It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
Good one too mate! Did you know Harry H. Corbetts role was meant for Sid James?
https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/2367/chat-thread-free-discussion/p1
Would you recommend any of the others, @Birdleson? Found Carry On Spying a bit boring myself. There were some funny gags of course, but no laugh out loud moments.
No, haven't seen that one before. It's interesting to see the similarities between the two films. It makes you wonder if they made a very obvious nod to Carry On Spying!
Khyber, Cleo, Screaming, Camping etc. they’re the more fondly remembered ones where everything got a bit bigger and a bit naughtier.
There were a few things I need to have a look at again when I watch the Bond films again, just to make sure, but two things in particular stood out when watching the film. The first is the lamp we see in Boysie Oakes' apartment, which looks to be a red version of the lamp we see in TB (and very similar to the ones seen in OHMSS and DAF):
In one of the scenes we also see the ship prints seen in M's office (and Bond's apartment in LALD):
This is yet another appearance of the same series of prints that also feature in an early episode of The Saint (1962) and Where the Spies Are (1966).
It is, isn't it! The funny thing now is that I won't be able to sit down to watch a British film from the same time period without looking for furnishings that have appeared in Bond films!
The film was fine. Nothing spectacular, but worth a watch simply for being a spy film from the Bond-mania period – and for Jill St. John of course!
Yes, like the book Boysie Oakes finds himself in the situation of becoming a reluctant assassin for British Intelligence, and hires a guy to do the work for him. It's no spoiler to mention that he eventually finds himself in the middle of the action. I've only read the first book of the series, so I don't know how he gets the job done in the following novels. The film stuck quite close to the novel, which was interesting. You don't always see that.
That's right. Del Toro talks in English during the party, but the pilot talking in Spanish is... Alfonso Cuarón. Another Marc Forster's friend ;)
All these Spanish links with Bond are here: www.007conexion.es :D Yes, I'm one of the authors.
Good stuff, I figured I had overlooked it in the past and it was common knowledge. Not sure why, after 12 years and countless viewings, del Toro's voice stood out so clearly in that bit, but alas.
That's him. It's incredibly obvious once it's pointed out, my issue was always being fixated on thinking he was dubbing someone in Spanish, which I never would've caught.
Sorry, I saw this too late. It's not just the runaway car scene that is a commercial for Chevrolet. Basically every vehicle except the Ford van that Bond's Chevy smashes into and the "pimpmobile" (still based on a GM vehicle) is a 1973 Chevy, whether Nova or Impala or BelAir, including the police cars later in the movie.
This was - for me - the point where vehicle product placement went too far in the franchise (and there was more to come). Still, the next instalment with AMC cars all over Thailand (where just as in the rest of the world almost nobody chose an American Motors vehicle any more) was definitely even worse.
This is properly amazing stuff!
Although I have noticed this before, in fact I noticed it many years ago and it amuses me every time I see it and I'm wondering is it just me?
At the very beginning Largo pulls up in his car (poor parking BTW but that's by the by) he opens the door and gets his bag from the back. As he's doing that a car is appearing from behind. There is a brief moment where you think he's going to have wait because there is no way he has time to cross the road. How that car doesn't run him over I'll never know. I like to think there is an alternate universe Thunderball were the theft of the bombs never happens because Largo is dead 10 seconds into the film.
I wonder if this was a deliberate direction to make Largo look arrogant, confident etc or it was just rubbish awareness by Adolfo Celi and they left it in?
Haha, that moment has always amused me! Every time I watch TB I keep thinking Largo is going to be killed right at the beginning!
Ultimate jaywalker!
Glad it's not just me who worries about this!
I was there ten years later, and it was still complete chaos, no rules. It was like North Africa.