AJB live commentary on THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

Higgins

Time for another group-viewing, this time, it‘s

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH







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 where the gunbarrel starts.

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

Barbel

TWINE has a long score, and it has been released in various forms (the OST, downloads from David Arnold's own site, bootlegs, covers, expanded score...). I probably won't go into that in detail tonight or mention every cue by name (sighs of relief).

General- David Arnold wrote the music (except obviously the "James Bond Theme" which as we all know was comp.... ahem, arranged by John Barry).
Nicholas Dodd conducted the orchestra.
Don Black wrote the lyrics to the title song performed by Garbage plus "Only Myself To Blame", a vocal version of "Elektra's Theme". Sung by Scott Walker, it's on the OST but not in the film- Arnold wanted it over the end titles but director Michael Apted thought it was too much of a downer.

Barbel

Guys, I'm expecting a lot of phone calls and/or texts this evening so forgive me if I'm not as focused on the film as usual.
Also, Higgins, for the same reason please count me out of the planned group call after the movie.

Higgins

Hope that you‘ll still be with us for some time, Barbel
The group call is called off then, maybe we can do one celebrating our final group watching after FYEO?

Thunderbird 2

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I have been really looking forward to this one. The Q Boat, Thane Castle The music? I'll be there on the dot!!

Higgins

Time reference:
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Higgins

Time reference:
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Number24

I'm sorry and ashamed to say my TWINE DVD cover has been empty for years, so I can't take part tonight. Based on recent experience I'll probably find the DVD next week by accident )
Have fun!

Shady Tree

I'll be in on the real-time viewing later.

Arnold's score for TWINE has a similar confidence to his work on TND - celebrating its own Bondian quality in a way that makes a good film even better. Although the vocal track of 'Only Myself To Blame' doesn't make the end credits (I see Apted's point), it's the foundation piece of some great lounge jazz in the film. To this fan's ears, that song calls back to Matt Monro's performance of FRWL, but also evokes a tone that would have suited Bond's loss in OHMSS.

My favourite piece of music in the TWINE score is the accompaniment to the PTS boat chase. The orchestral music there is in the grand tradition of Barry's action music, while the gurgling, sputtering techno layer works well as background to the sound of the boats' engines - better in the context of the sequence than in isolated listening.

TWINE's main theme song is a triumph. Arnold and Black pitch it in traditional Bond style, but it's less like the work of an over-excited new kid on the block than 'Surrender' had been. Shirley Manson and Garbage were a great choice. They were big in the indie music scene at the time, lending the film a hip, cool relevance. The official music video is very good, intelligently allusive and providing a mini-narrative in its own right.

Shady Tree

Number24 wrote:

I'm sorry and ashamed to say my TWINE DVD cover has been empty for years, so I can't take part tonight. Based on recent experience I'll probably find the DVD next week by accident )
Have fun!

Sorry to hear that. Looks like we may be light on participants this evening?

Higgins

Robert Carlyle played brilliantly a killer in the Series Cracker which made Robbie Coltraine famous.
Unfortunately he did disappoint me in TWINE

Higgins

Time reference:
https://greenwichmeantime.com/

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Higgins

Please load your player now.

Who will be attending tonight?

Thunderbird 2

I’m here...

The Spy Who Never Dies

I'm joining in. Haven't watched this one in ages so don't know how much I can watch and type but I'm here!

Higgins

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Welcome to the AJB threesome

5 minutes

Shady Tree

Ready here.

Higgins

3 minutes for all 4 of us

The Spy Who Never Dies

With 2 remotes (an xbox is my dvd player), 2 pairs of glasses and a laptop, I'm likely to get very confused!

Thunderbird 2

SABs is ready...

This is Thunderbird 2, Standing by!

Barbel

Dropping in and out

Higgins

1 minute

The Spy Who Never Dies

See what I mean, somehow I posted twice!

[Dealt with- Barbel]

Shady Tree

I miss the opening fanfare in Arnold's arrangement of the gunbarrel.

Higgins

Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Millennium Dome in London later.
This Bond tries to emphasize avant-garde

Shady Tree

Patrick Malahide plays the Swiss banker. Best known to Brit audiences as Arthur Daley's nemesis, Chisholm, in 'Minder'. He's a good comic character actor.

Thunderbird 2

Machine that goes bang! Bond’s detonator glasses.

Higgins

Cigar Girl. Hope that Gymkata finds some gifs :x

The Spy Who Never Dies

I used to count to 3 when kids misbehaved but never with a gun!

Thunderbird 2

Shady Tree wrote:

Patrick Malahide plays the Swiss banker. Best known to Brit audiences as Arthur Daley's nemesis, Chisholm, in 'Minder'. He's a good comic character actor.

Terrible Artistic director, but that is another story!

Shady Tree

The cops rapping at the door remind me of the hoods pursuing Connery at the chateau in the TB PTS, when he has to make a similarly breathtaking escape.