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'GoldenEye' Novelization Review | How Does a James Bond Classic Translate to the Page?
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- čas přidán 23. 09. 2023
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Can't believe Gardner didn't have the tank double-cross Bond at least twice.
😂😂
At least he didn't have to write an original character to perform a double cross this time.
@@dvader518 True-A character faking there death and turning out to be the villain feels straight from a Gardener story-surprising it works so well in Goldeneye.
@@jamesatkinsonja And the following year, Mission: Impossible did the exact same thing
The novel influnced the N64 game soooo much, it explains why Natalya has the cougar magnum in the jungle level
I did find it puzzling that the game incs the deleted guardhouse sequence, esp as it was developed after the film came out.
@@davidjames579does it?
@@marthastubbs8321 Yeah I could understand if the game was made before the film's release, and they were only working from a script/dailies/rough cut. Often deleted material is revealed in supporting products this way as it'd be too late to remove/alter it. But the game was released two years after the film.
@@davidjames579because it allows them to create an introductory level
@@DavidJarvis01 Sure, but you don't normally see deleted material repurposed.
Fun fact: Samantha Bond did read audiobook for this novelization.
John Gardner's website used to have an interview he did with Raymond Benson where they discussed each of the Gardner books up to SeaFire. It's not there anymore but can be found using the WayBack machine. The LTK section has an interesting quote:
"[The Licence to Kill novelisation] was a one-off idea, and I thought it might be fun. It wasn't. I did it, but I wouldn't want to do it again. I should've known... I started working on it and the screenplay changed daily. I would get phone calls saying "John, scenes 230-235 are out, and new pages are being couried to you." It drove me mad. (Since the time of this interview, Gardner agreed to write the novelisation of GoldenEye, but on his terms. He accepted the assignment on the condition that he have more freedom to "add and subtract" what he wanted and not be held to the screenplay _during_ shooting.)"
This probably explains why the GoldenEye novelisation feels closer to the film than LTK. He didn't have an original novel out in 1995 so, with no deadline from Glidrose/IFP to worry about, maybe he had the freedom to wait until the final script was locked in. Though clearly he wrote it before filming was finished considering Admiral Chuck hasn't been changed from American to Canadian. And maybe that "add and subtract" bit explains why Xenia's red Ferrari is yellow in the book.
Thanks so much for sourcing this snippet, BenCol! Fascinating to think they were keeping Gardner up to date with the day to days of shooting and the screenplay changes. I would have assumed the novelisation would have been more of a promotional afterthought than something they'd have kept him so looped in on.
I remember you mentioning this exchange in the 'Licence' novelisation so I'm glad your put it here. I remember David Morrell saying for Rambo 3 the script was changing so much and he wanted to get on with writing the novelisation [as a family member was very ill and writing was his coping mechanism] he did a deal where he based his book on the first draft and ignored subsequent changes [hence his book includes a dutch female doctor who's not in the film and it stops being related about half way through].
@@jamesatkinsonjaYeah, I remember stumbling across that interview and finding it really interesting - you rarely, if ever, get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a book in the same way you do of a film (I suppose there's less to talk about, just one person with a word processor, but still, the process can be interesting). It's a shame Gardner's estate then decided to redo his website and take that interview off - thank goodness for the Wayback Machine!
I think it's most likely Gardner was working with the final shooting script for the film, which has a lot of elements he uses that aren't present in the final product; this includes some dialogue, some deleted scenes and some things that were changed for censorship purposes such as Bond and Onatopp in the sauna.
The sled dog explanation is so weird.
It could have simply been someone delivering supplies to the base who was inside and killed by Xenia or elsewhere and killed by the base collapsing.
Oh I love that detail about Natalya’s watch being a present from her parents!
Genuinely one of my favourite extra details that I think really enriches an aspect of the film that (to be perfectly honest) I hadn’t considered before but once it was pointed out I was like “huh, yeah I guess it is odd that she’d continue wearing a broken watch”
@@calvindyson yeah I agree😊
*Doctor:* We did everything we could, Mr Bond, but her legs injuries were too severe. She won't be able to walk again.
