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The best part of the book (which I could never get past, so it's all I've read) was the cover. Talk about a bastard of science:
Gee, all this time I thought the film was based on an Asimov novel!
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Nope, Asimov was doing a novelization--and it's one of the best, and most popular, ever done.
Another thing on the Flint connection--there's at least one storyboard illustration on the disc that portrays the "Flint" hero in the Fantastic Voyage scene as looking very much like James Coburn...
mAYBE the commentary track for IN LIKE FLINT mentions it (watching it tonite) OUR MAN FLINT didn't.
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Nope, Asimov was doing a novelization--and it's one of the best, and most popular, ever done.
As I wrote, it's the only one Asimov did or, apparently, ever cared to do.
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If they had gone with the "flint version" it would have been a date piece of camp rubbish in the same line of "Diabolik" and "Perry Rhodan"... Diabolik is camp and meant as such. Morricone's music, however sincere it might have been intended doesn't change that fact
"Diabolik" which was visualized like a comic book, seems like an evil (or just more human) version of the camp "Batman" series with Adam West. I think it's still effective (not dated trash) because it was intended as camp, and the music transcendent. The James Bond movies, on the other hand, belong in the dated camp trash can.
Unfortunately the Diabolik cd releases have been rips from the movie itself, but still worth getting.
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May 14, 2007 - 10:13 AM
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Les Jepson
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Nope, Asimov was doing a novelization--and it's one of the best, and most popular, ever done.
As I wrote, it's the only one Asimov did or, apparently, ever cared to do.
Asimov had quite a job tidying up the screenplay's shaky science for his novelization: the twin problems of fluid viscosity and Brownian Motion at the miniaturized scale; working out how miniaturized light beams would behave; and, most obvious of all, getting the wreckage of the "Proteus" out of the patient before it returned to normal size.
He must have liked the basic premise, though, because he wrote a sequel which was entirely his own work.
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