Kao-Ping-Shan - the island of Scaramanga..

broadshoulder

To get us away from endless endless ratings threads...a new topic?

I saw The Man With the Golden Gun at the cinema

It was a double entry with Live and let Die, and I enjoyed every minute of it. Part of the attraction was the setting. Hong Kong and Bangkok. Two areas not used much for films and TV. People were starting to travel - they were going to Spain or Portugal or nipping across the Atlantic to Florida but we had never seen anything like Kao-Ping-Shan on the big screen

It screamed the Orient. i know now they are called karsts. Huge pitons are limestone jutting out of the water complete with beaches and mushroom shaped rocks. The Bond producers took us to a place where no one had ever been to. The actual karsts looked alien. Like something from a different planet. Every shot looked good. The shot of Bond flying his seaplane over them looked stunning with john Barrys music

So have you been there? Would you when you have enough money try and go there. i visited Phang Na Bay in '98 but run out of time so couldn't get there. i had 24 hours to leave. But I would go back...

Higgins

This may interest you:

http://jamesbond.ajb007.co.uk/james-bond-island-thailand/

It's truly a magic place - though extremely crowded during the summer.
Here is the discussion:
http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/32922/approaching-james-bond-island/

broadshoulder

I just wanted an alternative to the endless ratings articles on here...

8-)

Thunderpussy

Amen brother {[]

lueth2048

I visited what were called The James Bond Islands when I was in Phuket 30 years ago. At that point I had only seen The Man With the Golden Gun once (on ABC probably in 1979) so I only had a vague recollection of Scaramanga's set-up, but it was a great tour.

Phuket had several of the open air type bars that Bond was frequenting in Skyfall. Most of theses had VCRs running (still pretty new technology at the time) and I saw two that were showing Bond films. Both were showing Goldfinger.