It makes for a fascinating tale, and keeps one guessing what will come next. While there are static villains, others, like Lipwig and Vetinari, aren’t so easy to figure out. The characters are unique and interesting, and many have multiple layers.
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This is a welcome, novel idea in an age where boy wizards and hunky teen vamps rule the movie theaters and television screens. Yet, magic isn’t an essential element to the plot of this story specifically, and more informs the tone, then sets the pace. Going Postal is set in a fantasy world, with werewolves and wizards and trolls. But Adora holds the key, not just to Lipwig’s heart, but also to beating Gilt and running a great postal service. Lipwig realizes he must tell her the truth, but that makes winning her over even harder than before.
Adora is an attractive, but cold, woman, whose father invented the Clacks, but lost them after one of Lipwig’s schemes caused the bank to recall its loan to him. Lipwig falls for a golem-rights activist named Adora Belle Dearheart (Claire Foy, Little Dorrit). Of course, not everything is smooth sailing. He also hires an army of golems to assist, and soon, business is thriving.
Promoting Groat, and using Stanley’s obsessive knowledge of pins to invent and revolutionize stamps, Lipwig wins them over. Lipwig is aided in his task by not just Pump, but the old Junior Postman Groat (Andrew Sachs, Fawlty Towers) and young Stanley Howler (Ian Bonar, Hotel Babylon). Gilt has paid an assassin to take out the past four postmasters, and has similar plans for Lipwig. Namely, Reacher Gilt (David Suchet, Agatha Christie’s Poirot), who runs the Clacks, a message service using light signals. To make matters worse, there are those who don’t want to see the post office reopen and be restored to its former glory. Pump knows where Lipwig is at all times, and trying to escape is ineffective.
Pump (voiced by Nicholas Farrell, Torchwood) as a parole officer. To ensure that Lipwig doesn’t take off, Vetinari gives him a golem named Mr. Faced with what he has done, Lipwig has a serious crisis of faith in who he is, and must decide whether he even wants to continue with his bad habits. You see, while Lipwig thought forging bonds and such were victimless crimes, he has actually destroyed many families. Millions of undelivered letters fill the halls, and the letters on the letters have the ability to come alive, showing Lipwig the consequences of his past mistakes. What Lipwig doesn’t realize is that the post office seems to have a life of itself. Lipwig chooses the latter, assuming he can easily make some money, then escape again to further his various schemes. After a (purposely) failed hanging, Lipwig is brought before Lord Vetinari (Charles Dance, Game of Thrones, Bleak House), who gives him a choice: fall to his death, or reopen the defunct postal service. Going Postal centers on Moist von Lipwig (Richard Coyle, Coupling, The Whistleblowers), a con man who is finally caught by the law. Rowling in the UK, and that this film is a fairly faithful version, it would be advisable to watch it. Considering that Pratchett’s books sell second only to J.K. The books cover a wide variety of characters, and there aren’t filmed adaptations of most of them, so Going Postal is approached as a completely stand alone story. While Going Postal is an adaptation of the thirty-third book in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, it is not necessary to have any background going in.
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