The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)

In THIS episode of Breaking Bond, we’ll be talking about The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Starring:
Roger Moore as MI6 agent James Bond
Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga
Britt Ekland as Mary Goodnight
Maud Adams as Andrea Anders
Hervé Villechaize as Nick Nack: Scaramanga's dwarf manservant and accomplice
Clifton James as Sheriff J.W. Pepper
Directed by Guy Hamilton

We have favorite quotes (and some least favorites), trivia, and listener feedback! We also get off track a few times... ahem...

Episode Transcript

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In this episode of Breaking Bond,we'll be talking about The Man with the
Golden Gun from nineteen seventy four,starring Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, britt
Eklin, Maud Adams, and thatguy who played Tattoo and Fantasy Island whose
name I can't say. Also CliftonJames as Sheriff J. W. Pepper,
whoa Bethany's got her tongue out andgiven the thumbs down. This is

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the part where I'm supposed to bequiet because it's the intro. Oh.
This was directed by Guy Hamilton forthe last time. But first, a
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and see what, if anything,we've been missing. I'm David C.
Robertson and I'm Bethany Robertson and Ilove Padget Rooster. Alrighty we all do?
We all? Y'all should? Yes, it just seemed like you might
be taking it to a weird place. Okay, let's not tornish Padge.

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Oh hour to half stop it soleminute time. In my mind, she's
better than that. That's not whatshow we said on Friends. Oh the
meaning the box is threefold man?Alright, well the Man with the Golden

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Gun. Huh yep, let's canwe just talk about this opening sequence?
Yeah? We always forget to dothat until later? Okay. And I
hated this song. Oh okay,Yeah, I wasn't sure what opening sequence
you meant, but yeah, Imean for the Man with the Golden Gun,
not our opening sequence. Yeah.Let's let's workshop our podcast right now.

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Um okay, yeah, you werenot a fan of the song?
No. Um. I found outvia Wikipedia that Alice Cooper wrote a song
for this movie and pitched it andit was not chosen because this woman or
not this woman's song. The womansinging it is uh Lulu right, um,

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but this song with Lulu singing waschosen instead. Um. I didn't
mind it, but once I foundout that Alice Cooper wrote a song for
this, and uh, Dave andI watched a YouTube video that someone made
with Alice Cooper's song, which hestill released on one of his albums.
Right, Um, that was placedover the intro sequence. It was better.

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We really preferred that one so muchmore. Yeah. I think Stu
Little sent sent that to us.Oh cool on Breaking Did you just look
it up independently? Yeah, becausehe because he sent it. He sent
that to us on the Breaking Bondgroup on Facebook. Yeah. I'm kind
of behind on that, guys.I'm sorry, Um should I need to
catch back up on our Facebook group. But that's really cool. Good looking

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out Stu. Yeah, man,uh yeah, so um, I don't
know. I feel like maybe theydid and go with Alice because they had
just had Live and Let Die.Maybe they didn't want to be too super
progressive and have like two rock androll songs. I mean, just LOUI
was kind of a rock and rollsong, wasn't it. She Yeah,

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she was a little Yeah it was. I liked Alice Cooper so much more.
Yeah I did too. It wasso good anyway. Uh yeah,
the opening sequence was was bollocks.I just you know, there is I
don't know, It's one thing whenit's just silhouettes, but now it's just
like straight up like or should Isay straight up uh, full frontal nudity

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at this point. Yeah, dude. And and I was I pointed out
to Day that I think it's Ithink it's weird that I don't really think
there's been any nudity like in thefilms. I mean, I mean you
could Lana would She was kind ofwe know when someone is naked. Yeah,
and there have been times when wehave thought there may have been a

(05:04):
nip slip. Yeah, but Imean it's not just like like all of
the many times that Bond has hadsex. Uh, there's no nudity,
right, there's very very close toit. Yeah, But I just think
it's weird that they're not really strongon nudity in the film. But in

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the intro sequence you can definitely seea silhouetted nipple. Yeah, but you
know, this time it was juststraight up like, hey, how we
we've got some sort of little thingstrategically placed around the nipple. Yeah,
but how beyond productions or covering upher cry? How about that landing strip?

