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James, behave yourself! We are being filmed.
In From Russia With Love, the closing scene neatly captures the spark between James Bond and Tatiana Romanova. Even after being exposed by Rosa Klebb and the scramble over the Lektor, Romanova makes her choice clear and decisively turns on her former handler. Their PDA-filled gondola ride in Venice shows… Read More →
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Goldfinger’s Checkpoint Machine Gun Granny…WTF?
One of the more delightfully baffling details in Goldfinger is the checkpoint guard at the entrance to Goldfinger’s industrial hideout. Instead of a squad of hardened security men, the gate is tended by what appears to be a kindly elderly woman who responds to a car horn to raise the… Read More →
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Live And Let Die’s tragedy: Kananga’s death
And no it wasn’t tragic because of some emotional connection. It’s tragic because Kananga’s character deserved a more dignified and realistic death than what was given to him: a gadget-induced cartoonish balloon blowup. Who approved of Kananga’s fate? Likely the same guy who decided to add a slide whistle into… Read More →
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A.S.K.D.P. – why aren’t they talked about more?
Another Skyfall Komodo Dragons Post and a fair question: why isn’t this moment discussed more among Bond fans? Of all the directions a Macau casino scene could take, Skyfall chose to feature Komodo dragons as key participants. Not just a casino with a hazy ambiance or spectacular views. Friggin’ reptiles… Read More →
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Character Spotlight: George Lazenby as James Bond
It’s a challenge to distill any Bond actor into 007 sentences or less, but I’ll try my best with George Lazenby. His singular outing in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is too often reduced to a footnote, when in truth it offers one of the most distinct interpretations of 007.… Read More →
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Give the people what they want!
This line from Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies is a fitting epitaph for Elliot Carver, a media baron who quite literally dies by the machinery of his own sensationalism. I actually tend to forget how Carver dies in the movie since the pacing falters at the end of the movie… Read More →