MOONRAKER | Bond drives the gondola through Mark's Square
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- Опубликовано: 10 авг 2020
- On this day in 1978 principal photography started on MOONRAKER. In today’s scene Bond drives the gondola (or Bondola as the crew called it) through Venice’s Mark’s Square. Roger Moore said: “There were thousands of tourists who didn’t know there was a film going on. I didn’t have that much control over it, so they eventually gave me a little klaxon to warn people.”
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The man in the coffin is my grandfather - he worked in special effects and made the knife mechanism inside the coffin. The story our family tells is that they couldn't find an extra willing to do the scene because they were all Catholic and wouldn't get inside a coffin. My 'Pop' was asked to do it so he did, and we all loved watching the scene with him at Christmas or whenever it was on TV. Fun fact - he couldn't swim!
Lovely man. Passed away in 2017 after a horribly long battle with dementia. RIP Pop xx
Wow! This sound like a great story! Sorry for your loss
May he rest in peace
May his soul find safe passage to the after life.
Very interesting! I am sorry to hear he passed away. My younger brother is only 59 and was diagnosed with dementia last winter. Based on the MRI on his brain, apparently he had a mini stroke in the past. It really depresses me.
Geez, another small story behind the big picture has hereby come to light.
My condolences for your grandfather.
The writers of Roger Moore's Bond always asked themselves what would be great to have happen, but they never really bothered as much as to why it would happen.
That's very true. I honestly enjoyed Roger Moore's Bond when they weren't being silly. For Your Eyes Only was probably one of the best for keeping it both entertaining and believable.
Too true - sadly infects too many movies and TV shows these days.
I think they just wanted to entertain. That's one of the elements I value about this particular era of the Bond films. They lean into their far-fetched/fantastical trappings in such a way that makes these films really fun to watch; something which seems to be missing from some of the latest entries.
@@georgeorwell1267 I think the way to look at Bond films is not too look at them as a franchise but as a series of franchises aimed at different audiences.
@@thelastjohnwayne But in an enjoyable way!
The dog and the beer pouring always has me in bits of laughter.😂😂
The myth. The Legend. The bird himself. The double take pigeon.
Love, love all of the bond movies!!!
And the man seeing an unbelievable thing and then looking at what he is drinking as if it will have a disclaimer on it about seeing amphibious gondelas.
So.....the pigeon had the best scene. Double O pigeon.
@@MajorT0m I think he's looking to see how much he's dunk/how strong it is - it's a recurring gag in Spy, Moonraker and FYEO.
@@dorothydorsey5501 반물질행성
I always loved the James Bond franchise. Every movie is like a world tour.
@Terrance Milo 33
Absolutely right😊😊😊
Sure is because every film takes place in Europe or Asia even the United States as in GoldFinger and Casino Royale
@@qemalimeri7398 반물질 행성
So true.
"So our first move will be the stealth-dagger-thrower-in-coffin man, obviously."
"Obviously, yes."
"But there's a small chance that he won't have time to kill both the gondoleer and our target, so I want you guys around the corner. You'll be in a speedboat in case the target's gondola turns out to be really fast."
"Given that we know where he's going to be, could we not just shoot him from a bridge?"
"Silence! This is Venice. We attack from boats or not at all."
"Also Luigi, make sure you throw your first knife at the innocent gondoleer, not our target."
"But didn't you say I might not have the time to kill both, Giuseppe?"
"Silence! I won our round of Rock, Paper, Scissors so I get to decide!"
I wonder if the gondolier worked directly for MI5 or it was just an average gondolier working guy hired for the day?
@@studinthemaking I think we have to conclude that the gondolier was the main target, probably MI6's top agent in Italy, and that Bond was just an inconvenient witness.
@@jackmalvern5699 I agree.
@@studinthemaking There should be a spin-off film about the goldolier super-agent's origins story. Licence to Paddle.
Can you imagine the amount of time and effort it must've taken for the guy in the coffin to prepare for that one assassination attempt, only to for it to fail spectacularly?
I'VE BEEN WAITING IN THIS BLOODY COFFIN FOR 7 GODDAMN HOURS AND IT TOOK ME 3 MONTHS TO MAKE
No, no, that was his standard method. He was the go-to guy for assassinations in Venice and was so discreet that no one ever rumbled his disguise.
"Can anyone stop my coffin"?
