It's always bound to happen with DVDs from different regions that play at differing frame rates. Or its just that we start the film at slightly different times.
We were told "A good soldier sleeps (and eats) when he can" in the military. Bond knows this, even though he hadn't planned to fall asleep quite as soon.
I'm not a fan of Norman's score cues for the most part, but I do enjoy the subtle treatment of his Dr No theme when the titular doctor comes to examine Bond as he sleeps. It goes nicely with the sinister, shadowy presentation of Dr No.
The scene where Bond and Honey dress for dinner as if they were a conventional couple going to a dinner party is echoed in FRWL when Bond and Tania masquerade as a typical English couple aboard the Orient Express. In both cases the strange and dangerous contexts 'other' tropes of the 'normal'.
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Joseph Wiseman is simply wonderful as Dr No. I cannot think of anyone who could have played the part better, with the exception of course of Christopher Lee.
Joseph Wiseman is simply wonderful as Dr No. I cannot think of anyone who could have played the part better, with the exception of course of Christopher Lee.
Imagine if Noel Coward had taken to the suggestion that he play the Dr. I wonder how the part would have turned out.
Listening to Wiseman's delivery of his initial dialogue with Connery, I can hear the influence on Michel Lonsdale's droll vocal choices in his performance of Drax.
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Joseph Wiseman is simply wonderful as Dr No. I cannot think of anyone who could have played the part better, with the exception of course of Christopher Lee.
Imagine if Noel Coward had taken to the suggestion that he play the Dr. I wonder how the part would have turned out.
I think Fleming must have been quietly pleased that his own giant octopus trumped any of the ordeals suffered by the film version of Bond in the waste disposal shaft.
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In the book, the tunnel sequence is deliberate action by No. It loses a little in the film.
I agree. I always remember the sinister idea from the book that Bond is being observed by voyeuristic eyes as he is negotiation Dr No's terrible obstacle course.
I think Fleming must have been quietly pleased that his own giant octopus trumped any of the ordeals suffered by the film version of Bond in the waste disposal shaft.
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Indeed. Quarrel is one of Fleming's best characters.
It's always bound to happen with DVDs from different regions that play at differing frame rates. Or its just that we start the film at slightly different times.
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Imagine if Noel Coward had taken to the suggestion that he play the Dr. I wonder how the part would have turned out.
Not terrible, but not as good.
I agree. I always remember the sinister idea from the book that Bond is being observed by voyeuristic eyes as he is negotiation Dr No's terrible obstacle course.
And when it gets to the giant squid (I think?) it was OTT.
Maybe one day the film makers will include that.
That's what we're here for!