AJB live commentary on YOLT
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Time for another group-viewing, this time, it‘s
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
London Summertime: 20:00
Paris Summertime: 21:00
New York local time 15:00
LA local time 12:00
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT WE ARE ALL STARTING 10 MINUTES LATER !
The 19:00 deadline is set so that everybody has enough time to find their DVDs/Blu Rays, boot their players and get done with the menus and pause right before the gunbarrel sequence.
WE ARE STARTING PRECISELY AT 19:10
- Please make sure that everybody has their BluRay/DVD/VCR ready and start the player latest 19:00 GMT to get done with all the dodgy menus.
- PAUSE YOUR PLAYER RIGHT BEFORE THE GUNBARREL
- HIT PLAY PRECISELY AT 19:10.
I‘ll post some timecodes during the thread just in case that somebody has messed it up
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
London Summertime: 20:00
Paris Summertime: 21:00
New York local time 15:00
LA local time 12:00
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT WE ARE ALL STARTING 10 MINUTES LATER !
The 19:00 deadline is set so that everybody has enough time to find their DVDs/Blu Rays, boot their players and get done with the menus and pause right before the gunbarrel sequence.
WE ARE STARTING PRECISELY AT 19:10
- Please make sure that everybody has their BluRay/DVD/VCR ready and start the player latest 19:00 GMT to get done with all the dodgy menus.
- PAUSE YOUR PLAYER RIGHT BEFORE THE GUNBARREL
- HIT PLAY PRECISELY AT 19:10.
I‘ll post some timecodes during the thread just in case that somebody has messed it up
President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Comments
https://youtu.be/Smc5FHbZtG4
Whenever I am in the mood for a beautiful 007 movie, YOLT comes to mind.
In the 1980s, I have started traveling East Asia, including Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.
I‘ve not been in Japan for almost 20 years now, but back then while being overly modern and futuristic, I always had a very exotic vibe from the country.
The super-modern metropoles with the amazing food, the bullet-trains and the good manners of the people have always made my stays there enjoyable.
And this vibe must have been much stronger at the time of YOLT, when Japan was almost an insolated society and not many westerners have experienced it.
Sure, companies like Sony, Matsushita, Seiko, Toyota and Nissan where spikes and only have started their worldwide success, but the rest of the country was a mystery for the West.
That is the context when YOLT was shot on location in Japan and this is what always fascinates me!
And the Volcano Set is still mindblowing btw!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
That's not what it's there for.
This is a film designed to be seen in the cinema. Apart from the volcano set, such scenes as the rooftop fight and the "drop in the ocean" sequence were meant to be watched on the big screen. The whole point here was spectacle and the movie definitely suffers when watched at home.
The team most responsible for that idea of Bond as spectacle- Cubby Broccoli, Lewis Gilbert and Ken Adam- were of course to repeat this 10 years later and very successfully too.
So, I hope those too young (unlike me
It’s boring to me in that it embraces cinematic extravagance over real world (and that is why real world action is in itself boring to most, because it’s not stepped up to daft cinematic levels). I come from loving the literary Bond first and foremost. And YOLT is the first time that it takes the almost OTT Goldfinger formula and injects it with Red Bull and Speed and gives the World something else other than Flemings Bond. The threat is gone as we know Bond will prevail over any ridiculous threat and will now hardly have to lift a finger or get a misplaced hair when fighting to win. This is when Bond becomes Superman and any action is boring to me as it isn’t threatening or in any way real.
Amazingly in the next film, all that is lost and it goes back to some reality, only then to lose it utterly in DAF and then for a few decades onwards. YOLT and Connery kill Flemings Bond from this film on for a very long time.
Just get over it!
Just get over it that cinematic Bond at some point had to move forward and to step out of Flemings after WW2 world, the sadism and the narrow-mind-set.
The world had changed decades after the books came out and so had Bond in the cinema!
As far as I know, Cubby's and Harry‘s vision was to bring the hero into the cinemas and not the books verbatim.
Just because some traditionalists shed Dalton tears over the fact that cinematic Bond outpaced the novels, it doesn‘t mean that the rest of us should not be moving forward.
Just continue living your hermit life and let us enjoy electricity and running water {:)
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
And Gymkata, I don't find TB boring including the underwater parts! I did hit a sort of plateau around my 50th or 60th viewing of it, but that soon went away.
