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This elevator is definitely part of one of my favourite moments (combined with a shark, a slide and Mozart).
It's time to start part two of the TSWLM moments:
Try to narrow down your favourite TSWLM moments to a top5 and rank them from first to fifth.
Here is a summary of (most of) your suggestions/ earlier comments, but feel free to add other (so far unmentioned) moments to your list:
• PTS: “So does England”
• PTS: ski jump
• Bond in naval uniform
• Atlantis rise above to the sound of Mozart
• Jaws first appearance/first smile
• Silhouette in Cairo (Rog standing parallel with the minaret combined with the music cue)
• Fight with Sandor and/or Sandor’s death
• Thy pyramids scene: Jaws face being lit up
• Pyramids: painting of Roger hiding behind the rock
• Murder of Fekkesh
• Pyramids: Jaws vanishes
• The bar scene in general and especially the moment where Bond doesn’t want to talk about his marriage
• Murder of Kalba
• Bond and Anya alone in the desert
• Boat ride down the Nile
• Jaws hiding in the wardrobe
• The whole Lotus road chase or also the whole Lotus action from start to beach
• Music kicks in during the Lotus chase
• Jump of the Lotus into the water
• Lotus’ transformation (can be combined with jump)
• Bond telling Anya that he killed her lover
• Bond starts the revolt aboard the Liparus
• Bond has the idea to aim the submarines’ bombs at each other
• Bond dodging the false floor in the elevator
• Keeping the British end up
And here is my ranking:
1. PTS Ski jump (the location, the silence, the ski touching the parachute...)
2. Traitor, slide, shark, Mozart, Stromberg's dining room...(a feast for my eyes and ears)
3. Lotus road chase (the underwater part is also great but I enjoy the first part more)
4. Silhouette in Cairo (perfect combination of picture and sound)
5. "Such lovely lines"
Is it wrong to have chosen more scenes with Naomi than Jaws?
2. "Did you kill him?" - Anya discovers who killed her lover.
3. An Egyptian horror show - Jaws shows us just how terrifying an adversary he is.
4. The mission is over Commander - the consequences of Bond's actions nearly come back to haunt him....before he suceeds in getting his British end up.
5. Lotus/Wet Nellie - as varied and exhIilarating a sequence that has ever graced the series.
1. The Lotus car chase from start to fishy finish This was simply jaw-dropping as a kid, I'd never seen a car like it, and it's still my favourite Bond car. I can't choose between the land chase and the underwater scenes, just count me in for the entire sequence
2. The ski jump Best Bond stunt. Fin.
3. Jaws face lit up at Pyramids I love the entire pyramids sequence, but again the little kid in me is both terrified, fascinated and excited by the eerily lit appearance of Jaws here. Shivers!!
4. Bond plants the detonator and gets stuck on the CCTV pod Such an exciting sequence, with the Bond theme kicking in and cheekily cut short as the cameras are disconnected, then the tension ramps up with Bond stuck on the pod and seconds to spare .... oh my, I need to lie down ...
5. "But James, I need you" ... "So does England" A tiny moment but this sums up everything that Roger and Bond mean to me - no matter what the attraction, be it cars, women or booze, when it comes down to it duty, Queen and country always come first. Thank you Sir Rog for keeping me safe all these years! :)
Even the part when he's removing the detonator from the warhead is tense as hell.
I was tempted by that moment!
Anyone else interested in posting his top five ranking?
Is it boring to have another “ranking thread“? If so, we could think of a way to improve the thread or simply bury it.
2. Bond has the idea to aim the submarines' bombs at each other
3. Desert wandering with Lawrence of Arabia tribute
4. Music kicks in during the Lotus chase
5. Lotus jump
2 Fight with Sandor
3 Stromberg: "Kill him."
4 Jaws first appearance
5 Bond in silhouette in Cairo
2. Jaws at the Pyramids
3. Underwater Lotus
4. Alpine chase
5. "In Our Business People Get Killed."
1. Bond skiing through the ice tunnel
2. Everyone following Fekkesh at Giza
3. train fight
4. Lotus/helicopter chase
5. Bond searches for Anya on Atlantis
And I like it that there is support for the silhouette in Cairo.
It's definitely tricky to narrow it down to five moments. I try to do it the easy way: when I think about the movie, which moments are the ones I'm looking forward to the most when I would start the film right now? Which action scene stands out and which smaller moment puts the brightest smile on ny face of gives me goosbumps because of the music etc...
I try not to think about it too hard and do it more spontaneously.
