AJB live commentary on YOLT

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    @Barbel: how did they manage to arrange that shot at the end with the actual submarine? Did they get the British Navy involved for that or what?

    Yes, the Royal Navy were happy to co-operate (as they did earlier in the film).
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    edited May 2020
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Fantastic film... thrills and spills all the way. A shame that Connery was visibly losing interest.

    Not sure if I agree re. Connery.
    But his toupee certainly lost interest several times staying on his head properly and looking real :D
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Fantastic film... thrills and spills all the way. A shame that Connery was visibly losing interest.

    I have to agree. Only a few times did the "spark" come through.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Fantastic film... thrills and spills all the way. A shame that Connery was visibly losing interest.

    Not sure if I agree re. Connery.
    But his toupee certainly lost interest several times staying on his head and looking real :D

    :)) :)) :))
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    Bummer I had to miss the entire second half of the film. Work needed me, unfortunately.

    Time for some gif!

    Always!

    Btw, would you mind re-doing the one of Tania in FRWL? You know the one I mean...
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Bummer I had to miss the entire second half of the film. Work needed me, unfortunately.

    Time for some gif!

    Gifs of Akiko and Mie would be most welcome!
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    What next on Monday?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    What next on Monday?

    Moore- LALD? TMWTGG?
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    More Moore? I say LALD.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    edited May 2020
    AJB's GIFmaster!
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    What next on Monday?

    Moore- LALD? TMWTGG?

    After the beautiful experience with YOLT today, we should kick ourselfs in the balls and watch TLD again :D
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    What next on Monday?

    Moore- LALD? TMWTGG?

    After the beautiful experience with YOLT today, we should kick ourselfs in the balls and watch TLD again :D

    As a Daltonite I wouldn't shed a tear :D
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    I would! Definitely a Moore!
  • ACACIA_AVENUEACACIA_AVENUE UKPosts: 1,774MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    What next on Monday?

    Moore- LALD? TMWTGG?

    LALD gets my vote
    One of us smells like a tart's handkerchief.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Some of the music which was added to the extended edition of the OST in 2003 is in the form of medleys- eg "Aki, Tiger And Osato" so I won't be mentioning all of the cues.

    Thanks for mentioning this, Barbel. The 2003 edition had been missing from my collection, but I've just bought it on mp3. :)
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Thank you, Gymkata.

    And you will definitely enjoy your purchase, Shady.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    For choice of Bond movies, can we keep some Barry scores in reserve as we've done two this week. LALD or FYEO next, maybe?
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Higgins, it looks very much like LALD is the choice!
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:

    OK. I actually captured this one myself. Hopefully it's up to your standards.

    Bianchi01.png

    You‘re welcome!
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Now, the question is- is that Daniela Bianchi or not?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
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    Thanks Gymkata! Whenever I see this moment reprised in the OHMSS titles sequence, it always puts me in two minds as to whether to switch discs there and then and watch YOLT again instead! I hope Akiko got a fee for re-use of her image in those titles!
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    To quote Eon themselves, when in doubt, ask Ian Fleming-

    "In fact Corporal Tatiana Romanova was a very beautiful girl indeed. Apart from her face, the tall, firm body moved particularly well. She had been a year in the ballet school in Leningrad and had abandoned dancing as a career only when she grew an inch over the prescribed limit of five feet six. The school had taught her to hold herself well and to walk well. And she looked wonderfully healthy, thanks to her passion for figure-skating, which she practised all through the year at the Dynamo ice-stadium and which had already earned her a place on the first Dynamo womens team. Her arms and breasts were faultless. A purist would have disapproved of her behind. Its muscles were so hardened with exercise that it had lost the smooth downward feminine sweep, and now, round at the back and flat and hard at the sides, it jutted like a mans."
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    The Tatiana in the image (doubled or not) seems not to be lacking in the "downward feminine sweep" stakes!
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Oh, totally! :) For my money, it's definitely Bianchi.

    And, er, thanks to Higgins for enlarging the image to make such academic discussions clearer.
  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Now, the question is- is that Daniela Bianchi or not?

    100% not. I forget the name but will dig it out for you tomorrow.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Thanks, Asp9mm.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Oh, totally! :) For my money, it's definitely Bianchi.

    And, er, thanks to Higgins for enlarging the image to make such academic discussions clearer.

    WeLcome.
    It‘s my modest contribution to make sure that AJB remains in the future accurate and trustworthy :D
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    I have just watched YOLT and read all your comments, something that adds to my enjoyment of the Bond films.

    Higgins - I especially enjoyed your accounts of your time in Japan looking for Akime and am glad you made it the second time. What great adventures. Maybe you could repost your tales in a thread just for them so more people would see them? It would be a shame for them to be lost in this thread.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Thanks, TSWND !

    I've enjoyed memory-surfing and putting those down.
    About a separate thread, I'd happily do it, but have no idea, in which I section I should put that.


    Enjoy continuing your watchings and our comments. What is next for you?
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    How about in the General James Bond Chat under a heading of Fan’s (or Higgins’) real Bond Adventures, or similar. Maybe it could be a sticky so it stays at the top of the threads? I guess that would be up to the mods.

    Next up is TMWTGG, hopefully later tonight. My son bought me the Some Kind of Hero book for Christmas (about how the Bond films were made) so I watch the film, read the relevant thread here, then read the chapter in book on that film. Great stuff!
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