FOR THOSE WATCHING ALONG AT HOME! Next episode is 1967's _Casino Royale_ , starring Peter Sellers, Orson Welles, David Niven and a whole bunch of mess. Spoilers to our episode: you uh... really don't need to watch this one.
@@swordfishspike7636 no, he plays one of the Bonds. There are several James Bonds in that movie -- something about decoys I think? I don't think they ever said which one was the real one.
Gotta say guys this really has resparked my love for these movies and especially in the changing zietguiest of the world it is wonderful to see some genuine enjoyment still come from these movies.
I love Matt going off about Bond’s suit as a parallel to Graham going off about the sets. Side note I’ve seen 0 minutes of any Bond film and I’m loving this podcast.
Weirdly, I think this was the movie that first introduced me to racism. My dad (white) married my mom (Chinese) in the 70's. This movie was...rough for them. They both liked it, but recognized the awfulness of it. My dad, a big Bond fan, especially loved the theme song, and he kept a cassette tape of it and many other great Bond themes. I can't remember at what point I asked him about watching the movie, and he kind of sighed, and said something to the effect of "OK. So...you can watch it, but just like...maybe with me or your mom." So we did, and they kind of cringed at it a bunch and rolled their eyes at Bond being Asian, and like...we never really had the "talk" per se, about racism. But that was a big formative way I learned about how people make these weird lines in society, and do crazy awful shit with them.
Hmm.. i dont remember every detail of the movie so there may well be done racist stuff in there.. But I don't think I agree with the idea that James dressing up as asiwn is inherently racist. If he needs to blend in it makes sense... That said the makeup obviously isn't very convincing
@@MaMastoast Not to excuse white westerners from this racist naivete, but after watching films from Hong Kong pretty close to the same era, I found many of those playing similar racist schtick with Japanese characters (e.g., The Chinese Connection w/Bruce Lee). A reminder that every culture is guilty of racism in different ways and to varying degrees. The world had and still has lots of growing up to do.
OK, clearly the 'stirred not shaken' was a test for Bond (just like the wooden leg thing was for Henderson). A SPECTRE spy would have corrected Henderson and been shot, whereas of course Bond is far too British to be impolite and complain about anything :p
The actress that plays Ling in the pre title sequence was also in Casino Royale 2006 as one of the card players sitting across from Le Chiffre when they are playing cards on Le Chiffre's yacht...her character in Casino Royale is Madame Wu
This isn't the only Ian Flemming / Roald Dahl collaboration. Flemming also wrote the novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Dahl and director Ken Hughes co-wrote the movie adaption; Albert Broccoli produced.
Also, I think I found out why so many people were dubbed in these movies: Apparently, filming in confined spaces with old movie cameras was a nightmare for sound design
Lois Maxwell said in one of the commentaries that she imagined the backstory for Miss Moneypenny being that she and James Bond and briefly had a fling in the past but they decided that it wouldn't work out. She does a wonderful job with the banter that no other actress has been able to do.
I just wanted to let you guys know. I love experiencing media through you. I've never really fallen in love with the bond movies, I love listening to the two of you talk about them. I've never cared that much about wrestling, listening to Graham, Adam, and Beej laugh and talk, brings me so much joy. I really don't have time to play magic, hearing all of you talk about it, feels like hanging out with friends. Thank you. You all express such earnest enthusiasm about the things you love, it is infectious.
I like Matt's analysis of Bond and Moneypenny's relationship, but Lois Maxwell's personal headcanon was that B &M had had a lovely weekend together once, and then agreed for work reasons to not continue it. The flirting is a reminder of their time together, or a way to keep it going.
This movie is my personal favorite, solely because as blofeld is escaping from the base, you can see the cat is desperately trying to get away while the pyrotechnics go off. It also succeeds, and wanders through the background of one shot in what I'm pretty sure is a continuity error.
While it doesn’t change each episode, I appreciate the design choice of Graham’s eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth being pointed, and Matt’s being rounded/squared.
Kissy Suzuki, the only Bond girl to never be named in the whole movie Edit: they wanted Mie Hama for the bigger Aki role because she was the more famous actress in Japan
Aside from the problematic disguise, which is much more explainable as a spy thing than the rampant sexism, I actually really enjoyed this film. Looking forward to hearing this discussion. In the plane scene being discussed at 1:07:00 , the shots out of the windows of the plane are CLEARLY England and not Japan
I have been in love with LRR for a few years now. I watch as much of their content as I am able to fit into my life. Every time they do something that intersects with something else I love I do an involuntarily squeal of joy. Keep it up LRR, you all rock.
