Colonel Sun

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  • BleuvilleBleuville Posts: 384MI6 Agent
    CS is a magnificent novel. Amis may have only done one, but what a novel to do. It is very rich in detail and violence. I proudly include it in the Fleming timeline.

    I read Col Sun several years ago, but re-read near the back of the book recently where Sun has captured Bond and
    with the recent Spectre film, people say the torture scene is taken from the CS book.
    Well I noticed that there is text where Sun talks of a man who he gouged his eyes out and "There was no one there in his head".
    This section has been used word-for-word as spoken by Blofeld in the new film.
    I didn't realise how similiar it is.

    Bleuville.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Could be wrong here but, I think Barbel posted before on this subject that there is
    an end credit about Col Sun in Spectre.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • welshboy78welshboy78 Posts: 10,292MI6 Agent
    Could be wrong here but, I think Barbel posted before on this subject that there is
    an end credit about Col Sun in Spectre.

    Indeed an end credit.

    Must read the section again
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    welshboy78 wrote:
    Could be wrong here but, I think Barbel posted before on this subject that there is
    an end credit about Col Sun in Spectre.

    Indeed an end credit.

    Must read the section again

    Yes, they thank the Estate of Kingsley Amis at the end of the film. I sat on in the cinema as the last person in order to confirm this! :D
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Could be wrong here but, I think Barbel posted before on this subject that there is
    an end credit about Col Sun in Spectre.

    You're quite right TP, I did. {[]
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    You see, I don't just read my own posts. ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • BleuvilleBleuville Posts: 384MI6 Agent
    Could be wrong here but, I think Barbel posted before on this subject that there is
    an end credit about Col Sun in Spectre.

    Yes I saw that film credit at the end of Spectre.
    The text in the book is about page 260 in Chapter 19- "The Theory and Practice of Torture".

    Bleuville.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    The inclusion of material from Colonel Sun in Spectre excited me greatly, because for the first time the film series has acknowledged a contribution from the continuation series. While I don't necessarily expect them to continue mining material from the other continuations, at least it sets a precedent for looking beyond Fleming for material.
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    Golrush007 wrote:
    The inclusion of material from Colonel Sun in Spectre excited me greatly, because for the first time the film series has acknowledged a contribution from the continuation series. While I don't necessarily expect them to continue mining material from the other continuations, at least it sets a precedent for looking beyond Fleming for material.

    I felt exactly the same way as you! That's partly why I rank Spectre at No. 3 in my Bond films list. :) -{
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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