From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com
On Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 11:45:23 AM UTC-5, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 07:36:50 -0800 (PST), Jack Bohn
> wrote:
>
> >The James Bond movies, before they ran out of books, were famous for
jacking up the title, tearing out the old machinery, and building an entirely
new story inside it.
> Some were very close to the book, others were (to varying degrees)
> farther from the book, and (yes) a few arguably shared nothing with
> the book except the title and (maybe) the name of the villain.
There was a sequence where Bond and a Bond Girl were tied together and towed
behind a motorboat over coral that was transplanted from one book to another's
movie. Alas, I don't remember which. I know I've read _Moonraker_ and maybe
another whose title
escapes me. I think the sequence was shown in "Never Say Never Again," by
interesting circumstances required to be a close remake of "Thunderball."
> Also, to the extent that the books formed a series, the movies
> destroyed that by using the books in the filmmaker's order.
That reminds me of the story that an upgrade to Bond's gun was moved from one
book to another's movie (the first one?) as a good character moment. Are
there other series-building moments from the books transplanted to the
movies? (In the Sherlock
Holmes books, Moriarity was introduced to the readers and to Watson in the
story that was supposed to kill off Holmes. Later, an earlier case was
written, and Moriarity was to play a part, Holmes and Watson discuss him (by
name) as a known problem.
Fans mostly headcannon the discussions as taking place in the opposite
stories, although I doubt anyone has tampered with the sacred texts, even if
collecting them in internal chronological order.)
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