Herve Villechaize, the little person who plays Knick Knack, was a pretty big name in the late 70’s-early 80’s due to his role on Fantasy Island, co-starring with Ricardo Montalban. His announcement of “De plane! De plane!” during that show’s opening has become an icon of television.
Christopher Lee was amazing. He witnessed the last public execution in France. Had a very prolific acting career. Started recording metal albums at 85 years old. Was a direct descendant of Emperor Charlemagne. Was a literal hunter of Nazi war criminals. My favourite story about him is when an actor found out that he was attached to SAS, LRDG and SOE (Special Forces) during WW2 and badgered him for a story. Lee "Yes well I don't talk about that." Actor "Oh go on." Lee leans in and whispers: _"Can you keep a secret?"_ Actor leans in and listens close: "Yes" Lee: *"WELL SO CAN I!"*
If you haven't seen Christopher Lee in anything earlier than this, you want to have a look at some of the horror films he made for Hammer. They're great fun, and Lee's one of the best actors ever to play Dracula.
When filming the Lord of the Rings Movies during the Death of Saruman scene they wanted him to cry out in agony as he was stabbed, and Sir, Lee...he is a knight, informed Peter Jackson, No; and then proceeded to explain that the reason why was when he was an covert operative/special forces during ww2 they would stab people there to kill them silently as it would pierce the lungs, making the victim of said attack incapable of screaming. Btw he is also a direct descendant of Charlemagne..and also has a Heavy Petal band named Charlemagne, Also Count Dooku, Sir Lee is a badass and a gentleman in every possible aspect.
Goodnight is actually Bond's secretary in the books, although this film doesn't make that very clear. She fills the same role Moneypenny does for M, helping 007 with his mission reports. Sadly this is her only appearance in the movies.
A good pub quiz question is to ask “What is the name of James Bond’s secretary?”. Most people will answer “Miss Moneypenny”, but of course she is M’s secretary.
I kind of like Goodnight. She and Strawberry Fields in Quantum Of Solace both have a nice "regular girl" quality to contrast with the more exotic ones, and one of QoS's several mistakes is how quickly it gets rid of Strawberry.
The broken bridge jump was the first stunt prévisualised by computer to determine exactly how to build the bridge set. The next film is a huge step up in the franchise.
The car flip stunt is also a good example of what bad sound can do to bring down a good image. One of the most epic automotive stunts ever put to celluloid, and the sound is...a slide whistle. Silence would have been better.
not silence, but the heavy vroom of the engine as the wheels leave the surface and start to spin faster, would have been a much better accentuation than... that f*cking whistle
You know I never considered that. The stunt is so epic that for me I didn't care about the sound but you are right, any better sound, music or even silence would have been better.
This, along with Live and Let Die, are really important in the Bond franchise precisely for the reasons you mentioned. They had to move him into missions that were not “save the entire planet from a nuclear bomb” type missions. This opens the door for later (post Roger Moore) movies that are smaller in scale like this in terms of the mission. And Bond vs. the world’s greatest assassin is just priceless.
This came out right after Enter the Dragon, which should explain why it featured a karate school and the "mirror labyrinth", also the idea of the villain being on an island. Bond will visit both Africa (Egypt) and South America (Brasil) during the Moore era.
The Cartoon sound at the amazing car stunt has always bugged me. It's such a good stunt and it doesn't deserve the ridicule. This is actually the movie with the fewest bond kills. He only kills one person the entire movie.
But it does have the distinction of being the second time Bond kills the main baddie. Most of the time before, they either accidentally kill themselves, or get killed by a secondary character.
Actually, the Production Designer of this movie was Peter Murton. But he did work as an Art Director on 'Thunderball' and 'Goldfinger', on which Ken Adam was Production Designer, so I guess Murton knew Adam's designs well enough to be consistent. Adam will be back for the next two movies. And Scaramangas' Island is the Island of Khao Phing Kan, off the Thai Coast. Both Tourist Guides and Locals widely refer to the place as 'James Bond Island', even today.