This has got to be one of the most over-the-top chase scenes of all time.
And...it...is...glorious!
No its not. Its crap.
@@greatwuta I think it's pretty glorious too tbh
@@sonnykingcomposer it's incredible how people crap on Octopussy because James Bond disguised himself as a clown but people excuse this nonsense scene from Moonraker.
@@greatwuta the whole clown thing in octopussy made total sense in context, I agree it shouldn't get so much slack. I think the reason ppl brush this more to the side is because Moonraker is being outright over the top, it's waving a flag and spinning in circles going 'hello, I'm a big cool over the top film!'. But ik some ppl don't like over the top Bond and that's fine. Personally, I don't mind it.
@@sonnykingcomposer you are right.
That guy at 2:33 also whatched his wine when 007 came outof the water with his Lotus in ‚The Spy who loved me‘ 😂
Also made an appearance in For Your Eyes Only
is also past away 😢 @@greatwuta
Lol
Victor Tourjansky assistant director.
"Now pay attention 007. This may look like an ordinary gondola..."
"But, what if someone wants to throw a knife at me?"
"Ah, that what this useless Gandolor person is for. Villians can't help to strike the extra first instead of you."
"Q, why the hell would I use this?"
obviously an aston martin lagondola
you can turn the gondola into a float and used it in a montague float parade.
Some of the most creative assassination plans, weapons and gadgets came in the Moore era.
Moore was NEVER safe! He could be taking a casual drive in His new Lotus Esprit, or riding in a Helicopter, and then suddenly He was in EXTREME danger!
One of the most ridiculous scenes in the Bond series, but can't help loving it.
Reawakens the inner 9 year old in me from back in 1979.
Q’s superpower is really a sort of clairvoyance. He knows exactly what gadget will be needed on any given mission. Someone is hijacking space shuttles? Clearly Bond is going to need a hover gondola.
RIP, Mr. Roger Moore...
Thank you for the awesome movies... and quacky sense of humour...
Roger Morre was the best Bond
@@kimonmacconuladh6767 On the contrary - he was by far the worst Bond.
@@Vinterfrid Different tastes, my friend.
That era of Bond films was the best with the cultural voyages and the hilarious comedy.
Its absolutly shit. No dissrespect to Mr. Moore. But Bond is no comedy movie.
@@madmax19furyroad22 No “dissrespect”, hey? lol 😂 ✌🏾
The Bond novels are not meant to be funny. They're meant to be sexually charged and violent. Bond is a thug, not a clown.
@@rogeredwarrddeshon5000 Then don’t watch. If you want to see the same genre over and over and over again, just pick the movie you liked and watch it over and over and over again. I promise you’ll get exactly what you like and nothing will change.
@@rogeredwarrddeshon5000Moore was the funny-man Bond who could do the serious stuff very well when he needed to. That suited him perfectly and his films are great fun for the most part, I’m a fan of Fleming’s novels and I realise how far removed Moore is from novel Bond, but I don’t care when he’s so entertaining and charming to watch onscreen. He’s definitely the one I can cheer on the most. My favourite Bond is his successor, the Fleming-or-die Dalton, but Moore was my first Bond and an excellent one that carried the franchise for over a decade!
Plus, while Moonraker does tip the balance too much into out and out comedy (with that being said it does a good job of it) Live and Let Die and The Spy Who Loved Me nailed the tonal balance perfectly and they’re 2 of the best films in the series as a result.
The expression on that dog was hilarious. 😂😂😂
"if there is a message to be sent, you can do it better by post". This quote by Roger Moore perfectly sums up the 70's bond films: they tried to make the audience enjoy themselves as much as possible, making it the best period of the series in my mind. And the "realistic" stories in the 2010's still make about as much sense as these...
Go watch Disney XD or Cartoon Network you.
In 1963, it was doubtful that anyone watching the Venice scenes in From Russia With Love would have thought the films would have led to this type of comedy in the same setting 16 years later...
Terrence Young, the man who directed From Russia With Love, did not mince words when he expressed his frustration over the decline of the series.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Terence Young has no right to criticize anybody. His own filmography was awful after his Bond movies.
Moonraker is such a guilty pleasure of mine. I don't even rank it in the bottom 5 due to the fact that it was entertaining, hilarious, and memorable, even if for all the wrong reasons lol
No similarity to the novel but for the name of the villain.
