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Mo, 06 März 2006 19:59 |
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Okay, I know that SPECTRE (or, if you prefer, S.P.E.C.T.R.E.) had the
revenge of Dr. No for bringing Bond into their plot as their ulterior
motive. What I don't get is, if the ultimate goal was to appropriate
the Russian Lektor and then sell it back to the Russians, why didn't
they just have Klebb march in and get it? If only a few higher-ups
knew that Klebb had defected, surely she could have been convincing
enough to have been handed the thing. The plot worked, for me, better
in the novel when it was a Russian trap using Russian bait to get Bond
than it works in the film as a SPECTER trap using Russian bait to get
Bond and sell back the bait.
Will wrote elsewhere that TB has the three most beautiful Bond girls of
any of the movies, but I think FRWL has not only one of the three most
beautiful of all the Bond girls in Daniela Bianchi, but I think it has
the single best cast of any of the Bonds. Pedro Armendariz alone makes
the cast better than most, but Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya and the smaller
role actors were all spot-on perfect. I know there's the debate over
Tatiana being a brunette in the book and Bianchi is blonde, but when a
woman is that beautiful, that's a hair I won't split!
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| Re: FRWL: Upon further review... [message #232524 ] |
Mo, 06 März 2006 20:46 |
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Min L Shaw wrote:
> Okay, I know that SPECTRE (or, if you prefer, S.P.E.C.T.R.E.) had the
> revenge of Dr. No for bringing Bond into their plot as their ulterior
> motive. What I don't get is, if the ultimate goal was to appropriate
> the Russian Lektor and then sell it back to the Russians, why didn't
> they just have Klebb march in and get it? If only a few higher-ups
> knew that Klebb had defected, surely she could have been convincing
> enough to have been handed the thing. The plot worked, for me, better
> in the novel when it was a Russian trap using Russian bait to get Bond
> than it works in the film as a SPECTER trap using Russian bait to get
> Bond and sell back the bait.
>
LOL! Excellent point. I'm sure somebody will bring up that they also
want to humiliate the British, but I think you'd win the argument.
Good movie, still...
> Will wrote elsewhere that TB has the three most beautiful Bond girls of
> any of the movies, but I think FRWL has not only one of the three most
> beautiful of all the Bond girls in Daniela Bianchi, but I think it has
> the single best cast of any of the Bonds. Pedro Armendariz alone makes
> the cast better than most, but Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya and the smaller
> role actors were all spot-on perfect. I know there's the debate over
> Tatiana being a brunette in the book and Bianchi is blonde, but when a
> woman is that beautiful, that's a hair I won't split!
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| Re: Upon further review... [message #232528 ] |
Mo, 06 März 2006 21:49 |
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"Min L Shaw" <minlshaw [at] gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1141671599.186535.91820 [at] j52g2000cwj.googlegroups.com...
> Okay, I know that SPECTRE (or, if you prefer, S.P.E.C.T.R.E.) had the
> revenge of Dr. No for bringing Bond into their plot as their ulterior
> motive. What I don't get is, if the ultimate goal was to appropriate
> the Russian Lektor and then sell it back to the Russians, why didn't
> they just have Klebb march in and get it? If only a few higher-ups
> knew that Klebb had defected, surely she could have been convincing
> enough to have been handed the thing. The plot worked, for me, better
> in the novel when it was a Russian trap using Russian bait to get Bond
> than it works in the film as a SPECTER trap using Russian bait to get
> Bond and sell back the bait.
>
> Will wrote elsewhere that TB has the three most beautiful Bond girls of
> any of the movies, but I think FRWL has not only one of the three most
> beautiful of all the Bond girls in Daniela Bianchi, but I think it has
> the single best cast of any of the Bonds. Pedro Armendariz alone makes
> the cast better than most, but Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya and the smaller
> role actors were all spot-on perfect. I know there's the debate over
> Tatiana being a brunette in the book and Bianchi is blonde, but when a
> woman is that beautiful, that's a hair I won't split!
>
She was very beautiful and one of my faves too. No arguments from me on the
entire cast, either. Great movie, overall. But what a threesome in
TB....Luciana Paluzzi, Claudine Auger and Martine Beswick.....good thing
Connery's wife was on the set, lol
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