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  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I rewatched scenes from CR and something struck me: Le Chiffre glares at Vesper when she enters the room, with such a angry state. As if he's saying: "she better do what she's told."
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    QBranch wrote: »
    The prop department also made a newspaper clipping which repeats word-for-word the full obituary, as well as a death certificate.

    I'd be curious to see this.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    QBranch wrote: »
    The prop department also made a newspaper clipping which repeats word-for-word the full obituary, as well as a death certificate.
    I'd be curious to see this.
    I don't have those two documents, but you can see them in Designing 007 exhibit photos.
  • ThrasosThrasos
    edited May 2021 Posts: 1,469
    Okay, so I'm probably the last one here to know this trivia, but in case one other person doesn't know. No Time to Die is also the name of a 1958 British film that featured Fiona Volpe actress Luciana Paluzzi, co-produced by Cubby Broccoli, directed by Terence Young, who also co-wrote it with Richard Maibaum. But it was a war film, co-starring Victor Mature and Anthony Newley. Renamed Tank Force! in the U.S. Cinematographer Ted Moore also worked later on several Bond films. Ha--thought I recognized that name--Robert Rietty also had a small role in it, he played the Casino Baccarat Official in OHMSS, also dubbed the voice of Blofeld in FYEO...and did other Bond things.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    It is very embarrassing, but Bambi and Thumper are named after... well, the Disney characters. I only noticed it years after watching the film. Okay, I'll see myself out.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Watching FRWL for the umpteenth time I just noticed when Bond checks into his hotel in Istanbul, Kerim Bey's son picks up Bond's large blue suitcase and it's obvious there's not a bloody thing in it 😄
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    It is very embarrassing, but Bambi and Thumper are named after... well, the Disney characters. I only noticed it years after watching the film. Okay, I'll see myself out.

    I think DAF and SP are the only Bond films to have explicit Disney references?
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    It is very embarrassing, but Bambi and Thumper are named after... well, the Disney characters. I only noticed it years after watching the film. Okay, I'll see myself out.

    I think DAF and SP are the only Bond films to have explicit Disney references?

    I love the one in SP. Little touch of Italian culture, as Topolino is the name of Mickey Mouse there.

    There's a rather big reference in the novel YOLT, when Irma Bunt compares the Garden of Death to an evil Disneyland, but I doubt they'll use it in a future movie.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    a Play on words with " Grizlyland" used in TMWTGG
  • BT3366BT3366
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    Thrasos wrote: »
    Okay, so I'm probably the last one here to know this trivia, but in case one other person doesn't know. No Time to Die is also the name of a 1958 British film that featured Fiona Volpe actress Luciana Paluzzi, co-produced by Cubby Broccoli, directed by Terence Young, who also co-wrote it with Richard Maibaum. But it was a war film, co-starring Victor Mature and Anthony Newley. Renamed Tank Force! in the U.S. Cinematographer Ted Moore also worked later on several Bond films. Ha--thought I recognized that name--Robert Rietty also had a small role in it, he played the Casino Baccarat Official in OHMSS, also dubbed the voice of Blofeld in FYEO...and did other Bond things.

    Yet another Bond connection: Anthony Newley co-wrote and sang a demo version of Goldfinger.
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    BT3366 wrote: »
    Yet another Bond connection: Anthony Newley co-wrote and sang a demo version of Goldfinger.


  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
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    Thrasos wrote: »
    Okay, so I'm probably the last one here to know this trivia, but in case one other person doesn't know. No Time to Die is also the name of a 1958 British film that featured Fiona Volpe actress Luciana Paluzzi, co-produced by Cubby Broccoli, directed by Terence Young, who also co-wrote it with Richard Maibaum. But it was a war film, co-starring Victor Mature and Anthony Newley. Renamed Tank Force! in the U.S. Cinematographer Ted Moore also worked later on several Bond films. Ha--thought I recognized that name--Robert Rietty also had a small role in it, he played the Casino Baccarat Official in OHMSS, also dubbed the voice of Blofeld in FYEO...and did other Bond things.

    Which suggests that BB and MW were perfectly aware of their father's earlier film and accepted (or chose) the name for that reason.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    NicNac wrote: »
    Thrasos wrote: »
    Okay, so I'm probably the last one here to know this trivia, but in case one other person doesn't know. No Time to Die is also the name of a 1958 British film that featured Fiona Volpe actress Luciana Paluzzi, co-produced by Cubby Broccoli, directed by Terence Young, who also co-wrote it with Richard Maibaum. But it was a war film, co-starring Victor Mature and Anthony Newley. Renamed Tank Force! in the U.S. Cinematographer Ted Moore also worked later on several Bond films. Ha--thought I recognized that name--Robert Rietty also had a small role in it, he played the Casino Baccarat Official in OHMSS, also dubbed the voice of Blofeld in FYEO...and did other Bond things.

