Casino Royale (1967)

In THIS episode of Breaking Bond, we’ll be talking about 1967’s Casino Royale
Starring:
David Niven as Sir James Bond
Peter Sellers – Evelyn Tremble
Ursula Andress – Vesper Lynd
Orson Welles – La Chiffre
And Woody Allen – Jimmy Bond (Dr. Noah)
Directed by Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, and Richard Talmadge

What a strange, terrible film. Nevertheless, there were things we liked, quotes we favorited, and scenes we weirdly adored!

Episode Transcript

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In this episode of Breaking Bond,we will be talking about in nineteen sixty
seven's Casino Royal, starring David Nivenas Sir James Bond, Peter Sellers as
Evelyn Tremble, Ursula Andrews as vesperlindOrson Welles as La Chief, and Woody
Allen as Jimmy Bond aka Doctor Noah. Directed by Val Guest, Ken Hughes,

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John Houston, Joseph McGrath, RobertParrish, Richard Talmadge. A lot
of it shows, Buddy, Butfirst, a word from our stately sponsor.
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My name is David C. Robertson, and I'm Bethany Robertson. I'm

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Bethey Robertson. Hey, I'm wearinga dress and its poets. That's right,
I am wearing a hoodie and underwear, and that is it. Their
box are brief though, so that'snot like, yeah, you're basically wearing
like Sean Connery shorts, right right. If I had on a polo,

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I would feel comfortable, like walkingaround a resort or something. Yeah,
you should just throw on some quickScooba gear over it. Uh huh,
yep, that's what I should doanyway. So, um, I this
was a movie. This was abad movie. It was two hours and

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ten minutes long. And I waswith it for about forty five minutes and
then for me, it just likequickly turned from okay, okay, I'm
trying to make this work, allright, I don't really I'm not really
totally down with satire. That's that'sin this movie so far. But I

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can hang with it. I likeda lot of it. I liked certain
elements of it. Yeah, Ilike some of the dialogue. I'll get
to that favorite quotes. But um, and I loved the concept. I
loved the idea. I really lovethe idea that like, oh yeah,
I don't think we've even said whatthe concept is. Basically, the concept

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the initial concept of the film wasthat there is an original James Bond who
was such a big deal, butwhen he retired they just started They just
gave his name and number to anotherspot, and that his legend was so
great that they decided, loo,let's screw with the enemy and make like

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a ton of people James Bond throughoutthe movie, like all these different people.
I like that, I like theidea of that. I didn't like
the execution at all. And Iguess we'll get into some of the wise
of what happened, but let's goahead and jump into this Wikipedia synopsis.

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So, Sir James Bond O seven, a legendary British spy who retired from
the secret service twenty years previously,is is visited by the head of British
M six, which I think iscalled m I five. In this movie,
m CIA representative Ransom, KGB representativeSmirnov and French military representative La Grand

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all implore Bond to come out ofretirement to deal with smirsh who have been
eliminating agents. Bond spurns all oftheir please. When Bond continues to stand
firm he's mentioned is destroyed by amortar attack at the orders of M,
who is, however, killed inthe explosion. That was really unclear that

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Yeah, okay, so I'm learningsome new stuff here. Okay, so
I'm reading the synopsis because I'm learningas we are podcasting. Right, So
M was the one who ordered rightwhy but because if I guess, if

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they blew up his house and allthe places, because he was like,
I wouldn't trade one of those blackpedals for any I think if he was
like, oh, we'll just blowup your your ship so that you have
to, like right come back andhelp us. Yeah, I think that
was the idea. Okay. UmAnd by the way, oh well you
said this at the top of theshow. David Niven played A played James

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Bond the A. When he playedBond, he was fifty seven m so
he was definitely an older Bond,but he was supposed to be right.
Um. I didn't mind him asJames Bond. It was just like,
it wasn't his fault that it justgot really really tough to get through this.
I thought his his segments were actuallythe better segments. Yes, I

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liked him, um so. Andalso that he was uh Ian Fleming's actual
pick to play James Bond. That'sright, that's interesting. Yeah, I
mean I liked him. I thoughthe was he was very enjoyable. He
was I enjoyed him. Yeah.So yeah, I didn't realize that M

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was just was killed in that explosion. It looked like everyone was just sort
of ducking and all the buildings wereexploding. Yeah. Well, and then
the next thing we see is Bondtravels to Scotland to return him's remains,
Like, and we did that happeningright, because it looked like the explosion
was at like you said, atthe buildings, but like Bond and M

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and a couple of other guys wereall standing like far away from the property,
right and we saw side right,like I guess, like from the
wind of the explosion. I mean, I don't know that the explosion at
Bond's house was a good distance awayfrom where they were standing. So I

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guess I don't. I did not. I was confused, just kind of
right off the bat, and like, wait, M died, Yeah,
how how did he? How didhe die? But all of the other
guys who were standing in very veryclose proximity to him not die, or
at least James Bond. I guesswe don't really know, specifically if the

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other guys died but Bond didn't andhe was standing like two feet from him.
Yeah, I don't know. Thatwas already weird and confusing and didn't
make sense to me. Yea.So Bond travels to Scotland to return mm's
remains to his grieving widow, LadyFiona mc terry. However, the real
Lady Fiona has been replaced by Smersh'sagent Mimi. The rest of the household

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have been likewise replaced with Smersh's aimto discredit Bond by destroying his quote celibate
image. Attempts by a bevy ofbeauties to seduce Bond fail, but Mimi
slash Lady Fiona becomes so impressed withBond that she changes loyalties and helps Bond
to foil the plot against him.On his way back to London, Bond

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survives another attempt on his life.So I found this segment like really funny,
yes, but also like confusing thiscrap right, and that whole segment
was like really really super overdone.I mean, like that Mimi lady,

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I mean like everybody's accents just incrediblythick. I think they were making fun
of Sean Connor into something. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. I
and they just had some really weirdquote traditions for how a Scottish funeral is
carried out. Yeah, I wonderif there is any truth to any of

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that. Yeah, I don't know. They did some weird stuff. It
was a lot of weird stuff andreally uncomfortable, like all the all the
daddy's daughters thing, So I thinkyeah, I think there were like eleven
daughters who were there. And oh, I thought it was really funny that

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their main mission was to destroy hiscelibate image. I mean obvious slee that
is completely the opposite of Sean Connery'sbond right, um so, which I
didn't think he had a celibate imageanymore because he had already been complaining about
how they had given his or maybehe did that later where they get I

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can't remember where he gave where theygave his name and number two. Uh,
he makes some reference to a guywho go who basically loves and leaves
women who wind up dead or something, and I wrote the quote down and
then um later also laments how depressingit is that the term secret agent has

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also become synonymous with sex addict,sex maniac, sex maniac. Yeah,
that's it. Yeah, Yeah,that one stood out to me because I
was like, cool man, theycalled it out. I'm just like,
so, how celibate is his image? Like yeah, well yeah, so

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so he's in a household where thereare these eleven daughters and they're they're all
kind of just fawning all over him, but sort of like in an innocent
way, like they're not just obviouslyyeah it seems innocent, but they're all

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there to break him sexual right,right, but they're portraying it as though
they're not laying it on super thickand you know, just like taking their
clothes off and getting in his bedor something. And we're supposed to believe
that they're all what between the agesof like sixteen and nineteen or something,
and he's like, wait, thereare eleven of you, but there's only

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three years age difference. How didthat even happen? Ye? There's one
scene where Bond goes to take abath and I guess like walks into the
bathroom and one of the daughters isalready in the bathtub and she just invites
him to go head and get inbecause that's what she would do for her
daddy. Yeah, she would batheher father, not to mention the one

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who like undresses daddy. Yeah,there's some weird stuff in their man.
What part of that is supposed tobe funny except except for the fact that
they're I mean, it's funny inas much as their masquerading as M's daughters.
And but they're also trying to seduceBond and trying to pretend that what

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they're doing is normal. Um,which is he's like, oh, he
really was a different kind of manin Whitehall. That was kind of funny
because you have just walked to areally weird situation that you didn't know your
friend was into. Yeah, anduh, but David Nivens Bond, h

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he stays completely innocent, Like throughoutthe entire things. He's really uncomfortable with
all of this stuff with the daughters. He doesn't try anything with any of
them and just very clearly is uncomfortablethe whole time. I feel like if
Sean Connery's Bond would have been there, he would have been like kind of
down with any of it. Ifeel like they would have been like crying

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and going, stop slapping me,I'm down I'm down, I'm trying to
seduce you. But oh my gosh, yeah, that would have been a
different story. But that the wholething where he was at the house for
the funeral, it was weird.It was very strange. But at that
point I was still hanging in there. I was just like, Okay,

