Anyone else seen this?
mythrenegade
Posts: 35MI6 Agent
This guy blogs about the first 20 bond films. Quite entertaining, actually.
http://toddalcott.livejournal.com/?skip=20&tag=james+bond
Joel
http://toddalcott.livejournal.com/?skip=20&tag=james+bond
Joel
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Edit: The YOLT one is great as well. http://toddalcott.livejournal.com/95252.html#cutid1
"It's hard not to think about the career of Ken Adam during this movie, because he clearly owns the picture. In fact, a darker plan than even Blofeld's starts to form in my mind -- all this is happening because of Ken Adam. I mean, face it, he's the one element that all these different people share. He designs enormous volcano strongholds for SPECTRE, and he designs the offices of the Japanese industrialist working for Blofeld, and he designs the private train of Tiger Tanaka, and he designs the opera-house-sized makeup room for Bond's Japanese transformation, and he designs the Russian space center! He's everywhere, every room has the same tilted ceilings, the same hard, bold lines, the same creamy, mid-sixties palette, the same invisible, recessed lighting -- what kind of security clearance does this guy have? Didn't anyone notice -- hey! SPECTRE'S volcano stronghold looks just like the Russian space center! (and Dr. No's underground lair, and Goldfinger's house in Kentucky, and SPECTRE's boardroom) All of this unpleasantness could have been easily avoided if they had just sent Bond after Ken Adam! When you consider that Adam also designed the War Room in Dr. Strangelove, it's a wonder the world ever made it out of the 60s alive -- the man was obviously a dangerous double-agent, contracting for both sides! Blofeld's plan even starts to take on a cold kind of logic when you remove Blofeld and insert Ken Adam: Ha ha! The Americans and Russians will blow each other up, and then they will hire ME to rebuild everything -- I'M THE ONLY CONTRACTOR THEY KNOW! HA HA HA HA HA!"