AJB live commentary on YOLT

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    The whole ninja bit led to some puns I'm terribly proud of in http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/806790/#p806790
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Bond going Japanese is in the novel- it plays strangely today, esp when they’re trying to make a 6’2” Scotsman into a typical Japanese. Of all the sequences in the novel to show on film, they pick this one?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Bond's "What about me?" Ironic, as his character is being lost in the movie.

    Aki's lovely reaction shot when she thinks that it might be she who's going to be married to Bond... charming moment, reprised in the OHMSS title sequence.
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  • ACACIA_AVENUEACACIA_AVENUE UKPosts: 1,774MI6 Agent
    Dodgy wig time :)
    One of us smells like a tart's handkerchief.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    An even more awful wig for Connery :#
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Music- “Death Of Aki” (of course)
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    That poison killing is 100% Fleming!
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    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Bond's mournful moment looking down at the dead Aki...the impact and effect is ruined by his silly 'yellow face' look.

    Oddly, he just suddenly loses that look altogether once inside the volcano...
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Look, Connery does not weep!
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    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    edited May 2020
    Connery looks a bit like Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber :)) :))

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    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Higgins wrote:
    Look, Connery does not weep!

    :)) :)) :)) Would Dalton have? (On second thoughts, don't answer that)
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Music- "The Wedding" Superlative work from Barry, much covered
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    edited May 2020
    Wonderful music! My favorite part!

    Was Flick playing the japanese guitar?
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    Look, Connery does not weep!

    Tim would have really made something of that!
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    In the Alan Whicker documentary, there's some good behind the scenes stuff for these sequences.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Higgins wrote:
    Wonderful music! My favorite part!

    Was Flick playing the japanese guitar?

    No, that's a kyoto
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Almost pure Fleming.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Mie Hama isn't as good an actress as Akiko Wakabayashi but she has an iconic look... an idealised Bond girl
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Kissy Suzuki's name is not mentioned in the movie. Neither is Bond's Japanese pseudonym, Taro Todoroki.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    And hello, Nikki van der Zyl. Again!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Nikki van der Zyl, doing 'exotic'
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Music- “Mountains & Sunsets” On the OST. Simply gorgeous- influenced David Arnold on DAD “Going Down Together”
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Mie Hama's swimming double- Connery's then wife, Diane Cilento (in a black wig to cover her blonde hair)
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    So the countdown has begun. The Americans seem dangerously happy to precipitate all-out warfare in this film... all over the loss of a couple of crummy capsules.
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,795MI6 Agent
    YOLT is called "James Bond in Japan". Do you know any other titles for YOLT?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Connery is not wearing a toupe at all for these scenes
  • ACACIA_AVENUEACACIA_AVENUE UKPosts: 1,774MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Music- “Mountains & Sunsets” On the OST. Simply gorgeous- influenced David Arnold on DAD “Going Down Together”

    Agree 100% gorgeous
    One of us smells like a tart's handkerchief.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    YOLT is called "James Bond in Japan". Do you know any other titles for YOLT?

    Where is it called this?
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Mie Hama's swimming double- Connery's then wife, Diane Cilento (in a black wig to cover her blonde hair)

    Was she sharing Connery's temporarily retired one?
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    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,795MI6 Agent
    Here in Norway
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