I hope Ashleigh sticks with Bond cause the Bond Girl in Diamonds are Forever is a Spice Red Head. Played by the Actress Jill St. John. My personal favorite of all the Bond Girls.
@@TRK-up2zw She might like Roger Moore. She has a couple of long slongs ahead. The next one has some pretty cringy acting. Oddly, it was one of the most important stories.
I'm a Gen X Asian American and this is unironically my favorite 007 movie, yellowface, misogyny and all. As comically incorrect as it is in so many ways, something uniquely forward thinking for the 60's was that the Japanese *good guys* didn't suck - they weren't hapless bumbling natives that needed the big strong white guy to save them, they had their own obviously effective and formidable apparatus in place and only really needed Bond as a consultant, there to assist Tanaka and his more than capable operatives. And it introduced ninjas to the West - in big bold, volcano-lair storming style. To this day, one of the most spectacular practical action/stunt set pieces, in the largest practical set every built, and the most epic thrid act topper in history. I love that one shot of random ninja guy #6 taking out a half dozen thugs by himself and then continuing to advance without missing a beat as if every one of those other guys was just as badass and doing things that cool the whole time, and we'd show more of it but there's still that damn rocket to stop and the villain to catch etc.
You Only Live Twice was my INTRODUCTION to James Bond as a kid! You see - I am exactly as old as the Star Trek franchise (You can do the math yourself, I've gotten lazy) so obviously I did not see this movie first run in theaters. ABC Television back in the 70s (when there were only FOUR - count them - FOUR channels to watch (The big three plus public TV) had this thing called "Sunday Night at the Movies" - basically they contracted for the rights to show a popular film that had come out "recently" (could be as much as 10 years old or so) and broadcast it - slice it up to insert commercial breaks (at very inconvenient spots etc) and generally make do with reliable fare on a night that most people ignored. (Obviously this was BEFORE Home VCR and Betamax machines were a thing at reasonable prices) Sunday evening was quite simply - "Dead Air" and the other two networks did something similar. While public Television did... whatever it was they did - which didn't matter because nobody watched them. Particularly not on Sunday night. 😅 So - I watched this movie on a Sunday evening and MAN - did it blow my 10 year old MIND!! In more recent decades I - like you - can appreciate the absurdities better - recognize the stereotypes for what they are - and STILL get a solid kick out of watching this film. Heh. 😆
Naaah, absolutely skip Diamonds Are Forever, A View to a Kill, Quantum of Solace, Spectre and No Time to Die. As for Never Say Never Again, it's not even a proper Bond movie and just an even worse remake of Thunderball. Don't even look at that garbagepile.
It may be "outdated" due to modern sensibilities but everyone including the Japanese were pretty happy with the movie as there were not all that many depictions of Japan in movies. In the modern day, we know lots about Japan but in the 60s the vast majority had no idea and it was land of mystery and mystique. It's a product of it's time, but it's often overlooked that, in the 60s, this did a lot to promote British and Japanese culture to each other and to the wider world. For a generation that's likely not known a world without Internet , it's hard to impress upon you the effect movies had on culture, it was often the only cultural exposure we had. As for the "Asian face" that Bond engages in, the time these movies were made it was "normal" for actors to play other races. And to be fair, it wasn't done to mock or attack, it was done for narrative reasons; as a white dude in the 60s Japan he wouldn't blend in very well. Personally I can look past this issue.
@@awkwardashleigh Yes, there is absolutely nothing 'improper' in this movie. What do people suggest...that they should've cast a Japanese man to play British James Bond?? This movie was basically a massive advertisement and global publicity booster for Japan and its culture. This was a huge reason why my parents took our family to Japan when I was a kid (several decades later).
Again: what "issue"? You yourself just wrote correctly that there was nothing offensive in Bond's disguise...so why did you return to the nonsense of some mysterious, imaginary "issues" supposedly existing? There are none.
The world today is a very small place, back then a holiday in the far east would cost a small fortune. Going on a holiday to a far away country would be very exclusive and a 'trip of a life time', maybe a honeymoon, which would be with you for life. Also you have to remember that the Allies was at war with Japan in WW2 20 ish years from when this was made, so having a positive views of Japan was a good thing, since in in the war Japan did some terrible things to Allies soilders. Seeing these exotic places in the movies could be the first time many people where exposed to these cultures.
@@pistonburner6448 "Men come first, women second"? C'mon, it's a little improper. Of course it was of it's time, but to just blatantly say it like that? But I know that the line was in Ian Flemming's book (and even worse stuff), so I guess you can't totally blame the movie for that one.
Fun fact: The guy Bond is fighting in the office room, who throws around the couch, is Peter Maivia, a wrestler of Samoan descent who also made some movies around this time. His grandson also became a wrestler and an actor. His name is....Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Interestingly, Roald Dahl also wrote the script for another Ian Flemming story//Film, Chitty Chiity Bang Bang, which was also produced by the Bond production team and starred Gert Frobe, aka Goldfinger.
White cat man is Donald Pleasance. He was the doctor in Halloween and the asylum doctor in 1979's Dracula. The guy who got knifed in the back is the narrator in The Rocky Horror Picture Show who introduced the Time Warp. Little Nelly's father is Q - the gadget guy. Glad you're enjoying Bond world Ashleigh. ❤
Also the guy who gets knifed in the back, he returns in another bond movie, Diamonds are forever as Mr Bloefeld( there will be a few different actors play that character) As there is also a few different Felix Leighter ( us CIA buddy) A secondary actor who yells it blew up I. This movie plays a few different characters throughout the series
So up next is On his Majesty's Service....one of the more panned James Bond....earlier I would agree but it's grown on me over the years( George Lazenby- one movie) than back to Sean for one, and than Roger Moore for a long stint
That jetpack in Thunderball was a totally real prototype, designed and built by Bell Aerospace, that was loaned to the production. It wasn't a _practical_ thing (you pretty much saw it's maximum range on-screen and it was hella dangerous) but it was a _real_ thing. It was subsequently flown at a Superbowl and at the New York World's Fair.
It never got to be a practical Flying Soldier thing which was partly what they were trying for. However, the design of the mini jet engine was later used in Cruise Missiles, which will also put in an appearance in the Bond series.
The producers really wanted Bond to not wear a helmet, but the actual pilot totally refused to fly without one, so they had to add the insert of Connery putting on the helmet.
Back in the 1960's Americans did not travel like they do today. Flying was not cheap and all the locations in the Bond movies were very exotic from casinos to sumo wrestling. SCUBA diving was only about 15 years old and not very many people did it, etc. The Bell Rocket Belt in Thunderball was a real thing. The gyrocopter in this film was a thing that almost no one had ever seen.
Yes, an autogyro is different than a helicopter because the big blade isn’t powered. The propeller in the back provides all the power and the big rotor just acts as a wing. Amelia Earhart often flew autogyros, and one is featured in one of Mel Gibson’s earlier movie, The Road Warrior.
😂My Brother in law told me this a bit back. The thing is he considers himself a full Bond Buff so was winding him up saying where's your proof? Nah you're having me on. He hated it because I wouldn't just accept it.
This one is actually somewhat unique in the Bond Series, being a co-production with Toho Studios, the Godzilla People and it kind of shows in a lot of the model and effects work
@@prichicardos And interestingly, there are two future long term collaborators with Gerry Anderson in this movie two... Oh and Kato from the Pink Panther series
That "Ridiculous Jet Pack" they gave Bond in Thunderball is real, it is a real working jet pack the inventor used to do shows all over the country with it, mostly during football games.
There was also a famous commercial where The Man From Glad (of plastic bag fame) flew around in one as a spoof of spy films, he also had a fancy spy car.
In the office, when "Mr. Fisher" shows up, the receptionist is using a japanese typewriter. Since Kanji is a hieroglyphic language, it does not use an alphabet where each symbol represents a sound but instead uses a system of individual symbols for concepts. As such, the full language could have thousands of symbols but for office correspondence, likely only the most common hundred or so are used. Still, this makes the typewriters very large and complex.
Sea burials was a common practice for many naval vessels and in the merchant marine as well. Nowadays it has diminished but I think both US Navy and the British Navy still use it. At least occasionally. A sea burial in a busy harbour is quite unlikely though. Deep water at sea is preferred.
Many actors have played Blofeld, but Donald Pleasence here is just the best one. He has something so chilling about him. None of the others can really fill those shoes as the head of Spectre. The vulcano lair is also iconic.
Having the weight of the world on his shoulders, just like the head of the CIA. It sort of explains why even Judy Dench played the role with a resting bitch face when she became M in the 21st century.. M spends all of his or her time in meetings with the Prime Minister or other heads of state promising to make problems go away, and then sitting at a desk praying that their agents are actually able to do it. You would lose your hair doing that job.
Agreed. The funny thing is that these Ninja's were better than most others we saw later during the Ninja craze. A Ninja would use the most up-to-date equipment to finish the job. Historic ones did use firearms and gunpowder explosives. According to Gajin Goomba some versions of Snake Eyes from GI Joe is one of the best modern Ninjas and he goes for submachine guns and grenades first.
It's so weird that you have to watch Bonds far into the future to see how Blofeld's face gets mangled. I wonder if Ashleigh will even remember that she asked how it happened.
When this film was produced on location in Japan, a local fan (who had a camera) started following Sean Connery and the local police had to deal with fan incursions several times. Bondmania in the 1960s brought in tremendous challenges for the producers and the star.
