Felix is never properly done justice to in the movies (imagine that Jinx from Die Another Day was white, male, and actually had a purpose for being there, and you've sort of got Felix--all the American CIA operatives that pop up in the films are usually some kind of nod to him).
Weirdly, On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the only Bond book I haven't read, since neither my high school library nor the county library had it.
As for the trauma/angst, it wasn't originally supposed to be quite as dark as it turned out (the original plotbunny was mostly a set-up for the octopus joke), but once I re-read Casino Royale (all the better to writhe in pain if the upcoming movie doesn't do it right), the PTSD just started creeping in. Several bad, bad things happen to Bond in that book. And then I remembered that Felix was canonically a Marine in WWII, and that combined with the flame-thrower villains in Dr. No gave me an excuse to slip one of my great-uncle's nastier war stories in there.
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Date: 2006-09-09 04:42 am (UTC)Felix is never properly done justice to in the movies (imagine that Jinx from Die Another Day was white, male, and actually had a purpose for being there, and you've sort of got Felix--all the American CIA operatives that pop up in the films are usually some kind of nod to him).
Weirdly, On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the only Bond book I haven't read, since neither my high school library nor the county library had it.
As for the trauma/angst, it wasn't originally supposed to be quite as dark as it turned out (the original plotbunny was mostly a set-up for the octopus joke), but once I re-read Casino Royale (all the better to writhe in pain if the upcoming movie doesn't do it right), the PTSD just started creeping in. Several bad, bad things happen to Bond in that book. And then I remembered that Felix was canonically a Marine in WWII, and that combined with the flame-thrower villains in Dr. No gave me an excuse to slip one of my great-uncle's nastier war stories in there.