Contessa
#1
Posted 17 February 2003 - 11:07 PM
#2
Posted 18 February 2003 - 06:09 PM
#3
Posted 18 February 2003 - 07:58 PM
#4
Posted 19 February 2003 - 11:59 PM
In the novel, the chapter "Seascape with Figures" is the teaser, but the next few chapters are a flashback. SO, in the novel, Bond meets Tracey at the casino, sleeps with her, learns she's suicidal, then follows her to the beach the next day at dusk, where he saves her. They are both picked up by Draco's men where Bond meets Draco.
In the film, the "flash forward" happens first, because it's more exciting to have a fight in the teasers. The only problem is that it's hard to know that Tracy is commiting suicide, because we don't already know her background. I guess we have to assume from the listless way she walks into the water, her reckless behavior with her car, and her determination to continue into the water that Bond is rescuing her.
#5
Posted 20 February 2003 - 01:55 PM
#6
Posted 20 February 2003 - 02:43 PM
Originally posted by Tedley King
Thanks all, I think I should get a few more Fleming books. I guess the only reason I don't is because the films don't follow the books a great deal, so I might get confused and think ... "hang on, this didn't happen in the film" ... I know it sounds stupid and all, but I do that quite a bit!
No need to apologize for not having read a lot of the novels. I still haven't read a couple Fleming books myself. But you won't be sorry if you do read them.
If anything, it's interesting to note what little things that are in the films, the little bits and pieces, you can recognize. Or possible things that maybe could have made it to screen. It really gives a different perspective when reading them rather than just saying you read them.
#7
Posted 20 February 2003 - 09:10 PM
And then you get films like YOLT that are nothing short of totaly different from the novel.
#8
Posted 20 February 2003 - 09:23 PM
#9
Posted 24 February 2003 - 01:20 PM
Originally posted by Daltonitus
Yeah, like the LALD novel, ideas from that in 3/4 of the films.
And then you get films like YOLT that are nothing short of totaly different from the novel.
I thought that LALD was one of the worst adaptations. They really butchered the novel.
#10
Posted 24 February 2003 - 09:26 PM
Even OHMSS isn't shot for shot, as has been said.
#11
Posted 25 February 2003 - 08:12 PM
#12
Posted 26 February 2003 - 08:28 PM
Originally posted by ChandlerBing
I shocked people the other day when
What does this mean?