*James Bond:* Damn it! And I thought I had found the woman of my life!
Great video Calvin. Got the audiobook on cassette with Samantha Bond reading of all people.
Anyway, thought I'd put my two cents in with the Admirals double.
As i understood it, the 'double' is Xenia's Partner. Another Janus agent who disguised himself as Chuck to steal the Tiger with his ID. He then makes a reappearance later in his natural state as Xenia's backup in the sauna when he comes in to help by koshing Bond and ends up with a faceful of bucket.
Great channel mate, hope to keep seeing good stuff 👍
Never thought of that... makes total sense. Wonder if at one point they intended him to be a larger presence in the story but axed it (which is good, all of GE's cast gets the right amount of screentime)
I have gotten so much enjoyment from these book reviews lol! Thank you for your diligence Calvin. Can't wait for the next videos!
Glad you like them! Plenty more ahead :D
Oh, also, it only recently occurred to me that Goldeneye's prologue would be happening in Dalton's Bond's timeline (between TLD and LTK perhaps?), but I just now realised it would've been Robert Brown's M who sent him on that mission!
I always viewed the 1986 prologue of *"GoldenEye"* as having take place after the Gibraltar prologue of *"The Living Daylights"* (which in my headcanon, as having take place in Early 1986 before the rest of the film was set in 1987).
Sadly, according to the James Bond wiki of the *"GoldenEye"* novel, "The Old Man" was said
to be based on Bernard Lee's M
(Vice Admiral Sir Miles Messervy) - who was called "The Old Man" in the film *"Thunderball"* -
rather than Robert Brown's M (Admiral Hargraves).
Personally given 'Goldeneye' feels like it could have been a 'soft reboot' the time line doesn't bother me very much. Gardner's timeline doesn't include Living Daylights either [as there was no novelisation].
@@JOSH-lw2jv Yes, M in the novels is always Sir Miles Messervy past Bernard Lee's 1981 death before the female M is introduced. Not that it maters but Brown's M being Hargreaves is a fan theory as it's never confirmed on screen [some older Bond reference books speculated if he was a re-cast Messervy or a different character entirely].
Brown's M wears a 'Rear Admiral' uniform in 'Living Daylights' which might be the film makers attempting to show he's a different character from Bernard Lee's M [Vice Admiral] or Hargreaves [full admiral].
@@jamesatkinsonja I feel the uniforms confirm it. I doubt M was demoted after YOLT. Or Hargreaves after Spy Who.
@@davidjames579 You've got to be careful with analysing the naval uniforms, as they're a whole can of continuity worms- like how in YOLT Bond and M's uniforms only make sense if the characters are at least a decade older than the actors (M has WW1 medals and Bond WW2), and that's not to mention Bond losing his CMG by the time of Moore and Brosnan...
Another line to add to my “Quotable Calvin” list…..”I’m an easy lay when it comes to anything Goldeneye”. LOL! Love it. Best Bond content on the Internet!!
I’d totally forgot about the Flicka reference in the novel! Though I wonder if that’s due to my first encounter with the novelization was the book on tape version I found on clearance at a bookstore in the early 2000s. A version that turned out to be fairly abridged, as I recall! Not that the novelization was terribly good or expanded upon things, not like Wood’s The Spy Who Loved Me or Benson’s Tomorrow Never Dies (which I suspect you’ll really enjoy when you get to it, Calvin!).
My biggest surprise when reading the actual book version was in the final confrontation between Bond and Trevelyan. The exchange between them at the end changing Bond’s final line from “No, for me.” to “Go to hell!” or thereabouts felt anti-climactic.
If I recall most 'books on tape' at the time were 3 hours long [two tapes] so a lot of things got cut and sometimes the abridgement didn't even sound like it was proof read as it made no sense! Of course, economics was a factor and audible doesn't need tones of tape to do it properly!
