Netflix's The Sandman - Exclusive "Death" Clip (2022) Tom Sturridge, Kirby Howell-Baptiste 

At least you read the comics. Many people jump of bandwagons to say silly things when not even knowing the thing they talk about

Death is the kindest and most gentle in the comics

@@DagothUrAmaranth Hate is a great motivator to feel included.

Death, by Neil Gaiman, is exactly the kind of person you would want to see when you discover you are dead.

Yup. They're forgetting that Neil was a close friend and collaborator with Sir Terry. This Death is clearly heavily inspired by Discworld Death; and Neil also wrote 'American Gods' which featured an almost identical scene between an elderly woman who took a fatal fall and Anubis. He really likes this trope.

She used to be, if you read the story were dream is at the party with the stars that desire put on (back when dream and desire liked eachother) when death shows up the whole party goes quiet. It's a great scene.

Gaiman's Death is my second favorite anthropomorphic Death. First place goes to Pratchett's DEATH.

The thing about death is she was depicted in the comics as a pale goth chick. Here, her character was ticked for the sake of diversity just for the sake of "modern sensibilities".

@@higheyrie6176 They casted the best actress for the role. Merit over race, remember? Stay mad.

@@higheyrie6176 Evidence that you didn't read the comics but whatever.

And it’s never enough

If they do the part with the baby dying that will be all anyone can talk about the next day, even if the Death actress is as flat and boring as she is in this clip.

For what you did to me

No more no less

@@Rorysammy you’re absolutely right , she should have entered the room doing the Charleston that would livened things up

And the music too, was just so fitting, beautiful and inspiring for the scenes...

Without a doubt this episode focus on Death and the 100 year visit to Hob Gadling was easily the best of the series. Such a well done episode 🙂

You should try Meet Joe Black

Kirby is absolutely perfect for this role. This episode had me sobbing. So beautiful.

🫂

OMG Yes! Ten graphic novels, each with multiple stories, there's no way one movie would work.

Gaiman hated all the movie adaptations that were pitched. He said they writers tried to make him into a superhero.

can you imagine the breakneck pace of a movie?

🔥❤️👍

Well said.

Death note

Well said!

No, they did not make it. Already that shitty background sentimental music completely destroys it; standard cliché death scene blimblim. So wrong here in the context of the comic.

Fair, but 24/7 (The diner) will be it for me.

@@falkenherz1708 you didn’t even watch the episode yet calm down

Miles Morales death 🤣

To quote a later issue: "Dear sweet merciful Death, you've come to make it all stop?"

She is lovely.♡

Except she was not the death gaiman had illustrated and decades of fans have have identified. Now go read the comic, poser.

@@pattif192 I agree, she's so beautiful

Absolutely agree. I've read the series something like 5 times and she does an amazing job of capturing Death's boundless positivity. It's a quieter interpretation than the original--less goth-punk-rocker chick. But still solid.

That was gawddamn spectacular short animation

Between Gaiman's interpretation and Pratchett's, one can only hope that if there is an entity that represents the concept that it's as nice as either one of them...

Too bad the woman they chose looks nothing like her..

@@willpower8061 Given that Death can look however the hell she likes, I'm less concerned with that particular fact and more with whether or not they got the core of her character...

@@willpower8061 oh no, the author helped pick someone he thought was a great fit for his anthromorphic version of something we all go through. If you read the books you’d realize how much oh resembled Morpheus, you’d rather die than accept change and adapt to modern times lol

Mmm

Seriously? have you ever read the book, that looks NOTHING like Death.

@@willpower8061 Doesn't LOOK like the comic's Death, but seems to embody Death's significant character traits. How lucky are we!?

@@willpower8061 Doesn't "Look" like death. You do realize as one of The Endless, Death can look like whatever she/it wants right?

@@alexanderiel6950 you do realize that her appearance described by DC: A young, attractive, slim woman of average height in her early to mid 20's. She has very pale skin, dark eyes, long jet-black hair that she wears in a variety of styles and has an Eye of Horus painted under one of her eyes. Did she get a tan???

