The male voice choir singing some bars of the theme song... a reference to the TV documentary serial of the time based on The Ark Royal. I think they did a similar thing with a male voice choir singing Rod Stewart's theme for the show, 'I am sailing...'
Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
I always say the same thing about Roger Moore's Bond as I do about Peter Ustinov's Poirot- you may not like his interpretation, but you can't help liking him!
I'll have to remember that dvd is corrupt.
I bought the Moore threepack dvd sets thinking I could get rid of the old ones and save some space, good thing I never got round to that.
Built in redundancy!
this scene is one of the bits that reminds me of Colonel Sun,
Bond and Ariadne Areolowhatsit also got chased round some classical ruins after meeting in a restaurant
of course the character in Colonel Sun is called Ariadne Alexandrou, I remembered that about 10minutes later. I got all of one letter right.
I got confused because of Anya's dress, and I started thinking about Wood's detailed description of what little that dress leaves to the imagination in the novelization!
Im gonna quibble later, its too confusing to type now, and we're about to see Anya in that final dress
OK map projections hurt my head, but this is what I'm thinking:
On a Projected map, the straightest line across the surface of the earth would form an arc, and those can be counterintuitive especially when the shortest route between Canada and Northern Europe cuts close to the north pole.
But on an actual globe they should just appear as straight lines.
The lines representing the missiles' paths on Stromberg's globe follow these greatly exaggerated arcs to the north and back again.
I think they are meant to be a profile representation, superimposed on the globe. Like we were really watching in profile as the missiles arced above the surface of the sea and back again. The two icons representing the subs are in profile too,
If you have a globe at home you can take a short string and hold one at NY and the other on London or perhaps Berlin. Watch how the string curves top the north if you're holding it tight. In actual life it't even clearer becasue the Earth isn't a perfect globe, it actually gets flatter by the poles.
Here's a radar image of trans-Atlantic flights:
yeh but that image is a map projection.
I gotta find my globe, its packed away.
Yes I know the shortest route would go towards the arctic and back, not be parallel to a line of latitude.
but I think if I laid down a tapemeasure or string following such a route (eg between Labrador and London), it would have to be a straight line across the surface of a globe: it is after all the shortest route. Slackening the string to make an arc would by definition be a longer route.
Those two subs were pretty close to each other in the middle of the atlantic, the shortest route between them would not veer off that much towards the pole.
but I'll report back with actual results if I can find my globe. as i say map projections hurt my head.
yeh but that image is a map projection.
I gotta find my globe, its packed away.
Yes I know the shortest route would go towards the arctic and back, not be parallel to a line of latitude.
but I think if I laid down a tapemeasure or string following such a route (eg between Labrador and London), it would have to be a straight line across the surface of a globe: it is after all the shortest route. Slackening the string to make an arc would by definition be a longer route.
Those two subs were pretty close to each other in the middle of the atlantic, the shortest route between them would not veer off that much towards the pole.
but I'll report back with actual results if I can find my globe. as i say map projections hurt my head.
You mustn't slack the line, you have to tighten it to see what I mean. An the radar map shows the planes from NY to London fly over New Foundland, then a bit south of Greenland, over Norhern Ireland and finally to London.
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Triple X!!!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
And a request- more Moore!
I'll have to remember that dvd is corrupt.
I bought the Moore threepack dvd sets thinking I could get rid of the old ones and save some space, good thing I never got round to that.
Built in redundancy!
I got confused because of Anya's dress, and I started thinking about Wood's detailed description of what little that dress leaves to the imagination in the novelization!
On a Projected map, the straightest line across the surface of the earth would form an arc, and those can be counterintuitive especially when the shortest route between Canada and Northern Europe cuts close to the north pole.
But on an actual globe they should just appear as straight lines.
The lines representing the missiles' paths on Stromberg's globe follow these greatly exaggerated arcs to the north and back again.
I think they are meant to be a profile representation, superimposed on the globe. Like we were really watching in profile as the missiles arced above the surface of the sea and back again. The two icons representing the subs are in profile too,
Here's a radar image of trans-Atlantic flights:
I gotta find my globe, its packed away.
Yes I know the shortest route would go towards the arctic and back, not be parallel to a line of latitude.
but I think if I laid down a tapemeasure or string following such a route (eg between Labrador and London), it would have to be a straight line across the surface of a globe: it is after all the shortest route. Slackening the string to make an arc would by definition be a longer route.
Those two subs were pretty close to each other in the middle of the atlantic, the shortest route between them would not veer off that much towards the pole.
but I'll report back with actual results if I can find my globe. as i say map projections hurt my head.
In Northern Europe we have something we call "irony". We can disciss it when/if we finish ogling the actresses.
(just joking …)
You mustn't slack the line, you have to tighten it to see what I mean. An the radar map shows the planes from NY to London fly over New Foundland, then a bit south of Greenland, over Norhern Ireland and finally to London.
Yes. More impressive than the model work and Ken Adam's sets I think -{
was he expecting it to be an opportunity too celebrate?