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Oh what no, No, I'mlike, ah, that's a little
weird. Yeah to be thrown inthere, but whatever, Oh here's a
weird thing I wanted to say aboutgood old Lulu Okay performed the song she
won the Eurovision Song Contest in nineteensixty nine. Okay, which is kind

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of significant to me because I neverknew what the Eurovision Song Contest was until
I watched the Will Ferrell and RachelMcAdams Netflix movie all Right, you did
Eurovision Song Contest. The title issomething longer than that. I don't remember
it, but uh yea great movie. I super enjoyed it. I'm glad.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Isaw the trailer and went, that

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looks like trash. And I enjoyedthe music too. I really enjoyed the
music in it. No, seriously, I did. I looked at it
and I thought, like, thefirst thing I thought was, ah,
man, I would have enjoyed thatso much in two thousand and four.
Well, what I think is interestingis that for the character Rachel McAdams played,

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they harmonize iced and kind of fusedtogether her singing voice with someone else's
singing voice, and like that washer character's singing voice. Interesting. Yeah,
all right, before we jump intothe synopsis thing, you know,
just really get into the man withthe Golden Gun. It's hard to say

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that without trying to do like ashatter impersonation. There's now the golden gun.
I didn't hear it before, butnow I definitely do it with a
gun on the wing of the preThere are all things you can do with

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a golden gun. Nice Charlie ksy'all star trek. Yeah yeah, yeah,
all right, Oh yeah, Iwanted to apologize to all you listeners
out there. I think it's beenlike three weeks since we've done one.
Yeah, sorry, you were outof town. Yeah, which covered one
week, which covered one week,and we suck and that covers the other

(08:05):
two. We kind of just neededa break. I guess, like,
is that what happened? I mean, dude, y'all, probably like four
or five nights when we could havedone it, we were like, want
to watch a Bond tonight? Nome either. Okay, yeah, we
had those nights, but I don'tknow, I feel like things just got

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away from us and I'm sorry,and uh, this is a hobby and
uh, you know, I don'tknow what to say then Sorry, I
suck. Sorry, We're gonna tryto be on a better schedule because we
we wanted this. Dave smartly plannedfor this to uh lead up to the
new Bond film, which is comingout in November. And I did give

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us four weeks leeway. And nowwe are behind. We're not behind.
We're not really behind yet, likewe are exactly like we there's no more
time for playing around. Yeah,but you know it's one of those things.
It wasn't it wasn't it wasn't necessarilyplanned. It was just you know,

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you went out of town and thingswere crazy for a minute, and
then we were tired. So Iapologize. Um, thank you guys for
your patience. Yeah, i'll tellyou what. I'll tell you what,
or either you just didn't care,and yeah, either one is fine.
Yeah. I don't know. Ithought I had a thing and then I
remember that's not real. Okay.Sorry, Yeah, we just suck.

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I don't know if I can,if I can remember a specific thing that
made it up, made it makesense for why we were two or three
weeks behind, I'll tell you whenit happened. What when Christianna was on
our show, Dude, I wasgonna say I was gonna say that,
and then I felt bad and Iwas like, well, that doesn't really
count. But that did push usa week behind. But that was like

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only like two weeks. No,it wasn't two weeks. It was only
like a week. Okay, wellwe were but that was the first week.
That was the first time that wegot behind. And then after that
we have not been on schedule eversince because we I guess we just got
out of the routine of it,that's right, Yeah, yeah, so
thank you Christie for joining our show. Also, it's your fault. Well

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at this point, at this point, we'll have all the time in the
world. It's looking worse and worsefor anything to be open. Yeah,
so yeah, we can't. Whoknows if it'll actually come out in November.
It's already been pushed back once becauseof the coronavirus. Yes, right,
yeah, so who knows. Anyway, we're getting into Man with a

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Golden Gun in London. A goldenbullet with James Bond's code double O seven
etched into its surfaces, received bym I six. It is believed that
it was sent by the famed assassinFrancisco Scaramanga. Who uses a golden gun
to intimidate the agent because of theperceived threat to the agent's lives. Since
Scaramanga has ever been photographed and noone knows where he lives, M relieves

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Bond of a mission evolving around thework of the solar energy scientists named Gibson,
thought to be in possession of informationcrucial to solving the energy crisis with
solar power. At a hint fromM, Bond sets out unofficially to locate
Scottramanga. That wasn't really a hint, he like Bond suggested it, and
then the next shot by the nextthing immediately is him in a plane.

