# Adaptations Where the Source Material is Ignored....for the Better

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 13, 2023, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adaptations-where-the-source-material-is-ignored-for-the-better/981097 "2023-03-13T04:40:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 15, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adaptations-where-the-source-material-is-ignored-for-the-better/981097/141 "2023-04-15T20:26:48Z")

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> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#):
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> And see, this is where we get different strokes for different folks. I think the movie Tootsie is close to a perfect film, while the stage musical is a clunky abomination.

Diff’rent strokes, indeed. I hated the original movie version of _Tootsie,_ and I hate pretty much all the characters, except Teri Garr’s. I’d avoid the musical if I thought it was anything like the movie.

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**Post date:** [April 15, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adaptations-where-the-source-material-is-ignored-for-the-better/981097/142 "2023-04-15T20:32:27Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> The bomb that Goldfinger delivers to Ft. Knox may be “small, but particularly dirty”, **but it’s still an atomic bomb.** After it blows up real good, the gold isn’t going to still be sitting there in neat stacks.
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> (snip)
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> Goldfinger also says that the gold will be radioactive for fifty-eight years. Since the film came on in 1964, the gold would have been usable again some time last year.

My bolding. Exactly. The bomb was _inside_ the Depository. The gold would be radioactive fallout, not irradiated bricks.

That line always bugged me. Radioactive? What the hell does **that** mean? We talking half-life, safe level, not even background, what?

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