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When you say first film, do you mean dancing with Fiona in Thunderball?
I quite like Bond dancing too- why not, eh. Martin Campbell did a good one in Zorro too.
I can imagine the Cuba scene in NTTD would have been good if Bond and Paloma had had to dance in it before it all kicked off.
Amazing set, superb choreography and, well, Ms Pettet herself :)
I really would loved to have heard what original choice James Horner would have done with the score for NSNA, Michel Legrands music just didn't cut it!
Some deleted scene shots, I haven't seen till now.
I love the scene of Domino and Bond dancing on the floor just before Largo comes to get her. It is nowhere near as dramatic as this scene in terms of staging. But the way Domino just swoons into Bond's arms. Bond being charming and lamenting that Domino only meets men like himself and Largo. I love that. Hadn't thought of the Fiona dance scene.
I also love the tango scene. I think Connery is the only Bond who could pull that off with such grace, while maintaining that dangerous edge under a calm surface.
Oh yes, I'd forgotten about that scene, good point.
I found Basinger's performance to a decidedly negative element of the film.
I agree so much with this sentiment. I was very young when I saw NSNA, and Barbara Carrera was so physical, so wild, so sensual and , yes so erotic, that I remember seriously feeling the tingles for her.
As I grew older, I definitely understood the pangs she was delivering to my front door step. She sizzled and was a great match for Connery.
Sadly, after she was dispatched, I found the film, and my tingles, severely blunted. She truly was magnificent.
Basinger was terribly weak, but I've compartmentalized her into a box, and every scene she fails in, Klaus Maria Brandaeur (if in the same scene), was their to make sweet lemonade out of her weak lemons (🧐, that probably doesn't read as well as I thought it would (reader discretion is advised)).
Both TB and NSNA both suffer from strong female antagonists. I say suffer because once these deadly beauties are dispatched the energy of the film sags. I would positively love to see a female villain as the main baddie. I think it's time to have it happen.
I was surprised how well Fatima Blush stands out in the film and it is because of Barbara portrays her and infuses her with villainy and delicious touches of sensuality.
And so we reach the end of the road looking back behind the scenes of the James Bond films.
Now all that's left for us to do, is add any and all behind the scenes shots we may come across.
There's so much James Bond in this pic. But then again, it's Sean Connery.
^Misaki Ito as Q's assistant, 'Miss Nagai'. Press conference in Tokyo.
^Heidi Klum publicity photo as 'Katya Nadanova'.
^Bond scales a wall with the rappel. Poster would receive the tag, 'Can you think like Bond?'
^Willem Dafoe records his lines: (evil laugh) "This is where you die."
^And Mya as...'Mya'.
A final FYI from me: "The Making of Casino Royale (1967)" -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=M-1D0qtiINA
Sounds like your problem.
Maybe you should absorb rather than counter. To @DarthDimi 's point, did you really need to give a snotty comeback? And don't bother giving me any sass back, I don't tolerate as easily as others might.
Okay, @LucknFate, I'll bite.
In the age of heated Internet discussions, a thread where pretty much all visiting members join in celebrating the very thing that ultimately unites them is like a garden of beautiful red roses under a bright sun. And yes, such a thread is in stark contrast to certain other threads where pretty much every post one makes, no matter how neutral in tone, results in angry courtroom fights, instigated by those who simply cannot deal with people disagreeing with them (and for that reason probably shouldn't visit an Internet forum in the first place--but I digress.) My comment was a compliment to @Benny, a word of gratitude, nothing more. It's weird and unexpected that you should respond to it at all, let alone in that manner. "Sounds like your problem" is a response very much uncalled for. I cannot logically understand how it follows my post. Perhaps it's me.
One thing I can say, is that when CR and QOS were released, there was disagreement too, but it was handled in a much more civilised manner. These past couple of years, however, we have seen an influx of new members who effectively annoyed veterans, friends and valued members to the point where they decided to leave. The bitterness, the constant attacks, the whining... Opinions of films have suddenly become matters of life and death. Members who bring that attitude to almost every thread they visit should probably consider a career as Irritating Person # X in the YouTube Comment section. This forum deserves better.
And so it's just delightful to be able to visit a thread where the aforementioned bitterness is left at the door when members decide to come and have a good time. It gives me a hint of what the forum used to look like before the Twitter attack mentality took over and ruined the fun.
In the end, all I did was thank Benny for his awesome thread. If that's "my problem", then that's a problem I don't mind having.