I'm kind of over ranking things at the moment, I prefer just celebrating and enjoying them for what they're worth, so I don't see myself contributing much to this part, but I enjoy the spirit of the thread and can see myself participating in it. Just my preference, and others seem to like ranking the moments, so don't mind me!
1. The Union Jack Parachute
2. The Lotus and the chopper (particular mention to the wink/nod with Naomi).
3. Slapping Sandor's hand away from Bond's tie. "What a helpful chap".
4. The first reveal of Atlantis, with Mozart in the background.
5. This may be an odd one, but the moment on the train when Bond an Anya are in their respective rooms waiting for each other. When it appears Anya isn't coming, for a moment, Bond appears terribly lonely. I'm not sure if this was by design, or my own brain inventing it, but there we go.
@mattjoes Thanks for your opinion and I hope to read more of your thoughts about other films.
I wait another day and we can start the next film soon.
1. Ski jump (and alpine chase)
2. Lotus action
3. (Jaws at the) Pyramids
Let's discuss your favourite moments of another Bond movie.
Thunderball
Round 2: TB - Part 1: Suggestions and discussion
A lot of underwater scenes, a lot of stunning women and much more. What are your TB highlights? Let's celebrate the best moments of the 4th installment and the last movie directed by Terence Young.
You saw Bond?
Yes, I saw him.
What happened?
*rubs jaw*
Then Largo backhands him with a towel :))
I'm posting this in the 'extras caught looking at the camera' thread, but just rewatching the Quist scene, I noticed this:
When Quist is thrown into the shark pool, Largo walks towards the camera while kissing his SPECTRE ring. I believe he's looking at the camera directly after (and possibly also during) the kiss, as if he was threatening the audience. By the time his hand is down, he has subtly looked away, to the right of the screen as he walks out of frame.
Favourite section of the film might have to be when Bond is snooping around Palmyra at night.
Tripping the guard, his PPK falling off the roof, and having the other guards shooting at each other. Generally, I find all the night action to be the best, as it's easier for Bond to go stealth. It elevates the suspense.
Bond dancing with Domino is a highlight too. We should see more of that in the films.
Love the lunch Bond enjoys with Domino....
Isn't the moment with Fiona in the bathtub a highlight of the highlights? Visually top (a feast for my eyes)...and Bond's reaction is priceless. I'm not sure if I can find a better moment in this movie.
@Thunderfinger this is your favourite location of the movie? Have you been there?
@peter it's a pleasure to meet you again. Punch the “widow“ must have been amusing and shocking the first time poeple have seen it. And the fight that follows is very good in my opinion. I'm always looking forward to it when I start my DVD. (Yes, I still watch my DVDs, maybe I will upgrade after the NTTD release in 2022)
Another great scene is the SPECTRE meeting at the beginning.
That meeting is superb, one of my favourite ‘big meeting’ scenes in any film.
Other personal favourites include the PTS (until the jet pack appears), the Vulcan heist and when it’s slowly sinking into the water, the verbal sparring between Largo and Bond (“I know a little about women”) and the Disco Volante splitting in half like a two-stage rocket. I know that some other people have issues with these scenes but I really enjoy them.
And TB has some nice touches, like Sean setting off the fire alarm at Shrublands with a casual knock of his elbow.
For many years I thought Bond only requested to go to Nassau because he saw the photo of Domino, and that it was just a bit of luck that the bombs were there. But watching it recently I now think Bond was cleverer than I gave him credit, and that he had already worked out that the bombs were in the Caribbean when he was still sitting at the OO agents’ meeting.
If you look at the big map at the meeting of the Vulcan’s range, and if you then correlate that with Spectre’s threat to blow up a major US or UK city, and if you bear in mind too that there’s only a finite number of places where you can actually hide a Vulcan, then Bond had probably narrowed the likely options down to the Caribbean while the meeting was still going on. Then he sees the photo of Domino at Nassau, and that confirms it for him.
As is the conversation between Domino and Largo while they are shooting clay pigeons.
However from memory some moments I enjoy;
- pre credits fight, quite brutal.
- The casino scene. I love the poking the hornet's nest that Bond does here.
- "I think he got the Point"
- The clay pigeon shoot, brilliantly cool. (The re-jig of it in Moonraker is also one of my favourite moments in that film)
- The quintessential Spectre boardroom scene and set design.
- The scope of the shot of every 00 in Europe sat together.
- Every moment with Fiona!!!
You mean the clay pigeon shooting with Bond (or the one with Fiona)?
Interesting thoughts about Bond's wish request to go to Nassau @IGotABrudder.
Perfect list for me. =D>