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John Gardner's The Man From Barbarossa and GoldenEye - the influences?

DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
edited May 2019 in Literary 007 Posts: 18,281
Jeremy Black in his great book The Politics of James Bond refers to The Man From Barbarossa's themes turning up in the 1995 film (and Gardner novelisation) GoldenEye. Does anyone here care to comment on these links. I can think of a few - criminals in the post-Cold War world seeking to profit from it, dachas, mentions of the 1991 coup d'etat, General Yevgeny Yuskovich being a forebear of the next 'Iron Man' of Russia - General Ourumov. Anyone else want to contribute on this (perhaps) obscure but very interesting topic?

I do think that The Man From Barbarossa anticipates GoldenEye - it is the first James Bond film to be set largely in the new Russia (the Russian federation) and it is also shows that James Bond can work in the modern world of Intelligence as an intelligence operative in the post-Cold War world.

I'd really love to hear some of your views on this admittedly "niche" topic!

What else do you expect from @Dragonpol?

Comments

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,978
    We already have a thread for this:

    http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/4618/the-various-influences-on-the-john-gardner-james-bond-novels/p1
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,281
    Creasy47 wrote:
    We already have a thread for this:

    http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/4618/the-various-influences-on-the-john-gardner-james-bond-novels/p1

    No, well, this is a more specific thing - a novel influencing a later film script, hence why I chose a new thread on this very specific topic. I don't really think that they're the same type of thread at all - just read them to see how different they actually are.

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    edited January 2013 Posts: 40,978
    I just think they can both be worked in to the same existing topics, but, if the mods disagree, they can choose to keep it open. I'm just not sure where all these Gardner topics are coming from in the past hour, and I think most of them can go into the influences/ranking threads. But, again, I'll let the mods decide :)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited January 2013 Posts: 18,281
    I'm a Gardner fan - it's not spambot posting. See my The Bondologist Blog - I find fan opinions on this very interesting. It's well seen you're not a mod, then, otherwise many good threads would be closed down before they even started!
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,978
    Dragonpol wrote:
    I'm a Gardner fan - it's not spambot posting. See my The Bondologist Blog - I find fan opinions on this very interesting. It's well seen you're not a mod, then, otherwise many good threads would be closed down before they even started!

    I'm glad you've surmised this off of one or two threads, and almost every thread I post a 'We already have a thread for this...' message in, subsequently gets closed.

    I'm not trying to shut anything down, I was just riding on the possibility that it may get moved, to avoid you entering your opinions that will be negated once this is closed. But, continue as you please. Like I said, I could be wrong and it could be kept open; I'm not a mod.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited May 2019 Posts: 18,281
    Creasy47 wrote:
    Dragonpol wrote:
    I'm a Gardner fan - it's not spambot posting. See my The Bondologist Blog - I find fan opinions on this very interesting. It's well seen you're not a mod, then, otherwise many good threads would be closed down before they even started!

    I'm glad you've surmised this off of one or two threads, and almost every thread I post a 'We already have a thread for this...' message in, subsequently gets closed.

    I'm not trying to shut anything down, I was just riding on the possibility that it may get moved, to avoid you entering your opinions that will be negated once this is closed. But, continue as you please. Like I said, I could be wrong and it could be kept open; I'm not a mod.

    Well, maybe you should leave mods work to the actual mods themselves? That is until you become one?

    I see little point in littering your "spam" about thread closures in a perfectly acceptable literary Bond thread. If the mods want to take issue with this thread, then by all means they can close it down. However, they seem to have elected not to.

    So perhaps your psychic powers re the moderators' intentions are "off" on this occasion?

    Back to the topic at hand, please...
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,281
    I'm looking again at this novel and it'd be great if we could discuss this one more. See this interesting film on the Moscow coup of August 1991:

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