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Love it! :)) I have not read Faulk's novel? So cannot really offer a valid point other than I am sure that not all fans of the continuation novels would have liked his take on the character?
What did he say was wrong with FRWL? Sebastian Faulks is getting dangerously closer to become the next Michael Apted in my book, a self-absorbed idiot who has a superficial knowledge of Bond.
One of Harris's flaws as Moneypenny I think was that she was too pretty for the role. I am sure she won't mind me saying this.
Her flaw was that she didn't live up to expectations and was outperformed by pretty much every other actor in the movie. I hope and pray she settles into it with B24, preferably from behind a desk.
I didn't like the fact that she was a former field agent. One of the flaws of SF I think. That said, she played her role very well nevertheless.
As for Faulks, I've read a number of his books which I thoroughly enjoyed. He is a fantastic writer but DMC is utterly disappointing. It felt like very little effort was put into it at all.
Ironic how when Lois Maxwell played Miss Moneypenny she was debarred around the time of DAF to go off on a field mission of her own or maybe even be killed off on a field mission. It seems that the creative team behind Skyfall have rather changed tack on this and given a field agent background to a desk agent character in the new Moneypenny. How things change over time...
Indeed. Faulks is a twit when it comes to Bond. He should put up or shut up in the famous words of John Major in the 1995 leadership contest.
Would you mind elaborating on this? Don't remember this.
I'd have to get back to you after I have a look through my books. I think Maxwell suggested she become the female M at the time of AVTAK too, though this only occurred with Judi Dench in GE some ten years later. I think that Maxwell said that Moneypenny was going to fly away on a mission and be missing presumed dead - there may have been something about a microdot too. It could just be my fevered imagination, but there's something there that could benefit from a bit more research certainly.
Lycett is spot on, Faulks is just plain wrong on this one.
He is not the only person to complain about Moneypenny in Skyfall
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/9862492/Skyfall-weakened-by-its-downtrodden-women.html
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100204072/skyfall-failed-at-the-oscars-because-it-is-ridiculous-and-overhyped-and-its-james-bond-is-a-weary-anachronism/
I lost it when he complained that M is a poor shot. Not all spies are operatives, or good shoters, or even have army backgrounds and at her age, do we expect that she should be Dirty Harry in a skirt?
The feministas, oh so predictably, will bitch when every single woman isn't portrayed as Superwoman. They are silly twits.
Well, she was a rookie field agent - I thought that was the point, no? One of the reasons she was removed from the active list and demoted to the desk job. Again, it was an origin story for a well-known Bond universe character.
Although COLD was actually written by John Gardner - it was his last Bond novel.
Sarcasm or truth there, @Sandy? You can't mean it!
Sarcasm @Dragonpol. I hated DMC with every pore of my being. I will never forgive the fact that he made Bond a boring old man :-w and that was just not nice.
Yes, sorry. I misread what you wrote there. I agree. Sorry to come across as a bit thick there!
You are of course quite right. Still a pile of crap though ;-)
I can't even remember the one Benson novel I've read. How bad is that!!
Not at all, my comment was not so clear. It's just that DMC drives me insane!
I'm going to be doing a blog review series of the 1990s John Gardner Bond novels - it may interest you, or maybe not...
Anyway, I've got a few new things to say in this review series even if John Gardner's works may not be every Bond fan's cup of tea.
It's unreadable, I find. Give me Gardner and Benson any day.
I'm sure it's perfectly fine, @Perdogg. I just don't see your beef with the new GF, TSWLM and TLD, that's all!
I thought it was kinda weak. QOS was way better IMO.
Really?
Severine though is a slave, who was passed from one owner to another ie from the Triad to Silva.
So Faulks is raising a fair point and he's not the only one to have raised it. I don't believe there is a parallel with any of Fleming's women, neither Honey nor Tiffany.
This doesn't mean the whole situation with Bond and Severine is necessarily "wrong" or even badly conceived, but it shouldn't be a schock when reviewers, critics, movie-goers voice complaints or find the scenario unsettling.
Sex slavery is a big issue these days. It goes on right under our noses (strippers/prostitues) in major western metropolises including the big burb that I live in.
The filmmakers contrived this unique scenario all on their own.
It's not a borrow from a Fleming precedent.