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  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Thanks, @Agent_99.

    In other news..

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  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    Finished FRWL. Another excellent novel! What an ending! Simply another terrific adventure. Better than the film by a bit, but still I give big props to the film for being so faithful - and also wrapping up Kronsteen. But overall, the book is still the richer experience. The characters are even better, and the situations more intense. Though I love the fight in the train in the film, the confrontation between Bond and Grant in the novel is at least as awesome.

    Novel Ranking:
    1. Moonraker
    2. Live and Let Die
    3. From Russia with Love
    4. Casino Royale
    5. Diamonds Are Forever
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    What a gorgeous beast, @PropertyOfALady! Here's an upcoming project of mine:

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    (Check out the catalogue number, bottom left. They know.)
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Ah, very nice, @Agent_99. That little MG didn't come that way. It was originally green, but I Photoshopped it to match Derek's MG as described by Viv in The Spy Who Loved Me.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    Excellent work! I'll be looking for battleship grey model paint to do some real-life Photoshopping.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Nice! I take it you like cars?
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    I'm not all that into cars (I'm more an aircraft person), although I find most vehicles interesting enough to enjoy in museums etc. I happened to spot the model kit in the window of a charity shop and couldn't resist!
  • BeatlesSansEarmuffsBeatlesSansEarmuffs
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    Agent_99 wrote: »
    Revelator wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    But I find women taste like chicken.

    You're thinking of alligators. Humans taste like pork.

    Unless they're Russian programmers. Then they taste like strawberries.

    I'm sorry, and I know it's off topic, but I can't resist.


    You want to talk about strawberries? Bogie could tell you a thing or two about strawberries...


    (Sorry, WAY off topic -- but I do recommend "The Caine Mutiny" as one of the few films in which Humphrey Bogart is actually playing a character rather than just playing Bogie... and I can't hear the word "strawberries" without thinking of Captain Queeg.)

    And as far as the Viv solo material in TSWLM is concerned, prior to her involvement at the motel... try reading all of her failed beaus as Ian Fleming stand-ins. I see the "prequel" material in "Spy" as Fleming's veiled apology to past lovers for having been such a cad in his early life. Per the Fleming biography by Andrew Lycett, the theater box incident is an absolute lift from a moment out of Fleming's own experiences.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Agent_99 wrote: »
    I'm not all that into cars (I'm more an aircraft person), although I find most vehicles interesting enough to enjoy in museums etc. I happened to spot the model kit in the window of a charity shop and couldn't resist!

    You're more of a motorbike kind of gal?
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    BeatlesSansEarmuffs wrote: »
    (Sorry, WAY off topic -- but I do recommend "The Caine Mutiny" as one of the few films in which Humphrey Bogart is actually playing a character rather than just playing Bogie... and I can't hear the word "strawberries" without thinking of Captain Queeg.)

    I'm a big Bogart fan but somehow haven't seen this one. I will make it a priority!
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    You're more of a motorbike kind of gal?

    I do like a bike!
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I'm still working my way through OHMSS - not halfway through but I just finished another chapter, Bond's sit down with Marc-Ange.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    Had to take a break after FRWL. Busy week.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    I am .
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    I am .

    Up to TSWLM yet?
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Sounds like @Creasy47 and I are in the same place.

    Very slow work day, so I'm plowing my way through. I hope to have it finished by the end of this weekend at the latest.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Like I said in a text to you, from here on in it is basically one continuous story continuing through YOLT and into TMWTGG.

    That's the aspect I'm most excited for, reaching the finale of the books as a whole and getting to experience one singular storyline, of sorts. I always love how the books utilize slight callbacks at times (the mentioning of the coins from LALD, bringing up Operation Thunderball a few times, etc.)
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Bogart probably gives his best performance in THE CAINE MUTINY.

    In a Lonely Place is also a contender.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Agent_99 wrote: »
    BeatlesSansEarmuffs wrote: »
    (Sorry, WAY off topic -- but I do recommend "The Caine Mutiny" as one of the few films in which Humphrey Bogart is actually playing a character rather than just playing Bogie... and I can't hear the word "strawberries" without thinking of Captain Queeg.)

    I'm a big Bogart fan but somehow haven't seen this one. I will make it a priority!
    THE CAINE MUTINY is essential, it will be great to hear your thoughts on it @Agent_99.

  • RevelatorRevelator
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    That's the one where he's the writer?

    Yes, the cynical screenwriter with violent tendencies.

  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    ^ Funnily enough, @Birdleson, I just bought myself the BluRay of The Maltese Falcon (1941) today for £10.

    I read the novel years ago when I was doing my 'A' Levels but I've not yet seen the film version.
  • DoctorNoDoctorNo USA-Maryland
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    I love All Through the Night. I always watch it after watching Casablanca. There’s all those great black and white WWII movies I end up watching in a group, The Mortal Storm, To Be or Not to Be, Destination Tokyo, Edge of Darkness, Sahara...

    I’m surprised you left off the African Queen. I like Sabrina but always though Bogart wasn’t right for it with Audrey Hepburn and seemed uncomfortable. William Holden is great in it though.
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    I would also recommend Beat the Devil (1953), a kooky, off-beat parody of international caper films, directed by John Huston, scripted by Truman Capote, and featuring a jawdropping cast: Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre and Bernard Lee. It's a love it or hate it type of movie, and I'm obviously in the first camp.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    That's a great one, wild and funny. Beat the Devil.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    I have about 40 minutes left of TSWLM.
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    To me that one looked great on paper (for all of the reasons you gave), but when I finally watched it (about 20 years ago), I was underwhelmed. Maybe it's time to give it another chance.

    You might enjoy the restored, original version more. Shortly after its release the film was re-edited and given an extensive voiceover, and that was the only version in circulation (usually in crummy public domain copies) until 2016, when the film was restored. This year it was released on Blu-Ray by Twilight Time.
  • BeatlesSansEarmuffsBeatlesSansEarmuffs
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    It's also interesting for me to juxtapose films w/ novels that stay reasonably close together for awhile, only to veer wildly away like DAF, LALD and YOLT. When the movie Bond "jumps the shark" he's usually right there in the water with it!
  • BeatlesSansEarmuffsBeatlesSansEarmuffs
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    BeatlesSansEarmuffs wrote: »
    It's also interesting for me to juxtapose films w/ novels that stay reasonably close together for awhile, only to veer wildly away like DAF, LALD and YOLT. When the movie Bond "jumps the shark" he's usually right there in the water with it!

    Those semi-faithful adaptations are definitely both interesting and frustrating. With TMWTGG the only things that carry over are the name Scaramanga, some type of Golden Gun, his origin story (told partly to Bond by M, then by Sacraqmanga himself) and pieces of dialogue between Bond and Goodnight when they are out to dinner.

    Octopussy's the same: she tells Bond about her father, referencing SOME of the Fleming short story -- and even that fraction of Fleming is enough to get the Maud Adams character fall in love with Roger Moore's 007. That plus most of the "Property of a Lady" short story are enough to get the scriptwriters' engines moving...
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    At least there are still big sections throughout the novels/short stories that haven't been utilized that could still make it in some day. I'm semi-hopeful about it.
  • BeatlesSansEarmuffsBeatlesSansEarmuffs
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    Any Bond movie is going to be better with Fleming material than without it. The only question is fitting the remaining morsels onto a solid framework.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    It was Goldfinger that made Herschel Saltzman acquire the movie rights.
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