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the whole think about James Bond is that he's supposed to be suave, sophisticated, charming and
very nice to look at.
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I don't agree here - the books make it quite clear that Bond, himself, is not suave and sophisticated, especially in the early books like
Casino Royale - he is merely paid and trained by Her Majesty's Secret Service to act that way when he is on a case.
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Oh, and granted, yes, Daniel Craig does seem more in line with what Ian Fleming wrote him to be like, but the Bond films have taken on a life of their own now, I don't think any adaptations of Fleming's work has been used in years... but I may be wrong.
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Up until the 1980s, the movies at least vaguely followed the plot lines of the novels - and in a couple of cases (
Goldfinger comes to mind) even improved on them. The one exception, of course, was
The Spy Who Loved Me, which bore no resemblance whatsoever to anything Fleming wrote.
But then they ran out of novels.
The movie
For Your Eyes Only was a pretty good attempt at stitching together the collection of short stories by the same name, but that was the last complete movie that was based on Fleming's work. After that, the movies just borrowed titles and the occasion scene from Fleming's short stories:
- The auction scene in Octopussy, which had nothing to do with the short story of the same name, came from a different short story entitled Property Of A Lady.
- The Living Daylights incorporated virtually the entire short story of the same name in the scene where Bond is asked to assassinate the female cellist, but deliberately misses.
- License To Kill, which was the last movie that Cubby Broccoli made before his daughter took over, incorporated the scene from the novel Thunderball where Felix Leiter lost his legs in the shark tank.