The Spy who loved Me's probably my favourite Bond Movie. I love Golden Gun too, largely because I'm a huge fan of Christopher Lee. You should check out some Hammer Studio movies, eg Dracula, Frankenstein or if you'd like to see Christopher Lee as a good guy, 'The Devil Rides out'. Can't recommend it enough. Even has Blofeld from Diamonds are forever as the bad guy, and does a very good job considering Lee's the protagonist. If you want to see Roger Moore in his personal favourite movie, then I also highly recommend 'The Man who haunted himself'. It even has a Bond reference before Moore was cast.
And of course Christopher Lee was in The Three Musketeers (1973), and The Four Musketeers (1974), with an all star cast directed by Richard Donner (before The Omen and Superman movies). The Four Musketeers has one of the best sword fights between Lee and Michael York. Both movies recommended. Lee also was a very proficient in sword fighting as there is a RU-vid video on that you should also check out.
Nick Nack (Herve Villechaize) would later become pretty famous on the TV show Fantasy Island. His life wasn't completely happy and the actor Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) portrayed him in a movie a few years back. Sherriff JW Pepper (Clifton James) was put in as comic relief and is supposed to be a bit of a caricature of Americans when they travel abroad. It's all in good fun and nobody should be offended. As an American, I can say that we ARE loud and bit obnoxious occasionally when we travel abroad. lol
Christopher Lee and Britt Eklund (Miss Goodnight) starred together in "The Wicker Man". You are right that the writing was a bit off, but it funny lines and was greatly entertaining with Villachaize (Fantasy Island) as Lee's minion. Christopher Lee, as always, plays a masterful villain that has a larger-than-life screen presence. Wish you could go down the Christopher Lee rabbit hole, since he's appeared in more films than anyone actually. Mostly horror, but he's been an actor from "Hamlet" in 1948, to his last role as Saruman, in the third Hobbit film in 2014. He WAS Dracula (in six films), Frankenstein's monster, The Mummy, Sherlock Holmes, Count Dooku, Fu Manchu, Rasputin and Saruman. He also appeared in dozens of films with British horror star, Peter Cushing. So much so, that many thought they worked as a team. They were just neighbors and good friends that incidentally met on the set of "Hamlet" in 1948.
The Golden Gun was symbolic for Scaramanga. One shot, one kill, so his gun had only one shot. That he lost against Bond because he had a mannequin of Bond in his funhouse is his hubris backfireing. The Golden Gun is less a gadget or weapon, but one of Scaramanga's character traits.
Christopher Lee was a cousin of Ian Fleming, the author of the Bond films. Lee himself of course had been a secret agent for the British during WWII. He's one of the best Bond villains in one of the lesser Bond films imo. It's still enjoyable, but very eh to me. Especially the action and overall plot.
Christopher Lee wasn't a secret agent as such, not in the Bond sense at least. He started his war service as an intelligence officer, decoding German cyphers, before he joined what would become the SAS and took on sabotage missions behind enemy lines in North Africa. He then went on to become an officer in the Gurkhas for a while, then joining the Special Operations Executive and dropping into occupied Europe to aid the local Resistance, including Tito, in carrying out sabotage and other missions, before finally finishing the war hunting down Nazi war criminals.
I made a video replacing the slide whistle with the James Bond theme if you'd like to see it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8jke4qTfYC0.html
Qiu Yuen, plays one of Lt. Hip's nieces at the martial arts school, who helps Bond escape. She would appear in a number of Hong Kong Kung Fu films, including the memorable landlady in the popular martial arts comedy Kung Fu Hustle.
This is the final Bond film to be produced by Harry Saltzman. He ran into financial difficulties and had to sell his shares of the franchise. It is also the final film to be directed by Guy Hamilton and the last to be shot in the "flat" or 1:85 : 1 aspect ratio. Looking forward to seeing your reaction to Spy Who Loved Me 👍
Dude, I just want to say, that coming home from work, making my dinner and sitting down to watch one of your videos is freaking awesome, keep up the great work! And you've got a doozy coming up next week!!
One of my favorite Bond movies. Christopher Lee is not just the man with the golden gun, but also with a third nipple. The Spy Who Loved Me is also one I love most. No helicopter, how about a flying car? Can't wait for it. When you get a chance, do 1963's Charade with Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Matthau, James Coburn and George Kennedy. Directed by Stanley Donen (Singing in the Rain), it's the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made. Cary Grant in this movie and North by Northwest has that pre James Bond feel.👍😄
I also hold this one in more esteem than most - I really enjoy the aesthetics of this one. Scaramanga's Island remains one of the best, most enviable villain lairs to me.
