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Did you like Talisa Soto, also?
In the novel it's in France, I guess when they changed locations for the movie they didn't think about changing the currency...
Maybe just playing the foreign currency?
Good spot.
Moreover, while casinos are featured in TWINE and SF, the only time since GE that he played a card game was in CR.
Bond plays baccarat in:
- DN
- TB
- OHMSS
- FYEO
- GE
Bond plays another casino game in:
- DAF
- TMWTGG
- OP
- LTK
- CR
- (NSNA, if you want to count both the film as well as the 'Domination' game)
Bond enters a casino but we don't see him play, happens in:
- TWINE
- SF
Related: In the 1998 video game you can play baccarat.
Oh wow, could be of course, I may have missed that then, one of my least rewatched entries, to be perfectly honest.
Really? I don't remember which game that was... :( I know of black jack in the TWINE game though...
Yeah, that was the awesome Game Boy game 'James Bond 007' (wish it had a distinct name), but you could play baccarat, blackjack and red dog.
Also the game of backgammon is not a casino game, but a game of chance that can involve money. Similar to Gin or Gin Rummy in that it is a game of chance that can involve betting. As seen in GF.
I do find it interesting that Bond and gaming are strongly tied and yet less than half the films feature a casino scene. Might be caused by the fact the first films with Sean heavily feature casinos and so it was in the DNA.
Punto Banco (most common today, especially in North America)
Baccarat Banque
Sounds like you'd be hard pressed to find a place where you'd be able chemin de fer these days. Which is odd, since it appears to be more than just luck, I would expect that would be more fun to play (although I'm far from an expert).
Given that all the signs in the building are still in German, and the exterior shot during the credits is clearly Vienna, I'm not quite sure why they'd ask her that...
Perhaps her next performance is set to be in Paris, but still an odd line.
Diamonds Are Forever(1971)
Budget:$7.2 million
Worldwide Gross:$116 million
Domestic (US & Canada): $43.8 million
International: $72.2 million
On the Buses (1971)
Budget:£90,000
Worldwide Gross £2.5 million
UK: £1.5 million
Overseas: £1.0 million
Course you are correct that with the film being released at the last week of 1971 the film would have made most of it's money in 1972.
No flame thrower to end things though. hmm interesting indeed.
That's pretty well done, especially the side camera is a nice touch.
How was the rest of the film? Seems to be right up my alley... :)
Edit: I looked it up and I see it's with Carole Bouquet! Will be watching it soon.
The film also seems interesting to me. Always willing to explore the Bouquet filmography. The Bouquetography. Last one I watched with her was A Business Affair with co-stars Walken and Pryce.
Thanks man, will check it out if I'm able to find it somewhere... :)
Just an observation from a recent viewing of Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (2019).
Hear me out ...
In Spectre, during the hotel room scene in Tangier, Madeleine is slightly drunk and lying on the canopy bed in L'Américain. She looks at Bond with a woozy expression and says: “I see two of you. Two James.” It’s a throwaway line on the surface — a sign of her tipsiness — but it carries symbolic weight, especially when seen alongside Aurore Clément’s lines (where it's opium not alcohol) in the French plantation scene of Apocalypse Now. She says to Martin Sheen's Capt. Willard: “There are two of you. Don’t you see? One that kills and one that loves.” As in Spectre, it’s just a brief dialogue scene set on, or around, a canopy bed enveloped by similar dreamlike lighting.
Craig's Bond & Willard, two protagonists who are assassins (however much we might dress it up in Bond's case), with two women who see the truth, expressed in similar lines, about these emotionally fractured, violent men.