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A 1969 version of TMWTGG would have been interesting. I'd be curious to see what a less over-the-top version would have been like.
Peter Hunt directs OHMSS with Connery in 1967, then Hunt directs YOLT closed to the novel in 1969. Connery would have probably stayed on his they were switched. Now do they still bring in Connery one more time for DAF in 71?
Maybe when Renard said "there's no point in living if you can't feel alive" he didn't think Elektra would start saying it herself??? Also maybe Renard didn't think Bond would survive the solo bomb he planted after he went up the elevator
Did EON have really no possesse the right of utIlising Blofeld and SPECTRE before 2013. Like if there is a justice decision there are be taken giving cleary the right of these to two thing (and not just the cinematic right of Thunderball) to the McClory camp. Or did EON decide, by choice and no by a former justice decision, to not use Blofeld and SPECTRE by fearing the McClory camp can dare pursued them in justice, claiming they have the right of Blofeld and SPECTRE (cause they have the cinematic right of Thunderball), and eventually win the case, so that mean EON take no risk to use them even if the McClory camp can also lose the (potential) case ?
So did EON really legally CAN'T or just didn't WANT to use Blofeld of SPECTRE ?
This should answer your question...I hope.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/11/16/mgm-danjaq-settle-james-bond-rights-dispute-with-mcclory-estate
"With a director finally secured, the next hurdle was finishing the script, which had gone through several revisions by numerous writers. The initial villain of the film was Ernst Stavro Blofeld; however Kevin McClory, who owned the film rights to Thunderball forced an injunction on Eon Productions against using the character of Blofeld, or his international criminal organisation, SPECTRE, which delayed production of the film further. The villain was later changed from Blofeld to Stromberg so that the injunction would not interfere with the production."
So did I - "draught" makes no sense, and I also checked some transcribed online script that also mentions it, but it was likely typed up using the film's subtitles, so who knows. Maybe it's just an error in the subtitle department.
So that is what Bond says and that is how the British spell it.
The information that he posted is fact, though, whether it came from Wikipedia or not. Stromberg was an original creation, yet he's fairly similar to Blofeld through several traits/his scheme (no doubt due to the earlier script that had hoped to utilize ESB).
And you can read it here, note 53: https://books.google.es/books?id=p8XZCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT369&lpg=PT369&dq=memoirs+libel+lawyer+spy+who&source=bl&ots=6UpxcpCAg6&sig=w7Iz3BqcMV4onBFuNuzl5HXzXiU&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwicj8n12bPSAhUIbBoKHXF_CsMQ6AEINzAE#v=onepage&q=memoirs libel lawyer spy who&f=false
Great book, by the way...
No its not...a draft means 'windy' and a draught is a measure of drink.....Bond says "shut the door Alec ,there's a 'draft..
Google says that "draught" is the British variant of "draft."
Then Google is wrong..
Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary must also be wrong too then. You're the only one who's right! ;)
But you're right, it's also a drink measurement...or an act of drinking...or a way of storing drink...many things in fact!
I'm chairman of my national Scrabble Association, have represented the UK three times at the World Scrabble Championship and I won a series of Countdown word-based quiz show.
Draught is the correct British English spelling of what Bond says here, relating to a cold breeze.
Google and everyone else on this thread is right. @barryt007 is wrong.