Robbie Coltrane

Of goods predict ( Good Omens in English) is a book of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman published in 1990. He tells in a humorous way, with the Monty Python, the arrival of the end of the world to the end of the year 1999. Demons and creatures angelica dispute in this work where the Antéchrist is a child who is inopportunely exchanged with another at the hospital. This novel can thus be regarded as a parody of the scenario of the film '' the Curse '' ( The Omen in original version), written by David Seltzer in 1976.

A Film of Terry Gilliam was considered in 2005. “Gaiman says that it will believe in it only when we are out of smoking on the red carpet the day of the first. I find it very optimistic. ” Terry Pratchett.

Characters

Four riders of the Apocalypse

( to also see Four Riders of the Apocalypse (Bible) )

The four riders of the apocalypse have to carry out the “course of operation” during the apocalypse, under the supposed direction of the Antéchrist. It will be noted that biblical symbolism is taken again here rather accurately:

Pollution replaces Pestilence since this one took its retirement (by marmonnant something about the Pénicilline) and inherits its attributes, in particular the white and the crown.
Guerre takes again the red which is associated for him; the two quoted names, Scarlet and Carmine, evoke all two this color. It is provided with a sword.
Famine inherits the black, and its name, Raven Sable, reflect it: Raven means English corbel, and the Sable is designation Héraldique of the black color. During the release of the apocalypse, it is called by a balance.
the Mort is separately. It will be noticed that Pratchett took again here its practice, taken in the Annales of the Disc-World, to make speak Death in capitals. And, just like in Annals of the Disc World, Death is of male sex.

See too

the Roleplay In Nominates Satanis/Magna Veritas.

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