I remember one thing in the book not in the film is Jack Wade's obsession with gardening. I'm guessing it was in the script and possibly even shot but then removed during editing - because we get Wade's line "d'you do any gardening?" in the final film but it's just an awkward non-sequitor. Now we know it was the set-up for a running joke that got cut. Quite frankly I'm glad the book explains the context of that line because it's always confused me what Wade meant - I always assumed, coming so soon after discussing Wade's embarrasing rose tattoo, that Wade was asking if Bond knew of a way to get rid of it.
Strange why they didn't cut the "d'you do any gardening?" line if gardening was no longer part of his character. Maybe it would've been too harsh a cut. Maybe they thought it was still a funny line even in isolation.
Or, possibly, it wasn't in the script and Gardner just decided to add it in to explain the gardening line.
In the TV series Edge Of Darkness, directed by Martin Campbell, Joe Don Baker's character was a big fan of the show Come Dancing (this was in the days before Strictly Come Dancing) and I've always presumed the gardening comment was related to establishing a similar quirky interest for Wade. For whatever reason it never made the final cut, although it does explain his appreciation of the banyan trees in the Carribbean.
14:55 I remember him talking about gardening driving Bond in a short deleted scene [it was in the set Calvin reviewed when he was doing deleted scenes]. I remember Calvin at the time saying they probably though that was pushing the eccentricity too far but maybe it was a last minute cut as now you mentioned the 'orphaned references' it's a bit clumsy.
They sorta left it in the film. When Wades giving Bond the gadgets he's distracted and goes "Banion trees". The first ones random yet funny, but the second time if you don't remember "Ya do any gardening?" it's just kinda odd.
I was hoping this would be explained. I knew it was a quirk for Wade, but I can see in editing they thought it would hold the film up for no good reason.
I hope you get the original book print one day. I got mine in a charity shop for £5 in Eccles !!!
Did the music of the film play in your head too while you were reading? Only when you came to the end, you immediately shut the book so as to not hear "THE EXPEIRENCE OF LOVE" in your head......or maybe you you sang along to your self while on the train ;)
I totally had the score music in my head throughout!
The mute button can't go on fast enough when 'Experience' kicks in! [sorry fans of it!].
@@calvindyson especially the Tiger helicopter piece
hahahahah!!!! sadly theres no music video for that song......wait did i really just say sadly???@@jamesatkinsonja
Great review & video Calvin. Thanks for continuing to take the time to read these books and share your thoughts. Very enjoyable. I agree with you regarding Christopher Wood’s Spy Who Loved Me novelization, it’s the best movie tie-in book and arguably the best non-Fleming Bond book of all. Cheers!
Calvin "I think this is the most graphic depiction of sex I've heard in a Bond novel"...
Raymond Benson, "wait until you read my books"
Maybe Raymond Benson ghost wrote the love scene? Remember this comment...😅
Ha! I seem to recall reading that his novelisations of the Metal Gear Solid games made the characters hornier. 😅
I'm on tenterhooks now to see how this comment becomes relevant as I get stuck into Gardner 😂
@@calvindyson Ohhohohhooooo boiiiii you’re in for a ride my friend, EL James eat your heart out 😂
I found it difficult to get through some of Benson's love scenes, the books were better than Gardner's though in my opinion so every cloud I guess.
@@calvindysonWhat are your thoughts on the Roger Moore audios Bond on Bond being one of them.
I like the part where bond is in the new M’s office and describes it being totally different from the old one almost reminiscing and missing the old M and how the office used to look it feels relatable and human not the mention the way on how he describes it felt like Fleming esc. I honestly wouldn’t mind if bond did this more often as I feel like it gives him an extra layer of relatability as a human and don’t get me wrong I still love when he’s a charming womanizing cold blooded killer I would just like this to be added more into his character
Ohh Calvin....I never even was aware that this piece was produced! Thank you for keeping your ear to the ground when it comes to bond releases and merchandise and for your passion for the franchise as well
I've never felt the need of reading a Gardner novel but I liked this part 8:37
I'll probably check out one of the ones you'll recommend us at the end of this journey (I can't believe there is only one book left!).