That stunt has never been duplicated , there was a great expose’ on that jump , and lol the lengths they went to Etc, It’s great reaction as always, Dare I say, that these are like the Batman tv series to today’s dark night series , as an analogy to where the bond franchise went to now , being more about stunts and serious plots…
This was the first James Bond movie I ever saw at the theater when I was a kid. I was about eight when this movie came out. I think that is the reason why Roger Moore is still my favorite Bond,even though I know that Sean Connery was better.👍
Sean Connery was in no way, shape or form better than Moore - not in the slightest. His ludicrous accent and hilariously bad syrup make him utterly laughable - I think the rug he donned in 'Never Say Never Again' received higher billing - and weakens the character of Bond.
Connery wasn't better, he was just different. Moore inhabited the role so effortlessly that for me he'll always be the quintessential James Bond despite that I also love Dalton's more intense portrayal and Lazenby's more fallible Bond. I've never particularly enjoyed Connery's performance as good as he was because his Bond has no real "character" aside from being OO7. Connery couldn't have pulled off that ending to OHMSS! We saw what happened when the writers put Connery in a more comedic 70s style Bond film in Diamonds Are Forever and in the 80s era Never Say Never Again - Both awful films! Connery's a great actor when he puts in the effort {despite his inability to do accents} - Highlander, Hunt For Red October, The Untouchables, The Rock! But he doesn't elevate the Bond films he made. From Russia With Love is a fantastic movie, but not because of Sean Connery! Goldfinger is elevated by Gert Frobe not Sean Connery! Thunderball and You Only Live Twice were favourites of mine as a 10-12 year old kid but again NOT because of Sean Connery - It was the action and effects that made those films! I actually find them both hard to watch now as an adult because those effects and that action no longer make up for how interminable those films can be, not to mention how dated they are now. And OK I'll give you Dr No as it was the original and its story is so weak that it really only had Connery's acting to elevate it - If he hadn't been at the top of his game in that film we'd never have had a James Bond franchise that lasted almost 60 years! But again when you look back on it, Connery's acting in Dr No though good was nowhere near the likes of The Untouchables and The Rock!
The "Golden Gun" that the title refers too is actually the solar powered laser shown at the end. As Bond said after the demonstration."Now you really are the man with the golden gun".
_MWTGG_ is slighted in the canon but it's easily my favourite Moore entry. Christopher Lee is the superior Bond villain & dominates the film with character & a palatable aura of danger. The film recaptures the mystery & majesty of the franchise diminished after _YOLT._ Moore finally nails the character, the set pieces are gold, & the ending is one of his career best 007 moments. Also, Britt Ekland. It's goofy (it's a kids movie from the 1970s) but I find _TSWLM_ & _FYEO_ far goofier.
I'm not sure about your definition of "goofy" if you find THSWLM and FYEO far goofier than TMWTGG? TMWTGG does get goofy at times with the slide whistle and the karate school and the suitcase. But Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only are far more serious films with much less elements of comedy added in {though there are some in both yes but nowhere near as broad}. OK For Your Eyes Only does have by far the worst opening sequence of any Bond film but take that opening sequence out and it's a strong entry in the series. Jaws gets way goofy in Moonraker but not in Spy Who Loved Me! I don't dislike Man With the Golden Gun - It easily sits in my Top 10 Bond films. But it is one of the more "goofy" films of the franchise - It has the broadest comedy elements of any Canon Bond film other than Diamonds Are Forever and perhaps Moonraker! Yes it's better than Moonraker and miles better than the abysmal Diamonds Are Forever but it's still goofy because it has those broad comedic elements. OHMSS scared EoN off from writing serious Bond films for a while - Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die and Man With the Golden Gun all are much more mass market orientated {Live and Let Die is my favourite Bond film btw} but Spy Who Loved Me is closer to the Connery era in style {some people harp on about it being a remake of You Only Live Twice} and so far less "goofy" than the three prior films. Moonraker is excessively goofy yes - They basically remade Spy Who Loved Me IN SPAAAACE because of the success of Star Wars and Spy Who Loved Me, then added in broad comedy. But For Your Eyes Only is a much more serious film - An underrated Bond film because of that {Just like OHMSS}. The last actually good Moore Bond film as Octopussy and A View to a Kill are atrocious but both of those were serious films too so again I'm not saying that serious beats goofy just that they're two different things :) There's no reason someone can't like a goofy film more than a serious film but I'd say your issues with Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only aren't their supposed "goofyness".