Speaking about Real World Action that is not stepped up to daft cartoonish cinematic levels:
How does Kingsman hold up in that aspect? :v
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
It must have been in 1997 or 1996, I have been to Japan twice already and I came across with Erich Kocian's wonderful "Die James Bond Filme".
Kocian was a seasoned journalist who somehow got invitations to visit the early James Bond sets and report in german-speaking media about that.
Highlight of his excellent book was his chapters about shooting YOLT in Japan which included the time down in Akime.
Akime is where Kissy's house is, the harbor where he lands and sees the funeral ceremony and to me, trying to go to Akime was the ultimate goal to get YOLT vibes to the highest degree.
The internet was young, however, visiting the memorial stone turned out to be the highest goal to me back then.
So while being in Japan again (and having purchased the excellent JR pass for unlimited trips on the JR trains), I decided to try and visit Akime
1st attempt:
I could not find the precise location for Akime on the internet, but I came across with a traditional paper map, where Akime (written in japanese only) was marked and that basically was my only planning device.
Going to Akime, I knew, that I had to take a bullet train Shinkanesen from Tokyo down to Hakata
and then change to a local train traveling thru the southern island Kyushu.
Nowadays, they have a Shinkansen on that route which goes significantly faster across Kyushu.
I Knew, that a town called Magurazaki was the closest train station to Akime and I've been (wrongly) told that busses go from there to Akime.
Here is what the trip looks like:
So, very early in the morning, I went down to a very enjoyable trip.
Osaka arrived relatively quick - This was the first time, that I've seen the Series 500 Shinkansen train and I stood there with open mouth it seemed that I've seen an Alien!
What a beauty, it has been designed by a German btw.
Further I went from Osaka to Hakata, where I managed easily to find the Kushu train to Kagoshima but the train was slow, so that took a while.
Then in Kagoshima, the local train to Ibuzuki was even much slower but the excitement was building up!
Having arrived in Ibusuki (which is a little tourist spot with some grey sand beaches and some volcanic ponds), it was easy to find the track for the train to Magurazaki (there are only 4 tracks if I remember correctly), the real trouble started:
There is only one train to Magurazaki in the morning at 7:00 and one at 16:00 in the afternoon.
I could have caught the 16:00 train but I was told, that later, there was no train going back to Ibusuki and there are no hotels in Akime to stay over night.
I had to be back to Tokyo the next evening, so it turned out to be a Mission Impossible and with a heavy heart, I returned back to Tokyo that same night without having seen Akime.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Kingsman isn’t James Bond is it. Just like Star Wars isn’t. So how can you compare the two. Idiot.
Cinematic Bond‘s breakthru was in Goldfinger and Thunderball, where he drove an Aston Martin with watertanks as big as a swimmingpool, almost defused a nuclear bomb, used underwater breathers that did not really work, a tracerpill that did not really work and won an epic underwaterbattle just with pickup harpoon guns against an armada of Spectre frogmen after Specte managed to do a Sullenberger with a fighter.
So by that definition, Bond killed Fleming much earlier, maybe Fleming killed Fleming because he brought Bond to the movies.
Idiot yourself
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
No one did.
There is also a lot of Fleming in YOLT and TMWTGG
So Asp9mm‘s point is void - as always
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
I think the style of Fleming is much more evident in the films I mentioned.
If your post doesn’t fit his narrative, he’ll change its meaning so it does
Agreed, but his point was that in YOLT, Connery has killed Fleming, to which I gave the reply, that there are many Fleming elements in YOLT and TMWTGG, so his statement was only crap as usual.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
I think its the quickest book-to-film turnaround of all the Fleming books, so especially odd the film used so little of the books plot.
People who read the book when first published (which was after the first two films had been released) must have been quite surprised so much important plot was missing and replaced.
Great photos of the trains by the way, I am jealous of Japanese inter-urban transit.
Our trains are still diesel and have to pull over to give the freight trains right-of-way.
I never said that. That’s you completely making stuff up again so you can try and argue about something that isn’t even an argument.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Have you now gone totally nuts?
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Just showing you what it’s like trying to have a conversation with a Higgins.
I was just looking for hi-rez jpegs of those Fay Dalton illustrations, and that's better than any of the versions I was able to find!