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Creepiness in Bond Films

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  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    Peter Sellers in CR67. A creep both on and off screen.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    suavejmf wrote: »
    Peter Sellers in CR67. A creep both on and off screen.

    You clearly never had the Queen walk past you to talk to Orson Welles instead. What a trauma that must have been.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
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    Bond in the statue park during GE.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Peter Sellers is one of the best actors we've ever had. And Stanley Kubrick would agree with me. ;-)
  • TheSharkFromJawsTheSharkFromJaws Amity Island Waters
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    suavejmf wrote: »
    Peter Sellers in CR67. A creep both on and off screen.
    You're singling out Peter Sellers in that movie and not Woody Allen?

  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
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    TheSharkFromJaws wrote: »
    suavejmf wrote: »
    Peter Sellers in CR67. A creep both on and off screen.
    You're singling out Peter Sellers in that movie and not Woody Allen?

    I would go so far as to say Woody Allen is probably the best thing about that movie to be honest.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Nonsense. Jacqueline Bisset is the best thing about that movie. And Burt Bacharach. And Joanna Pettet. And Barbara Bouchet.
  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
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    Bisset seemed a bit wooden in this to me tbh. I wasn't taking into account the score, so you got me there, Joanna Pettet and Barbara Bouchet were pretty hot, but there really wasn't anything more to their characters, at least in my opinion
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I agree. That film is pure window dressing with nothing substantial to sell. ;-) But some elements look good and sound even better and that's enough to get me through this unique ordeal. ;-)
  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
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    I can't really say it's one that I go back and revisit often, along with Never Say Never Again. I always found this movie to be just too confusing and incoherent to be a pleasant viewing experience. Of the 3 unofficial movies, I have to say, I enjoy the old Black and White Casino Royale tbh.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    CR54 is a labour of love.
    CR67 is a labour of confusion.
    NSNA is a labour of hatred.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    I rank them thus:

    1 NSNA
    2 CR54
    3 CR 67
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    TheSharkFromJaws wrote: »
    suavejmf wrote: »
    Peter Sellers in CR67. A creep both on and off screen.
    You're singling out Peter Sellers in that movie and not Woody Allen?

    Woody Allen is a midget comedian in the film who didn't take himself too seriously. Sellers was just awful and pretending to be something he could never pull off.
  • TheSharkFromJawsTheSharkFromJaws Amity Island Waters
    edited March 2017 Posts: 127
    007ClassicBondFan wrote: »
    TheSharkFromJaws wrote: »
    suavejmf wrote: »
    Peter Sellers in CR67. A creep both on and off screen.
    You're singling out Peter Sellers in that movie and not Woody Allen?

    I would go so far as to say Woody Allen is probably the best thing about that movie to be honest.
    I agree. But to call Peter Sellers a creep on screen and off but not Woody Allen just strikes me as odd. Particularly the off screen part.

    I think it's fair to say neither of them are exactly normal guys. 
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    TheSharkFromJaws wrote: »
    007ClassicBondFan wrote: »
    TheSharkFromJaws wrote: »
    suavejmf wrote: »
    Peter Sellers in CR67. A creep both on and off screen.
    You're singling out Peter Sellers in that movie and not Woody Allen?

    I would go so far as to say Woody Allen is probably the best thing about that movie to be honest.
    I agree. But to call Peter Sellers a creep on screen and off but not Woody Allen just strikes me as odd. Particularly the off screen part.

    I think it's fair to say neither of them are exactly normal guys. 



    "'He causes pain to everyone who gets close to him ... Even when you're the victim of his outrageous behaviour, his selfishness, or one of his tantrums, you always found yourself smiling about it afterwards, even if you had to do it through gritted tears".

    —Spike Milligan on Peter Sellers

    He sounds like a twat.
  • TheSharkFromJawsTheSharkFromJaws Amity Island Waters
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    suavejmf wrote: »
    TheSharkFromJaws wrote: »
    007ClassicBondFan wrote: »
    TheSharkFromJaws wrote: »
    suavejmf wrote: »
    Peter Sellers in CR67. A creep both on and off screen.
    You're singling out Peter Sellers in that movie and not Woody Allen?

    I would go so far as to say Woody Allen is probably the best thing about that movie to be honest.
    I agree. But to call Peter Sellers a creep on screen and off but not Woody Allen just strikes me as odd. Particularly the off screen part.

    I think it's fair to say neither of them are exactly normal guys. 
    Right.


    "'He causes pain to everyone who gets close to him ... Even when you're the victim of his outrageous behaviour, his selfishness, or one of his tantrums, you always found yourself smiling about it afterwards, even if you had to do it through gritted tears".

    —Spike Milligan on Peter Sellers

    He sounds like a twat.
    Right. I'm just saying that there are things said about Woody Allen too that probably shouldn't be ignored if we're gonna bring up Sellers.

  • BAIN123BAIN123
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    I wonder if Sellers may have had some sort of personality disorder.
  • GerardGerard
    edited March 2017 Posts: 5,811
    Two creepy moments from QOS : Dominic Greene telling the story of how he disfigured a girl who had rejected him. And Medrano's "In my room !" to the waitress right after being forced to sign away the rights to his country's water. Knowing what we know about him, that phrase sent a chill through my spine, it did.

    But Fleming himself was creepier than that at times. From the description of Goldfinger's (ahem) proclivities to Rosa Klebb trying (and failing) to seduce Tatiana Romanova, to Milton Krest's stingray tail, his novels are full of moments like these.
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
    edited April 2017 Posts: 5,131
    BAIN123 wrote: »
    I wonder if Sellers may have had some sort of personality disorder.

    Peter also appears to have some narcissistic features.

    Britt says she thought was mental in an interview: “I think today we would say he was bipolar, although that word is bandied about so often. He had mental problems and he should have been on therapy. If I’d met him today I would know so much more, but I didn’t. I had no experience of that sort of life but I learnt very quickly.”
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Rosa Klebb touching Tatiana Romanova.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited July 2022 Posts: 17,809
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Rosa Klebb touching Tatiana Romanova.

    Fleming made much more of it in the FRWL novel of course but I suppose that was as far as they could go in a 1963 film!
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
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    And even that was pushing the boundaries!

    I swear that Silva was about to kiss M in their last confrontation together, in the church.
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