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Or so have I heard.
I would steer clear of YOLT at this point, though I know a lot of people are calling for it. There's no point in killing off Blofeld after you've just introduced him, albeit ineptly. If they must bring Blofeld back then redo TB as next step before going OHMSS or YOLT.
MR is the other holy grail of a book (like CR), but having just spent so much time in London with the last two, I would also avoid for the moment since the book is England based.
DAF is Bond against the mob in America which is actually an interesting idea and good book, though a lesser one. Still, talking about in terms of CR redo it could be good too.
TSWLM is actually a good book but you have to take it on its terms and set your expectations from the outset. It follows a woman, her past, her present, and then Bond is brought in at the last third. Like the short stories though it could be developed out into something good or more conventional. I like the characters enough. If Quentin Tarantino got his hands on it I'm sure he could make it a great faithful pulp film, though not to everyone's taste. Certainly not EON's.
I'm also very intrigued by a modern take on FRWL.
I don't think its that difficult once you sit down and put your thinking cap on. It's just a question of updating the formula and finding a hook which works in the modern day. The other major pitfall is ending up with something desperate to seem contemporary, in the case of QoS.
Boy, this man is really living Terence Young's lifestyle :-). I love his taste of good wines and expensive estates :-P
Why it's relevant regardless is beyond me...
My intention isn't always to.....post relevant things ;-).
Silly business to be getting up to on a forum then, I'd say.
Sony as a film studio is floundering, and has a real bad history of making some pretty piss poor decisions - which doesn't surprise me that they (probably HAD to) strike a deal with Wanda in order to help balance their check book... they have lost so much money on films over the past 2-3 years that it's not even funny - plus the man who took over for the ousted Amy Pascal, was the same one who was screwing things up over at 20th Century Fox - and had to be removed from his position there.. how he got the same gig at Sony is beyond comprehension - must be a good knob polisher...... if i were EON/MGM, i would not even entertain the notion of re-uping with Sony - too much baggage.
doubtful.. ever look at the card that Bond handed to Greene's guard?.. the name says R. Sterling - the same cover name used in TSWLM.
Or some Cajun-spiced characters. If we get a Piri Piri plot we'll be laughing.
Any chance of someone spit roasting @IGUANNA, either slowl on a BBQ or with two burly sailors. I'm not that fussed which.
Roger Moore did look like Robert Sterling.
I doubt heavily that it was an accident, but those scenes in QoS flow so natural in the film that the repetitiveness seems accidental. Whereas some other films give the impression of shoving a sign the size of the screen into the audiences face, saying, "attention, this is a reference!!"
Originality is many times mixed up with effectiveness.
I suspect he could handle two sailors, so BBQ it has to be, mate.
I don't recall that. I remember he said he liked the 'early' films and iirc said he 'loved' GF. I got the impression anything post 60's he had quite a lot of disdain for.
Here's what I've found, after doing some snooping.
From an interview with Forster around the release of QoS:
Forster seems to have at least seen TSWLM as he's able to pull on the memory of his love for the Lotus easily, but at another time and place he also said, “I’ve never seen a Bond film set in a desert,” when he was asked about the locations used in QoS.
My guess is he maybe saw TSWLM as a boy (he even mentions seeing it when he was younger) but only certain bits of the film stuck with him beyond that. The SWLM homages may not have come from him then and instead from people on EON's side, though I think the GF one with Fields has him written all over it, as his love for the film is well-known.
That would make sense because the SWLM references have no special attention drawn to them. As if they weren't consciously being deployed as references at all. They're simply there while the rest of the film keeps progressing around them. There's no loud winking, they're just there for the hardcore fans to subtly pick up on and smile wryly over. I'm thinking in particular of the R. Sterling Easter egg and the tie grab before falling. I don't even count the desert material as a reference—that's simply what the story called for!—unless we're going to call it a GoldenEye reference whenever a character is seen holding a club sandwich from here on out. "That's it, folks, no more club sandwiches! Can't let the audiences mistakenly think we're making GoldenEye references!"
I've actually always liked the Goldfinger reference in QOS as well because a) there wasn't any undue attention drawn toward it (it served a purpose in the story and was allowed to breathe and function as its own scene), and b) it actually did something clever beyond being a reference for reference's sake: with oil commonly referred to as black gold.
I really don't mind references in my 21st century Bond films. I just prefer they be handled the QOS way: intelligently, artistically, subtly, sparingly. Or SASI if you want to rearrange those around. EON needs to get sassy with their references, that's all I'm saying.
I'm curious. Where is the club sandwich scene in GE?