I think you're doing a great job Calvin! I once in 2014 through 2015 read the Fleming and Gardner novels plus Raymond Benson's! For 8 years I haven't been able to talk over with anyone that has read all of them! So refreshing to revisit them again through your eyes! I pretty much feel the same as you do about them! I hope you explorer the Benson novels next! I found them to be much more entertaining! But still relish Gardner's continuation! Cheers mate! 🍸
Very much a translation to the screen. Honestly I’ve only read the first theee Gardners and the novelisations of LTK and GE so I cannot comment on his tenure. Really looking forward to you summation of the Gardner era
Another possible example of tying GoldenEye novelization into Gardner continuity: 007 used the ASP 9mm with Glaser safety slugs
If you think that's a graphic description of sex wait until you get to Benson.
Oh No lol
OOOOH! I’ve been waiting for this since Calvin said it was coming. These Gardner novel reviews are some of my most anticipated videos.
COLD will be really interesting for you to review as the story is a two parter that takes place before Seafire and after Never Send Flowers. The ending is bittersweet though.
I do wonder if the prologue in Goldeneye gave Gardner the idea of setting his next book over two time periods.
11:05 Love a Simpson's reference/cameo!
13:05 Ugh! Glad that never made it to screen.
15:19 The final Gardner novel, Cold, is actually set before Goldeneye which does explain some of the inconsistences and Flicka [spoiler alert, it's very underwhelming, to me at least]. At least once your done with that you've finished with Gardner.
The Constant Gardner. A psychological breakdown process devised for MI6 by John le Carre,.
Something that just occurred to me about Bond's respect for the old M and lack of for the new M, could it be because the old M was a retired naval admiral (Bond being a Commander), whereas the new M was the 'Evil Queen of Numbers' and presumably viewed as a paper pusher?
Probably. In Ian Fleming’s novels they did have a really good relationship and that bond wants to make M happy and is at times actually careful not to upset him. Like in moonraker when M asks him to assist in catching Drax cheating at cards and he was like a bit embarrassed to do so and when they were at blades bond didn’t assert himself and order whatever he wanted, instead he wanted M to lead the way and show him around the club and at the end when M gives him a new gun because he lost his to the bad guys it means a lot to him. a second time in the short story “for your eyes only” when M asks bond to do the mission of capturing and killing the people who murdered Judy havelock’s parents it seemed more personal than just professional to M because he was the best man at their wedding and it shows how much he trusts BOND to do it instead of any other agent
@@mohammedashian8094 completely agree, Bond definitely has a lot of affection for the 'old man' in the novels
Love your content.
I'm excited to hear your review of "Cold." ("Cold Fall" in the USA.) That's the first Bond book I ever read.
P.S. Where's Mr. Bleeker?
Great review. If you want to hear an audio version James Bond Radio did a fantastic reading of both the Christopher Wood novels, The Spy Who Loved Me, and Moonraker.
It'd be interesting to see if there was anything from the game in the novelisation too! Unlikely though, but it would be fun if we got an interlude in a missile silo in Kyrgyzstan, haha.
Goodness me that passage was certainly something! A combination of words I can't say I ever wanted to hear from a Bond novel. 😅
Yeah, the Flicka stuff is a bit confusing. I've been eager to see your reviews for Goldeneye and COLD because I've known for a while that *something* happens, but haven't been sure what, and I knew you'd go into detail and answer the mystery.
It must be tough figuring out where to rank this book, because even if you're enjoying it a lot, that's because it's based on an existing story you already love. So it's a bit hard to judge on its own merits.
