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  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    "Ulysses" is one of the most oft quoted works there is, and none before or since have been able to convey as great a sense as it does of endurance, age, tenacity, existential crises and rumination on days far past in half as eloquent a manner. It's my favorite poem, and Tennyson probably my favorite poet.

    I had to recite it in high school. I didn't do as well as Judi.

    Judi did a fine job, but it's the rest of the poem's content that provides the perfect lead-in to the final lines, which are some of the best in the written word, period.

    This is my favorite reading of "Ulysses," by Sir Lewis Casso:



    Tennyson like no other poet understood human nature and human suffering with such a deep keenness. He experienced great loss in life, and that made him able to convey a feeling of forlorn longing quite immaculately.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    DaltonCraig007 wrote: »
    DaltonCraig007 wrote: »
    Watching 'John Wick' right now, I noticed how the damn bald guard of Elektra in TWINE (who takes Christmas Jones to the submarine) has an uncredited part in this film, where he gets killed in Wick in the nightclub shootout. Clever actor, I noticed another uncredited part of his in 'Mission Impossible Rogue Nation', where he plays the goon Benji is 'supposed' to be impersonating with a mask during the briefing in Morocco with Ethan Hunt and Ilsa Faust.

    I don't know what's going on, but he has just popped in another film I am watching right now: The Equalizer. He's the first guy to be killed by Denzel Washington in the warehouse climax.
    I noticed him in MI-RN @DaltonCraig007. I'll always remember him for his clenched teeth delivery of "I don't think you heard me!!" in that cringe inducing scene in TWINE. He's aged pretty well given the 16 year gap between the two films. It was also good to see fellow Bond alum Andreas Wisniewski (formerly Max's bodyguard in the original MI & of course Necros in TLD as well as Karl's deceased brother in Die Hard) in MI-GP.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    Something I noticed watching Octopussy - I think that the lady that takes a photograph of Roger in his white tux is one of Octopussys' clan. Maybe that was obvious, but I never realised it until now.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    Something I noticed watching Octopussy - I think that the lady that takes a photograph of Roger in his white tux is one of Octopussys' clan. Maybe that was obvious, but I never realised it until now.

    It's got to be Freelance from Dr. No. Gotta be.
  • w2bondw2bond is indeed a very rare breed
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    The song played in the Jaws love scene is also bubbling with Tchaikovsky
  • tanaka123tanaka123
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    w2bond wrote: »
    The song played in the Jaws love scene is also bubbling with Tchaikovsky

    It's Romeo and Juliet - another bit from it is played in AVTAK when Bond is in the tub with Fiona Fullerton.
  • w2bondw2bond is indeed a very rare breed
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    tanaka123 wrote: »
    w2bond wrote: »
    The song played in the Jaws love scene is also bubbling with Tchaikovsky

    It's Romeo and Juliet - another bit from it is played in AVTAK when Bond is in the tub with Fiona Fullerton.

    That's what I just said!

  • tanaka123tanaka123
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    w2bond wrote: »
    tanaka123 wrote: »
    w2bond wrote: »
    The song played in the Jaws love scene is also bubbling with Tchaikovsky

    It's Romeo and Juliet - another bit from it is played in AVTAK when Bond is in the tub with Fiona Fullerton.

    That's what I just said!

    You said it was Tchaikovsky. I said it was from Romeo and Juliet, what's your problem?
  • MalloryMallory
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    In the OHMSS gunbarrel Bond gets down on one knee...

    ...as he does later on in the movie.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited November 2016 Posts: 23,883
    tanaka123 wrote: »
    w2bond wrote: »
    tanaka123 wrote: »
    w2bond wrote: »
    The song played in the Jaws love scene is also bubbling with Tchaikovsky

    It's Romeo and Juliet - another bit from it is played in AVTAK when Bond is in the tub with Fiona Fullerton.

    That's what I just said!