Fun Fact: The actresses who portrayed Kissy Suzuki and Aki both appear in a Japanese James Bond-style film, "Key of Keys" (1965), then was later picked up by Woody Allen and redubbed with corny dialog and renamed "What's Up, Tiger Lily?"
Bond turning Japanese has aged badly but this is easily one of the best produced Bond movies, ever. Beautiful location photography by Freddie Young, One of John Barry's best scores, An excellent theme song and last but not least, gorgeous set design by Ken Adam.
Well, yes, it is a bit dated. On the other hand - hollow volcano! Monorail! Secret army of ninjas! And Dr Evil - I mean Blofelt! - This is the movie that really informs Austin Powers, not Goldfinger.
Jet packs are a very strange thing - basically they haven't changed in 50 years. The problem is that they can't be made to work beyond 50 seconds. But people keep trying...
@@adaddinsane Yves Rossy built a wing jet pack that he was able to fly across the English Channel. And check out the JB11, it's wingless, running on kerosene and has a 10 minute flight time, and a 10,000 foot ceiling. The 2010s has been big for jet packs.
The first girl James deals with in Japan, Aki was supposed to be the main Bond Girl in the whole movie however the Actress who played Kissy Suzuki had some kind of romantic hold over the whole production crew and producers that she forced her way in and everything was re-written and Aki disappeared. They literally didn't think she was a better actress or that it would improve the story but did it anyway because multiple people were in love with her and that's the rumor and at least its a good story.
Just so you know, Ashleigh, the original novel, You Only Live Twice, did not involve James Bond dressing up like a Japanese man. The novel took place somewhere in between the events of Thunderball and The Spy Who Loved Me, where Bond was missing and presumed dead, but was actually alive and suffering from amnesia while living in a small Japanese village who took him in, believing him to have survived some kind of accident at sea. He was living among the villagers with no memory of who he was, but he was NOT changing his physical appearance.
MAJOR SPOILER WARNINGS for “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.” !!!! Sort of. As I recall it, this originally followed AFTER "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and Bond is still in dire psychological straits from Tracey's death. M sends him on what should be an easy mission to liaise with the Japanese secret service and "help them out with a small problem." The small problem is an eccentric foreigner who has made a Garden of Death and Tanaka, knowing Bond's 00 status, wants him to solve the problem. After Bond realizes this is BLOFELD he becomes extremely invested. So all that stuff about turning Bond Japanese is in the book, and more; Tanaka is teaching him all sorts of cultural things (introduces him to Kobe Beef via the actual cow!) and he is sent in to infiltrate. And is severely injured escaping the exploding lair, ends up back on the same beach with the pearl divers and the cover girl he was mock-married to really, really wants a strong man back in her life and with Bond now conveniently missing his memory of having been anything other than her Japanese husband, he fits the bill. Scraps of his memory do eventually surface, much to her chagrin, and the last scene is him setting off to a place with a name he just KNOWS is important to him. Russia.
That is the film after next. The next movie is George Lazenby (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), then Sean comes back for his last Eon-productions movie with Diamonds Are Forever. However 11 years later (while Roger Moore is still playing Bond) Sean will play the role one last time in the unofficial James Bond movie 'Never Say Never Again' complete with grey hair. I can't remember exactly why Never Say Never Again came about but I think it was something to do with a contract dispute, something like Sean gave up the role whilst still having one movie to go, but then changed his mind after Roger Moore was cast, after a decade of legal wrangling the studio agreed to fund a Connery movie under a different producer at the same time Eon-productions was working on Roger Moore's fourth Bond movie. So in 1983 we got Octopussy (Moore) and Never Say Never Again (a slightly aging Connery). A good year for Bond fans.
I always call it "Fear and Shootouts in Las Vegas." When you think of the Hunter Thompson take on the place it just sort of fits in so well with the vibe of the movie.
@@krashd IIRC Cubby Brocolli's former partner owned (or co-owned) the rights to Thunderball. When they broke the partnership, I think there was a bit of bad blood between them, and the former partner (Harry Salzmann?) went ahead and made an unofficial remake of the film he legally had a claim to.
@Ashleigh, yes Naval burial at Seas are conducted that way during war time. US Navy burial at sea ceremonies are done two ways, ashes or full body in a casket. US Navy Sailor here... I've had genuine Japanese saki. Spent 4 months in Yokosuka Japan in 1986 while deployed on USS Cape Cod AD 43
Both Akiko Wakabayashi (Aki) and Mie Hama (Kissy) appear in 'King Kong vs Godzilla'. As you say, Akiko went on to 'Ghidorah', while Mie kept the KK connection by appearing in 'King Kong Escapes'.
I grew up in the 1960's and watched all these Bond movies when they first came out, a good majority at the Drive-In, my uncle would take me and his son to see them, now here comes the interesting part. My uncle was a retired military officer and would travel to different countries to '' Teach '', we didn't find out until after his death he was in the C.I.A., guess that's why he loved the James Bond movies.....LOL
EVA is an Extra Vehicular Activity. Lox, a lightly smoked salmon, is often had from a delicatessen on a bagel with cream cheese. The two Japanese actresses eventually had to switch parts when it became obvious that one's English was better than the others. When filming the Little Nellie scene a helicopter got too close and nearly cut off the foot of cameramen, Johnny Jordan. His foot was reattached after an operation by Japanese doctors but later had to be removed. He continued to work with a prosthetic one until is death in 1969 when he fell out of a plane while filming Catch 22.
I fondly remember seeing this movie with my dad when it played on TV when I was 5 and I tried to build my own Q gadgets and played ninja with my friends. I loved the epic battle at the end with the repelling troops into the secret volcano base. Fond memories of the "bond" I had with my dad watching these movies with him.
"Cat guy always has a different voice," amongst other things. Probably a dueling scar on his face. Volcano lair, big henchmen battle, a little casual sexism...no space battle...for now. Please keep going with Bond.
As an FYI, Little Nellie is an "autogyro" or "gyrocopter" and not a helicopter. That's why it doesn't have a propeller on the tail to prevent it from spinning when the top rotors turn. With a helicopter, an engine spins the top rotor (or rotors) and the shape and angle of the powered rotors generates lift. Also, by angling the top rotors, the helicopter moves in any direction, and the tipping them "forward" causes the helicopter to travel that way. However, because the top rotors spin under power, they tend to want the rest of the helicopter to spin the opposite direction. So, they need the tail-rotor to cancel out the tendency to spin. The fact that the powered and tiltable top rotors allow movement in any direction -- or even hovering in place -- makes the helicopter an incredibly flexible aircraft. However, the complexity makes them *very* expensive build, and requires maintenance from highly skilled (aka, expensive) personnel. With an autogyro, the propellor pointing straight back is powered, but the "free-spinning" top rotors are not. The propellor at the back provides all the thrust, and the movement of the air across the top rotors causes them to spin and generate lift. That means they can only travel in the direction the propellor points, and the rudder at the back is needed to get them to turn -- whereas a helicopter just changes the angle of the top rotor, or the pilot decreases or increases power to the sideways tail-rotor. However, autogyros get much better fuel economy than helicopters; they're a *lot* cheaper to build and maintain; they take off in *very* short distances; and allow flight at speeds so low they would stall a regular airplane (although they can't hover). In other words, they're a splendid small, simple, fuel-efficient aircraft useful for exactly the sort of scouting mission Bond uses Little Nellie to make. In fact, "Little Nellie" was made by British aircraft manufacturer Wallis; it's the company's experimental WA-116 "Agile" model. Nobody flies autogyros much any more (although if you watch the Mad Max films, you'll see one), because helicopters -- although more expensive and complex -- allow for much greater flexibility of operation. Also, since the Vietnam War, we've developed "bush" planes so light, with engines so strong, they can take off from -- and then land in -- a flat piece of ground not much larger than a big back yard. And, speaking of things called "gyro," those bullet are rounds for another actual device, called a "gyrojet" pistol; the bullets are sometimes called "gyrocs." They don't use a propellent in a brass case to fire the round -- instead, solid rocket-fuel ignites and uses the holes at the back to thrust the bullet forward. They have practically no recoil and at range are much more powerful than most bullets their size. They also make a "whooshing" sound rather than start with a "bang." However, because they have to accelerate up to speed, you can put your hand in front of the muzzle of the gyrojet pistol and the gyroc will bounce off and spin around the room like an inflated balloon with the opening left untied. They get going *much faster* than a balloon as they *literally* rocket around the room, though.... 😲 So, gyrojet pistols are *deadly* at range, but kinda useless (and sorta dangerous for everybody) if shot at something too close. 😁
The Gun Control Act of 1968 classified projectiles over .5 inch (12.7mm) as destructive devices, and gyrojet ammo was 13mm in diameter. A 12mm round was made to comply, but it never did well due to poor accuracy.
"If we have an outer-space battle...." (looks nervously at Roger Moore) 42:52 Oof... That compositing work. Sean Connery will return one last time as James Bond in the unofficial Bond movie "Never Say Never Again."
Sumo is awesome. You know why? It's short. The bouts last about a minute, the winner gets the prize money, and they move on to the next one. Have you been to New York? Best place to get lox.
I am basically allergic to sports - except for sumo. It is, as you say, very short! And it all comes down to basic physics: how can the unstoppable force topple the immovable object? The shinto ritual aspect of it is also interesting.
That volcano base, designed by the legendary Ken Adam, was built as a full-size set, on the site in the Pinewood Studios lot which became the 007 Stage. The set was so big, it was visible from three miles away; Freddie Young, the director of photography, believed it would be impossible to light properly.