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this isn't really my kind of humor, but I don't hate it yet,
right, all right. So Bondis promoted to the head of in My
Six or in My five whatever.He learns that many British agents around the
world have been eliminated by enemy spiesbecause of their inability to resist sex.
Bond is also told that the sexmaniac, who was given the name of

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James Bond when the original Bond retired, has gone to work in television.
I don't know if that was asomething. I don't know if Connery was
working in television or what. Butthat's weird. Yeah, I mean,
he was still doing Bond, butwhatever. I just don't get it.
I didn't see anything in the triviathat seemed to indicate anything, so he
didn't lost on us. Yep.He then orders that all remaining in My

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Six agents will be named James Bondseven to confuse smirsh. He also creates
a rigorous program to train Maile agentsto ignore the charms of women. Moneypenny
recruits Coope, a karate expert whobegins training to resist seductive women. He
also meets an exotic agent known asthe Detainer, And that is pretty much
the last time we see that guy. It is, that's so weird,

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Like, I guess he might showup later on somewhere, but yeah,
I think he does, like atthe very end, but it's not really
a reason. And I still atthis point, I was still kind of
hanging in there, same you know, same stuff. Not totally my type
of humor, but you know,it is kind of funny and interesting that
they're like training like the most goodlooking, eligible bachelor type guy to resist

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all women. You know, they'rejust like, give us the most attractive
women, all types of women,Like, just give us all of the
women who were good at seducing,Like, let's just train him to not
give into those urgents. I didn'tthink it was funny that he would almost
kiss every one of them and thenjust like body slam them. Yeah yeah,

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oh, and I want to backtrack, just just for a minute,
go back to a Okay, Mimi, who was supposed to be like the
mother of the eleven daughters, thesupposed widow. Now she did, in
a matter of a handful of daysend up falling in love with James Bond.

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Yeah, and the daughters were likeshe's turned Yeah. Yeah. Now.
I thought that part was funny becausethat's totally a Sean Connery Bond thing.
That the main female villain who wassupposed to be carrying out a mission
to kill or destroy Bond in whateverway falls in love with him and turns

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good and tries to save him.So that was pretty typical, except the
way she went about it was prettyfunny. Yeah, that was that was
good. I have I have quotesfrom her, her character nice out.
So I I was I was confusedbecause you know, Bond is like he's

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very like they like they keep tryingto push this like he has a celibate
image situation. But then his characteris like, oh money, Penny,
you don't look a day you know, you know, it looks you know,
all gold or whatever. She's like, I'm the daughter and he still
or he like kisses her and thenshe's like, oh, I'm her daughter.
And then says something about work,having to work late nights, and
he's like, your mother did herbest work at night? Yeah, who

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like what? And then like hermission as he sees it is to like
kiss a bunch of hot dudes andsee which one is the best secret agent.
Like yeah, I don't know,man, it was just weird.
And then like the later revealed thathe had an illegitimate kid with Mata Harri.
Right, but he did really loveMada Hary. Yeah, but that

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was like his great love who's loss? He more. But even though he
loved he loved her, and hestill like constantly made cracks about, you
know, how promiscuous she was,Like, dude, come on, you
were supposed to love this woman.Mada Harri is known for being for having

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lots of lavas. But I alsothought that that was an interesting spin Laba
that m a in a world wherethere is a celibate James Bond, he
falls for a woman who is promiscuous. Yeah that is that could be interesting.
Yeah yeah, in a better movie, it would have been interesting.
Yeah all right. Bondon hires vestBerlin, the retired agent turned millionaire,

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to recruit Baccarath as they called itexpert Evelyn Tremble, whom he intends to
use to beat Smersh against Agent LaChief. Having embezzled Smirsh's money, La
Chief is desperate for money to coverup his theft before he is executed.
Following up a clue from agent Mimi, Mimi Bond persuades his estranged daughter Mada
Bond to travel to West Berlin toinfiltrate International Mother's Help and All Pairs Service

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that is a cover for a Smershtraining center. Mana uncovers a plan to
sell compromising photographs of military leaders fromthe US, USSR, China, and
Great Britain at an art auction,another scheme Lahif hopes to use to raise
money, Mada destroys the photos.Laschif's only remaining option is to raise the

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money by playing Aara okay. Tremblearrives at the Casino Royale accompanied by Lynde,
who foils an attempt to disable himby a seductive Smirsh agent Miss good
Thighs. Later that night, Trembleobserves La Chif playing at the casino and

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realizes that he is using infrared sunglassesto cheat. Lyndz deals the sunglasses,
allowing Evelyn to beat to eventually beatLahif in a game of Baccarat. Lynde
is apparently abducted out so the casinoapparently, and Tremble is even The person
who wrote the synopsis was like,ah, I think this is what happened.

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Ye, And Tremble is also kidnappedwhile pursuing her. LA Chief,
desperate for the winning check, hallucinogenicallytortures Tremble, lends Lynde rescues Tremble,
only to subsequently kill him. Meanwhile, smirsh agents raid La Chief's base and
kill him. Okay, I needto Paul is here, so I I

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love Once we get Tremble in thecasino royale and we're dealing with freaking orson
Wells as La Shiva. Ye,Like that was the best thing ever.
So, Like I liked Peter Sellersgoing into the back room and he's like,
oh, look, you have atiger in your office and the guy's

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like, yes, I have three. There's that one, the one on
the wall, and the one you'reabout to trip over. And he's like,
seriously about to trip over like arug with a tiger head on it.
And that was funny to me,but I love Orson Wells. I
don't know what Peter Sellers was doingin this movie. I sincerely don't like.

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I like Peter Sellers. I knowhe's difficult to work with. He's
legendary, he's a legendary butthole.But he was like the Mike Myers of
the sixties like he but you know, actually a genius. So I don't
know, man, I don't know. I don't know. I think there

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were actual problems with Peter Sellers onthis movie. Yes, they fired him
from what I can tell, jeez, like during filming, oh my,
yeah, because he would just disappearfor days on end. Now that's pretty
serious. And they didn't recast him. They just tried to make do with
the footage they had. Yeah,oh gosh, so like we never see

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him get kidnapped, like we justsee they like just have him like jump
in some sort of race car anddrive off and then like all of a
sudden, he's in a torture chamberthe chief has, which is astonishing that
they weren't. They just were notable to film some scenes because Peter Sellers

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was just not on set anymore.And this movie was still excruciatingly long.
You know, it felt like wewere watching it for days. Yep,
sure did, Buddy. I askedDave. I was like, please,
can you just figure out a wayto put the display up on the on
the screen, Like, can wefigure out there's got to be a way

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that we can figure out how farinto this movie we are? Dude,
we still had forty minutes left.I'm like, oh my gosh, we're
barely We're just barely over halfway.Oh my gosh. And just so you
guys know, she she's not alott eyed we we just are not used
to that particular blue ray play.Had to watch it on a d We

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had to watch a DVD. Wecould not stream it anymore Amazon Prime.
We had to use a separate remotethat we were unfamiliar with. Uh yeah,
so let's see other other things ofnote. Um um old Honey Rider

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is back. Yeah, yeah,I thought that was cool. We get
we probably I assume, get tohear her actual voice. Still no,
still, no, gosh, dude, no, I think it was the
same lady Ursula. I'm sorry,I just feel like that's somewhat of a
discredit, but I mean, youknow, she ended up having a pretty

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great career and probably making a wholeton of money. So yeah, maybe
she doesn't maybe she doesn't care.She was able to free those gorgeous breasts
as they said. God, rememberLois Maxwell was talking about how she was
dancing without a bray and those wonderfulbreasts we're just oh, and also bouncing

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back and forth or something. Ialso thought it was neat that when we
were talking about how they were tryingto train one of their agents to be
able to resist any kind of woman, one of the women who was like,
uh, flirtatiously or seductively walking upto him was wearing a Honey writer

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bikini, yester style bikini. Thatwas really neat. Yeah, that was
a cool reference. Also, Iwould just like to say I really liked
um Vesper. Is that her name? Is that Pursilla's name on here?
I really liked Vesper's um apartment orhouse or whatever. Yeah, that was

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so sixties and I loved it.She had like I'm pretty sure it was
in her bedroom, but she hadthat like sunken in enormous like wrap around
sectional sofa in her bedroom that islike the size of our house emphasis one
section. Oh god, Well,Yeah, that was that was really cool.

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A perfect spot for polished love makingor or doodling, right, isn't
that what Mimi said, doodle meshould go on doodle James doodle me?
Gosh? Uh yeah, But youknow, uh, even even with the

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things that we have said were likepositive points, Uh, I was barely
hanging on Orson Welles's monologue. Um, when they were playing Bakara interested me
and you know, helped me getthrough a little bit more of it.