Moore was wonderful. He was badass without grinding teeth and intense threatening looks. Played lightly with what todays bonds lack. A sense of humor. RIP Roger.
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To be fair, Brosnan was almost that good too. He was just let down by things like the cringeworthy Aston Martin 'Vanish'.
I am very thankful that I had the opportunity to visit Venice. It’s a very intimate place with all its walkways and bridges. It was a lifelong dream for my Mum to visit and we made that dream come true. She loves Venice.
For being a "Secret" agent, everyone seemed to know who he was.
Especially that southern sheriff in" Live and Let Die"/"The Man With the Golden Gun" what are the odds of them crossing paths on the opposite sides of the world.....
His job description seems a bit vague though. Sometimes he's an undercover agent, but doesn't need a disguise or a pseudonym; other times he's a state sanctioned assassin, but doesn't need a disguise or a pseudonym; and at other times he's a secret courier but doesn't need a disguise or a pseudonym.
Maybe he's just some useless bloke in the Ministry that they're trying to get rid of, but keeps succeeding out if sheer dumb luck.
@@chrisparkes2179 Haha, love the theory 😂
@@chrisparkes2179 He does sometimes use a pseudoym, e.g. James St.John Smythe in AVTAK.
In terms of disguising, I think disguising a 6' tall Scot as Japanese put the producers off the idea of disguises for good (unless you count Bond's regular changes of appearance....)
That’s why Moore played him tongue in cheek
I would love to see Daniel Craig piloting the gondola in No Time to Die.
STFU please.
No, that was kind of dumb.
BEEP BEEP
OUT OF MY WAY
I'M BROODING
I would love to see Daniel Craig looking and acting like James Bond... not some constantly angry, miserable, stiff and awkward Russian henchman with a face like a smacked arse masquerading as 007.
@@AD-kv9kj not a fan of the Craig era, are we?
Love the coffin scene it's like "you wanna play dead then stay dead"
It's an Irish belief that it's NOT a good idea to get into a coffin if you are alive, because you will soon be dead for real afterwards.
Look at Ultimate Warrior, he got put in a coffin and ended up dying a premature death. It hasn't ALWAYS happened though. Sean Connery was in coffins in "You Only Live Twice" and "Diamonds Are Forever".
@@texasrockshillcountry6574 And only fifty years later, he's died.
Ah, the good old times when MP40 was still the weapon of choice of your common thug.
Say what you want about the Germans but they had wonderful weapons in WW2
Bravo! If at that time the character was shooting from the MP40, then he worked for an evil boss. A similar moment is played in the film about Austin Powers, a scene at a disco
Ah yes even in a scene as fucking ridiculous as this there's got to be a gun nerd hasnt there
that coffin came in so handy 🤣
👍🏼😍😘💋🌹 007🔫
Action combined with humor and a touch of romance all that in beautiful Venice🇮🇹.
I love this atmosphere 🤗❤️
After all that fun driving the Bondola he then gets to turn it into a Hovercraft and drive down the street. That's a fun job my friend.
2:40 I love how the dove head movements were synced to the music beat.
BOND ALWAYS PREPARED BUT THAT BOAT RIDING ON THE SIDEWALK HAD ME ROLLING 😂😂😂😂😂
2:42
The greatest character in the James Bond cinematic universe.
Before I check out the time stamp let me guess it’s the double take pigeon
California, Rio, Venice, Amazon forest! This is location-wise really the best film in the series! It feels so exotic! I would say its up there with OHMSS, YOLT, and AVTAK
My favourites are G, O and S.
The legendary double take pigeon
Not to mention the doggie too LOL!
Jorg be
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
2:41
The dogs face has always cracked me up
Great scenes from Roger Moores films and they are just fun to watch! RM was my first Bond in 1985s A View To A Kill. I like all the actors, but RM will always be number 1 for me.
Saint mark's Square how wonderfully beautiful ❤️❤️🥰
Brilliant scene and great film thanks for the memories sir roger.
This one I disagree, this movie is not that good and this scene sucks so bad.
The Daniel Craig Bond films are boring and over reliant on special effects and computer crap.
Say what you like but this came out when I was 10 and it was fantastic. Roger Moore forever!
Saw Moonraker When It First Came Out. Loved It. Who Doesn't Love Roger Moore? RIP.
