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This is simply as true as it gets!
No one's disputing otherwise.
0Brady, where did they reference this? I just don't recall it.
Oh here we go again... ladies and gentlemen, @Matt_Helm.
Ian Fleming is the greatest author of all time IMO. NUMEROUS spy writers and writers in general have credited Bond and Fleming as an influence. The films would not exist without Fleming and the Dalton and Craig eras, which have produced four of the best films in the series, can be summed up as simply as "back to the books."
So please. To quote Stringer Bell, "Take that shit somewhere else!"
That is some statement.
This statement actually says it all.
Quite. Amazing how some people forget this elementary point.
When Bond is talking to Severine at the Casino/Bar and says, "I know when a woman is afraid and pretending not to be."
Who the hell are you agreeing with?
That's pretty subtle and not in any explicit way referencing Vesper. Bond could be talking about anyone, or no one at all - it could be showing simply that Bond has a keen sense for reading women. SF seemed to me pretty far removed from the CR-QOS story arc (though maybe I need to see it again to pick up on something I missed???)
I find it odd to use this as an argument against DAF..."at least SF references this," when the reference in question seems so ambiguous and a projected interpretation . The DAF PTS does make it explicitly clear that Bond is hunting down Blofeld.
DAF and OHMSS were too completely different films. Bottom line is Lazenby was not coming back, by his OWN admission. Bond films never continued a linear story arc across films, though there are references and appearances or mentionings of re-occuring characters (Dr. No, Spectre, Blofeld). So from a production stand-point, it doesn't make sense to shoe-horn in a new actor to continue the same story and tone set by OHMSS and Lazenby's Bond. It would be odd to have a different face exacting revenge. DAF's very direct task, was to keep the tradition set by the first 5 films going, Bond vs. villain in a fantastical adventure. The more it could remove itself from the revenge angle, given the circumstances, the better.
Sorry to confuse you. What I meant was,that YOUR statement tells everything I need to know about you knowledge of literature and your ability to judge it. Hope this makes things clear!
Sorry my tastes don't agree with yours? I have never in my life had a better reading experience than when I first read From Russia, with Love. At least I'm not the type who trashes Skyfall - and now, apparently, the man responsible for the entire Bond series - with arguments that are beyond comprehension.
I realize that, but if they can recast Bond, they can recast Irma "Freaking" Bunt.
Actually, since Ian had been trying to get Bond on the big screen long before his path ever crossed with the likes of Cubby and Harry, I'd say he was more than instrumental all by himself in fighting to get Bond on the big screen. Without Ian's determination to take his creation to the silver screen, who knows if Bond would have ever been such an enduring cinematic icon as we know him to be today.
Why is that unbelievable? Fleming is one of my top favorites too, with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle taking the top spot. Both men had absolutely brilliant syntax and created two of the most unforgettable characters we know today. You would have to travel long and far to find someone who hasn't heard of either Sherlock Holmes or James Bond. Both men did more with just one character than some writers do over an entire career, and I don't see how it is "puzzling" and "indefensible" to call them the greatest authors ever when they have been so influential; Fleming for decades now, and Doyle for over a century. It's @StirredNotShaken's opinion, and he isn't proclaiming it as an absolute fact. Who would you approve of him to fawn over? Shakespeare? Tolstoy? Dickens? A huge portion of people that love to read have a favorite author, so if they don't choose one of the so-called "masters of writing" like the men above seem to be, does that make their opinion balderdash? If Fleming's work (which is in fact brilliant) brought out feelings of joy not experienced elsewhere in the literary world for @StirredNotShaken, much like Doyle's writing does for me, why shouldn't he be allowed to make such a statement?
That's the one, thanks @doubleoego. It was a great way of referencing that Bond still thinks about Vesper (I mean, who else would he be talking about?) without dragging him back to the state he was at during QoS. There are also other references to the past films, but they are only my subjective thoughts, namely the DB5 appearing again which I like to think is the same one Bond wins in CR. That's just me though.
Yes, but note the "IMO" added to the end of that statement.
I saw that. :)>-
This isn't "Fleming's not that great," he is great, but he's nowhere near the greatest author of all time. And the statement about EON isn't completely wrong, either.
Who would you suggest, then?
Any of the people I mentioned up the page. Shakespeare stands out. I've sadly never read Dostoevsky, but he's apparently excellent. James Joyce is incomprehensible, but literary critics adore him. In terms of ancient authors, it's tough to get around Homer and Virgil. But we could perhaps make another thread on classic literature, rather than bog down a discussion about Bond films with it.
And why are those choices any more worthy than Ian?
I'm basically trying to make a point here about how each of us have our favorite authors, who may also be those we think are the best ever. I don't think we could ever narrow such a thing down realistically and claim one person as the best anything, much less best writer. It's a subjective thing, any everybody is entitled to have a say. I don't mean to single you out or anything here either, and I'm sorry for helping to drive this thread further off topic. I do much prefer discussing this kind of thing though, as opposed to racism and the sins of the white man.
I prefer this to racism too, but I'll go make a thread on great authors so we can not hijack this thread.
Tonto: "What you mean 'WE', white man?"
no no no. It made sense as to why the gunbarrel wasn't in the beginning for CR, QOS, SF, but now they have no more excuses to not have it in the beginning for Bond 24