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But then just I mean, afterthat, the whole like weirdo torture stuff,
and I just anything after that point, I was kind of just checked
out because it was awful and itwas tough to get through. It felt
like the movie forgot what the pointw was. Uh Like, was it

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still a satire at that point?Were they trying to tell an actual story
at that point? I don't knowa whole lot about Ian Fleming's Casino Royal
story. The well this didn't doa little bit okay, I don't know,
Like I kept looking at Dave andI was like, at what point
do we get to Casino Royal?Yeah? Um, for the movie to

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be called Casino Royale? It justfelt like that was kind of a blip.
Um. I don't know so anyway, I know there's still more synopsis
left, but uh right. Iwas just very disinterested at this point.
Yeah, Like I was like,there was a point where you had checked

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out and then you never really hadto the point where I was actually kind
of pissed. Thing. I wasjust kind of starting to get angry that
we still had to watch this.Why did they make so much movie?
At some point, like it wasit was bad because you were like,
like I was annoyed, and thenlike you started talking to the cat,

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to our to our cat, Dougand Orson well Yeah, and then Orson
Welles came on screen and started talking. I was like, babe, and
I almost ruined our marriage. Itwas like the like the one shining moment,
the one thing I was looking forwardto the entire movie. It was

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like, no Orson Welles was theshift. You don't understand, You don't
understand. No one more talking tothe cat. We got to listen to
what Orson Welles has to say.Oh my goodness, and it was worth
it. He was awesome. Yeah, he was good. I loved all
of the magic bits. I soloved all the magic bits like he in
between the hands and he just keptdoing like pulling out like sparklers and stuff.

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I don't know, dude, thathe was he was great and uh
he's he he was a magnetic performerlike that. Dude could always just like
get my attention every time he speaks. I'm just like, oh, what
is Orson Wills doing? Yeah?It felt like, um when he was

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talking, it felt like he waslike directly speaking to us. I mean
he wasn't obviously, he wasn't lookinginto the camera. It was just like
when he speaks, it demands yourattention. Even with Maurice LaMarsh doing all
of his impersonations of of Orson Wellsover the years on Futurama and The Critic

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and of course who can forget hisbasically his turn as Orson Wells and Pinky
in the brain because the brain isjust Orson Wells. But he's done so
many like pee parody commercials and stuffas Orson Welles. Anyway, Um,
which are you aware of the OrsonWelles peak commercials? They're real? And

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then yes, like like no frozenpeak commercials. Okay, I'm not sure
which one is better, but thereare outtakes I'll find him and I'll play
him for you and maybe we'll eventalk about them, or maybe we'll stick
it after the credits or something umwhere he is just dismantling the writing of

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the He's just like they're like,can you do it? He's like,
oh, this is this is bullshit. Like he's like so angry. He
hates it. He hates the peakcommercials he's talking about and stuff like.
It doesn't it doesn't flow. Itsounds course to the ear who writes like
this, it's so great. Anyway, I don't have another outlet for talking

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about worse than the Wells right now. Yeah, man, I need to
start an Wells podcast anyway. Let'ssee in London, Mada is kidnapped by
smirsh in a giant flying saucer.Yeah, what the heck? Where did

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that even come from? Well,you know, at this point I had
checked out on anything being like makingsense. You know, like once the
Smersh agents walk into the elevator andLashif is watching them on the monitor.
Intercut with oh that probably showed up. Intercut with hallucinations with Peter Sellers and

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the Marching Band and Peter O toolsthere for some reason, and then you
know, and because they don't haveany I guess because they didn't have I
don't know if this was a Joecan the script or whatever, but he's
watching the smursh guys come for himand then they just like bust through the
TV screen and shoot him. Thatwas dumb. And also like around this

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point, the DVD started skipping,and uh so we had to like take
it out and clean it and thenfind out where our place was. Oh.
I had to take it to it. I had to put it on
the skip doctor. I had togrind it. I had to like refinish
it, yeah, to get itto work. I guess it was in
pretty bad shape. Well, Ibought a pretty cheap version of it off

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man. Okay, Well, I'mreally glad we didn't pay a lot of
money for that. M Yeah.We had to rewind to find where we
left off, and as we wererewinding, we saw the UFO situation and
we're just like, what is happening? Yep? It was not explained.
No, not really. Oh ohwe uh we did not discuss Woody Allen's

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introduction his first scene. Oh yeah, I enjoyed it. Yeah, that
was like one part that I enjoyed. Um, I did really like that.
Yeah. He just constantly ad libbedin his scenes, though, did
he Yeah, well, he dida good job. I enjoyed it.
And also I'm like, with theexception of like a few more wrinkles and

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gray hair, I just think thatguy has looked the same, probably since
he was like eighteen. Yeah,he's just I mean, it's very clearly
woody Allen. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but I I enjoyed him.
Um. We see him and he'sin front of a firing squad.
He's about to be executed, andhe asks for a cigarette for one one

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last smoke, and then it turnsout that it's a gadget and he just
like throws the cigarette at the firingsquad and it explodes. He climbs up
over the wall. He gets away. He gets on the other side of
the wall and it's another firing it'sanother firing squad who has just killed another
guy. It's just the same thingon a different side of the wall.

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Yeah, and it felt very woodyAllen too, It did that scene?
Did yes? Um? So yeah. In London, mada Is Mata Bond
is kidnapped by smirsh In a giantflying saucer whatever, and Sir James and
Moneypenny traveled to Casino Royal to rescueher. They discovered that the casino was
located atop a giant underground headquarters runby the evil Doctor Noah. Secretly Sir

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James's nephew, Jimmy Bond as aOh right, that's Woody Allen ye,
a former in My sixth agent whodefected to Smersh to spite his famous uncle.
Jimmy reveals that he plans to usebiological warfare to make all women beautiful
and kill all men over four footsix inches, leaving him as the big
man who gets all the girls.Jimmy has already captured the detainer, and

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he tries to convince her to youto be his partner. She agrees,
but only to dupe him into swallowingone of his atomic time pills, turning
him into a walking atomic bomb.That was all pretty enjoyable. It was
all right, Oh, I didlike the reveal that Jimmy Bond was the
bad guy. Yeah, and thathis name was doctor nowa m m m.

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That was fun um and uh Ithought it was a funny thing that
even as a super villain. Hecould, he couldn't manage to speak in
front of his uncle because he wasstill kind of a bumbling villain. Yeah
that was fun. Uh So SirJames, Moneypenny Mata, and Coope managed

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to escape from their cell and fighttheir way back to the casino director's office,
where Sir James establishes Lynd as adouble agent. The casino is then
overrun by secret agents and a battlein sues so then American and French support
arrive, but to add to thechaos, Jimmy counts down a series of
hiccups, each bringing him closer todoom. Eventually, the atomic pill explodes,

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destroying Casino Royal with everyone inside.Sir James and all of his agents
then appear in Heaven and Jimmy Bondis shown descending to hell. Okay,
yeah, so when the Americans showup and they're all cowboys on horseback,
which is weird. That was dumb, and then like all the Native Americans

(34:30):
show up what Yeah, man,I don't know why. I don't know.
It was just weird. What abad movie? Yep? Okay?
Is this a good introduction to JamesBond? I don't think it is I

(34:50):
don't either. I don't think it'sa good introduction to anything satire spoof films.
I just if I don't. Itdidn't have to be this terrible,
Like it was a good idea.There were parts of it that were funny
and enjoyable. If they had madeit maybe ninety minutes long instead of a

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hundred and thirty. Um, itmaybe could have been salvaged if they had,
you know, done some rewriting andsome editing. I think they did
a lot of that. Yeah,but no, I don't think it's a
good introduction. Yeah. This wasreally tough to get through, and at
first I was like, I thinkwhat got me through a good bit of

(35:36):
it, uh, is that Iwas like, oh, well, this
this will be a nice break fromSean Connery stuff. Because we out of
the for Sean Connery films Bond filmsthat we've watched, we've liked two of
them and then the other two notso great. I was like, you
know, this this will be anice little break. No that did not

(36:00):
hold. Yeah, um yeah,okay, based on this movie alone,
would you want to keep watching thefranchise? If I thought the other movies
were going to be like this?One, absolutely not. I would like

(36:21):
maybe watch one more to be like, are they all going to be this
bad? And if the next onewas about this caliber, I would stop.
Would you recommend this movie to anyoneyou love? No, I'm sorry
I would I would not either.I would recommend someone youtubeing the La Schiff
Chief Yeah, and be like,dude, check out Orson Welles on this

(36:44):
yeah. Um, all right,thoughts on actors. I thought David Divin
did a great job. Yeah,I enjoyed him quite a bit. Orson
Welles top notch. Peter Sellers,I don't know what he was doing here
in this film. It seemed weird. Um. He didn't do a terrible
job. I just don't know whathe was doing. Um Mersill Andrews was

(37:06):
fine. She actually seemed like acompletely different character than the Honey Rider and
jo Um. Let me just throwthis out here, okay. Um.
I have not seen all of hisfilms. What I have seen I have
enjoyed Woody Allen. Um. Iunderstand as I understand it as many people

(37:30):
understand it. He might be andprobably is a pedophile creep. I don't
know because of the adopted daughter marriagething. Oh no, not just that
they're like Mia Farrow says that heof did did stuff to their daughter to

(37:52):
or to hit her daughter her whatwas her name? No different one the
Ronan Pharaoh. But then oh solike the girl that she he purportedly messed
with or molested says that he didit, but she was really super young

(38:13):
when it happened. Yeah, likereally really young. And then like another
of Mia Pharaoh's kids say that he'sinnocent. So I don't know, and
I understand anyone who's angry and thinks, like, you know, the court
day, you know, he was, well, he's not in jail.

