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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-19 (Sunday)
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:54:11 -0500
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On 1/23/2025 3:34 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2025 at 10:07:26 AM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>> On 1/20/2025 5:39 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/20/25 1:18 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> 'Moonraker'. And yes, the physics ARE complete male bovine digestive
>>>>>>> end product but its still a fun flick. :)
>>
>>>>>> I have it on good authority that "Moonraker" is the best Bond film,
>>>>>> EVAH!!  ;p
>>
>>>>> I despise this movie on principle that they made such a horrid
>>>>> adaptation of Fleming's best novel. All they had to do was set the movie
>>>>> story in the 1950s, same as the novel, and it would have been a great
>>>>> movie. We don't need Bond In Space in, essentially, a remake of major
>>>>> elements of You Only Live Twice and The Spy Who Loved Me.
>>
>>>>> Why not set the movie in the 1950s? There's absolutely no continuity.
>>   
>>>> So what about the book requires it to be set in the 50s?
>>
>>> Apparently the original written story was about a billionaire building a
>>> nuclear missile to nuke London.
>>
>>> By this point in the movie series Fleming was long dead and they weren't
>>> really "adapting" the books, they were using them as inspiration for
>>> their own scripts/stories.
>>
>> During Fleming's lifetime too! Fleming's plot from the Goldfinger novel
>> wasn't used. The novel's scheme by Goldfinger was poorly thought out.
> 
> "Do you expect me to talk?"
> 
> "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die."
> 
> Last month I played lead trumpet in an orchestra concert of famous songs from
> film and one of the pieces on the menu was GOLDFINGER. They hired a woman who
> did a pretty good impression of Shirley Bassey. I was just stoked to be able
> to do the musical equivalent of an actor chewing the scenery with the trumpet
> part. You don't often get to combine falling glisses and wah-wah mutes in such
> an over-the-top way. In any other piece, the conductor would be like, "We need
> less of that." In this one, it's "More. No, even more."
> 
> The first four bars are the best:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D1nK7q2i8I

Maybe nostalgia's lying to me, but I feel they don't make 'em like that 
any more...