professor poopsnuggles: Terry Pratchett

Writer Terry Pratchett has recently left us. He was a fantasy, science-fiction, and ironical writer. We have not discussed him in class for he is a writer that teachers leave for Secondary students. Here you can visit his web, here you can read the Wikipedia article, but it´s not necessary. What we are going to do is watch a movie, HOGFATHER, based on his book from the DISCWORLD series. Look here

This story is a strange version of Christmas seen through Pratchett´s strange, humorous, and fantastical eyes. It all happens in Discworld, a world that is flat, round (like a disk) and that floats around the Universe standing on four elephants, four elephants that stand on a gigantic turtle. Weird?

In Discworld a mysterious ghostly figure (one of the Universe Auditors) has hired the services of the professional Guild of Murderers.
And what is it this figure wants from these murderers? He wants Hogfather dead!
And who is Hogfather? A pig version of Santaclaus!
Weird?

Because it is Christmas Eve, and Santa... (sorry, I got the names wrong) and Hogfather must fly on his hog-sleigh to give out the presents.
If you think all this sounds wonderful and weird, well, you have seen nothing yet... because Hogfather suffers a natural death before Tea-Time, a cruel psychopathic (completely crazy) murderer, manages to kill him. And hooded Death himself (yes, Death, the character) decides to substitute Hogfather in his task of giving the presents to all the children.

Will Death manage to fulfill his new task on time?
Will Tea-Time kill Death?
Will the Tooth-fairy escape alive?
Will Death´s granddaughter fight Tea-Time, and set the World of Fantasy free again?