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Fleming was apparently quite heavily into sado-masochism, specifically the 'sado' part. Which makes what he puts Bond through during the series interesting if Bond really is an author avatar. Suppressed switch tendencies, maybe?
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At least Fleming didn't have Bond and Blofeld face off over a game of Soggy Biscuit.
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Riven posted:I think there was one guy who directed the credit sequences for decades? It was just a part of the films as much as Desmond Llewelyn or “shaken, not stirred.” The different 'feel' of the Bond movies over the years is in large part because as much as everyone thinks of the series as a trailblazer, in fact it's almost always been reacting to other things going on around it. Dr No was probably the first "spy-fi" movie as the world entered the space age, but there had already been things like The Avengers and Danger Man - star Patrick McGoohan turned down the Bond role because he disapproved of the promiscuity - on TV, so from that point on the series fell into an arms race of increasing lunacy as it tried to top its perceived rivals (the Flint series, The Man From UNCLE, etc), which in turn were also ratcheting up the insanity. At a certain point it couldn't go any further and had to look in new directions, so we ended up with the Moore era and Blaxploitation Bond, Kung Fu Bond, Space Bond and so on, before Lethal Vice Bond ended Dalton's run. We then got a reinvention of the original Cold War Bond for Goldeneye, which was great, but it didn't take long before things escalated out of control again and we ended up with XXXtreme! Bond finishing Brosnan's run. After that history repeated itself: another reinvention, done well, with Casino Royale, but by the fourth Craig movie things had got very silly again.
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Bond passing himself off as American should be fun. Though I admit I prefer "It's like following a cue ball!" from the movie. 
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The_White_Crane posted:Oh god that dialogue.
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chitoryu12 posted:This also shows how incredibly different Moore's Bond is from the book much of the time. He always remains impeccably charming, ready with the perfect quip or gag in response to every single occurrence. He's practically flawless, virtually impossible to intimidate (and he'll still reply with sarcasm if he is), and clearly the smartest and most skilled man in the room. But yes, Moore's smooth and suave English gentleman is so unlike Fleming's damaged and sneering blunt instrument (he's more like The Avengers' John Steed, played by Patrick MacNee, who appeared with Moore in AVTAK) that the code number is about all they have in common.
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Interesting to see that Fleming breaks one of the rules of fiction; he switches POVs mid-scene so that we get inside the heads of both Bond and Solitaire. (By 'rules' I mean 'generally accepted practices that critics get pissy about if you don't follow them'.) So if anyone calls you on doing the same thing, just say "If it's good enough for Ian Fleming..."
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Aug 20, 2018 23:31
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Hugo " " Drax.
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Servoret posted:Could somebody really go from being a nobody to a knighthood in five years in 1950 Britain? Class stratification wouldn't keep Drax out of M's gentleman's club?
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sebmojo posted:he is a drunken, impatient, barely competent dick
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chitoryu12 posted:This is an interesting way of presenting the deception. Ordinarily, an author would have skipped all or almost all of the first part of the book detailing the plot and left Tania's deception a twist. But Fleming removes any suspicion on the part of the audience by giving total information about both sides' motives and beliefs. He can present Tania's and Bond's thoughts simultaneously, which further shows how easily Bond is being fooled.
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Quite the leap from that to "Biddibiddibiddi, right on, Buck!"Selachian posted:Marvel Comics's The Yellow Claw (bet you're not going to see him in a MCU movie any time soon!)
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Ian Fleming posted:Gardeners were working, raking the paths and picking up leaves with the lethargic slow motion of coloured help.  The depressing thing is that even in loving 2019 there are still way too many people in England with this same ingrained post-imperial sense of condescending racial/national/class superiority, and a lot of them are politicians.
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As Trevalyan put it in Goldeneye, "Her Majesty's loyal terrier", indeed.
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I foresee a sad end for that poor cat.
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May 24, 2019 22:47
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£1 million in 1959 pounds would be £22.8 million in 2018 pounds, according to the Bank of England's calculator. Goldfinger has a nice little earner going on.
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Britain didn't really start taking to lagers in a big way until as late as the 1980s. A lot of it was cultural stigma - "Yer drinkin' fuckin' lager? What are you, a fuckin' poof?" - but plain old anti-European racism was behind it as well, since that's where most of the lagers on the market (Heineken the best-known) came from. Ironically, it took the Australians mass-marketing Fosters and Castlemaine with "these are no-bullshit drinks for manly men with a sense of humour" campaigns for lager to really catch on.
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May 31, 2019 23:08
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Duran Duran got the AVTAK assignment because at some event John Taylor drunkenly asked Cubby Broccoli when he was going to get someone good to do a Bond theme. (Presumably this was on the back of 'All Time High', which failed to live up to its name.)
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Noel Coward, noted heterosexual. (Granted, yes, homosexuality was still considered a crime at the time so it's unsurprising he hid it, but it's funny in retrospect. Also, the idea that famous people routinely archived their letters to each other for eventual public release by biographers or whatever now seems quaintly bizarre.)
