AJB live commentary on FRWL

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Tania :x :x :x :x

    All straight from Fleming- but James never turns the water in his bath off....
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Breakfast order lifted straight from Fleming
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Connery not wearing a watch.
    And badly covered Tattoo
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    I wish I could watch all the screentests made featuring this scene.

    Yup, they used it for years afterwards.
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Was that Bianchi or a double?
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    She says it's a double
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Syd Cain creates lovely sets and palettes for all these key interior scenes.
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,331MI6 Agent
    If you ever visit Istambul you must visit here. it's amazing!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Music- “Meeting in St. Sophia” Hitchcockian suspense music
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Easy to miss that the voyeuristic character smoking a fag on the left was Klebb...
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,331MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    I wish I could watch all the screentests made featuring this scene.

    Yup, they used it for years afterwards.

    Yes, but <i think they're using the train scene in CR now.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Yes, I think so.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Connery wearing lady sunglasses again - inside of the basilika
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    There's a missing scene here which I'd love to see someday if it survives- the Bulgar agent follows James to the boat, but Kerim blocks him off. They couldn't use it cos Grant had killed the agent in St Sophia! Apparently pointed out by Young's son.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited May 2020
    Barbel wrote:
    Music- “Meeting in St. Sophia” Hitchcockian suspense music

    Barry manages to give it an echoing quality and a sombre ecclesiastical sound.

    Also, the background tour commentary... establishes a mini-Bond convention: the boat tour guide in the Amstel (DAF), The Land of The Pharoahs commentary in TSWLM etc
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,331MI6 Agent
    I wonder what the people who worked on the Enigma during WWII (on both sides) thought when they saw FRWL? Did they understand Flemning knew about Enigma?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    I love the intercutting back to M, Miss Moneypenny, & co- esp Moneypenny!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    I wonder what the people who worked on the Enigma during WWII (on both sides) thought when they saw FRWL? Did they understand Flemning knew about Enigma?

    Call yourself a Bond fan.... :o :o :o :o

    Read the books ten times then report back
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    You are at least 2 minutes ahead
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    There's a missing scene here which I'd love to see someday if it survives- the Bulgar agent follows James to the boat, but Kerim blocks him off. They couldn't use it cos Grant had killed the agent in St Sophia! Apparently pointed out by Young's son.

    Kerim's missing line, "That's life!" Lost because of the continuity error.
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Timestamp: back in London
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    There's a missing scene here which I'd love to see someday if it survives- the Bulgar agent follows James to the boat, but Kerim blocks him off. They couldn't use it cos Grant had killed the agent in St Sophia! Apparently pointed out by Young's son.

    Kerim's missing line, "That's life!" Lost because of the continuity error.

    Yes, and he worked hard to get a nice long ash on his cigar to flick off as he said it.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Bond and M having a lads' night out in Tokoyo... hardly!
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Music- “007 Takes the Lektor” A variation on “007”, heard earlier. Cover version by Nic Raine
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,331MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    I wonder what the people who worked on the Enigma during WWII (on both sides) thought when they saw FRWL? Did they understand Flemning knew about Enigma?

    Call yourself a Bond fan.... :o :o :o :o

    Read the books ten times then report back

    I wrote "saw FRWL", not "read FRWL" :v
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Some crappy rearprojections on the ferry
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    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Timestamp: Bomb goes off
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Rolex with winding crown not locked when he checks the time
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    There could have been a large number of civilian casualties in Bond's and Kerim's bombing of the consulate... though none are visible. Plenty of civilian screaming though. Barry makes light of it in his use of '007'. Acceptable collateral damage?
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    I wonder what the people who worked on the Enigma during WWII (on both sides) thought when they saw FRWL? Did they understand Flemning knew about Enigma?

    Call yourself a Bond fan.... :o :o :o :o

    Read the books ten times then report back

    I wrote "saw FRWL", not "read FRWL" :v

    Yes, but the film does spell Fleming's name correctly...
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