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  • fromswedenwithlovefromswedenwithlove
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    I just saw this funfact on Instagram that the first gunbarrelsequence was actually shot through a real gunbarrel. Is this true?
  • GerardGerard
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    fromswedenwithlove wrote: »
    I just saw this funfact on Instagram that the first gunbarrelsequence was actually shot through a real gunbarrel. Is this true?

    According to Wikipedia, it is :

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_barrel_sequence

    Maurice Binder used a pinhole camera for that shot.

  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Tokoloshe wrote: »
    Tokoloshe wrote: »
    If the Moonraker henchman's name is Chang, why does everyone in the film appear to say Cha?

    Bond says to Goodhead "Your friend Cha just tried to kill me" and Drax later says he will need "a replacement for Cha".

    Any takers on this?
    Wow, they DO say Cha- it's even in the subtitles, but the credits say Chang. How did I miss that? Cannot find any info on it, strangely.
  • TokolosheTokoloshe Under your bed
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    QBranch wrote: »
    Tokoloshe wrote: »
    Tokoloshe wrote: »
    If the Moonraker henchman's name is Chang, why does everyone in the film appear to say Cha?

    Bond says to Goodhead "Your friend Cha just tried to kill me" and Drax later says he will need "a replacement for Cha".

    Any takers on this?
    Wow, they DO say Cha- it's even in the subtitles, but the credits say Chang. How did I miss that? Cannot find any info on it, strangely.

    I'm finding it difficult to attribute this to anything other than sloppy film-making.

    Are the two examples I've given the only times his name is spoken in the film?
  • Dr_StrangewaysDr_Strangeways
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    anybody know the music to Everything or Nothing documentary? I kind of need specifics.
  • mirandafrostmirandafrost
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    In YOLT there is a scene where you can see that Blofeld concluded an agreement with an (Asian) "government". It is about the war between the US and the Soviet Union. Later Blofeld says that a "new power will dominate the world"...

    Which government is that? Japan (because it takes place there)?
  • MayDayDiVicenzoMayDayDiVicenzo Here and there
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    It is assumed that it is the Chinese government.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Me too ;)
  • mirandafrostmirandafrost
    edited December 2014 Posts: 368
    MayDayDiVicenzo wrote: »
    It is assumed that it is the Chinese government.
    But why do they want that?
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    I always assumed, so China could rise after the war as the only world power.
    Today, it could be the North Koreans. ;)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    mirandafrost wrote: »
    MayDayDiVicenzo wrote: »
    It is assumed that it is the Chinese government.
    But why do they want that?

    @mirandafrost, if Russians and Americans start a war, presumably a nuclear one, China will be released from the economical grip of two competing superpowers. If both your neighbours run the show in your street, but suddenly they start fighting, that fight will leave them both weaker, partially or totally destroyed, and you get to rise fast to complete domination.

    It's also the reason, I think, the Chinese general agrees to work with Carver in TND. If the UK and China battle it out, Carver gets his spectacle and that general may arrange some power shifts on the political stage.
  • ggl007ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España
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    Probably there's no answer, but anyway...

    Why in a train from ¿London? to Montenegro, the waiter would speak in Spanish!!??



    "¿Un pliego, señor?" (American Spanish, by the way)
    (Sorry if the video is not allowed)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited December 2014 Posts: 24,257
    Wow, I hadn't noticed that, @ggl007! Well spotted. :-)
    I have no idea. Was it a train from Spain perhaps... if that makes sense? (probably a bit easy - I know ;-))
  • ggl007ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España
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    The funny thing is where were this filmed? In Pinewood probably. So, again, why a Spanish supporting actor??
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Maybe it was an homage to Manuel from Fawlty Towers. :))
  • jobojobo
    edited December 2014 Posts: 7,507
    Wow! I've never thought about that before. Maybe Casino Royale isn't perfect after all? ;)

    ggl007 wrote: »
    The funny thing is where were this filmed? In Pinewood probably. So, again, why a Spanish supporting actor??

    Even if the supporting actor was Spanish, I doubt they would let him say the lines in his own language. It really is odd!
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    What were some of the original gadgets included on Ken Adam's original concept for the DB5? And why does the license plate change from BMT 216A to BMT 214A?
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    Baltimore_007 wrote: »
    It's a pity that (perhaps) the best James Bond (Dalton) was paired with (perhaps) the worst Moneypenny

    That's not to say Bliss was a disaster in the part, in that she simply wasn't utilized enough or given enough of an opportunity to show what she could do. I often found the Moneypenny of the late 1980s rather mundane and devoid of any vigor or interest, and just didn't feel right in the part, but realize there were big shoes to fill after the departure of Maxwell. Her few seconds appearance in License to Kill where she contacts Q Branch is hardly worth of inclusion, such is the short manner of time the character is on screen

    Samantha Bond was an improvement, but nowhere near the standard of the aforementioned Maxwell. What they did with her towards the end with the virtual reality game that R stumbles in on was almost an embarrassment to the integrity of the whole character that Maxwell has built to great effect, but what's done is done. All this talk would seem better suited to the (overlong) 'Controversial Opinions of Bond' thread, located somewhere else on these pages, but merely following on from some recent responses

    I generally agree with these sentiments. Bliss wasn't written very well; her Moneypenny came off as clueless and wimpy. Samantha Bond fared better as a sparring partner for Bond but, ugh, the smutty lines they gave her really made me cringe.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    StirredNotShaken wrote: »
    Now this is a SUPER minor gripe, in fact not even a gripe just an OCD moment of mine.

