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  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Alfie Bass in a cameo role - wish they'd taken this scene a bit more seriously though
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Double-taking pigeon 8-)
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    The hat throw!!! :x :x :x
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    The coffin gag... a trope of Bond movies, alluding as an in-joke to Cubby's former family business as coffin makers.

    Alfie Bass as the 'consumptive Italian'... one of the funniest of the Moore films' comic cameos...
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Just on the 'Close Encounters' tune here
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Love the design of the space capsules... and the great John Barry music here, reminiscent of the safe cracking music in OHMSS.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Music "Bond Smells a Rat" (same title used for a different cue in DAF)
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    That scene could have been filmed in Wuhan :D
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    The comic gondola scene is followed by the more serious suspense of the lab scene... I like how MR contrasts one scene with another tonally...
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    I keep expecting Bond to call out "Cato! Not now, Cato!"
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Roger (or his stunt double) has upped his martial arts game since TMWTGG.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Charmed & Dangerous wrote:
    I keep expecting Bond to call out "Cato! Not now, Cato!"

    :)) :)) :)) :))
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    I've always though Bond says "Play it again San" but many think it's "Play it again Sam"
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    The Rio tag on the crate. The movie signposts its next location move just as methodically as did YOLT, also under Gilbert's auspices.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Friends in low places = Felix?
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Pierce's scene with Wai Lin at the 'safe house' before travelling to Halong Bay in Vietnamin TND is reminiscent of this hotel scene, with the groovy gadgets and amusing banter.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Playing bridge- a nod to the novel
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Friends in low places = Felix?

    Never spotted that before! -{
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Behind James- MGW and either BB or Mrs MGW?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    The continuing mistrust between Bond and Holly even after he's recognised her as CIA... doesn't really make sense. It's as if the uneasy 'detente' dynamic between Bond and the Soviet Anya of TSWLM is being replayed here, but it's not right for the context: Bond has always got on well with the CIA as an ally, through his friendship with Felix. There's no real basis for tension between Bond and the Americans till we get to QOS (or perhaps DAD).
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Charmed & Dangerous wrote:
    Pierce's scene with Wai Lin at the 'safe house' before travelling to Halong Bay in Vietnamin TND is reminiscent of this hotel scene, with the groovy gadgets and amusing banter.

    Oh totally. Wai Lin was great...I would have liked her to make an appearance in a later film (she almost did in DAD).

    Didn't realise that about Wai Lin in DAD! -{
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Music "Bond Arrives In Rio" on the OST
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Lovely scene between Bond and M. Touching to think it was the last they filmed.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Lovely scene between Bond and M. Touching to think it was the last they filmed.

    No time right now, remind me at the end to tell a good story about that
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Music "Bond Arrives In Rio" on the OST

    You're a tad ahead of us. Not by much, maybe 30 seconds.

    Paused
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Manuela is hot. But "M thinks of everything" makes M sound like a pimp!
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    I like Bond's white outfit here. Very suave.

    Also, the guy showing Bond the room reminds me of Eric Idle.

    Nudge nudge, say no more
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Lovely scene between Bond and M. Touching to think it was the last they filmed.

    No time right now, remind me at the end to tell a good story about that

    Will do :-)
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Now, just what does Manuela think a little knife like that would do against a giant like Jaws?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    I like Bond's white outfit here. Very suave.

    Also, the guy showing Bond the room reminds me of Eric Idle.

    Nudge nudge, say no more

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    :)) :)) :))
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