It wouldn't do for a Bond film, for one, the plot is too coherent....someone might almost think the Director had been reading one of Ian Fleming's books. Willie Donaldson once called Fleming 'The writer of the James Bond adventure books for children'*. But Willie Donaldson was a god (of a particular kind).
*Brewer's Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics. ISBN 0304357286 In the entry for 'Winchester: Bapsy, Marchioness of'.
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Date: 2007-08-17 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-17 01:59 pm (UTC)Willie Donaldson once called Fleming 'The writer of the James Bond adventure books for children'*. But Willie Donaldson was a god (of a particular kind).
*Brewer's Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics. ISBN 0304357286
In the entry for 'Winchester: Bapsy, Marchioness of'.
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Date: 2007-08-17 03:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-17 03:18 pm (UTC)I've made a category mistake, haven't I?
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Date: 2007-08-17 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-17 03:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-18 02:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-18 10:24 am (UTC)(I wonder how Henry James would've written a JB novel? Or James Joyce? or P G Wodehouse?)
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Date: 2007-08-17 02:49 pm (UTC)(Don't get me wrong, I like Craig, it's the set-up that's funny...)