Goldfinger, Lost in Adaptation ~ The Dom 

what's even the point of those

ALL-STAR GAM3RPUNK Encouraging kids to read, basically. At least in my experience.

Broadwaychica not yhe idea of the reverse lost in adaptation i mean the novalization of certian movies

Sometimes they add something in. Like the force awakens novelization tells you how Poe survived the tie fighter crash and how he got back to the resistance.

I actually asked him that in his Q&A, his answer was no because of how bad novelizations tend to be.

My Papa uses that line often. I think my dad has even used it

+ChaoticEnigma A few people have suggested that... my response is to ask why he would bother when half the time he's drinking alone... in a hotel room.... with the lights off...

The Dom Good point

Damn Martini drinkers and having preferences that don't conform to the status quo!

+The Dom Eh everybody has their weird tastes. I like to add scrambled eggs to pasta (mainly for extra protein) I guess watered down drinks are his.

Shaking it also breaks up the impurities in certain types of Russian vodka, making it on the whole more palatable. Also, if your bartender is an attractive woman, it gives you a little show (he explicitly mentioned this in one book, though I can't remember which).

I know this comment is old, but the name Pussy Galore was used in the movie adaption of RENT. It's PG13.

The PG-13 rating was created in the 1980s, about twenty years after "Goldfinger" was released. "Goldfinger" was rated "PG." The first Bond movie to be rated "PG-13" was "License to Kill." AFAICT, the MPAA ratings are much more about marketing than "parental guidance."

The G-rated kids’ show Arthur once dropped the term “Octopussy” (tho in the context of “octopus-cat-hybrid” monsters).

Funnily enough, I always understood it as "Pussy Glow". 🤣

So, basically, Pussy Galore is an Ace Attorney character?

And yet he’s still more like able.

I will never view Archer the same way! 🤣🤣🤣

Yeah, I can totally imagine the book bond asking a woman to grill him a cheese

​@@nickbrown638Waltz in here dressed as some sort of cattle rapist. Waving a cleaver and reeking of what I hope to god is meat and that's all you have to say?

I love this. I want a book that's like: “They walked to the ocean. If you don't know what an ocean looks like then you have more important problems than understanding this book.”

@@etharchildres3976. Funny.

Hello, Department of Redundancy Department?

Sometimes I'll read a few random chapters at Barnes and Noble, they got all the books there. They are very descriptive with the sex scenes.

Holy fuck, yes.

YES! ALL OF MY YES!

+OH! Productions I prefer yarrr

The Dom So do I...

+The Dom could you do a lost in adaptation of Tintin secret of his the unicorn and the water horse

Huh, that’s pretty clever

also in lieu of USSR abbreviations and naming schemes of that time SMERSH stood for SMERt SHpionam (Death to Spies!). No fancy highly descriptive organization names like in the Rotting Capitalist West. Keep It Simple, Stupid.

@@baburik to be fair, NKVD was an abbreviation for national commission on internal affairs, which is a fancy descriptive name! :)

@@pawelabrams there is also this lesser known one - СССР. jeez, get a joke.

“Smersh no longer existed”? Excellent, comrade! Our propaganda has worked, they’ve swallowed it hook, line, tinker tailor soldier spy!

from what I understand it also has to do with the liquor used in the martini. at gin martini is stirred while a vodka martini has to be shaken. I think it has something to due with the oil in vodka

+uanime1 Yea, the Dom's comment surprised me. I don't drink and i know absolutely nothing about cocktails but I always thought martinis didn't have ice. Do they?

No ice actually ends up in the glass when it's done, but ice is used while mixing a martini.

They also tested the gold paint death theory. It's actually plausible since depending on the paint composition, it can reduce oxygen intake but not through the skin as the story explained.

Being covered with certain paints can also cause overheating like heat stroke. Which may have lead to the "breath through the skin" notion as one of the symptoms is difficulty breathing followed by coma and death.

And Gert Frobe appeared in BOTH films!

@@DavidTSmith-jn5bs As did Desmond Llewellyn! (And Albert R. Broccoli produced it.)

@@jenniferschillig3768 A friend of mine who was a freelance writer gave me a major shock when he told me that Lionel Jeffries, who played the father of Dick Van Dyke's character, was actually YOUNGER than Van Dyke was! As Bond said in THIS film, "Shocking!"

@@DavidTSmith-jn5bs And Dick van Dyke's still busting dance moves at ninety-three!

@@jenniferschillig3768 I know, right? The man obviously has exceptional genes!

+FarmerProductions Yep. Though to be fair, Bond probably would understand the core concept of helium not being hydrogen.

Pubs9495 Funny enough, the Felix actor in LALD actually reprised his role in LTK, something which at that point hadn't happened because they kept switching actors do to their incident with the Felix actor from Dr. No. The guy wanted more money, screen time, and to be billed next to Sean for this film.

Yup, they cut-and-pasted that into License to Kill.

