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It works for the most part when she's intelligent and capable, but as the film goes on, she kind of degenerates into a bit of an air head that struggles with even the most fundamental tasks. I wasn't quite sure what was going on there sometimes, if we can get past just merely being an all round good looking woman
FAG!
Sorry, a Bill & Ted moment there... :))
Is that kind of language seriously necessary? I feel the flag option is being used too much around here.
I'm sorry? Does OHMSS hit DAF out of the park in both book and film versions?
Indubitably!
Underrated? Yes.
I loved DAF, but then my favorite Fleming tends to be the less bombastic ones. I prefer dialogue to action sequences for the most part. I also know many of the locations used in DAF and can conjure up a very vivid picture when reading it.
To anyone, who only read it once and was not impressed, give it another go.
@TheWizardOfice is so correct.
Only the lobotomised would put DAF remotely in the league of OHMSS. Book or film!
You'll find that the Wizard is often right if you hang around here long enough!
Wise words indeed Draggers.
You should have seen @Wizard's response. It was epic!! :))
Did that really happen? I don't recall it. I suppose my mind has blanked it out for my own sanity.
Could you give examples?
As for film versions, obviously OHMSS blows DAF out of the water. DAF was only usurped as the worst film in the series after 30 years when DAD was released.
The Spang brothers I don't think are lame villians per se. What's missing from DAF compared with other Flemings IMO, is that Bond has no meaningful relationship with these villains. They barely know him.
Fleming concentrates Bond's relationships on allies such as Leiter, especially Leiter, and to lesser extent, Ernie Cuneo ( the jockey Tingaling Bell gets a lot of play too) and very much develops the Bond Tiffany relationship, especially later in the book. The villains serve more as back-drop including the lead pair. Just the way Fleming chose to write this story. I don't think its bad or good. It's still vintage Fleming. Although it may not grab as much as Bond vs pick-your-favourite-Fleming-supervillain.
==I can buy the argument that OHMSS was a better presentation of the OHMSS story than even the book was. The film was superb and captured the best elements of the book and I think even improved upon the story in some ways, especially the Bond-Tracy romance.
Both book and film are excellent.
As Fleming books go though, OHMSS I think is more of a grabber than DAF, but I hesitate to call it better. It's just different. You Only Live Twice is also very different as is Casino Royale and even From Russia With Love.