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[Milovy]

Actually, you can run the titles through the English-Japanese-English "Babelizer" process and get...

Dr. It Can Call
From Russia of Love
Gold Finger
Thunder Sphere
Two Degrees You Have Lived, Simply
The Classified Information Agency of Majesty
There Is a Diamond Permanently
Permit the Living and the Dies
The Person Who Has the Gold Gun
The Spy Who Loves Me
Raker of Month
For the Only Your Eye
8 Cats
View to Murder
The Sunlight Which Has Lived
The License Which Kills
Gold Eye
Tomorrow It Does Not Die Under Any Condition
The World is Not Sufficient
Another Day Die
Noble Casino

[Judo chop]

These are awesome!!! I'll have to rerank my Bond films based on these names alone now. Watch Octopussy climb from the bottom shelf straight to the #1 slot!

8 CATS IS MY FAVORITE BOND FILM!!!

Actually, you can run the titles through the English-Japanese-English "Babelizer" process and get...

Dr. It Can Call
From Russia of Love
Gold Finger
Thunder Sphere
Two Degrees You Have Lived, Simply
The Classified Information Agency of Majesty
There Is a Diamond Permanently
Permit the Living and the Dies
The Person Who Has the Gold Gun
The Spy Who Loves Me
Raker of Month
For the Only Your Eye
8 Cats
View to Murder
The Sunlight Which Has Lived
The License Which Kills
Gold Eye
Tomorrow It Does Not Die Under Any Condition
The World is Not Sufficient
Another Day Die
Noble Casino

[Mister Asterix]

These are awesome!!! I'll have to rerank my Bond films based on these names alone now. Watch Octopussy climb from the bottom shelf straight to the #1 slot!

8 CATS IS MY FAVORITE BOND FILM!!!

It is insanity! 8 Cats may be the thing classic where Two Degrees You Have Lived, Simply is everywhere.

(That English-Japanese-English ‘Babelizer’ is so cool.)

[Judo chop]

[quote name='Mister Asterix' post='745143' date='7 June 2007 - 10:07'][quote name='Judo chop' post='745141' date='7 June 2007 - 09:54']These are awesome!!! I'll have to rerank my Bond films based on these names alone now. Watch Octopussy climb from the bottom shelf straight to the #1 slot!

8 CATS IS MY FAVORITE BOND FILM!!![/quote]


[mra]
It is insanity! 8 Cats may be the thing classic where Two Degrees You Have Lived, Simply is everywhere.

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[Milovy]

It's even more amusing/confusing when you run classic lines through the Babelizer. Can you guess the lines?


Bond: "Whether or not my friend makes this one sit down, it makes the air? She exactly has died." --Thunder Sphere

Bond Girl: "My name is the Sawayama Cat."
Bond: "I am not different looked at dream." --Gold Finger

Bond Villain: "Protect the person Bond. Look at that damage comes to him." --Rake of Month

Bond: "This did not happen under any condition to the other companion!" --The Classified Information Agency of Majesty

Bond: "With her, me it made can have daylights where everyone who is has lived from her it is not different." --The Sunlight Which Has Lived

Bond: "Give the impact which affirmatively gives impact." --Gold Finger

Bond: "Half it is set there is no feeling in keeps leaving." --Permit the Living and the Dies

Bond: "Kara, as for us there is middle of Afganistan the Soviet basis!" --The Sunlight Which Has Lived

Bond Villain: "It possesses the troublesome habit of continuance." --8 Cats


Fun hint: Try running stuff through a Chinese babelizer... it comes out somewhat more coherent.

Edited by Milovy, 07 June 2007 - 03:25 PM.

[Mister Asterix]

Vesper Lynd: I the money of our governments and the association where you are formed completely maintain my eye which leaves.

Bond: You became aware.

– Noble Casino

Large Person: Name is because of the tombstone and the baby.

– Permit the Living and the Dies

[dodge]

The Hemingway-LTK connection. (Source: IMdB)

The scene where Bond's licence is revoked was filmed at Hemingway's Key West home. And Bond's response--'I guess this is farewell to arms'--is clearly a tribute to Papa.

Okay. But maybe there's more that we're missing.

