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I have to admit I wasn't 100% sure on that one, so my bad.
Sorry.
Don't be! Easy mistake to make. I've just seen too many Dalton films.
I once read that the phone call between Bond and Felix was originally longer and Della was mentioned. Could just be rumour, but I definitely remember reading that. May have been part of a workprint.
Massive IV of morphine just out of shot, presumably.
emotional arcs werent really a thing in 80s Bond were they..Bond took Dellas death worse than Felix mind
He sort of did... and then never mentioned her again! :D It's a bit of an odd film really: just kill Felix, writers!
Has any Bond actor looked more uncomfortable in the 'with the girls' shots? He looks like he actively hates Caroline Bliss there :D
My Dad had an extensive operation some years back, and his pain meds made him the happiest guy on the planet.
He turned into a fascist....
She acquitted herself admirably for someone who was 10,000 years old.
Timothy looks great, but I do wish they would have had Dalton wear his fringe down, like he did at the end of the film, that haircut in the Casino really doesn't do him any favours.
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Did anyone else think that this sequence needed just an extra couple of seconds of Sanchez actually realising that Bond was avenging Felix and Della? It's like Bond says "don't you want to know why?" and shows him the lighter (held in both hands, if you look carefully!), but Sanchez has no real time to take it in before he's on fire. I'd have liked just a few seconds of Franz realising why Bond bought his empire down. In a way, it denied the audience the satisfaction of Bond's revenge being complete.
I think there's a clear look of "oh damn!" on his face, but indeed, a few more seconds wouldn't have hurt.
I'd like to see the UK cinema cut of this movie again actually, because the DVD I have has longer scenes in than I remember in the cinema. I think the Sanchez death scene was shorter in the cinema.
There were quite a lot of cuts to LTK as I remember.
There were. I think the Bluray has many of those as a bonus feature.
To be fair, it was the '80s and no one's hair has aged well from that era. Look at Bliss' blowout above.
I'm interested in why LTK's violence caused such an uproar in the UK. (In the US, we had already dealt with this with Temple of Doom and Gremlins in 1984, which led to the PG-13 rating.)
Was the backlash to the violence because Bond is such a cultural icon in the UK? Or was it just the times (Thatcherism?)? I don't see the violence in LTK as any worse than, say, Stromberg being shot or Wint (or was it Kidd?) being lit on fire. But that was the '70s.
Off the top of my head, the cuts I remember were. .
Sanchez using 'the corrector' at the start
Heller impaled on forklift
Krest's exploding head
The drug-grinder thing
Sanchez Guy Faulks impression
All of these seemed longer and more graphic when I saw LTK on DVD for the first time.
Yes, agreed. I'm not even very convinced that Sanchez even remembered Felix or knew what was written on the lighter (the scrolly engraving isn't very easy to read! :D ) - if anything his shocked reaction seems to be more down to the realisation the lighter is about to kill him than it is what's written on it.
So, this thread will have a brief hiatus. (Had a very busy week at work and haven't had a chance to upload and GoldenEye images just yet.)
Unlike the break between LTK and GE, this one wont be long.
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