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Also from the same release, during the finale when Bond goes to save Honey. She's tied to floor, with the water slowly starting to flood. By the time it reaches her ankles, she'll be seventy years old. I know that the original scene was going to have crabs surrounding her, eventually tearing her to death, but if that is not feasible, why leave the scene in? Just have her tied to a chair a la Anya in TSWLM, at least it would make more sense.
Then you have the silly portion of Goldfinger when Auric reveals his plans to the gangsters (awful ones at that, mind you) only to kill them straight after- meanwhile, Mr Solo has been taken on a car journey only then to be killed in the most unnecessarily elaborate way, when Goldfinger could have just had left him with the rest of the gangsters.
The most ridiculous thing is that the "good army" is waiting for Bond to give a signal for them to attack. They expect Bond to be able to switch the control casets all by himself and then give a signal as well. There is no reason why Bond should be able to do this. If Blofeld doesn't kill him on first sight, he should at least not let him wander around on the platform and the control room the way he pleases. The whole sequence is not only mindboggingly stupid, but also not very exciting at all. Easily the worst ending climax in the series!
In DN the explosion was a technical mistake due to budget and FX standards at the time. Nothing silly in itself. Same thing with Honey. We don't know how fast the tide would have gone up, had Bond not intervene. In any case, it would have gone up, she would have drowned and nobody would have saved her. Again, there is nothing silly in the scene per se.
IMO, the silliest scene in Sean Connery's tenure was either Blofeld in a drag in DAF or the whole "You've just killed James Bond" scene. Maybe this is the true moment when James Bond left completely the realm of plausibility to turn into self parody. Far more than "This never happened to the other fella". Or Bond turning Japanese, which again was technically odd but not silly per se.
How is not silly? Connery's wig, makeup and him speaking Japanese with a strong Scottish accent push this whole scene, for me, far into realms of silliness. Not to mention that it is offensive. Bond looks absolutely ridiculous. You can paint it up with "it was to fool people from a distance", but Connery's height alone (he's 6ft 2 for Pete's sake) shows that this is implausible.
A real low point in the series.
EON probably thought that disguse looked good for 1967. In that day studios thought nothing of using white actors in roles representing other ethnicities.
Witness Arabesque from 1966 with Gregory Peck for instance. Or even Octopussy with Louis Jourdan playing an Indian. In 1983! That was quite a disguise...
It had everything to do with the time it was shot and nothing to do with the intended effect. We now see it at silly, it was not intrinsically so.
Exactly. And Joseph Wiseman played a half-Chinese character.
Indeed. Was it done on purpose? I can't imagine that nobody noticed that mistake or simply didn't care.
Also, about YOLT, i didn't mind Bond being Japanese, but one of the most annoying things were the dreadful effects of the volcano eruption at the end.
The lift fight was fine until the fire extinguisher came into play. Tiffany overdramatizing about Franks (Bond) killing Bond (Franks) kind of killed it.
Music, not bad, but not the best.
Mountaineering the Whyte House. That speaks for itself.
Nice cheeks. Seriously?
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It's so bad that I wanted to punch the screen. What were they thinking? A 6ft, hairy Scotsman donning a wig and makeup, looking like an absolute prat, and people think he's Japanese? They couldn't even be arsed in later scenes and just seemed to forget about it...and for good reason.[/quote]
Why does Bond have a degree in Oriental Languages in YOLT, but can't type on an oriental keyboard in TND??????[
Ha, oh the joys of being a hardcore Bond fan :D The "commoners" wouldn't notice that, particularly as the films were 30 YEARS apart.
No. Doesn't even register as silly to me. The fact that the staff applying the disguise are in bikinis in a giant Ken Adams'esque set....maybe, but even that's just in line with everything else up to that point.
For me the silliest thing in Connery's era is pretty much all of Diamonds Are Forever.
@Sunsanvil has a good point though.
It did not translate well on screen, and sadly the whole section of the movie was pretty slow to me, but the disguise itself didn't bother me that much.
I just wish they had sped up that whole boring section and got on with it, spending more time with Blofeld or Spectre No. 11 even.
I don't like YOLT, I consider it the first movie of the franchise that remarkably went downhill. But Bond turning Japanese was not the silliest thing in the Connery era, heck it was not the silliest thing in the movie!
This i Brando in Teahouse of the August Moon. They did a far better job in making him look Japanese. I think they could have pulled it with Connery but didn't want him to look too different.
Doesn't bother me though. However, in the film I always wondered what the scalpel was for???
I haven't known many Scots, but Connery's accent seems different from most of the ones I see on tv. The guy who played Obi Wan in the new Star Wars movies and Craig Ferguson don't sound anything like Connery.