The James Bond Film Discussion Thread (With Bonus Lazenby!)

[cardinal biggles]

I don't normally watch reaction videos, but there's a young woman on YouTube working her way through the Bond films and she's up to Roger Moore.

What I've noticed is that in Moore's first film, 'Live and Let Die', it seems like the writers are writing for Connery. There are certain instances where it's like Moore playing Connery playing Bond.

It's not until 'The Spy Who Loved Me' do I get the sense that the writers and Moore have found the balance in how Moore's Bond should be portrayed.

The moment in The Man with the Golden Gun when Bond twists Andrea Anders' arm was definitely something that seemed more Connery than Moore.

 

[cooleddie74]

Yeah, you could tell Tom Mankiewicz had been writing the script for a Connery-type Bond with a physically rougher standard of behavior towards women. Roger was best as a quippy, romantic Bond since his acting talents never revolved around brawling or physicality.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Interesting bit of 50th anniversary business that just came to my attention--apparently the James Paul McCartney TV special, which aired in the US on April 16, 1973, included a preview of the not-yet-released "Live and Let Die" theme song, complete with footage from the film.

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So, according to the story in the deluxe edition of 'Red Rose Speedway', Paul and the band knew the piano was wired to explode, they just weren't told how big the explosion would be.

As you can see. Paul is almost blown off the bench (he ducked at the last second, avoiding serious burns/injury), and Henry McCullough was knocked off his feet and suffered minor smoke inhalation.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I was wondering about that.

BTW, has it come up that a few weeks back was the 70th anniversary of the publication of Casino Royale?

 

[Colonel Midnight]

It’s amazing to think that all the different versions of Bond, like them or not… all served the same Queen.

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[CorporalCaptain]

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[Captaindemotion]

It’s amazing to think that all the different versions of Bond, like them or not… all served the same Queen.

Cheers,
-CM-

I speculated that they might call the next one On His Majesty’s Secret Service but for the fact that they may have leant a bit too hard I to the OHMSS references already in No Time To Die.

 

[cooleddie74]

60 years ago today on the 8th of May, 1963, Dr. No made its U.S. theatrical premiere and for all intents and purposes the Bond phenomenon began. Until that day the first movie was a British success but distribution in America widened the audience and potential fanbase by an untold factor. Within 19 months Goldfinger would be a cinematic craze and the first three Bond movies would kick off the spy fad of the 1960s.

Sixty years ago on this very day an empire started.

 

[Starkers]

I speculated that they might call the next one On His Majesty’s Secret Service but for the fact that they may have leant a bit too hard I to the OHMSS references already in No Time To Die.

Also it'll get really confusing re acronyms!

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Also it'll get really confusing re acronyms!

OHerMSS
OHisMSS

 

[Starkers]

Shudder!

 

[cooleddie74]

O8---- MSS

 

[The Old Mixer]

nuOHMSS

 

[cooleddie74]

Kelvin Timeline MSS.

 

[The Wormhole]

Kelvin Timeline MSS.

0HMSS

 

[cooleddie74]

Agent 0514.

 

[Captaindemotion]

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[The Old Mixer]

0HMSS

00HMSS

 

[The Old Mixer]

I have a question that this might be the right crowd for...I just watched an episode of Gilligan's Island, "The Invasion," in which Gilligan has a dream about being a secret agent, full of spy-fi genre spoofery. In the dream, Mr. Howell appears in a bald wig as the head of the organization EVIL. The thing that struck me about this is that the episode aired in November 1966, seven months before the release of You Only Live Twice. As Donald Pleasance's Blofeld was treated as a reveal in the film; and the previous two shadowy appearances by Anthony Dawson did show hair...the now-iconic image of bald Blofeld as spoofed by Dr. Evil wouldn't have existed yet. Was there a precedent for this elsewhere in the spy-fi genre?

 

[the G-man]

I have a question that this might be the right crowd for...I just watched an episode of Gilligan's Island, "The Invasion," in which Gilligan has a dream about being a secret agent, full of spy-fi genre spoofery. In the dream, Mr. Howell appears in a bald wig as the head of the organization EVIL. The thing that struck me about this is that the episode aired in November 1966, seven months before the release of You Only Live Twice. As Donald Pleasance's Blofeld was treated as a reveal in the film; and the previous two shadowy appearances by Anthony Dawson did show hair...the now-iconic image of bald Blofeld as spoofed by Dr. Evil wouldn't have existed yet. Was there a precedent for this elsewhere in the spy-fi genre?

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I have no idea the answer to your question but looking at that picture, man, how great a Jim Backus-portrayed Lex Luthor would have been on '66 Batman.