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Hijacking of spacecraft = hijacking of shuttle
Devious woman in hotel = devious woman in plane
Little Nellie = boat chase
Piranha = python (both with a metal bridge)
etc.
The soundtrack of FYEO has aged very poorly and almost sinks the film in parts, as opposed to that of TSWLM which is kitschy and fun.
What kind of father nicknames his daughter "Octopussy"?
I like it better than the version that came in the single (I don't care for the double tracking and I prefer the more intimate singing of the film version).
"We will pay back everything!"
"There will be no need. We've secured certain third parties..."
Guess SPECTRE wanted the tax deduction from their balance sheet. LOL!
The TB dialogue adds some color to the scene and makes the whole philanthropic stuff even more ironic considering SPECTRE HQ is inside the building.
The other bit of dialogue that comes to mind immediately is "great sport, this punting!"
Tomorrow Never Dies is also basically a TSWLM remake
I like it in TND when Gupta is saying to Carver's security guards 'I hate travelling I never know what to pack'.
Your eye for detail never ceases to impress! So was this episode filmed at Pinewood?
Thanks! I had been looking so much for (and at) these prints when watching the films, that they immediately stood out when seeing them in The Saint. The only issue now is that I will be looking for more Bond related items whenever I get the chance to watch a Saint episode!
I tried to Google and see if I could find some information about this particular episode, and if it had been filmed at Pinewood, but no luck there. From what I can see on Wikipedia, the whole series was shot at Associated British Elstree Studios (with very few location shots). Maybe Pinewood and Elstree Studios had the same sources for getting props/interior items?
Haha! True, there's certainly a story to be told there (or maybe hushed up!) :D
Is that true? I didn't know that.
Really they're all riffs on Thunderball, especially TSWLM: the natural sort of extrapolation of stealing some nuclear weapons is to steal the ships they're kept on. Stromberg even keeps them on his boat, just like Largo- except his boat is much bigger!
To be honest I kind of think Kevin McClory had a point when he sued EON over TSWLM!
That's wonderful!
It will be funny if there are more of these!
Now I know these are on YouTube I think my 17th week (or whatever it is) on furlough is now sorted!
17 weeks? That's a long time. Hope everything sorts itself out, @BonSimonLeBon_1!
Haven't checked if every single episode is available, but I intend to watch what I can before it is taken down again.
Just counted it up -it's 18 weeks! It's looking like I'm going back in September.
Bond has his lighter from Felix and Della on the blackjack table. A little risky to put his close connection to Felix out of there given how fragile his cover is to begin with!
Gogol and Fredrick Gray are both introduced in TSWLM and appear in every film through TLD; however, they don't complete the Dalton era with LTK. BUT... Geoffrey Keen did star in an imitation Bond film called Licensed to Love and Kill.
Ivanova in AVTAK was supposed to be Triple X.
Paris in TND was supposed to be Natalya.
There are others...interesting that we are finally getting a returning Bond girl in B25.
Which is always kind of crazy since he's the Minister of Defence, and yet Britain changed government in 1979 so he should have been out of the job then! You could say Bond lives in some alternate world, if it wasn't for the fact we actually saw Margaret Thatcher in FYEO! :D
Yes indeed: Wai Lin was supposed to be in DAD, for example. If you pause the 'making of' on the disc in the right place you can even read some of the script pages which feature her.
I didn't know about Natalya as Paris though. I'm not sure how I feel about that as that would have been an unhappy ending for her, which would have spoiled GoldenEye a bit retroactively I think.
Yes, the Gogol and XXX cameos would have been better, in terms of giving them a more upbeat story.