Talk:Octopussy and The Living Daylights/Archive 1

Archive 1

Property of a Lady

I removed the comments that Property of a Lady wasn't adapted for the film. This is nonsense. In the short story, Bond attends an auction for Fabrege eggs. How could that not have been adapted for the film? They even reference the title of the story on screen. It was as much an adaptation as the original "For Your Eyes Only" and "Risico" -- along with elements of "Live and Let Die" were adapted for the "For Your Eyes Only" movie. To say Octopussy didn't adapt the "Property" story contradicts all the reference books on the Bond films, including James Bond: The Legacy and The Bond Files. 23skidoo 06:46, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

A Fabrege egg was a large plot aspect in the movie "Octopussy", and it contains an espionage auction and even contains the words "The Property of a Lady". It's mentioned in the end credits, so I assume Octopussy is based on it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.247.244.120 (talk) 02:46, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Copyedit tag

A few days ago an anonymous editor placed the Copyedit tag on this article. Unfortunately he/she did not see fit to explain on the talk page what needed to be fixed. As someone who worked on this article, along with other experienced Wikipedians, I can't see anything that needs to be widely fixed. (Obviously every article can be tweaked and improved upon.) I'd like the anonymous editor to please explain what needs to be changed; or Bold Bold and go ahead and make the changes. 23skidoo 14:38, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

007 in New York

Someone commented out the fact that the character name Solange from "007 in New York" was used in the Casino Royale film. I don't see th logic for removing it as it's a verifiable and noteworthy piece of information, so I have put it back, 23skidoo (talk) 02:05, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Repeating information

I'm aware that the introduction to the article includes some of the information re:film adaptations and references that I have added to the individual story sections. I feel it's important to repeat this information because a) some readers will go straight to those individual sections and b) these individual stories are often directly linked from other articles, so some readers may come to them first and not see the introduction. 23skidoo (talk) 13:43, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Images

The book images that were deleted without discussion illustrate significant editions of this book, as indicated in their captions and in the text itself. 23skidoo (talk) 13:17, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Utterance of Property of a Lady

In reference to my revert, Bond utters the title at approximate 16:20 into the film. "We do have one thing, Minister: The Property of a Lady." 23skidoo (talk) 22:34, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

The Times

I feel it is worth mentioning that as part of the promotion for the forthcoming Devil May Care novel, The Times gave away a book containing two Bond stories, Octopussy and 007 in New York, on Saturday 17 May 2008. Should this be added, and if so, how? TheRetroGuy (talk) 22:03, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

• Best way to handle it is with a subsection. I think it's a valid addition to the article as it is, technically, a 4th edition of the original collection. Go for it if you haven't already. 23skidoo (talk) 17:41, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Just to add to the above, there's also supposed to be a new compilation of the Fleming short stories to tie in with Quantum of Solace ([1]) so that should also be mentioned here, too. 23skidoo (talk) 18:21, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Sorry, haven't checked in here for a few days. I'll add a subsection with the information. Thanks TheRetroGuy (talk) 18:28, 30 May 2008 (UTC)