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In his clueless flailing way this retard does raise one mildly interesting point that has never struck me before - namely that Bond was playing Sir Hilary as a homosexual. What do we think of this? Certainly the line 'but I think you do not like girls Sir Hilary' implies the girls are under the impression he might be. Is Bond playing a gay Sir Hilary or merely a bit of a swot who is more absorbed by his books than a bevy of Bond beauties?
I agree. I feel that had it been intentional on the part of the filmmakers it would've been too overt and could've strayed into Carry On territory. It's either so subtle as to be deliberately ambiguous or in an altogether more sheltered age just not something anyone ever thought of.
Yes, agreed. I never got any gay overtones probably as they're not there! Sir Hilary was portrayed as a swot too interested in his books and study to notice the beautiful young women who surrounded him, but of course this was not possible for James Bond and so his deviating from the part as the cad he was contributed to Blofeld and Bunt unmasking him as a British spy called James Bond.
I'll be honest, It always struck me that the girls initially assume he may be gay. Precisely because of his relentless attention to work, while surrounded by a bevy of beauties. That's the way I've always read it. It's subtle and left pretty ambiguous, though.
Sounds a bit like they cut it in post-production. Anybody knows?
I believe the sequence was in the original editors cut, but as the film was so long at that point, something had to go, and that rooftop scene was deleted.
What is your source for that? Because I'm pretty sure in Charles Helfenstein's definitive book he says only some stills footage exists.
Correct. @bondsum has either bought a flux capacitor and returned to 1969 armed with the necessary budget to shoot the scene, or he's talking out of his...
Well you may think that I couldn't possibly comment.
But I think if someone had a gun to my head I would probably choose Helfenstein over @bondsum.
The only part of the scene they shot was Bond chasing Phidian from the rooftops down onto the street heading towards St. Paul's. There was his subsequent death at St. Pancras and a
train crash that weren't staged at all. As for what they did shoot, as Wiz says, I don't recall there being any salvageable footage, mainly a selection of stills ranging from half decent, to very poor quality. So to conclude this whole scene exists seems unlikely to me.
I would've thought such a revelation would have necessitated it's own thread, not just a casual aside in a recently resurrected thread.
And it includes the St. Pancras/train scene?
Don't joke. Who will pay?
Points for prescience!
Bond is playing gay. Ruby: "You are funny, pretending not to like girls." Nancy: "I think you do not like girls, Hilly." It's not even subtext; it's text.
It's an ironic--and funny--cover since Bond is the ultimate lady's man. As a gay man, Hunt understood this and surely meant it intentionally, as much as he did the African woman salivating over the banana (which is also funny).
Damn you, George, you could have spared us flapping Jaws, sitting tigers, gorilla and clown suits, double-take pidgeons and slide whistles, but thanks ever so much for this one.