Bond Movies that are Remakes of Themselves
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After finishing AVTAK I couldn't help but notice a striking resemblance to GF. Take the basics: you start off with a very wealthy villain, both up to something fishy that catches MI6's attention, one gold smuggling, the other horseracing and the use of steroids, (granted the microchip led them there to begin with but still.) Then you're led to the bigger plan; Operation Grand Slam, Operation Main Strike, - the resemblance of the setup of scenes, Goldfinger explains his plan to a hoard of gangsters, then has the one who disagrees specially killed by his henchman, Oddjob, Zorin explains and has the one who wants no part of it killed by Mayday (who turns the steps into a slide.) Not to mention the actual plan, the destruction of Fort Knox, thus America's gold supply, and the destruction of Silicon Valley, thus the world's microchip supply.
I noticed a long time ago MR is essentially TSWLM but instead of a race of humans under the ocean, Drax prefers a race of humans in outer space, simple enough change. Furthermore you've got YOLT, wherein space ships are going missing, being swallowed up by a larger space ship, throwing the world into panic, ala, TSWLM, wherein submarines are being swallowed up by a larger ship, leading the world again into panic. What's more? All three were directed by Lewis Gilbert.
This leads me to ponder truly ORIGINAL Bond scripts, I think of mainly the very early simple ones, or the later more espionage based ones like FYEO and TLD. Even DAD is simply DAF! I felt like I was the only one in the theatre those few years ago when we discover what Icarus really is that knew Blofeld developed Icarus back in '71. A satellite that uses diamonds to create a powerful laser that can destroy things on earth - it's exactly the same! The writers had to know this so I figure they just considered it even more homage mastery.
Notice any other resemblances? I don't mean the obvious - many of them revolve around saving the world with slight variances, but I mean blatant remaking. Or how do you feel about this? Does it bother you, or not so much? Just curious.
I noticed a long time ago MR is essentially TSWLM but instead of a race of humans under the ocean, Drax prefers a race of humans in outer space, simple enough change. Furthermore you've got YOLT, wherein space ships are going missing, being swallowed up by a larger space ship, throwing the world into panic, ala, TSWLM, wherein submarines are being swallowed up by a larger ship, leading the world again into panic. What's more? All three were directed by Lewis Gilbert.
This leads me to ponder truly ORIGINAL Bond scripts, I think of mainly the very early simple ones, or the later more espionage based ones like FYEO and TLD. Even DAD is simply DAF! I felt like I was the only one in the theatre those few years ago when we discover what Icarus really is that knew Blofeld developed Icarus back in '71. A satellite that uses diamonds to create a powerful laser that can destroy things on earth - it's exactly the same! The writers had to know this so I figure they just considered it even more homage mastery.
Notice any other resemblances? I don't mean the obvious - many of them revolve around saving the world with slight variances, but I mean blatant remaking. Or how do you feel about this? Does it bother you, or not so much? Just curious.
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now i know some might say that EVERY Bond film is essentially a remake of Dr. No, but i think YOLT particularly qualifies... here's why:
- Dr. No works for SPECTRE; Blofeld is the head of SPECTRE
- Dr. No is toppling missiles; Blofeld is capturing space ships
- people go to Crab Key and never come back; fisherman goes into the cave near Blofeld's hideout and comes out dead
- Bond uses local fishermen to get close to both villains' hidouts
- Dr. No builds the giant glass wall because of an obsession with fish; Blofeld keeps man-eating fish in his hideout
- both villains have OTT headquarters hidden away on an island
- both have major physical deformities (seems to me it's more often a henchman who has a deformity, rather than the main villain)
- both have ties to the Orient
- both have the plan of inciting World War III
there are lots of other little things that i didn't include just because they're more commonly found in several films... and with one or two of these bigger similarities, i probably wouldn't have bothered, but when there are so many, it just seems like too much to be a coincidence to me...