(11:24):
Also try and ep gross try nipye Ariola grande as it were. Yes,
I'm using your thing, that's okay. That was more a stare of
me trying to come up with somethingelse to say, and I couldn't.
Oh, well you came up withAriola grande, but not for this.

(11:46):
Yeah, okay, you can useYeah. A friend of ours got married
and their wedding planner, her blousejust kept coming down. Man. Yeah,
and we didn't know her. Theydidn't know her name. Athley's started
calling her Ariel la grande. It'sokay. We told our friends about this,
the guy, the friends who gotmarried, We told them about it

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and they laughed. They had ahearty laugh. I feel really bad for
the girl. It was weird,man, it was really awkward. But
the wedding. You couldn't plan yourwardrobe. Yeah, I don't know.
Like sometimes, uh, if ihave a new piece of clothing and I'm

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not totally sure about it, youknow, like a dress or a new
pair of shorts or something, andI'm not totally sure how I feel about
it yet, I'll do kind oflike a trial run, right, you
know, like I'll I'll wear thedress um like for something that's not that
important, or maybe just like wearit that day around the house and just
see how I feel about it,you know, and like if there are

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any malfunctions or like, hey,when I sit down, there's a flap
that opens up in the back.Right. You never know, man,
Sometimes clothes are not straightforward or notlike, hey, when I walk,
When I walk around too much,something weird happens in the crotch. Who
knows what could happen? Yeah,I don't. I don't know, man,

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Maybe just like take that dress aroundthe block, a couple of times
and try it out. Yeah,that was a run up and down some
stairs. Yeah, does ask whatshe kept knowing kept Oh my god,
Oh my gosh, man, ohmy, that is not a happy corset
it was. Was it a corset? Is that what it was? Yeah?

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It was. It was, yeah, kind of like a corset top.
It was a It was a dress. It was a sleeveless dress with
kind of like a corset top,but like loose enough to where it kept
falling down because she was a fteen lady. Um, yeah, that
was. It was like every timeI noticed her, I didn't want to
look at her because I didn't wantto, like, I don't know,

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I I didn't want I felt likeI didn't want to disrespect her by like
accidentally seeing parts of her body sheprobably did not want to be shown,
right, But at the same time, I kept wanting to like check to
see if it was happening again,just like a child, you know,
like oh, that's happening again,or just oh, nope, it's not

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happening. I'll check again in afew minutes, and then just like feel
weird and awkward and bad about it. Right. That was weird, man.
After retrieving a spent golden bullet froma belly dancer in Beirut and tracking
its manufacturer to Macau, Bond forcesthe gunmaker to show him how he delivers

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the bullets. Seeing Andrea anders Scyromanga'smistress, collecting the shipment of golden bullets
at a casino, Bond follows herto Hong Kong and in her Peninsula hotels
Hotel Room Almost Said Hotel Sweet WhyPressure's Andrews to expose information about Scarramanga,
his appear and his plans. Shedirects him to the Bottoms Up Club.

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The club proves to be the locationof Scottramango's next hip, Gibson, from
whom Scotromango's dwarf henchman knick Knack,steals the Solex Agitator, a key component
of a solar power station. BeforeBond can assert his innocence and Gibson's death,
he is taken away by a lieutenanthip and transform transported to meet m
and Q in a hidden headquarters andthe wreck of the RMS Queen Elizabeth in

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the harbor. M assigns Bond toretrieve the Solex. Okay, so I
don't care about the Solex agitator,Right, it's just another dumb mcguffin thing.
Sure. I love the Queen Elizabethoffice that m had. Yep.
I loved how like it was alllike Dutch angled and they were like had

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propped it up. So you saidit made you dizzy, Yeah it was.
It was a little bit dizzying.Yeah. I thought it was awesome.
Though. Yeah, I'm not complainingit didn't you were complaining. Nope,
I was just saying it's kind ofmaking me dizzy. But that doesn't
mean I hated it. It wasreally cool. I I sort of.
I really love the excuse me,you're good. I guess all of fifteen

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people are gonna hear that I'm justkidding three three people. Um, yeah,
man, I I just really lovedI love the design of it.
I thought it was really cool theidea of him, of him just kind
of like being on all these ridiculousplaces. Uh, yep, we have