--M now has Bond's licence, Bond doesn't. So...To Have and Have Not?
--Bond is no longer 007 in that scene with M. He is a Canceled agent. So...The Old Man and The C?

Anything else that I'm missing?

[Judo chop]

As I recall, from the script for LTK (LR, at the time):

[Bond hands over his Walther and license, and like a torrent, he springs off across the river and into the trees amidst rifle shots from MI6 guards stationed above.]

[dodge]

As I recall, from the script for LTK (LR, at the time):

[Bond hands over his Walther and license, and like a torrent, he springs off across the river and into the trees amidst rifle shots from MI6 guards stationed above.]

Bravo, Judo! Was the scene shot at dawn...as the sun...was also rising?

[Judo chop]

As I recall, from the script for LTK (LR, at the time):

[Bond hands over his Walther and license, and like a torrent, he springs off across the river and into the trees amidst rifle shots from MI6 guards stationed above.]

Bravo, Judo! Was the scene shot at dawn...as the sun...was also rising?

But of course! And Bond goes on to shoot bad guys to death later that afternoon. In a most brilliant move the filmmakers build the suspense of the scene to enormous heights by never revealing exactly whom the bell tolled for until the beginning of DAD. Such vision they have.

[dodge]

As I recall, from the script for LTK (LR, at the time):

[Bond hands over his Walther and license, and like a torrent, he springs off across the river and into the trees amidst rifle shots from MI6 guards stationed above.]

Bravo, Judo! Was the scene shot at dawn...as the sun...was also rising?

But of course! And Bond goes on to shoot bad guys to death later that afternoon. In a most brilliant move the filmmakers build the suspense of the scene to enormous heights by never revealing exactly whom the bell tolled for until the beginning of DAD. Such vision they have.

And to think this happened...in our time. A clear case of...winner take nothing.

[MHazard]

Bond then ran to a clean, well lighted place, full of men without women.

[dodge]

Bond then ran to a clean, well lighted place, full of men without women.

Well done, Hazard. Hummingduffer would be proud.

[Milovy]

Official Bond film titles in order, run through an anagram machine. Oddly, these sometimes seem strangely descriptive...

Condo Rot
Warm Soviet Flourish
For Gelding (alternative title: Golfed Grin)
Bland Hurtle
Yellow Unity Voice
Interjects, Overreaches, Messy (for non-fans); Revise Jeers, Consecrates Myth (for fans)
Overfed Senior Drama
Dateline Devil
Hunted Gentlewoman Thigh
Veld Whoopee Myths
Rank Romeo
Yore's Looney Fury
Coy Tossup
Oval Teal Kiwi
Death's Nightly Vigil
Tonic-Like Cell
Elegy Done
Overtired Newsroom
Underweight Nosh Tool
Hoary, Detained
Ya, No Calories!

There are many, many possibilities for each title. My biases may be evident. :-)

[dodge]

Official Bond film titles in order, run through an anagram machine. Oddly, these sometimes seem strangely descriptive...

Condo Rot
Warm Soviet Flourish
For Gelding (alternative title: Golfed Grin)
Bland Hurtle
Yellow Unity Voice
Interjects, Overreaches, Messy (for non-fans); Revise Jeers, Consecrates Myth (for fans)
Overfed Senior Drama
Dateline Devil
Hunted Gentlewoman Thigh
Veld Whoopee Myths
Rank Romeo
Yore's Looney Fury
Coy Tossup
Oval Teal Kiwi
Death's Nightly Vigil
Tonic-Like Cell
Elegy Done
Overtired Newsroom
Underweight Nosh Tool
Hoary, Detained
Ya, No Calories!

There are many, many possibilities for each title. My biases may be evident. :-)

Good fun, Milovy. You put me in a bind, though. I'd hoped to come up with something that expressed my real feelings about DAD. Lacking an anagram machine, I had a serious fight. In the end, came within a letter...

Mine, starts off well enough: Yo, eat...
But I can't print the third word on a family forum.
And I had to misspell the fourth word: Nird.

Tonight I plan to nurse my wounds by re-watching Bland Hurtle.

