Moving Pictures

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This one has uncountable references to classic Hollywood movies and anecdotes.

— Terry actually meant for Gaspode to die at the end of the book, but his editors/beta-readers made him reconsider.

— People have noticed that the two femmes fatale of this novel are called Ginger and Ruby, both names signifying a red colour. Terry Pratchett says that he did not intend this as a reference to Gone with the Wind’s Scarlett.

— Instead, Ruby got her name because like all trolls she needed a mineral name. Ginger got her name because Terry wanted to use the Fred Astaire quote (see a few annotations further down) about her partner, and so Ginger was an obvious choice for the leading lady’s name.