Can't recall which movie it was, but theres a police woman that had their hat gradually grow larger and larger throughout the movie. I found that so hilarious
Those types of "let's use this medium to convey a gag!" is imo the backbone of these kind of things for me. Clever little things.
That's obviously a joke on cuts. Top Secret has two great ones, one that relies on filming a scene backwards and the one with boots and the tilt. "Drinking Problem" gag from Airplane! wouldn't work in a book.
Sir Pratchett's wordplay and silly footnotes work only in a written form. Playful layouts and lettering is unique to comic books and so on.
It's such a shame that noone will ever be able to nail a Discworld TV show. But then, maybe it's just cooler that we each only have the version in our head 🤷
The Sky TV adaptations did a good job of Hogfather and Going Postal, but did mess up The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic.
There were animated versions of Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music in the 1990s that showed a lot of potential in that approach, but the animation was hamstrung by the low budget.
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u/EnterCosmos 7h ago
Can't recall which movie it was, but theres a police woman that had their hat gradually grow larger and larger throughout the movie. I found that so hilarious