QoS like a Fleming novel?
CB0012
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Like most, I left the theater scratching my head after Quantum of Solace. Then after learning the trials and tribulations with the script, I looked at it more favorably and took it more with a "it is what it is" approach (aside from the cardigan, Harrington, sunglasses etc etc etc LOL).
But over the past few years I have really gotten in to reading and collecting the Fleming novels. I had read Casino Royale and From Russia With Love before, but then the Mrs. stumbled upon a used book sale some time ago and picked me up Thunderball, Moonraker, Goldfinger and FYEO. Over the past year I have since completed Dr. No, YOLT and next on deck is LALD.
Needless to say after coming late to the party with the novels but now fully seeing Fleming's perspective I watched QoS today and can't help but feel this plays like a Fleming book reads. Gives me a whole new outlook on the film, more positive than negative.
But over the past few years I have really gotten in to reading and collecting the Fleming novels. I had read Casino Royale and From Russia With Love before, but then the Mrs. stumbled upon a used book sale some time ago and picked me up Thunderball, Moonraker, Goldfinger and FYEO. Over the past year I have since completed Dr. No, YOLT and next on deck is LALD.
Needless to say after coming late to the party with the novels but now fully seeing Fleming's perspective I watched QoS today and can't help but feel this plays like a Fleming book reads. Gives me a whole new outlook on the film, more positive than negative.
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but I cant seem to reply to it though. I know me and Thunderpussy discussed some more specific Fleming elements in the middle of an otherwise unrelated thread more recently.
(it was here, start with post 55: https://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/49692/does-anyone-regard-never-say-never-again-as-better-than-bonds-124/page/3/)
Plotwise, there's actually the mission from supershort story 007 in New York, its the very last scene. (Bond has to tell a lady her boyfriend's a foreign spy).
And someone else once suggested the fight in the burning hotel is actually from Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me ... that's not at all how I pictured that scene when I read the book, but its possible.
Here's what I wanted to reply to from the old thread: and two films later they finally have, and gosh it was worth the wait!
{[] ...They simply don't listen to me often enough
Bit of a pity they tied Blofeld to it as they did, but they are indeed mining what little Bond backstory there is. I continue to hope that they eventually do the same with unused Fleming story elements.
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
That's cos it's been archived- I only cited it for reference.