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I love this bit:quote:Blofeld was silent for a long two minutes.
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A random sidenote: gently caress Chrome Dome. The fascist dictator of Spain, General Franco, gave the US full permission to fly live nukes over his country 24/7 in exchange for the usual poo poo that fascist dictators get from the US in return for anti-communist activities (ie, weapons and intel useful against their opponents at home). This inevitably did not go well. In January 1966, an armed B-52 collided with its refuelling tanker and crashed over Palomares, Spain. It had four live nukes aboard, one of which fell into the sea, and the other three hit land. One survived intact. The other two... well, nuclear bombs are triggered by conventional explosives. These blew up on impact. By sheer luck the nukes didn't detonate, but a load of burning plutonium was released at two of the crash sites. The US rushed into action to clean up their mess! By which I mean they grabbed as much of the bomb debris and radioactive material as they could find, and got soldiers to shovel up a load of nearby topsoil into barrels using such high-tech protection as, er, gloves. Then they hosed off (and dropped the barrels into the sea) and declared the problem solved, while Spain cheerily sent a minister to swim on a beach conveniently miles from the crash sites to show there was nothing to worry about. Almost 50 years later, guess what? The US finally admitted that yep, there was still a shitload of radioactive contamination around Palomares and they were going to give Spain the cash and resources to clean it up that they should have done half a century ago. Except then Donald Trump was elected president, and golly gee, nothing has been done since. Why do I, a Brit, have such an issue with this? Because I lived for a while less than a kilometre from the worst contamination site. Funnily enough, Spain (a country dependent on tourism) is still really reluctant to point out that the worst nuclear weapons accident in history happened on its soil. So it actually allowed developers to start putting in the infrastructure for a huge housing development on the loving bomb site. The 2008 financial crash actually did a good thing by stopping work with just roads and a few buildings in place... but the bomb site still hasn't been cleaned up. They literally had bulldozers churning up a site with plutonium contamination. And like I said, I was living about 800 metres from it, totally unaware until I happened to wonder "huh, why are there all these F-16s flying over? Are we under a military flightpath?" Living there with my 2-year-old son. And we'd actually explored the weird empty Mad Max road system we'd spotted on Google Maps because, well, why wouldn't you? We were gone within two weeks. But I've kept tabs on it, and still cleanup hasn't started despite the Obama admin signing an agreement. So gently caress Chrome Dome, gently caress the US military, gently caress the still-silent and complicit Spanish government, and naturally gently caress Donald Trump. Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Jul 20, 2019 |
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I know for a fact I've seen NSNA more than once (hell, I own the DVD), but I can't remember a drat thing about it except for the replacement pilot having a corneal transplant or something, because eye stuff squicks me out. I think my brain has just overwritten it with Thunderball. Was Rowan Atkinson briefly in it for some reason, or am I mixing it up with Hot Shots Part Deux?
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chitoryu12 posted:Chapter 12: The Man From the C.I.A.
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poisonpill posted:Other dudes, he’s 360 noscoping while they barrel past at a hundred mph with his .22 with the sights filed off.
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For some reason I'm seeing Connery as Bond here, but doing a kind of half-drunk, amiable comedic take on the role. He does seem to be distinctly blundering - he was knocked over by a thrown television, for God's sake. Viv, though... she kicks rear end.
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quote:He was only some kind of a spy, a spy who had loved me. Not even loved, slept with.
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Clancy novels up to The Sum Of All Fears were pretty much the definitive technothrillers. Yes, Jack Ryan was flawless and always right, and American flags were waved so hard they triggered hurricanes, but everything felt plausible and tense. Then things started to go off the rails, with Clancy's increasingly demented hard-right politics being shoehorned in via his author avatar Ryan and the "America good and noble and pure, everyone else evil barbarians" schtick going ballistic with Debt Of Honour and hitting a peak with The Bear And The Dragon. Man. The Bear And The Dragon. It's... something. The something is racism. Clancy really, really hates the Chinese, and lets you know it, both via all the American characters and straight-up authorial interjection. He also loves the idea of flat taxes, and lets you know that too. At great length. Speaking of great length, that's what all American penises have in common, unlike the tiny, worthless Chinese ones. And that is honest to God another piece of prolonged authorial interjection in this brick-sized thriller about superpowers at war. The war doesn't happen until the very end of the book, and is over ridiculously quickly because America is invincible and every single Chinese character has the IQ of a sponge.
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~Coxy posted:Someone should tell the producers that having an appearance of the DB5 isn't interesting or a special treat if it happens every film. Also he apparently had the one he won in Casino Royale shipped to the UK, converted to right-hand drive and fully kitted out by Q Branch, despite it being A: his own personal car rather than an MI6 vehicle, and B: the most loving conspicuous thing on the road. Nice spycraft, Bond!
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Wow, I picked the Lancia Flaminia a few posts upthread completely at random, but here it is!
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International espionage (everything to do with it)
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Epicurius posted:He's very good at killing people. M: "Yes, sir. My best man." [A bead of sweat forms on M's forehead, slowly getting bigger]
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