The Last WORD on the Ian Fleming Book Edits? | Calvin, Joe, Fletcher and David Discuss

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Жыл бұрын

Calvin Dyson, Joe Darlington, and Fletcher Sykes join me in an opinionated discussion around the Ian Fleming Bond book edits. Different backgrounds and experiences serve to deliver some significant and often different thoughts on the 70th Anniversary of these books as we delve into the potential to celebrate collectively.
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@mannysingh3454 Жыл бұрын

You should not alter history.

@richardhoulton4016 Жыл бұрын

Just no. It’s not justifiable from any reasonable perspective.

@daviddorward7684 Жыл бұрын

I cannot accept any form of censorship, which this is, so I cling more than ever to my PAN paperback originals!

@Atticus75 Жыл бұрын

Anthony Horowitz summed it up best for me, put it in the preface that this written at a different era and doesn't reflect the present day. As he also said "You shouldn't change a dead man's words." On a wider issue, it is very concerning that certain books are being sought to be removed from school and public libraries in the USA.

@deanf8894 Жыл бұрын

Lost all respect for Joe.

@damienfenton3880 Жыл бұрын

I don't like a vast majority of the changes George Lucas made to his original Star Wars trilogy but the crucial difference between that and the Bond novels changes is that Lucas is the original creator changing his own work. That is not the case with the changes made to Fleming's text and why that is much more egregious.

@dtuk22 Жыл бұрын

This messing with the original writing of Fleming & other authors to please a minority....while offending a majority "ITS WRONG" . To alter these things they cease to be the original works. Not a wise thing to do & makes a mockery of the Author.

@clausvergara9702 Жыл бұрын

Hopefully the other editions of Ian Fleming’s Bond novels are still available! I gonna avoid buy the upcoming editions.

@willgillies5670 Жыл бұрын

ITS ORWELLIAN!

@yestoadventure007 Жыл бұрын

Great discussion and sadly necessary. It’s so important to preserve our cultural history, especially the parts that we don’t want to look at. Like the man said, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.”

@bradleywillard2361 Жыл бұрын

I was punching the air with joy listening to Fletcher and Calvin making their points. Regardless of whether or not the contents of the books are appropriate in a modern context, nobody should have the right to go back and reinterpret another artist‘s artwork. It just seems so disdainful, disrespectful and ethically unsound. As Fletcher said, a simple disclaimer at the front of each book, stating that the views within are no longer deemed acceptable, would have sufficed. Even the covers of the latest editions feel totally distasteful and self scornful.

@NoFormalTraining Жыл бұрын

I recall way back in high school English class the teacher would be reading out sections of the books we'd be studying, and ask questions like "what is the author trying to say?"

@billkoenig1552 Жыл бұрын

re: editing the movies. For those of us of a certain age (like me), we've already seen the movies edited when they first appeared on television. On occasions, it was to cut for time reasons. But in other cases, it was for concern about violence, etc. When Goldfinger first appeared on ABC in the U.S., they snipped Goldfinger's line about the number of traffic deaths each year (a car company was a sponsor).

@frankb821 Жыл бұрын

If one word of Fleming's work is changed, it's censorship, because the changes are based on somebody else's idea of what is appropriate and/or necessary. Anyone participating in changing a work of art to suit their own ideologies is too self-important to justify their participation. Make no mistake, the reason these changes were made were, at least in part, political in nature. That doesn't mean we as a Bond Community have to get overtly political in response, but we do need to stand up to censorship in any form for any reason if we are to remain free to express ourselves. Everyone in this video was extremely articulate and thoughtful...thank you for this important and well presented discussion! Fletcher was brilliant...look forward to more guest spots for him!

@justsomedude5727 Жыл бұрын

An anniversary edition should be as true to the original as possible, a loony tunes style warning would be fine, educate don't erase.

@caseyzaft6734 Жыл бұрын

Folio Society will NOT be editing. Just buy their copies.

@michaelpoplawski2998 Жыл бұрын

Superior discussion from various perspectives. Well done.

@East-Coast-Films Жыл бұрын

This was a great conversation! 👏

@user-tt6be2zx3h Жыл бұрын

thanks David, Fletcher, Calvin, Joe, for this most timely addition to our collective 007 communities around the world. we might have to disuse any European language all together (yes that include you in the UK /Americas/Canada /Australia/NZ/etc) if we want to be so politically correctly 🤭🤗✌️✌️