PLEASE review “O.K. Connery” AKA “Operation Kid Brother”, the 007 Spoof that features Sean Connery’s Real Life Brother, Neil Connery, as 007’s Brother.
If, like me, you were listening to the theme song and wondering "where have I heard this before?" the answer is Millennium by Robbie Williams. Also, regarding Jan Werich, you can actually see some of him in several scenes, most notably around the 1h37m mark where the top of his (very much not bald) head is visible behind the chair.
I totally intended to call this out, and forgot. Millennium was in constant rotation on my playlist back when that was a song that was at all relevant!
Really enjoying these episodes! I've watched only a handful of Bond movies so I'm relying on your synopses, but that's okay; I think you're giving the right amount of explanation without getting too bogged down in smaller details. Happy to keep watching! I'd like to ask, since you've talked about Austin Powers a bit, if you would be interested in making an episode about it. The first one pretty much -is- a James Bond movie, just one that doesn't take itself seriously. I think it would be neat to discuss it, and maybe expand on how it deconstructs the tropes found in Bond. Think about it! Have a good one :)
First off this series is lovely, I've been going through it the last few days and every episode is delightful, but also it's like rediscovering an old friend. I remember loading ready run from some of the stuff on escapist years ago. So cool to find it again.
Enjoying these episodes tremendously! I just so happened to watch each and every (yeah, every) Bond film a couple of months ago and hearing your guys take on them is fun and insightful. One major trope they introduced back in Goldfinger was 'Bad guy gets punched hard by Bond, but then shrugs it off with a grin'. Great stuff, thanks all involved!
Most Bond moment: M's office in the submarine. The Gyrojet in the cigarette is good, too, but the submarine is so silly and classy at the same time it epitomizes the Bondian ethos. I think the Incredibles does the best job of paying homage to the secret volcano lair without going full parody. But GoldenEye also takes a lot of cues from this secret base, particularly in the part where they never would have found it if they hadn't been attacked!
A lot of the Japanese fanfare would have been in-jokes as it had only been 15 years since American and British forces had ended their occupation of the country. Many service members came back with stories to tell of their fondness for Japanese culture.
On a largely unrelated note, the plane crash that could have killed the whole production was really terrifying. It was a really violent case of clear weather turbulence, so the weather/conditions were seemingly perfect. But Mt. Fuji creates some really violent updrafts when it's hot, the strength of which ripped both the airplanes wings clear the fuck off, sending the whole plane careening towards the ground. Everybody onboard is doomed, everybody knows and nobody can do anything about it, fucking nightmarish.
Aki's 2000GT convertible was actually built on set. Toyotoa delivered the two cars, and on a first test they realized that Connery was too tall to get into it or sit inside it, so, on set, they grabbed an angle grinder and cut the roof off.
Re: 15:25, the prequel novel "Forever and a Day" by Anthony Horowitz opens with 007 getting shot to death during a mission. Then, in the next chapter, we meet 007's replacement, a newly-promoted 00 called James Bond.
I finally broke down and bought the 007 collection which showed up Friday. I am now up to here in my catch up, and watching You Only Live Twice I realized something. This is GTA Online Tokyo. You have trolling people with a chanook and dropping them in the ocean. The OP new flying machine pwning noobs in buzzards. I feel like most of the GTA online content owes a lot to this movie.
Bought a used discography and roped my brother into revisiting each movie :P big fan of these and look forward to it each week. Thanks for the content!
My personal Bond moment in this film is when Aki asks Bond if he slept with Brandt and, even though he did, he says "Perish the thought", like the very idea disgusts him.
The funny thing about the Bond Is Dead fakeouts is that Ian Fleming is reported to have hated Bond so much after he got popular that he started killing Bond off at the end of every novel, and then at the start of the next one inventing some (increasingly absurd) excuse for Bond to not be dead.
2:41 "We want to keep to mostly 90ish minutes" *looks at video length* - I ain't complaining. The more time I can spend listening to you guys banter on the happier I am.
Very accurate in the interchangeability of Aki and Kissy. I can't think of any other Bond movie maybe except for Diamonds Are Forever where you can switch the two lead actresses and you still end up with the same movie. There was no reason for them to be separate characters other than the formula the producers told Roald Dahl to follow which had been established in Goldfinger and then perfected in Thunderball, three Bond girls in the main plot, two pro Bond and one villainess. The villainess of course dies, while one of the pro Bond girls becomes the sacrificial lamb.
