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The James Bond Film Discussion Thread (With Bonus Lazenby!)
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Re the writer of Dr No and FRWL
He found a new way of making Bread.
Connery bignerated, meaning DAF is still the first incarnation even while Lazenby is the second.
Honestly, this is just something I thought up on the spot right now. No idea if it actually holds up.
Whatever happened to Connery's Bond, he somehow managed to escape the Eon timeline and did Never Say Never Again 12 years later.
And David Niven is Bond's equivalent of the Shalka Doctor.
I still have that David Niven Bond somewhere but have never watched it all
It's fucking awful. The behind the scenes stories of how it was made — three credited writers and at least half a dozen uncredited ones; a ten-month shoot with six directors; rivalry between Peter Sellers and Orson Welles (Sellers was intimidated by Welles; Welles wanted nothing to do with him); and Sellers ultimately exiting before the film could be completed — are more interesting than the film itself. About the only thing I can say to recommend the film is that Burt Bacharach's score is excellent.
Until the 1993 Flintstones film came along it may have been the most work poured into a mediocre movie project and the most talent devoted to a baffling misfire in Hollywood history. I love the soundtrack to Casino Royale but the movie itself is almost unwatchable unless you're a little buzzed or high or just trying to punish yourself for some reason. When even Peter Sellers seems totally pointless and a wasted casting decision then you know it's not a good film. 
BBC America has been running a Connery Bond marathon all day: Dr. No, FRWL, Goldfinger, then they skipped to DAF, and will finish up with YOLT; no Thunderball. This was perfect because I could drift in and out while doing laundry and other chores, whereas if I put on the blu-rays, I'd kind of feel obligated to sit down and actually watch them all the way through.
The last James Bond film I watched was The Spy Who Loved Me. I watched it because I had recently seen the vehicle in a James Bond exhibition.
The vehicle is great. But the film hasn't aged well.
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The vehicle is great. But the film hasn't aged well.
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Cushing Doctor, surely?And David Niven is Bond's equivalent of the Shalka Doctor.
So Rassilon is really Bond, James Bond on vacation
In a world of David Zaslavs, be Barbara Broccoli.
My brother felt that the first of the Bond films not to top its previous one in quality was MAJESTY. Budget-wise, this is probably right. Even though DR. NO began it all, I always dug the next four more, and the fourth (THUNDERBALL) most of all.....
Which places me in staggering agreement with the general paying public if we take inflation into account.
I'm in the middle of a Fleming/Bond omnibus which contains RUSSIA, NO and GOLDFINGER in that order. The spider-incident from the DR. NO is film is nowhere to be found. Bond is instead freaked out by an eight-inch poisonous centipede and it's truly three pages of utter terror ending with Bond puking after kiling the sucker with his shoe.*
(*The guinea-pig under the bedsheets from Eddie Murphy's DR. DOOLITTLE also traversed blue bedsheets, so you can bet I inserted its appearance while visually omitting the spider in a you-had-to-be-there VHS trailer mashup for the ages. In my version, Bond kills the pig seconds after he squeals.)
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It's been a long time since I've read the book or seen the film. But it's the same scene with a spider instead of a centipede, right? Including the shoe AND throwing up. (It's only suggested in the film but it's absolutely there.)
But of course.
And in the FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE novel, Rosa Klebb gets to live, while kicking Bond's leg on the way out.
I always smile when I see the scene in Dr. No where Bond meets with M because M basically describes the end of From Russia With Love. Because that was the previous book. Even though it "hasn't happened yet". Which is why he makes Bond switch to a Walther PPK. "The CIA swears by them."
(And yet how many movies later is Bond identified by his gun as being the only man to carry such a weapon?)
(And yet how many movies later is Bond identified by his gun as being the only man to carry such a weapon?)
I ended up watching FRWL and most of Goldfinger. My gods, the sexism! Still, after putting it in perspective of its era, FRWL is just a terrific film.
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