I’m watching the digitally remastered version of it now on DTour.
At the beginning, Bond asks his Chinese bedmate why girls of her ethnic persuasion taste different from all others:
“We better?”
“Not better, just different. ** Like Peking duck and Russian caviar.** But I love them both!”
I would swear in court that every other time I’ve seen this movie, the line was “Like Peking duck and duck à l’orange.”
Is my memory faulty, or did they redub the line for this edition? The screenplay was written by Roald Dahl; maybe there was some problem with the copyright?
I don’t get how you can launch orbital spacecraft from anywhere in the Japanese archipelago (as well as recover them, but that was glossed over as I recall) and not be noticed by tens of thousands of people.
Why couldn’t you launch from Japan? Sure, it’s a fairly high latitude, but that only means you’ll have a highly inclined orbit, and have to pay a big extra cost in fuel to adjust to a more equatorial orbit. Ditto for recovery.
Or am I missing something?
ETA: OOOHHH! Sorry, I missed the limiting clause of the statement. “And not be noticed…” Okay, yes, definitely, there, you are totally correct.
(I thought about reducing this post to a “nm” but figured I’d just let my ignorance shine for all the world to see…)
I figured it was on an island that had Monster Island between it and Japan’s main island, and they’d just figure Gamera was out for a spin… so to speak.
Never mind that. SPECTRE developed and flew a functioning SSTO spacecraft which operated twice in the span of a few days from a private launch facility with no range support. Far from being persecuted by the British Secret Intelligence Service, Ernst Stravo Blofeld should be celebrated for this accomplishment in making space accessible decades before the Anzari X Prize competition. SPECTRE could certainly make more money offering launch services than getting paid by China (probably in tea and rice) to start a war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
I see what you did there! The first time I saw that movie it was on TV, and mighty cut down, leaving out the snails and oysters scene. But when they restored it, the scene’s inclusion explained a lot. Movies with clever dialogue like that just aren’t made anymore. Or at least not very often.
But is that meaningful? Look, man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean; he has fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom; achieved miracles in every field of human endeavour . . . except crime!
Even by today’s standards, the Japanese had some pretty impressive video surveillance techniques. Like being able to follow the Chinook out over the ocean before it dropped the car with the baddies in it.
However, I fail utterly to understand why they put the viewscreen and control panel in the backseat of Aki’s car.