#44 on Billboard in 1967, The title song was sung by Nancy Sinatra (yep, Frank's daughter), always liked it. (EVA, Extra Vehicular Activity, early space program talk, I believe). :)
EVA = Extra Vehicular Activity: a spacewalk. Intro-song: IMHO this is the BEST of the classic Bond themes: the strings are gorgeous. M's secretary is called Moneypenny, not Pennymoney 🤣 Those "big old things" are Japanese typwriters: imagine how complicated typing in Japanese is when there are at least 100s of characters needed at least. If the thought of slicing off skin with a scalpel goes through you, I'd pick the right day to watch Red Sparrow (2018) (probably not a good reaction vid due to lots of creepy sex/nudity stuff). The Gadget Man is called Q (always, no matter who's playing him). He's Little Nellie's "father". Little Nellie is an autogyro, not a helicopter. The difference is that an autogyro is pushed forwards by a normal aircraft propellor and it's rotor is spun by it's forward movement through the air, whereas a helicopter's rotor is spun by the engine. Autogyros are much simpler and cheaper than helicopters, but a pure autogyro can't hover in one place like a helicopter. It can, however, fly very slowly and land/take-off in a very short distance. Little Nellie is a modified version of a model WA-116 invented by British aviator, inventor and engineer Wing Commander Ken Wallis, who designed all the (improbable) weapon system props, and flew the aircraft for the movie. Wallis was an amazing man: he set a new autogyro speed record when he was 89 and continued flying until shortly before his death at the age of 97 in 2013. Well worth your time to read up about him. The rocket gun is totally real. It's an MBA Gyrojet and it works just as Tanaka explained. There was a rifle version too. It wasn't a commercial success at the time, but they're now highly collectable and unfired ammo goes for scary high prices. If you go look at Brandon Herrera's RUclips channel, he recently got hold of one and test-fired it. McDonnell was a real US aerospace company. They merged with Douglas in the 1960s to become McDonnell-Douglas (McDD for short) then McDD merged with Boeing in the 1990s. Disney had a monorail _because_ James Bond did...😉 This movie really started the tradition of Bond Villains having elaborate improbable Lairs (can you imagine the recruiting and contracting for that place). The next Bond, in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", was a one-off: George Lazenby. He was good in the role and the movie had more emotional depth than most Bonds, but in one of those epic, EMI-rejecting-The-Beatles-level mistakes, his agent advised him that Bond movies were going out of fashion and he shouldn't do another one. Presumably his agent is still dangling over a piranha tank in a volcano somewhere...
The next one is George Lazenby, who decided not to return for another Bond film on the advice of his agent & because of the poor treatment he received on set. Connery returned for the next one "Diamonds Are Forever." After that the part went to Roger Moore for 7, Timothy Dalton for 2, Pierce Brosnan for 4 & Daniel Craig for the last 5. There were two which were Non-Eon Productions - Casino Royale (1967) starring David Niven & Never Say Never Again (1983) with Connery. Casino Royale was then remade with Daniel Craig in 2006. There is talk of a 26th Bond film, but it's in the pre-pre-production phase. As I'm not a fan of this series, I googled this. Am a fan of Pierce though. He was married twice...first wife was Cassandra Harris & appeared in the 1981 Bond movie "For Your Eyes Only." She passed away in 1991 from ovarian cancer at age 43...he was there for her through it all & her death devastated him. He became Bond in 1995. The year before he met his current wife, Keely Shaye Smith...married in 2001. He has 5 kids. He had one son with his first wife & adopted her son & daughter. after their father died. He has two sons with his current wife. His adopted daughter also died of ovarian cancer in 2013 at 42.
Casino Royale was one of the first spoofs of bond, dr evil, there were other films, like matt helm, in like flynt, all based off bond, which led to austin powers
Yes please! Keep going with the Bond franchise, and in order! A total of 7 actors played Bond over the years. My personal favorite Bond was Roger Moore, who played Bond for a span of 12 years (1973-1985). Moore's Bond films were the best ones, in my humble opinion, but that's just me. I'm loving your reactions to the Bond films! Thanks for another great reaction! ✌💙✌
@@timamherst-clark2699 Not that many. really the only backscreen projecting was when they showed the star up close. I'm literally talking about the stunts in the early bond movies. But I appreciate you downplaying what I originally said, but you are wrong. Movies were better back then because the stiunts were real.
Just an FYI, the "Thunderball" Jet Pack was real. The Bell Rocket Belt was developed, but never used for the US Army. It was used a couple of times in the 1960's "Lost in Space" and I saw it fly at Disneyland.
While I find "You only live twice" the best, I just want to remind about "Tomorrow never dies". :D One can always argue over Goldfinger or Diamonds or Thunderball, which one deserves the top... but man..., these two are both just "one of those songs" that you can listen to regardless of Bond, yet describe Bond so well.
Saw the title and laughed out loud. Yeah... it is. You should see Breakfast at Tiffany's. Fantastic film... except Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi... That's... a thing that happened.
@@pistonburner6448 If there had not been a history of yellowface, along with blackface and other similar things, it wouldn't really have been too bad. The depictions of the Japanese are overall fine. But given the history from things like Kung Fu and Breakfast at Tiffany's and other incidents, having a white person impersonate someone of another race is just generally a bad idea. In the story in this film, it is fine. But the film exists in a society that has a history and that isn't.
@@Sam_on_RUclips What a phony non-answer where you actually finally admitted that yes: "In the story in this film, it is fine." So what are you whinging about? You don't even have any clue what blackface is, and yellowface is something you made up and doesn't exist. You're just a hollow, programmed useful i----t who is incapable of rational thought.
@Sam_on_RUclips For a lot of the time the actors playing people of other races was the only way they could be depicted (yes, less so in the US but else & earlier, not so much). Don't forget that at one time men had to play women, because women were legally not allowed on stage.
Whenever I see Charles Gray (the actor playing Henderson) I immediately think, "It's just a jump to the left ..." He was the narrator in the Rocky Horror Picture Show
Based on the double novel (11th/12th) from 1964. Screenplay by the famed children's author, Roald Dahl (Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr. Fox). The title theme song is the first time i'd ever heard of Nancy Sinatra before hearing, "These Boots are Made for Walking". Background in this story has so much going on. The growth of The Space Race, set in modern Japan and facing off with the inner workings of Spectre. Infiltrating corporations, working with ninjas-trained agents, more quips/one liners and the 'face to face' introduction of Spectre boss, Blofeld aka no.1 played by Donald Pleasence (from the og Halloween films). At the time, Connery's era as 007 was ending. Sean's declaration of being 'indeed finished with the role did rock the movie biz, until he returned for 3 more projects. After this 5th Bond film, the franchise does take quite a shift. So be prepared
@@JustLiesNOR I wasn't saying it wasn't a real device. I was agreeing that it was a real device that wasn't a special effect but that it was limited to about 30 to 60 seconds worth of flying.
Moonraker is nowhere near as bad as it was made out to be ... there was a serious attempt to show the physics of outer space, and how a secret agent might exploit them against their enemy [trying not to spoil anything]
@@ThreadBomb Same in Europe. I don't know about Japan but Americans tend to get the blame for public baths and nude saunas losing popularity here in Europe because every time an American encounters something unfamiliar abroad they tend to plaster it all over social media calling their host country degenerate or primitive.
I understand a popular Japanese saying is, "Nakedness is something that is often seen but never looked at." I must say, very mature-sounding. Anyway, as long as Americans have that residual puritanical streak (leavened with a little healthy hypocrisy), they should retain at least a _little_ divine favor... 🙄 😁
"I lost that in Singapore in '42" -- in 1942 the Japanese overran British the defense of Singapore, possibly the second worst British defeat (after Dunkirk) of WWII.
This movie was my introduction to Ninjas-I’d never heard of them before. I’m sure it’s hard to believe, but back then Made in Japan was an epithet for shoddy workmanship and negative stereotypes of the Japanese were common. This movie was fairly Japanese positive for the time.
Not being from the US I've always wondered if there was any truth in the stereotypes about Japanese construction or if it was just protectionist propaganda from US companies fearing superior imports because I had only ever heard good things about Japanese tech, even as far back as the 70's. Their cars were more reliable and their electrical appliances were half the size of US or European appliances.
@@krashd it was very true in the 50s and part of the 60s until Japanese Industrialists were introduced to the quality teachings of William Deming and companies like Toyota and Honda started taking quality very seriously. But it took until the 70s for these stereotypes to wash out, and US manufacturers to grow complacent about quality and shocks like pollution control regulations and gas rationing to wake American companies up that they were falling behind. Winning a war has a way of giving a country a false sense of superiority.
@@ziggystardog One of the reasons Japan and Germany could catch up and surpass the USA in some areas. They had to rebuild everything and of course their new factories were the most modern and efficient around.
25:51 The outer space stuff was miniatures and animation, but the secret base was full size! That was the largest and more expensive stage sets built at the time. It cost aound $1 Million at the time ($10 Million in today's money). Including the monorail and control center. The structure was so large it could be seen from miles away. Plenty of room for a big fight!
GREAT BLOODY MERCIFUL GODS, WOMAN! It's MONEYPENNY!! Not pennymoney! 🙄Oh, love the channel and you're reactions, though the "Dr. No" final assessment is wrong in so many ways, I'm still glad you kept watching the series.
