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From the video description: "According to Lukas Kendall, this is what John Barry wrote in the first place for the sequence in which James Bond-Sir Hilary sneaks out of his room to visit one of the girls. In the final film this sequence had nearly no music."
But ultimately, had it been included in full in the movie, the scene would've felt too musically "heavy". It needed less music, and whatever music it needed had to be lower-key, and had to have less emphasis on rhythm.
Separate from the film, as presented in the video above, the music does work very well, however!
What was that plotline? Curious.
Wasn’t Blofelds cat supposed to have poison tipped claws or something. It scratches old Ernst resulting in his death.
Quite why the cat does this is not known. Maybe failure is not tolerated all the way to the top. Or maybe the cat is the real head of SPECTRE
Max Von Sydow is grossly underused in NSNA. A few more scenes with him could’ve really helped the film overall.
True. But they did have pretty strict guidelines as to what they could use and with Blofeld's relatively small role it likely meant he was meant to stay a shadowy background figure and the emphasis on Largo.
Some Christmas balls?
Only just noticed after seeing the film multiple times, but to be fair Fatima's body is quite distracting.....
Interesting. I'll try and have a look at that moment. Though I can't promise I will succeed.
Watching the ending sequence again, it's clear to me that EON's intention at the end of that film was for Bond to leave the service and for it to be Craig's last. It's just too heavy on symbolism (all the way up to Q's reaction to Bond returning for the car) for it to have meant anything else imho.
Definitely agree with this. I remember leaving the theatre thinking it would definitely be his last. The timing of a recast would have been good at this point too, IMO. For Craig to return for Bond 25 feels a bit "forced" if anything.
It's either the lukewarm reception or business reasons. I believe it's the latter. This is a one contract film, and we mustn't forget that the studio behind this does not have a CEO (and rather, is being run by a lawyer who is skilled in M&A). I worked for a company which had a similar scenario in place for over a year. They fed all staff a line that they were looking to IPO (the b/s was off the charts), but eventually they sold, which is what we knew they were going to do all along. This film will inflate MGM's numbers and position themselves for the next phase.