for me too maybe because i was eight at the time but it is still so cool.. oo.. i had a corgi lotus esprit! fired missiles out of the back and went in the bath i think!? 🙂 x
Knowing in 1785 that Karl Stromberg's underwater lair would need some right proper toonage for when it rises out of the depths, he went ahead and wrote this. Only bloody Mozart.
Favourite Bond movie. Jurgens was absolutely perfect in that role. Best Bond villain IMO. Only regret: he doesn't appear in many scenes. Trivia: he dubbed his own voice in the french version as he was fluent in french, too.
I will admit, Stromberg had one of the most memorable deaths of Bond villains. How James just killed him assassin style without any tricks was pretty cool.
Jurgens lived real like Stromberg. He had video cam systems with his own welcome voice built in the lift for guests. In his swimmingpools were big portholes, to watch the swimming guests from a little bunker. He had many residences all over the world. In germany, austria, switzerland, paris, bahamas, south france (neighbour of Roger Moore, many times jurgens partyguest) For security he loved freerunning Irish Wolfhounds.Also he drove Rollce Royce and his wife looks like a bond girl : www.alamy.de/wis-curd-jurgens-mit-ehefrau-christine-im-turkeirundreise-in-saint-paul-de-vence-frankreich-1978-schauspieler-curd-jurgens-mit-seiner-frau-margie-im-sommer-urlaub-in-saint-paul-de-vence-frankreich-1978-image211540313.html
It looks model-y on TV, but I caught it on the big screen a few years ago and it came across as very imposing, especially the scene where Bod arrives on his jet ski.
I read an article many years ago, that Roger Moore and ' Stromberg ' was a very good friends. He even showed Roger house for him to buy. When ' Stromberg' died a few years later, it was sadly missed by Roger. They were only enemies in Filem but not outside.
His name was Curd Jurgens and Jurgens died in 1982 at age 66 but he was friends with Moore as was Richard Kiel (Jaws) who was close friends with Moore. Roger Moore was devastated when Kiel died in 2014.
@@scottknode898 I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Richard Kiel in a Las Vegas Star Trek convention. He was very friendly and actually chatted with me a bit. I told him I enjoyed his portrayal of Jaws in the Bond movies. He said "Roger made it easy for everyone because he was always cracking jokes". A memory I won't forget.
I've always liked Curd Jürgen's performance as Stromberg. I'm also German myself. The only thing I would have wished for was that he would have been a bit more active himself and not just sitting around in his headquarters giving orders and pressing buttons. I know he's more of a thinker than a fighter type, but Goldfinger also took up arms himself and fought Bond briefly.
With TSWLM and FYEO, they really wanted to bring blofeld back. Yes Stromburg was supposed to be Blofeld, and his underwater evil lair was probably supposed to have 3 more tentacles to fit with the octopus theme of spectre. At the end of the spy who loved me, it says bond will return in For Your Eyes Only, but that was changed with the success of star wars and they went with moonraker next to cash in on that.
So sweet how the thought of killing people brought a smile to Jaws' face. He could not contain his inner child. Sometimes it is the simple things that make a henchman happiest..
i think Dalton did some good stuff especially in the first one when he lands/crashes through that canvas roof on the boat at the start.. 'the name's Bond..' lol it was nicely done..
Great design, but I just wish they'd built a larger model to increase the scale effect. Here it just looks like a small model in a small water tank. It would have been achievable.
Step 1: go down to the beach at low tide. Step 2: really quickly construct a watertight lair. Step 3: wait a few hours for the tide to come back in. And you're done!