Burial at sea, old naval tradition. Started way back when they had a corpse and were a long way from home. Today some naval personnel are still buried at sea. (In the US, the Battleship Arizona was sunk at Pearl Harbor on December 17, 1941. Almost every man aboard perished, more than 1700, but there were 337 survivors. The ship was never raised from the harbor. Surviving members of the crew had the option to be cremated after dying and Navy divers would take the remains below into the hull of the sunken battleship where the late sailor would be laid to rest with his crewmates. The last Arizona survivor to be interred was Lauren Bruner on December 10, 2019. The last survivor of the vessel passed away April 23, 2024 and he and the other two survivors who outlived Bruner were buried with their families ashore.)
This movie isn't outdated. It's so outragiously weird and out there, that it loops back around and becomes great! One of my favorite Bond movies for sure. Especially the scene where they turn him into Spock! LMAO
16:28 I think the device on the left of the screen with the large drum is a manual Japanese Kanji typewriter; the big noisy one on the right is a Burroughs bookkeeping machine, a kind of combination numeric typewriter and mechanical calculator. Before desktop computers, this is what a business office doing accounts and correspondence would look and sound like! The Japanese typewriter is slower to use compared to one using the Roman alphabet because of the larger number of individual symbols to choose from. 25:40 Everything you're seeing in this film is miniatures work, matte paintings or photographic compositing (or they just outright did it for real; Little Nellie is a real aircraft!); CGI hadn't been invented yet. (The first ever movie with genuine computer-generated graphics in it was the *original* Westworld in 1973, which you simply must do at some point!) There's also a dash of stock footage here and there, particularly of a Western missile standing in for a Russian rocket launch that it doesn't actually even slightly resemble, presumably because the film-makers at that time had little idea what the Soviet space capsules and launchers looked like, and almost certainly couldn't get good footage of an R-7 blasting off. The Russians were actually falling badly behind the Americans in the space race by 1967 - their chief designer tragically and unexpectedly died in 1966 - and their lunar Soyuz capsule hadn't actually been built yet when the film came out, but at the time the Soviet space programme was all highly secret so the West just assumed that the USSR were still racing ahead of them in space tech like they were in the early 60s.
The sad thing is that they scooped out all the humour when they moved on to Daniel Craig, which has backfired because as Bond movies now try to be grown-up thrillers along the lines of Bourne Identity it has left the Mission Impossible franchise to cash in on the camaraderie and one-liners that made the Bond films the go-to action movies for half a century. I haven't enjoyed any of the Daniel Craig movies nearly as much as I have the Connery, Moore and Brosnan movies, but I love catching Mission Impossible when a new one premieres.
The "rocket gun" was a real weapon, called a Gyro Jet. They didn't really work too well and are hard to find now. Ammo is so rare that each shot costs several hundred dollars. Brandon Hererra has a video of one on his RUclips channel. At one point when he fires it, the barrel flew off with the rocket.
The throwing star didn't kill him - but it made him lose his footing - the fall killed him.
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The rocket gun Tiger demonstrates is an actual gun. Well… it wasn't successful, but the concept _was_ actually put into (limited) production. The "Gyrojet".
Q is Little Nellie's father. Q stands for Quartermaster. A quatermaster is responcible for making sure a ship has everything it needs to makes it's voyage. In this case Q makes sure all the 00 agents have all the gadgets they need. As far as Blofeld's scar, he probably cut himself shaving.
8:20 - That's exactly how torpedo tubes work. They are just tubular horizontal airlocks leading outside the sub, with some extra air or water pressure applied near the inner hatch to expedite the load on its way. They can be used as an emergency hatch even without the "flushing" system.
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The jetpack, was however a real working jetpack which could fly for between 30 and 60 seconds.
It was not a movie special effect.
outdated, yes, but great
Oh.. and now you can watch Wayne's World. 😊
I hope Ashleigh sticks with Bond cause the Bond Girl in Diamonds are Forever is a Spice Red Head. Played by the Actress Jill St. John. My personal favorite of all the Bond Girls.
"if we have an outer space battle, I'm so done!"
shhh! No one tell her!
Okay, let's not tell her. But for Austin Powers remember that bit "Men come first. Women..."
I won't.... but she's going to absolutely lose her shit
yeah, a favorite of mine 😁
At this point, I don't think Ashleigh's going to make it that far.
@@TRK-up2zw She might like Roger Moore. She has a couple of long slongs ahead. The next one has some pretty cringy acting. Oddly, it was one of the most important stories.
“If we have an outer space battle, I’m so done.”
Me: (Whistling and checking my nails)
I'm a Gen X Asian American and this is unironically my favorite 007 movie, yellowface, misogyny and all.
As comically incorrect as it is in so many ways, something uniquely forward thinking for the 60's was that the Japanese *good guys* didn't suck - they weren't hapless bumbling natives that needed the big strong white guy to save them, they had their own obviously effective and formidable apparatus in place and only really needed Bond as a consultant, there to assist Tanaka and his more than capable operatives.
And it introduced ninjas to the West - in big bold, volcano-lair storming style. To this day, one of the most spectacular practical action/stunt set pieces, in the largest practical set every built, and the most epic thrid act topper in history. I love that one shot of random ninja guy #6 taking out a half dozen thugs by himself and then continuing to advance without missing a beat as if every one of those other guys was just as badass and doing things that cool the whole time, and we'd show more of it but there's still that damn rocket to stop and the villain to catch etc.
Yellowface? What is that, something you invented?
Huge Scottish body builder wears a disguise as a ordinary Japanese man....lol
@@KaiHouston-m6j Who just looked like Sean Connery with a bad toupee
@@KaiHouston-m6j Why not? Would it be better to not use a disguise? Are you saying there have never been any tall Japanese men ever, you racist?
You Only Live Twice was my INTRODUCTION to James Bond as a kid! You see - I am exactly as old as the Star Trek franchise (You can do the math yourself, I've gotten lazy) so obviously I did not see this movie first run in theaters. ABC Television back in the 70s (when there were only FOUR - count them - FOUR channels to watch (The big three plus public TV) had this thing called "Sunday Night at the Movies" - basically they contracted for the rights to show a popular film that had come out "recently" (could be as much as 10 years old or so) and broadcast it - slice it up to insert commercial breaks (at very inconvenient spots etc) and generally make do with reliable fare on a night that most people ignored. (Obviously this was BEFORE Home VCR and Betamax machines were a thing at reasonable prices) Sunday evening was quite simply - "Dead Air" and the other two networks did something similar. While public Television did... whatever it was they did - which didn't matter because nobody watched them. Particularly not on Sunday night. 😅
So - I watched this movie on a Sunday evening and MAN - did it blow my 10 year old MIND!!
In more recent decades I - like you - can appreciate the absurdities better - recognize the stereotypes for what they are - and STILL get a solid kick out of watching this film. Heh. 😆
There is no reason to skip any of them. Watch them all. Hell it’s what the channel is for.
True.
Don't even skip Never Say Never Again! It has some great moments.
Naaah, absolutely skip Diamonds Are Forever, A View to a Kill, Quantum of Solace, Spectre and No Time to Die. As for Never Say Never Again, it's not even a proper Bond movie and just an even worse remake of Thunderball. Don't even look at that garbagepile.
@@DM-kv9kj Ashleigh, don’t listen to the haters. View to a Kill is good and you don’t just don’t skip over movies. Sheesh.
There are enough Bond movies to last you through October...
It may be "outdated" due to modern sensibilities but everyone including the Japanese were pretty happy with the movie as there were not all that many depictions of Japan in movies.
In the modern day, we know lots about Japan but in the 60s the vast majority had no idea and it was land of mystery and mystique.
It's a product of it's time, but it's often overlooked that, in the 60s, this did a lot to promote British and Japanese culture to each other and to the wider world.
For a generation that's likely not known a world without Internet , it's hard to impress upon you the effect movies had on culture, it was often the only cultural exposure we had.
As for the "Asian face" that Bond engages in, the time these movies were made it was "normal" for actors to play other races.
And to be fair, it wasn't done to mock or attack, it was done for narrative reasons; as a white dude in the 60s Japan he wouldn't blend in very well.
Personally I can look past this issue.
this is really great point. He was undercover and had to blend in - not mocking. I definitely see your point.
@@awkwardashleigh Yes, there is absolutely nothing 'improper' in this movie. What do people suggest...that they should've cast a Japanese man to play British James Bond??
This movie was basically a massive advertisement and global publicity booster for Japan and its culture. This was a huge reason why my parents took our family to Japan when I was a kid (several decades later).
Again: what "issue"? You yourself just wrote correctly that there was nothing offensive in Bond's disguise...so why did you return to the nonsense of some mysterious, imaginary "issues" supposedly existing? There are none.
The world today is a very small place, back then a holiday in the far east would cost a small fortune. Going on a holiday to a far away country would be very exclusive and a 'trip of a life time', maybe a honeymoon, which would be with you for life.
Also you have to remember that the Allies was at war with Japan in WW2 20 ish years from when this was made, so having a positive views of Japan was a good thing, since in in the war Japan did some terrible things to Allies soilders.
Seeing these exotic places in the movies could be the first time many people where exposed to these cultures.
@@pistonburner6448 "Men come first, women second"? C'mon, it's a little improper. Of course it was of it's time, but to just blatantly say it like that?
But I know that the line was in Ian Flemming's book (and even worse stuff), so I guess you can't totally blame the movie for that one.
