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After getting into the Bond mood after seeing Skyfall twice, I felt motivated to take a look at Roger Moore's films and take a stab at the cheesiest of all Bond movies.....Moonraker.
It's not as bad as I remember, but there is a lot of work that needs to be done. I did a little trimming earlier and it seems to be going along nicely.
Here were some initial thoughts on what needs to go/change:
-The outer space battle outside of the space station can easily be taken out
-Jaws biting through the cable car wire is now gone. I moved the thug knocking out the control room worker to right as Bond and Goodhead get on the cable car so it looks like the reason the cable car stops is because the thug stopped it. Jaws appears as his cable car is approaching Bond's now.
-Some of the real chessy Bond lines I'm working at taking out (after Bond kills the anaconda Drax asks him why to which Bond replies "He had a crush on me.")
-The gondola chase is now gone. It was way way too silly even for a Roger Moore Bond.
-Sorry Jaws, but no girlfriend for you. Jaws will still help Bond at the end, but I am going to try and make it look as if once Jaws helps Bond and Goodhead detach from the space station that he stays behind as it blows up.
-Close Encounters 5 note motif is going to be replaced with a standard beeping sound for the keypad
-Definitely replacing the Magnificent Seven theme.
-The laser gun that melts the mannequin's head as well as the gringo machine gun in the Q branch courtyard scene are cut out.
-I forget her name now, but the first girl that helps Bond in Drax's office get chased down by Drax's dogs in the woods. Weird thing is all she had to do once she saw the dogs coming after her was run to the golf cart which she drove onto the scene and use that to escape them. I'm going to alter the scene so she dies off screen.
-You won't be able to see Bond's camera saying 007 on it when he is taking pictures of Drax's blueprints.
-Music will be added or altered to some action scenes to make them a little more suspenseful (cable car fight, speed boat chase).
-While I'm thinking of the speed boat chase....Jaws will not be seen during this sequence. Once Bond approaches the waterfall he hang glides out and that's it. I'd like to think that Drax's men were smart enough to turn around and not drive off the waterfall (especially since Jaws won't be there to rip out the steering wheel).
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. If you have some suggestions, please feel free to throw some out there.
I was thinking of changing the title to one of the few names Fleming had thought of for the novel:
The Moonraker Secret
The Moonraker Plot
The Inhuman Element
Wide of the Mark
The Infernal Machine
Hell Is Here
Out of the Clear Sky
I also thought about changing the theme song. I love Shirley's voice though, so maybe to another song of hers or something entirely different.
It's not as bad as I remember, but there is a lot of work that needs to be done. I did a little trimming earlier and it seems to be going along nicely.
Here were some initial thoughts on what needs to go/change:
-The outer space battle outside of the space station can easily be taken out
-Jaws biting through the cable car wire is now gone. I moved the thug knocking out the control room worker to right as Bond and Goodhead get on the cable car so it looks like the reason the cable car stops is because the thug stopped it. Jaws appears as his cable car is approaching Bond's now.
-Some of the real chessy Bond lines I'm working at taking out (after Bond kills the anaconda Drax asks him why to which Bond replies "He had a crush on me.")
-The gondola chase is now gone. It was way way too silly even for a Roger Moore Bond.
-Sorry Jaws, but no girlfriend for you. Jaws will still help Bond at the end, but I am going to try and make it look as if once Jaws helps Bond and Goodhead detach from the space station that he stays behind as it blows up.
-Close Encounters 5 note motif is going to be replaced with a standard beeping sound for the keypad
-Definitely replacing the Magnificent Seven theme.
-The laser gun that melts the mannequin's head as well as the gringo machine gun in the Q branch courtyard scene are cut out.
-I forget her name now, but the first girl that helps Bond in Drax's office get chased down by Drax's dogs in the woods. Weird thing is all she had to do once she saw the dogs coming after her was run to the golf cart which she drove onto the scene and use that to escape them. I'm going to alter the scene so she dies off screen.
-You won't be able to see Bond's camera saying 007 on it when he is taking pictures of Drax's blueprints.
-Music will be added or altered to some action scenes to make them a little more suspenseful (cable car fight, speed boat chase).
-While I'm thinking of the speed boat chase....Jaws will not be seen during this sequence. Once Bond approaches the waterfall he hang glides out and that's it. I'd like to think that Drax's men were smart enough to turn around and not drive off the waterfall (especially since Jaws won't be there to rip out the steering wheel).
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. If you have some suggestions, please feel free to throw some out there.
I was thinking of changing the title to one of the few names Fleming had thought of for the novel:
The Moonraker Secret
The Moonraker Plot
The Inhuman Element
Wide of the Mark
The Infernal Machine
Hell Is Here
Out of the Clear Sky
I also thought about changing the theme song. I love Shirley's voice though, so maybe to another song of hers or something entirely different.