Preach

He's pretty much just virtue signaling, unable to see anything beyond his own self-ritiousness. If he had half a brain, he's have known that Fleming was a reporter and his attention to detail was what reporters used to be trained to do. Also, Fleming often pointed out that Bond was a bad guy who just happened to be fighting on the good guy's side. He's the kind of guy who protects little flowers like our host here by doing the dirty stuff to protect his effete arse. All so this little prick can look down on guys like bond from the safety of his trigger-warnings.

this is one reason the novels are brilliant and will long outlive this useless youtube host.

The whole genre hadn't been properly fleshed out at the time of course. But having said that, I still find this a hugely overrated film. For the reasons of contrivance and plot holes mentioned, as well as the sexism (contrary to popular opinion common, but hardly a universal preference in the early 1960s). But mostly because Bond is so absolutely rubbish in it. He is phenomenally ineffective as a spy, getting caught continually and not getting much done until he rapes Ms. Galore into submission. You could even claim that he's detrimental to the security agencies' work as they do nothing, expecting Bond to deal with Goldfinger. It seems that the Bond franchise has veered back and forth continually between a (moderately) more realistic approach (symbolized in From Russia with Love) and "arcade Bond" (typified by Goldfinger). Dalton and Craig can be said to represent the former, Moore and Brosnan (excluding Goldeneye) the latter approach. To be honest, cartoon Bond doesn't really age well. As for Goldfinger? It's very much a symbol of its time and loved for that reason, but as a film? Nah.

Yup...Desmond Llewellyn showed up as Q in From Russia With Love (a different actor played "The Armourer" in Dr. No), but all he did was pop in with the briefcase, explain it, and pop out. None of the personality of the Q we grew to know and love, no quirky lab, none of that.

actually the descriptions came from his current day job. Fleming was a travel writer. The Bond novels were at first a hobby, he made a living by going to places and writing very white British guy chronicles of them. That's why many novels feel like travel blogs with spy plots mixed in.

@@LynnHermione Yep, but he did base Bonds exploits off a real Secret Agent in WWII.....Sir Christopher Lee

I have seen the kind of Russian/Soviet that appears in Flemings writing... you'd have to search long and hard to find one even halfways sensible amongst that bunch :P

To be fair they were enemies at the time

@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 SMERSH existed during WW2 when UK and USSR were in fact allies tho... Afterwards he could have just said KGB.

@@ZekeAxel I meant more Russia in general but yeah you're right

OHMSS was arguably too faithful an adaptation. Since the films were made out of order, the previous film had Bond and Blofeld meet face to face, which hadn't happened in the books by this point. As a result Bond's undercover mission shouldn't have worked at all if you dismiss the fan theory of multiple Bonds.

Given what happened to his balls in Casino Royale...

The man must have every STI/STD in the book at this point too.

Ironically in the books he is very happily a boytoy of married older women and marries or almost marries (very happily! the almost were because the women didn't want to!) 4 times

+Jebbtube Not really. Goldfinger is one of the most overrated films of all time.

Mr Maws Still better than the book.

About as bad. Dom's recommendation to stay away from Fleming is rather irresponsible though, as Goldfinger is considered by many a fan to be one of the weaker books. You can't dismiss an entire bibliography based off one book. Moonraker (zero to do with the film), On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, From Russia With Love, and Dr. No are all much better.

+MagnuMagnus Forrest Gump is another one

Bite Me Hear that Dom? Challenge issued!

The phrase referred to Nazi spies and Soviet defectors. Remember, SMERSH was founded during WWII.

Bond that we have now is miserable alcoholic tho

Yoo Hoo But is still kinda smooth.

@@Toneill029 not really, I mean literally last movie Bond blows up a building and almost falls to the death because he is sloppy dumbass with very good luck. And out of all actors that played him Craig really looks like how drinks a lot for real.

Yoo Hoo I said kinda yeah from what I’ve seen his drinking and poor life style choices really but him in the ass.

also adding black pepper caused the diesel fuel that leached into the Russian vodka to float to the surface and be skimmed off this was mentioned in the Bond books written in the 1970s. While in Hong Kong in the late 1970s I ordered a Vesper as 007 called it and did add the black pepper and sure enough, an oily substance did float up into the pepper this was Russian potatoes vodka and it did have the leached diesel fuel in it very small amount but it was in the mix.

+Jamie DT If memory serves, Fleming himself was involved in intelligence work before writing his books? Explains why he's so detail-obsessed, that and the time in which he lived probably largely informs some of his more unpleasant views.

Hewy Toonmore Little did he know he would eventually get his wish

Might run into a bit of a problem there; unless The Dom reads Old English he can't read the actual original.

@@GriffinPilgrim I'm pretty sure he didn't read the german original of the Neverending Story either

+Sir Jaojao Fair point but it's a lot easier to accurately translate modern German into modern English than Old English into Modern English. The latter involves so many basic conceptual differences that what you get is an interpretation more than a translation. As such no definitive modern English version of Beowulf exists.

@Jason Toddman What part didn't make sense to you?