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[truepenny]

So, what would the plot of To Sir, From Russia, With Love look like?

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[raisedbymoogles.livejournal.com]

It'd have explosions. Slow-motion ones set to classical music.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Did that just arrive in your brain without warning, or did something lead up to it?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

These things happen when I'm half-asleep.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

One of those drive-by wild-ass notions that show up when you're in no condition to get the license plate number?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Well, From Russia, With Love is on my nightstand because I started reading it several months ago and have not entirely given up on the notion I might someday finish it.

Where the other half of the thought came from, I have no idea.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Clearly a drive-by, using the Fleming for ammunition.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

A callow young spy must learn that subtlety and discretion trump violence in to earn the respect of a tough but loving teacher.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

There would be triple-crosses.

Poison--I believe radioactive poisons are in these days.

Possibly a mail-order Russian bride, preferably with a twist. Perhaps a transsexual who'd had the operation solely to qualify?

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

A beautiful Russian cellist, who is enamored of the new teacher at her exclusive school, tries everything she can think of to get him to notice her, but his eyes are on the prize of completing his undercover spying mission. When his mission goes wrong, he turns to her for help, and -- after saving his life -- she realizes the man she fell in love with was a construct, and the spy is incapable of love or being loved. She channels her broken heart into her music, and becomes a famous composer of hauntingly morose chamber music.

(The sequel, which involves a cross with The Witches of Eastwick, features her after she is an embittered adult who emmigrated to the United States, learning to love and explore her sexuality again with the help of a handsome devil.)

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

A black American teacher gets a class full of kids who are scions of the Russian mob. Suddenly a beautiful ice skater with an amazing ass (who is not a student) seduces him. The students are so impressed with his manliness that they all buckle down and get As.

Then he is assassinated by Rosa Kleb's daughter (who tried fitting knife blades into her kicks, but had to settle for stabbing him with her Goth leather wrist-spikes), and about time, too.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

(via daegaer)

I reckon a Molesworth / Belles of St. Trinian's exchange program :)

According to the oracle...

[szzzt.livejournal.com]

I combed through my mess of Cool Bit Story Generator (http://magatsu.net/coolbits/index.php) snippets to see if It had spoken on this subject and its wisdom not been yet apprehended by the mortals. And lo!

"The villain of this piece is a morally ambiguous mentor, while the hero is a boy in a shirt with a collar loose enough to show his collarbones. The plot begins with wafts of opium smoke veiling a face in a giant country mansion. The ending includes elements of sweat dripping down someone's forehead and poison."

Synopsis

[(Anonymous)]

Competent spy lets emotion render him ineffective. (Fortunately for series, girl dies. Much time wasted on music that could have been better used for fight scenes.)

MK

(Mind you, I like Ian Fleming so I'm not a good one to ask.)