Thanks Calvin, for putting a spotlight on decent ''novelizations'. Those for the Terminator and Gremilns are surprisingly and rewardingly good, filling in a lot of detail with purpose and imagination. Gremlins is particularly good - has passages of Spike's frustration with the physical limitations of being in Mogwai state. As a Bond fan, there is an element of presupposing an unbidden agency and innate ability on Bond's part. The cinema audience never needs to know what his internal machinations are, he just 'Bonds'. On paper, these writers cannot get past this essential appeal. It has no need of explanation, glad u critically saw the good and meh points in these. Thumbs up :)
Man I never realised how strong natalya’s swedish accent is 😂
Being swedish myself I can’t believe I didn’t notice
Isn’t she Polish?
@@spaceodds1985 half polish half swedish
@@andreasnilsson5020 She moved to Sweden when she was 7 or 8, so yes that accent would be her speaking voice.
Aww. The Gardner reviews are almost over? I know you’ll still do reviews and all that, but I loved hearing your thoughts on these books.
It's a pity Gardner got to write this with a copy of the film or a late script, and not just a copy of the N64 game. Would have made for an interesting book. "Bond wondered why the antenna needed 20 kilometers of steel walkways and why Trevelyan was determined to run along every metre of them."
Of course the game didn't come out until 1997...
I personally think the admiral double got his justice served. I like to think he gets knocked out in the steam bath fight with onatopp
On the note of Bond chiding M on smoking, it either inspired the "Filthy Habit" line in Tomorrow Never Dies or was a reference to it depending on when the novelization was released.
On an unrelated note: considering you love animation, Calvin, you ever thought about a James Bond animated series? I have. Perhaps it's based more off of the games than the movies. Good work usual 008 (Calvin), keep up the good work!
This novelisation came out at the same time Goldeneye did. In fairness, it could have been something cut out of this film and then re-purposed for TND as Bruce Feirnstein has a writing credit on both and the Bond series is fine cherry picking ideas to use [the opening of TND started out life in 'a draft of The Living Daylight's' for example].
Great video, Calvin! Thanks for all you do.
My pleasure! Thanks for watching 😊😊
11:06 it's funny how Gardner tries to frame that incident when most soviet tanks only have crew of 3 to 4 people.
Does the novelisation inc the Tiger Helicopter doing a Loop-Da-Loop as it flies away from Monaco? It's in the GoldenEye Photo Story Book (although no photo), and was filmed as can be seen from the Teaser Trailer at 1.13 czcams.com/video/AN1bkIEs8oo/video.html They were savvy enough to remove it from the actual trailer, as it must have been cut from the film by then (the close up of the pilot doing a 180 was still inc, followed by the heli flying normally).
I think a Goldfinger 64 review is long over due (Especially before the Spy Who Loved Me 64 comes out)
I don't think Calvin is gonna dedicate a whole video to a fan made mod video game.
3:52 The 'Goldeneye was written for Dalton' story you often hear online annoys me, mainly as it doesn't line up with the actual production of the film [given Brosnan was cast on 8th June 1994 and filming didn't start until 16 January 1995 while many writers worked on it] but also as the script is constantly changing during production [as shown by the minor differences here and for Tomorrow Never dies, the final draft was only finished less than 3 weeks before filming ending] so it was very much tailored towards Brosnan. Besides, while I understand Dalton fans would have loved to have had more, it's Brosnan's success story-let him have it!
Yeah, it seems to depend on thinking Michael France's screenplay was the film we got. Michael France's first draft (available on Script Slug) is dated January 94 so that would've been written for Dalton, but that script is immensely different from the film we got - there's a reason France only got a 'story by' credit.
I do like the Bond getting a review after retiring in Licence To Kill. Would have worked for Dalton, whereas a lot of people I think might take GoldenEye as a new Bond film unrelated to the previous (esp given the time that had passed).
@@davidjames579 For sure you can see the review as a link back to Licence as it's still in continuity or you could see it as the new M wanting to evaluate Bond if it's a new start [given only Desmond returns for a brief scene]. For the later, I'd like to think M quickly deduced Bond seduced Caroline which might have influenced her 'sexist, misogynist dinosaur' comment as it's a bad first impression.