[dodge]

Craig and Pitt: Best Bond bod vs Best Bod? (Source: ezinearticles.com/James-Bond-Workout
by Rusty Moore)

According to the author, Brad Pitt was the icon for the ideal male physique in Fight Club. Eight years. Now it's Daniel Craig. Hats off to Craig's achievement, but I wonder if that's entirely true.

The author estimates that Pitt's body fat percentage was around 4-6%, Craig's b.f.p. around 8%. Craig set out to look like a bruiser, a man you tell at a glance could do harm. Pit set out to look like a streetfighter, lean and ripped and mean. One report mentioned that Craig had put on so much muscle, the mass was slowing him down. He had to scale down.

He rocked right off the chart as Bond. But as far as being a physical icon, I think that title goes to Pitt with his four low-cal meals a day and High Intensity Interval Training.

[Santa]

Craig and Pitt: Best Bond bod vs Best Bod? (Source: ezinearticles.com/James-Bond-Workout
by Rusty Moore)

According to the author, Brad Pitt was the icon for the ideal male physique in Fight Club. Eight years. Now it's Daniel Craig. Hats off to Craig's achievement, but I wonder if that's entirely true.

The author estimates that Pitt's body fat percentage was around 4-6%, Craig's b.f.p. around 8%. Craig set out to look like a bruiser, a man you tell at a glance could do harm. Pit set out to look like a streetfighter, lean and ripped and mean. One report mentioned that Craig had put on so much muscle, the mass was slowing him down. He had to scale down.

He rocked right off the chart as Bond. But as far as being a physical icon, I think that title goes to Pitt with his four low-cal meals a day and High Intensity Interval Training.

Daniel Craig looked good, there's no doubt but I definitely prefer the leaner look, as Brad Pitt in Fight Club. That looks like he can cause some damage but does look agile too.

[dodge]

Raymond Chandler's blast at Fleming...(source:www.hmss.com: A Visit with Ian Fleming by
Bill Koenig)

Whatever critics do to writers, other writers generally can be counted to do a lot worse. And usually they're suffering from a case of sour grapes. Koenig quotes a letter from Chandler to Fleming:

"...one who writes as dazzlingly as you do, ought, I think, to try for a little higher grade...it seems to me that you have disimproved with each book."

[00Twelve]

Do we know when he wrote this?

[dodge]

Do we know when he wrote this?

Yes, he wrote it in May of 1956, which would have included the books up to and including
DAF, I think. He may have read them out of order, since he says he'd just finished CR...and then remarks that subsequent books had disimproved.

[ACE]

As I recall, from the script for LTK (LR, at the time):

[Bond hands over his Walther and license, and like a torrent, he springs off across the river and into the trees amidst rifle shots from MI6 guards stationed above.]

Bravo, Judo! Was the scene shot at dawn...as the sun...was also rising?

But of course! And Bond goes on to shoot bad guys to death later that afternoon. In a most brilliant move the filmmakers build the suspense of the scene to enormous heights by never revealing exactly whom the bell tolled for until the beginning of DAD. Such vision they have.

And to think this happened...in our time. A clear case of...winner take nothing.

Boy, these are good, guys!

After M revokes Bond's LTK, I guess M is trying to tell 007 if he can see
the no's of killingmencan'tyo?

Was the script written by Flemingway??

[00Twelve]

Do we know when he wrote this?

Yes, he wrote it in May of 1956, which would have included the books up to and including
DAF, I think. He may have read them out of order, since he says he'd just finished CR...and then remarks that subsequent books had disimproved.

While most of us hold MR and LALD in high regard, I could see him disliking the books to this point. I wonder if he changed his mind after FRWL, DN, and the ongoing books. One would hope so.

[Safari Suit]

"...one who writes as dazzlingly as you do, ought, I think, to try for a little higher grade...it seems to me that you have disimproved with each book."

Disimproved? He could have at least had the common decency to use an actual word!

[dodge]

Do we know when he wrote this?

Yes, he wrote it in May of 1956, which would have included the books up to and including
DAF, I think. He may have read them out of order, since he says he'd just finished CR...and then remarks that subsequent books had disimproved.