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a secret base here in this theQueen Elizabeth wreckage, in this half sunken
ship. Yep. Um. Yeah. So I don't know, man,
I don't really have much to sayabout the movie. Honestly at this point,
like Bond is a complete bastard withhow he's like threatening to break what's

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her face Andrea Andrew's arm for informationis done? Right? He was pretty
rough. Yeah, that was likehe was dude, slapping her around and
stuff. It's like Connery have anacid flashback. Ye's, dude, And
I mean like she was scared sayingthat she would be killed if she gave
up that information and I don't,I don't know. He kind of sucks

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that, like she went back andslept with him later. Um, but
yeah, yeah, I was thatwas kind of rough because she wasn't She
wasn't like a like a hired killeror something, you know, yeah she
was an assassin or anything. Yeah, she was just a hired girlfriend sort

(17:38):
of sort of because he was like, you're his lover, and then she
was like only but where are weonly do the things before? She didn't
say it that way, but shewas like, he's like you are a
lover, and she's like, onlybefore I kill you know, and then
he's all like yeah, that that'sthe thing for some re Yeah, so
that was weird. Yeah. Um. Also, I just want to say

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proper shout out to Christopher Lee becausehe's awesome. He's a legend and it's
really cool that he was in this. Uh yep. Oh he's also six
four he was. Yeah, nowhe's six feet under. I disapprove.

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I mean, yes, he haspassed away. I don't disagree with that,
but yeah, you know, Iuh when he passed away, everybody,
everybody on Twitter was just like no, and I acting like it was
like the biggest deal in the world. I'm sorry the guy died, but
I really know him from anything.I remembered him from Star Wars. Ian

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mckillan was like, you shall passbecause he was in Lord of the Rings.
Oh yeah, I don't know.I never saw the Lord of the
Rings. He was like um Gandolf'swizard friend who ended up um turning well,
definitely turning evil. Okay, yeahthat was kind of his bath.
Yeah, I know you still don'tknow who that was. Man, I'm

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kind of saying it for the listenersin case anyone needs to be reminded.
Yeah, I know he was likeDracula and stuff, but yeah, oh
and the Mummy huh yeah, umba. It wasn't like for me.
It was just like, okay,all right, I don't know. Uh
yeah, he was in just craptons of stuff. Um, I love

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the place where Scaramonga lives. Yes, oh my gosh. I mean if
it wasn't for like all of thoselike weird frozen baths that have to be
maintained, like the Yeah, whatwas it, I don't even know.
I don't know they have to bekept it zero. No, if it
like if there was something weird aboutit where it was like if it gets

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too hot up to zero what,um, then it's all going going to
hell. I don't know, everything'sblowing up and stuff. Well, I
love the scenery, like I lovethe area where he lives. I also
just love the inside of his home, like all of the cool uh you

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know, like uh, I guesssort of like a killers fun house type
thing. Yeah, that was reallyneat. That was really cool. I
probably wouldn't want that in my house, sure, sure, but really neat
To watch it was kind it wasan uh yeah, I love super passages,
but I don't want that creep fest. I mean no, it's like

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really dark and messed up that helike when you know, like I guess
he invites people to his house justlike for the sport of hunting them and
seeing them. It's actually really unfair. They go through this whole like you
know, House of Horrors kind ofsituation, but but he knows the ins
and outs of all of it.Yeah, so that's not fair. But

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it was still just I don't know, man, it was just crazy.
And I mean he's a villain.He's just like a messed up villain with
three nibbles and goes along with hismessed up character. I yes, I
thought it was a really cool coldopen for the movie. Yeah, the
fun house. Yeah, but youknow, I take it back a little

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bit. I think if I hadthat kind of money, I would want
something like that, but instead ofit being like a fun house, it
would just be like sets of TVshows that I really liked. Yes,
and that would be like, well, I think it was called the Great
American Movie Ride at Hollywood Studios atDisney World, which doesn't exist anymore because

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they have recently refit it for adifferent ride. But that's what that ride
is like, and I loved it. I got to go on it twice
before they redid it. It's reallycool. It's like you sit in a
boat kind of thing, you havelike a tour guide, but there's like
a whole script for that too,and there's a part where the tour guide
like is kidnapped by one of thecowboys. Because you go through the set

