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(Isn t that @Dragonpol?)
The second leader was Anton Drexler
You probably know the third.
A hint:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1579629/Did-Adolf-Hitler-draw-Disney-characters.html
Thanks for the mention, but what would become the Nazi Party was first of all called "Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" (German Workers' Party, DAP). Only later, after Hitler joined as a member and became Party Leader, did it become Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party – NSDAP); more commonly known in shortened form as the Nazi Party. The "socialist" part was merely intended as window dressing to entice in ordinary workers. Hitler, unlike Mussolini, was never a socialist, so he meant "socialism in the more general sense of a folk community or Volksgemeinschaft. Sorry to be such a Nazi about it, old chap. ;)
Might even search out the more worthy Masquerade by Kit Williams.
I wonder if they make replica necklaces.
As did Churchill.
But who was best ?
Millions stand behind me!
Some even want to buy a whole crate with 60-70 buckets but they have to draw the line somewhere :p
He did take money from the US and the Vatican.
Who supplied it from the US?
@Dragonpol
Sorry to drag this convo back, only just read it.
I have always accepted that each Bond film was made at a time when they were sincerely trying to meet audience expectations. Attempting to read the mood of the masses, but at the same time experimenting with new directions, new ideas.
Hindsight is wonderful of course, but the producers could only learn from their mistakes. Therefore each film is honest and made with the best intentions. I admire them all as products of their time, and they are interesting because they reflect the state of action cinema at that time. In the 80s a sense of water treading crept in for sure, and the attempt to beef the films up a little (LTK) didn't work out. But you could always see Eon shifting the goal posts a little, looking for a magic formula.
Ironically, my 24th favourite Bond film is my 24th most viewed film of all time. So am I torturing myself unnecessarily, or am I like @mattjoes and loving the Bond experience without question?
I'd say you're desperately trying to love something you can't, and are willing to torture yourself until you do love it. I think that's like battered wife syndrome for movies, so I'd get help, as this won't turn into a Stockholm Syndrome situation.
A good number of the people who hate SP the most (or at least have it right at the end in place #24) watch it more than its fans do and have, which is utterly fascinating to me. After about the 20th watch and attempt to like something I'd say I'd have given up on that film or show or book. I usually give up around the second or third try, in the name of rationality. ;)
I watched it about 4 times at various times over the years and just don't get on with it,fail to see what all the fuss is about.
I wont be watching it again.
Could be heading there myself (attempts to like BR), but you won't catch me watching it even half a dozen times if it doesn't take. Time better spent with better films.
Exactly...I think 4 times was being generous tbh.
@barryt007, and the really annoying thing when it comes to BR is what cut/s do you watch to see if you like it any more than the last time/s? You've watched the theatrical cut 20 times but still hate it, so why not try the final cut on for size and watch that 20 times? Or maybe the international cut is best, the one that will really get you going, so watch that one a few dozen times and see for yourself? If all else fails, why not steal the copy Ridley Scott showed to all his friends, and watch that with him a few dozen times to see if he can force you to love it?
I get annoyed with films that have multiple cuts, as the vision for a project gets too damn scrambled when you have the theatrical version and then a director who is never satisfied and mucks with the movie every ten years with a new cut. If Covenant showed Ridley Scott nothing, it at least should've made him aware of what happens when he doesn't leave well enough alone. Instead of constantly heading back to Blade Runner he should've made better films set in that universe, with stories following different cops or different parts of that society, to build that world. So much wasted time.
I want you to cut it out. Just cut it out.
I will cut it out, @Dragonpol. I'll leave it right on the cutting room floor.
Just my little film quote of the day. ;)
In the past, there have been films I've really wanted to like, for whatever reason: because the premise was great, the cast was good, etc. But when things don't click, they just don't. Afterwards, I've tried to watch them again a few more times, in relatively quick succession (months, rather than years away), and nothing has really changed. Some time later, when thinking about them for the first time in a while, my sensation about most of them has been that they just didn't work for me, and I've moved on. Some films I've perhaps changed my mind on, but the point is you just can't force that change. It either happens or it doesn't happen. Sleuth (1972) is a film I always remember because I really wanted to enjoy it, but didn't. I have a number of problems with it and think the remake was much better.
With Bond, for some reason, even with the films I enjoy less (Skyfall, mainly) I just get engulfed in a pleasant atmosphere. They feel like home. I think a part of that may be due to nostalgia, but another big part of it is that there are a number of key elements always in place, one of which --among the most visceral, perhaps-- is the fun of globetrotting with Bond, of being in different countries each time.
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I also wanted to say I agree that a big factor of one's appreciation for the Bond films has to do with the films one was exposed to in the beginning. In my childhood, I got to watch the films starring Connery, Lazenby, Moore and Brosnan. In my early teens, I watched the Dalton films. I suppose that's why I like them all, and Connery and Dalton prepared me for Craig, so I like his era as well --having enjoyed CR and SP a great deal-- even though I do think we've stuck to a certain style of film for too long, and that has grown a bit tiresome.
My life in a nutshell.
-rundown red bus from Big Boss with ice factory diorama
-black Mercedes from FoF , the one Japanese drive (the rickshaw would be nice too although not a car)
-red Mercedes from Way fea Coliseum diorama (actually this could be 2 sets , I thought the Dr No diorama was cool so why not Coliseum diorama too ?)