![]() I think that the decision to keep Bond in a present day setting was not only financial, but also so that audiences could relate to the modern subject matter. ![]() This would rob the film of most of its emotional immediacy, even for those, like us, who would wish to see it. ![]() Besides, I would wager that there's no one in this forum that has any experiential knowledge of what WWII paranoia felt like, Bond nut or not. This means that a costume-piece, Moonraker would not stack up financially against the tiny audience it would attract. All of the thread categories relating to Bond are about the movies, except this one and Fan Creations. ![]() You only have to look at this forum to see that. Now that WWII lies seventy years in the past, there are very few people left to remember the war, which means that a faithful film adaptation of this book would have to be a historical "costume piece", and would only appeal to die-hard fans of the books, such as ourselves - who make up a tiny percentage of those who watch Bond movies, fans or otherwise. My view is that Moonraker fuels the flames of the post-World War II paranoia that was ever-present for at least twenty years post war. ![]()
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