While most of us hold MR and LALD in high regard, I could see him disliking the books to this point. I wonder if he changed his mind after FRWL, DN, and the ongoing books. One would hope so.

00Twelve, I've yet to get back to the novels, which I haven't read in years. Was there a definite 'arc' to Fleming's novels? ? In what way(s) did they dip after CR for a while? Then, how did they regain their wingS? I plan to crack the books this fall and would love to hear back from you on this. Cheers.

[00Twelve]

Well, it depends upon whom you ask. There are a large number of Fleming readers who feel that DAF (pub. 1956) is the weakest of the novels until TMWTGG, published years later. I am not one of these, I love the book. But in any case, Fleming's novels took a definite turn with FRWL ('57), as it was then that Fleming really hit his stride in terms of character development and unique storylines. DN, GF, and FYEO followed, then the famous Blofeld Trilogy, and the last two works, (TMWTGG & OP) published post-mortem, carried the character out on a fair note, not too high. If you can discern an arc out of that, then there ya go.

So perhaps with DAF being the last book Chandler might have read before writing his letter, then I could (while respectfully disagreeing) see where he was coming from.

My fave is still LALD...

[dodge]

Well, it depends upon whom you ask. There are a large number of Fleming readers who feel that DAF (pub. 1956) is the weakest of the novels until TMWTGG, published years later. I am not one of these, I love the book. But in any case, Fleming's novels took a definite turn with FRWL ('57), as it was then that Fleming really hit his stride in terms of character development and unique storylines. DN, GF, and FYEO followed, then the famous Blofeld Trilogy, and the last two works, (TMWTGG & OP) published post-mortem, carried the character out on a fair note, not too high. If you can discern an arc out of that, then there ya go.

So perhaps with DAF being the last book Chandler might have read before writing his letter, then I could (while respectfully disagreeing) see where he was coming from.

My fave is still LALD...

Many thanks. Am looking forward to my marathon fall Fleming readfest.

"...one who writes as dazzlingly as you do, ought, I think, to try for a little higher grade...it seems to me that you have disimproved with each book."

Disimproved? He could have at least had the common decency to use an actual word!

I couldn't agree with you more. It was a completely disgracious unapproval!

[MHazard]

Although I enjoy all the Fleming novels, I can see how after CR, Chandler could feel that the books were stuck in a rut with LALD, MR, and DAF not really breaking any new territory. I would see FRWL as a jump upward (and John Pearson says Fleming was trying harder to put more into that novel, more literary, more well rounded development of Bond) into what many folks probably view as "classic Bond" along with DN, GF and TB. Then Fleming finishes with the trilogy OHMSS, YOLT and TMWGG. Of course, by then Chandler was dead. Unfortunately, so was Fleming.

[dodge]

The Aleister Crowley connection.
In some quarters, Fleming is said to have modeled Le Chifre on Crowley. Elsewhere, I've read that Crowley inspired Blofeld.

The background info's interesting: Rudolf Hess was apparently duped into going to Enland. And Fleming reportedly played a part in the plot, playing on Hess' interest in the occult, feeding him false information. Hess arrived and while being interrogated is said have spoken in something like tongues. Fleming suggested bring in Crowley to interpret. The suggestion was vetoed, but Fleming kept in touch with Crowley.

Anyway, which was it? Anybody know: Le Chifre or Blofeld?

[dodge]

Bond meets Colombo...again and again. (source: www.columbo-site.freeuk.com. Star trivia.

At least 4 Columbo killers have costarred in James Bond films.

1) Donald Pleasance:
Bond: YOLT--1967
Columbo: Adrian Carsini in "Any Old Port in a Storm"--1973

2) Honor Blackman:
Bond: GF--1964
Columbo: "Dagger of the Mind"--1972

3) Louis Jordan:
Bond: OP--1983
Columbo: "Murder Under Glass--1977

4) Patrick Bauchau:
Bond: AVTAK (as Scarpine, security chief to Zorin)--1985
Columbo: "Murder: A Self Portrait"--1989


Anyone got a "One more thing" to add?

[Milovy]

What sort of cool cars did SMERSH agents have back in the '60s? Looks like we've found one...

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1034