I don’t think the part could have been cast much better.
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And I think it fits the movie almost perfectly. Coyle’s performance might be a little more showy than that in the book, but if so, not by too much. Lipwig is played by Richard Coyle, who I recognized from his one-season cameo in USA Network’s spy thriller, Covert Affairs (good show). The character is a bit more serious in the book, but Suchet’s portrayal works for the movie. With long hair, an eyepatch, and evil to the core of his larcenous heart, Suchet gets to have fun with the character. The Clacks is run by Reacher Gilt, played deliciously by David Suchet, the personification of Agatha Christie’s fat Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot (who you read about HERE, of course…). That’s the groundwork, and from here on in I’ll discuss the miniseries, which does differ from the book a fair amount, though it’s still faithful to Pratchett’s work. The post office is brought back to compete with the unreliable, monopolized Clacks. The Clacks are network of semaphore towers, that is Discworld’s pre-eminent communications network, with some internet overtones. There are, of course, many hurdles, including a golem named Pump 13 who ensures that he is not going to run away. Lipwig, who figures he can con his way out of things, reluctantly takes the job. He gives Lipwig the choice of walking out a door (which the nearly dead man discovers opens onto an almost bottomless pit) or reviving the post office. Vetinari wants to reopen the city’s Post Office an establishment that had essentially collapsed under its own weight – and greed. Lord Vetinari, the Lord Patrician of Discworld’s biggest city, Ankh-Morpork, I think that Vetinari is one of the best fictional rulers ever created. Actually, he was only hung to within half an inch of his life. In his first appearance ( Going Postal), Von Lipwig is a con man who is finally captured and hung. Moist Von Lipwig is the protagonist of three Discworld novels: Going Postal, Making Money, and Raising Steam.
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I think an overview of the Discworld series would be a worthy post here someday. I’m a huge fan of the Discworld books, and I’ve written a post on the City Watch, and one on Troll Bridge, a short story featuring Cohen the Barbarian. He used humor in a fantasy world as the vehicle, which probably causes many to dismiss how good he was at writing satire.
A life long travelling con-artist, Lipwig’s crimes finally catch up with him in the town of Ankh-Morpork. Going Postal is the story of arch-swindler Moist Von Lipwig and the beautiful, vengeful Adora Belle Dearheart. Thanks to Santay Tanantay for telling me about it! Apparently Pratchett is the 2nd most read author in the UK but I've never heard of him. It's the third in a series of adaptations, following Hogfather and The Colour of Magic.
Claire Foy and Charles Dance got my attention for this quirky 2-part series based on Terry Pratchett's 33rd Discworld novel.
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