he showed piles of emotion in Reaper Man... and, indeed, in most of his appearances in Death-centered novels after Mort.
You're forgetting Soul Music. The entire plot of Soul Music.
Death's daughter Ysabel and his son in law Mort die in a carriage wreck. Death has to do The Duty. And for the first time ever, he personally has to grieve.
He doesn't handle it well, at all.
A teenage Susan has to take up the Duty while she and Albert have to find him because he abandons The Duty to instead search for a way, any way, to forget, because the emotions he's feeling are too great for him to bear.
The auditors are one of few people who genuinely make Death angry
@@crimsondynamo615 as well as people who mistreat cats. Death likes cats.
So what was Death doing inside a snow man?
Chilling. To the bone.
Hah.
Get out :)
Good on the subtitle writers to remember to write Death IN ALL CAPITALS. There will be an extra pork pie for them on Hogswatch.
Just make sures there's mustard. They're a treat with mustard
I love Death's dry bone sense of humor!😂
*AND NOW THERE REMAINS ONLY ONE FINAL QUESTION*
*HAVE YOU BEEN NAUGHTY OR NICE?*
*HO HO HO*
It takes some doing to out-Death Christopher Lee, but Ian Richardson is just so perfect, I can't even put it into words.
Menace with tea and a biscuit😊
This is what we are giving to next generations. I love Terry Pratchett till my basic school. Now iam nearly 40. There are no words, how to thank Terry, what he gave to me. Iam better person because of his books. So folks, do not forget, its imagination, not inteligence, what makes us humans.
I too am a better person because of his gentle point of moral tales.
I always remember when Captain Vimes was dealing with the vicious Werewolf * in the book, and he is "losing" the fight and the cruel werewolf is gloating and virtually torturing Vimes and the whole time taunting him about all the evil he had done and was GOING to do after he kills Vimes, then Vimes throws the explosive to kill it . . . and in his internal monologue he says something like
"It must be done. He must be stopped. I could say some witty phrase now, like "Fetch" but THAT would make this murder".
And the more you think about that, the more right it is, and the more explicit it is that the Movies like Dirty Harry and the Arnold movies are ACTUALLY morally repugnant.
* And, of course, the werewolf was actually a literary stand-in for Upper Class exploiters of "The Common Man".
An epiphany I only now came to; why does Death come out of a snowman?
Is it just a reference to the *other* Christmas movie that has a skeleton dressed as Santa Clause?
I don't think so.
The entire crux of the story involves how humans anthropomorphize aspects of nature and thus bring new entities into existence. This is the reason Death couldn't help directly; they were in a time/space before humans *began* anthropomorphizing things, hence why the Hogfather is not yet the Hogfather, why the Auditors are wolves (even though they're depicted as dogs), and why they *had* a chance to get rid of him in the first place.
When Susan, as a human, in that time/space, openly declares her belief and faith in the Hogfather, she officially sets the stage for natural elements being anthropomorphized.
Which is where Death, as the snowman, comes in.
Winter is itself already synonymous with death, the most deadly thing about it being the extreme cold, killing off many plants and smaller animals, the scarcity killing off more, etc. That cold is best exemplified by ice. Icicles, snow, blizzards, frozen ponds, etc. By building a snowman, you give human features to that deadly ice and snow.
The snowman is the *first* anthropomorphization of the concept of death.
That's why the snowman shows up out of nowhere, and that's why Death steps out of it.
An added bonus is the fleeting nature of the snowman itself. It, too, shall perish one springtime comes.
Not just a personification of death, but the herald of change.
@@herusolares5320 The return of life *through* the process of death, creation through destruction.
Death is slow to anger, but if you do manage it then you are beyond all help. Even if you're an Auditor.
He is slow to anger,
but he toes the line
as he reckons with the effects of their lives on his.
Absolutely - if you infuriate him, and whatever he draws his power from, you are beyond help
congratulations, you succeeding is making Death angry and that takes some doing seeing how he doesnt have glands
Actually your emotional center come from your brain.Death may not have a physical brain but he has a mind!Death has a vastly brilliant mind and you never know what it might be capable of!Glands give you external feeling while the mind is responsible for the feelings within such as anger!So Death gets angry at the world's injustice!The mind is a powerful tool no one should underestimate especially if it belongs to Death! He's a extremely complex character! He has many layers metaphorically speaking of course!Afterall you can't judge one upon their outward appearance!Cleary there is more than meets the eye with Death!