Not going to lie, this is my favorite of the Connery Bond films. Whenever I explain it to people, I always try to include the explanation “The finale involves an army of ninja laying siege to a volcano super fortress! It’s awesome!”
I love that the episodes are getting longer and longer :) first you we like “we’re out of time..” now I see this one getting over the 2hr mark. Soon you’ll be competing with SwS for episode length;) MOAR Content!! Keep it up pls !
And here's where things get exciting for me. After this until about the Brosnan era, I've either not seen them or have very hazy memories of what happens in the movies. Excited to experience things with you two even more going forward!
1:15:30 That reminds me of a (possibly apocryphal) story about the comedian Gallagher at a show he did in Rochester, Minnesota. Rochester being the home of the, fairly well-known Mayo Clinic. The story goes that during his set, he had a heart-attack, and there were a bunch of doctors in the audience, many of which supposedly rushed the stage to save him. While I never gotten a confirmation that this actually happened, I don't doubt something like that could/would happen there. Like literally half of the folks who live in that town have some working connection with Mayo. The other half are with IBM branch there (home of the highly beloved and still used AS/400 mainframe system.)
Walther PPK isn't just canonically standard issue, the reason Fleming had the PPK recommended to him is because it was an incredibly common pistol at the time in reality.
Great to hear your thoughts on You Only Live Twice as it is one of my favorite Bond films. This was the first Bond film I saw back in early 90's, so for the seven year old kid it was an introduction to Bond films, a first look into Japan and its culture and it fit great into the whole ninja boom of the times with Turtles.
25:10 I think it's important to point out here that Samantha Bond and her portrayal of Moneypenny did not come right after Lois Maxwell. In between, there was a massive, quite problematic shift in power dynamics between Bond and Moneypenny when Caroline Bliss took over the role. She would do anything for Bond, and he would abuse that, e.g. making her arrange little unauthorized detours in the travel scheduling for his mission, which potentially could get her fired. What they did in GoldenEye was a necessary correction. Needless to say, though, no other Moneypenny would ever come close to Lois Maxwell, and her on-screen chemistry with Connery was particularly great.
Oh dear. I watched this on a whim, and it was too fantastic, and now I need to go back and catch up, and I'm just not sure where I'll find the time. Like, I probably will, but...like...yeah.
Absolutely love this film, and been really enjoying these reviews. I've started watching alongside you guys now too; anxious to hear your thoughts on Lazenby!
Bond doesn't need to tell Tiger the temperature that sake should be. But he did want to tell him that he knew the right temperature that sake should be, and appreciated it. He's being a cocky show off. It really matches well with the vodka snobbery.
One of my favorite moments, and maybe not so much for Donald Pleasence, is when the cat starts flipping out and digs their claws into Blofeld's arm... hard! (1:55:25)
My favourite Bond moment in this film was him carefully putting down the statue he just broke in half. All in all, I really enjoyed this one. It does what Thunderball tried but makes it work. Next movie will be an interesting one for me. On the one hand, I was very fond of OHMSS when I did a full viewing of the series 8 years ago. On the other, I've yet to disagree with you guys on this set of viewings.
Maybe not the best Bond movie objectively, but it remains my personal favourite. I think you have to take it that Bond's Japanese make over is only ever intended to fool observers of the village at extreme distance. What makes it further silly is that he apparently lives/ sleeps/ trains in this make-up and wig for several days - better they had simply given Bond's hair a restyle and body waxed him, as he's already dark and tanned. I do love the Team America parody of this scene :)
As well as his children's books (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, etc), Roald Dahl also wrote "Tales of the Unexpected" - a series of short stories with (usually dark and sometimes comic) twist endings, so he didn't just write children's stories. He also wrote the screenplay for the film of another of Fleming's works "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"!
Totally agree with you on the whole Aki & Kissy situation. Also, even if you wanted to have the death in the film, there could've been an easy explanation that respects both characters. Have Kissy marry Bond and pose as his wife, and after a few bonding scenes together as friends while they're sleeping together in Ninja Village for appearances (no bedroom shenanigans) she dies in the same way and Aki has to replace her last minute. As a fellow comrade, Aki is now more motivated to find the person behind it all, as is Bond.
I was certain that the yellow two-rotor Canadian Coast Guard helicopters were Sea Kings, but now I realize that whenever they were talking about the Sea King replacements in the Canadian media, they probably showed the completely wrong helicopter. (Which they were talking about replacing since the 80s and only replaced in 2018! Military procurement is super messed up in Canada.)
Love the work you put into these- it's making me look at these films (which I love) with a new critical eye. To whit- in the opening- whose plan is this? The gunmen must be in on it, right? And the responding police to some extent!?! All for the benefit of that one guy with binoculars in the harbor.