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of a western, it's really neat. Did Yeah, I know you just
said that you had not caught upon Breaking Bond group right on Facebook from
like like a week or two.Yeah, like super behind, David Way
posted a really cool video of RoaldDahl. I saw a little bit of

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that. I didn't watch the wholething, but I definitely want to go
back and watch it. Yeah,And it seemed yeah, and it's like
he's like there's too much. There'stoo much vacuum cleaners and people bustling around
in the house and I have togo out to my hut to write and
he's like he's like the hut hasn'tbeen cleaning fifteen years. Save us some
rat droppings a few years ago thatI swapped up. I love to set

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up though. Yeah, dude,it was awesome. And the thing that
I was thinking was like, Ilike that is what I would use,
Like I want like the wet likethe half built Western set from the Star
Trek episode Specter of the Gun.Yeah, and like I just want to
go and like hang out with waxfigures of like check Off and Kirk and
stuff, and like write in thesaloon Like that would be amazing. That's

(23:18):
where I would do, like everyshow prep pretty because yeah, if I'm
rich, I'm still doing the stupidshows. I'm still doing podcasts for some
reason. Um that means I likeit. But yeah, anyway, so
uh yes, I like your idea. Mm hmm. We need to start
charging charging people means of dollars forus to kill people with a golden gun.

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Okay, oh wow, all right, Roaldall was six six. I
was gonna say, like in thatvideo he looked like a giant walking into
that hut. Yeah, and hekind of was a big, friendly giant
already. Anyway, man, we'rechasing some square this week. Yeah,

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all right. Bond travels to Bangkokto meet High Fat, a wealthy tie
entrepreneur suspected of arranging Gibson's murder.Bond poses a Scaramanga, meets with Fat
and is invited to dinner, buthis plan backfires because, unbeknownst to him,
Scaramanga himself is operating in High Fat'sestate. Bond is captured by Nick

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Knack Patty Whack and give a talkingabout sorry and a couple of henchmen.
See a couple of henchmen Nick KnackPatty Whack when he returns for dinner and
placed in Fat's martial arts academy,where the students are instructed to kill him
for some reason. After escaping withthe aid of hip and his nieces,

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Bond speeds away on a motorized boatalong the river and reunites with his assistant
Mary Goodnight, much to my horrorhe was escaping on a boat. Scaramanga
subsequently kills High Fat with his goldengun and assumes control of his empire,

(25:07):
taking the sole legs with him.That's a lot. Oh yeah, I'm
like, why didn't you guys justkill Bond? He's like, this is
my home, don't do it here. Take him to the school. Why
why Other than the fact that kungfu movies were really in at the time,
right, there was no reason forthem to not just like take drag

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him outside of the school, killhim and throw him in a ditch somewhere,
or throw him in those waters thathe was riding the boat in.
You know why, because Roger Moorefell one time and made the mistake of
opening his eyes under the water andfound out what all the undertakers were doing
with like the poor people who couldn'tafford a proper burial. Oh yeah,

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so like for real, when he'slike driving around on that boat, he
is like driving over like tons ofdead people. Oh that is disgusting and
really right, So, like,do you know what country? That was
filmed? In Bangkok? I guessthat makes sense, that's where it was.
Oh god, that's so sad.Or this was this part was in
Hong Kong, I guess but umoh no, no, Bond travels to

(26:19):
Bangkok to meet high Fat. Butyeah, man, so that's rough and
the uh the that was fine withthe with the boat chase, I guess
I was just kind of really okay, okay, let's talk about J.
W. Pepper because this is wherethis is happening. Um so I was

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a little iffy about how racist hereally was in the previous film. Uh
no, no if sans or buttsthis time, No, he's screaming about
brown pointy heads, which, bythe way, pointyhead means someone who is
like above average intelligence. Like it'snot even a racial slur. It's just
as far as I can hill,dude, to know. According to my

(27:02):
research, Now, I saw acouple of people say that, like the
subtitles may have been wrong, andhe may have been saying pony hits,
like they all have ponytails or something. But everything I can see says he
was calling them pointy hits. Buthe was yelling brown at them. At
any rate, whatever he was sayingwas definitely meant from him to be some

