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What do you mean "it just never works"? The Bond movies excised the Soviets from all of the Bond movies up until 1981. In DN and FRWL, Russia was replaced with SPECTRE. In YOLT, Russia was replaced with China (which wasn't even mentioned by name)…
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Many of the Bond stories started out as TV treatments. I believe this was the case for Moonraker, Thunderball, and everything in the For Your Eyes Only collection. I don't really have an opinion either way, but Fleming definitely saw some potent…
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Keep in mind that the Trevelyan from France's script was actually a previous M (the predecessor to Messervy, so far as I could discern while reading it). He defects to the Soviet Union at some point (implied to be the early 1960s, but who knows, th…
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It wasn't a quip. It wasn't supposed to be funny (gosh, who would even think it was intended to be?). It was meant to demonstrate Bond's desire to shut himself off from what had just happened, and his clear failure to do so. Nothing more or less.…
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Getafix wrote: It would be great to see a period Bond, without mobile phones, earpieces and electronic breadcrumbs. If we want to smother everything that Bond has stood for since Fleming. Bond is a modern man, with one foot in the future a…
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Perilagu_Khan wrote: But Bond/Fleming make clear again and again that Blofeld's snobbery is an unreconstructed mania for him. So much so that it becomes a blind spot. Blofeld so desperately wants to be ennobled that he is willing to risk yet anoth…
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MrBond wrote: Blofeld is too much of an egocentric man to realize that he has been infiltrated. It isn't sloppy writing. Blofeld does realize that he's been infiltrated; re-read the beginning of the escape sequence in Piz Gloria. Perilagu_…
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Not really. Blofeld knows who Bray is at that point and this is verified when Bond overhears the plot to kill him on the intercom. And yet Blofeld fails to put a single guard outside Bond's room when he knows he's dealing with one of the world's d…
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Lots of sloppy plotting abounds in the Fleming novels. I recently read OHMSS and had to laugh at Blofeld straight up asking "Sir Hilary" if he was 007, then letting him go back to his room to hatch an escape plan. Not a terribly controversial op…
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DarthDimi wrote: Fleming was neither racist nor sexist IMO. And today, he almost functions as a symbol of the anti-PC movement in my view. I so love it when Bond slams a woman on the bottom, demands Quarrel to fetch his shoes and lights a few doze…
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Well, Boyd's right.
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MayDayDiVicenzo wrote: I was wondering this to when I watched TWINE a week ago. Ill have to rewatch the climax to spot any indicators as to the situation. Which climax? There were quite a few, if Bond is to be believed.
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Easily the film, I agree. Whatever its faults, it achieved an aesthetic approach that really emphasized the more visceral and visual elements of the Bond fantasy world. In the book, we don't even witness the death of Jill via gold paint, or the …
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It's actually not in any way imaginative. Imaginative would be Bond rolling up to one of Graves' outdoor hot tubs to ogle the women. Dirty and sophomoric, but it's not like the series hasn't gone there before. Imaginative would be Bond flicki…
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This thread is totally underwhelming. "I don't care much for Moonraker." Really? "Sometimes I'm in the mood for Roger Moore" barely qualifies as an opinion, let alone a controversial one. Here's one: Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson …
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Ah yes, 1962. The days when heroes would just get on with it. *ignores Fleming's back-to-back "Getting Back Into The Game" novels - You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun*
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Unrelated, but I always loved the name of the boat Bond commandeers in Quantum of Solace. Gardien des Etoiles - guardian of the stars. "Secatur" from Live and Let Die was a good one too.
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In the novel, there's actually two competing Russian factions, the MGB - employing Vesper and Le Chiffre - and SMERSH - employing the assassins. The MGB doesn't want SMERSH to kill Le Chiffre, so they send Vesper to help him. Hence, the kidnapping…
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Well, first pick any or all of the following stock forum reponses: -No -That's a stupid idea -Barbara Brocolli needs to focus every iota of her attention bringing us Bond 24 by Wednesday Great, now that we've gotten the usual one-word/one-se…
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The author is strongly supportive of Sam Mendes' approach. In fact, it's right there in the headline: "Why James Bond is right to wait for the Skyfall director" Here's the complete passage: "The approach is not popular with Bond purists, and …
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I assume you mean divisive? If someone felt statistically inclined, they could go through one of the ranking threads and see which movies have the highest variance in score. It would be interesting to see which ones are the most controversial, a…
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TheWizardOfIce wrote: What about the sleight of hand you are performing? Heres just a couple of quotes a two minute google threw up and I've even gone to the trouble of higlighting the key passages. I'm sure there are plenty more (Fiennes at th…
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TheWizardOfIce wrote: Not got a problem with that. But then most of British acting aristocracy didnt come out and say MR had an amazingly well crafted script at the time as far as I recall. In the SF build up youve got DC, Dench, Fiennes, Wisha…
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I doubt anyone would have started with Casino Royale even if it were an option. Weren't a good chunk of the Fleming books attempts at movies or TV shows? Thunderball was a screenplay, For Your Eyes Only was a collection of would-be TV episodes, …
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I like how no one felt any inclination to answer the original poster's question. The "fan community" at the time was limited to the Usenet group and to a handful of magazines. The alt.fan.james-bond archive is still available on Google Groups if…
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"007 in New York" isn't a Fleming title. He called it "Reflections in a Carey Cadillac"; later it was renamed by a newspaper editor to "Agent 007 in New York" in order to pull in American readers who had just seen Dr. No in theatres. It's an atr…
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Yeah, it's a bit of a baffler. The film seems to suggest that it's at least partly psychological though. Both times he messes up his shots he's being judged (by MI6 and then Silva) on his adequacy, which Bond himself is unsure of.
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An observation - Camp is simply a matter of using far more resources than is necessary; it's not so much about revealing your hand or winking at the audience. But people have confused the former with the latter, as I think this poster has. I …
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Well, really the Bond movies have always been politically correct, right back to Dr. No: "A lot of things in this film, the sex and violence and so on, if played straight, a) would be objectionable, and b) we're never gonna go past along the cens…
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There were earlier examples - the influence of Hitchcock and North by Northwest on From Russia With Love, for instance. Fleming was a fan of the Fu Manchu series as a youngster and cribbed it for Dr. No. Off the top of my head, you could also me…
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