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They went to court over it,but it was not like a cut and
dry thing. It was a dude, something's weird here? Yeah, like
like the judge was like, something'sweird here. And I can't remember the
I can't remember the uh, thespecifics of it. Yeah. Uh.
I do think Woody Allen is funny, but I also get the heebgb's and

(38:59):
m creep out by him. SoI don't know how to feel because we've
got, you know, a lotof different words. I care about what
he is and isn't, So Ijust wanted to acknowledge that I'm not you
know, saying, oh, he'sfunny, he's never done anything wrong.
He might, I mean, certainlythe Souni thing was weird and creepy,

(39:20):
but it's weird. But they're so. I was. I was just looking
him up on Wikipedia because I wascurious how tall he is, you know,
because I was like, well,we wanted to like kill all the
men who were over four to six. Geez, how short is this guy?
He's five five, that's my height. Yeah, so I don't know,

(39:42):
he just seems like he's shorter thanthat. I don't know he does.
But anyway, when I was lookingup his height, looking at his
Wikipedia page, he's eighty four.For one thing. I didn't realize he
was that old. But um,he's been married three times and he's had
Wikipedia listed to other partners Diane Keatonand Mia Farah, so he's had I

(40:07):
mean, you know, he's eightyfour, He's lived a lifetime. He's
had several really serious, long termrelationships. But it looks like consistently he's
been married to his adopted daughter sinceninety seven, so that's his longest relationship
yet. Yeah, so whatever isbetween them seems like it's sincere. Yeah.

(40:34):
Whatever, man, I don't understand, but yeah, I mean it
is a weird thing, but youknow, it's he's not like our uncle.
We don't have to like see themtogether at family get togethers or something.
I'm at least it's something that wecan at least kind of just push
out of our thoughts most of thetime. Yeah, he is creeping into
some degree and possibly a pervert soor you know, with serious issues.

(41:02):
But who knows. I don't know. I don't know what exactly happened.
I'm not there. Um. Ohso also at what I was gonna say,
at one point, it may havebeen more than one time in this
movie. Um, they were actuallyplaying Benny Hill music really there, Yes,
there they were really. I didn'tsee anything about it, but they

(41:22):
might have. I thought we lookedat each other when we were like,
yeah, they're they're actually knowing itbecause they're or maybe they were playing Benny
Hill type. I think it wastype music, but it was all the
It was all like composed by backI rec from what I understand. Um,
yeah, so I don't know.I thought that was funny because I

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know there has been at least onetime with a Sean Connery film where Dave
and I were like, yeah,we're just waiting for that Benny Hill music
to start playing thunderball. Yep,so they actually they actually did it in
this one. It sounds like someoneelse was kind of feeling that way as
well. Absolutely all right, sooh um man, I got sick of
that music. Yep. They keptplaying the same, the same thing over

(42:07):
and over again. It was justlike the same music. Yeah, it
was just minding me. Here's thepart of the podcast where my cat needs
attention. Yeah, that's the thingthat happens. Hey baby, you do
hey kid? Are you okay?She does not like it when we come

(42:30):
in here. Well, sometimes she'sokay with it, and then sometimes she's
like, wait, people, Ineed people. I'll have you know that
five people are going to hear youmewing. Um. But yeah, I
thought all the actors did a prettygood job for the most part. You

(42:51):
know, it was fine. Itwas not a weak film because of the
acting. Alrighty shall we continue?Ye? Shall we begin? Sorry?
Uh, let's go to favorite quotesyou got any Um? I do not

(43:13):
have any favorite quotes, just twoquotes that I would wanted to mention.
Uh. We already kind of talkedabout this one when somebody says, uh,
I didn't. I didn't do agood job of putting down the exact
quote, something about the secret agenthas become synonymous with sex maniac. Yeah.
He says it's depressed because they're missioningall the different like the brothels and

(43:36):
whatnot, the bath houses and stuffthat all these agents have been killed in.
Yeah, And he says it's depressingthat the word secret agent have become
synonymous with sex maniac. Gotcha,yep um, So you know that's a
pretty good thing to call out.Yep um. Here was another quote that
was really creepy that made me andDave cringe when James Bond's daughter Matta says,

(44:00):
if you weren't my father, Ithink I could fancy you. Yeah.
That was gross, gross man.It was like some woody Allen bulk
Er out there. You went there? Yeah, what else you got?
You got anything else? And that'sit. I had several um I liked

(44:23):
when he was like, oh,by the way, money, Penny,
have you heard says up coming here? Have you heard me stammer? She
says, no, sir, Hesays, splendid. Let me know if
I do I haven't got time forthat sort of thing, now, Yeah,
that's good. Um. When hewas talking about his era's type of
spy, he says, vocationally devoted, sublimely disinterested, hardly a description of

(44:44):
that sexual acrobat who leaves a trailof dead beautiful women, like so many
blown roses behind him. That boundaryto whom you gave my name and number.
I enjoyed that quite a bit,um. Doug hicked it to yep.
When Jimmy Bond, when Woody Allenis flailing around and he can't speak

(45:07):
and he's trying to communicate, andSir James says, I never should have
sent him to that progressive school.Oh, when they're undressing him in at
EM's house, the woman who likewe see her head go out of frame
because she's like taking off his pantsand there's like a lot of shuffling around.

(45:29):
He goes, be careful, that'smy loose knee cap. Oh God,
that was really funny to me.That's my loose kneecaps. Um.
I enjoyed it. When they weretrying to convince him to come out of
retirement and he says, calamity makesstrange bedfellow I've not got to do his

(45:52):
stammer strange bedfellows. But why,I wonder, and the strength of your
unity do you disturb an old fashionedgentleman in his retirement. And m says,
we need your inspirational leadership in thisdark hour. And the Grand says,
please give us the benefit of yourencouragible powers of deduction, and Ransom
says for the freedom loving peoples ofthe world, and Smirnova says, for
the sake of the glorious socialist revolution, and Sir James says, if I

(46:15):
may interrupt his flow of cliche,that was good, oh man. When
he when he goes to the M'scastle or whatever, and he's uh agent.

(46:38):
Mimi Slash or portraying M's widow says, not else remains of his body,
you know, And James says,nothing to speak of him afraid.
It was found in a tree onehundred yards from where he stood. It
took off, was it were,and flew like a like a bird.

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But whether it is an article ofapparel or an anatomical feature, that is
the question? Should it be givenChristian burial? Just how personal is a
toupee? And then she says itcan only be regarded as a hair loom.
Oh god, oh my gosh,I hollowed. That was so funny

(47:24):
to me. Oh my gosh,that was terrible, But I mean it
was. It was pretty funny butalso just awful. And the last thing
I have is her coming to hisroom and she says, sleep on hard,
nails on, thinking on me,Dearie, all along night, awake,

(47:46):
grovelin and grief. Comfort me,Jamie lad give me your bosom to
weep on, doodle me, Jamiegross And he says, really, madam,
She says, I hereby claim mywidows do according to mc terry tradition.
Let me be comforted, doodle me. He's as a quaint custom,
but one more honored in the breachthan an observance. I liked all of

(48:08):
that. Oh my goodness, thatwas fun. That was when it was
still tolerable to watch. Huh.Um favorite scene orson Wells, orson Wells
at the back of rock table.Sure sure. Uh. My favorite was
the first scene with Woody Allen init, in front of the firing squad.

