KojiroVance
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I'd call YOLT completely off the reservation..
Questions About Bond Films that You Have been Afraid to Ask SPOILERS
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I love the version of the theme they play when Bond is fighting on the docks. :thumbsup
Also, that intimidating theme when the ships are getting stolen, epic!
KojiroVance
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Oh yeah great avatar!!... Like mine?
(from the 1st ed US paperback)
Was thinking last night about a comment on AJB007 about the inanity of the whole populace of Ft. Knox "playing dead".... and remembered Barry's music for Operation Grand Slam.
Barry made a small, significant contribution to DR NO, then did a really nice soundtrack for FRWL, but it was GOLDFINGER where he really stretched and gave us what would be a whole new formula (oft-repeated, rarely equalled) for blockbuster, action movie music soundtrack. Herrmann before him, Rozsa, Korngold, others had done outstanding work in the studio Golden Age of Hollywood, but Barry introduced jazzy horns, electric guitar, rock 'n roll sensibilities (best seen in the "Attack on Ft. Knox" suite) and ended up with a score that I continue to love while my affection for the film wanes as my tastes mature. Thunderball he scored another homerun with evocative underwater motifs, and then in YOLT he had these amazing "space walk/capture" compositions. The 1950s sensibility of a "rocket" that lands in reverse in Earth's gravity is horribly dated, but Barry's music never seems old.
He's famous for some of his other films, but I think it's the mid-60s Bond flicks that changed the perspective of filmmakers, and the tastes of audiences. ... Set a high standard that a lot of Bond film composers just aren't up to....
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(from the 1st ed US paperback)
Was thinking last night about a comment on AJB007 about the inanity of the whole populace of Ft. Knox "playing dead".... and remembered Barry's music for Operation Grand Slam.
Barry made a small, significant contribution to DR NO, then did a really nice soundtrack for FRWL, but it was GOLDFINGER where he really stretched and gave us what would be a whole new formula (oft-repeated, rarely equalled) for blockbuster, action movie music soundtrack. Herrmann before him, Rozsa, Korngold, others had done outstanding work in the studio Golden Age of Hollywood, but Barry introduced jazzy horns, electric guitar, rock 'n roll sensibilities (best seen in the "Attack on Ft. Knox" suite) and ended up with a score that I continue to love while my affection for the film wanes as my tastes mature. Thunderball he scored another homerun with evocative underwater motifs, and then in YOLT he had these amazing "space walk/capture" compositions. The 1950s sensibility of a "rocket" that lands in reverse in Earth's gravity is horribly dated, but Barry's music never seems old.
He's famous for some of his other films, but I think it's the mid-60s Bond flicks that changed the perspective of filmmakers, and the tastes of audiences. ... Set a high standard that a lot of Bond film composers just aren't up to....
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Ye, kinda dumb. :lol
No argument from me there! Barry's Bond flicks were masterpieces all the way through to Living Daylights IMHO. My favourites are FRWL and OHMSS but Goldfinger and Thunderball are right there as well as the track you mentioned with YOLT. :thumbsup
Nice avatar! :lol
Connery is HANDS DOWN my favourite Bond. Followed by Craig, Dalton, and Lazenby. (Dalton and Lazenby I'd call about equal but Dalton usually edges out because he had two cracks at it).
My favourite Bond film is Goldfinger closely followed by FRWL. Goldfinger is my dad's favourite so I think that nostalgia of watching the laser scene projected in 8mm with my dad narrating it has some influence on me.
Quite the coincidence. I feel pretty much the same as you do, although FRWL is probably my favourite. It was one of the first Bond movies I ever saw back in the days when I used to borrow VHS tapes from the library.
Then, in high school I had a really good friend who rekindled my interest in the entire franchise. Although he was pretty hard set against Never Say Never Again, because it wasn't a United Artist release. :lol
Then, in high school I had a really good friend who rekindled my interest in the entire franchise. Although he was pretty hard set against Never Say Never Again, because it wasn't a United Artist release. :lol
Surfing around on IMDB, I found an interesting 'degrees of separation' thing between Spy Who Loved Me and Star Wars ANH & ESB.
I was looking up Barbara Bach, which led me to 'Force 10 From Navarone', directed by Guy Hamilton which also stars Robert Shaw, Richard Kiel.
The casting director was Irene Lamb, who also casted SW- ANH & ESB.
I learned something else today, Yay.
I was looking up Barbara Bach, which led me to 'Force 10 From Navarone', directed by Guy Hamilton which also stars Robert Shaw, Richard Kiel.
The casting director was Irene Lamb, who also casted SW- ANH & ESB.
I learned something else today, Yay.
robn1
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The German officer in Force 10 was played by Michael Byrne, who was also in The Last Crusade. Angus Mcinnis, Gold Leader in ANH, was also in Force 10.
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