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So, fairly recent. The nickname appears on page 157, to be precise.
Chapter 14 "We don't like mistakes"
It will always be 'Boofy' as like I said above it was only the reprints of the Cape edition of DAF that were changed, or rather appear to have been changed.
Perhaps someone who has a later Cape print of DAF can confirm or deny this?
It also begs the question of his seeming change of heart. From vicious, evil North Korean Colonel. To people loving, charity donating businessman. Who seeks to have his profile exposed under his new guise. Doesn't really make a lot of sense (I know that DAD often doesn't)
But then, this is the questions thread. ;)
Not a chance.
The gene therapy is clearly not a fast process but even if we assume he already had hoards of conflict diamonds and started doing philanthropic work with them the moment have he dried off following the PTS to go from nobody to getting a knighthood in a year simply wouldn't happen. For a start don't people get proposed about 6 months before they actually go to the palace to receive it? So he needs to go from hovercraft to being in a position where the government says 'this bloke deserves a knighthood' in a mere 8 months. I suppose he could just be a mate of David Cameron's as this does cut down the waiting time.
I've always wondered, given the survivability of the drop as proven by Moon, why Bond decides that ending up in a North Korean prison is a better fate than risking jumping off the waterfall.
Especially given his attitude 3 films earlier that riding off a cliff (without water to land in) to chase a crashing plane is a better alternative to ending up in a Russian prison. Are the conditions inside a Russian jail really that much worse than a North Korean one?
I recall similar sentiments being made about Hugo Drax's knighthood in the MR novel, on which of course parts of DAD and its villain Sir Gustav Graves were based. Would Drax really have been knighted before the Moonraker rocket was tested? He certainly wouldn't have been knighted afterwards!
Clever thinking.....that would work with the gene therapy...I will think of it that way in the future when I watch DAD...
Thanks but I can't claim original thinking. Someone else's idea. Graves says he modelled him on Bond which is an inconsistency unless he just means his voice & mannerisms.
There's no evidence in the script that that ever occurred though. It is merely unfounded speculation.
The impossibility of the alternative is indirect evidence of it's occurence. Read your Sherlock Holmes man ;)
Haha good one! :-bd
I have read some but this is a James Bond site after all.
Now it all makes sense!