Like in a comic or "real life"

Netflix bastardized capeshit brings you "to tears"? Truly expanding on the whole "soulless Bugman" question

@@thegadflygang5381 The only one souless here is you.

Yea except for the part where she looks nothing like death

Nailed the coffin you mean, Normie. Now go read the comics, you effin poser!

No

Poser. Now go read the comic.

@@warrior_of_liberation cry again 😅

@@samcalven12 Nope.

@@warrior_of_liberation stay mad hahaha

There is no way you are serious.

@@Rorysammy I’m always serious.

@@Rorysammy get over it.

Neil has had a major hand in this series, so it will be faithful to the stories.

@@hokutoulrik7345 this is true, but you never know, so I’m glad my cynicism was unwarranted.

No it doesn't

@@dmitriimekh6288 Yes it does

@@vittorio-vic-giammona2604 Ti trovo anche qua, mi fa piacere

@@dmitriimekh6288 it absolutely does

Reminds me of that scene from "Meet Joe Black" with Brad Pitt.

Seriously

Ken

Because it’s sad when we die. And it’s sadder you can see an immortal show compassion because you’d think they have lived beyond that

Right there with you

It's a very touching scene. 😊

Not exactly verbatim, but close enough that I'm more than hyped from what we've seen so far o/

@@Shaltinanwenor What's stopping it from being verbatim?

@@himum3429 In the comics he looked different, the house was more run down, and he talked a bit more about his life. But they did it well.

@@himum3429 In the comics Death did not give him a change to say the prayer before he died. He just died on the couch while mouthing his prayer, his words becoming softer and almost like a whisper till he died and stood next to his own corpse, looking at himself. He also asked, after saying that his father said that saying the prayer would guarantee one's place in heaven, "What now?" "Now is when you find out Harry" Death answered It's a subtle but a multilayered exchange. Harry is both asking what happens now since he is dead and if it is true that the prayer grants you a place in heaven. Death answers that he will now find out. But by changing these few lines, adding Harry saying "So i'm dead. Now what?" It simplifies the exchange since the question does not immediately follow after him saying that the prayer should grant you a place in heaven.

@@himum3429 she's black, enough to ruin the character

But standing in the waiting line of Death is getting more and more frightening, the nearer you are to the front of the line. - Gaia

For me 2

Completely disagree.

She didn't get that until later in the comics.

His performances always are 😉💚

@@janetfayard672 agreed, one of my favourite actors. It was criminal he didn’t get an Oscar for Split.

@@nadsham3388 right?!

Agreed

Just say what u mean lmao

Unique? isnt literally every death is either a skeleton or a white angel?

@@felisha209 In the comics she looks etherial and otherworldly. This lady looks like the cashier at 7-11.

.....did u forget the part where dream become a black man infront of nada? Endless have no true form, they literally have a scene trying to explain it to u

Not really. In the books, he’s much older looking by at least 10 years

@@midnightcat6116 Plus at one point he's a cat

There are a few spinoffs of the source material comics that deal with exactly that.

@@coreyc756 Awesome, i’ll have to check it out. Thanks

She is still gothic. Black gothics exists. Accept.

@@arthursouza9641 Black goths exist, but that's not much of a goth look in this clip, that's just wearing black. No leather jacket? Lace gloves?

@@arthursouza9641 She's wearing a black cami, black jeans, and an ank; what about that says gothic to you?

@@shootingcomet082 Umm... All of it?

@@arthursouza9641 yeah but the original character is white

She's not supposed to be all-knowing, though she did recognise the piece so you'd assume she'd know it was unfinished, unless maybe it wasn't and there's more that she's heard? Not unfinished, just never fully written down, the last piece the composer finished before she let herself in.

@@wendyheatherwood Dream has all works of literature in his library, including both written and unwritten music, right? So it could be possible that she's heard the completed version of this particular music piece even if the composer never managed to finish it during their lifetime.

Jenna Coleman would be perfect Death, despite also being bit too old for the part.

No