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After watching the video to the song linked above, I may have to give this movie another shot. It looks like there's a lot of silly action that I can appreciate, but my memories, hazy as they are, tell me I was unimpressed. Dalton is no Moore or Conery, or so I recall. Also, the tone of the Bond films changed with A View to a Kill, and they became a little more serious and grittier. In short, they weren't quite as much fun as earlier installments, so that works against this one too. And isn't this the one with the general and his toy war machines or something at the end? Still, I bet it's been every bit of 25 years since I've seen this (though I've caught bits and pieces on TV in the ensuing years), so maybe I should try it again. Regardless, the short story was really good.
Turner, Jon Lys (2016). The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller (Kindleed.). London: Constable. ISBN 978-1-47212-168-4. The Property of a Lady was a bit of a throwaway but still interesting. Bond goes to Sotheby's for the auction of a long lost Fabergé emerald for the purpose of discovering a Russian spy in England. Once again a very simple story, but the small bit of spycraft made it a fun read. The Property of a Lady : Bond is tasked with identifying a top ranking Soviet spy during the auction of a Faberge art in Sootheby’s in London.Most of the time, the Bond movies have little to do with the actual books, like Goldeneye (not even a short story), or The World is Not Enough (family motto mentioned in a Bond book). Three of the stories in this collection are somewhat tied to the movies. The main character in Octopussy never appears in the movie, but he was mention by Maud Adams (playing Octopussy), he was her father (in the movie, not the book), and the Faberge Egg that was featured in The Property of a Lady was also featured in the Octopussy movie (but not like in this short story). And finally, the female assassin in The Living Daylights did appear in the Timothy Dalton Bond movie of the same name. The Property of a Lady': Especially written for an auctionhouse, so that is what is the star in the movie. More a police story than a spy thriller. But still well written. (Featured in the movie Octopussy) Maria Freudenstein was hired by the British Secret Service with prior knowledge that she was a double agent. She is essentially tasked with sending phony SITREPS to Washington, D.C., which she copies and sends to Moscow unknowning that they are fake. Her unpleasant fate is revealed in Fleming's novel The Man with the Golden Gun, though as it happened most readers did not get to see this story, in which she first appeared, until several years after the novel came out.
Octopussy and The Living Daylights is the last book of the James Bond 007 books written by Ian Fleming. It contains three short stories (at least the Pan version I possess does. Published 1967). Two of the stories, Octupussy and The Living Daylights were turned into movies. I don't know if they followed the premises of the stories. I know almost nothing about this movie except that it's the one with the cello. This story also involves the cellist, and is pretty much the opening scene to the movie, though as with "The Property of a Lady," the details are different. I had to look up the opening scene since I don't remember it at all. In fact, the only thing I remember clearly is them sledding down the side of a mountain in the cello case, and thankfully that wasn't in the story. This new Penguin edition comprises four stories, including Fleming’s little-known story “007 in New York,” showcasing Bond’s taste for Manhattan’s special pleasures—from martinis at the Plaza and dinner at the Grand Central Oyster Bar to the perfect anonymity of the Central Park Zoo for a secret rendezvous. I should mention that these short stories are the last two Bond books Fleming wrote. There are like a gazillion other books written by other authors, and undoubtedly I will be reading them along this process as well. Not sure if that will be a good or bad thing, but it is what it is. This is science.Bond has a nice tourist trip to New York City - not. America, the home of sterilized food and unimaginative hotel decor! Librarian's note #2: the description below relates to a collection of short stories. Entries for the individual stories can be found elsewhere. As with For Your Eyes Only, this collection is largely more about Bond's character than big missions against supervillains. There are four stories here: Octopussy, The Property of a Lady, The Living Daylights, and 007 in New York. Each are very different in their tone, but all of them express sides of Bond's character and Fleming's interests in ways that Fleming has given us before, so the result is a comfortable and familiar end to the original canon.
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