(27:26):
kind of slur. Now too,he was not saying in in a loving
way. Yeah, now you know, as I will also say, it's
not exactly like he is a realprotagonist here, right, He's not written
to be a hero. He's definitelya comedic foil for Bond in some regard,
even if they're on the same sidequote unquote same side. Um,

(27:48):
so hate them though, I knowyou do. I mean, like,
I'm not too fond of him inthis version either, even if he wasn't
saying racist things. Yeah, Iwould still not care for him because he
is, for me, way tooover the top. Yeah. And uh,
just dude, I get really sickof seeing him with all that freaking

(28:11):
chewing tobacco in his mouth. Dude, Yeah, you know sick. I
think I was okay with him inLive and Let Die, and it just
actuated me. Yeah, it absolutelyshould have. And I know guy Hamilton
just liked him and wanted him toshow up, and like Bond's reaction in
this when he looks over and takesnote of who he actually isn't goes oh

(28:32):
no, yeah, like that ishow I felt right like I knew he
was coming, but just like theway they introduced him, like it was
just completely stupid. I wouldn't believefor a second that, you know,
mister undoubtedly everything is better if it'smade in America. JW. Pepper is
going to be in freaking Hong Kongor Bangkok or wherever, like to buy

(28:57):
a car. I just not gonnahappened that. It does? It make
sense? And uh and even moreunlikely is that he would like one see
James Bond on a boat from Afarand then two run into him again.
Yeah down the line, like justplease no more j W. Pepper?

(29:19):
Uh? Is he supposed to bein any more movies? Not? Not?
Not that I know of. That'sgood? Yeah, that was that
was rough man. Yep. Ohwe got to see his wife this time?
Yeah, who's like saying you know, j w whew are you even
though he's like right in front ofit. Yeah, It just that's some

(29:41):
there's some look, man, Iam very lenient with tone, you know,
I don't mind if if franchises anddirectors go a little off tone or
if they like completely change the tone. Um. But there's something to be
said about like what they're what they'retrying to pull off here, and it

(30:02):
feels like they're trying to like grabfrom too many different kinds of popular movies
of the time. Yes, becauselike, and the sad thing is like
James Bond started out as an innovator, like those movies set like a bar
and like set a formula and likecreated its own style, its own style,
which was emulated time and time againyea, and like everyone else was

(30:26):
following them, right and now atthis point they're like, oh, well,
blaxploitation, that's a big deal,and let's get some like you know,
southern sheriff running around holler and racistcrap at people. Yeah, like,
oh, kung food movies, thoseare good. Those people be buying
those up. Yeah. It's likeif right now, Daniel Craig shows up

(30:48):
in a James Bond movie and suddenlyhas superpowers, Like, that's not what
the thing, that's not what itis. Let's not do that, right,
So that's aggravating. Yeah. Idid see on Wikipedia that like this
movie did want to utilize what wasvery popular during that time, which was

(31:10):
martial arts films. Also, thefilm was set like during the nineteen seventy
three energy crisis, which wasn't necessarilylike a trendy popular thing. But I
thought that was interesting that they wantedto kind of follow along with something that
was actually happening. Yeah, andthey mentioned it a few times in the

(31:33):
movie. But yep, they yeah, Well I mean, you know that
makes sense, Yes, that wouldmake sense, but yeah, they they
definitely. I don't know. Iwonder, I wonder how it would have
been different. I mean, becausewe know, up to this point,
Bond movies have highly profited. Everysingle film has made a huge profit.

(31:56):
So I wonder how it would havebeen different if they just would have if
they would not have followed trends likethat, if they wouldn't have done like
black exploitation, if they wouldn't havedone martial arts or something like that,
Like I wonder, I mean,I'm sure they still would have been popular
and still would have made money.Maybe, Yeah, I don't know,
it just it just felt like atsome point it just became like old men

(32:19):
trying to keep up right, andthat you know, we've we've now seen
them, you know, over thecourse of what twelve years, twelve years?
Yeah, like twelve years, tento twelve years something like that.
Um, go from innovators to imitators, right, and it's it's unfortunate and
it's weird, and I'm honestly glad. This is Harry Saltzman's last film.

