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Paul S. Person brought next idea :
> On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:54:46 +1100, Michael Cole
> wrote:
>
>> Paul S. Person pretended :
>>
>>>
>> [SNIP]
>>>
>>> Thus, /Octopussy/ uses only the novel's title and the main character
>>> (Bond) of the short story, It has the female lead tell the short
>>> story, and so in that sense is "based on" the short story, but it
>>> certainly does not adapt it in any way. It tells a completely
>>> different story.
>>
>> From memory, the bit about the crossbow being used to kill a bad guy
>> also came from a different short story in the same book. I believe a
>> third of the short stories was used as the basis for /The Living
>> Daylights/.
>
> I don't actually remember a crossbow in /Octopussy/ (mostly it
> involved knives of various sorts -- oh, and a nuclear device, of
> course) but I may be overlooking something. /For Your Eyes Only/, a
> film which combined two short stories -- "For Your Eyes Only" (Bond
> avenges the deaths of M's friends, helped by their daughter) and
> "Risico" (two Greek resistance fighters, one good, one bad), certainly
> included a crossbow (possibly from the short story of the same name).
> Plus additional stuff, of course. /For Your Eyes Only/, then was an
> adaptation of two short stories. And a pretty good one, IMHO.
Yes, apologies - the crossbow was used in /For Your Eyes Only/. One of
the other stories featured Bond going to kill a East German sniper, who
turns out to be a girl who hides her gun in a double-bass case. This
was the other stoty used for one of the other films, I believe /The
Living Daylights/, but the later films tend to blur together.
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Michael Cole
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