FC/OT: New Bond is imminent….
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I liked the fact Omar had a code so to speak. 'I never did no tax paying citizen' or words to that effect
Doesn't hold a candle to Our Man Flint. Don't believe me? Just ask Austin Powers.I prefer Matt Helm.
Dean-o!!!
Read them while you can. They are currently being edited to "to accommodate 21st century sensitivities".
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What would be the point? Those who would bother reading James Bond novels in the first place aren’t going to be motivated to do so by these sort of changes. Wife wants to go for a walk now, maybe I’ll add more later, maybe not.
Back from walk. Writers have been censored for centuries. At some point you have to let the works speak for theirselves, and try to understand exactly why the authors made the choices they did. I mean, I think it’s obvious that Fitzgerald had never met a Jew before writing The Great Gatsby. Browning wrote an incredibly well-crafted poem about someone murdering a woman because she spurned him; if you take the time to think about it it’s obvious the guy is nuts and maybe impotent. A lot of great writing makes people uncomfortable. Comes with the territory. Best to accept it.
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Roger Craig, the late manager of the San Francisco Giants, at one time played James Bond? Humm baby.
He looks different when not in uniform.Roger Craig, the late manager of the San Francisco Giants, at one time played James Bond? Humm baby.
Midnighter: Perhaps we should have a thread where people nominate actresses to play paramours in upcoming Bond movies. Photos would, of course, be de rigeur. (Alternatively, you could create a poll on the subject.) I could not think of an ideal candidate (preferably young, hot, and English), so I Googled "Young English actresses," and the following website popped up. Makes for interesting perusing.
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Young British Actresses
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Midnighter: Perhaps we should have a thread where people nominate actresses to play paramours in upcoming Bond movies. Photos would, of course, be de rigeur. (Alternatively, you could create a poll on the subject.) I could not think of an ideal candidate (preferably young, hot, and English), so I Googled "Young English actresses," and the following website popped up. Makes for interesting perusing.
Young British Actresses
Hmmm….good idea. But don’t most Bond movies have two women? One love interest/partner and the other a seductress he has to sleep with then kill?
True dat. In that case, we could have a lineup of Russian and/or Eastern European females to play the seductress. If they could whisper a smoky, Russian accented "moose and squirrel," they would have a big leg up for the seductress role.
We think alike. Particularly with respect to Exhibit A. Yikes.Exhibit A:
And whatever they do, please bring back Ana de Armas…
During the late 60s, Ballantine Books came out with a censored version of Fahrenheit 451, which was marketed to high schools. However, for a period during the 70s, they only published the censored version. After a few years, Bradbury found out and demanded that Ballantine go back to printing the original.
As for the Bond books, I believe that the sex scenes had always been toned down for the US editions, and Fleming himself allowed some of them to be edited for racial language. From what I’ve heard, the new releases have been scrubbed of almost any mention of a character’s ethnicity. A few years back I bought an eBook collection of the fourteen Fleming Bond works. While it does contain some language that would not fly today, I have no idea as to how close they are to the original.
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