(48:30):
Um. I also thought like thefunniest part was like everything having to
do with uh, like the traditionalScottish funeral, the fake widow Mimi,
all of the daughters and stuff.That whole sequence was really strange, but

(48:52):
it was still funny, Like itstill kind of felt like an actual spoof,
right, Um, and it was, you know, it was not
difficult to get through. Yep.Uh. My Ley's favorite scene was everything
else. That is literally what Iwrote down least favorite everything past the one

(49:14):
hour mark? Okay, yeah,yeah, oh yeah, help help us?
What do you what do you hopeseeing going I hope to see going
forward? What is the next moviewe're gonna watch? You Only Live Twice?
Still a Sean Connery? Okay,well I don't know, I don't

(49:38):
know. Maybe, uh this kindof cleansed my palette to get me ready
for another Sean Connery. Right.Um, hopefully this one's a good one
makes Thunderball look a lot better thanit. It sure does, man,
it really does. Oh my goodness. All right, So what's your what's

(49:58):
your writing for this one? Um? One point five doodles out of five
Jamie? Um, I'm going togive it um point five random flying saucers
out of five point five point five. That's rough, dude, yes,

(50:21):
ma'am. So in the ranking,my ranking the best movie is Doctor No,
Second, Goldfinger, three from Russiawith Love, four Thunderball, and
five Casino Royal, which I imaginewill stay there for the rest of this
cast. Yeah, um, yep, same order for me. I really

(50:43):
hope that I don't have to goput something else lower. Yeah, I
hope there's not anything worse than yeah, this Casino Royal. Yeah. Let
me also say that my one pointfive doodles out of five, that's that's
really like one point two five ofthat is for like the first forty five
minutes of the movie. Okay,I mean like I just really don't have

(51:07):
anything for like about two thirds ofthis movie. I mean, my point
five is there because of Orson Welles, and I did enjoy some of the
than that forty five minutes, butit was such a bad movie. Yeah,
but you know, for it tohave been so difficult to get through,

(51:30):
well for us to watch it,but I feel like it was kind
of difficult to get through. Whenthey were filming, they really had some
big name people on there. Ohyeah, like even at that point,
yeah, they were still big deals. Yeah, absolutely. M So,
I mean like this movie has moreactors whose names I recognize, who I
am familiar with than any of theSean Connery films we have watched. Oh

(51:53):
yeah, so I don't know.I think that's interesting. Um. Do
you you have some trivia about Burtback irak in here? Oh? Man,
okay, well not really. Uh, let me see what I can
remember from some stuff about Burt backIraq. Um, I don't. I

(52:13):
guess really. Just the main thingis that he was involved with the Austin
Powers movies. Yeah, so that'sreally cool. That's neat that you know
he did the music for this movieand then also did music for Austin Powers.
Yeah. Soo his name sounds verysimilar to Bacara, it does,
apparently. Yeah I did, Idid. I think I did hear the

(52:35):
like the soundtrack was considered one ofthe best analog recordings nice by like music
Files or something. Well, goodfor him. So there's there's another like,
really talented person they had working onthis film. Oh yeah, what
happened? They had everything they needed? M they maybe maybe I think they

(52:55):
had too much. So this,uh, we'll get into some trivia here.
The budget for this movie was twelvemillion dollars, and it was not
originally twelve million dollars just kept goingover budget. It grows forty one point
seven million, which means that ithad a net profit of seventy one point
two two percent. Not bad forthis trash, no uh. They they

(53:19):
pulled in twenty nine million, sevenhundred thousand dollars. Their profit percentage was
two hundred and forty seven point fiftypercent. Wow. So Peter Sellers and
Orson Wells hated each other, ohokay, and the filming of the scene
where both of them faced off atthe back of round table was filmed on

(53:40):
different days with double standing in forthe for the other actors because they wouldn't
do a scene together. The conflictbetween them became legendary, but it was
actually apparently Sellers who suggested Wells forthe role of La Shief. Apparently the
rift between them was partly because onPrincess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth the

(54:07):
Second, showed up on set andSellers had known her previously and greeted her,
as they say, in an ostentatiousmanner to ensure all cast and crew
noticed. However, she walked straightpast him and made a big fuss over
Orson Wells. Yep, Sellers stormedoff the set and refused a film with
Wells again. Oh my god,what a baby. Yeah, Woody Allen.

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Scenes were shot in London and producersdelayed his final day of shooting so
many times that out of frustration,he left the set, went directly to
Heathrow Airport and flew back to NewYork City without changing out of his costume.
Oh my gosh, So this isthe second person who just wasn't showing
up on set. Well, theyjust kept pushing his scene back. So
he wasn't that he was showing upon set, It was that it was

(54:52):
he left. It was the oppositeproblem. They just kept saying, we
don't need you today, and he'slike, oh. According to interviews with
director of Val guest Peter Sellers becamesuch a problem that the decision was made
to fire him before he had finishedall of the scenes. As a result,
the end of the Marching Band torturescene was noticeably altered, and Seller's
subsequent scenes were written out. Yeah. Back in sixty two, Ian Fleming

(55:15):
had already decided on David Niven forthe role of James Bond, which I
mentioned earlier. Apparently most of thestars were not aware they had signed on,
or when they signed on, thatthis was a comedy. Oh no,
they thought it was a straight JamesBond movie. Oh that's awful.
Yep, that's really awful. Yea. I wonder if there was anyone who

(55:37):
was supposed to be in this filmwho found that out later and somehow used
that to get out of their contract. I don't know. That's terrible.
For the scene where she was supposedto seduce James Bond, wearing a nightgown
and suggestively cradling a big bottle ofchampagne, Jacqueline Bassett was shocked when Peter
Sellers certainly suddenly turned on her andfired a gun directly into her face when

(55:59):
she the room. Though the gunonly had blanks, the stunt left her
face coated and burning gunpowder and bleedingfrom where the shards tore her skin.
Oh my gosh, she says.First I thought I had been actually shot,
and then when I realized it hadbeen a blank, I thought I'd
been blinded. My face looked likea shower spout of pin pricks leaking blood.
Oh my gosh. The noise scaredher so much she dropped the champagne

(56:22):
bottle on her feed after that,she says, I was panicked whenever I
had a scene with Peter Sellers.To get shot in your first scene with
a big star, that is anightmare. That's terrible. That actually sounds
like a nightmare. It does.Oh my gosh. Well she I don't
know, man. I kudos toher maybe for still showing up for future

(56:46):
days of work. Dude, Ithink I probably just would have left,
maybe, like y'all didn't prepare mefor this. Well, once you've been
shot, you might as well keepcoming in God. But yeah, but
like once that happens, like Iwould be fearful of, Like, what
else are they not going to prepareme for or protect me from? On
this set? I would feel likethis is so unprofessional. No one cares

(57:07):
about me. Why don't I justleave? That's awful. Some biographies of
Peter Sellers suggest that he took therole of Bond to heart and was annoyed
at the decision to make the filma comedy, as he wanted to play
Bond straight. This is illustrated insomewhat fictionalized form in the Life and Death
of Peter Sellers, based on thebiography by Roger Lewis, who has claimed

(57:28):
that Sellers kept rewriting and improvising sceneshimself to make them play seriously. This
story is in agreement with the observationthat the only parts of the film close
to the book are the ones featuringSellers and Orison Wells. According to writer
Eric Lacked, Woody Allen was astonishedby what he viewed as extravagant spending on
the film. For example, hewas flown in and put up in an

(57:49):
expensive hotel for several weeks doing nothingbefore they got around to shooting his scenes.
And the chaotic production. That justsounds very disorganized. So Woody Allen
wrote a letter to his friend andhe described the production and he writes,
it's a madhouse. I haven't begunfilming yet, but saw the sets of

(58:10):
my scenes. They are the heightof bad pop art, expensive vulgarity,
saw rushes and him dubious to putit mildly, but probably film will coin
a mint, not money, justa single peppermint. I play the villain,
okay to give that out. Andalso James Bond's bastard nephew. Not

(58:30):
all right to give that out,but I'm gonna tell you anyway. And
my part changes every day as newstars fall in, I would like it
emphasized and made quite clear that Iam not a writer of Casino. I'm
adding a few ad lib jokes tomy own part, but that's all.
In fact, we demanded a lettersaying my name cannot appear on screen as
a writer. This because everyone whocontributed a comma is demanding his name on

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the film, and the writer's listlooks like Terry Southern, Ben Hecked,
Michael Sayers, Frank Buckston, MickeyRose, Peter Seller's vow Guest wolf Mankowits,
etc. Wow. Peter Sellers hiredPeter Sellers hired Terry Southern to write

(59:13):
his dialogue and not the rest ofthe script to outshine Orson Wells and Witty
Allen. Oh my gosh, dude, um wow. The film is known
as Somewhat of a Harbinger In Guatemala. It's it's known as the movie of
the Night before the earthquake because ithired for the first time in the country
on February third, nineteen seventy,six hours before an earthquake that killed thousands.