(32:43):
Yeah, this is Broccoli Saltzman andGuy Hamilton's. Was it BROCCOLI's Yep?
Wow, I didn't see that inthe trivia or was it maybe I misunderstand
No, I'm pretty sure Saltzman wasthe only one I saw mentioned last film
to be co produced by Broccoli andSaltzman. So maybe, I mean,
that doesn't necessarily mean that Broccoli wasgone to It just means that it wasn't
both of them. Yeah, II all I saw was that, like

(33:06):
Saltzman had gotten into some financial woesand sold his fifty percent Yeah, uh,
to alleviate his troubles. Right,So yeah, what's the next one?
That we're gonna watch. Um,I haven't written down somewhere at the
end of this thing. Okay,I'm interested to see if the spy who

(33:27):
loved me, I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, that sounds right.
I'm interested to see if if wecan notice a difference in that one.
Yeah. Um, but you know, I'm sure most of our listeners
already know the answer. We're digginginto trivia here already so much. But
that's fine, feels organic. Um. I think like like Roger Moore had
said that Broccoli and Albert, sorryAlbert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman had their relationship

(33:52):
had begun to really really deteriorate,mostly behind closed doors on this movie,
and there are a couple of reasonsfor that, but we don't know all
the reasons both. Yeah, anyway, Andrew's visits Bond, revealing that she
sent the bullet to London and wantsBond to kill Scaramanga in payment, sorry,

(34:13):
kill Scaramanga period. In payment.She promises to hand the souls over
to him at White Tie Venue thenext day, Yes, why Tie Venue?
The next day? At the match, Bond discovers Andrew's sitting up straight
in the audience, but dead froma bullet to the heart. Scaramanga himself
then arrives at the match and introduceshimself to Bond. Bond observes the solex

(34:36):
on the floor and is able tosmuggle it away to Hip, who passes
it to good Night. Hip Hiphooray. When good Night attempts to place
a homing device on Scaramanga's car,Scaramanga traps her in the trunk. Bond
discovered Scaramanga driving off and steals anAMC hornet from a showroom to give chase,
coincidentally with vacationing Sheriff J. W. Pepper, the lawman Bond encountered

(34:59):
in Live and Let Die sitting inside. Can we pause there for just a
second before we get to another partthat I know we're gonna want to comment
on. Sure, Okay, Uhso what has happened up to this point?
Uh is that good Night was reallyexcited that uh she and Bond were

(35:20):
about to uh eat turn their relationshipinto a more physical kind of situation.
Apparently she had been longing for itfor the last two years. Okay,
yeah, that sounds right. Anduh yeah, as Fez would say,
they are about to don't eat anduh they're about to journey to the salt

(35:43):
mines. And and uh then iffrom Russia with love was good for one
thing, it was uh yeah,and then uh Anders comes in. Yeah.
I don't remember why they had tohave sex. Um, she was

(36:04):
just trying to get I guess hejust wanted and he thought, yeah,
he would really seal the deal ifhe slept with her. I mean she
was kind of all over him.Yeah, I mean he could have said
no, no, yeah, okay, So he feels like he has to
have sex with Anders in order toget the solex because that's his number one

(36:29):
mission, right, And that's justfirst the cervix, then the sox.
Um. It is gross and sadand wrong and just man, I feel
so bad for good Night one thatshe was really excited that she was about

(36:52):
to get to a place that shehad been longing for, right uh and
then she just had to be likeshe had to go hide in a day
and claw it. You guys willhave to forgive me. I can't remember
who said what. There was awhole conversation on breaking bond on the on
the group on Facebook where someone waslike, I felt so bad for Mary
good Night for having to be stuckon that closet while Bond was having sex,

(37:15):
and then someone replied, hey,don't kink. Shame. I did
not get the idea that she wasinto that. I did not either.
And what was it? Two hours? She like she falls asleep, Yeah,
and then like Bond goes to gether and it's been freaking two hours.

