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in fact I wanted to at one point do a novel to film comparrison similar to what someone did with the post fleming books but roughly
Goldeneye is a loose adaption of Moonraker
Tomorrow never dies I always saw as an adaption of the spy who loved me without getting sued by IFP
and before people yell
Paris is essentially Vivianne in everything but name even the drawing of her in one of the reprints look like her
She makes mention of bond having the gun under the pillow she marries a newspaper man (Kurt in the novel Elliot in the film) the reason being he told me he loved me
she is almost killed in a hotel in the book she is killed in a hotel in the film
there is a case that can be made here I am not crazy
The World is not enough is elements of For Your Eyes Only
Die another day is to moonraker as Casino Royale is to well Casino Royale earlier drafts even had it closer to the book with the NSA agent being the mole (hence the name Jinx) and Gala Brand not Miranda Frost being the final bond girl but casting/ script rewrites/director choices well we got a watered down of moonraker however Graves's speech is word for word Drax's speech from the book
Also Brosnan is the only Bond we hear of (and see) do the thing Fleming mentions of sleeping with his gun under his pillow.
sure it did Bond's reaction in the novel was one of suspicion and confusion...Brosnan's bond was uhm bored
That seemed to be more taunting Leiter. When Bond finds her it looks like all they did was snap her neck and leave her.
Yeah I said the same when the idea was floated before. Using the threat of rape as a source of tension/danger before James Bond (the most masculine top shagger hero ever) swoops in and saves the day? Absolutely no chance they’re going there post Me-Too, and to be honest I don’t think they should. Death in cinema is a morally flexible concept because it’s easy to distinguish from reality (Bond or John Wick gunning down goons isn’t going to trigger anyone’s PTSD) and because we know in the real world, violence is sometimes justified. Good people do have to kill bad people on occasion, so it’s easy to accept a heightened version of that as popcorn entertainment. Sexual violence isn’t the same thing, there’s no justification for it, there’s way to sugar coat it, and even coming from the baddies, I don’t think it’s something that the writers of these sorts of films should use.
A key conversation which is reasonably well represented and/or an actual scenario fits my requirements.
Yes, excellent post, totally agree.
There are echoes of OHMSS in TWINE--the haughty daughter, the skiing and ski outfit, not to mention "Have you ever lost a loved one, Mr. Bond?"
TND is the least Fleming of Brosnan's movies, in my view. You could make an argument that it's Flemingesque for Bond to sleep with a married woman and of course there's the gun under the pillow, but basically it's a tired remake of YOLT/TSWLM/MR.
I remember waiting in the theater for Mathis to bring up the “law of the quantum of solace” when consoling Bond because if there was a point to reference the title and contextualize the meaning for the film, there it was. But it never goes there. Instead they decided to just call the unnamed organization “Quantum” which only confuses meaning of the title.
I still say it would have made more sense of the title to call the organisation 'Solace'; plus I think it's a bit creepier too.
I was debating including that one, but decided to reread the passage in tandem with watching the scene to be sure.
Bond: "I feel nothing for her."
Mathis: "Not even a quantum of solace?"
Bond: "No."
OR:
Moneypenny (over DB5 phone): "It is a fish."
Bond: "Of course! The Hildebrand Rarity!"
I have heard this as well. I wonder if it was actually filmed.
Considering that the writer's strike stalled the script, and considering Giannini's strengths as an actor, a long monologue from him might just have worked here, and played off Craig's Bond's reticence.
It could have been like TLD, which doesn't have a ton of Fleming, but has just enough to propel the rest of the movie. MGW should have realized this!
It does, although it is really starting to stick out to me how silly all that sniper stuff is- just park your car over the road and pick him up! :)
We know Dalton read all the novels. I have a feeling Craig read most, if not all the books. What about the others, didn't Connery said he read one and half books?
Yeah I forgot about that, you're right. He used the book to prompt the emotion filming the ending didn't he?
I think Daniel Craig read all of the Fleming novels in preparation for the role in Casino Royale. Sean Connery said in an interview with the BBC during the filming of DAF in 1971 that he had only read three of the Bond novels, namely Thunderball (as it was originally going to be the first film), Live and Let Die and From Russia, with Love. When asked by the interviewer why he hadn't read the rest, Connery replied, "I don't really know."
Thanks for sharing that mate, I'd never seen that before.
It amazes me how a lot of us hold the novels up as the gospel, but the actors themselves all have their own take on it
The fact that Connery spent time with Fleming in person and got to know him, he gets a free pass from me on not reading all the books.