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Btw, I'd perhaps vote (although rather silly) for the MR billboards guy ("We'll take more care of you"). Don't know whether he says something in the scene before.
If I recall correctly, he says:
"Mamma mia, che succede? Tutto distrutto!
Which means something along the lines of:
"Oh my God, what's happening? Everything is destroyed!"
Haha yeah, and Jaws gives him a look, like "why would you put a house here?"
Ah thank you! I’ve always wondered :)
The voting shows us the following results from the academy:
Senior gatekeeper is 7 votes
Wine drinking globe trotter received 4 votes
Guard from North Korea received 2 votes
The Supervisor of the pipeline received 2 votes
Bottoms up Waitress received 2 votes
The whistling janitor from OHMSS received 1 vote
The dancing star from DN received 2 votes
The oyster driver from LALD received 1 vote!
Wonderful to see such a diverse group of characters getting their due.
Time to swing back to the Klebbie for worst first meeting of a leading lady and Bond! Over the years we have had some wonderful and memorable first meetings between the leading lady and Bond but some have been clunkers. Lets look into some of the worst meetings between Bond and his leading lady. The nominees are:
Okay esteemed academy what do we think is the worst meeting of a leading lady and Bond! Who deserves the kick in the shins for how they meet!
I'm a big fan of Dalton's 007 but never cared for this particular scene. It seems like something that belongs more in either Road House or in a 1970s Clint Eastwood action comedy rather than in a Bond film IMHO.
Sidenote: Bond meets Kissy at a Japanese wedding ceremony is actually one of my favorites. I love how John Barry's music dramatically swells when her face is first revealed.
The Wedding is a phenomenal track. I always thought this would be a cool piece of music in an adaption of the novel YOLT, at the end, when the fishermen are on the island fishing, and Kissy sees an unconscious Bond floating in the water after destroying the castle, and the music swells when you realize it's Bond, and she's pulling him ashore.
I am also shocked that Bond meeting Jinx is not a nominee. That scene would suggest Purvis and Wade have never spoken to a woman in their lives.
But I cast my vote for Bond jumps into a car with Camille and then deposits her on a dock a short time later from QOS
This was the scene that killed the film... I saw it opening night, midnight, you could feel the goodwill evaporate completely from the theatre at that moment. Confusing, cack handed filmmaking from a team that should have known better.
+1
So I've got to go with meeting Stacey. It's got gorgeous music too, a beautiful location, a beautiful woman in probably one of her better scenes in the movie (she actually comes across as smart and classy here, unlike later), but crucially it has Roger Moore in a white dinner jacket with a bottle of champagne giving his maximum charm offensive! :) No scene that features that can ever lose! And he even gets to say "can I walk you to the chopper?"! It just makes me happy.
This is a Klebbie. You are supposed to vote for the worst of the nominated.
Oh whoops! Didn't spot that. Hmm. Oh well, as the Christmas scene has at least one functioning joke and Pierce's funny accent, the Pam meeting is an acceptable enough scene albeit not hugely memorable, and the wedding has the lovely music and style because of that, I'll go for... meeting Camille. It's all a bit rushed and weird and just very strangely handled.
You think she comes of as "smart" and "classy"?
Well, the music is not bad, I´ll give you that...
She's certainly smarter there than in the rest of the film!
I am generally quite down on QoS (though it is growing on me), but I have always thought Camille is one of the most sympathetic characters.
So my vote goes to TWINE. I don't think Richards was given material that played to her strengths, but there you go. TWINE it is. And I would be amazed if this didn't win.
The Wedding is one of Barry’s best tracks. Beautiful.
Stacey