AJB live commentary on MOONRAKER

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Nikki van der Zyl?

    Is it? Doesn't sound like her usual voice... Interesting, if so.

    Not sure.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    I wonder if Cubby saw The Story of O with Corinne Clery before casting her? :o

    Not sure. :))
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Drax not playing piano on a Chopin Prelude.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Miss Moneypenny's daughter!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    I wonder if Cubby saw The Story of O with Corinne Clery before casting her? :o

    Not sure. :))

    Probably. It was her biggest role. She was also in Emmanuelle soft porn movies, I think, but I'm not sure of the dates off-hand.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Yes, Lonsdale is excellent.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Love Lonsdale. And his dialogue is great.

    This is the only Bond villain part I can imagine Peter 'Grand Moff Tarkin' Cushing pulling off... he would have been equally brilliant with that dialogue.

    Not sure why Bond distinguishes between 'people's and 'skills'.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    But Moore is superb in these scenes
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Love Lonsdale. And his dialogue is great.

    This is the only Bond villain part I can imagine Peter 'Grand Moff Tarkin' Cushing pulling off... he would have been equally brilliant with that dialogue.

    I would have loved that! Big Cushing fan.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    The centrifuge music IS on the OST.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    The sexy intimacy of Holly helping strap in Bond reminds me of how Masters was fussed over by the air stewardess he later married - sexily adjusting his safety belt on the plane - in Fleming's short story, 'Quantam of Solace'.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Thanks Gymkata!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Moore looks younger than usual when rescued here, and then looks older than usual when he meets Holly in Venice later.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Throwback to the traction table ordeal in TB, but here, instead of taking advantage afterwards (blackmailing Patricia Fearing into sex) Bond plays it straight... stumbling away from Holly without a quip. A great choice by Lewis Gilbert.
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    "I never learned to read." That doesn't quite work. As an assistant to Drax and chopper pilot, obviously articulate, she'd surely be literate.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    007 on the camera. Very secret!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    A more efficient safe-cracking device than the one in OHMSS, which took virtually the whole of the lawyer's lunch hour to work.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    Drax's place and Zorin's place....seeing a lot of similarities.

    True, hadn't thought about that
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    The presentation of these aristocratic lovelies... who leave just as soon as they're introduced: in the spirit of the Miss World beauty contests that millions of people used to watch on TV.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Perhaps the most serious moment in this not too serious film- Corrine being killed
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Venice- various shots of MGW and other family and crew members strolling around etc
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    The death of Corinne is powerful and disturbing. The cinematography and Barry's composition. The sadism of it makes me wonder whether the actress's 'Story of O' credentials were indeed in Cubby's mind.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Hmm, you never know.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    The glass factory on Murano island is a great place to visit.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Does the guide recognise 007, or is she just distracted by a handsome man?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Ah, Venice. I was just there last July. Lovely city.

    Never been. Would love to visit once our current situation is all over.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    The Venini Glass lady at the front desk. Is she the drooping neckline lady from the Amazon later on? Irka Bochenko?

    Yup, that's her
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    The gondola chase. Music not on OST (probably for the reason Shady mentioned earlier).
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Does the guide recognise 007, or is she just distracted by a handsome man?

    She's one of Drax's girls. He must have given them all some 'undercover' briefings. He talks later, on the space ship, about fathering a dynasty; presumably he has a mate of his own from among the bevy of space lovelies!
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    May be of interest- https://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/44560/the-moonraker-coffin-assassin-actor/ Discussing who's the man in the coffin
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