AJB live commentary on OCTOPUSSY

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    So is her name Bianca (as in the credits) or "Karina", as Bond seems to say?

    Don't speak the language, but maybe it means "darling" or similar?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    God, she is beautiful

    One of the hottest of Bond's 'incidental' girls!
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,331MI6 Agent
    The trick With the rocket following the miniplane is laughably simple, but it works!
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:

    Don't speak the language, but maybe it means "darling" or similar?

    That's what I always assumed
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    Q really outdid himself with the Acrostar Beds. Marvellous start!
    This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    The pursuit by the heat seeking missile is genuinely exciting.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Before tonight I'd never noticed that the long shot of the jet flying towards the hangar is not the BD-5, but some sort of Learjet style aircraft.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Singers mooted before Rita Coolidge got the job included Laura Branigan and Mari Wilson
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Always loved that line {[]
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    :)
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Singers mooted before Rita Coolidge got the job included Laura Branigan and Mari Wilson

    Oh, is there any material featuring Branigans tests?
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    As far as I know, it didn't get that far
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,331MI6 Agent
    I have a theory OP is the best first Bond film for children. I'll think of it when watching tonight.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Possibly Binder's most ho-hum sequence. The guy swinging the girl around clearly looks nothing like Bond in silhouette, so what's he doing here. The girl looking down at the emission of a 007 logo from her gun, with all its orgasmic suggestiveness, gives a couple of oddly creepy fake smiles.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman series among others, knew a lot about India hence his involvement
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    That is very Fleming imo, a very cool beginning!
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Diegetic circus music, then “009 Gets The Knife”
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Was the establishing 'East Berlin' shot actually filmed on location? Anybody know?
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    The twins almost look like a young Mr Meddings.

    Before we see it, I remember seeing the replica prop egg in London at Designing 007.
    It’s breathtaking!
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    The guy swinging the girl around clearly looks nothing like Bond in silhouette, so what's he doing here. T.

    Totally! Perhaps Binder asked Sir Rog to do it, and was told what he could do?
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,331MI6 Agent
    I love MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    The use of a clown figure is played both here and later with an effect which includes pathos, and is quite unsettling - which is good.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Lois Maxwell accidentally said “Penelope Smallbush”, causing Sir Rog to quip “Well, really, Miss Moneypenny! We can see where YOUR mind is!”
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Was the establishing 'East Berlin' shot actually filmed on location? Anybody know?

    I don‘t think so, but if it was, I‘d love to visit the location next time that I am meeting up with Barbel {[]
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    The real Penelope Smallbone was in the title sequence for TSWLM
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Higgins wrote:
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Was the establishing 'East Berlin' shot actually filmed on location? Anybody know?

    I don‘t think so, but if it was, I‘d love to visit the location next time that I am meeting up with Barbel {[]

    {[]
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Ex-Sherlock Holmes Douglas Wilmer as Fanning. Called Fanshawe in Fleming, but that was a real guy so the name had to be changed
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Padded officedoor :x
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    Robert Brown's first go as M. He does very well.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Positioning an assistant who might replace Lois is a similar technique to what they did with Q when they brought in John Cleese in TWINE.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
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