O-Land News Junkie Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 [ian] Fleming always wanted [James Bond] to be portrayed seriously but the filmmakers decided from the start to turn the movies into comedies that spoofed the spy genre [...]. This offended countless fans of the books, who included the conservative literary figures Kingsley Amis [...] and Ayn Rand. "Rand adored the 007 books for what she saw as their unabashed romanticism and heroic transcendence but she was appalled by the films, because they were laced with 'the sort of humour intended to undercut Bond's stature, to make him ridiculous'," [NYU professor Toby] Miller says.http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/will_th...lease_stand_up/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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