AJB live commentary on FRWL

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Higgins wrote:
    Did Bianchi have a double in that scene?

    She says so
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Thanks, but not that one!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,424MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Kronstein. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the actor was good friends with Connery and got the gig because of that friendship.
    I think he got cast because he has a very memorable face. He appears jsut a few minutes, and only in the start and at the ending.
    But your story could also be true.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    edited May 2020
    Holy......

    That masseuse and her balcony!
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    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    John Barry's Spectre motif. It'll return later.

    I think this perfectly encapsulates Fleming's sense of "the death-watch beetle of the soul". Barry's suspense cues in this film, ahead of his response to the more comedic fantasy of GF, are in tune with Fleming's sensibility... though '007' adds some lightness to the action later on.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Lotter Lenya, of "Mack The Knife" fame
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    :x I am eternally grateful.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Gymkata, I thought that you where on 4 k!
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,424MI6 Agent
    The guide in the SPECTRE faciity has a "KGB leather jacket".
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Music- “Tania Meets Klebb” of course
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Well, he WAS fit enough... until she just ruptured his stomach.
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    That yellow dress hasn‘t aged well.

    Compare with Aki‘s green dress a bit later
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Brilliant set-up with Grant stalking Tania
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    I wonder if Lenya could see anything thru these beerbottle bottoms
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Tania dubbed by Barbara Jefford

    ursula.jpg

    Don't know why it wasn't Nikki van der Zyl
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Music- “From Russia With Love” the Matt Monro vocal version- not conducted by John Barry, as was the title music, but by his friend Johnnie Spence
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,424MI6 Agent
    I wonder if the audience back then picked up on the lesbian undertones?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Lotte Lenya shares the goggle-eyed bi-focals of the Rosa Klebb of the novel, but physically she's otherwise quite different.

    Tania's "I will obey your orders!" is a funny line after Klebb's threat...
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    edited May 2020
    Connery wearing some underwear under his boxers....
    You brits are so uptight.....
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    They're more blatant in Fleming's book.

    Edit- the lesbian undertones, not Bond's underwear
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    I'm glad Bond dumped Sylvia after this film... unless she dumped him first.

    At least part of her dialogue sounds like dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl?
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,424MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    I wonder if the audience back then picked up on the lesbian undertones?

    No. If they did, then they WOULD BE SHOT.

    But of course :))
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Padded office door
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Bernard Lee note-perfect as M, as usual
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    I'm glad Bond dumped Sylvia after this film... unless she dumped him first.

    At least part of her dialogue sounds like dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl?

    Yup.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    "Unless she's mental". Sounds dated now... "mental" having become an offensive term for mental illness?
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Connery‘s accent almost sounded like italian here when he‘s speaking about the dekoter
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Hello, Desmond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Higgins wrote:
    Connery‘s accent almost sounded like italian here when he‘s speaking about the dekoter

    You must give me the name of your audiologist.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,424MI6 Agent
    Fact: Desmond Llewelyn was born a grey-haired old man.
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