OSS-177: QoS antidote
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One week after Quantum is released in the UK, there's this wonderful looking 1960s spy film spoof. I've only just heard about this, you can find it on
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464913/
It's called OSS-117 Cairo Nest of Spies. If QoS is too violent for yer mum, this one might do!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464913/
It's called OSS-117 Cairo Nest of Spies. If QoS is too violent for yer mum, this one might do!
"This is where we leave you Mr Bond."
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Roger Moore 1927-2017
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http://www.ajb007.co.uk/index.php?topic=27943
Please see it. It is wonderful and I liked it more than I did CR. The good news is they are currently filming a sequel in Rio. :007) I'll post some pictures later when I got the time. Because right now, I don't got the time.
I like the look of the girl in the first picture.
So do I .I thought the first film was just fantastic.Here's hoping the sequel will be as good! {[]
Is the version being released in the UK dubbed? Hoping it makes it to the US but expect it will be an arthouse release if it does!
Aaaggghhh! )
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http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=135781
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I imagine it's quite difficult to write for them, because you have to consider the audience and write the review on their behalf. So some films get five star reviews they don't deserve, Phantom Menace, Braveheart, and the relentlessly miserable The Dark Knight, because the hype around them is so high and they become unmissable, which is how I think Empire awards a five star review. Still, if they offered me a job.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/nov/07/french-bond-film-review
The Sunday Times also gave it a three-star review and said it was better than QoS. It wasn't Cosmo the clown though. Think it was Edward Porter. Philip French in The Observer didn't find it funny, but I'm not sure he's laughed since 1964.
I finally got to watch this and it is funny. You don't quite know if it's making fun of itself by showing "this is how backwards Bond would be if he were French," or if it's directly mocking "what's really behind" the 60's spy culture of macho chauvanism. Unlike the Bond films, 0SS 117 makes very frank political, racial, religious and sexist expressions as a reflection of the European colonial mindset of that time, or even now?
Loved the overall 60's look and feel with the cars, hairdos and wardrobe, esp. on the leading lady, Berenice Bejo, who reminded me of Claudine Auger at times.
BTW, Poorman, it has English subtitles and the DVD itself is packaged for the American audience. Can't wait for the sequel, which looks like it will be rememicent of "That Man From Rio" staring Jean Paul Belumundo and Francios Dorleac, another late show gem that I rediscovered through my local library.
http://www.oss117.fr/
A great venue for this fun film.
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EJnMAjV3JxI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_WjzAT5tRs
The website has also updated. There's a clip in which OSS 117 tries to cook a crocodile. )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klBLJlrqJVg&feature=PlayList&p=E50BFB5DF0501475&index=0&playnext=1
And there's Mexican wrestling Nazi's. )
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Roger Moore 1927-2017
Roger Moore 1927-2017
To be fair, at the ICA it did generate a few laughs, mainly among women, the sort who'll titter at anything and the saviour of many a lame standup's act. But there were also deep sighs, a lot of bored slouching in seats and even murmurings of disgust.
I liked the first film, Cairo: Nest of Spies. It had novelty value, a zany, likeable hero and for a Bond fan, its send-up of early Connery Bond films were uncannily accurate. It was also a masterstroke to send the suave French hero, de la Bath, a colonialist and sexist, to the Middle East to mix with dignified locals, Arab nationalists and religious zealots. It's one brand of chauvinism meeting another, a comedy clash of cultures.
I guess I don't have to explain why it's not so funny to have de la Bath make comments about Jews to Mossad agents, refering to their beaky noses and tightness with money. But okay, I will: the former was more of a culture clash with a dash of imperialist condescension, the latter usually comes from a far nastier place. Plus there's also that thing called the holocaust. I know we're meant to be laughing at the guy, but even so.
What's more, Jean Dujardin lacks that innocent sparkle that made his offensiveness less obnoxious in the original film.
It doesn't help that a fair number of the gags, especially at the beginning, are based on wordplay and puns that don't travel well, despite the best efforts of the translators. Why is his code name Flantier so hilarious?
In the first film, the hero was an appealing counter to today's PC behaviour. Here, becauise he's such a boor, you start to realise why such attitudes went out of fashion and you sympathise with the Jewish heroine who rolls her eyes.
There's some lovely scenery and the climax on Christ the Redeemer is worthy of a real Bond film. But for long stretches it's not spoofing Bond films rather the awful Bond spoofs that dogged the 1960s. But the jokes are so lame that the thin line between spoofing awful Bond spoofs and being an awful Bond spoof is virtually non-existent. As for the hippie culture clash, well I didn't much take to it anymore than I would if Lazenby's Bond had to hang out with hippie chicks in OHMSS and the whole thing is a bit Austin Powers.
My advice is wait for the DVD if you must see this, it's not £9 well spent.
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