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Wasn't she naked in this scene?
Kissy usually dove naked, but she dressed up when Bond visited:
(Excerpt from chapter 14)
The castle is definitely built next to the water. Bond begins to climb the castle's wall directly from the water. I love this part of the book.
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/you-only-live-twice.html
Yes, in the YOLT novel Blofeld's Castle of Death was built near the sea. You may recall that when the production team for the film version of YOLT went on a recce of locations by helicopter in Japan in 1966 they couldn't find any castles built near the sea. This was because the Japanese never built castles close to the sea due to the tsunami risk. From there the creative team decided to look for somewhere else and decided upon a hollowed-out volcano as Blofeld's base of operations instead.
Yeh, I've probably allowed my knowledge if that to interfere with my memory
With Bond that's very easy given the indelible image of the hugely successful films. It's very easy to get the film and the novel mixed up, even on small points of difference. I think it happens to us all to be honest. It's all part of the complexity of this fascinating subject of Bondology.
If I was a billionaire I would commission Fay Dalton to produce graphic novels (not just illustrated editions) of every Fleming.
Those are beautiful images. Thanks for sharing, @Revelator. The bottom one is the introspective part in the novel where he thinks about the bees. That's beautifully realised there. I really love that part. I also echo your sentiments about getting Fay Dalton to produce graphic novels of every Fleming book. That would be great.
https://archivo007.com/nuevo-libro-bond-en-la-coleccion-de-folio-society/
Imagine if the film version of Diamonds are Forever had started like that with George Lazenby.
I wish.
Oh, I do, constantly.
YOLT is I think the most thought-provoking book in the series. I was so looking forward to the garden of death.
You know, with de-aging and a proper build stuntman, they could bring George Lazenby back to pick up where he left off ! As anyone who has read my postings before would know, I, for one, would be quite entertained by varying Bond productions all coming out. Young Bond in period. "Regular" Bond films set in the present day. George Lazenby in a de-aged production set in 1969 and go from there, with a CGI Telly Savalas Blofeld and a CGI Irma Bunt. (Come on -- actors who passed and now know all the mysteries appeared in Star Wars. It could only work better now, assuming some progress.) Miss Moneypenny stories -- sorry, but no, I've not read the books yet and have but two of the three. Post-Fleming books by all the various authors made into films, and feel free to improve upon the stories. I see Young Bond as a set of streaming long-form TV productions, and the same for some, if not all, the post-Fleming authors' books and the Miss Moneypenny books. Does Per Fine Ounce exist anywhere ? We could have Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender and others all play the part. We could have some of the quite-young actors play the part in the latter-and-more-grown Young Bond stories, particularly if more will be written, taking Bond from teen years into WWII and onward.