(59:36):
Isn't that crazy? Whoa why wouldthey blame it on that movie or
like then, I put that onthat movie, you know. Orson Wells
attributed the success of the film toa marketing strategy that featured a naked,
tattooed lady on the film's poster andprint ads. Yep, I have seen
I have seen that. Ye wow. Um. Peter Sellers often caused interruptions

(59:59):
by leaving the set for days ata time. I wonder if most of
the profit from this film was becausepeople thought they were seeing a serious James
Bond film maybe, and then likeword got out that it was terrible,
and you know, everybody else waslike, oh, okay, I won't
see it. But for some peoplethey were like, well the damage is

(01:00:20):
done. It still saw it.I mean, it's still got a lot
of money. I know, it'sstill made a pretty solid profit in nineteen
nine. Sorry sorry, Peter Seller'spunch director Joseph McGrath a personal friend when
he complained about Seller's behavior on theset. Wow, but yep. In
ninety nine, MGM paid Sony tenmillion dollars to the rights of this movie.
Oh my gosh, I guess theyjust I mean, they wanted all

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the Bond movies. Yeah. Thefilm's original studio approved budget was six million,
a large sum for nineteen sixty six. Production problems resulted in the shoot
running months over schedule. By thetime the film was finally complete, the
budget had more than doubled, makingit one of the most expensive films ever
made up to that time. Thatis ridiculous. The previous official Bond movie,

(01:01:06):
Thunderball, had a budget of nineto eleven million dollars. You Only
Live Twice, released the same year, had a budget of nine point five
to eleven point five million. Thefilm got a reputation as a mini Cleopatra,
referring to the out of control costsof the film that almost bankrupted twentieth
century for Josh and it is notworth it. That is ridiculous. Did

(01:01:28):
they? God, dude, Ijust can't believe how mismanaged this whole projects.
A carpet beater can be seen hangingfrom the side of orson Welles's chair.
This is a link to the originalCasino Royale novel in which La Shief
tortures Bond by thrashing his testicles witha carpet beaters. Yeah. I'm pretty
sure that's in the two dozen sixversion two Watch Out, Daniel. So

(01:01:55):
they had a bunch of actresses fromthe Eon movie. He's in this movie
and this this little piece of trivialists a bunch of them. That also
says gives a special shout out toNicky Vandersl, who dubbed the Bond Girls
as she does in most official films, and as ever, she is uncredited.

(01:02:19):
Man, yep, I wonder whather paycheck was because I don't know.
It sounds like especially since well,I don't know, man, it
sounds like she's kind of she shouldbe as iconic as the Bond Girls are.
She's just unknown because she wasn't uncredited. Orson Wells apparently insisted on including

(01:02:40):
magic tricks in his scenes, whichwas a possible source of friction between him
and Sellers. Oh my gosh,because Peter Sellers hates Joy and wonder.
I don't know. I just thinkit's really weird that Orson Welles wanted to
include magic tricks. I really enjoyedit and thought it was hilarious. It

(01:03:00):
is weird, and Peter Seller's justreally is a bothole man. He's like,
why already don't like him and nowhe wants to do magic? Yea,
oh god, he knows the Queen. It wasn't even the queen,
It was the princess. Oh mygod, all right, U Woody Allen

(01:03:22):
was inspired to direct his own filmsafter experiencing the chaotic production of this film
Wow. Peter Sellers ordered one setto be torn down because he had a
dream the night before in which hismother had visited Shepperton and told him she
didn't like it. Dear gosh,get over yourself. Producer Charles K.

(01:03:42):
Feldman originally intended to make the filmas a co production with official James Bond
series producers Staltzman and Broccoli Wow Withwith Sean Connery as James Bond as Shirley
McClain as Vesper Ln. Saltzman andBroccoli had just co produced Underball with Kevin
McClory and didn't want to do itagain. United Artists supposedly offered Feldman five
hundred thousand dollars for the rights toCasino Royal in nineteen sixty five, but

(01:04:04):
the offer was rejected. Forced toproduce the film on his own, Feldman
approached Connery to star his Bond.Unwilling to meet Conner's one million dollars salary
demand, Feldman decided to turn thefilm into a spoof and cast David Niven
as Bond. After the film wentthrough numerous production problems and an exploding budget,
Feldman met Connery at a Hollywood partyand reportedly told Connery it would have

(01:04:28):
been cheaper to pay him the milliondollars. Ye Peter Sellers was unavailable for
the filming of an ending and oflinking footage to explain the details, leaving
the filmmakers to devise a way tomake the existing footage work without him.
The framing device of a beginning andending with David Niven was invented to salvage
the footage vow. Guest indicated thathe was given the task of creating a

(01:04:49):
narrative thread which would link all segmentsof the film. He chose to use
the original Bond and Vesper as linkingcharacters to tie the story together. Guests
states that in the originally released versionsof the film, a cardboard cutout of
Sellers in the background was used forthe final scenes. In later versions,
this cardboard cutout image was replaced bya sequence showing Sellers and Highland dressed inserted

(01:05:12):
by trick photography. Yis David Prowscommented on his part in the film,
apparently his big screen debut. Heclaimed that he was originally asked to play
Superpoo, a giant Winnie the Poohin a superhero costume who attacks Evelyn Tremble
during the Torture of the Mind sequence. This idea, as with many others

(01:05:34):
in the film, script, wasrapidly dropped and Prows was recast as a
Frankenstein type monster for the closing scenes. Yeah, we were confused as to
why he showed up. The finalsequence was principally directed by former actor Ands
dot Man Richard Tomadge. The filmpremiered in April on April thirteenth, nineteen

(01:05:55):
sixty seven, exactly fourteen years ofthe day after the the Inflaming Casino Royal
novel was published. The film wasreleased two months before You Only Lived Twice.
It was the first time two JamesBond films were released in the same
year. It happened against sixteen yearslater with Octopussy and Never Say Never Again.
After the film proceeded to make tobecome a flop at the box office,

(01:06:16):
Joseph mccrath was approached by some ofthe producers of the movie, who
told him that whilst they didn't blamehim for all the tension and problems which
occurred during filming. They made itclear they would never that they never wanted
to work with that bastard. Sellersever again, Wow proceeded to become a
flop. Yeah, I guess itwas technically a flop, but you know,

(01:06:39):
some other trivia said that it wasonly considered a flop because it didn't
do as well as the other Bondmovies, So virtually nothing from ben Heck's
scripts were ever filmed. He diedfrom a heart attack in April of nineteen
sixty four, two days before hewas due to present it to Charles Feldman.
Time reported at nineteen sixty six thatthe script had been completely rewritten by

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Billy Wilder, and by the timethe film reached production, only the idea
that the name James Bond should begiven to a number of other agents remained.
This key plot device in the finishedfilm. In the case of Hex,
version occurs after the demise of theoriginal James Bond, an event which
happened prior to the beginning of thestory, which, as Hex inputs it,
not only perpetuates his memory but confusesthe opposition. Again. I think

(01:07:26):
it's a really cool idea. Yeah. In his book When He Allen,
a biography, John Baxter lists uncreditedcontributors to the movie script, including Allen
collaborator Mickey Rose, Frank Buxton,Orson Welles, Joseph McGrath, John Houston,
and former MGM president Door Sherry.There's no tell how many people wrote
on this thing. Good lord.Yeah. Peter Seller secured a good back

(01:07:51):
end deal on the film, though, and it was still making him money
and his estate as late as twothousand and eleven. Oh my gosh.
Yeah. The stress of the stressof making the film proved so much for
producer Charles K. Feldman that hedeveloped heart problems that ultimately killed him a
year later. Oh my gosh,isn't that crazy. Yeah. Signs of

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missing footage from the Peter Sellers segmentsare evident at various points. Evelyn Tremble
is not captured on camera. Anoutake of Sellers entering a racing car was
substituted and out. In this outtake, Sellers calls for the car allah Pink
Panther to chase down Vesper and herkidnappers. The next thing that is shown
is Tremble being tortured Outtakes of Sellerswere also used for Tremble's dream sequence,
pretending to play the piano on UrsulaAndrews's torso, in the finale, blowing

(01:08:39):
out the candles, Walston Highland dresseddress, and at the end of the
film, when all the various JamesBond doubles are together. In the kidnap
sequence, Tremble's death is also veryabruptly inserted. It consists of pre existing
footage of Sellers being rescued by Vesper, followed by a later filmed shot of
her abruptly deciding to shoot him,followed by a freeze frame over some of

(01:09:00):
the previous footage of her surrounded bybodies. Good grief. Yep, so
that's the end of Trivia. Ohmy gosh, man, you can see
some of the problems some all right, kind of sounds like it was just
a poop poo storm. David,Yes, ma'am, I think it was

(01:09:20):
all right. Let's get a littlebit of feedback and when we're wrapping it,
double bag. Um. I don'tknow. Pop cultures are over on
Twitter says just listen to the doctor. No episode of Breaking Bond. Great
job. I'm glad Bethany has seenJames Bond and not just Jimmy. I'm
glad they didn't go with Honey ChildWilder as a name. Yeah, yep,