@@franohmsford7548 I didn't read all of that but think of it like this: _MWTGG_ is like the Tim Burton _Batman_ films - a stylized, tongue in cheek, self-aware hyper-reality that exists in the strict terms of it's unique comic book universe. _FYEO_ *wants* to be Nolan's _TDK_ - grounded in our reality, telling mature stories. But then it throws Blofeld down a smoke stack with slide whistle, that goofy face ID scene with nose gag, Barbie Dahl, & "cameo" by Margaret Thatcher. That kind of 4th wall breaking would be like cartoon *POW!* bubbles showing up in _TDK._ _SWLM_ is a bit more successful in it's grounded tone but it too breaks the 4th wall with the _Lawrence Of Arabia_ theme & the desert sequences are played like vaudeville follies. Yes, these films are far goofier than _MWTGG._
One of the unique and amazing factoids of Ian Fleming and the Bond Legacy is that Christopher Lee and Ian Fleming didn't just know each other before the creation of James Bond, Christopher and Ian were step-cousins, friends, and regular golfing partners until Fleming's death in 1964. In fact, it was Lee's exploits during WWII with British Intelligence, in the RAF Special Operations Executive (most of which are still classified...as are Fleming's) that helped serve as the inspiration for Bond. When the film rights were sold to Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccolli and their EON (Everything Or Nothing) Productions, Fleming suggested Lee for the role of Dr. No. As Lee was not a name, even in British cinema, yet...they passed on him. By the time, 'The Man With The Golden Gun' was about to be made, Lee had truly established himself, mostly thanks to his Hammer horror films playing Dracula. Also...Roger Moore and Christopher Lee were old friends as well...they first met in 1948. If you take a good look at Christopher Lee's Wikipedia page, you'd be astonished at the life Lee led. He was, in every sense of the term, a real bad-ass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee
That stunt where the car barrel rolled over the creek was real and practical. There were 2 dozen divers in the water and obviously they only had 1 try.
The eye-catching islands are near Phuket in southern thailand. There were boat tours to "James Bond Island" which I took. Not sure if they are still a thing.
French actor 'Hervé Villechaize' who played 'Nick-Nack', other than this role, is also very well known for playing the character 'Tattoo' ("Look! De plane, De Plane!" - was the character's catchphrase) on the long running fantasy-drama TV series 'Fantasy Island' (1977-1984) with actor 'Ricardo Montalbán' as 'Mr. Roarke' in that series... Bond ally 'Lieutenant Hip' in this film, played by 'Soon-Tek Oh', is also well know for playing the sadistic Vietnamese 'Colonel Yin' in the action film 'Missing In Action 2: The Beginning' (1985) with Chuck Norris as P.O.W. Col. James Braddock, he is also known for playing 'Master Sensei' in the comedy 'Beverly Hills Ninja' (1997) with 'Chris Farley' as 'Haru' and as the voice of Fa Zhou in Disney's animated 'Mulan' (1998) plus he fought against Chuck Norris (this time playing 'Agent Joshua McCord') yet again in 'The President's Man' (2000) as General Vinh Tran. Peter Murton, Peter Lamont & John Graysmark all contributed to the production design (and all of whom worked under Ken Adams in previous Bond pictures) - so that's why it feels like Ken Adams sets....Also John Sears & Derek Meddings (also Bond veterans themselves) were responsible for the miniature and SFX work.
@@MLJ7956 You don't have to convince me. Saw it in the theater with my dad when I was eight years old. Ahhh the days when Klingons looked like 80's metal bands
See, I disagree with this being "not a strong Bond film." To me, this is one of my absolute favorite Bond films. The humor is exactly what I loved about it.
Not only does Sheriff JW Pepper appear in _LALD_ & _TMWGG_ - he appears in 1981's _Superman II_ (also written by Mank). Which means Roger Moore's Bond & Christopher Reeve's Superman exist in the same universe. It was very confusing at the time. Magical, tho.