Yes! And the M.I. members are in the Navy because the very first British code breaking office, back in WW I was part of the Navy, intercepting German naval transmissions.
It's less a case of 'missing something' and more a case of 'we don't have TIME to mention ALL of this cool trivia'; they gotta draw the line somewhere, and sorry if your fave fun fact didn't make the cut (to be fair, some of *mine* didn't) but that's why you comment - to share it with us in the 'Also...' format!
1:44:10 It's not actually saying "C C C P", this is cyrillic script for SSSR: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (Союз Советских Социалистических Республик), better known in the West as USSR: United Soviet Socialist Republics
As a kid, it always confused me that the actor that plays General Gogol is many James Bond movies, first began in From Russia with Love as a Spectre agent. I thought he was meant to be Gogol in that movie.
This is the best of all 007 movies because it has: • Spacecraft • A hidden base in a volcano • Ninja • A gyrocopter in a dozen suitcases • A hidden base in a volcano • Donald Pleasence with a scar • _A hidden base in a volcano_
FOR THOSE WATCHING ALONG AT HOME!
Next episode is 1967's _Casino Royale_ , starring Peter Sellers, Orson Welles, David Niven and a whole bunch of mess. Spoilers to our episode: you uh... really don't need to watch this one.
I really don't remember much about Casino Royale '67, except feeling annoyed and confused while watching it. Isn't the villain played by Woody Allen?
@@swordfishspike7636 Prescient, innit?
What, not the 1954 TV adaptation starring Barry Nelson and Peter Lorre?
(No, really, that exists. Check out the Cinema Snob's video on it, it's wild.)
@@swordfishspike7636 no, he plays one of the Bonds. There are several James Bonds in that movie -- something about decoys I think? I don't think they ever said which one was the real one.
wait... is not "on her majesty's secret service"?
39 1/2 minutes, Graham says Rock "The Dwayne" Johnson. I laughed so hard I hard to go back a minute to actually hear what I missed.
Same
The one where James Bond disguises himself as a Vulcan.
Counterpoint: He looks more like a Klingon to me
@@CmdrUD87 Original series connoisseur, I see.
James Bond is _clearly_ a Romulan (in my best Comic Book Guy voice).
I legitimately look forward to Mondays now because of this show
Ditto.
Same here
Same.
Hello Matt Wiggins in disguise.
I think you'll find that a giant minibar is actually just a bar.
@@SgtDax only if it is the largest size a bar can be.
"a HUGE boulder the size of a small boulder"
Gotta say guys this really has resparked my love for these movies and especially in the changing zietguiest of the world it is wonderful to see some genuine enjoyment still come from these movies.
I love Matt going off about Bond’s suit as a parallel to Graham going off about the sets.
Side note I’ve seen 0 minutes of any Bond film and I’m loving this podcast.
I now want The Rock to be a henchman in a Bond film.
well, we got Bautista in that role. Close enough?
It'll do!
I feel like Roman Reigns or Drew McIntyre would be great "colorful strong henchen"
@@TwilitLugia the usos would be fun and less expected.
IT’S ME, BOND!
IT WAS ME ALL ALONG!
EVEN MY IMMEDIATE FAMILY DIDN’T KNOW!
You made my day with "He looks like a Romulan" I just bust my gut laughing
Weirdly, I think this was the movie that first introduced me to racism.
My dad (white) married my mom (Chinese) in the 70's. This movie was...rough for them. They both liked it, but recognized the awfulness of it. My dad, a big Bond fan, especially loved the theme song, and he kept a cassette tape of it and many other great Bond themes. I can't remember at what point I asked him about watching the movie, and he kind of sighed, and said something to the effect of "OK. So...you can watch it, but just like...maybe with me or your mom."
So we did, and they kind of cringed at it a bunch and rolled their eyes at Bond being Asian, and like...we never really had the "talk" per se, about racism. But that was a big formative way I learned about how people make these weird lines in society, and do crazy awful shit with them.
I'm a sucker for the entire soundtrack myself, but I agree with you.
This is a really interesting experience thank you for being willing to share it
Hmm.. i dont remember every detail of the movie so there may well be done racist stuff in there..
But I don't think I agree with the idea that James dressing up as asiwn is inherently racist. If he needs to blend in it makes sense...
That said the makeup obviously isn't very convincing
@@MaMastoast Not to excuse white westerners from this racist naivete, but after watching films from Hong Kong pretty close to the same era, I found many of those playing similar racist schtick with Japanese characters (e.g., The Chinese Connection w/Bruce Lee). A reminder that every culture is guilty of racism in different ways and to varying degrees. The world had and still has lots of growing up to do.
