(Spoilers for NTTD) Shakespeare's Bond: Work area (All welcome!)

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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Act 2, Scene 2. A gaming house.

    Sir James: I am he who is called Bond, James Bond. Three passions do we share.
    Countess Onatopp: Truly do you enjoy, pigeon racing, real ale and Dominoes too Sir James.
    Sir James: My lady, one rises to meet such challenge, like a serpent unto the breast of Eve. Yet may it please thee to answer most fully: is thine accent St Georgian?
    Countess Onatopp: Dost thou know it?
    Sir James: Verily, in my salad days I did but drop in, yet cannon out.
    Countess Onatopp: Tis a land of opportunity. I travel with the ambassador, he hath held many balls here.
    Sir James: Aye, I hath read the writing on the privy walls. Yet, thine ambassador has the wrong licence on
    his hearse.
    Countess Onatopp: His hearse?
    Sir James: My kingdom for his hearse.
    Countess Onatopp: Farewell Sir James, methinks thou'st a knave in chariot licensing.
    Sir James: the pleasure on this twelfth night, was all mine. Farewell and good luck with
    Thy Ambassador's Balls.

    Number24, not being Norwegian, I sometimes find your sense of humour, rather difficult to
    Follow :p That's the beauty of a " show your workings" thread. We can just talk over each other. :D
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    Like most Norwegians I don't have a sense of humor. Let me demonstrate: there should be a community between "dominoes too" and "sir James".
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Have you heard of a famous Irish writer James Joyce and his feelings on punctuation :p ;)
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    I've heard of him, but not how he views punctuation.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    https://qwiklit.com/2014/03/05/top-10-authors-who-ignored-the-basic-rules-of-punctuation/
    Quite a few talented ( and extremely handsome, in my case ) people ignore the rules. :D
    My great talent cannot be pigeonholed. :))
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    You are in great company. Have you read The Road or Blood Meridian by Cormack McCarthy?
    But I question if they are famous because of their punctuation or lack thereof.
    What did Joyce say about punctuation?
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    He basically didn't think it was Important, especially during the flow of an idea etc.
    As Barbel is basically the writer/publisher, I depend on him, not only to put things in
    "Ye olde English" but to make it ( via improvements ) much better ;)

    As for my reading material, if it doesn't have a few fist fights, explosions, and a car chase. I don't
    Read it. ;)
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    Yes oldest English can be difficult. I've heard English-speakers strongly with the line "Wherefore art thou Romeo? " thinking Julie had bad eyesight. We don't have that problem since "why" in Norwegian is "hvorfor".
    I read slowly, but a lot. Usually history or current affairs, but also novels. The Road and Blood Meridian are eventful and violent, you should check them out. You're feel great when the author wins the Nobel prize for litterature. God natt.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    The are "The Daggers" The crime writers awards which includes
    http://www.thecwa.co.uk/the-daggers/categories/ian-fleming-steel/
    The Ian Fleming Steel award. ......... Much better than all that Nobel
    Stuff. ;)
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    Rambling response to various posts above:

    No apology req'd re talking over each other.

    The first one was TLD (it all started here: http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/45192/timothy-dalton-best-actor-to-play-bond/page/3/)

    Act 2, Scene 2. A joke about Onatopp's name?

    If anything I'm the editor of these, we're all the writers. Am happy to re-format everyone's ideas, trying to keep it consistent.

    Writing in Ye Olde English ist exceeding difficult for modern speakers, I'm just trying to give the impression of doing so without it being 100% accurate- and for a good joke, throw it out the window!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    Shakespaerian English is hard, that's why I often avoid writing it. But if you have to, online translators are a great help. Here is a good Source:

    http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-translator/


    Barbel: Are you sure Onatopp is in TLD? :v
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    I was responding to the various posts above. You asked which Bond film we Shakespearianised first- I answered TLD. TP added to a scene involving Onatopp, I suggested adding a joke about her name. 2 different subjects.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Yea! Get with the program Number24, this isn't the Oscars you know. ;)
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    I was tempted to blame it on unclear writing on Barbel's part, but honestly it was due to my medium-sized brain.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    I'm sorry for being unclear. Time here is limited for me today, so I was lazily trying to cram a lot into one post.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    On Onatopp's name , could she mention that it was changed under Stalin's reign from
    " Reverse- Cowgirl- ski"
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    This is pre-Stalin. Perhaps Ivan the Terrible?
    Or perhaps she could say her name is Russian for Reversere Cowgirl?
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Yes sorry I forgot ;% perhaps under a both near and far sighted, bi sexual, moody Tsar. So he was ...
    Bifocal, Bisexual and Bipolar.
    Also at the Card table as Bond wins she could say " Cool Hand Bond" ( for a little Cameo ) ?
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    Compiling the above...

    See http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/867481/#p867481

    Did I miss anything?
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    Irna Act 2, scene 1: Bond could step off the carriage, pull a lever and his seat pops off. Under it is a small barrel of wine. One could also have a few lines about drinking and driving.
    "Is it really neccesery to drink and drive?"
    "More often than you'd think, Maiden. "
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    " Sir James: They've gone to pieces! "( as he throwith a foot in green trainer away)
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    :) Both included above, but I'm a bit uncomfortable at the leprosy line; perhaps an alternative could be found?

    Do we want more scenes at this point before moving to London for the scene below?

    See http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/867481/#p867481
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    My thinking about the leprosy people, was I didn't think cycling would have been big in ye olde days.
    While I have seen in movies groups of pilgrims, plague victims etc walking along in a line. Admittedly
    My knowledge comes from films, while the old timers like Barbel write from memory :p :D
    I think it could be changed to a line of pilgrims falling over, but still ending with Bond getting some
    Green foot wear in his face ?
    Although this is the place to try out ideas, so obviously not everthing will work and of course can be
    Amended or replaced. {[]
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    My knowledge comes from films, while the old timers like Barbel write from memory :p :D


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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    Dame Miles tells Bond just what she thinks of him (womanizer, a cold killer etc.)
    Bond sees all of this as positives, so he is very pleased and thanks her.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    Good idea, that'll work!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    I was also thinking of Bond's comment in the movie about where sir Miles used to hide his whisky.
    Perhaps we should write a version where Bond says something like: "Lord Miles used to keep his spirits and a drop of laudanium in the....."
    (Dame Miles finds some more feminine drink)
    Dame Miles: "I found the bottles, but it seems Lord Miles drank it all last time you went rouge and slayed your way through the Land of Istimus."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    :)) I've inserted those lines above, have a look and see what you think.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,340MI6 Agent
    I like it a lot :D
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,873Chief of Staff
    Do we need a scene or two before Act 2, Scene 2? (Onatopp squeezing her Admiral and stealing the winged chariot, perhaps?)

    Or do we move on to meeting Wade?

    Or perhaps TP would like to add/change things in Act 2, Scene 2?
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