This is a classic example of what I refer to as my list of "Weird" films. I accept all the negative criticisms and don't disagree. Plot is weak, performances are a bit phoned in and it doesn't really grab you the way an action movie should. However, having said all of that ,I just find I always really enjoy it every time I see it and it's one of the bond's I've seen the most. I really couldn't tell you why but it just seems to work for me as pure escapism. Maybe just my fascination with Christopher Lee. Honestly, I think I could watch an episode of Hollyoaks if he was in it. Apologies if I'm repeating myself but if you ever feel the need to watch more serious/realistic spy type films/TV I would strongly recommend the original Day of the Jackal and what is for me the greatest TV series ever made - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People (the ones with Alec Guiness).
The Avengers with Diana Rigg (On Your Majesty's Secret Service) and Patrick Macnee ( who is in Roger Moore's last Bond movie A View To A Kill), was more of the "circus" Shaun talks about.
Yes, yes and yes.. couldn't agree more. Well, not being quite as big a fan of Lee, as you, I'd probably give the Hollyoaks episode a miss. Following on with Alec Guinness though. He was an amazing actor for me. Lavender Hill Mob and more especially Ladykillers, are great early examples of British criminal caper comedy. Covering the spectrum from light to dark. With Alec Guiness shining in both.
The secret MI6 base in Victoria Harbour was in the wreck of the former Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth. The retired ocean liner had been purchased by a Hong Kong based interest and was anchored there with the intent to be used for a university but she suspiciously caught fire and sank in the harbour in 1972. She was dismantled in place from 1974 - 5, so the wreck was still extant when this film was shot.
As far as I remember, the sea plane he flies to Scaramanga's island was owned by a millionaire who was a big Bond fan and wanted to be a part of the films in some way so he let them use his plane and flew it himself.
Trivia fact:The first four Roger Moore Bond movies have actors that appeared in the first season of Space 1999. The Harlem black cop from *Live and let's Die* Christoper Lee (Earthbound) Shane Rimmer (Space Brain) Bond's female contact in Brazil in *Moonraker*
Although her character was ditsy and incompetent, she managed to have an unusual luck factor that made Goodnight (Britt Ekland) unique as a Bond girl. As a teen aged boy when this film came out, I had great appreciation for every moment Ekland appeared on screen.
The island is in Phang Nga Bay, just northeast of Phuket. All of the islands in the area are stunningly beautiful. Another famous island nearby is Koh Phi Phi, where The Beach was filmed.
Ken Adam didn't do the production design....he was working with Kubrick on "Barry Lyndon" (which gave him a nervous breakdown!). Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland were together in a really weird, one-of-a-kind horror movie the year before, "The Wicker Man" (1973), which Lee always touted as the movie he was most proud of.
17.53 No CGI trickery....the stunt was based on the same thing done in a car stunt show in the US. They got the guy to do it for the movie and it was reported that he got paid in cash by the producers on the day. It was a unique one-off, incredibly dangerous since the car stunt show did it on land, not water. And as stated below, this was the first time in movies that computers were used in pre-vis. Bond ahead as usual in 1973:). I'm going to enjoy your next reaction - The Spy Who Loved Me. I hope you make it a bit longer as it's a cracking good fun Bond flick with the best stunts...one in particular almost brought the house down when I saw it in the cinema back in '77.
The stunt with the flipping car was done in one take. The actress who played Goodnight fought hard to get the role. She was disappointed when she found out she was not as bad ass as she was in the book. The sheriff was brought back because he was so popular in the last one. "You're that English agent from Englad" technically Bond is Scottish. Fleming loved Conroy so much he established in later books that Bond was Scottish.
The actor who played Nick Nack is from the famous 70's television show "Fantasy Island" which lasted up to the early 80's. Certain subject matters of Fantasy Island were ahead of their time, but that's just my opinion.
Trivia: Christopher Lee was cousins with Ian Fleming. They knew one another fairly well. Also, Lee was the only cast member in the LOTR trilogy who'd met Tolkien.
"Moonraker" is set in part in Brazil And "The Spy Who Loved Me" is shot in part in Egypt so yes, they do South America and Africa "The Living Daylights" has Morocco as well But, never Australia.
