AJB live commentary on THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    I have a theory that Cubby's obvious liking for Maud in terms of casting (and repeated casting) is that she looked rather like an idealised Dana.

    Oooh, very possible!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Bond's aunt is called Charmain.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    An awful mis-step for Moore's Bond - brutalising Andrea. He seems hardly more sympathetic than Scaramanga in his treatment of her. Is Scaramanga the dark side of Bond, or is Bond the lighter side of Scaramanga?
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Adams and Moore are great here.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    The street where the Bottom‘s up existed is not there anymore.

    ISquare Shopping mall covers the old 2 blocks
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Is it in TMWTGG we see Moore's Bond at his coldest?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:

    I won't spoil anything, but it's DePalma's most overt homage to Hitchcock.

    More than "Obsession"?
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    ****, my Bluray is fucked
    Timestamps, please
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Another cue not on the OST
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Apparently there was some sort of 'indecency' scandal at the Bottoms Up club some years after this.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Gibson is just about to exit the club
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,817MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Is it in TMWTGG we see Moore's Bond at his coldest?
    I’m beginning to think so. He has his moments in FYEO, but they are balanced more with humour.
    He seems more generally peeved and ruthless here.
    This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Music “Hip’s Trip” As with Shady, I like this cue a lot
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Christopher Lee often spoke of being heavily involved in special forces in WWII, but as far as I understand we only have his word for it.
    His claims are questionable.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    Is it in TMWTGG we see Moore's Bond at his coldest?
    I’m beginning to think so. He has his moments in FYEO, but they are balanced more with humour.
    He seems more generally peeved and ruthless here.

    I agree.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    Christopher Lee often spoke of being heavily involved in special forces in WWII, but as far as I understand we only have his word for it.
    His claims are questionable.

    It's in the nature of things that such claims aren't provable. He did only hint at it.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    The first example of Hip's incompetence... failing to retrieve the Solex. And then pointlessly not letting Bond know he's on the same team...
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    I love this sequence
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Maud Adams is also very different in TMWTGG and OP. Her character in OP is much warmer and confident. Shows her skill as an actress.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Lee's scenes with Maud are all about reprising his Dracula (but in another genre).
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Ted Moore, cinematographer of previous Bonds, had to be replaced with Oscar-winner Ossie Morris at very short notice. (Stories vary as to why) Nevertheless, this is one of the most beautifully photographed Bond movies.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Here we have the bizarre touch again. I like it.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Lee's scenes with Maud are all about reprising his Dracula (but in another genre).

    Well, he had plenty of practice!
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,817MI6 Agent
    The set pieces in the QE1 is beautifully done.


    Oh Shut Up Q!
    This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Maud Adams is also very different in TMWTGG and OP. Her character in OP is much warmer and confident. Shows her skill as an actress.

    Agreed. And by playing Andrea's victimisation so sympathetically here she almost subverts the film by making Bond seem unsympathetic. She subsequently said she wished she'd played Andrea differently, as a tougher character.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    My God, Lee is magnificent here in this scene where he gets on his boat and caresses Maud with the gun.

    I always found this very creepy and embarrassing
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    M is quite grumpy here.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    I don't remeber the energy crisis, but there is a very well known photo of king Olav V taking the tram out of Oslo to go skiing. He paid his own ticket and had no bodyguard.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Music “Chew Me (sic) in Grisly Land”
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Higgins was the first to spot Chew Mee’s lack of nudity and destroy the dreams of anyone who was an adolescent boy back in 1974. (Ahem)
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