So, you're wondering why I put in a title like that? Well, earlier today, while I was doing exercise on an exercise bike in front of the TV, I was watching the special features for The Man With The Golden Gun.
What does this have to do with Discworld and Moving Pictures? Well, I remembered CMOT Dibbler's continual insistence about having 1000 elephants in his movies, and was planning to have them in Blown Away. I had wondered if that was just a funny joke about Hollywood excess and what could loosely be called artistic license, but not a reference.
But when I was watching the documentary about the making of The Man With The Golden Gun, they mentioned that Harry Saltzman wanted to have a sequence involving an elephant stampede, and ordered a ridiculous amount of elephant shoes, only to forget about the sequence until they got the elephant shoes. One wonders if this might have been the origin of Dibbler's fixation, even though Moving Pictures precedes the documentary by nearly a decade (Pratchett could have heard the story elsewhere).
Any other thoughts?
What does this have to do with Discworld and Moving Pictures? Well, I remembered CMOT Dibbler's continual insistence about having 1000 elephants in his movies, and was planning to have them in Blown Away. I had wondered if that was just a funny joke about Hollywood excess and what could loosely be called artistic license, but not a reference.
But when I was watching the documentary about the making of The Man With The Golden Gun, they mentioned that Harry Saltzman wanted to have a sequence involving an elephant stampede, and ordered a ridiculous amount of elephant shoes, only to forget about the sequence until they got the elephant shoes. One wonders if this might have been the origin of Dibbler's fixation, even though Moving Pictures precedes the documentary by nearly a decade (Pratchett could have heard the story elsewhere).
Any other thoughts?