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There are plenty of stupidities and psychedelic absurdities in this film, but also a lot of good stuff. The score,including the title track, is magnificent, Wint and Kidd are the best henchmen ever, the elevator fight, the crematorium deathtrap, the Whyte House ascent and so much more. Ranks somewhere in the middle for me I guess. I like it. As a sequel to YOLT it really works, and Gray was a better Blofeld than Pleasance.
Wint and Kidd are among the best henchmen with some of the best lines. One of the bright spots of DAF.
I concur.
If they had wanted to replicate that scene from the novel, they would have to recast the two actors. It would never work with two clowns in it.
I like:the title song and title sequence.Julius Caesar was great as General Ourumov and Tcheky Kario was good as the defence minister. Just about everything else is dreadful. Seriously, this could be the most cringeworthy film in the franchise.
ITV have done a great job over Christmas showing plenty of Bond, and
They're the cleaned up, remastered versions and look fantastic on HD.
QFT. This great post is as epic as the movie itself.
Great summary of what makes TB so superb. I think this one has the best script of the whole series, and those lines are so well written and excecuted.
Mendes & Craig take note - see Thunderball for how to weave puns & witty dialogue into a film without it seeming forced or clanging...
Woah, slow down there.
They were completely unthreatening.
I disagree. Many of the great henchmen have had the ability to be both humorous and threatening simultaneously (Oddjob, Jaws, Xenia, etc.)
Especially after I've had barbecue :)
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The camera work in the movie, with all the quick cuts and a bit of the shaky cam, forty years early, could be off-putting, and sometimes even reminiscent of QoS. Some of the structure is odd for a Bond movie, but I suppose that's not really a weakness per se.
The movie has a few other bits that leave me scratching my head: Who were the guys who threatened Bond at the beach? Why did Tracy pull a gun on him? Why was she crying at the bullfighting get-together? Their romance as a whole is somewhat odd, with the montage followed by Bond gallivanting with the girls at Piz Gloria, and then them meeting each other on pure happenstance.
Apart from all that, however, the movie was very nearly perfect. The score, the cinematography, Savalas as Blofeld, the evil plot, the set design (especially Piz Gloria), Diana Rigg as Tracy, Bond's great escape, the attack on Piz Gloria, and of course that tragic ending, were all simply marvelous.
The PTS is an extract from the novel, where Draco sends his men to pick up Bond and Tracy and on the beach to bring them in. However the scene makes absolutely no sence in the cinematic version.
The rest is not too difficult to explain though. Tracy is portrayed as a depressed, suicidal girl reaching the point of insanity. That's what the gun is supposed to illustrate. She cries at the bullfighting arena because she believes Bond is only interested in her because her father has arranged some kind of marriage proposal. Its not that far fetched.
I even love the score. It's as if they
made a film just for Me. ;)