    Which suggests that BB and MW were perfectly aware of their father's earlier film and accepted (or chose) the name for that reason.

    I thought that was mentioned they chose it for that reason at the time it was revealed? I can't remember now- it was so long ago! :)
  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
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    mtm wrote: »
    NicNac wrote: »
    Thrasos wrote: »
    Okay, so I'm probably the last one here to know this trivia, but in case one other person doesn't know. No Time to Die is also the name of a 1958 British film that featured Fiona Volpe actress Luciana Paluzzi, co-produced by Cubby Broccoli, directed by Terence Young, who also co-wrote it with Richard Maibaum. But it was a war film, co-starring Victor Mature and Anthony Newley. Renamed Tank Force! in the U.S. Cinematographer Ted Moore also worked later on several Bond films. Ha--thought I recognized that name--Robert Rietty also had a small role in it, he played the Casino Baccarat Official in OHMSS, also dubbed the voice of Blofeld in FYEO...and did other Bond things.

    Which suggests that BB and MW were perfectly aware of their father's earlier film and accepted (or chose) the name for that reason.

    I thought that was mentioned they chose it for that reason at the time it was revealed? I can't remember now- it was so long ago! :)

    I'm sure you are right. It wouldn't surprise anyone.
  • ThrasosThrasos
    edited May 2021 Posts: 1,469
    Agreed that it goes without saying that they recycled the title.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Re-watching Thunderball this evening I just noticed. When Bond swims under the
    large catamaran and gets hit by the searchers boat. The guy who picks up his air tanks
    saying " Look, must have hit him with the propeller " sounds exactly like Goldfinger.
    I'm guessing the actor Michael Collins did a bit of voice work.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    So I'm not sure if I've noticed this or not(!) but is the writhing figure in the Skyfall title sequence supposed to be Silva when he was captured and getting his facial injury?

    At 2.21 here:
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    mtm wrote: »
    So I'm not sure if I've noticed this or not(!) but is the writhing figure in the Skyfall title sequence supposed to be Silva when he was captured and getting his facial injury?

    At 2.21 here:
    Could very well be @mtm. I've always wondered what or who that figure is but it nevertheless contributes to one of Kleinman's best title sequences.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Yes I just frame-by-frame'd it and it certainly looks like it could be him (with a blindfold on) and he looks like he's tied to a chair, so I guess that's who it must be supposed to be.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Good grief, the Vulcan bomber scenes in TB go on forever! They seem to take up a big chunk of the first half. And so bloody dull!

    No wonder I rarely stick this on. Far inferior to the perfect first 3 Connery's. But better than his last two.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    edited May 2021 Posts: 14,831
    I actually really enjoy the slowness of the scene. Too often in TV series and films it seems that stealing nukes is child's play and can be done quickly.
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    I actually really enjoy the slowness of the scene.

    Me too. I quite like that the film slows down in certain parts.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    And I'm sure that in 1965, filmgoers were enchanted by the underwater filming, and were more patient about film pacing.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Well, Thunderball was like the Star Wars of its time, if I'm not mistaken.
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    Or take Star Trek: The Motion Picture. By 1979 Special Effects had matured to a level where the audience would gladly endure 15 minutes of not much happening, while staring intrigued at a model of the Enterprise and the newest video effects creating funky space scenes.
  • BennyBenny In the shadowsAdministrator, Moderator
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    Well, Thunderball was like the Star Wars of its time, if I'm not mistaken.

    Not that I was around, but from everything I understand about that period, TB was very much the mega movie of the time. Helped immensely by GF the year before. TB was the height of 60’s Bondmania.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Even in flippers Bond is dangerous ;)
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    I love the underwater battle, its just the Vulcan/transporting the bombs scenes seem to get longer everytime I watch it...

    My favourite thing in the film is Connery's brilliant performance. Sheer class.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    LeonardPine wrote: »
    My favourite thing in the film is Connery's brilliant performance. Sheer class.

    Yes I think he's at his best as Bond in this one. He's also almost unrealistically handsome in it, too.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    LeonardPine wrote: »
    I love the underwater battle, its just the Vulcan/transporting the bombs scenes seem to get longer everytime I watch it...

    My favourite thing in the film is Connery's brilliant performance. Sheer class.

    They're hijacking nukes from NATO. It can't just be wrapped up in five minutes.
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