@@jamesatkinsonja It's clever enough or ambiguous enough that it can be inferred either way,. Tanner's Evil Queen Of Numbers line/M saying Bond thinks she's a bean counter fits in setting up M as doing evaluations to see where to cut costs and fat (a holdover from Dalton's Bond 17 script where it was M's boss doing this. This character and story element would be however still used, but much later in Spectre, with Max Denbigh. Although Never Say Never Again had already done the New Ideas M and cost cutting thing years before). Interestingly, Russian Defence Minister Mishkin was going to be a returning General Pushkin from The Living Daylights. I'm not sure if this was changed after Dalton bowed out or because John Rhys-Davies was unavailable. And as with General Gogol they saw no reason to re-cast the character.
@@davidjames579 I definitely get the feeling May Day in View was a response to Fatima in NSNA being popular [the actress was golden globe nominated] and Goldeneye has Xenia and the laser watch as well as the 'new broom' M. In a post cold war world, cutting costs etc was a topical concern [Tom Clancy's 'Debt of Honor' has characters moaning about budget cuts every 10 pages or so!] so it makes sense to keep it.
After Dalton's departure, I think they wanted to push the 'soft reboot' angle and keep references to a minimum so Puskin was removed. The 'Ministry of Defense' was also in the script-presumably Geoffrey Keen-but he was also dropped so it feels an conscious decision. Puskin still being referred to as KGB in the France script is an error as the organisation was abolished by this point after the real life KGB chairman was involved in the attempted August 1991 coup [eventually replaced by the FSB] and of course the Soviet Union had collapsed by this point so it would be a massive stretch he'd still be there and not removed in the 'clear out'.
I'll have to check it out and read it someday.
Thanks for the review Calvin
Calvin I always assumed that the imposter Admiral was Ourumov basically to back this up I turn to the Movie Xenia and Imposter Admiral get in then later in Russia you see Xenia ad Ourumov get out which says to me Ourumov was the Imposter or are we to believe that he called Xenia while in air saying something like " on your way to the facility stop in Moscow Drop Ivan off and Pick Me Up"
They definitely dropped off somewhere, both to refuel and so that Xenia could change her clothes.
Yeah given the change of clothes I assume they stopped off somewhere and a day or two has passed in between.
Personally I can't believe Ourumov taking the risk. He's a well known Russian General. He might well have a public presence if he discussed by CNN or whoever as a future leader of Russia, and he sits in on the government meetings. Certainly NATO, military and intelligence people on the ship could recognise him. I also don't see him doing his own dirty work as a getaway driver. Even if he wanted to I imagine Trevelyan would say he's too much of a risk. And finally, even with a disguise I don't see how he could pass for the Admiral.
@@davidjames579 Agreed. As a kid I thought it was him but he'd be smart enough to keep way from the actual hijacking in front of many witnesses [the attack at the facility is of course only meant to have Boris as a survivor so he's covered there].
@@jamesatkinsonja Yep, and at the facility he was needed, for his security clearance and to get Xenia in. In Monaco you could use a henchman.
This is surreal, I just watched the movie yesterday.
Don't know if you can find out why, but when Cold was released here in the USA it was retitled Cold Fall.
Ok i am gonna read Coldfall or i guess just cold next after i finish my reread of double shot
Those Glaser Safety Slugs in his ASP pistol really carried Bond through this novelization.
You didn’t include the equal graphic Xenia scene in the sauna. I never realised the guy that Bond clocked with the wooden bucket was a hitman until I read this. Honestly thought he was just another sauna patron who Bond didn’t want to interrupt things.
If you look closely you can see the guy is carrying a kosh/baton as he approaches Bond; he's almost certainly a henchman - I think there's also a distant noise like the whine of a door that can be heard when Bond is being crushed, which I believe is the henchman entering.