One can certainly love Roger Moore, but as James Bond he was a disaster. The worst Bond of them all actually.
@@Vinterfrid the best Bond actually
@@Vinterfrid
Roger will haunt you for that heresy and force you to eat a brick of columbian marching powder as recompense 😂
I love how they dont even try to shoot at Bond as his hover-Gondola rises onto the streets. They just stop and admire the sheer audacity of it.
I Just Love Roger Moore James Bond My Sweetheart Darling!!!!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
the waiter pouring beer on the guys head 😂😂
I think this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in movies or in real life, who ever made this up has the greatest imagination of all time.........,good god , I love it!!
Moonraker is criminally underrated.
MOOR LOOKED SO RELAXED IN THE GONDOLA LIKE HE WAS A TOURIST
That drunk smoker at the bridge always gets me.
Alfie Bass - a fine British actor
I'm sure a lot of now grown up kids would have remembered that day the gondola drove around St Marks Square...
This movies were sooo hilarious😂 I love them!!!
God this is so much better than the modern shite.
1:18 Abraham Basalinsky - better known as Alfie Bass. A great actor and a funny man.
When Bond was still fun.
no, when the Bond franchise was comedy action; Fleming never wanted this
@@jjrj8568 True.
When Bond was fucking stupid you mean
Is it true the drinker guy is the same one as TSWL and FOYO?
Yes it is lol
I came here to check this after watching The Spy Who Loved Me and now Moonraker
Victor Tourjansky, looking very much like Douglas Adams.
@@chrisparkes2179 No, Tourjansky died in 1976.
Watching the TWINE boat chase again the other day I couldn't help thinking it would have been a nice touch to have had him in the restaurant Bond drives through.
Visited that square and the pigeons are friendly coming to you .
Toujours un plaisir de me revoir dans cette séquence , en tant que pilote du hors bord .
Déjà 43 ans …
This was such a laugh at the cinema I actually appreciate moonraker more now if you just go with it, it's a very enjoyable film
People get stumped by the complete absurdity of it. Once you get in line with what the film is going for, rather than deriding it, it’s actually one of the better made films. Not my favourite, not by a long shot, but still cracking entertainment!
Who thinks R. Moore is the best bond?
Not in this crappy movie. The Spy Who Loved Me maybe.
may be the comic bond
Yeah Moonracker sucks. Specially the end of it.
RIP R. Moore
Sean Connery followed by TimothyDalton then Daniel Craig and Piers Brosnan. Roger Moore possibly beats George Lazenby but only just.
You may criticise the great double-taking pigeon, but you can’t deny it is the most famous pigeon in all of cinema.
This is probably the funniest thing I think I’ve ever seen
I see no mention in the comments about the guy who can't believe what he's seeing and looks at his bottle. This guy does the same thing in three Bond films. A short but classic addition to these films.
The Roger Moore Bond films were full of gadgets and comedy. I enjoyed all the gadgets.
What an action sceen!
As a movie, Moonraker is the pits, but Roger Moore was always fantastic playing Bond in his own way.
It's still better and more entertaining than Die Another Day.
@@treadstone1970 than For Your Eyes Only
The music playing in the background when Bond drives the gondola on land is Johann Strauss II’s "Tritsch-Tratsch’ Polka”.
Great scape of the deaht no doubts ! Thank you a funny moment. Daniel.
I loved Moonraker and could never get why so many loved to hate it. Yes filled with corn but most Bond films were.
Exactly. It’s a very self-aware film. I mean out of all the Bond films, the plot might be the stupidest (not including SPECTRE) so it just goes full force with the absurd comedy and it absolutely works under that viewpoint! A great comedy-adventure!
Roger moore movies really wanted to be the parody of the Sean Connery films!
Hahahaha
Roger often did Carry On Bond but thats fine by me. He had to be different to make his own mark.
Roger Moore was as different agent than Connery as 2 bookends
So funny! Forget rationality. This pure entertainment.
Moonraker is vastly under-rated. It is lighthearted and fun despite the villainous Hugo Drax.
2:32
That guy with the wine when he saw it, he'd be like...
*"I gotta lay off the wine."*
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
2:48 Lewis Gilbert
Moore's Bond is always tinged with comedic moments. Too much I must say.
They didn't have the kind of technology to simulate the kind stunts and action possible these days but they did a great job. Always a joy to watch, especially with all the gadgets used
2:34 I couldnt stop laughing😂
Miss the days Bond when Bond was fun.
