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  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia
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    I love these gangsters. What's with that trick pool table!! What is this a merry go round???
  • barryt007barryt007
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    "waddya tryin ta pull Goldfingaaa ?"
  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia
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    :))

    And then after five lines of explanation everyone is on board and ridicules Solo when he's still skeptical!
  • MilovyMilovy
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  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    edited February 2017 Posts: 10,591
    I'm currently watching the "Exotic Locations" featurette for AVTAK narrated by Maud Adams, and this is without a doubt the thickest accent I've heard her speak with. I've seen her give interviews where she sounded almost Americanized. Give this one a watch. It is truly bizarre.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    There werent any exotic locations in AVTAK ...weird.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    Sure there were. The film portrays France beautifully.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    Yeah but hardly 'exotic'..
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Define "exotic". When GOLDFINGER came out, Kentucky was very exotic for most of the world outside North America. Not that everybody knew what Kentucky was. Then the dirty, dusty, superficial tinsel city of Las Vegas in DAF was also exotic, since the rest of the world didn't have anything like it (fortunately, IMO).

    But I remember vividly being amazed that at the end of the Sixties, my uncle actually flew to the States to visit his daughter (my cousin) who had emigrated to Pittsburgh in the early Fifties. And when I went to the exotic state of Illinois for my exchange year in 1974/75, it wasn't ordinary either.

    All of this has certainly changed, but I could imagine that France, especially Paris, was still quite exotic in 1985, especially for people from a country that tends to define itself as the center of the world, and the majority of which have never even travelled outside their own borders.
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
    edited February 2017 Posts: 6,844
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Define "exotic". When GOLDFINGER came out, Kentucky was very exotic for most of the world outside North America. Not that everybody knew what Kentucky was. Then the dirty, dusty, superficial tinsel city of Las Vegas in DAF was also exotic, since the rest of the world didn't have anything like it (fortunately, IMO).

    But I remember vividly being amazed that at the end of the Sixties, my uncle actually flew to the States to visit his daughter (my cousin) who had emigrated to Pittsburgh in the early Fifties. And when I went to the exotic state of Illinois for my exchange year in 1974/75, it wasn't ordinary either.

    All of this has certainly changed, but I could imagine that France, especially Paris, was still quite exotic in 1985, especially for people from a country that tends to define itself as the center of the world, and the majority of which have never even travelled outside their own borders.

    Likewise San Francisco, even today 31+ years on from AVTAK, is a huge tourist city with people coming from all over the world to take pictures with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Certainly exotic for those outside the US in '85.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    Exotic is a word generally used for a Far Eastern or Caribbean location...Paris was certainky still reachable in 1985...however,if the documentary was aimed at a US audience then i can see the thinking.

    But not for a UK audience ,no.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    Watching MR, I had a WTF moment that I had never noticed before (granted, before today, I don't think I've watched the film in twenty plus years), but in the scene in Brazil, just before Bond and Goodhead are both spying on Drax's planes "clearing out", Bond passes by a band playing and people dancing....

    The band were dressed in cartoon-like animal costumes... Can someone explain? Am I missing something??

    As an aside, inspired by the Bond marathon happening on this site, I started my own. Watching TSWLM last night, and popping in MR today, Roger did age quite a bit from '77- '79.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    Probably still to do with the carnival ?
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    Could be @barryt007, but these weren't festival-type costumes, but Mickey-Mouse type costumes (as they're playing with trumpets and so on)... It was flipping bizarre!
  • barryt007barryt007
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    Hmmm a long while since ive watched MR...that might have to be next on my list...I will let you know when i have a look @peter !
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    @barryt007 good luck! I look forward to hearing your thoughts (I thought I must've been having a flashback to my more "experimental" teen years, or something!)
  • barryt007barryt007
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    hahaha im sure i will get the same 'trip' down memory lane ;)
  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia
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    Yes! The carnivale in Rio lasts a week I believe. So it's just the next day of festivities. I adore those scenes with the chicken playing drums, dalmation playing trumpet, and I think there is an elephant or something haha.
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    Chicken, Dalmatian, monkey, elephant. If I'm not mistaken.
  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia
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    Good point @birdleson! The chicken is my favorite :p
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    MOONRAKER in my player now..........one of my fave pre title sequences.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    "May I press you to a cucumber sandwich?"
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    "Are you referring to people........or skills?" reminds me of "Are you talking about people or horses?".
  • barryt007barryt007
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    "You missed Mr Bond"......."Did i ?"..."as you said,such good sport "....brilliant..
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    "You missed Mr Bond"......."Did i ?"..."as you said,such good sport "....brilliant..
    Great scene. Unfortunately my MR viewing was interrupted with errands and a trip to the grocery store. I will have to finish it later.

  • barryt007barryt007
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    Well,vodka martini's wont buy themselves !
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    Well,vodka martini's wont buy themselves !
    True.


  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia
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    Oh... well if you can get him! *Jaws appears*. So pumped the first time I saw that!
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
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    My name is Bond, James Bond
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
    edited February 2017 Posts: 6,432
    RM first mission and its good

    Watching my favouraite Moore film LALD, this film just happens total classic

    Wow watching this film upscaled is insane, feel like I am at the cinema

    This film looks amazing
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