@@MrStath1986 oh yeh, never spotted the kosh before. If I remember rightly in book Xenia seduces Bond to distract him and while they are 🍆 the guy creeps up behind them but Bond spots him in reflection or something
After Gardner, what next?
Young Bond?
Benson is next.
Indeed! Benson next and then when we get beyond Benson the timeline becomes a bit more scattered with spin-offs like Young Bond and the Moneypenny Diaries etc so I'm unsure how I'm going to cover those in terms of order but will certainly cover them all at some point!
@@calvindyson I'd probably recommend doing the 'guest authors' together after Benson is done [especially as they'll probably be popular videos] and then go through each spin off series [like doing 'young Bond' in order before moving on]. Whatever you decide, can't wait to hear your take on them.
Some people prefer Oprah’s book club, but I prefer Calvin’s book club
When I read this I really enjoyed it
Regarding his last book Cold and Goldeneye I read the first half of Cold then Goldeneye and read the second half of Cold to finish it since Goldeneye takes place in between Cold and after never send flowers to get the whole new M storyline
Off-topic, but does anybody ELSE want a scene...somewhere...ANYwhere...in which everything stops at the Underground Volcano Lair as Blofeld's cat coughs up a hairball?
"Not now, Mr. Tiddles - I'm monologuing.'@@Browne7100
I finished this book a few days ago. I am aware of the book being based on the screenplay and it feels like there is animosity from John Gardner to the film makers. As though he felt insulted that they went with an original story as opposed to any of his books. I especially felt this with how flippant he was with the new M. There is a large difference between personal disapproval while being professional to the person's face and being borderline subordinate flat out. Bond was the latter of the two. He would have never said those things to the old M even if they didn't get on. Do you think this was questionable writing or was the author venting frustration? In regards to Cold... good luck.
Eon have only ever had the rights to Fleming's material so Gardener's books were never going to be adapted [hence suggestions of doing any of the Horowitz books for example won't lead to anything]. Another comment mentioned in an interview that Gardner said he didn't enjoy doing the LTK novelisation due to the endless script changes so it's probably more a lack of enthusiasm with having to do another one [as the official Bond author he was 'contractual obliged to do it] and how he had to mess with his own continuity [particularly with Flicka and having to use the male Q rather than Qu'te in LTK].
The book 'The Bond Files' highlighted that Bond at one point goes 'Don't be so bloody melodramatic' as a dig at the lines Gardner didn't like. It reminded me of the digs had towards the 'Stinger Missiles' plot line in LTK.
Of course, as Cold features the old M [as it's a prequel], this is the only time Gardner writers the female M. It would have been interesting to see how he'd have written the character if he'd carried on for a few more books.
@@jamesatkinsonja I did not know that. I just assumed he was angry.
This book is not available in Portuguese.
I found the novelization about 15 years ago in a hotel in Thailand. I enjoyed it but the only thing I remember is the graphic sex scene.
I have noticed that Bond books are perfect holiday reading!
Def a contender for the Bad Sex Award.
The fifty shades of Bond
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey There's some fanfic there if they made it about Bond and his secretary Loelia Ponsonby. Bond is quite outraged when she gets engaged as he'd already imagined one day when he got bored with casual flings he'd marry her.
13:33 OH MY!!!!! 👀
Is the deleted scene with the arms dealer and zukovsky in the book? Just curious?
Where did the novelizations go during the Craig era? These books during Brosnan really helped solidify my fandom.
The main reason was that there was no 'official Bond author' anymore as the books instead were being written by one off guest authors [and bar Jeffery Deaver stand alone novel, they were tying there books into Fleming's novels only]. Instead they re-issued Fleming's Casino Royale and then put all the short stories together under 'Quantum of Solace' for that film.
Additionally, Novelisation had gone out of fashion by that point due to home media so there might have simply been a lack of interest [You still see novelisations occasionally but there pretty rare nowadays outside franchises like Star Wars].
@@jamesatkinsonja Thanks, I appreciate your explanation!
I really enjoy these reviews, despite how crazy these books get. Cant wait for your reactions on the raymond benson era.