THE DOG WITH ITS JAW ON THE FLOOR
Nothing like Q's gadgets to save the day.
This is what I grew up with Bond in a motorized Gondola lol.
Is it just me or is the guy with gun's face distorted in the thumbnail ?
Its not just u
It's because he is pulling a swastika face.
Favorite Bond chase scene.
The dog and pigeon are both like "You are seeing this, right?!?"
OMG TRAFFIC LIGHTS IN THIS SCENE
The Q section always have the best toys.
RIP Moore
👍🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻🙂
this is more like spoof! How those movies could be taken serious?????????
Short answer, they weren’t meant to be. With the Roger Moore era they just wanted to make fun movies
@@EditedAF987 so in 70-s they just switched to the comedy genre?
Gleb Drach kind of. There were still quite a few serious and suspenseful moments though (Bond’s torture in the centrifuge, Bond killing Anya’s lover, Corinne being killed by Drax’s Doberman’s etc)
@@EditedAF987 and what about that scene in A view to kill when during car chase in Paris the car got injured and first turned into convertible and got a hit In the middle and fell apart so Bond was driving front part on two wheels! You could see same scenes in 1960-s French comedies. Here it looked so goofy !
The Moore films have to be the more cartoonish Bond films...! 😆
I'm looking forward to visiting Venice next month to see this action on the river.
A more interesting fact is that it took six tries for the gondola/car to drive out of the canal without throwing Moore into it and they had only six identical suits for him. If the sixth shot had failed, director Lewis Gilbert would have needed to reshoot the scene the next day and prepare more suits as well as wait for the light. The sixth take worked!!
Let me get this straight, they were trying to shoot a land gondola and they were busy worrying about having extra suits prepared for Moore? lol
@@theyellowlightsaber3193 The gondola didn't leave the canal the way Lewis Gilbert (the film's director) had wanted and every time it did, Moore was dunked into the canal, ruining a suit, as well as the take. Knowing, or suspecting, it would take several tries, some six identical suits were made for Moore and every time he fell into the water he had to get out, get dried off and get both his costume as well as make-up and hair dried. Plus, it was a daytime scene, so the sun had to be out. It took time to prepare each take, but there were only a finite amount of suits. Apparently it succeeded on the last suit!
@@tnecklover My point was surely a suit jacket was enough since for the long shot thats all the audience would be seeing, seemed a waste of time worrying about an entire suit set when the risk of becoming wet was imminent.
@@theyellowlightsaber3193 They wanted the scene to be as realistic as they could...for continuity's sake...that meant Moore's suit had to remain the same. They were silk by the way!
@@tnecklover Yes I appreciate that but like I said only the jacket was going to be seen so the rest didnt really matter.
Well that's one way to go around the beautiful city of Venice 😆
The Roger Moore Bond films are just so much fun, and to me he'll always be the one i think of as "original Bond" more so than Sean Connery. Even though i'm sure plenty of people would hate my guts for that statement, just had to put it out there. Also, as a Bond fan i obviously clicked on this scene to watch the pigeon.
The best gadget bond, i think roger moores take on bond was fun and was not to be taken to seriously in certain situtions bond lacked humour in sean connerys bond so roger brought it, if you wanted a more serious bond like roger moore watch the saint that to was really good.
Lead assassin: "You mean we were supposed to shoot Bond and not just fire in his general direction?"
He’s just thrown the cigarette into the Venice canal
Pretty silly, but still better than the new Bonds computerized crap.
I think they mostly still do real stunts?
Dude I love that thumbnail.
Marina Militare dal' Italia!!! 🇮🇹🇮🇹
So much fun in those days
The scary thing is that the water is their sewers in Venice. Very smelly.
And no doubt, Roger Moore was told to keep his lips closed at all times if he fell in...
I wonder if this is peak Moore. Did it get sillier than this. Once you’ve gone the full “man-thinks-he’s-hallucinating-and-blames-his-drink”, plus double-take pigeon, I’m not sure there’s anywhere more camp that you can take things.
Imagine this scene inserted into a Daniel Craig Bond movie.
the new james bond films are a load of over dramatic rubbish, the best bond films are full of comedy and charm. craigy is too serious
007 ✔minha série favorita
Bond's Gondora changed Hovercraft!!!