Eps 20: James Gardner Just Added a Violent Scene Where James Bond Kills Soviet Paratroopers
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Never Say Never Again Warner Brothers Thanks to a court ruling awarding remake rights for Thunderball to movie producer Kevin McClory, Sean Connery was lured back into the James Bond role for Never Say Never Again . Dr. No?MGM/UA Sean Connery had several bit parts in films, as well as the lead role in the Disney movie Darby Ogill & The Little People, before being cast as James Bond in Dr. No . License To Kill License To Kill The least successful of MGM/UAs American Bond films was Timothy Daltons second Bond movie, License To Kill , which saw the agent seeking personal revenge on a drug lord. The first Bond film after the Cold War, License to Kill shuns elements of Ian Flemings original stories in favor of an entirely original plot and screenplay.
The film was highly successful commercially, and is now the third highest-grossing Russian film ever made. It also stars Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Katie ODonnell, and Virginia Mayo. Directed by David Ayer, the film centers around a lethal mission behind enemy lines. It stars James Coburn as Sgt. Rolf Steiner, a cynical, battle-hardened infantry NCO in the Wehrmacht.
The movie features the first modern-day appearance in film of the actual working German Tiger I #131 , borrowed from the Bovington tank museum, in England. The German Tiger was in fact an altered Soviet T-34 tank, and the film was shot in Yugoslavia as their army still had Sherman tanks against the Tigers. Incidentally, the movie used M47 Patton, a second-generation tank named for General George C. Patton, as the King Tiger II German tank. The tanks used in the movie were real, functioning tanks, although a post-World War II variant, meaning that the film makers recreated a battle between tanks at 100% scale.
Army security for the films plot came through troops of the Royal Artillerys 3rd Division, which was in training there at the time. Much of Goldfinger takes place under water, with thrilling battle scenes set to Bonds desperate attempts to retrieve stolen nuclear warheads. The film was poorly received at the box office, but has since been transformed into a tank-fighting cult classic. The cut released before the theatrical release was only two minutes longer, but contained an additional 18 minutes of scenes that were missing from the theatrical version.
Another item that was heavily stylised in 23 Action-packed films was Bonds girlfriends. Even today, however, Bond films deaths of supporting characters are often unrealistic and stylised. Before the Daniel Craig era, the violence in Bond films was comic book-type excessive. While the Second World War, as with all great conflicts, was characterized by unfathomable levels of destruction, films depicting that war were interminably inventive.
While few would identify James Bond as their role model, plenty of fans secretly fantasize about being James Bond -- I admit that my driving was different after leaving the theater after seeing him in action. Those of us who enjoy the Bond movies should ensure we are picking the best ones, not starting to fantasise about more dubious aspects of Bonds life. James Bond shows far greater devotion to his sidearms in the movies than in the Bond novels, going as far as taking on an international arms merchant and high-tech gun enthusiast such as Brad Whitaker, only with a semi-automatic, 8.65mm, with eight rounds.
Yet even when things get really personal for James Bond, his personal struggles are inevitably tied to issues of far greater import -- heroin smuggling in "Licence to Kill," the threat of North Korean invasion in "Die Another Day," and monopolizing Bolivian water rights in "Quantum of Solace". In Licence to Kill , Bond has his status as 00 stripped away, an effort to prevent him from prosecuting a vendetta against a man who disfigured his friend Felix Leiter and murdered Felixs bride on their wedding day. In the 1969 film On Her Majestys Secret Service, James Bond saves beautiful, but bored, Comtesse Theresa Tracy di Vicenzo from a bid by Halle Berrys Jinkx to drown herself on a Portuguese beach.
Goldfinger MGM/UA James Bond learns that a villains golden touch, Goldfinger , may prove deadly to the pretty lass, as she is imprisoned in a golden body cast. As the film in 1962 featured more gunplay, James Bond switched to a more modern-looking handgun, although still the Beretta 418.
Examining Bonds character background on his first assignment, Die Another Day is lean and dashing, with a Halle Berry-esque performance, some beautifully shot and edited chase scenes, and a much more emotionally charged narrative than your average Bond outing. What followed was one of the largest, most ambitious battles ever shot, with scores of U.S. and German tanks trading fire amidst crowds of infantrymen and supporting artillery units.