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Thank you @Dragonpol for informing me of the home movie footage--I'll have to try tracking down The Real James Bond.
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A while back I wrote that the only surviving motion picture footage of Ian Fleming was his 1964 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interview. Today I'm happy to announce I was wrong! Here is a brief news item from French TV (or a French newsreel) …
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Macho Man Randy Savage cut a promo on Hulk Hogan in 1989 that might be the greatest thing to ever come out of professional wrestling. The heat could melt your screen:
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That was a good read, thank you for the link.
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Steven Jay Rubin has uploaded to YouTube his 1977 interview with Maibaum. The first video goes into Maibaum's background as a writer, his entry into screenwriting, and the start of the Bond series: The second video goes into detail on FRWL, G…
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It was Fleming's favorite and certainly is mine.
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » In my opinion, they should adapt Ivanhoe. No nonsense, just an adaptation of the book. They already have. The 1952 MGM film is very good, and I enjoyed it more than the book, which was a bit of a slog. Ivanhoe was th…
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Seve wrote: » Robin Hood 1922 Douglas Fairbanks Fairbanks invented parkour without even knowing it. Impressive and inventive display of athleticism from the great swashbuckler, but being a silent movie can make it a tough watch for the modern vi…
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SMERSH itself (in Fleming's books anyway) was already a separate entity from the other Soviet branches of intelligence and government, which was part of what made it so interesting a literary creation in the first place. In CR Bond makes it very cle…
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Most of the most highly regarded Bond films were either closely based on Fleming's books or copied the films that were. Every Bond film tries to copy either From Russia With Love or Goldfinger (and sometimes OHMSS). Or YOLT, which isn't based on Fle…
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Correct. The truth and varying theories regarding the topic are covered in the excellent article "The Origins of the 007 Prefix," which also debunks some of the more widespread theories.
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SomethingThatAteHim wrote: » Finished up with Forever and a Day the other night. While I still think it’s overall superior to Trigger Mortis unfortunately I think the first third of the book is by far the strongest, as it drifts ever more into con…
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AnotherZorinStooge wrote: » The racism in LALD is casual, but when you consider Fleming's derisory view of the civil rights movement (he saw it as a communist front), it's obvious he saw black people as inferior and apartheid necessary. The Korean…
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Reflsin2bourbons wrote: » I think the racism in LALD is a bit different to that in say GF. Fleming doesn't really dislike Black people...The problem is that Fleming sees them as other and inferior; some of his previous language comes off as patron…
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Yes, there's some wonderful sly comedy in M going on a healthy living fad, with Bond wondering if his boss has gone mad, followed by Bond himself succumbing to the fad and Mae wondering if her boss has gone mad. And then both of them go back to ciga…
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » The OHMSS shoot was very long. I don't think Connery would have been happy, especially with a rookie director to blame. Peter Hunt has his fans, but with Connery it would have been better to hire Terence Young. The prod…
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Starting with For Your Eyes Only Broccoli, Maibaum, Hunt, and Glen agreed to scale down the Bond films. The push for greater realism ensured that Bond had to react more realistically to what went on around him. The filmmakers couldn't go back to the…
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007HallY wrote: » I think Bond’s opinion of the Soviets in that way you’re describing becomes more apparent in later novels rather than the end of CR itself, even if it’s heavily implied in the context of the novel alone he goes back...from what I…
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007HallY wrote: » Personally, I can’t see any film incarnation of Bond having the little existential crisis about good and evil and the Cold War that he does in CR. Bond’s loyalty to Monarch and Country is a lot more rigid in the films. One…
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007HallY wrote: » Just to be that heroic character he needs that unwavering sense of self/purpose, yes (and I’d argue the cinematic versions of the character actually have that more than Fleming’s character). I'd say the opposite--I get a c…
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At the end of the day, Bond is a two-dimensional character. And there's nothing wrong with that--so was Sherlock Holmes. I wouldn't want him any other way, and he's be less enjoyable if he wasn't. He's not one dimensional, in the way he sometimes wa…
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From a very brief discussion with Fleming, found in the TV Times (Oct. 12, 1962). *** Fleming is crisp and business-like. "Yes," he said, "Bond will go on. I can't afford to drop him." Fleming said he thought Sean Connery, the film James Bo…
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It now gives me immense pleasure to report that Talk of the Devil: The Collected Writings of Ian Fleming―Wartime Experiences, Espionage Reflections, and Travel Narratives from the Creator of James Bond is now available for purchase at all reputable …
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I think Thunderball has been amply covered in the Sellers book The Battle for Bond. While I think it's overly slanted in Whittingham's favor, it does have lengthy summaries of the early scripts of what became Thunderball.
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A new publication of interest: Developing 007: From the Books of Ian Fleming to the Films of Albert R. Broccoli Blurb: Since his debut on the paperback rack in 1953, Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 has become a staple of pop culture. However, f…
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I'm surprised that in the recent discussion of Bond continuation novels no one has brought up John Pearson's James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007. While not a conventional novel, it's certainly a work of fiction, and written with more intelli…
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Not literally Bond but still Bond... Jeremy Duns has uncovered Fleming's script for the aborted TV series Commander Jamaica. The background of the project is discussed in part one of "The name is Gunn. James Gunn." In part two Jeremy discusses…
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We need another Borgia pope. Someone who'll bring whoring, poison, and murder back to the Vactican, like the good old days.
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At long last, here is Amis's review of The Man From Barbarossa, courtesy of The British Newspaper Archive. It’s not quite premium Bond No tarantulas—and 007’s love life isn’t what it used to be By Kingsley Amis (The Sunday Express, Aug. …
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Baltimore_007_ wrote: » Dalton may be a favorite 007 but in terms of who is the best to play the part i.e. nearest to what Ian Fleming intended, I believe he may have been overtaken by Craig. I disagree. For the most part, I think Craig pla…
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