The actress who plays Money Penny in Golden Eye is Samantha Bond. Yes, they were aware of the irony at the time.
OK, clearly the 'stirred not shaken' was a test for Bond (just like the wooden leg thing was for Henderson). A SPECTRE spy would have corrected Henderson and been shot, whereas of course Bond is far too British to be impolite and complain about anything :p
The actress that plays Ling in the pre title sequence was also in Casino Royale 2006 as one of the card players sitting across from Le Chiffre when they are playing cards on Le Chiffre's yacht...her character in Casino Royale is Madame Wu
Wow. That's nuts. Also casino Royale had an actress who had a bit part in Thunderball
@@Tabish29 that’s correct! She’s in the casino next to Bond when he beats the guy and takes his car.
That's awesome that they cast actresses from some of the older movies.
This isn't the only Ian Flemming / Roald Dahl collaboration. Flemming also wrote the novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Dahl and director Ken Hughes co-wrote the movie adaption; Albert Broccoli produced.
Also, I think I found out why so many people were dubbed in these movies: Apparently, filming in confined spaces with old movie cameras was a nightmare for sound design
Lois Maxwell said in one of the commentaries that she imagined the backstory for Miss Moneypenny being that she and James Bond and briefly had a fling in the past but they decided that it wouldn't work out. She does a wonderful job with the banter that no other actress has been able to do.
I like how this is realized at the end of The World is not enough .... And Skyfall if I'm not mistaken.
They defintely seem more like just friends (who possibly have had a fling) flirting with each other for fun.
As soon as I heard the surname Maivia, I became unreasonably delighted. Thankyou Graham, that was amazing to learn.
I just wanted to let you guys know. I love experiencing media through you. I've never really fallen in love with the bond movies, I love listening to the two of you talk about them. I've never cared that much about wrestling, listening to Graham, Adam, and Beej laugh and talk, brings me so much joy. I really don't have time to play magic, hearing all of you talk about it, feels like hanging out with friends. Thank you. You all express such earnest enthusiasm about the things you love, it is infectious.
I like Matt's analysis of Bond and Moneypenny's relationship, but Lois Maxwell's personal headcanon was that B &M had had a lovely weekend together once, and then agreed for work reasons to not continue it. The flirting is a reminder of their time together, or a way to keep it going.
Very much indicated during Skyfall
This movie is my personal favorite, solely because as blofeld is escaping from the base, you can see the cat is desperately trying to get away while the pyrotechnics go off. It also succeeds, and wanders through the background of one shot in what I'm pretty sure is a continuity error.
Apparently that's true to life. The actual cat freaked out and it took days for the crew to find it again, it was hiding in the rafters or something.
I love the movie prop on Matts side each episode :)
While it doesn’t change each episode, I appreciate the design choice of Graham’s eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth being pointed, and Matt’s being rounded/squared.
Kissy Suzuki, the only Bond girl to never be named in the whole movie
Edit: they wanted Mie Hama for the bigger Aki role because she was the more famous actress in Japan
If Graham loves IMPDB this much, it's going to blow his mind when he finds IMCDB.
High Chief Pita Maiavia no-sold a hit with a statue in 1967? He's killing kayfabe!
SEND FOR THE MAN
I believe Dahl and Flemming were friends, and he was brought on to the film, because Dahl was also an Intelligence Officer, like Fleming.
You'd think it would be Universal Exports, but Bond "Mr Fisher" actually said he was from Empire Chemicals. And he does make a deal with Osata.
...for a supply of monosodium glutamate, no less.
Sean Connery- You Only Come Back Twice
I have mixed feelings about a lot of the Bond films, particularly this one, but you guys are making me love and appreciate them in new ways.
"He looks like a Romulan."
Dead. Exactly, *exactly* right.
"It can save your life this cigarette!" - Tiger Tanaka
Aside from the problematic disguise, which is much more explainable as a spy thing than the rampant sexism, I actually really enjoyed this film. Looking forward to hearing this discussion.
In the plane scene being discussed at 1:07:00 , the shots out of the windows of the plane are CLEARLY England and not Japan
I have been in love with LRR for a few years now. I watch as much of their content as I am able to fit into my life. Every time they do something that intersects with something else I love I do an involuntarily squeal of joy. Keep it up LRR, you all rock.
You missed the best line. From Ling, "Darling, I give you very best duck!"
"In Japan, men come first and women come second."
