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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,058Chief of Staff
    "Forgive me father..." :)) :)) :))
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,774MI6 Agent
    Sometimes in Bond, You see a location and think “There is no way THAT is real.”
    Then You get a massive shock when You find it IS real. The mountaintop Monastery
    is one of those for Me. Amazing location.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,058Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    The monastry is a great location.

    Totally.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    "Forgive me father..." :)) :)) :))

    Q doing his bit to cover what M might have done, here.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,058Chief of Staff
    Music "The Climb"
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    I like the opening bars of Conti's 'St Cyril's Monastery'... atmospheric and Bondian.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,058Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    Topol is awesome in this, but I have to wonder if they approached Anthony Quinn for this role. Imagine how good he would have been...

    I've never thought about that, but you've got it. The right man.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    The mountaintop hideout is another element which harks back to the old fashioned Alistair Maclean type of adventure-thriller.

    Bill Conti's score here is particularly effective.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,058Chief of Staff
    Barbel wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    Topol is awesome in this, but I have to wonder if they approached Anthony Quinn for this role. Imagine how good he would have been...

    I've never thought about that, but you've got it. The right man.

    With no offence whatsoever to the great Topol.
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,774MI6 Agent
    Didn’t. Rick Sylvester Of TSWLM parachute opening do this high climbing stuff?
    Brave man. Insane, but brave.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,058Chief of Staff
    John Glen and his birds.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    Topol is awesome in this, but I have to wonder if they approached Anthony Quinn for this role. Imagine how good he would have been...

    I've never thought about that, but you've got it. The right man.

    Quinn would be more age appropriate for the WWII backstory. And a fine performer too.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,058Chief of Staff
    Didn’t. Rick Sylvester Of TSWLM parachute opening do this high climbing stuff?
    Brave man. Insane, but brave.

    Yes, I think it was him.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Epic music by Conti.

    He‘s much better than the usual criticism of disco and funk riffs.
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

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  • superadosuperado Regent's Park West (CaliforniaPosts: 2,651MI6 Agent
    A scene from the Alan Ladd and Sophia Loren movie, Boy on a Dolphin, was also filmed on Meteora.
    "...the purposeful slant of his striding figure looked dangerous, as if he was making quickly for something bad that was happening further down the street." -SMERSH on 007 dossier photo, Ch. 6 FRWL.....
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,058Chief of Staff
    My brain is too small to figure out how the shoelace thing works.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    The climbing sequence isn't typical of climactic Bond spectacle but the whole thing is so skilfully plotted and executed that it entertains.

    I probably appreciate this a lot more now than when I was a teenager, when I was disappointed that this wasn't another TSWLM/MR style climax
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    There are many wonderfully tense scenes in FYEO, including the climb. But the way the guard is killed is silly. You can't use those things as throwing knives. Bodn should have thrown the hammer isstead.
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,774MI6 Agent
    It’s a miniature! The ascending basket to the winding house...
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    timestamp, please
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Basket goes down
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  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    My brain is too small to figure out how the shoelace thing works.

    I have some skilled mountaineers in my family...they know the prusik-knot technique that Bond employs, but doubt that a bootlace would do the job.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Basket goes up
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,774MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    I like Brink... she is set up as a Klebb or Bunt Type, but it’s clear by now she isn’t.
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    The fuss everyone seems to make about the one enemy guard wounded by Melina's bolt. Such a contrast to other Bond film climaxes where dozens of boiler suited Pinewood enemy personnel are gunned down and blown up without a second thought...
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,774MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    The fuss everyone seems to make about the one enemy guard wounded by Melina's bolt. Such a contrast to the climaxes where dozens of boiler suited Pinewood enemy personnel are gunned down and blown up without a second thought...

    Employers Liability claims are much tougher than they used to be!
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    I like how the stained glass window is used in the fight
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,058Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    The fuss everyone seems to make about the one enemy guard wounded by Melina's bolt. Such a contrast to the climaxes where dozens of boiler suited Pinewood enemy personnel are gunned down and blown up without a second thought...

    Employers Liability claims are much tougher than they used to be!

    It's too early for them to have seen the Austin Powers riff on that!
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,774MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    Barbel wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    The fuss everyone seems to make about the one enemy guard wounded by Melina's bolt. Such a contrast to the climaxes where dozens of boiler suited Pinewood enemy personnel are gunned down and blown up without a second thought...

    Employers Liability claims are much tougher than they used to be!


    It's too early for them to have seen the Austin Powers riff on that!

    (Waves hand dismissively....) I work in Insurance.

    :# The Machine that went ping......the end of the A.T.A.C.
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Bond's fight with Kriegler has all the classic trademarks of a Bob Simmons-arranged fight.
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