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[Roger Moore's Bad Facelift]

Basically, all Purvis & Wade one-liners are crass. But I especially loathed the following bit from TND (not easily identifiable who wrote it, but still):

M: Remind her. Than pump her for information.
MM: You'll just have to decide how much pumping is needed, James.
JB: If only that were true of you and I, Moneypenny.

I am afraid P&W are absolved from all wrondoing in this case. As far as I know, TND was written only by Bruce Fierstein. I don't think they had time to have a dialogue brush up done by any outside writers.

[pgram]

The 'delve into Egypt's treasures' one is the only one that actually makes me uncomfortable. Especially considering how young and servile the girl/cocubine looks. It's actually almost sinister. I was watching TSWLM only recently and I was surprised at how crass it was.

What makes you say this?

http://homepages.nil...shot/tswlm8.jpg

Sir Roger rules!!!

Edited by Qwerty, 04 November 2005 - 03:08 AM.

[Lounge Lizard]

Basically, all Purvis & Wade one-liners are crass. But I especially loathed the following bit from TND (not easily identifiable who wrote it, but still):

M: Remind her. Than pump her for information.
MM: You'll just have to decide how much pumping is needed, James.
JB: If only that were true of you and I, Moneypenny.

I am afraid P&W are absolved from all wrondoing in this case. As far as I know, TND was written only by Bruce Fierstein. I don't think they had time to have a dialogue brush up done by any outside writers.

I know P&W had nothing to do with TND, but Feirstein wasn't the only writer on TND- only according to the credits he was. I believe there was also talk of a Donald Westlake treatment, and a brainstorm session was conducted, involving the likes of Robert Collector and Nicholas Meyer. Meyer was then asked to write another treatment 'on the strength of his ideas', aided by David Campbell Wilson and Daniel Petrie, Jr., after which Feirstein was brought back in. I guess there's something of a shared guilt concerning the 'pump her for information' line.

[Blofeld's Cat]

From Live And Let Die....

Bond to Solitaire: "No sense in going off half-cocked."

I think it's Moore Bond's crudest line, if not from the whole series.

[Qwerty]

The 'delve into Egypt's treasures' one is the only one that actually makes me uncomfortable. Especially considering how young and servile the girl/cocubine looks. It's actually almost sinister. I was watching TSWLM only recently and I was surprised at how crass it was.

What makes you say this?

http://homepages.nil...shot/tswlm8.jpg

Sir Roger rules!!!

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[killkenny kid]

Anything that came from Sheriff Pepper's mouth.

[DavidSomerset]

Bond: I feel a slight stiffness coming on.
OR
Jinx:

[DavidSomerset]

Sir Roger rules!!!

Nobody Does it Better - than Roger. He is the King of the one-liners.

[A Kristatos]

[quote name='DavidSomerset' date='4 November 2005 - 03:51']Bond: I feel a slight stiffness coming on.
OR
Jinx:

Edited by A Kristatos, 08 November 2005 - 06:43 PM.

[Mister Asterix]

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[Qwerty]

Sir Roger rules!!!

Nobody Does it Better - than Roger. He is the King of the one-liners.

[TortillaFactory]

[quote]Bond: I feel a slight stiffness coming on. [/quote]

Would have worked if he hadn't tacked on the part about his shoulder, actually. That made it obvious and lame.

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[Blue07]

I don't really think of any of those lines as particuarly crude. It's all in the tradition of Bond and should be taken with a pinch of salt. Certainly there are moments early on that today seem very out of place but it's all about the time of the film and where Bond would be at the time. I love the one liners, crude or not, and hope that the series continues with them. Though with 'gritty' I suspect they also mean 'humourless.'