Posted on 08/21/2016 4:09:17 AM PDT by Enlightened1
This is for any James Bond fan.
Ian Fleming's films exposed us to the Globalist control freaks (like George Soros) as "Spectre" in the James Bond series long before most of us really understood it.
Anyway Ken Adam did an outstanding job showing us the criminal Gloablist elite in their armored redoubts and deep underground military bunkers. This 3 minute video shows his movie sets from Goldfinger to Moonraker. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jcKdVvQVJs
Those globalist villains had a preference for mid-century modern furniture. Makes you wonder how the Soros residences are furnished, huh?
Gold finger was the best, followed closely by From Russia With Love. I fell in love with Tilley and the Russian lady. Later Bond movies were a bit ridiculous. Odd Job was the best villain.
I don’t own a firearm but all of a sudden want a Walther PPK.
“From Russia with Love” and “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” are my favourites, along with also “For Your Eyes Only” and “Octopussy”. I am in agreement with others here though, that Stromberg (”The Spy Who Loved Me”) makes me think of Soros a great deal. One other one that seems to get panned but wasn’t really a bad one IMHO partly because it was so very well photographed was “The Man with the Golden Gun”.
I like TMWTGG better now than when I first saw a few times back when ABC ran Bond movies as big movie event.
Original pre-’68 PPK’s (they were banned in ‘69) go for a fortune on the gun auction sites. It has been made here under license for years but somehow isn’t the same as the German made blue steel PPK.
Go to gunbroker.com & search. I’m lucky; I was stationed in Germany & brought one back. These days a good alternative to the PPK is the Polish P-64 in 9mm Mak; the same size & function and not expensive at all.
Bond used his PPK best in From Russia With Love, IMO.
I remember that, as a kid I can remember watching part of “The Spy Who Loved Me” back in the early 1980s on primetime and it must have been on ABC.
The more recent bond villains have been more realistic. In Quantum of Solace, an Al Gore clone plotted to take over Bolivia's water. In the most recent, Blofeld was installing an Internet surveillance system into nine countries. They are mostly just rich progressives working out their fantasies.
Stromberg was originally going to be yet another incarnation of Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Kevin McClory was awarded the film rights to Thunderball -
he made a deal with EON but then of course years later he commissioned “Never Say Never Again,” and tried to get Timothy Dalton for “Warhead 2000” or “Warhead 2001” (never made).
Anyway, he pushed the envelope, claiming that he not only came up with (part of) the idea for Thunderball, but also SPECTRE and Blofeld.
In response, Albert Broccoli renamed the character and the organization entirely.
***Those globalist villains had a preference for mid-century modern furniture.***
Like the classic 1960s furniture in EATING RAOUL?
That was fun. Thanks.
“Walther PPK”
Here is my love with the world in the 60s. “The Man with the Golden Gun”.
He assembled his assassination weapon, the Golden Gun and shot a man on the street. Bond pulls out his PPK and begins the hunt. He is stopped by police in the street and says... Get this ...
“If you inspect my firearm you’ll see that I have not fired it”
WOW if only today’s life was that simple. That scene still blows my mind that that would ever work.
Seemed like they focused on the earlier Bond films for a LONG time...anything newer than “Live and Let Die” just didn’t seem to be in their rotation until near the end of the ABC Sunday Night Bond Movie era.
When network television was actually worth getting excited over...and it showed.
LOL!
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