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Entry: ‘No Time To Die’ - the Book and Film - A87942919
Author: BobI - U15003083

Here is an Entry that brings together a book and film review with my personal experience - I hope you like it.

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I loved this! It was lively, informative, and deeply, deeply funny. Thank you for sharing your experience with this, er, literary masterpiece and its adaptation.

>>It is the story of Tony Allen, an officer in the Tank Corps, who is a tank commander at the time of the Second World War conflict in the Libyan Desert.<<

I'm making an assumption here, since it's a novel, that 'Tony Allen' is a fictional character - rather than a fictionalised account of a real person. Could you please take a belt-and-braces approach and make that explicit?

'It is the story of Tony Allen, a fictional tank commander in the Tank Corps who servies in the Libyan Desert during the Second World War.'

Richard Maibaum: You could get in a footnote that Maibaum wrote James Bond screenplays. That way, you could link to some Guide Entry on James Bond.

Victor Mature: You may or may not want to put in a footnote to the effect that Victor Mature is probably most famous for his leading role in Cecil B DeMille's 1949 Samson and Delilah. He played Samson .

One last suggestion: I wouldn't call this '‘No Time To Die’ - the Book and Film' If you do, the reader will think you're going to discuss the book and the film, and that's it. Which isn't what your entry is about. Your entry is about the *experience* of the book and the film, from the point-of-view of someone who has actually been involved with tanks in the desert. (Which is much, much better than a boring old book review.)

So how about ''No Time to Time to Die' - A Personal View of Desert Warfare Fiction'?

Personal comment: One of my uncles managed to be in the military when there wasn't a war going on. I asked him one day where he got the German army helmet the kids were playing with. He said his unit were extras in a 'war picture'. I don't one which one.

Thank you Dmitri

Good points - I have made some changes

Great. This will be a fine addition to h2g2's virtual library of wonders.

Thank you

I heard the news yesterday that the next James Bond film is to be titled 'No Time To Die'!

That made me ask myself if the plot will be that Bond's "life is so hectic and fraught that there is simply not enough time available to pay the ultimate sacrifice, or because the time is not the right occasion to die?"

I have added mention of other novels of the same name.

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'No Time to Die' indeed, but you couldn't help it

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I always enjoyed this researcher's contributions and his humour.

Incidentally I read a review of 'films to look forward to in 2020' in which the Bond film was discussed, and Barbara Broccoli, exec producer of the Bond films and daughter of Eon Films' co-founder Cubby Broccoli, was quoted saying that she named the Bond film 'after one of her father's films'. Cubby Broccoli produced 'No Time To Die' (1958).

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Thanks <BB< - useful information for the Entry so I added that in when I did the subbing