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But you love Craig so much?
I like Connery's too. You're not alone ;)
Connery's final stance is appalling. At the end he's wobbling like Phillipe Petit trying to get over to the North tower in a high wind.
I'm no fan of Daniel's pose but at least he's rock solid rather than looking like a fat lass trying to walk in 6 inch stilettos after a night on the lash.
But, of course, Sean has the classic design, Barry music and correct placement and these things are so vital its enough to elevate his over any of DC's.
Lovely stuff. Shoe-horning Phillipe Petite into a gunbarrel conversation is poetic. And people say you're all Fritzl and Huntley.
Sadly there are occasional situations where a Fritzl analogy isn't apposite. Believe me I would never go off piste like that if I didn't have to.
He's always ripe for the picking.
The Tim Henman of infamous deviants. Never went all the way and finished anyone off, but he made people suffer year in, year out.
As I said, I very much prefer the one in QoS. Just like I prefer many things in it.
And that's just Henman.
Lovely stuff.
I agree, though I would say Laz and Pierce give him a run for his money.
It's not the walk as such, its just the bowler hat and suit that does it.
Yeah, apparently that's also something used professionally. It's also painful, so again props for him being able to do it without losing momentum.
The music's probably the most unique of all the GB ones, although I don't like how there's no change in music after Bond fires, which is the case with every other gunbarrel except SF. And I felt the credit line disrupted the flow of the gunbarrel, especially since the music was already playing in the background (unlike in Dr No). I always felt the music shift should have coincided with the dots opening up into the gunbarrel.
But those are fairly minor complaints. My main issues are with the double treadmill, Bond being erased by the blood, and the gunbarrel disappearing before the blood even fully comes down.
The OHMSS GB music is really the only GB composition of Barry's that I like, strangely. I much prefer many of the one off's in this regard, especially Conti, Serra, Kamen, Hamlisch and Martin.
I especially like the punchiness to the tune in this one just as Bond fires.
I really look forward to a classic GB in the next film.
You don't like Barry's other gunbarrel scores? I admit a lot of them are basically the same (especially from 1979 - 1987), but I like TWMTGG, YOLT and DAF.
In a way, that's why I like the OHMSS GB from Barry so much as well - because it's got that distinctive OHMSS vibe to the tune and could only have come from that film. Some how the rest of his GBs just seem run of the mill in comparison to all the unique interpretations from the one offs.
I think the OHMSS gunbarrel is probably John Barry's most unique sounding, but it's not the only one of his that is distinctive. Thunderball's use of the timpani and muted strings recalls the rest of that film's score, with its "underwater" sound. You Only Live Twice, with the muted guitar, has an Asian sound to it, and is in a different key than usual (F minor). The Man with the Golden Gun has an Asian sound, too, with the high woodwinds doubling the violins playing the melody. Moonraker has the unique, gritty sound of the gunshot chords at the beginning, and the horns and trumpets playing the melody.
The gunbarrels that are most similar in sound are Octopussy, A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights. I think the latter was a bit of a missed opportunity, since they could've used the drum machine heard in the rest of the score. As it is, it's basically the same as Octopussy. In fairness, A View to a Kill is still somewhat different to the other two, thanks to the faster tempo and the use of the triangle, without tambourine, for percussion, but it's clearly not a big difference.
Personally, I didn't pick up on these differences between the gunbarrels until I listened to them with headphones, outside of the respective films. Before that, they all sounded the same to me.
Does anyone know why they opted for blue dots for the gunbarrel in the original release of the TMWTGG, or why they zoomed in on the gunbarrel in AVTAK?