Two short sentences? Come on, man, why start an entire topic if you're just going to put out two squib sentences? Say something! WHY is it the "true Cold War Bond film?" HOW is it comparable to FRWL? Give us something, and you'll be surprised at the quality of what you get in return!
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Harry Palmer Somewhere in the past ...Posts: 325MI6 Agent
Let me try:
TLD (my favourite Bond film after FRWL) is the franchise's true cold war movie because, among other things, it is set for the best part behind the iron curtain.
Whereas FRWL's Turkey puts Bond in a kind of no man's land between East and West, TLD's Bratislava places him clearly in "hostile territory".
Additionally, the first 75 minutes of the film are the closest we get to a "procedural" spy film in the whole franchise.
I can kinda see what your saying, but how is TLD the only procedural spy film?
Harry Palmer Somewhere in the past ...Posts: 325MI6 Agent
I didn't mean the only procedural spy film, but rather the only procedural spy film in the series. Perhaps that "only" is a bit of an overstatement. FRWL and OHMSS also contain a certain emphasis on the "craft" of the spy (i.e. legwork, tailing, and going through files). But the crucial distinction, with TLD, is that we get a sense of what it means for a spy to be behind the iron curtain during the cold war.
It is not a matter of blowing up a nuclear storage facility, or of infiltrating a top secret military base, but of doing a lot legwork and relatively undramatic stuff (waiting in line at the Austrian border; tailing Kara on the streetcar; going to a public lavatory to check her rifle; spotting KGB agents from her apartment window and finding a way to give them the slip).
jorgem
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1. FRWL
2. GE
3. TLD
4. OP
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TLD (my favourite Bond film after FRWL) is the franchise's true cold war movie because, among other things, it is set for the best part behind the iron curtain.
Whereas FRWL's Turkey puts Bond in a kind of no man's land between East and West, TLD's Bratislava places him clearly in "hostile territory".
Additionally, the first 75 minutes of the film are the closest we get to a "procedural" spy film in the whole franchise.
It is not a matter of blowing up a nuclear storage facility, or of infiltrating a top secret military base, but of doing a lot legwork and relatively undramatic stuff (waiting in line at the Austrian border; tailing Kara on the streetcar; going to a public lavatory to check her rifle; spotting KGB agents from her apartment window and finding a way to give them the slip).
Maybe not so much 'Cold War', but we got to see Bond do some of the spy stuff again in CR and I was very glad of that.:007)
Too bad the final 'fightscene' ín TLD with Withaker is so poor.