(01:09:45):
thank you, thank you for sayinggreat job. Yeah. Thanks David
weighing over on the Facebook group.Yeah, we got a Facebook group.
What is it? I don't breakingbondcast. I think I don't know.
I'll put it in the show orsomething. Join us. You know,
every time I say I hear someonesay join us, or I say join

(01:10:10):
us, I think of there wasa sketch, a comedy sketch I was
writing years and years ago, whenGeorge W. Bush was still in office,
and it was supposed to be likeit was going to be me playing
both Bill Clinton and George W.Bush, like coming together to do some
sort of like uh public service announcementslash charity thing. And one of the

(01:10:35):
bits in it was George W.Bush not reading his his Q cards right,
and he goes, please Joe Nas. I remember that, and Bill
going that's join us, join us. I thought it was a lady named
Joe Nas. You know it justas I think about that every time I

(01:10:59):
hear join us or say it pleaseJoanus, that's awesome. Also, I
don't know if w was responsible forthis, but if he was dead,
gumm it. I get so aggravatedhearing people say nuclear. It's not him,
It's been around forever. I guessmaybe he was like the main person

(01:11:23):
people noticed mispronouncing it right like.It makes me angry and annoyed when people
in TV shows and movies say nuclear, like you have an entire crew of
people watching you say these lines andthey let this go through arrow. I

(01:11:45):
was about to say they do that. They do it a lot on c
W shows. Oh my gosh,it's so annoying. But nuclear people nuclear
m do it on Blacklist, heardhim do it on Black Spot? I
mean they do Yeah, yeah,It's done on everything. And I just
I just don't. I just don'tunderstand how people have made it into adulthood

(01:12:10):
and they still say nuclear. Haveyou never seen it written down? Sound
it out? Man? Yep?Even weighing over on the Facebook group save
Me Yep, it was talking aboutThunderball, says one. I was also
sorry to see Polygo, although callingit fridging would imply that Bond cared for
her. There will be better scenesof Bond meeting local contacts in the future.

(01:12:34):
I promise number two. The guywho disappeared once he was thrown off
the boat was previously said to bea nuclear X nuclear expert from Larago told
him that his cut of the productfor the project by a specter is going
to be so much more than meremetals back home. Though. I'm not
ruling out the possibility that he waskidnapped. Yeah, yeah, I'm just

(01:12:57):
worried about where he disappeared to.That's that's my main hang up. I
think, um three, this maybe one of the messier Bond films,
but I maintained it has It hasone of the coolest VHS box covers,
Bond holding a harpoon instead of ahandgun or automatic. Come on, that
is pretty cool. Yeah, ifyou want to, if you have the
VHS, David uh put a pictureof him. He did. He did.

(01:13:20):
It's yeah, Oh I need tolook at it. Well, thank
you, thank you for doing that. Yeah, he did. He I
gotta check that out. I'm gonnalook at it right now. Yeah.
He put it on the on theFacebook group. Wow, you just dropped
the thing on my foot. Sorry, why would you do that? I
didn't mean too, that hurt.It was an accident, you baby,

(01:13:41):
get over it. I'm tearing downthis set and going home. My mother
didn't like it. In a DreamUm number four, the guy who plays
Largo is Italian and he's in amuch better film called The Agony in the
Ecstasy, also from nineteen sixty five. It's a pick about Michael Angelo painting
the Sistine Chapel ceiling. That soundsinteresting. Neat number five to reference another

(01:14:08):
Bond podcast in For Your Ears Only, they made so much fun over the
line opened the underwater hatches. Theythen went on to emphasize underwater everything because
they are They too, are nofan of all that excessive underwater sis.
That's great. The underwater shots musthave been expensive, so they felt like
they needed to keep it all.I guess yeah. I think they were

(01:14:30):
just like, look at what wedid. You know how a kid does
that? Yep or me? It'syeah, everybody knows. Everybody knows about
that. Everybody knows. Everybody knows. Um. I love yeah, just
kids doing like something that is notamazing, you know, like um putting

(01:14:57):
their foot on a couch cushion andthen just being like hey, hey,
hey, what's this what's this.It's just like waiting for uproarious applause.
Yeah, like you with that story. Oh is that all happened? No,
I'm just kidding. No one's applauding, So it's not no, no
one's applauding. We're on a podcast. No one's watching. I love you.

(01:15:21):
No you don't. I love youas well. Oh, here it
is. I'm looking at it,David Wing, I'm looking at that VHS.
That's amazing, dude. Sean Connerylooks so hardcore he does. Oh

(01:15:42):
my gosh, that is like aserious Yeah. That is a serious face
of someone who wants to murder allthe people. But you know what,
I don't think he ever wore thatscoopa suit. I don't know. His
was always like a burgundy bathing suitover his white shorty shorts. I don't
know. He just looks like he'ssaying the happoonish, my painish, Oh

(01:16:02):
my gosh, Oh god, Yeah, dude. They didn't do a much
brushing up on his face though,didn't they. You can kind of I
don't know, man, he justlooks kind of aged and like, oh
yeah, didn't you keep saying duringthis film that you could it looked like

(01:16:23):
Sean had gained some weight in hisface. Yeah, you can tell in
this picture. It is not ahugely flattering photo of him. I don't
know, he looks fine. Yeah, it's still it's still a really cool
cover though, Yeah, I thinkit. Yeah, like, I'm glad,
thank you David Wayne for for aposting that picture. Yeah, I'm

(01:16:47):
happy to see that. And Imight, like, I've been doing some
Bond art work and I might incorporate, uh, that as inspiration to one
of my my drawing for Thunderball.But that's cool. And I love vhs
is. I really love eighties andnostalgia stuff, and part of what falls

(01:17:08):
into that category is vhs is.So I don't know, I just like,
I think one of my one ofmy favorite things is just like going
to thrift stores and just finding agem of a VHS and all of the
VHS it's it's fun. So Ican appreciate that there's a really sweet VHS
cover of Thunderball. I kind offeel like, do you ever think of

(01:17:30):
like when you say VHS is thatit feels wrong, Like I feel like
it should be vhi. Hi.What bugs me is that now in the
age of DVD players and Blu rayplayers. People say VHS players and I'm
like, nah, man, itwas called VCR. Have we already forgotten?

(01:17:51):
I think I was watching something recentlywhere they called it a video cassette
player, and I'm like, yeah, still VCR. Still a VCI.
I guess like, if they're callingit a video cassette player, they could
be also referencing the Beta Max.Yeah, m all right, So uh

(01:18:13):
numbers. We'll skip number seven becauseit's a video link an Archer Kinsman crossover
video that I did not get achance to watch because I've never seen Kingsman.
Number eight, You're a Michael Cainereference reminded me of another Christopher Nolan
connection in the Dark Night Skyhook isnow is how Batman got himself and the
Hong Kong businessman and mob money launderout of the building and back into their

(01:18:38):
getaway airplane. Dude, I forgotit all about that, But he's absolutely
right. That is totally what youcall, David. That's cool. Our
cat has starved for attention. She'sjust desperate. Nerdy tastic, says I

(01:19:00):
Am sorry, y'all didn't like Thunderballvery much. It's one of my favorites.
I'm sorry, Nerdy Tasting. Westill respect you, absolutely, she
says. I think the underwater scenesare really beautiful, and I love the
eerie score. I do agree thatit could be edited down into a tighter
movie, and the ending sped upfootage is odd. I've nearly drowned twice,

(01:19:21):
and let me tell you, it'snot fun at all. So I
know. So I get you on. I get you on having issues on
driving under bridges and watching people drownor over bridges and watching people drown in
the movie. Yeah, dude,yikes. I'm sorry. This is awkward.