@@ginjaababe reading this made my glands activate.
"YOU CANT DO THIS. THERE ARE RULES." I love that voice!
+Gazund Hieghts If the Daleks were the Auditors of Reality...
Yes their are rules But you broke them HOW DARE YOU HOW DARE YOU
Sums up chris chinbal and Jodie doctor era
Mmhmm, you sense in that moment that Death is on our side and how grateful we should be that he is given the raw power he possesses.
YEES. THERE *ARE* RULES. AND YOU *BROKE THEM*
HOW DARE YOU... HOW *DARE YOU!*
Terry Pratchet pointed out at this point... When DEATH is using an exclamation point, you *REALLY* F'ed up!!!
Read a book bought as a present by my wife when I was in my 20s, "The carpet people" Enjoyed it immensely, only discovered 6 months ago, it was the first published work of an unknown writer named Terry Pratchet who I've read and loved ever since without realizing it!
I have great memories of that book as a teen, I remember there was a quote from it that stayed with me for a while, but now I've lost it. Guess I should read it again!
the most badass "ho ho ho" ever
The best character in literature by a long, long way.
As TV Tropes puts it, a Crowning Moment of Awesome!
“HOW DARE YOU?! HOW DARE YOU?!!”
DEATH, the BEST character after Rincewind ... and the Luggage
I believe Captain Vimes has something to say about that. So does Vetinari. Let's be frank, every Pratchett's character.
Toby Smith Carrot has always been one of my favorites. He has that weird combination of "naively innocent" and "charismatic badass"
+MrClickity I LOVED Mr Teh-uh-tie-meh from the movie, though.
well i love Commander Mumm and Feucht von Lipwig, but yes i must agree Death is also one of my Fav Characters
@@keizoxd5623 love moist von lipwig
How dare you?
HOW DARE YOU?
The first time we truly see Death angry.
The second, actually, in "Reaper Man" he even uses exclamative marks.
+Matteo Bortolotti (MNO) And as the book says..
When DEATH uses an exclamation point, you KNOW you are in trouble!
I don’t like sickly Christmas movies but love The Hogfather. Absolutely adore Ian Richardson's voice as death just loved him 😄
...I have no fucking clue what just happened, but it was badass.
Go and watch Hogfather, friend. It is an awesome movie... RIP Terry Pratchett... :(
+MikeTheGreat
Or read it. The book's probably easier to find.
Kerorofan The movie is on Neflix
omfg, not watch! Go and read The book. Reading is second best thing at the world....just behind love-making :)
i have already read all the Terry's Pratchett's books ...
Never has that question sounded more menacing.
Such menace in those three little words...'Ho Ho Ho...'
I love the dark humor in this XD
ho. ho. ho.
0:26 World's scariest snowman
Death was always my favourite character in Discworld.
Everything in this series is secretly an Eldritch abomination
Sooo.. by taking physical bodies, the Auditors became closer to living beings the longer they stayed in them, til the point they couldn't fully turn back into Auditors?
Yes they would die there senses start to be so limted that they would die from a sensority overload normaly they are expected to be able to auditor everything in Existenz in order to manage reality
@@Siegberg91 Another thing to consider, when you start looking into it, is that the Death we know is a portion of the Death of Universes, Azrael, and also his direct suboordinate - And good ol' Death here is in charge of the deaths that occur on Discworld. All of them, even if he doesn't handle them personally. Meaning that, in essence, technically the Auditors are above him - until they either put themselves under his power or he reminds them that he answers directly to the Death that handles EVERYTHING. Not just the death of Discworld, or anything specific like that - ALL UNIVERSES. Everything. Meaning that, eventually, even if they weren't handled here, the Auditors would've had to answer to him in some way or another eventually. Death can go for the longest of all cons.
I think it's about how once they know what it's like to be alive you can't go back. The body's overwhelming demands to survive as an individual and the emotional experiences attached eventually make them really believe they are alive, and so they die.
@@alertArchitect death get everything in the end
From what I can tell, as far as the Auditors are concerned, to have a personality is it be a being with a beginning and an end. To be an individual is to live and to live is to die and for beings who know eternity the time in-between is considered insignificant. They are not used to experiencing emotions and so they can be easily overwhelmed by them once they have them. Since they are a necessary part of the universe to function, anytime a Auditor or Auditors dies they disappear and will be replaced with new ones. So this serves as an example to be avoided more than anything else. So there will be four new Auditors to replace these ones, but maybe they will think twice before trying something like this again.