Fun fact: The guy Bond is fighting in the office room, who throws around the couch, is Peter Maivia, a wrestler of Samoan descent who also made some movies around this time. His grandson also became a wrestler and an actor. His name is....Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Not. . . The Rock”, Dwayn “The Rock” ?
@@marshalllindsay315 Are you talking about Rock "The Johnson" Dwayne?
@@krashd Maybe Johnson, “The Rock” Johnson. I can go either way
@@marshalllindsay315 Drain the rock, Johnson! Do it! Squeeeze out it's water!
It may seem odd that Roald Dahl wrote this script but he was a close friend of Ian Fleming and even spied with him in World War II.
That explains a lot.
Interestingly, Roald Dahl also wrote the script for another Ian Flemming story//Film, Chitty Chiity Bang Bang, which was also produced by the Bond production team and starred Gert Frobe, aka Goldfinger.
Dahl also wrote the screenplay to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Based on the book by Ian Fleming, and staring the world's first Bond car.)
...and don't forget Ian Fleming also wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Oh guys, thanks for this, had no idea!
White cat man is Donald Pleasance. He was the doctor in Halloween and the asylum doctor in 1979's Dracula.
The guy who got knifed in the back is the narrator in The Rocky Horror Picture Show who introduced the Time Warp.
Little Nelly's father is Q - the gadget guy.
Glad you're enjoying Bond world Ashleigh. ❤
Charles Gray: Very funny in Rocky Horror Picture Show, and he did another interpretation of Blofeld in Diamond Are Forever.
Donald Pleasance was also in Fantastic Voyage.
@@raymondregis6219 Also The Great Escape.
Also the guy who gets knifed in the back, he returns in another bond movie, Diamonds are forever as Mr Bloefeld( there will be a few different actors play that character)
As there is also a few different Felix Leighter ( us CIA buddy)
A secondary actor who yells it blew up I. This movie plays a few different characters throughout the series
So up next is On his Majesty's Service....one of the more panned James Bond....earlier I would agree but it's grown on me over the years( George Lazenby- one movie) than back to Sean for one, and than Roger Moore for a long stint
That jetpack in Thunderball was a totally real prototype, designed and built by Bell Aerospace, that was loaned to the production. It wasn't a _practical_ thing (you pretty much saw it's maximum range on-screen and it was hella dangerous) but it was a _real_ thing. It was subsequently flown at a Superbowl and at the New York World's Fair.
It never got to be a practical Flying Soldier thing which was partly what they were trying for. However, the design of the mini jet engine was later used in Cruise Missiles, which will also put in an appearance in the Bond series.
Also the opening ceremony of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Yep, I saw it demonstrated at the NY Worlds Fair in 64! It's been showed in several movies & TV shows.
The producers really wanted Bond to not wear a helmet, but the actual pilot totally refused to fly without one, so they had to add the insert of Connery putting on the helmet.
Irwin Allen got a lot of footage of it being flown around in canyons, that he used in several _Lost in Space_ episodes.
Back in the 1960's Americans did not travel like they do today. Flying was not cheap and all the locations in the Bond movies were very exotic from casinos to sumo wrestling. SCUBA diving was only about 15 years old and not very many people did it, etc. The Bell Rocket Belt in Thunderball was a real thing. The gyrocopter in this film was a thing that almost no one had ever seen.
Yes, an autogyro is different than a helicopter because the big blade isn’t powered. The propeller in the back provides all the power and the big rotor just acts as a wing. Amelia Earhart often flew autogyros, and one is featured in one of Mel Gibson’s earlier movie, The Road Warrior.
@@walterrutherford8321 W. C. Fields lands on a ship at sea in one of the "Big Broadcast" movies. The Big Broadcast of 1938 I think.
The big guy Bond fights in the office (the one he hits with a sofa) is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson grand dad.
Oh that's so cool! There is a little family resemblence there, now that I see it.
😂My Brother in law told me this a bit back. The thing is he considers himself a full Bond Buff so was winding him up saying where's your proof? Nah you're having me on. He hated it because I wouldn't just accept it.
That’s impressive.
There is someone in this movie that also had a small role in "Casino Royale", 40 years later...
High Chief Peter Maivia
This one is actually somewhat unique in the Bond Series, being a co-production with Toho Studios, the Godzilla People and it kind of shows in a lot of the model and effects work
And a lot of the Japanese actors were quite famous actors at the time.
@@prichicardos And interestingly, there are two future long term collaborators with Gerry Anderson in this movie two... Oh and Kato from the Pink Panther series
That "Ridiculous Jet Pack" they gave Bond in Thunderball is real, it is a real working jet pack the inventor used to do shows all over the country with it, mostly during football games.
Yep. Saw him fly it at Atlanta Stadium. Damn thing was LOUD.
and SMDW.
There was also a famous commercial where The Man From Glad (of plastic bag fame) flew around in one as a spoof of spy films, he also had a fancy spy car.
And I believe it was used at the first Super bowl.
1984 Olympicgs opening ceremony. Propelled by hydrogen peroxide, total flight time less than a minute.
In the office, when "Mr. Fisher" shows up, the receptionist is using a japanese typewriter. Since Kanji is a hieroglyphic language, it does not use an alphabet where each symbol represents a sound but instead uses a system of individual symbols for concepts. As such, the full language could have thousands of symbols but for office correspondence, likely only the most common hundred or so are used. Still, this makes the typewriters very large and complex.
Sea burials was a common practice for many naval vessels and in the merchant marine as well. Nowadays it has diminished but I think both US Navy and the British Navy still use it. At least occasionally.
A sea burial in a busy harbour is quite unlikely though. Deep water at sea is preferred.
Many actors have played Blofeld, but Donald Pleasence here is just the best one. He has something so chilling about him. None of the others can really fill those shoes as the head of Spectre.
The vulcano lair is also iconic.
The next in the series, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, always gets the reactors emotional.
OMG Diana Rigg was soooo Beautiful as Tracey
Ahh.. the ol' George Lazenby switcheroo!
You wait til OHMSS 🥺🥺
@@HemlockRidge I just wish he had a great deal more acting experience.
George Lazeby sucked. Period.
M is ALWAYS grumpy. Its in his job-description
Having the weight of the world on his shoulders, just like the head of the CIA. It sort of explains why even Judy Dench played the role with a resting bitch face when she became M in the 21st century.. M spends all of his or her time in meetings with the Prime Minister or other heads of state promising to make problems go away, and then sitting at a desk praying that their agents are actually able to do it.
You would lose your hair doing that job.
The movie that introduced ninjas to the world is not all outdated. And since this IS 50 years ago...
Agreed. The funny thing is that these Ninja's were better than most others we saw later during the Ninja craze. A Ninja would use the most up-to-date equipment to finish the job. Historic ones did use firearms and gunpowder explosives. According to Gajin Goomba some versions of Snake Eyes from GI Joe is one of the best modern Ninjas and he goes for submachine guns and grenades first.
Ashleigh: “what happened to his face?”
Me: Michael Myers. 😂
It's so weird that you have to watch Bonds far into the future to see how Blofeld's face gets mangled. I wonder if Ashleigh will even remember that she asked how it happened.
Me:
Pizza Face from "Grease".
Being buried at Sea is an Honor Navies still conduct the ceremony.
But every time I see it, I can't help quoting from Wrath of Khan.
When this film was produced on location in Japan, a local fan (who had a camera) started following Sean Connery and the local police had to deal with fan incursions several times. Bondmania in the 1960s brought in tremendous challenges for the producers and the star.
In Japan Men come first, and Women come second, or sometimes not at all.
LOL! Austin Powers reference!
Oh Behave!
"Are we going to fake a death?" Ashley at her best. Well done.
Fun Fact: The actresses who portrayed Kissy Suzuki and Aki both appear in a Japanese James Bond-style film, "Key of Keys" (1965), then was later picked up by Woody Allen and redubbed with corny dialog and renamed "What's Up, Tiger Lily?"
You can see Key of Keys on internet archive. Its actually pretty good.
Also, Kissy's actress here is dubbed.
Bond turning Japanese has aged badly but this is easily one of the best produced Bond movies, ever. Beautiful location photography by Freddie Young, One of John Barry's best scores, An excellent theme song and last but not least, gorgeous set design by Ken Adam.
Well, yes, it is a bit dated. On the other hand - hollow volcano! Monorail! Secret army of ninjas! And Dr Evil - I mean Blofelt! - This is the movie that really informs Austin Powers, not Goldfinger.
Spoilers!
Hank Scorpio!
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As does Diamonds Are Forever.
Since you are mentioning the volcano and monorail, I want to give a shout out to Pixar and The Incredibles.
"If we have an outer space battle, I'm so done."
(Makes note, rolls d20 behind screen)
Good to know. Sure that won't happen.
What's next, Bond dressing like a clown?
Uh, the jet pack is a real thing. They still occasionally fly them at sports event.
Jet packs are a very strange thing - basically they haven't changed in 50 years. The problem is that they can't be made to work beyond 50 seconds. But people keep trying...
@@adaddinsane there is a much more advanced system thats been in development for ages, RUclips is our friend lol
They actually have modern variants in the Navy too, used for boarding a ship quickly.
If anyone hasn't seen them there are vids on RUclips.
@@adaddinsane Yves Rossy built a wing jet pack that he was able to fly across the English Channel. And check out the JB11, it's wingless, running on kerosene and has a 10 minute flight time, and a 10,000 foot ceiling. The 2010s has been big for jet packs.
