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   From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Paul S Person  wrote:   
   >Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:58:16 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman" :   
   >>Leif Roar Moldskred  wrote:   
   >>>Your Name  wrote:   
      
   >>>>I forgot, the other well-known Roald Dahl book turned into a recent-ish   
   >>>>movie is "The BFG". For some reason (maybe it was too new at the time)   
   >>>>that story isn't included in my old box-set of Dalh books.   
      
   >>>I'd argue that "The Witches" is better known than both "James and the   
   >>>Giant Peach" and "The BFG". There are also movie adaptions of "Danny,   
   >>>the Champion of the World" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox." Dahl also wrote   
   >>>the script for the movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."   
      
   >>And You Only Live Twice, but I can't forgive him for killing Aki.   
      
   >It's been so long I have forgotten whether Aki is in the book and, if   
   >she is, whether she dies.   
      
   Aki was created for the movie. Kissy is in the novel but a somewhat   
   different character.   
      
   >In the film this is necessary to clear the decks for his cover.   
   >Traditional Family Values can be a bitch.   
      
   Dahl has said he felt he was olbiged to write to some formula in which   
   one of Bond's lovers dies at a certain point (spurring on Bond's later   
   actions), but he accidentally created an unforgetable Bond girl with an   
   unnecessary and unsatisfying death. Bond was hardly affected by it.   
      
   He was never asked back to write another screenplay for anyone after   
   Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.   
      
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