We'll all face that question someday... and in the same menacing fashion.
Ok, this death is literally terrifying.
Yeah, if you break the rules, or just an asshole.
DEATH is actually the KINDEST, most moral, andmost caring entity on the Disc (after book 1, that is), He's spent so much time around humans, helping their souls to cross, that he's actually developed a true love and affection for them, he's merciful, and kind, as long as you don't piss him off, then he becomes your worst nightmare...
he's willing and able to "bend the rules" or outright break them if he feels that it's not fair, he's Humanity's strongest defender, strongest friend on the Disc
if you're a good person, and follow the rules, he will be kind,, compassionate, and caring, he's broken the rules many times because it suits his purposes, one of the best examples being the Little Match Girl in the Hogfather novel, do a CZcams search for "No Better Present", or even better, purchase a copy of the Discworld live action DVD.
DEATH would be offended.
There are *very* few times DEATH has been this angry.
Watching this. At 2 AM. With Headphones. Great idea, Gus.
Great idea
I think that what happened is that Death could not directly move against the Aurators, but Susan wasn't under the same restrictions. When she knocked one of them off the cliff, it scared the others so that her Grandfather could drive the rest of them off.
JESUS CHRIST!? 1:43 FOR THE SINGLE MOST HORRIFYING LOOK AT DEATH!
Brilliant film enjoyed so much we watch it every xmas day because there is never anything else worth watching on TV
Now I am terrified of the carol Santa Claus to coming to town - "gonna find out who's naughty or nice...?"
This was badass
Death has always been my proverbial Santa Clause. A jolly old hood of bones and love.
i like this scene, death was my favorite caractor
EPIC... just epic
i love that scene :)
An awesome depiction of the scene in question... except for the bit where the Auditors die, which was... kind of naff. I mean, the despairing screams sounded more bored than anything.
I mean... They're the bureaucrats of the universe who happen to find expression in the form of creativity and personality the worst thing ever...
I think this is just how they would scream actually
I was wondering, is it just me or did death appear when the auditors felt fear? I mean the auditors don't have feelings right, or not supposed to?
@@joshuabrown3525
The Auditors here have decided to become wolves. Living wolves. By this point, they're not normal Auditors, but by some definition alive. When they do, they start to get taken over by life and can feel things normal living things do.
Of course, being alive, they can now die. So they will.
the fact that they sound bored is pretty funny in itself considering how a lot of Pratchett's writing is
When it becomes okay to savor the bad guys' suffering.
Death: How very dare you?!!
Ironically,... Discworld died along with the passing of Sir Pterry. No, I don’t mean no disrespect, it’s just that along with his wishes,... there are no more stories to tell,... so ... it died. All we have now are the memories.
Just as the imagination is infinite, so too are the worlds he built. Perhaps Discorld is indeed gone. Or maybe stories are still happening, for an audience we don't know.
A.A. Pessimal would like to know your location
@@GamerOfFate duzbunz hopsit pfarmerssc.
Prachett said so himself "nothing truly dies long as someone speaks its name" (that is paraphasing). Long as we remember it and speak about Discworld won't die and Death can rest knowing he doesn't have to do his job one day.
GNU Terry Pratchett
Is Hogfather the only live action film of Prachett's work? The rest seem to be animated.
A tad late in reply so you may already have the answer but no, there are more live adaptations though I cant recall all of them, at least two others from what I remember :)
There's Going Postal.
And the Colour of Magic
Good omens book could be counted but it was a collabration between pratchett and gaiman and a great TV show now. Think I saw something about the book Guards! Guards! from discworld with sam wimes and the nightwatch was gonna be made into a TV show but not sure if it is still going on?
@@dumac6557 That was an abomination that barely shares anything more than names with the source material.
Oh their torment was too nice and quick - life doesn't go away this easy *grin*
yes, there are rules... but you broke them.
they should definitely remake this movie
I wish this was on NetFlix...
KlingonCaptain The entire movie is in CZcams. Can you watch it there?
I find it interesting Death is not harming the Auditors directly.
Since they have taken mortal form, they are no falling under his jurisdiction, but Death can not harvest the souls from still living bodies, so he intimidates them into jumping.
Yes, it's an important point in Pratchett's work:
Death isn't "evil", it just consciously does its job.
and of course, it doesn't kill ... it just collects souls
Well, HAVE THEY?!
