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Originally Posted by claymoore
I was a Huge Destroyer fan<--- The books by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir.
As it often does, Hollywood did their own kind of Destroying by making the whole thing into a farce!
They did the same thing with another of my favorite book series, The Executioner by Don Pendleton!
They ruined that when they filmed that farce, The Punisher!
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Generally, I agree though going back through memory lane, the books did have their humor parts as well. Which one was it where they had Nixon atop the Washington Monument, the point up his you know what, where they spoofed Ford with the passage about "Big Mama"? Or another time, where Remo spends a whole bunch of agency money on something so useless to indicate he is financially feeble in the mind (I think it was the book that opened up with a soon to be deceased agent who got roped into the work when he found out his degree was useless and his bride on their wedding night was a lesbian).
I would say that the books were better than the Fred Ward movie but then again, the contents of the books probably would not make it on TV (for Remo Williams:TAB was a TV pilot), such as the villain killing the hooker by slamming the statue in her face in "Slave Safari".
Of course, things vary for in that book as well, Remo "idly" talks to the villain and the villain thinks,
Of course, an American agent, here to solve the mystery of the girls. (as I recall from reading the book back in the 70s)
They vary for that passage makes Remo sound like a Jonathan Hemlock (The Eiger/Loo Sanction) with the investigative skills of Quiller, maybe, and Remo is nothing like that, either in the books or in the movie.
As amoral (no loyalty to "Queen and country") killing "spies" go, Hemlock did it for money and because he was blackmailed; Joubert (Six Days of the Condor) did purely for money; I am not sure why Remo did it except possibly because it was the only way for him to live and, maybe, he got off on it to an extent.......such as when he used a can of gasoline to burn down an enemy's house, much to Chiun's disapproval.
If the last is "true", then it has to be presented in a way so he's not a psychopath.
For one or two passes, one or two movies, one can possibly get away with doing the missions just for the heck of it.....but eventually, there has to be something in it for them.
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