    In the title sequence for Casino Royale, the shot of the 7 of hearts getting two bullet holes is match faded into "007 status confirmed" on a computer screen. But wouldn't it say "00 status" without the 7? I mean that's what Dryden refers to it as in the PTS. Obviously the reason they did that is so they could do the matching shots so I guess the question is already answered but I was wondering if anyone else thought about this
    I always read it as "007--status confirmed" meaning that Bond's new number is 007 and he is now a Double O.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    What were some of the original gadgets included on Ken Adam's original concept for the DB5? And why does the license plate change from BMT 216A to BMT 214A?
  • GerardGerard
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    StirredNotShaken wrote: »
    Now this is a SUPER minor gripe, in fact not even a gripe just an OCD moment of mine.

    In the title sequence for Casino Royale, the shot of the 7 of hearts getting two bullet holes is match faded into "007 status confirmed" on a computer screen. But wouldn't it say "00 status" without the 7? I mean that's what Dryden refers to it as in the PTS. Obviously the reason they did that is so they could do the matching shots so I guess the question is already answered but I was wondering if anyone else thought about this
    I always read it as "007--status confirmed" meaning that Bond's new number is 007 and he is now a Double O.

    Add an apostrophe and a S and it makes perfect sense : "007's Status Confirmed". Or "The 00 status of 007 is confirmed".
  • AgentJamesBond007AgentJamesBond007 Vesper’s grave
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    My question: During the pre-production of "You Only Lived Twice", it is known that Jan Wrech was cast as Blofeld and during filming, he was replaced by Donald Pleasence. Why in god's name did they not just bring Anthony Dawson back? Just cast him and dub his voice by Eric Pohlmann? Not unheard of to bring an actor back...
  • DoubleOhhSevenDoubleOhhSeven
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Maybe not a question, but an observation. Why are the other 00s shown to panic, in ways that Bond never would? Baines in LALD, the agent whose rope is cut during the PTS of TLD, that clown agent in OP. They all either scream, "No!', or look as frightened as little girls. I realize we accept Bond as the best, and he's the hero, etc., but these are trained, experienced 007s. Always rubs me the wrong way. You don't see Sylva or Janus behaving that way. That's because they turned evil, I guess.

    For two very good reasons that Bond learned from a very wise man.

    1) He never let's them see him bleed.

    2) He always has an escape plan.

    I know I'm responding to an old comment but I couldn't help myself. Especially with the 15th anniversary of the late great Desmond Llewelyn's death coming up. His last words were appropriate for Bond.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Not an answer to Agent JamesBond007. But Only since getting the
    Bluray of YOLT, did I notice the hair on Blofeld on first meeting 007
    Over the top of the chair. I think the only bit of Jan Wrech to make it
    On screen. :)
  • TokolosheTokoloshe Under your bed
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    AgentJamesBond007 wrote: »
    My question: During the pre-production of "You Only Lived Twice", it is known that Jan Wrech was cast as Blofeld and during filming, he was replaced by Donald Pleasence. Why in god's name did they not just bring Anthony Dawson back? Just cast him and dub his voice by Eric Pohlmann? Not unheard of to bring an actor back...

    Anthony Dawson could have been just about anybody when he was playing Blofeld, since you didn't see his face and you didn't even hear his voice. So there's no reason to bring Dawson back any more than to use a different actor.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    What were some of the original gadgets included on Ken Adam's original concept for the DB5? And why does the license plate change from BMT 216A to BMT 214A?
  • DoubleOhhSevenDoubleOhhSeven
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    This might be a stupid question but in LTK after Bond has been captured by the MI6 and Hong Kong narcotic agents and that stuffy British agent pulls out a syringe and says "You're a loose cannon on deck. I'm shipping you straight back to London", were the contents of that needle meant to kill Bond or just knock him out? I understand he said he would "ship him back" but judging by the violent and desperate way Bond reacted I assumed he meant he'd ship his body back. IDK as a kid that's what I assumed given how M showed no compunction over having Bond shot by that sniper if he didn't comply. Clearly the lives of their agents don't mean much in the eyes of MI6.
  • jobojobo
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    It was ony meant to put him out :)) Bond reacts desperately because it would jeopardize his mission.
  • fjdinardofjdinardo
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    Was there anything the producers could have done to make sure Connery stayed on to play Bond in OHMSS? I know Sean was under contract for 6 Bond films during a certain time period but since the time period had ended before OHMSS Sean was able to chose not to do the 6th film. What could cubby and harry have done to make sure Connery did the film?
  • mirandafrostmirandafrost
    edited December 2014 Posts: 368
    Hi everyone,
    are there any interviews or statements from the earlier movies/Cold War movies why they changed the storyline or the origin of the villains? In many novels (nearly all I think) the Soviets are the baddies (SMERSH) but in the movies they aren't. Why? Was there an intention of the producers/directors/screenwriters?
    Regards, Miranda
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