    You said it was Tchaikovsky. I said it was from Romeo and Juliet, what's your problem?
    I've learnt something from both of you today. I didn't know it was either. I just knew it was a bloody good tune that I'd heard somewhere before.
  • tanaka123tanaka123
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    What's your problem?

    ?
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Random question, since I am watching the film: is TND the only Bond film where the 2 main Bond girls are introduced in the same scene? I'm going through them in my head but can't think of another occurrence of this.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Seems correct.
  • JohnHammond73JohnHammond73 Lancashire, UK
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    I've just noticed that Manning Redwood, who plays Bob Conley in A View To A Kill is also in NSNA, where he plays General Miller.
  • w2bondw2bond is indeed a very rare breed
    edited December 2016 Posts: 2,252


    Never noticed this. The underwater camera suddenly becomes the geiger counter. From 13 mins 31 seconds
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Fixed it for you, @w2bond



  • w2bondw2bond is indeed a very rare breed
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    Hmm it works for me when I click on it, but the placeholder image is the question mark...
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Hmm, youtube is so strange.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    In response to the movie sins, there was another camera Bond had on hand in Thunderball (given to him by Felix in the novel) that fits the description of the geiger counter camera. Amazing what two seconds of research and attention does, eh?

    Even still, I fail to see how that is a "movie sin" or similarly, why Bond wearing sunglasses in the hot Bahamas climate is another. What stupid videos. If I wanted to listen to complaining for complaining's sake I'd hang around with teenagers.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    More like Cinema nitpicks. I prefer Cinema Wins honestly.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Saaaaaay. How could I, after countless viewings, never have noticed this before? In TMWTGG, freeze at 29.45 and look in the space between Andrea's arm, her gun and the golden edging of the shower door. Never knew we saw Maude's mammi until tonight.
    I just reviewed the scene in question and you're correct. It's quite difficult to notice though. Far more revealing (for a Bond film) imho was the Bottom's Up girl and Chew Me's presentation under the pool water.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Those are some great scenes.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    While watching SP last night, I noticed that Bond unloads his gun at the end in Blofeld's presence, prior to flinging it into the Thames, and the camera focuses on it. That action was very similar to what Madeline did earlier on the train. It's an example of Mendes reaffirming the symbolic link between the two of them.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    That's a great catch.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    bondjames wrote: »
    While watching SP last night, I noticed that Bond unloads his gun at the end in Blofeld's presence, prior to flinging it into the Thames, and the camera focuses on it. That action was very similar to what Madeline did earlier on the train. It's an example of Mendes reaffirming the symbolic link between the two of them.

    There had to be a set-up to the "out of bullets" line. That and, somewhat as you said, Madeleine confessed that she's done with guns on the train, just as Bond is trying to give them up. I like the way he looked at the gun before he tossed it, as if to give it a final goodbye as he turns his back on M and MI6. It's also great how Bond and Madeleine's theme plays right as Bond looks from M to her on the other side of the bridge as he makes his choice.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    Cinema had become nihilist by the late '60s (Bonnie and Clyde). In that sense and others (Barry hitting his peak, for one), OHMSS was perfectly timed for the one-off it turned out to be. It was the perfect time in film history for a downer ending.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    "No one is coming to your rescue, Mr. Bond."

    And then the St. Bernard does.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    Yeah, there's something about the way the dogs are bred that they come to peoples rescue. I know it seems kinda silly, at the end there, but apparently it does happen. It's in the dogs to do it.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    echo wrote: »
    "No one is coming to your rescue, Mr. Bond."

    And then the St. Bernard does.

    Probably the worst part of that film. All the tension of Bond and Blofeld's face-off, vaporized into nothing.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    Just realized that OP, TLD and LTK all end with a plane in a desert. Sure, the scenarios are very different, but they all have a plane either crashing or landing after getting shot at, or nearly smashing into a mountain. Funny how these little trends pop up for a while and then disappear again.
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