By this time the movies had almost no relationship to Fleming's novels, his last in this case. I actually prefer TMWTGG to LaLD. I enjoy Goodnight as out of place as she is and Lee as Scaramanga is one of the Bond films' best villains though primarily due to Lee's convincing performance. Ted Moore did the cinematography, he won the Oscar for Thunderball, and he's very subtle with his pastel textures. Check out his work in THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD for some earthy fantasy tones. One thing Moire hated about shooting this film was pushing that young lad into the river which was extremely polluted and he almost quit over it.
I think this is my second favorite Bond, after Goldfinger. Plenty of faults I agree, but you don't go to a Bond movie expecting to get Shakespeare! I enjoyed the fact that Lee was in it, the scenery around his lair, the plotting of Knick Knack, and of course that amazing practical stunt with the car and the corkscrew bridge, the car that turns into a plane, and Britt Ekland was a hottie back in the day.
Diminutive actor Hervé Villechaize was world famous for the tv series "Fantasy Island" He was also a little bit of a pervert as his favourite pick-up line was "Gee, your hair smells nice"
Just a FYI the Jet car was a real car. It was being delivered to the set by its inventor. Hes was going to fly it to the set. But tragedy struck and the car crash during flight and killed the inventor. So they mocked up a 12 foot model that had a mini jet on it, but had to scrap the actual flight shots.
As far as adaptations, MWTGG is a name only adaptation, as are a lot of the Fleming stories in the Moore era. I guess after Fleming's death the producers slowly decided to stray further and further from the source material even though they still had novels at that point -- sometimes this was the right move as with Live and Let Die. Interesting fact that I didn't know at the time is that the little girl from the fight scene at the dojo, actress Yuen Qiu, is the Landlady in the film Kung Fu Hustle. Also that location with the islands is Khao Phing Kan, in Thailand, which became a very popular tourist destination after this film.
Both main bondgirls Mary Goodnight & Andrea Anders is played by a pair of swedish actresses named, Britt Ekland (Mary Goodnight) & Maud Adams (Andrea Anders)
Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize is the french actor who played Nick Nack. He was very much the stereotypical Frenchman for his time. He loved his wine, his women and as wealth. He never saved a dime he spent everything he earned on pleasure. But he also was very pleasant to work with, at least according to Roger Moore. Sadly he committed suicide at the age of 50 because of the constant pain he was in due to his dwarfism.
Got a few things to say so lets do bullet points...Yeah bullet points!! 1 Perhaps this is my second favorite Bond song after Live and Let Die but the very start of this song has a musical cue that I love. 2 Next up is my favorite Bond film. Epic scope/scale, epic opening stunt that makes you hold your breath and the fact that it is real and not a CGI cartoon helps, best villain lair (actually there are two) and best henchman ever. The next 3 movies are why Roger Moore is my favorite Bond even though he may not be the best. I saw this film in the theater, my first Bond film I ever saw. This was the summer of Star Wars and Close Encounters, how's that for a summer? 3 The Spy Who Loved Me ended with the first time it was wrong indicating what the next Bond movie would be, it said For Your Eyes Only would be next but it was Moonraker. 4 Moonraker was also epic in nature but more silly. 5 I remember reading that by the time For Your Eyes Only was being developed the producers realized they could never top the prior two films so they went back to smaller scale but compensated with among the best stunt sequences ever and an ending scene that was not action but nail biting in its tension. 6 Octopussy was ok. 7 A View To A Kill is not well regarded but I quite enjoyed it. The key is to overlook the fact that by this time Roger Moore was too old for the role and just go with it. And Tanya Roberts... wow.
Roger Moore was the Bond producers first choice for OHMSS, but they waited too long to ask him. Instead he signed up for a second series of the British television series "The Saint" was was unavailable, leaving them to audition many others (including Timothy Dalton) before arriving at George Lazenby.
If Count Dooku is all you know about Christoper Lee, you really owe it to yourself to watch Hammer's first Dracula classic, HORROR OF DRACULA. The reason there was no establishing shot is because Moneypenny's remark that "They never found the bullet" leads directly to a view of the mangled gold bullet in the dancer's navel. During the fight scene in her dressing room you can see a glimpse of the camera crew in the mirror. 22:00 -- Notice Britt Eklund (not a double) taking an unplanned header much like George Harrison at the beginning of "A Hard Day's Night." I love it when Nick Nack is in the suitcase and tells Bond "I KILL you if you don't let me out of here!" Many Bond fans consider the slide-whistle sound effect during the incredible 360-degree ramp jump to be the nadir of Bond humor up till then. (The use of the Beach Boys' "California Girls" in "A View To A Kill" will be worse.) I made a video that replaces the sound effect with cool Bond music instead: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8jke4qTfYC0.html When I first saw this in the theater, I thought it was the worst Bond film yet. But time has made me more fond of it and I enjoy watching it. I now consider "Octopussy" to be the worst ever. I'm really enjoying watching you go through the series with a fresh perspective.