"Or sometimes not at all."
I am GLAD I am not the only one who regularly draws on the bizarre Landfill humor bit in Beerfest as a point of reference for this exact situation
PLEASE review “O.K. Connery” AKA “Operation Kid Brother”, the 007 Spoof that features Sean Connery’s Real Life Brother, Neil Connery, as 007’s Brother.
Also known as "Operation Double 007" and the MST3K version is the way to watch it. It's free on youtube.
I think it was From Russia With Love episode they mention that movie but said they would not do a review of it
"I love you."
"Oh, good. I can trust you. (I love you too)"
If, like me, you were listening to the theme song and wondering "where have I heard this before?" the answer is Millennium by Robbie Williams.
Also, regarding Jan Werich, you can actually see some of him in several scenes, most notably around the 1h37m mark where the top of his (very much not bald) head is visible behind the chair.
I totally intended to call this out, and forgot. Millennium was in constant rotation on my playlist back when that was a song that was at all relevant!
The business about Henderson playing Blofeld is one of several reasons Diamonds Are Forever isn’t in my head canon.
I would love to see this series continue post bond to cover bond spoofs and other fantastic spy films
Really enjoying these episodes! I've watched only a handful of Bond movies so I'm relying on your synopses, but that's okay; I think you're giving the right amount of explanation without getting too bogged down in smaller details. Happy to keep watching!
I'd like to ask, since you've talked about Austin Powers a bit, if you would be interested in making an episode about it. The first one pretty much -is- a James Bond movie, just one that doesn't take itself seriously. I think it would be neat to discuss it, and maybe expand on how it deconstructs the tropes found in Bond. Think about it! Have a good one :)
in that case what about "Our Man Flint" in that Flint runs into 0008.
First off this series is lovely, I've been going through it the last few days and every episode is delightful, but also it's like rediscovering an old friend. I remember loading ready run from some of the stuff on escapist years ago. So cool to find it again.
44:05, Oh that's amazing. This sub section of "weird shit the films did to make crap work" is my favorite part of these podccasts XD;.
1:30:56
I think Robert Downey Jr. would approve of that distinction. After all, Connery is just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
Enjoying these episodes tremendously! I just so happened to watch each and every (yeah, every) Bond film a couple of months ago and hearing your guys take on them is fun and insightful. One major trope they introduced back in Goldfinger was 'Bad guy gets punched hard by Bond, but then shrugs it off with a grin'. Great stuff, thanks all involved!
Most Bond moment: M's office in the submarine. The Gyrojet in the cigarette is good, too, but the submarine is so silly and classy at the same time it epitomizes the Bondian ethos.
I think the Incredibles does the best job of paying homage to the secret volcano lair without going full parody. But GoldenEye also takes a lot of cues from this secret base, particularly in the part where they never would have found it if they hadn't been attacked!
A lot of the Japanese fanfare would have been in-jokes as it had only been 15 years since American and British forces had ended their occupation of the country. Many service members came back with stories to tell of their fondness for Japanese culture.
Looks like Klaus (Ed Bishop) was both in Houston in 1967 and the Nevada desert in 1971.
Love this podcast, it fufills both my wiki-diving and movie review needs. Keep 'em coming!
On a largely unrelated note, the plane crash that could have killed the whole production was really terrifying. It was a really violent case of clear weather turbulence, so the weather/conditions were seemingly perfect. But Mt. Fuji creates some really violent updrafts when it's hot, the strength of which ripped both the airplanes wings clear the fuck off, sending the whole plane careening towards the ground.
Everybody onboard is doomed, everybody knows and nobody can do anything about it, fucking nightmarish.
Graham, let me guess, your favorite remote office is the one built on the tilted ship (Man With the Golden Gun I think)
It certainly is mine. :D
Well yes
It's a very good set
"I'm so performatively mad, Matt!..." XD
Aki's 2000GT convertible was actually built on set.
Toyotoa delivered the two cars, and on a first test they realized that Connery was too tall to get into it or sit inside it, so, on set, they grabbed an angle grinder and cut the roof off.
Re: 15:25, the prequel novel "Forever and a Day" by Anthony Horowitz opens with 007 getting shot to death during a mission. Then, in the next chapter, we meet 007's replacement, a newly-promoted 00 called James Bond.
I am 100% at work, and had been waiting for this to post!
I have to admit that my mind never accepted the death/replacement of the wife to the pint of not remembering it.
