So you’re saying they take turns buggering each other then?
Poor editing job also involves when Bond and Tiffany are in the car chase and he drives it on two wheels to go through an alley. one scene he’s driving on the left side wheels, the other is on the right side.
No one has mentioned Bambi and Thumper? Jimmy Dean says people are always asking about those two and the answer is he never met them. The scenes were filmed on different days.
There is also the scene where Bert Saxby (Bruce Cabot) tries to shoot Willard Whyte (Dean), is shot by the CIA, Saxby tumbles down the hill and when they tell Whyte i it was Saxby who tried to kill him, he says “Tell him he’s fired”.
It’s probably “not cannon” but “Never say Never Again” is the least of the Connery Bond films, redeemed only by Bonds line about “it’s against department policy for agents to give personal recommendations” when Fatima Blush demands he writes that she was the best sex partner he ever had.
Another bad job of editing was the paragraph of repeated dialogue when the DeBeers guy was telling Bond and M about the air-tight security.
so air tight he had to mention it twice.
oh, and “Nairobi, South Africa” was particularly bad.
That’s not poor editing – it’s a brilliant “save”.
Nobody noticed when they filmed it that they had the car going into the alley on one side, and exiting on the other side. They couldn’t just “flip the image” left for right, because they the lettering on the signs would be backwards. In some places you could get away with it, but these are BIG BRIGHT Las Vegas signs. People would notice. So you couldn’t edit it away.
So they cut to a scene of Bond and Case in the car and have the close-up rotate, suggesting subliminally that they somehow performed a vertical half-rotation, and came out on the other set of wheels.
Actually, the astronauts did extensive ground training in the A7L pressure suits, especially egress/entry into the LEM and operating the sample collection tools and Lunar Rover, both in an enclosed simulation environments with the suits pressurized to simulate (as best possible without lunar gravity and vacuum) the conditions under which they would be working. Water tank training is only useful for free fall simulation.
Never Say Never Again is a non-Eon low-grade remake of Thunderball by Kevin McClory (who, for complicated legal reasons, owned the rights to the story, SPECTRE, and the character Blofeld). Not only is it not canon, it’s an utterly craptastic movie, even compared to Octopussy which came out the same year (and was probably low point of the Roger Moore films, at least, if one dispenses with The Man With The Golden Gun).
Kidd and Wint are definitely gay; in the book this is explicit (M mentions how there are many assassin teams who are homosexuals) and their mannerisms and interactions in the film are definitely fey. Tiffany Case is also supposed to be frigid (at least, in the book).
BTW, Pussy Galore was also a lesbian (explicit in the book, implied in the film) until Bond converts her with his manhood, or whatever, which was the only thing he actually did right in the film. Personally, I think she was still dyke; she just realized that Goldfinger was completely insane and figured she could play Bond for a get out of jail free card.
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isn’t that because she was gang raped a few times in her life?
Just once I think - her mother was into the mob for too much money, so they raped Tiffany (as a teenager?) to punish the mom.
The best line in this movie (and maybe all of them) as far as double-entendres go:
“I’m Plenty.”
“Of course you are.”
“Plenty O’Toole.”
“Named after your father perhaps?”
I don’t have any info on “Diamonds Are Forever,” but will submit an earlier thread on the similarities/differences between the Bond stories and the movies. If you already know, you’re not going to learn anything new, but if you’re like me, who’s never read the stories, it had some interesting info.
The most egregious scenes in DAF are the casino and Tiffany scenes where Bond’s global fame is established (hello; he’s a secret agent employed by MI6!) and the pool fight in which an over-the-hill Connery makes short work of two athletic young women who, IRL, would have had no problem grabbing Bond by the short hairs and forcing him to let go of their hair.
But the elevator fight was awesome!
Question #5: what’s Sean Connery doing in a Roger Moore movie?
But The Man With the Golden Gun had the junk. If I ever win the lottery, I want Scaramanga’s junk.
OK, that didn’t come out right…
perhaps you were thinking of Goldmember?