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I can definitely see the similarities.
I always saw SF and SP to be heavily Kubrick influenced, but I never thought of Coppola and Apocalypse Now.
(Which is kind of sad and funny to me that this word is a no-no while you have beside people getting killed/tortured and racist words here and here).
And he used them very rarely.
The 'racist' words were not considered so in 1953.
As for writing obscenities, i censor myself if doing so. As do a lot of folk.
Not sure what the rules were regarding profanity in books during the 50's.
I assume Fleming censored himself but i could be wrong.
Probably. But if you think something is vulgar, why even have an half of it? There is a lot of hyprocrisy about this word in english-langage countries, like US TV biping it, while keeping just enough of it to have you understand it anyway. It is like if they have have the need to give themself a good conscience. Never understand this culture of doing things by halves: either you do it fully, either you don't do it at all. (But after all it come from a French, where swearingt is I guess part of our culture and image).
Cool, thank you.
Well you've answered your own question.
You're right, there is a lot of hypocrisy about it, but that comes with censorship.
But as i said, i do it myself when writing a vulgarity, as do many others. It just seems more polite...!
If you look it up on Discogs, you can also see that it's the UK cassette release, a very oblique hint that we're perhaps not in San Francisco at all, but at Pinewood!
The title track from said album, penned by Jimmy Webb, is well worth a listen, too!
I think of all the things that we can notice now with our ability to freeze frame and re-watch films. Back in the day they would have assumed watching at a theatre and never being able to stop and look at things closely.
And yeah, Gogol, the wheel man... the whole premise of that scene is just crazy.
/:)
Is AVTAK the laziest production? It's up there.
I've never forgotten the comment of one of the TV critics, possibly Jeffery Lyons, who summed up AVTAK by saying something like "It's like they got together and said "Come on guys, time to make another Bond movie.'"
I think they took a fair deal of Hugo Drax's background.
I never noticed how Bonds windscreen is made of smartglass in TLD, I thought he was looking at a little screen.
So sorry if I'm a bit slow, but that places the entire world of literary as well as cinematic Bond in her reign, right? That really is something, isn't it?
That's always something that struck me. A darn shame they never had The Property of a Lady as a movie title. "I am my own master, Mr Bond. But you... you are nothing more but the property of a lady."
Other observation: he started his "life" when the Queen was a young woman, he was then older than her, he "finished" it when she was an elderly lady.
It's just a film, but has anyone who's ever worked in bartending noticed any similar 'falsehoods' when it comes to Bond films/their drinks scenes? Drinks that have come out too quickly or look a little weird? I'm not quite done with GF and waiting for the Mint Julip scene, haha.
I could be mistaken but does said odd martini on the GF plane also come with a straw?
I'll have to rewind :)) But that would be apt, considering it seemed to be only the stewardess and Galore/her co pilot on the plane as far as we know. Why would the stewardess know how to make such a drink? I know airline hospitality was elaborate at the time, but would they have stocked vermouth? A bit presumptuous of Bond to be ordering a cocktail like that on that flight! I'd have gone for a whiskey or beer and asked what they had (although I have horrible memories of paying extortionate amounts for beers on flights! Still would have asked and they'd have probably said Heineken in and outside of the Bond universe). But then again it's a film and I'm not James Bond, haha.
EDIT: I think it's a lemon twist rather than a straw.
I never noticed the short time to get the drink made, but I did notice the flute given to Bond. To me it always showed as them trying to accommodate their prisoner but failing. Just like Bond doesn't correct Henderson in YOLT, here he merely thanks Mei Ling and takes a gulp.
I am going to pay closer attention to drinking and eating scenes in the films to see if there are other gaps in reality.