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I haven’t read the Gardner novels, but it’s my understanding that AVTAK lifted the horse race sequence with Bond being attacked by jockeys.
More seriously, the end credits for SP suggest a connection to Colonel Sun. With the obvious notion that the torture scene is the thing.
https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/articles/closing-credits-spectre
I've read this before and wonder how factual it is. Knowledgable no doubt, but ultra vast knowledge? These guys are creating original scripts. Other than the basic characters, I'm not seeing a lot of Fleming in their original scripts. Which obviously leads on to Nolan. Is he blessed with ultra-vast knowledge?
There's DAD which is supposed to be Moonraker, with a villain who changed identity, became a mysterious "foreign" British businessman. And the previously named Gala Brand is frosty to Bond (pun intended), and acts as his PA almost.
NTTD kind of just rips off a bit of YOLT with the rest; the child, the poison garden, the villain who wants to kill people for unclear reasons (or sadism)
QOS also does have some FYEO with the Montes-Medrano subplot as well
Logic (ie Process of Elimination) agrees. Some bad blood, some relative under-performers, some have aged out, some are now considered unacceptable.
No if Sam Mendes needs money.
Oh yeah, I've never seen that either. I wonder what the deal is there? Did they use a bit of unused Cigar Girl dialogue or something? Or did she let Barbara sleep on her couch while they were shooting in Italy? :D
This site has a good guess at it:
"The reason that actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta is mentioned in the credits is probably that she participated in a charity auction for SPECTRE, and possibily did other promotional work in Italy for the film. The main prize of the auction that benefiited the largest breast-cancer organisation in the USA, was a tour of the SPECTRE set in Rome, accompanied by Maria Grazia Cucinotta, and a meet and greet with Daniel Craig."
There's always a liberal sprinkling of Fleming in their scripts. I'm kind of not sure how you wouldn't spot that the beginning of SF is taken from YOLT, for example. Compared with the likes of GE or TND etc. where there's absolutely zero.
The one I like is that they wanted the Austria bits of Spectre to be set in Kitzbühel, because when Fleming stayed there as a youngster, he lived with a couple of psychologists who were experts in treating siblings in competitive and destructive relationships. I think that's rather neat :)
Yeah. As a massive Nolan fan, the man does me no wrong. Yeah, P & W do pick little bits of Fleming. They don't exactly go out in full. But they know where to look in the books to pick the bits.
Sometimes the same bits. I mean, Craig's Bond died twice.
You’re wrong @DEKE_RIVERS , he dies three times…
CR
SF
NTTD
I think our big boy Dekes was commenting on the Craig films…. I know he’s always right, so I just wanted to correct him. I’m really disappointed his streak of excellence has been broken.
Ahh, my apologies. It is funny how rare "death" was for Bond in the series until the Craig era. Now, going forward, anything's possible.
Thunderball, with the "JB" on the opening coffin, is probably the first. We see "Bond" get strangled in FRWL. Maybe that's the first.
Yep, as soon as he was famous they were killing him! :)
OK. 3 deaths and 2 funerals. ;)
Maybe YOLT is their favorite book.
:D