Posted on 12/31/2022 11:37:10 AM PST by L.A.Justice
If Lee Tamahori could change anything about his James Bond film Die Another Day it would be the film’s use of CGI in one infamous scene.
“The only thing I’d do differently [with Die Another Day] would be the kitesurfing sequence,” director Tamahori tells Yahoo over the phone from New Zealand, where he's shooting his next film.
“I don’t know how you’d do it differently. It was virtually impossible to do it for real as a real stunt: falling off the edge of a glacier, hastily concocting a kite-surfing rig, and kitesurfing your way out of danger. If you tried to do it for real… you just couldn’t do it.”
“The VFX and CGI was the only way out of it.”
That particular scene in the 2002 film — which had its world premiere at the Royal Albert Hall 20 years ago on 18 November, 2002 — sees Bond escaping an arctic tidal wave with the help of some shockingly poor CGI.
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You would have been like Peter Sellers in Dr. Stranglove.
Yes, indeeed...
Movie MOONRAKER is different from novel MOONRAKER...Hugo Drax is still the villain in the novel...However, in the novel, he does not deal with space shuttles...His main weapon is the rocket...
Novel SPY WHO LOVED ME is about Agent 007 dealing with gangsters in upstate New York...
A good advice indeed...
John Gardner also wrote some Bond novels...I enjoyed reading some of those many years ago...
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