AJB live commentary on THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Obviously Lee dominates the PTS, building up his character as a deadly assassin.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Maud's legs make for an arguably more spectacular PTS even than TSWLM's PTS.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,774MI6 Agent
    The mini Sony tellys Nic Nac has the Sony Solid States? My Grandparents had one of those!
    Parked on the kitchen table.
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    I think the cowboy mannequin was played by one of the stunt arrangers.
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    By the way, I have a third nipple. I'm not joking. It's on my right side about 4 inches below my right one. You can't tell it's there unless you look closely at it, but the hair pattern around it is distinctive.

    So yeah, I shoulda been an assassin.

    Very Bondian :))

    I like this PTS. It's bizarre in a way Fleming would have liked.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    The way Nick Nack says "your little golden gun" sounds like there should be a big one as well.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    I think the cowboy mannequin was played by one of the stunt arranges.

    Moore's stand-in?
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    If you love Barry, get a decent Soundsystem, folks!

    It makes a massive difference imo
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Obviously Lee dominates the PTS, building up his character as a deadly assassin.

    This is definitely Dracula meets Bond: Lee was still very closely identified as the Count at this stage (even though he'd recently finished his last Hammer Dracula).
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    "Oh, it's a wooden model of Roger Moore"
    "Or perhaps the real Roger Moore- it's hard to tell"

    A joke from "The Goodies"
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    More phallic lyrics from Don Black, more justifiably this time (Fleming even comments on the gun as a phallic symbol for Scaramanga in his book)
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Binder's horniness is all over the screen here!
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Obviously Lee dominates the PTS, building up his character as a deadly assassin.

    This is definitely Dracula meets Bond: Lee was still very closely identified as the Count at this stage (even though he'd recently finished his last Hammer Dracula).

    I'm surprised we can see Scaramanga reflected in a mirror.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Obviously Lee dominates the PTS, building up his character as a deadly assassin.

    This is definitely Dracula meets Bond: Lee was still very closely identified as the Count at this stage (even though he'd recently finished his last Hammer Dracula).

    Didn‘t Lee say that Bond enabled him breaking out of the Dracula loop mould?
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    And where did the fifth shot go? :))

    I don't like the title song very much. It actually works better instrumentally as part of the soundtrack.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Lulu said she had a sore throat, but was determined to do the song. It shows a little, but not to disadvantage.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    I love Scaramanga's little arrangement with Nick Nack over Nick Nack's hoped-for inheritance: it's deliciously messed up!
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Michael Goodliffe (had worked at Hammer alongside a certain star of this movie) as the first screen Chief Of Staff- not named as Bill Tanner, and curiously unbilled also.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Padded office door! :x
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Higgins wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Obviously Lee dominates the PTS, building up his character as a deadly assassin.

    This is definitely Dracula meets Bond: Lee was still very closely identified as the Count at this stage (even though he'd recently finished his last Hammer Dracula).

    Didn‘t Lee say that Bond enabled him breaking out of the Dracula loop mould?

    Oh yes, that's one reason why he leapt at the part.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    M is in a foul mood.

    Calthorpe is pointless here.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    "Jealous husbands.." etc :)) :)) :))
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Moore‘s face when M tells him who would pay a million to kill him :D
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    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:

    Calthorpe is pointless here.

    He's pointless totally. Not needed at all.

    The character was originally named “Boothroyd” until Desmond Llewelyn objected- “I’M Boothroyd!”
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Good chemistry with Bond/M/Moneypenny
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,774MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:

    Calthorpe is pointless here.

    He's pointless totally. Not needed at all.

    The character was originally named “Boothroyd” until Desmond Llewelyn objected- “I’M Boothroyd!”

    And indeed he is! Glad they put that to bed for once and for all in the next film.
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    Moore, too, is more often than not ill-tempered with his allies in this movie.

    M affords just one little moment of affinity with Bond, in "Dramatically, wouldn't you say?"
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    I am looking forward to Moore‘s facial expression when he swallows the bullet :D
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    I like Moore's wolfish smile when M basically endorses 007 to go kill Scaramanga.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:

    M affords just one little moment of affinity with Bond, in "Dramatically, wouldn't you say?"

    It reminds me of OHMSS, somehow
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