(01:19:42):
Now. I'm so sorry you've nearlydrowned twice. That sucks, man.
I almost drowned once because I hada bad friend who thought it would
be funny to hold me under thewater. Oh geez, was it Peter
Cell, where's the butthole? No, nope, it was just a bad

(01:20:03):
friend of mine, a real buttmove. We were kids. I'm sorry.
Yeah, that's not great, buddy, I know. Um. But
we also uh had a separate messagefrom her because we said hey to her
last week. She says, Hey, y'all, my week was blaid last
week. I'm hoping this week isbetter. I wish you luck on your

(01:20:24):
track through the Roger Moore movies.They're not to my taste. Moonraker and
Man with the Golden Gun nearly droveme to drink just to get through.
And I don't drink. Oh no, hailp us. I know, Oh
god, I'm gonna have to findsomething to do while I watch those movies.
Then, you know, and youdon't know that for sure, we

(01:20:46):
didn't. She loved Thunderball, butwe didn't. So you know, maybe
those movies will be our favorites ofthe entire franchise. They might. I'm
worried that they might be. Allright, so next week we will be
discussing Uh, well, we're backto proper Eon films. James Bond,
with a film Nerdy Tastic actually calledthe most racist garbage she's seen in a

(01:21:10):
while. She said it was trulyawful. Uh. Nineteen sixty seven's You
Only Live Twice, starring Sir SeanConnery as James Bond, Akiko Wakanayashi as
a key to Sarah Tamba as TigerTanaga. I like that name, Tiger
Tanaka Tanaka. Have you guys don'tknow what tanaka is? It is a

(01:21:35):
giant penis monster that uh is ina show called Man Seeking Woman. Yeah,
and it was like the old collegefriend of the protagonist's girlfriend and he's
like, stop touching him. He'sall his hands are penis is. He's

(01:21:56):
a giant penis. He clearly wantsto get with you, and she's like,
he is an old friend. Endstop being jealous. It is and
he just says Tanaka over and overagain, like the penis monster whose name
is Tanaka. It's a very verystrange TV series. And I watched it
because I love day what Dave,I love you my husband, and also

(01:22:18):
actor Jay Baruchel. Uh. Ireally like him and I've seen a lot
of things that he's been in.Uh, this was different. Man Seeking
Woman is a fantastic Yeah. Youended up loving it and it grew on
me. I I think what youshould know if you're going to watch it,
it's on It's all on Hulu,or at least it was recently recently.

(01:22:42):
Um, it's only three seasons.Yeah. What you should know going
into it is that it is veryvery strange and surreal, and it is
not meant to be grounded in reality. It's sort of just like they take
all of like they take like allthe metaphors for relationships and stuff and just
make it absolute reality. Yeah.So if I think, I think what

(01:23:06):
really took me a while to getover was that I went into this just
thinking that it was gonna be like, um, was that movie She's out
of My League? Is that whathe was in? Yeah? Yeah,
you know, like a little romcom situation or something like, oh,
man seeking woman, She's out ofmy league, it's gonna be like that.
Nope, And like five minutes intoit, he's got a like a

(01:23:29):
priest speak in Latin and like performingan exorcism over his girlfriend's old his ex
girlfriend's old belongings. Yeah, andhis ex girlfriend or flying around the room.
His ex girlfriend's rebound boyfriend is Hitler. Huh, because Hitler is still
alive and is dating his ex girlfriend. Yeah. And then later there's a
girl that he's interested in and she'sliterally dating Jesus Christ. Yeah. Yeah,

(01:23:51):
and then like his rebound blind datethat his sister set him up on
is a literal troll behind a dumpster. Oh my gosh, it did grow
on me once I got used to, Oh, this is just what this
show is. Yeah, it issuper weird, and all of the weird

(01:24:14):
stuff that happens in the show carriesover into the next episodes. Like there
is an episode or two, Ithink, where he comes across a pill
that is in the It's like oneof those like libido produced libido enhancing drugs,
sorry, gas station pills, youknow, you see, except just

(01:24:36):
not really. It's like a timetravel pill where you can go back and
forget me. Not Michael, yeah, but it's like a time travel pill
where you can like go back anddo something over again. And he just
keeps screwing, Like he's got likethree in the pack, so he keeps
screwing it up, and then likehe finally goes back and it's like because
of whatever actions he took, likehe's married to the to his ex girlfriend

(01:24:59):
and they're happy, but the entireworld's been taken over by aliens and has
like an alien overlord, and um, you know, by the end,
they've they've re established control of theEarth due in no small part to his
chinanery. But for the rest ofthe series, you see like the graffiti

(01:25:20):
and stuff like there are consequences totheir actions, like the alien didn't exist
the world was enslaved by an alienrace. I don't know, it's really
funny and it's it's a it's aclever show and it has a really good
ending. Yeah. So anyway,I know, um so Tiger Tanaka Tiger

(01:25:46):
Tanaka Mihama as Kissi Suzuki and DonaldPleasants as Blowfield. And this is going
to be directed by Lewis Gilbert andweirdly is written by Raould Dahl of Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory until Jake BFG, James and the Giant Peach the Witches,
Like, what is that dude doingon the James Bond movie. So

(01:26:08):
yeah, I'm super interested. Likeevery week, I've been really interested to
see what they're gonna do in thenext thing, because there's always something that's
just like wait, what all I'malready like possibly feeling some racism with character's
name being Kissi Suzuki. H Like, I'm assuming that that's an Asian.

(01:26:29):
Yeah, oh, there are somany Asian characters already named. I'm just
like, Oh, this is gonnabe bad, inn't it. This is
gonna be real bad. Well,we're diving in Yeah, all right,

(01:26:50):
I don't know what to say wheredo we keep some DC on your street?
No? Uh, keep some kiddiesin your podcast? Yep? Do
that? Keep kissing your suzuki?All right. Uh, we're gonna go

(01:27:16):
now and then we're gonna come backand talk about this, uh, this
hors and wills thing. Thank youfor listening. Thank you? Do you
want? Do you want to gothrough everything and then come back now?

(01:27:38):
Tell me? I usually prefer to, but tell me what's wrong? All
right? I just think a littlenothing is more important than the simple act
of people getting together? Good?Could? Please? Sorry? All right?
I just did it right? Yeah? I look, I I'm not

(01:28:00):
used to having more than one personin there. One more word out of
you and you go? Is thatclear? I take where I take directions
from one person under protest, butfrom two I don't say. Still,
but who the hell are you anyway? Well? Why the are you asking
me for another one? Well?I thought there was a slight bunk,

(01:28:21):
and I would like, just likewe saved Jesus? What is a gunk?
Do you mind telling me what thatis? A bang from outside?
A bang from outside? Can Isee missus Rogers from minute? Please?

(01:28:50):
Yes? Certainly we know a remotefarm in Lincolnshire where Missus Buckley lives.
Every July, peas grow there.Do you really mean that? Yeah?
Say in other words, i'd starthalf a second lake. Don't you think
you really want to say? Julyover? The snow isn't at the front

(01:29:11):
of it. It's if you canmake it almost when that show disappears,
it'll make But I think it's sonice that that you see a snow covered
field and say, every July peasgrow there. We know a remote farm
in Lincolnshire where Missus Buckley lives.Every July, peas grow there. We
aren't even in the fields you see. We're talking about him growing and she's

(01:29:35):
picked him on what I don't understandyou? Then? When must what must
be over for July? When weget all that snowy field? When I
was out, we were onto acan of peas, a big dish of
peace. When I said in July, oh, I'm sorry, yes always,

(01:29:55):
I'm always past that. Yes,well that's about where I say in
July. Do you emphasize a bitin in July? Why that doesn't make
any sense. Sorry, there's noknown way of saying an English sentence in
which you begin a sentence within andemphasize it. Get me a jury and
show me how you can say inJuly you're down on you. That's just

(01:30:20):
the idiotic. If you'll forgive meby saying that's just stupid in July,
and love to know how you emphasizein and in July impossible meaningless. I
think all they were thinking about wasthat they didn't want to He isn't thinking
and it was mid fault. Ishould I said in July, if you

(01:30:40):
can keep every July. You didn'tsay it. He said it. You're
a friend every July. No,you don't really mean every July. But
that's a that's bad copy. It'sin July, of course, it's every
July. It's too much directing aroundhere Norway fish fingers findus Norway. We

(01:31:03):
know a certain fiord in Norway,near where the card gathered in great shows.
They're yons stanglant fashion more on theworld that shows things. You roll
it around, very nice, Yeah, roll it around, and I have
no more time. You don't knowwhat I'm up against because it's full of

(01:31:24):
of things that are only correct becausethey're grammatical, but they're tough on the
air. You see, this isa very wearying one. It's unpleasant to
read, unrewarding because findus freee thecard at sea and then add a crumb
crisp crumb crisp coating. That's tough, crumb crisp coating. I think no,

(01:31:50):
because of the way it's written.You need to break it up because
it's not it's not as conversationally written. R take question, take crumb out
good Here under protest is beef burgers. We know a little place in the
American far West where Charlie Briggs chopsup the finest prairie fat beef and tastes

(01:32:15):
this is a lot of shit.You know that you want one more more
on what bears? You missed thefirst beef actually completely women missed. You're
emphasizing prairie fair, but you can'temphasize beef. That's like he's wanting me
to emphasize in Before July. Comeon, fellows, you're losing your heads.

(01:32:35):
I wouldn't direct any living actor likethis in Shakespeare. When you do
this, it's impossible. Also,you're just six last yearned by four away
the best. And I know thereason. The right reading for this is
the one I'm giving it. Othermembered. I spent twenty times more for
you people in any other commercial I'veever made. You are such pests.

(01:33:00):
Now, what is it you want? In your depths of your ignorance?
What is it you want? Whateverit is you want, I can't deliver
it because I just don't see it. That was subsidity finding what he was
here. You can live in aword, no money is for You can
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