I finally broke down and bought the 007 collection which showed up Friday. I am now up to here in my catch up, and watching You Only Live Twice I realized something. This is GTA Online Tokyo. You have trolling people with a chanook and dropping them in the ocean. The OP new flying machine pwning noobs in buzzards. I feel like most of the GTA online content owes a lot to this movie.
I kinda feel sorry for that cat in Blofeld's arms.
Look what you've done to Mister Bigglesworth!
It ran off as it was terrified by the explosions, and had to be hunted down!
@@davidjames579 They had to bring in a SECOND cat to continue the scenes!
@@blofeld39 I believed one was giving sedatives' to calm it, but it just fell asleep!
@@davidjames579 Probably helped with keeping it still between camera setups, if nothing else! :-P
Bought a used discography and roped my brother into revisiting each movie :P big fan of these and look forward to it each week. Thanks for the content!
My personal Bond moment in this film is when Aki asks Bond if he slept with Brandt and, even though he did, he says "Perish the thought", like the very idea disgusts him.
you guys are great. keep up the good work . been a bond fan for forty years so thank you for your good work.
... M's office has a window? In a submarine?
Looking at WHAT?!?
Other submarines of course
@@diegodoumecq5144 Yeah, it does seem like Tokyo Harbor was kinda crowded.
There is no window.
The funny thing about the Bond Is Dead fakeouts is that Ian Fleming is reported to have hated Bond so much after he got popular that he started killing Bond off at the end of every novel, and then at the start of the next one inventing some (increasingly absurd) excuse for Bond to not be dead.
2:41 "We want to keep to mostly 90ish minutes" *looks at video length* - I ain't complaining. The more time I can spend listening to you guys banter on the happier I am.
I look forward to these every week!
I love Nancy Sinatra on the theme song. I think YOLT is my favorite overall soundtrack of the Bond movies. One of John Barry's best scores.
Film's music is like the sunrise. Japan is the ''land of the rising sun''.
Very accurate in the interchangeability of Aki and Kissy. I can't think of any other Bond movie maybe except for Diamonds Are Forever where you can switch the two lead actresses and you still end up with the same movie. There was no reason for them to be separate characters other than the formula the producers told Roald Dahl to follow which had been established in Goldfinger and then perfected in Thunderball, three Bond girls in the main plot, two pro Bond and one villainess. The villainess of course dies, while one of the pro Bond girls becomes the sacrificial lamb.
Not going to lie, this is my favorite of the Connery Bond films. Whenever I explain it to people, I always try to include the explanation “The finale involves an army of ninja laying siege to a volcano super fortress! It’s awesome!”
I love that the episodes are getting longer and longer :) first you we like “we’re out of time..” now I see this one getting over the 2hr mark. Soon you’ll be competing with SwS for episode length;) MOAR Content!! Keep it up pls !
I've finally caught up with this series! I look forward to Mondays now, especially looking forward to the newer films that I grew up watching
And here's where things get exciting for me. After this until about the Brosnan era, I've either not seen them or have very hazy memories of what happens in the movies.
Excited to experience things with you two even more going forward!
Graham: Spoilers, I think that was a huge mistake
Graham 2 episodes from now: OHMSS is really good!
18:10 "...recruited from the British Navy..." ~agent XXX in TSWLM
Love the show, excited to listen
1:15:30 That reminds me of a (possibly apocryphal) story about the comedian Gallagher at a show he did in Rochester, Minnesota. Rochester being the home of the, fairly well-known Mayo Clinic. The story goes that during his set, he had a heart-attack, and there were a bunch of doctors in the audience, many of which supposedly rushed the stage to save him.
While I never gotten a confirmation that this actually happened, I don't doubt something like that could/would happen there. Like literally half of the folks who live in that town have some working connection with Mayo. The other half are with IBM branch there (home of the highly beloved and still used AS/400 mainframe system.)
Walther PPK isn't just canonically standard issue, the reason Fleming had the PPK recommended to him is because it was an incredibly common pistol at the time in reality.
Great to hear your thoughts on You Only Live Twice as it is one of my favorite Bond films. This was the first Bond film I saw back in early 90's, so for the seven year old kid it was an introduction to Bond films, a first look into Japan and its culture and it fit great into the whole ninja boom of the times with Turtles.
I forgot why i watch LRR rewatches. Its not for the film itself, its for the people. Great content.
Love the series!
This is one of the best Bond movies. Pure fun with loads of cool FX and action.
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I think it's important to point out here that Samantha Bond and her portrayal of Moneypenny did not come right after Lois Maxwell. In between, there was a massive, quite problematic shift in power dynamics between Bond and Moneypenny when Caroline Bliss took over the role. She would do anything for Bond, and he would abuse that, e.g. making her arrange little unauthorized detours in the travel scheduling for his mission, which potentially could get her fired. What they did in GoldenEye was a necessary correction.