From Austria with love😂😂
Chapter sixteen… sex… sexteen… I see what you did there Gardner lol
Flicka gets a mention here as well.
Could the tank scene have been included as a vague reference to one of the tanks from the final battle scene in The Living Daylights?
Sounds like a co-incidence to me.
@@jamesatkinsonja Bond as Scaramanga wouldn't agree.
One thing I never understood, is when they go to the Caribbean, are they already in Cuba, or are they on another island first, then fly to Cuba?
It's an interesting question...flying from Russia to Cuba probably would have been fairly easy but long (Google says a direct Aeroflot flight is 12.5 hours), but Bond's BMW Z3 roadster would stand out like a thumb with gangrene there. So... probably a different island that was in range of the Cessna that Wade swapped Bond the Z3 for.
That being said, the closest neighbour to Cuba in the Caribbean is Haiti...but I'd discount that option due to geopolitical conditions at the time. The next two closest options are Jamaica or The Bahamas, and I'd lean on the latter since the Z3 would be less inconspicuous there, IMO.
I always assumed it was the latter. No idea what island it is though.
Perhaps they were on San Monique, the island from Live and Let Die. According to the Die Another Day novelisation it's close to Cuba. Certainly not what the filmmakers intended, but since they left it ambiguous, it can be a fun little headcanon.
Yes I thought that, as Left hand drive cars are more common there, and modern ones @@generalilbis
@BenCol San Monique would have been an interesting reference to have used, but since it's like the sole example of the cinematic Bond universe doing a Marvel or DC and outright inventing a country to avoid blowback from a real Caribbean nation for being labeled a narco-state? I think it gets classified as an idea of the time that is quietly forgotten about or ignored.
@@generalilbis Not the only time: Licence to Kill has the Republic of Isthmus and Casino Royale features the Nambutu Embassy in Madagascar. In Live and Let Die, Kananga is the Prime Minister (or President, I can't remember which) of San Monique, so they likely created it to avoid causing controversy by stating any real life head of state was a drug-smuggling Bond villain. Similarly with LTK - the president of Isthmus is in Sanchez's pocket so they probably wanted to avoid outright stating a real-life head of state was corrupt. With Casino Royale they probably didn't want to state that any state's embassy would happily shelter a bomb-maker.
Even though the book sounds enjoyable, is it still safe to say that the anime was better than the manga?
COLD is REALLY bad.
The whole dog sled bit you read out is truly appalling writing! Makes Dan Brown sound like Tolstoy 🤣
Great vid
Review “FOREVER AND A DAY” by Anthony Horowitz
Great video as usual. I wonder if the criticism of the new M’s smoking is meant to be something of a snarky/ironic jab rather than a legit critique. That’s how I took it when I first read it, anyway.
Of course you get the 'Filthy habit' line in TND.
Do you see ME complaining about a descriptive love scene starring Pierce Brosnan? HELL NO!
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CZcams randomly decided to unsubscribe me from this channel. How rude! Hope this won't happen again. :/
What about the world not enough and tomorrow never dies
I believe Benson did those and he's going in chronological order.
@@steveelliot7078 the books?
@@King__John95 Yes the books, Raymond Benson was the author of those two novelizations.
@@e3torontospeakuptostandout I want to read those ones
dear me that sex scene😅
Looks like their favorite position is the Cowgirl Position! 👀
The ones with Onatopp are equally dubious.
The quips in this novel were cringe
Definitely not one of Gardner's strong suit in his Bond Novels for sure.
'On a scale of one to ten - about equal'
Classic piece of bad pulp writing, 'about equal' is not on a scale of one to ten
turning a book into a movie Jurassic Park "Why didn't they do it word for word! they didn't even read the book!!!"
turning a book into a movie word for word "Ahh that's lame they should have made them more different to expand on the story"
I'm never happy . . .
Geez, you can't read one or two paragraphs from a book without a tuck fonne of jump cuts. 🫤