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Additionally, a list of films screened for Richard Nixon during his Presidency suggests he shared JFK's liking for Bond, with screenings of Dr. No (March 3, 1972), Diamonds Are Forever (April 27, 1972), Goldfinger (May 11, 1972), From Russia With Lo…
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Some interesting trivia: a list of every movie John F. Kennedy watched in the White House movie theater (recently destroyed by Trump) can be found here (at the bottom of the page). As you can see, JFK watched Dr. No on Nov. 28, 1962 (in the compa…
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Certainly, but I also like to have such content in textual form as well, for ease of reference, searchibility, etc.
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CoolHandBond at the Absolutely James Bond forum has posted the Infinity article on Gerry Anderson’s Moonraker. I won't repost the whole thing but will give a few excerpts. Anderson was commissioned by Saltzman to adapt Moonraker in 1969, and brou…
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Remington wrote: » So what does everyone think of the two available scripts for Dalton's unmade third film? I quite enjoy the first draft by MGW and Ruggiero, but I think the second draft just doesn't work beyond the elements carried over from the…
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Reflsin2bourbons wrote: » From Russia With Love has a line about Q's craftsmen working on the Bond's attaché case; so technically that implies Q's existence as one person. The passage in question: "Q Branch had put together this smart-looki…
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007HallY wrote: » It's how we get weird moments like Goldfinger randomly agreeing to make Bond his personal secretary. Even something like the Russian agent in CR not having specific orders to kill Bond is a bit of contrived leap. The GF mo…
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NickTwentyTwo wrote: » I'm sort of in a constant state of reading Octopussy...I have a dream of filming a 1:1 adaption of the short story Have you read the Daily Express comic strip of OP? It's definitely not a straight adaptation but still…
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Fleming also notes how snobbish and self-involved Québécois high society was, which probably didn't earn him many fans there but sounds accurate. TSWLM is an endlessly fascinating book as far as I'm concerned, since its first-person narration allows…
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The prelude to the escape from Piz Gloria is one of the most suspensful scenes in all of Fleming. Even if one has already seen the film, the book version is just different enough to create suspense. Bond has to aquire all the supplies he needs befor…
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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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