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It’s how you can tell he’s a truly great actor: he varies his performance.
“Hey Lee, I thought Bond might use his thumb for this one?”
“Brilliant Pierce, no one knows the character like you”
I like to think I'm quite good at spotting movie tricks, but I must admit I completely fell for it here! I always thought that Smithers was stood slightly unnaturally right up against that wall because they'd set up the spring-loaded arm prop there and probably attached it in place, but I never thought of the more simple explanation that there's no clever mechanical prop here at all!
His arm is in the cast and he's just swinging his arm to the side, smashing the prop head himself! Because the film told me it was a violent spring loaded thing I totally fell for it, but there's no need to go to all that trouble when you have an actor there who can move his own arms and a breakaway prop head. And the suspicious by-the-wall pose is because 'his' exposed right arm isn't his arm at all, it belongs to someone else, who's stood behind the wall sticking it through a hole.
I really love the inventive thinking that's gone into this, it's kind of like a magic trick, almost. And it shows the magic of the movies: because they tell you a thing is what they say it is you just believe it without questioning, even if there's a big gap between a guy's upper and lower arm where his elbow should be!
hahaha cool. Indeed, thank you for posting that.
That being said, if I'm not mistaken, the ending "-vitch" (or "-vich") means "son of", is usually reserved for a patronym (as in Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin = Vladimir, the son of Vladimir, Putin), and doesn't really work as the only name for a woman. Apart from the fact that the equivalent of penny would be kopek, not ruble. Sorry to be a bean counter yet again.
Well you're right, so no reason to apologise :)
I still quite like the reference though.
Indeed, you're not mistaken, if this is indeed meant as patronym. But Slavic people have a given name, patronym AND a surname, which can be derived from a patronym.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Slavic_name
Allthough 'son of ruble' makes, as a name, little sense. But 'Rublekopecks' is impossible to pronounce.
I can't have been the only person to make that mistake, right?
Could the script function without her? Yes I suppose it could but the writers would need to find other ways to make the same points.
Don’t leave us hanging 😂 what is the reason that you’ve only learnt today?
1)To show that Bond, for all his womanising, has a healthy sexuality. He may seduce a duchess, but he will not dishonor a virgin, to quote out of memory Raymond Chandler about Philip Marlowe.
2) To show that Kristatos is a creep. It adds another layer to his evil.
Well, it was a figure of speech: I meant Bibi is still underage and innocent, to a degree. No longer a virgin, but I'm sure her first lovers were close to her age than Bond. As in, not old enough to be her father.
Lynn Holly-Johnson was a huge star after Ice Castles, and I'm sure that's why she's in the film. I don't know if the role of Bibi was specifically created for her, but it kind of feels that way.
The '80s saw a lot of stunt casting, including Vijay Amritraj and Grace Jones (who was originally slated for OP).
Well, I realised that FYEO has a fatal flaw on a script level. In Bond films, usually Bond has to overcome the villain, but running parallel with that he has to overcome some scheme that has already been set in motion, or in other words "the ticking clock". Once Bond has had the personal satisfaction of dispatching his foe, he still has the tricky business of "saving the day". These two goals, while linked, are treated separately, and no Bond film feels complete until both are achieved. however when the scriptwriters were revising FYEO they likely would've realised that apart from stopping Kristatos escaping with the ATAC, there really was no secondary jeopardy for the audience to be worried about, nothing that needed Bond to rush to the climax for. That's why they added the character of Bibi, a young innocent woman, to give the ending more of a sense of jeopardy and visceral threat. Otherwise it really is just a case of Kristatos pacing around the monastery before getting shot in the back.
Interesting, thanks!
I only first noticed Dalton's scars when i watched LTK on bluray.
It's a nice touch.
Murder on the Orient express.
Well, yes, that's the one I think about, with Skyfall. Any other?
Around the Dalton or Brosnan era, he could have made a great villain.
•Lotte Lenya (Rosa Klebb) - Born 1898
•Coline Defaud (Young Madeline Swan) - Born 2010
•Lisa-Dorah Sonnet (Mathilde Swann) - Born 2015
Quite shocking in all honesty haha.
Only one before 1900, that's quite a statistic. Guess Lotte will by now certainly remain the only one born pre-1900...
I'm sure some at the junkanoo were 1800's babies.
It’s quite amazing. Apparently she was 65 when she did FRWL - I would’ve guessed she was in her late 40’s or early 50’s.