The first girl James deals with in Japan, Aki was supposed to be the main Bond Girl in the whole movie however the Actress who played Kissy Suzuki had some kind of romantic hold over the whole production crew and producers that she forced her way in and everything was re-written and Aki disappeared. They literally didn't think she was a better actress or that it would improve the story but did it anyway because multiple people were in love with her and that's the rumor and at least its a good story.
Just so you know, Ashleigh, the original novel, You Only Live Twice, did not involve James Bond dressing up like a Japanese man. The novel took place somewhere in between the events of Thunderball and The Spy Who Loved Me, where Bond was missing and presumed dead, but was actually alive and suffering from amnesia while living in a small Japanese village who took him in, believing him to have survived some kind of accident at sea. He was living among the villagers with no memory of who he was, but he was NOT changing his physical appearance.
That's great info!
MAJOR SPOILER WARNINGS for “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.” !!!!
Sort of. As I recall it, this originally followed AFTER "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and Bond is still in dire psychological straits from Tracey's death. M sends him on what should be an easy mission to liaise with the Japanese secret service and "help them out with a small problem." The small problem is an eccentric foreigner who has made a Garden of Death and Tanaka, knowing Bond's 00 status, wants him to solve the problem. After Bond realizes this is BLOFELD he becomes extremely invested.
So all that stuff about turning Bond Japanese is in the book, and more; Tanaka is teaching him all sorts of cultural things (introduces him to Kobe Beef via the actual cow!) and he is sent in to infiltrate.
And is severely injured escaping the exploding lair, ends up back on the same beach with the pearl divers and the cover girl he was mock-married to really, really wants a strong man back in her life and with Bond now conveniently missing his memory of having been anything other than her Japanese husband, he fits the bill.
Scraps of his memory do eventually surface, much to her chagrin, and the last scene is him setting off to a place with a name he just KNOWS is important to him.
Russia.
@@notthemusewere Major spoiler if Ashleigh is reading these comments.
I always forget where it lands in the series but Diamonds are Forever is another Connery Bond. That one is absolutely worth watching.
That is the film after next. The next movie is George Lazenby (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), then Sean comes back for his last Eon-productions movie with Diamonds Are Forever. However 11 years later (while Roger Moore is still playing Bond) Sean will play the role one last time in the unofficial James Bond movie 'Never Say Never Again' complete with grey hair.
I can't remember exactly why Never Say Never Again came about but I think it was something to do with a contract dispute, something like Sean gave up the role whilst still having one movie to go, but then changed his mind after Roger Moore was cast, after a decade of legal wrangling the studio agreed to fund a Connery movie under a different producer at the same time Eon-productions was working on Roger Moore's fourth Bond movie.
So in 1983 we got Octopussy (Moore) and Never Say Never Again (a slightly aging Connery). A good year for Bond fans.
I always call it "Fear and Shootouts in Las Vegas." When you think of the Hunter Thompson take on the place it just sort of fits in so well with the vibe of the movie.
@@krashd IIRC Cubby Brocolli's former partner owned (or co-owned) the rights to Thunderball. When they broke the partnership, I think there was a bit of bad blood between them, and the former partner (Harry Salzmann?) went ahead and made an unofficial remake of the film he legally had a claim to.
@Ashleigh, yes Naval burial at Seas are conducted that way during war time. US Navy burial at sea ceremonies are done two ways, ashes or full body in a casket. US Navy Sailor here... I've had genuine Japanese saki. Spent 4 months in Yokosuka Japan in 1986 while deployed on USS Cape Cod AD 43
The actress who played Aki was in a few Godzilla movies back in the day. Recognized her from Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster.
Both Akiko Wakabayashi (Aki) and Mie Hama (Kissy) appear in 'King Kong vs Godzilla'. As you say, Akiko went on to 'Ghidorah', while Mie kept the KK connection by appearing in 'King Kong Escapes'.
Wasn't that because this was a Toho co-production?
I grew up in the 1960's and watched all these Bond movies when they first came out, a good majority at the Drive-In, my uncle would take me and his son to see them, now here comes the interesting part. My uncle was a retired military officer and would travel to different countries to '' Teach '', we didn't find out until after his death he was in the C.I.A., guess that's why he loved the James Bond movies.....LOL
What did he think of the Manchurian Candidate?
@@BaccarWozat Good question, I don't know, I never watch that movie with him..
EVA is an Extra Vehicular Activity. Lox, a lightly smoked salmon, is often had from a delicatessen on a bagel with cream cheese. The two Japanese actresses eventually had to switch parts when it became obvious that one's English was better than the others. When filming the Little Nellie scene a helicopter got too close and nearly cut off the foot of cameramen, Johnny Jordan. His foot was reattached after an operation by Japanese doctors but later had to be removed. He continued to work with a prosthetic one until is death in 1969 when he fell out of a plane while filming Catch 22.
Connery was like 6'2". Imagine trying to hide him in bad yellowface when he's 9" taller than average
Connery couldn't sit comfortably in the car (Toyota 2000GT) so they cut the roof off of two for filming.
@@timmooney7528 By the way Daniel Craig named the Toyota 2000GT as his favorite Bond car of all time. And it isn’t even a car from one of his movies!
I fondly remember seeing this movie with my dad when it played on TV when I was 5 and I tried to build my own Q gadgets and played ninja with my friends. I loved the epic battle at the end with the repelling troops into the secret volcano base. Fond memories of the "bond" I had with my dad watching these movies with him.
22:50, she didn't realize Little Nellie's father (as in Creator) was Q?😢
Q never gets credit for his genius.
She recognized him. She said he was the Gadget Guy from the previous movies.
@@vonmalvarius but not realized he was the one referred to as "father", I think.
The real creator of that autogyro was the one flying most of the stunts.
That jetpack was a real life, working jetpack called the Bell Rocket Belt.
"Cat guy always has a different voice," amongst other things. Probably a dueling scar on his face.
Volcano lair, big henchmen battle, a little casual sexism...no space battle...for now.
Please keep going with Bond.
As an FYI, Little Nellie is an "autogyro" or "gyrocopter" and not a helicopter.
That's why it doesn't have a propeller on the tail to prevent it from spinning when the top rotors turn.
With a helicopter, an engine spins the top rotor (or rotors) and the shape and angle of the powered rotors generates lift.
Also, by angling the top rotors, the helicopter moves in any direction, and the tipping them "forward" causes the helicopter to travel that way.
However, because the top rotors spin under power, they tend to want the rest of the helicopter to spin the opposite direction.
So, they need the tail-rotor to cancel out the tendency to spin.
The fact that the powered and tiltable top rotors allow movement in any direction -- or even hovering in place -- makes the helicopter an incredibly flexible aircraft.
However, the complexity makes them *very* expensive build, and requires maintenance from highly skilled (aka, expensive) personnel.
With an autogyro, the propellor pointing straight back is powered, but the "free-spinning" top rotors are not.
The propellor at the back provides all the thrust, and the movement of the air across the top rotors causes them to spin and generate lift.
That means they can only travel in the direction the propellor points, and the rudder at the back is needed to get them to turn -- whereas a helicopter just changes the angle of the top rotor, or the pilot decreases or increases power to the sideways tail-rotor.
However, autogyros get much better fuel economy than helicopters; they're a *lot* cheaper to build and maintain; they take off in *very* short distances; and allow flight at speeds so low they would stall a regular airplane (although they can't hover).
In other words, they're a splendid small, simple, fuel-efficient aircraft useful for exactly the sort of scouting mission Bond uses Little Nellie to make.
In fact, "Little Nellie" was made by British aircraft manufacturer Wallis; it's the company's experimental WA-116 "Agile" model.
Nobody flies autogyros much any more (although if you watch the Mad Max films, you'll see one), because helicopters -- although more expensive and complex -- allow for much greater flexibility of operation.
Also, since the Vietnam War, we've developed "bush" planes so light, with engines so strong, they can take off from -- and then land in -- a flat piece of ground not much larger than a big back yard.
And, speaking of things called "gyro," those bullet are rounds for another actual device, called a "gyrojet" pistol; the bullets are sometimes called "gyrocs."
They don't use a propellent in a brass case to fire the round -- instead, solid rocket-fuel ignites and uses the holes at the back to thrust the bullet forward.
They have practically no recoil and at range are much more powerful than most bullets their size.
They also make a "whooshing" sound rather than start with a "bang."
However, because they have to accelerate up to speed, you can put your hand in front of the muzzle of the gyrojet pistol and the gyroc will bounce off and spin around the room like an inflated balloon with the opening left untied.
They get going *much faster* than a balloon as they *literally* rocket around the room, though.... 😲
So, gyrojet pistols are *deadly* at range, but kinda useless (and sorta dangerous for everybody) if shot at something too close. 😁
Mr Henderson charles Grey also played Blofield in Diamonds are forever
Little Nelly is my favourite Bond gadget. Several of the later movies had me thinking “He could really use Little Nelly about now.”
AND Q is her father.
Ok Ashlegh I'm glad you didn't give up because of Dr. No also.
Cool reaction lets keep the James Bond train going. :)
The rocket bullets are called Gyro jet. They actually exist. The ammo is incredibly expensive.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 classified projectiles over .5 inch (12.7mm) as destructive devices, and gyrojet ammo was 13mm in diameter. A 12mm round was made to comply, but it never did well due to poor accuracy.
For some reason, certain edits of the film cut out the sequence that introduces the Gyrojet, but you still see it fired later on.
