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  • ProfJoeButcherProfJoeButcher Bless your heart
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    I actually just noticed this in another thread: Miami has TWICE been faked as a location for major scenes in Bond films. Goldfinger, obviously, with the hotel scenes, and Casino Royale, with the slightly ridiculous dressing of Prague in palm trees. Odd, that.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    I love the underwater battle, its just the Vulcan/transporting the bombs scenes seem to get longer everytime I watch it...

    My favourite thing in the film is Connery's brilliant performance. Sheer class.

    They're hijacking nukes from NATO. It can't just be wrapped up in five minutes.

    Oh I'm sure hijacking nukes is time consuming, even in a Bond film.

    Just my opinion that I find it ponderous. And seems more so everytime I watch it.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    ProfJoeButcher wrote: »
    I actually just noticed this in another thread: Miami has TWICE been faked as a location for major scenes in Bond films. Goldfinger, obviously, with the hotel scenes, and Casino Royale, with the slightly ridiculous dressing of Prague in palm trees. Odd, that.

    Don't forget that Brosnan's Bond went to Cuba twice, without ever setting foot in Cuba! :)
  • ProfJoeButcherProfJoeButcher Bless your heart
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    mtm wrote: »
    ProfJoeButcher wrote: »
    I actually just noticed this in another thread: Miami has TWICE been faked as a location for major scenes in Bond films. Goldfinger, obviously, with the hotel scenes, and Casino Royale, with the slightly ridiculous dressing of Prague in palm trees. Odd, that.

    Don't forget that Brosnan's Bond went to Cuba twice, without ever setting foot in Cuba! :)

    I had forgotten! And I was trying to think of another example. I guess the Brosnan films just don't spring to mind as easily for me.

    Weird too is that Cuba is famously close to Miami. What's the deal with that part of the world for EON?
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    ProfJoeButcher wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    ProfJoeButcher wrote: »
    I actually just noticed this in another thread: Miami has TWICE been faked as a location for major scenes in Bond films. Goldfinger, obviously, with the hotel scenes, and Casino Royale, with the slightly ridiculous dressing of Prague in palm trees. Odd, that.

    Don't forget that Brosnan's Bond went to Cuba twice, without ever setting foot in Cuba! :)

    I had forgotten! And I was trying to think of another example. I guess the Brosnan films just don't spring to mind as easily for me.

    Weird too is that Cuba is famously close to Miami. What's the deal with that part of the world for EON?

    Ha! Well I guess they did actually make it to Key West, which is kind of right in the middle! :)
  • ThrasosThrasos
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    Watching Moonraker. On the space station, Jaws finds Bond. Bond hits him in the mouth--metallic sound effect. Then Bond knees Jaws in the groin--another metallic sound effect. Jaws winces, then a closeup of Bond, who looks surprised!
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited May 2021 Posts: 14,568
    Ah, yes. To prevent Jaws from riveting the other Moonraker girls, Dolly forced him to wear a chastity belt.
  • MalloryMallory
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    Jaws must have metal junk.
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    ProfJoeButcher wrote: »

    I had forgotten! And I was trying to think of another example. I guess the Brosnan films just don't spring to mind as easily for me.

    Weird too is that Cuba is famously close to Miami. What's the deal with that part of the world for EON?

    For those of a certain age, certainly Cubby, and even Pierce, Cuba was the nexus of the Cold War, at a time when it was transforming and settling into a new type of lethal status quo that was strange and unpredictable to the world at large. Years later, it's still used as a political MacGuffin.

    Of all the big Hollywood franchises in the world, wasn't it the Fast & Furious films that were the first to be actually granted permission to film in Havana? I recall a big deal being made of it a few years back.
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
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    I never before noticed that Felix was such a sports fan: in LTK, we see pennants from the Dodgers, Yankees, and Cowboys on his wall (behind Bond). There are also a number of black and white team photos. On the bookshelves are team mugs for the Redskins and Lakers, and more pennants for the Reds and Cubs.
  • ProfJoeButcherProfJoeButcher Bless your heart
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    TripAces wrote: »
    I never before noticed that Felix was such a sports fan: in LTK, we see pennants from the Dodgers, Yankees, and Cowboys on his wall (behind Bond). There are also a number of black and white team photos. On the bookshelves are team mugs for the Redskins and Lakers, and more pennants for the Reds and Cubs.

    The strange variety actually indicates he may not be that passionate a fan...!
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
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    ProfJoeButcher wrote: »
    TripAces wrote: »
    I never before noticed that Felix was such a sports fan: in LTK, we see pennants from the Dodgers, Yankees, and Cowboys on his wall (behind Bond). There are also a number of black and white team photos. On the bookshelves are team mugs for the Redskins and Lakers, and more pennants for the Reds and Cubs.

    The strange variety actually indicates he may not be that passionate a fan...!

