From:	Ken Hart satyr9@********.com
Subject:	SR Movies List [OT]
Date:	Fri, 12 Feb 1999 22:56:20 -0000

Paul Gettle wrote:

> However, Casino Royale isn't the only instance
> where a Bond movie takes its title from an Ian
> Flemming novel even though the two works
> bear little resemblence to each other, correct?

Oh, yeah. A lot of the Roger Moore films had nothing in common with the stories other than
the names of the villains, especially "Moonraker" and "Man with the Golden
Gun."

I never understood why they didn't use the original Golden Gun plot (no real spoilers,
since this happens in the first few pages): A KGB-brainwashed Bond tries to kill
"M," is deprogrammed by MI6, and is then ordered to kill Scaramanga, one of the
world's top assassins. Bond's bosses figure that if he can terminate the deadly
Scaramanga, then 007 is back to normal and everything's fine. But if the shaky Bond fails
and gets killed, oh well -- that's just too damn bad.

Instead, the movie is one of the worst Bond films, with this goofy plot about solar energy
-- and Herve ("Tattoo") Villechaize! Even Christopher Lee as Scaramanga can't
save it.

--Ken Hart
satyr9@********.com
http://home.earthlink.net/~evilweb/
"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but why would anyone want to see Snow White and the Seven
Samurai?"


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