No matter what you say, yes Sean Connery will be the forever be THE JAMES BOND, but Moore's Bond is fun to watch and also pays more homage of the time periods they came out. Live And Let Die was surely influenced by the Black Exploition era. TMWTGG certainly during the Kung Fu era. Enter The Dragon with Bruce Lee in 1973 in particular and of course Moonraker because of you know what movie with The Force, Luke and Han and Princess Leia and Darth Vader.
The novel is actually a series of short stories. The Man with the Golden Gun is just one of them. In the story the man with golden gun was just a thug with a gun. He did charge a million dollars a shot but that was it about his backstory. There was no cold fusion or solar power machines in it. It was just Bond and the man with golden gun going at it. The most part this movie was completely unique. It's the first Bond film that almost entirely an original story.
The collection of short stories was _For Your Eyes Only_ - _The Man with the Golden Gun_ was a full novel (though shorter than some of Fleming's others). And plot-wise the film of _You Only Live Twice_ was nothing like the book of the same name, so that would be the first one that was 'almost entirely an original story'.
Herve Villechaize "Knick Knack" was french. I love this movie and i have the soundtrack on vinyl. But the theme (at least a portion of it) was used through out the movie, but with string and bras instruments. Please do Horror Of Dracula with Christopher Lee in October!!!!!. British production, the sets and costumes are amazing, along with the score!!!! you will love it!
Christopher Lee also starred in a great b-movie alongside Peter Cushing (the two worked together a lot) called the Horror Express, and the guy who played Kojack is also in it. You might like to check it out.
Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland made another film together the previous year: The Wicker Man (1973). Would love to see you react to this, it's been criminally ignored largely by the RU-vid reaction channels, but it is one of the most original British movies of all time, it would certainly grab your attention! 🙂👍
2 года назад
The Wicker Man is a gold classic, it is my second top favorite horror after The Exorcist.
The next one is Moore's best with "For Your Eyes Only" being his second best. The Moore films really don't follow the books closely at all. They start coming up with their own titles with "Licence to Kill". Though they used a couple of left over Fleming titles for the Craig films. The full power plant wasn't a full sized set, but a miniature by Derek Meddings who made his name doing the FX for Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation series like "Thunderbirds" and "Captain Scarlet". Meddings remained as FX supervisor through "Goldeneye". Though Britt Eckland pretty much plays an idiot, I didn't find her as annoying as Tanya Roberts in "A View to a Kill". She gets my vote for the worst Bond girl.
@@0PsychosisMedia0 Moonraker was too campy for my taste. Jaws flapping his arms when his parachute failed. Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, a romance cliche, plays when Jaws and Dolly meet. The theme from The Magnificent Seven plays when Bond is dressed as a gaucho on horseback. A pigeon does a double take when it sees Bond's Bondola. A keypad plays the tones from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. All to silly for a Bond film. It's still entertaining and it may be the most visually spectacular of the series. But TSWLM is better.
@@richardb6260 It seems my ability to read took a vacation. I saw "The next one is "For Your Eyes Only" , And that is not what you typed. Yea i agree that Moonraker was Star Wars inspired as the original trilogy was in full fever. They kind of jumped the shark..pun intended. But they did redeem themselves on the next 3. Tho i did enjoyed Jaws as one of the more iconic henchmen of the Moore series.
@@0PsychosisMedia0 when I saw TSWLM at the theater, the lastline of the end credits said "James Bond will return in For Your Eyes Only". Then Star Wars became a huge hit and they switched it to Moonraker. Some think that that switch caused then to put aside everything they had done for FYEO and put Moonraker on the fast track. That may be why Moonraker got so silly. Fortunately, despite Moonraker's huge success, they heeded complaints and dialed back the silliness and we got the most serious Bond since FRWL with FYEO.
