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thedove wrote: » One of the best exchanges. Fatima "I'm sorry for making you all wet." Bond "But my martini is still dry." It's just a rewrite of the old quip "I've got to get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini." The line…
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Here's Fleming's description of her, from chapter 7: "Her face was pale, with the pallor of white families that have lived long in the tropics. But it contained no trace of the usual exhaustion which the tropics impart to the skin and hair. The e…
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Solitaire is white in the book, and portraying a black man in a relationship with a white woman was off-limits in American media until the late 60s (and several other countries). Technically Solitaire is still a virgin in both media; in the book Mr.…
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » Sometimes I think about why they didn't choose this novel to adapt first...Maybe it was problematic in the early 60s. Like all commercial filmmakers, EON played it safe with potentially controversial content, and by 195…
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moneyofpropre2 wrote: » So, are they censored text or not? What is the title of LALD chapter 5? From what I've read elsewhere, these are the recently censored texts, so the text of the LALD is the old American one. The bonus material consis…
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mtm wrote: » I found them really boring I'm afraid. Roger is good in them as always, but I'm not sure I enjoyed Hunt as a director outside of OHMSS. To each his own. I consider Shout at the Devil an excellent adventure film, though perhaps …
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Baltimore_007_ wrote: » Took in a non-Bond Moore movie recently, the one with screen time with Lee Marvin, Shout at the Devil... Shout at the Devil was one of two Moore films (the other being Gold) directed by Peter Hunt, who helmed OHMSS. …
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moneyofpropre2 wrote: » Problem is that shouldn't be a question. IFP cruely lack of transparancy in what thay announce. It's always vagues or incomplet. I'm guessing IFP's silence on this question means it's using the redacted texts. It doe…
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The Bond films he scripted or polished definitely have their share of witty dialogue, and I'll always appreciate his reference to La Rochefoucauld in DAF (which Cubby wanted to cut). So points for dialogue. But story? Barely any. Characterization? N…
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Pretty much every major film released in theaters still receives a Blu-Ray release. And Blu-Rays of older films are still being continually released by the Warner Archive, Kino Lorber, Arrow, Indicator, VCI, Flicker Alley, Imprint, Criterion, etc. I…
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Neither the book nor the film of DAF have particularly strong plots--both mostly rely on Bond following the diamond plotline, but the film comes apart after the satellite reveal. You'd think the idea of Blofeld setting off nukes and holding the worl…
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mtm wrote: » But as I say, he's a soldier- he doesn't have to love his superiors to respect them and follow their orders, because of his sense of duty. In that way I'd say LTK got Bond more wrong than the Craig films did. No matter how much he arg…
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Torgeirtrap wrote: » Not sure how I would like to rank the novel though. It's hard to compete with a lot of the other novels. I think I might prefer Live and Let Die and Thunderball to OHMSS. All strong entries. I have to admit that the onl…
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Judging from a quick skim, the video has augmented the surviving recording with audio of Fleming's music selections, and music from the Bond films. The lost audio remains lost, but the complete transcript of the interview can be found upthread, alon…
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LucknFate wrote: » I'm about to build myself a desk in fact, and it will be triangular like Flemings by chance! Best of luck, and may you write many books there! KOP wrote: » Not an interview but Fleming writing about Goldeneye in 1958…
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Goldeneye: Ian Fleming’s House by the Sea (Home, October 1963) We all know James Bond and the exciting life he leads—but what of his alter ego Ian Fleming? Writer Mary Salter turned sleuth and tracked him down in his sunny Jamaican retreat in Ora…
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Barbara Broccoli wrote: “There’s nothing I can tell you about the next Bond film. There’s nothing. Nothing is happening yet.” Four years have passed since the last Bond was completed and the producers still have nothing to report?
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Forgot to add that there's no purchase link for the series yet, but the news is from Blu-Ray.com, which is extremely reliable.
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Another positive review, this time from Michael Dirda in The Washington Post. Some excerpts: Some years ago, I gave a talk to the graduating seniors at a local school. Whatever I said that night — probably something about the importance of books …
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It used to be the case that film posters were almost as exciting and spectacular as the film. For example, here's a poster for YOLT: And to see how far we've fallen, here's the Blu-Ray cover: So much for progress. Dan Goozee didn't …
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The Warner Archive will be releasing The Alaskans on Blu-Ray in June: Promo copy: The Alaskans: The Complete Series Description: Set against the backdrop of the 1890s gold rush in the Yukon, Roger Moore, Jeff York and Dorothy Provine st…
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Here's another excellent interview with Dalton from around the same time, in which he reveals his favorite scene in TLD. Excerpts follow. Timothy Dalton Finds a Hamlet In the Hero By Benedict Nightingale (New York Times, July 26, 1987) He’s…
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Three American reviews have come in. Pico Ayer in Air Mail praises the book: ...it is the crafty genius of Shakespeare’s surely definitive account to suggest that Fleming had, in spades, the upper-class Brit’s gift for concealing both his tal…
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I wouldn't mind visiting an alternate universe where Dalton was born twenty-five years later and starred in a 2006 version of Casino Royale. Audiences would have been ready for him by then.
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Some excerpts from the Los Angeles Times article "Reclaiming the Darker Side of Bond," by Charles Champlin (July 26, 1987): Dalton says he was first asked about playing James Bond several years ago. Sean Connery was wanting out before he disappea…
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