"If we have an outer-space battle...."
(looks nervously at Roger Moore)
42:52 Oof... That compositing work.
Sean Connery will return one last time as James Bond in the unofficial Bond movie "Never Say Never Again."
And diamonds are forever?
@@JamesHaxton-o1p Ohhh... Whoops.
You only live twice... Beans, on the other hand, has nine lives.
I'm not sure that Beans could have saved the World (ish) quite so many times as Mr Bond has?
Sumo is awesome. You know why? It's short. The bouts last about a minute, the winner gets the prize money, and they move on to the next one.
Have you been to New York? Best place to get lox.
Sumo also has a few different ways to fight, and a lot of cool cultural traditions in the pre-fight ceremony
And the rules a very simple and easy to understand.
I am basically allergic to sports - except for sumo. It is, as you say, very short! And it all comes down to basic physics: how can the unstoppable force topple the immovable object? The shinto ritual aspect of it is also interesting.
Sumo is the drag racing of combat sports. 😁
Perfect for the Tiktok kids.
That volcano base, designed by the legendary Ken Adam, was built as a full-size set, on the site in the Pinewood Studios lot which became the 007 Stage. The set was so big, it was visible from three miles away; Freddie Young, the director of photography, believed it would be impossible to light properly.
#44 on Billboard in 1967, The title song was sung by Nancy Sinatra (yep, Frank's daughter), always liked it. (EVA, Extra Vehicular Activity, early space program talk, I believe). :)
It's great, and I also enjoy her #1 hit, These Boots Are Made For Walkin'.
The total budget for the film Dr No was under $1million and the cost of just the volcano set in You Only Live Twice was over $1million.
EVA = Extra Vehicular Activity: a spacewalk.
Intro-song: IMHO this is the BEST of the classic Bond themes: the strings are gorgeous.
M's secretary is called Moneypenny, not Pennymoney 🤣
Those "big old things" are Japanese typwriters: imagine how complicated typing in Japanese is when there are at least 100s of characters needed at least.
If the thought of slicing off skin with a scalpel goes through you, I'd pick the right day to watch Red Sparrow (2018) (probably not a good reaction vid due to lots of creepy sex/nudity stuff).
The Gadget Man is called Q (always, no matter who's playing him). He's Little Nellie's "father".
Little Nellie is an autogyro, not a helicopter. The difference is that an autogyro is pushed forwards by a normal aircraft propellor and it's rotor is spun by it's forward movement through the air, whereas a helicopter's rotor is spun by the engine. Autogyros are much simpler and cheaper than helicopters, but a pure autogyro can't hover in one place like a helicopter. It can, however, fly very slowly and land/take-off in a very short distance. Little Nellie is a modified version of a model WA-116 invented by British aviator, inventor and engineer Wing Commander Ken Wallis, who designed all the (improbable) weapon system props, and flew the aircraft for the movie. Wallis was an amazing man: he set a new autogyro speed record when he was 89 and continued flying until shortly before his death at the age of 97 in 2013. Well worth your time to read up about him.
The rocket gun is totally real. It's an MBA Gyrojet and it works just as Tanaka explained. There was a rifle version too. It wasn't a commercial success at the time, but they're now highly collectable and unfired ammo goes for scary high prices. If you go look at Brandon Herrera's RUclips channel, he recently got hold of one and test-fired it.
McDonnell was a real US aerospace company. They merged with Douglas in the 1960s to become McDonnell-Douglas (McDD for short) then McDD merged with Boeing in the 1990s.
Disney had a monorail _because_ James Bond did...😉
This movie really started the tradition of Bond Villains having elaborate improbable Lairs (can you imagine the recruiting and contracting for that place).
The next Bond, in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", was a one-off: George Lazenby. He was good in the role and the movie had more emotional depth than most Bonds, but in one of those epic, EMI-rejecting-The-Beatles-level mistakes, his agent advised him that Bond movies were going out of fashion and he shouldn't do another one. Presumably his agent is still dangling over a piranha tank in a volcano somewhere...
Good to note that Q stands for Quartermaster
They never clarify, but presumably his follow-up R is for Resources or Requisition 🤣🤣🤣
this never happend to the other guy
Disneyland had its first monorail in 1959, long before this movie was made.
The orchestration is classic Bond. The Title Theme, the way it's woven in the movie is gold.
"WHITE CAT MAN" - sounds like a Marvel superhero even ANTMAN could make fun of. 😂
The next one is George Lazenby, who decided not to return for another Bond film on the advice of his agent & because of the poor treatment he received on set. Connery returned for the next one "Diamonds Are Forever." After that the part went to Roger Moore for 7, Timothy Dalton for 2, Pierce Brosnan for 4 & Daniel Craig for the last 5. There were two which were Non-Eon Productions - Casino Royale (1967) starring David Niven & Never Say Never Again (1983) with Connery. Casino Royale was then remade with Daniel Craig in 2006. There is talk of a 26th Bond film, but it's in the pre-pre-production phase. As I'm not a fan of this series, I googled this. Am a fan of Pierce though. He was married twice...first wife was Cassandra Harris & appeared in the 1981 Bond movie "For Your Eyes Only." She passed away in 1991 from ovarian cancer at age 43...he was there for her through it all & her death devastated him. He became Bond in 1995. The year before he met his current wife, Keely Shaye Smith...married in 2001. He has 5 kids. He had one son with his first wife & adopted her son & daughter. after their father died. He has two sons with his current wife. His adopted daughter also died of ovarian cancer in 2013 at 42.
Casino Royale was one of the first spoofs of bond, dr evil, there were other films, like matt helm, in like flynt, all based off bond, which led to austin powers
You forgot Connery came back again for Never Say Never Again.
The kitty kat always survives as is the real boss 😂
James was working on his re-entry at the beginning 😂
"Her Thighs Are BURNIN'!" was the name of my band in college!
Can't wait for the day she watches GoldenEye. ^^
:)
Brown Eye😂😂😂😂😂
Na... Moonraker.
Still got long ways to go and I hope she doesn't skip a film too. Yeah the next one may suck but at least it gets better after that.
Octapussy!
Yes please! Keep going with the Bond franchise, and in order! A total of 7 actors played Bond over the years. My personal favorite Bond was Roger Moore, who played Bond for a span of 12 years (1973-1985). Moore's Bond films were the best ones, in my humble opinion, but that's just me. I'm loving your reactions to the Bond films! Thanks for another great reaction! ✌💙✌
That white kitty cat used to belong to my wife's grandfather.
Poor thing. I hope it eventually got over the trauma.
Keep in mind, the early bond movies had real stunts, no CGI.. very impressive
Quite a lot of back-screen projecting though. OHMSS is even worse for that from what I remember.
@@timamherst-clark2699 Not that many. really the only backscreen projecting was when they showed the star up close.
I'm literally talking about the stunts in the early bond movies.
But I appreciate you downplaying what I originally said, but you are wrong. Movies were better back then because the stiunts were real.
The car driver bond fights where they throw the sofas is Dwayne the Rock Johnson's Grandfather, Peter Maivia
One of the big reasons I subscribed and keep coming back: I giggled every time you said "Penny Money" or "I can't wait to see a samurai fight!"
Funny how "Japanese" Bond actually ended up looking more like Burt Reynolds from Deliverance.
Just looked like Sean Connery with a 'bowl' cut. At 6'2 he was still more likely to be mistaken for a Beatle than a Japanese man.
I think they transformed him into Leonard Nimoy less the devilish pointed ears!!
It could be the same wig . . . ?
I think he looked more like Mr. Spock! 😂
1964 was Tokyo Olympics, this Bond film sought to showcase Japanese arts and culture in the lead up!
Agreed. They're all good, but Sean holds a special place.
Good for you for having a sponsor!! I totally skipped past it, of course, but still, good for you!!
The machine is a Japanese typewriter. Before computers, it was a miniature typesetting machine.
Just an FYI, the "Thunderball" Jet Pack was real. The Bell Rocket Belt was developed, but never used for the US Army. It was used a couple of times in the 1960's "Lost in Space" and I saw it fly at Disneyland.
Best Bond Theme.
No. Diamonds are Forever. Shirley Bassey.
@@TheSwicker316 I mean, Goldfinger is pretty good too.
Thunderball is probably the (actual)best. But yeah Diamonds are forever is great.
While I find "You only live twice" the best, I just want to remind about "Tomorrow never dies". :D
One can always argue over Goldfinger or Diamonds or Thunderball, which one deserves the top... but man..., these two are both just "one of those songs" that you can listen to regardless of Bond, yet describe Bond so well.
Correct.
Just want to remind you all of We Have All The Time In The World.
You should definitely watch at least the next one. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is usually regarded by fans as one of the best.
Saw the title and laughed out loud. Yeah... it is. You should see Breakfast at Tiffany's. Fantastic film... except Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi... That's... a thing that happened.
You know it's bad, when even contemporary audiences were offended.
Why are you claiming that there's something wrong with this movie? What is your problem with the movie?
@@pistonburner6448 If there had not been a history of yellowface, along with blackface and other similar things, it wouldn't really have been too bad. The depictions of the Japanese are overall fine. But given the history from things like Kung Fu and Breakfast at Tiffany's and other incidents, having a white person impersonate someone of another race is just generally a bad idea. In the story in this film, it is fine. But the film exists in a society that has a history and that isn't.
