Moonraker Novel Discussion

If I had to cast Drax as Fleming wrote him I'd probably be looking for a re-incarnation of Welles. Take 'The Stranger' from 1946, a lot of parallels there. An escaped Nazi, living among western civilization, waiting for a chance to strike. He'd be so perfect, on and off the screen. And that voice...EXACTLY as Fleming described it. A velvet snarl.

ambler wrote:

There was a terrific Moonraker spoof site. Is it still up?

IIRC it assumed the Rank film had been made.

I remember that. I believe it was a GeoCities site, thus it went down with everything else.

Chigawa wrote:

If I had to cast Drax as Fleming wrote him I'd probably be looking for a re-incarnation of Welles. Take 'The Stranger' from 1946, a lot of parallels there. An escaped Nazi, living among western civilization, waiting for a chance to strike. He'd be so perfect, on and off the screen. And that voice...EXACTLY as Fleming described it. A velvet snarl.

Alan Rickman could do it...if he's not too long in the tooth, that is.

Yes 8)

His voice is definitely a 'velvet snarl'. Plus we know from Die Hard he can play a German Villain :)

So it's settled then.

:drunken:

Uggh...how I wish.

http://www.jamesbond007.se/events_old.asp?id=2786

Was thinking of buying this for a Croatian friend but can't decipher the page. Anybody here know how to translate this stuff at:

http://www.algoritam.hr/?m=1&p=proizvod&kat=625&id=145928

Trying to figure if an international money order is the way to go, or if it has to be credit card.

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.algoritam.hr%2F%3Fm%3D1%26p%3Dproizvod%26kat%3D625%26id%3D145928

Google translate. :)

Man do I feel illiterate right now. Wish I'd known about that before I tried sending her a message on Facebook in Croatian that was picked a word at a time out of a dictionary (have a feeling it was probably as bad as the klingon translation in STAR TREK VI.)