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- From: pw15@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Philip Wang)
- Subject: Re: Multi-film sub characters
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.162143.653@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:21:43 GMT
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- >>And what's more...Felix seems to change appearance in different
- >>movies...
- >>
- >>Somtimes he looks tall and well built and somtimes he looks mousey....
- >He even managed to change races between two movies (from white to black
- >and back to white... I think Felix would have earned the CIA's awards for
- >most versitile disguise master. ;)
- >
- It wouldn't have surprised me if they turned Felix into something like Felicity
- Leiter (the way most of the Moore films were going except for the last three in
- my opinion, which I thought were pretty good, FYEO being the best of the Moore
- films I think). I think John Gardner managed to something to that effect in
- FOR SPECIAL SERVICES - the Leiter in the book is Felix's daughter. Now, assume
- that Felix and Bond are in their late 40s (they only aged about two or three
- years from GOLDEN GUN to LICENSE RENEWED despite the twenty year time span in
- the rest of the world). Now, I'm only 18 years old, but my father is in his
- late forties as well. How is it that Cedar managed to finish high school and
- college and then go through CIA training and be that young (she would have to
- be in her early 20s unless she was a protoge, but still how did she manage
- that without Daddy Leiter finding out?). Or else, she's in her 30s and Bond
- and Leiter are in their 50s and then what the hell are they doing out in the
- field? 005 was in his 50s and they retired him to Head of some station near
- Greece (besides the fact that 005 was going blind).
-
- But then Gardner is too inconsistent. Making LICENSE TO KILL part of the novel
- series was also stupid. You'd think that if Leiter was remarrying that Cedar
- would have come back, and anyway no one mentions why he had to remarry in the
- first place. And then he loses both his fake limbs? Major coincidence. Anyone
- read DEATH IS FOREVER yet? I'm still putting it off. I thought with SCORPIUS
- he would finally get an idea of how to write a Bond novel his way without
- being a Fleming clone, because I really liked that book, but apparently it was
- a fluke.
-
- philip
- Philip Wang
- E-mail at pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
- "Though many a tortured night prevails thy Exorcisms shall but fail
- While Crucifix doth burn my flesh I shall not yield to you unless I Die."
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