Needless to say, though, no other Moneypenny would ever come close to Lois Maxwell, and her on-screen chemistry with Connery was particularly great.
Oh dear. I watched this on a whim, and it was too fantastic, and now I need to go back and catch up, and I'm just not sure where I'll find the time. Like, I probably will, but...like...yeah.
Absolutely love this film, and been really enjoying these reviews. I've started watching alongside you guys now too; anxious to hear your thoughts on Lazenby!
Bond doesn't need to tell Tiger the temperature that sake should be.
But he did want to tell him that he knew the right temperature that sake should be, and appreciated it. He's being a cocky show off. It really matches well with the vodka snobbery.
One of my favorite moments, and maybe not so much for Donald Pleasence, is when the cat starts flipping out and digs their claws into Blofeld's arm... hard! (1:55:25)
My favourite Bond moment in this film was him carefully putting down the statue he just broke in half.
All in all, I really enjoyed this one. It does what Thunderball tried but makes it work.
Next movie will be an interesting one for me. On the one hand, I was very fond of OHMSS when I did a full viewing of the series 8 years ago. On the other, I've yet to disagree with you guys on this set of viewings.
Maybe not the best Bond movie objectively, but it remains my personal favourite.
I think you have to take it that Bond's Japanese make over is only ever intended to fool observers of the village at extreme distance. What makes it further silly is that he apparently lives/ sleeps/ trains in this make-up and wig for several days - better they had simply given Bond's hair a restyle and body waxed him, as he's already dark and tanned.
I do love the Team America parody of this scene :)
As well as his children's books (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, etc), Roald Dahl also wrote "Tales of the Unexpected" - a series of short stories with (usually dark and sometimes comic) twist endings, so he didn't just write children's stories. He also wrote the screenplay for the film of another of Fleming's works "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"!
Totally agree with you on the whole Aki & Kissy situation. Also, even if you wanted to have the death in the film, there could've been an easy explanation that respects both characters. Have Kissy marry Bond and pose as his wife, and after a few bonding scenes together as friends while they're sleeping together in Ninja Village for appearances (no bedroom shenanigans) she dies in the same way and Aki has to replace her last minute. As a fellow comrade, Aki is now more motivated to find the person behind it all, as is Bond.
I was certain that the yellow two-rotor Canadian Coast Guard helicopters were Sea Kings, but now I realize that whenever they were talking about the Sea King replacements in the Canadian media, they probably showed the completely wrong helicopter. (Which they were talking about replacing since the 80s and only replaced in 2018! Military procurement is super messed up in Canada.)
Sean Connery would continue the horrifying tradition of lighting things on fire in a submarine in Hunt for Red October.
I feel sorry for the visitors to Japan in 1968 who couldn't find any shoji screens, sumo wrestlers, rikishas, katanas, pearl divers, and ninjas.
THANK YOU! I thought I was going crazy when I watched You Only Live Twice and Blofeld was working with MI6!
Love the work you put into these- it's making me look at these films (which I love) with a new critical eye.
To whit- in the opening- whose plan is this? The gunmen must be in on it, right? And the responding police to some extent!?! All for the benefit of that one guy with binoculars in the harbor.
Roald Dahl was also working with Ian Fleming for MI6.
Yes! And the M.I. members are in the Navy because the very first British code breaking office, back in WW I was part of the Navy, intercepting German naval transmissions.
It's less a case of 'missing something' and more a case of 'we don't have TIME to mention ALL of this cool trivia'; they gotta draw the line somewhere, and sorry if your fave fun fact didn't make the cut (to be fair, some of *mine* didn't) but that's why you comment - to share it with us in the 'Also...' format!
1:44:10 It's not actually saying "C C C P", this is cyrillic script for SSSR: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (Союз Советских Социалистических Республик), better known in the West as USSR: United Soviet Socialist Republics
As a kid, it always confused me that the actor that plays General Gogol is many James Bond movies, first began in From Russia with Love as a Spectre agent. I thought he was meant to be Gogol in that movie.
This is the best of all 007 movies because it has:
• Spacecraft
• A hidden base in a volcano
• Ninja
• A gyrocopter in a dozen suitcases
• A hidden base in a volcano
• Donald Pleasence with a scar
• _A hidden base in a volcano_
1:52:20 - Guys, I was surprised you didn't mention what Blofeld actually calls it - "Here is the key...to operate THE EXPLODER BUTTON!" 😂