The voice of Death, I wonder if that is the same actor that played the Golden Dragon from The Witcher Netflix series?
In Hogfather , the Death is voiced by Ian Richardson
In the Witcher , the golden dragon (Villentretenmerth /Borch Three Jackdaws) is played (and also voiced ?) by Ron Cook
Ladyboner
so when did you do an ordinator? or were you one to start with, just forgot about it?
Pierre porte, toujours présent !
Death is the best.
Does anyone know the song that plays when death appears out of the snowman
I'm pretty sure those were Belgian Tervuerens. I own one and I just wanted to go and cuddle them ^^
1:32 Sentry down!
Does the music at 0:40-2:00 have a name? If so what is it?
+Nelthro Kanir I too would like to know this.
@@Jotari let me know too please.
It would be the soundtrack for the movie... look up Hogfather soundtrack
Have you been naughty or nice??? ho ho ho
"You can't do this! There are rules!'
Could someone explain that to me? I thought, once they changed into wolves, the Auditors couldn't change back.
SirJedi Consular They change back into the dog shape (they are not real dogs exactly) and cannot become Auditors again properly because as Death pointed out "life gets under your skin". They made themselves dog shapes and in the Discworld if you become or are changed into a certain thing you take on some of that things characteristics, in this case the most important was simply being alive, which put their ending in Deaths jurisdiction as it were. The Rules they are referring to have never been fully explained beyond that fact the the Auditors in some way "are" the rules, rules like "gravity cannot suddenly multiply by 100 and laminate all organisms to the bedrock". What they probably meant here was that Death is not supposed to turn on them and just kill them, but as I said before, once they became alive then they were subject to him. And since he was not very happy with them at that moment, he made sure they ended up in a situation were his services really would be needed.
Valen123456 Thanks. I only started reading Discworld (I'm gonna start Mort as soon as I finish The Light Fantastic). But for the record, I knew what the quote meant. I was just using it to pinpoint the moment I was talking about.
Beings like Death and the Auditors are not supposed to interfere in mortal affairs, but the Auditors broke those rules by directly trying to kill the Hogfather after their assassin failed. Yet they hypocritically try to appeal to Death with the rules that they themselves just broke.
It's also possible that Auditors cannot be hurt in any way as long as they follow the rules of universe. But the more they break the rules, the less invincible they become. After all even Death's daughter managed to kill one, so killing them didn't need superpowers.
all that epic build up, and then the auditors die saying "oooooohhhhh".....tiiiiiny bit of an anticlimax.
I like him wayyyyy better than santa clause. Happy hogswatch everybody!
actually its have you BEEN......... i just came to comment on the grammar mistake :D
Loomy the Mysh
corrected .. ^^
He sounds similar to narrator from DK.
ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ʙᴇᴇɴ ɴᴀᴜɢʜᴛʏ ᴏʀ ɴɪᴄᴇ? Hᴏ. Hᴏ. Hᴏ.
Then you'll love darksiders 2
HO. HO. HO.
And the OTHER moral of the story is: Don’t fuck with the grim reaper!!
Who's voicing him here?
Poor dog!
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So what happened to the auditors here? They couldn't have died, could they? And if they did, what happens to reality then?
If I remember the books correctly when an auditors dies or ceases to exist, they are immediately replaced with another.
anyway you can kill as many auditors as you like, there will always be others; i don't think they exist as separate entities, where they come from
Auditors breed like rabbits.
I apologize for the very, very late answer on this one...
This is explained more clearly in the book: several of the Auditors were so desperate to see the Hogfather ended that, when Teatime failed to deliver, they assumed corporeal form as wolves/dogs and chased the Hogfather down. They were freely able to shed those corporeal forms and become the ghostly entities that we see throughout the movie/novel, and their intention was to do so once the deed was done. One of the Auditors briefly does this when he tells Death that there are rules.
However, when Death appeared, they experienced fear for possibly the first time, and that fear - a terribly mortal thing - anchored them to their canine forms. They tried to flee at his arrival, but found that they'd become so lost to the moment that they couldn't change back. The closest that they got was the one talking about the rules, but Death's answer was so terrifying that it forced the Auditor back into a physical body, and they were animals in all but thought. In that form, unable to flee, they were vulnerable to Death, and their ending was true and mortal. Other Auditors would be made to replace them, but that did little to help them.
In which Death give's no fucks and does whatever the hell he likes
It gets under your skin... Life
Speaking methaphoricaly of course
Can you say something after that awesome line?
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