@@Sam_on_RUclips What a phony non-answer where you actually finally admitted that yes: "In the story in this film, it is fine." So what are you whinging about?
You don't even have any clue what blackface is, and yellowface is something you made up and doesn't exist. You're just a hollow, programmed useful i----t who is incapable of rational thought.
@Sam_on_RUclips For a lot of the time the actors playing people of other races was the only way they could be depicted (yes, less so in the US but else & earlier, not so much). Don't forget that at one time men had to play women, because women were legally not allowed on stage.
Whenever I see Charles Gray (the actor playing Henderson) I immediately think, "It's just a jump to the left ..."
He was the narrator in the Rocky Horror Picture Show
If only he had 'jumped to the left', he might have lasted a little longer in this film.
Little Nellie's "father" was Q.
Based on the double novel (11th/12th) from 1964.
Screenplay by the famed children's author, Roald Dahl (Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr. Fox).
The title theme song is the first time i'd ever heard of Nancy Sinatra before hearing, "These Boots are Made for Walking".
Background in this story has so much going on.
The growth of The Space Race, set in modern Japan and facing off with the inner workings of Spectre.
Infiltrating corporations, working with ninjas-trained agents, more quips/one liners and the 'face to face' introduction of Spectre boss, Blofeld aka no.1 played by Donald Pleasence (from the og Halloween films).
At the time, Connery's era as 007 was ending.
Sean's declaration of being 'indeed finished with the role did rock the movie biz, until he returned for 3 more projects.
After this 5th Bond film, the franchise does take quite a shift.
So be prepared
You know...the jet pack is a real thing that actually works
For about 30 to 60 seconds.
The water based jetpacks can last over an hour and give you the same feeling of flying.
@@macmcleod1188 Doesn't change the fact that it was real.
Indeed. Not particularly practical, but it definitely worked.
More accurate to say they "function".
@@JustLiesNOR I wasn't saying it wasn't a real device. I was agreeing that it was a real device that wasn't a special effect but that it was limited to about 30 to 60 seconds worth of flying.
yeah, I wish I had read the comments before I watched the movie with you! you are the best!
Wait until she gets to “Moonraker” from 1979,with an incredible title song by Dame Shirley Bassey,where Bond actually goes into outer space.
Moonraker is nowhere near as bad as it was made out to be ... there was a serious attempt to show the physics of outer space, and how a secret agent might exploit them against their enemy [trying not to spoil anything]
it was Bond's Jump the Shark moment ;(
And jaws!
And then there's the Roger Moore era theme songs. Sheena Easton, Duran Duran, etc. Too bad we can't get Ashleigh to react to a music video.
Bond does Star Wars
I'm having a great time with Friday 007 . So much fun re watching them with you. Great job. LOL White cat man 😂
In Japan they have public baths and men will bathe together in one room and the same for women.
Public baths are a big part of Japanese culture.
@@mjbull5156 Less than they used to be, though. City bathhouses are dying out, so groups baths are mostly limited to hot springs resorts (onsens).
@@ThreadBomb Same in Europe. I don't know about Japan but Americans tend to get the blame for public baths and nude saunas losing popularity here in Europe because every time an American encounters something unfamiliar abroad they tend to plaster it all over social media calling their host country degenerate or primitive.
I understand a popular Japanese saying is, "Nakedness is something that is often seen but never looked at." I must say, very mature-sounding.
Anyway, as long as Americans have that residual puritanical streak (leavened with a little healthy hypocrisy), they should retain at least a _little_ divine favor... 🙄 😁
"I lost that in Singapore in '42" -- in 1942 the Japanese overran British the defense of Singapore, possibly the second worst British defeat (after Dunkirk) of WWII.
This movie was my introduction to Ninjas-I’d never heard of them before. I’m sure it’s hard to believe, but back then Made in Japan was an epithet for shoddy workmanship and negative stereotypes of the Japanese were common. This movie was fairly Japanese positive for the time.
Not being from the US I've always wondered if there was any truth in the stereotypes about Japanese construction or if it was just protectionist propaganda from US companies fearing superior imports because I had only ever heard good things about Japanese tech, even as far back as the 70's. Their cars were more reliable and their electrical appliances were half the size of US or European appliances.
@@krashd it was very true in the 50s and part of the 60s until Japanese Industrialists were introduced to the quality teachings of William Deming and companies like Toyota and Honda started taking quality very seriously. But it took until the 70s for these stereotypes to wash out, and US manufacturers to grow complacent about quality and shocks like pollution control regulations and gas rationing to wake American companies up that they were falling behind. Winning a war has a way of giving a country a false sense of superiority.
@@ziggystardog One of the reasons Japan and Germany could catch up and surpass the USA in some areas. They had to rebuild everything and of course their new factories were the most modern and efficient around.
25:51 The outer space stuff was miniatures and animation, but the secret base was full size! That was the largest and more expensive stage sets built at the time. It cost aound $1 Million at the time ($10 Million in today's money). Including the monorail and control center. The structure was so large it could be seen from miles away. Plenty of room for a big fight!
GREAT BLOODY MERCIFUL GODS, WOMAN! It's MONEYPENNY!! Not pennymoney! 🙄Oh, love the channel and you're reactions, though the "Dr. No" final assessment is wrong in so many ways, I'm still glad you kept watching the series.
Burial at sea, old naval tradition. Started way back when they had a corpse and were a long way from home. Today some naval personnel are still buried at sea. (In the US, the Battleship Arizona was sunk at Pearl Harbor on December 17, 1941. Almost every man aboard perished, more than 1700, but there were 337 survivors. The ship was never raised from the harbor. Surviving members of the crew had the option to be cremated after dying and Navy divers would take the remains below into the hull of the sunken battleship where the late sailor would be laid to rest with his crewmates. The last Arizona survivor to be interred was Lauren Bruner on December 10, 2019. The last survivor of the vessel passed away April 23, 2024 and he and the other two survivors who outlived Bruner were buried with their families ashore.)
This movie isn't outdated. It's so outragiously weird and out there, that it loops back around and becomes great! One of my favorite Bond movies for sure. Especially the scene where they turn him into Spock! LMAO
16:28 I think the device on the left of the screen with the large drum is a manual Japanese Kanji typewriter; the big noisy one on the right is a Burroughs bookkeeping machine, a kind of combination numeric typewriter and mechanical calculator. Before desktop computers, this is what a business office doing accounts and correspondence would look and sound like! The Japanese typewriter is slower to use compared to one using the Roman alphabet because of the larger number of individual symbols to choose from.
25:40 Everything you're seeing in this film is miniatures work, matte paintings or photographic compositing (or they just outright did it for real; Little Nellie is a real aircraft!); CGI hadn't been invented yet. (The first ever movie with genuine computer-generated graphics in it was the *original* Westworld in 1973, which you simply must do at some point!)
There's also a dash of stock footage here and there, particularly of a Western missile standing in for a Russian rocket launch that it doesn't actually even slightly resemble, presumably because the film-makers at that time had little idea what the Soviet space capsules and launchers looked like, and almost certainly couldn't get good footage of an R-7 blasting off. The Russians were actually falling badly behind the Americans in the space race by 1967 - their chief designer tragically and unexpectedly died in 1966 - and their lunar Soyuz capsule hadn't actually been built yet when the film came out, but at the time the Soviet space programme was all highly secret so the West just assumed that the USSR were still racing ahead of them in space tech like they were in the early 60s.
Bond is never outdated. The problem is the new ones have gotten too modern
The sad thing is that they scooped out all the humour when they moved on to Daniel Craig, which has backfired because as Bond movies now try to be grown-up thrillers along the lines of Bourne Identity it has left the Mission Impossible franchise to cash in on the camaraderie and one-liners that made the Bond films the go-to action movies for half a century. I haven't enjoyed any of the Daniel Craig movies nearly as much as I have the Connery, Moore and Brosnan movies, but I love catching Mission Impossible when a new one premieres.
The "rocket gun" was a real weapon, called a Gyro Jet. They didn't really work too well and are hard to find now. Ammo is so rare that each shot costs several hundred dollars. Brandon Hererra has a video of one on his RUclips channel. At one point when he fires it, the barrel flew off with the rocket.
The throwing star didn't kill him - but it made him lose his footing - the fall killed him.
The rocket gun Tiger demonstrates is an actual gun. Well… it wasn't successful, but the concept _was_ actually put into (limited) production. The "Gyrojet".
The Chinese girl in the beginning also played the daughter of FuManchu in all of those 1960’s movies.
She's alright, but she's not Myrna Loy. : )
She'll also return for a cameo in 'Casino Royale'
Q is Little Nellie's father. Q stands for Quartermaster. A quatermaster is responcible for making sure a ship has everything it needs to makes it's voyage. In this case Q makes sure all the 00 agents have all the gadgets they need. As far as Blofeld's scar, he probably cut himself shaving.
"Pennymoney"!
At least ya got "Bames Jond, subble oh deven" right 😂
At least she didn't say Penny market.🤣
Happy to see a sponsor add , you deserve the sponsorship, your channel is great
Little Nellie is the best girl Bond ever got inside.
Another fabulous British invention
8:20 - That's exactly how torpedo tubes work. They are just tubular horizontal airlocks leading outside the sub, with some extra air or water pressure applied near the inner hatch to expedite the load on its way. They can be used as an emergency hatch even without the "flushing" system.
Saki=the thing about that stuff is that it dosent feel like its that strong and next thing you wham!
It's Sake.... come on. You're better than that
@@bigsarge8795 😂