Tuesday Nov. 3rd 19:00 GMT: Let‘s watch DR NO together

Golrush007

The tarantula scene in the film is very good (I like Norman's music too) but can't quite match the terror conveyed by Fleming's description of the centipede in the novel

Barbel

Thunderpussy wrote:

In many ways I think Dr No was the template for many a Bond villain, the Monotone voice etc.

Agreed.

Shady Tree

There's a full parody of the tarantula scene in 'Call Me Bwana', almost shot-for-shot.

Norman's playful orchestral stabs as Bond bashes the spider... was to become a staple of Barry's action scoring

Thunderpussy

I love the line " A present from Home "

Number24

"You should say yes". I love his cassual arrogance/self confidence :007)

Thunderpussy

Golrush007, I can't read the centipede part of the book with out crossing my legs, it's a
horrible image

Barbel

Miss Taro's address is... ? )

Shady Tree

The tension between Bond and Miss Taro is immediate. Sexually charged from the get-go but shot through with mistrust and game play.

Thunderpussy

You have to remember this was before Sat Navs

The Spy Who Never Dies

Number24 wrote:

"You should say yes". I love his cassual arrogance/self confidence :007)

especially looking like he does.

Number24

Lovely back-projection

Shady Tree

Gotta say I was raised on films with back projection and for me it never spoils the excitement.

Shady Tree

That crashing car is nastily ablaze.

Golrush007

Shady Tree wrote:

Gotta say I was raised on films with back projection and for me it never spoils the excitement.

I agree it doesn't spoil anything necessarily, but I'd have loved to see the Sunbeam Alpine sliding under that crane/machine in a wide shot rather than as a dodgy rear projection.

Number24

Bond sniffing her scarf :v

The Spy Who Never Dies

I often sit around in wet hair but sadly Bond doesn't show up )

Thunderpussy

The Alpha Male

Golrush007

Number24 wrote:

Bond sniffing her scarf :v

He tastes it too by the looks of it.

Shady Tree

That crashing car is nastily ablaze.

I think the brief scenes between Connery and Zena Marshall are the most dangerously sexy in the entire series.

Barbel

Miss Taro is in the novel, though her role is much smaller.

Number24

Shady Tree wrote:

That crashing car is nastily ablaze.

Cars in American movies (and Bond) are incredibly flamable ) )

Thunderpussy

Everything explodes in movies )

"That's why I use the old three pillow trick "

Shady Tree

Underneath the Bleedin Mango Tree is too pervasive in this movie!

Golrush007

Barbel wrote:

Miss Taro is in the novel, though her role is much smaller.

I'd actually forgotten she was in the novel until I re-read it this time last year.

Number24

The killing of Dent is incredibly cold and cool :007)

CoolHandBond

Shady Tree wrote:

That crashing car is nastily ablaze.

I think the brief scenes between Connery and Zena Marshall are the most dangerously sexy in the entire series.

This and Luciana Paluzzi in TB for sure

Golrush007

The killing of Professor Dent is another classic Bond scene that they nailed in this first film...but again, like in the Boothroyd scene, they give Bond the wrong pistol - it's an FN Browning 1910 this time.

Shady Tree

Terence Young certainly ensured that he worked in the sadism as well as the sex and snobbery. The cold-blooded shooting of Dent really establishes Connery's toughness and Bond's capacity for brutality. It's a scene that helps give weight to the film.

Barbel

Nice camaraderie between Felix and Quarrel

Number24

I miss Gynkata