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Yes I really loved the song all over again. Don Draper was a Bond fan as his second wife mentioned he read the stories and I believe they referenced Bond during the series a few different times.
YUeah and it's the job of the refrain/chorus, but I am a supporter that refrain/chorus must but separated by verse between them. But In these 2 song, there are 2 chorus (one too many in my opinion). The amount of chorus and verse are disproportionate, that's what I dont like in them.
I mean, look the blue line on the image below, when you arrive at it, the song have no interest further in term of lyrics, nothing new to discover in the last 33%.
The lyrics of We Have All The Time In The World makes sens, I was talking about you Kow my name.
The irony of the title is, of course, very poignant in the context of the film (OHMSS), and from all accounts, that partially explains why John Barry campaigned for Louis Armstrong. Armstrong, an older gentleman – who didn’t really have all that much more time – could really tense out that irony from the lyrics. (*)
And that also explains my vote. There is an old saying that a for any given individual, the meaning of a song changes as you get older. And as I have gotten older, the sentiment of the song really hits home – more and more, with each passing day.
A second choice would have been YOLT – for many of the reasons sited by the prior posters. But, WHATTITW really speaks to me.
A good discussion, and excellent supporting points made by everyone.
(*) I’m aware, however, that younger artists have covered the song, and in it has become a kind of wedding standard since the mid 1990’s.
Happy to read of it's victory!
I'm a pretty old school fan if it were the song's tune in the running than anything by John Barry would probably get my vote. However, I going to buck my usual preferences here and vote for the most modern option for lyrics in this instance:
You Know My Name lyrics by Chris Cornell
It embodies the lean, mean toughness that they were going for in CR.
No doubt TB's quite good in the dialogue category but my vote in that arena goes to DAF. The 1971 Bond film isn't exactly loved very much around here but I think its dialogue is probably its greatest strength.
Yeah agreed!
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But i vote for You only live twice.
I think FYEO and Yolt realy set things for later songs or movies.
The academy voted the following:
We shall now proceed with the next....oh sorry excuse me while I consult with this stage hand....that's preposterous! You're fired! Ladies and Gentlemen it seems in a previous vote we never declared a winner. This is rather embarrassing. But I am afraid the good friends at Zorin Industries have instructed us to open up a new vote and wipe the slate clean! So we bring to you the Klebbie for worst actor in an ally role! The nominees are:
To be clear the academy is to consider the actor and his lack of acting skills. Not the way the character is written or even what the character has to do. Who among the nominees is the worst actor!
For the second time, and this time a winner shall be declared, who gets the kick to the shins for the worst actor in an ally supporting role?
Noted thank you, my mind was elsewhere.
Why is Norman Burton on this list? I think he's one of the better Leiters. At least he gives it back to Connery and is not his "lap dog."
He's not bad but he ends up one of the blander Leiters I think. And there's plenty of competition!
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I think Soon Tek-Oh is the one who doesn't deserve to be there: he's pretty charismatic in it I think and gets quite a bit to do.
I'll remind you that you are supposed to evaluate the acting performances only. How much people "get to do" should not be part of the equation.
Maybe, but he does what he gets to do very well (well, he's perhaps not an expert karate fighter!), and maybe they gave him more because he's pretty good.
No, based on the criteria, I think it is obvious that the title should go to someone who had the potential to make a mark, yet failed to do so. Cec Linder and Rik van Nutter would have been valid candidates in this sense as they both have quite considerable ammounts of screentime, yet fail to come across as more than, lets say; Bond´s less popular and succesful cousin who, out of nothing but pitty, gets to tag along on his adventures. I suppose Norman Burton goes into that same category, so he gets my vote.
I agree, can't vote for any of them this time.
I think the only thing you could say he does wrong is he can't do the accent very convincingly, but then equally I think he's reasonably engaging. He's not Pat Macnee or anything, but as you say: Rick Van Nutter leaves absolutely no trace, and I think Yip does a bit better than that. But then as I said a few days ago: Terence Young seems weirdly uninterested in most of the incidental characters in Thunderball and seems to refuse to let them make any impact at all - Vargas, Pinder, Paula: they get all but ignored by the camera. Who's that guy who helps Domino at the end? Even she doesn't know.
Goldfinger, Thunderball, and TMWTGG all have extremely direct, straightforward lyrics, to a fault. They're not good lyrics (well TB is okay) but I'm not sure what you mean in suggesting they don't make sense.
"He's like this and does that" is about as direct and prose-like as you can get.
"You mean this is a put-up job?"