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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,213MI6 Agent
    Tiffany is sassy in these early scenes but reverts stupid at the end
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Bond speaking German in the Netherlands :))

    Unusual for Connery to adopt another accent in any movie. A funny little touch.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,795MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    One of the best fights in the series :007)

    But the "You've killed James Bond!" line just makes Bond look like a bad spy,
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,213MI6 Agent
    Great fight in the lift
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,420Quartermasters
    edited June 2020
    The sparkling dialogue in this first encounter between Bond and Case is presumably the work of Tom Mankiewicz from what I've heard.

    Tiffany was quite a significant relationship for Bond in the novels - the aftermath of their romance was even mentioned in the next novel (FRWL) which wasn't common.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,317Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Love the brief sight gag about loading a whole raft of missiles into the Aston Marin in Q's workshop.

    Snap!
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    That lift is in Fleet Steet in London - I visited it a couple of years ago. Still exactly the same!
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,317Chief of Staff
    My God! You just killed James Bond!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Everything about this fight is excellent. The choreography, the violence, the sound design, the score, the stakes (Tiffany's confidence), and the comic pay off...
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Such good dialogue here.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,213MI6 Agent
    Silly when Tiffany has heard of James Bond he’s supposed to be a spy!
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,777MI6 Agent
    Charmed & Dangerous wrote:
    That lift is in Fleet Steet in London - I visited it a couple of years ago. Still exactly the same!

    What, spent hydrant, foam everywhere, broken glass and a corpse?
    This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,317Chief of Staff
    Wint & Kidd shadowing Bond & Tiffany on the plane, as per novel
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,317Chief of Staff
    Music "Airport Source"

    Worst. Felix. Ever.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,420Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    Music “Airport Source” The DAF theme as travelling music

    One of my favourite of the incidental cues in this score.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Putter Smith's delivery - just being himself - is hilarious...
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,795MI6 Agent
    A boring Felix, and the joke doesn't work for most people.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,317Chief of Staff
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Music “Airport Source” The DAF theme as travelling music

    One of my favourite of the incidental cues in this score.

    My mistake, Golrush- this was a loop of another piece that comes later.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,317Chief of Staff
    Music "On The Road"
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,420Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    Worst. Felix. Ever.

    Correct. Even John Terry is no competition for worst Felix.
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,213MI6 Agent
    I didn’t get the alimentary joke aged 15!
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    This is very much a Tom Mankiewicz Leiter... as was David Hedison in LALD. Love it.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,317Chief of Staff
    Music “Slumber, Inc” uses a part of Barry’s “Mary Queen Of Scots” at the cremation part
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Love the funereal music :007)
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,795MI6 Agent
    The cross in the chapel window is upide down, a satanistic symbol. I wonder if it's intentional?
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,213MI6 Agent
    Sid Haig great horror actor
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Rodney is funny in DAF... and it was good to see him (?) back in the PTS of TMWTGG
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,777MI6 Agent
    Slumber is slightly surreal, good delivery by David Baur, another No 2 from The Prisoner.
    This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,317Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Rodney is funny in DAF... and it was good to see him (?) back in the PTS of TMWTGG

    I like to think it's the same guy. Marc Lawrence has been playing gangsters for decades, inc one of my favourites "Key Largo".
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,420Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Music “Airport Source” The DAF theme as travelling music

    One of my favourite of the incidental cues in this score.

    My mistake, Golrush- this was a loop of another piece that comes later.

    They all sound more-or-less alike don't they?

    Barbel- Usually I can tell them apart, though!
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