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[killkenny kid]

The Best: OHMSS

The Worst: DAD, for the lame second half of the script. But, to be fair the rewrites where asked for by the director.

[Major Bloodnok]

IMHO FRWL and OHMSS tie for the best scripts. Could you imagine Timothy or Pierce with scripts of that calibre? Holy Blofeld!

I have a hard time choosing a "worst script." As a scriptwriter I can see good points in every one of the scripts, even Purvis and Wades misfires, which did manage to hit the broad side of the barn. Sure, the solex agitator was nonsense but it was a MacGuffin, the same as the Lektor decoder in FRWL or the Faberge egg in Octopussy. Any writer will tell you that you MUST have contrivances in your stories. The trick is to not make them look like contrivances.

My least favorite films are AVTAK and TMWTGG. They had the weakest stories in my opinion. That's the script, director and actors all rolled up together.

[triviachamp]

Yes I think OHMSS was great too.
Well I must admit the later Moore Bond movies seem to at least attempt to connnect the scenes together, unlike say TMTWGG.

As for the Solex, well the film should have been a Bond vs. Scaramanga film, but the Sacred Formula required something more so Scaramanga steals the Solex and builds some big lab for the sole reason that the formula requires it. He's an assassin for goodness sake!

[Qwerty]

Oops, is this redundant?

[Mods Note: Topics merged]

[PrinceKamalKhan]

[quote name='Loomis' date='25 July 2003 - 06:42'][quote]Originally posted by zencat on the thread "TSWLM - as close to perfect as a 007 movie can be" (http://forums.comman...&threadid=10765)

Structurally SPY is flawless.

[Colossus]

One example of shoddy writing in TSWLM is Anya saying she stole the blueprints for the Lotus car yet gets nervous when the car is about to dive into the water. Her knowing the car's gadgetry is unbelievable too.

[Mr_Wint]

One example of shoddy writing in TSWLM is Anya saying she stole the blueprints for the Lotus car yet gets nervous when the car is about to dive into the water. Her knowing the car's gadgetry is unbelievable too.

Maybe she was surprised that it actually works in real life? There's nothing strange with a Russian spy stealing blueprints of gadgets from the British. The scene is simply there to remind the audience that Bond and XXX used to be enemies, and it works, for me at least.

I will not even try to pick a favourite Bond script as there is so many good ones. But FRWL, TB and OHMSS are excellent book adoptions and TSWLM/FYEO are the best original scripts. DN and OP also deserves to be mentioned as they have many good qualities.

One thing I particular enjoy in the classic Bonds is how the intrigue always starts relatively low-key - a thin track for Bond to follow that eventually result in a far bigger scheme; gold (GF), Diamonds (DAF), a microchip (TSWLM), Faberge egg (OP), horses (AVTAK).

[Major Bloodnok]

Yup. Those are the MacGuffins.

[Darksideoftheschwartz]

I read somewhere once that the three most important elements of a good screenplay are structure, structure and structure.

In mo opinion the 3 most important elements ane not structure, structure and structure, but structure paceing and structure

[Scottlee]

I would give OHMSS or FRWL the "best script" award.