    It looked like a British interpretation of what would be on the walls of a CIA agent's house. LOL
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    ProfJoeButcher wrote: »
    TripAces wrote: »
    I never before noticed that Felix was such a sports fan: in LTK, we see pennants from the Dodgers, Yankees, and Cowboys on his wall (behind Bond). There are also a number of black and white team photos. On the bookshelves are team mugs for the Redskins and Lakers, and more pennants for the Reds and Cubs.

    The strange variety actually indicates he may not be that passionate a fan...!
    Maybe he just like the team colours.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Was watching MR earlier, and somehow never realized that the actor who plays the gondolier (who gets his gondola cut in half) is the same guy who demonstrates the exploding bolas later on, stunt arranger Claude Carliez.
  • Since62Since62
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    Apparently he takes part-time jobs...on an international scale.
  • ThrasosThrasos
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    QBranch wrote: »
    Was watching MR earlier, and somehow never realized that the actor who plays the gondolier (who gets his gondola cut in half) is the same guy who demonstrates the exploding bolas later on, stunt arranger Claude Carliez.
    Well done, James...I mean QBranch!
  • Since62Since62
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    Perhaps that fellow works Venice in the northern hemisphere Summers -- which would be prime gondola time, compared with winter, and, then, when the N hemisphere cools down in its Winters, he heads to S America, which then has its Summer. Makes a good bit of sense, actually. Therefore, I posit that the gondolier and the bola-slinger he portrays are the same person ! I am not certain, though, whether the bola-scene was in S America or "at the home office in London", as it's been quite a while since I watched James Bond in Space, I mean, Jaws Becomes a Good Guy and Starts a Romance with Pippi Longstocking, I mean, Moonraker ("Oh Drats, it's Drax !").
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    QBranch wrote: »
    Was watching MR earlier, and somehow never realized that the actor who plays the gondolier (who gets his gondola cut in half) is the same guy who demonstrates the exploding bolas later on, stunt arranger Claude Carliez.

    Ha! That’s great. Obviously we get a few people playing various parts in the series but there can’t be many doing it in the same film! :)
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Does he? That’s interesting, I’ve only spotted him in it the once.
  • DenbighDenbigh UK
    edited June 2021 Posts: 5,970
    Now I have noticed this before but I just haven't had this conversation with anyone. Was anyone else surprised when they realised that the fight between Bond, Obanno, and his henchman from Casino Royale, is somewhat ripped right from the Live and Let Die novel?
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Never spotted that, no; that's interesting. I can't remember much about the novel now. What happens?
  • DenbighDenbigh UK
    edited June 2021 Posts: 5,970
    mtm wrote: »
    Never spotted that, no; that's interesting. I can't remember much about the novel now. What happens?
    From what I remember, in the novel, after Bond is tortured by Mr. Big and Tee-Hee with Solitaire, Tee-Hee leads him to some stairs to take him to a car, but they get into a fight and Bond kicks Tee-Hee over the bannisters and down a flight of stairs.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Nice find, and it would be great if it was a nod to the book.
  • Since62Since62
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    Live and Let Bet
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Denbigh wrote: »
    Now I have noticed this before but I just haven't had this conversation with anyone. Was anyone else surprised when they realised that the fight between Bond, Obanno, and his henchman from Casino Royale, is somewhat ripped right from the Live and Let Die novel?

    Yes I did. In this instance though it's inspired by the novel.
  • ThrasosThrasos
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    In FRWL, Tania asks Bond, "Dushka, tell me the truth. Am I as exciting as all those Western girls?" Dushka apparently means ducky. Or as you could guess, baby, or sweetie. Urbandictionary has some other definitions. It was also the nickname for a Russian heavy machine gun, the DShK "Krupnokaliberny Pulemet Degtyareva-Shpagina, DShK" (Degtyarev-Shpagin, large caliber). Here's one mounted on a tank. So maybe Bond flexed his muscles and said, "Welcome to the Gun Show" B-)

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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Bond loses two PPKs in FYEO. Once at Gonzales' villa, and once in the snow forest.

    Does he lose two in other films?
  • ThrasosThrasos
    edited June 2021 Posts: 1,469
    QBranch wrote: »
    Bond loses two PPKs in FYEO. Once at Gonzales' villa, and once in the snow forest.

    Does he lose two in other films?
    Yes, that makes for drama, doesn't it. I was thinking about TMWTGG, losing one in Scaramanga's fun house. I'm wondering if Bond might've been armed when he went to Hai Fat's for dinner and was captured, and if he had his gun taken there, or if he went unarmed. 'Course, that probably doesn't count if we don't see a gun.
  • MalloryMallory
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    QBranch wrote: »
    Bond loses two PPKs in FYEO. Once at Gonzales' villa, and once in the snow forest.

    Does he lose two in other films?

    Not sure if you would count discarding them, but in SF he throws his (empty) PPK away during the opening train chase, and then he doesnt retrieve it in the komodo dragon pit.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    It does feel like Roger ‘mislays’ them a lot! :)
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