(37:38):
Yeah. Oh man, I justfelt really bad for her that she
didn't get to sleep with him,like she so badly wanted to do.
Yeah, or whatever they were goingto do. But we should probably assume
it was sex because that's how herolls, right, I seemed to be
the way she was rolling, Yeah, the way she came out. Yeah,

(37:58):
Um, good night, angled day. Also, I gotta insert this
real quick. I just he said, no, I just I have been
listening to an absolutely freaking loving fakeDoctor's Real Friends Scrubs podcast like rewatch podcasts

(38:23):
with Zack and Donald I've heard,and they just got to the episode where
Zach is saying something about having abiday but he doesn't remember or he doesn't
say the word for it, andthen Janitor says a bidday, and then
JD goes biday to you, sir. Okay, sad to say that because

(38:45):
it was a great reference and Ilove it. Okay, so she doesn't
good Night doesn't get to have sexwith Bond. Really bummed for her for
that, sad for her. Butthen not only does that happen, she
has to freaking hide in a closetwhile he is having sex with another lady.
Yeah that sucks, man, Yeah, just had to mention that it

(39:08):
really sucks. That's fair, doesit does suck? But are these the
only two women he has a significantphysical relationship with in this movie, because
that is a really low count forhim. Well, he does, like
make out with that used bullet inthat girl's belly button, that's right,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so three, and then

(39:31):
she's all like aft, he accidentallyswallows it and he's leaving. She's like,
I've lost my charm. He's like, not from where I'm stack.
Oh, and then they have towhat does he say? He's got to
go to the He tells the taxidriver to take him to the nearest pharmacy
or something. Yeah, all right, Still that's kind of a low count
for Bond. Yeah. Three andpresumably just sex with one lady. Right,

(39:55):
Well, but you know, he'sgonna he's gonna get it at the
end with good night there. Ohyeah, that's right. Him is like
good night, good night. He'slike good nights up. Yep, yep,
that's true too. Yeah, yeah, that's true. So okay,
okay, she finally got there.Okay, okay, yep, she got
there, she got her good nightall right. Yeah, and we've already

(40:17):
complained about J. W. Pepper, so yeah, let's not spend too
much time on that. So Bondand Pepper follows Scaramanga in a car chase
across Bangkok, which concludes with scarwhen Scaramanga's a MC matador transforms into a
plane, Yes, flies himself NickKnack and good night away from Bond loved
all of that, you know what. I as much as I couldn't stand
Pepper in this whole sequence, likeI really did like the chase sequence yea

(40:44):
um, and I loved the uh, the the stunt that. Yeah,
this is one sentence that you justread that has so much in it.
It does and like he they wentlike the wrong round and they can just
he can either go back two milesand hit a bridge and he'll completely lose
them, or he could like dothis like jump flip thing, and it

(41:08):
was a crazy stunt. The stuntman got it in one take, yes,
the first take, and uh,they like Guy Hamilton and John Barry
completely ruined up by putting an awfulslide whistle noise in there, which at
least they did both deeply regret later. They should They should have been like

(41:30):
tried and hung for that crap.I was awful. I wish they would
have taken it out, like,I mean, you remastered directors. Yeah,
I was gonna say, have thesefilms ever been remastered? Hamilton cut?
I mean, because I know theywere like at the time, at
the time when they came out,I know they didn't go like to DVD

(41:52):
then. Yeah, So I meanthey've been remastered for blue ray and stuff.
Yeah, I think I think theyshould have taken that out at some
point because they both regretted it.Didn't they take it out? Well,
at this point, it's like partof the film, you know, it's
like part of the hallowed terrible partsof Bonds history. You can't take out
the slide whistle now, I guessit is kind of I don't know,

(42:15):
just put it like, Yeah,I mean that kind of iconic. At
that point you chop out all theJW. Pepper stuff, like when they're
in the chase sequence, just keeplet's like pull the screen in. It
might look a little blurry, butit's old. Who cares. Just show
Bond or digitally erased Pepper where youcan don't have him, just have like

(42:38):
pumping music. Yeah, school undermy wheels? Good. Nice. I
think we've already done the summary forthis part, but I also just wanted

(42:58):
to mention that Bonds fake third nippleso gross. Yeah. Yeah, that
was rough. That was weird andrough. Yeah. Yeah, stunt was
super awesome. Um that car justlike being transformed into a plane. So
cool, Yes, so cool.Yes. I was really excited when that
happened. And that was a coolreveal too, because I was like,

(43:20):
something's cool is happening? Yeah,And then it happened like what are they
attaching to the doors? I thoughtit was gonna be like a situation where
they like attached lifts to the tothe to the doors and then like they
were going to like have themselves likepulled up into like the rafters of the
of the housing or something, andthen it wasn't that at all. I

(43:43):
thought it was gonna be like,hey, if they peek in here,
we'll be up here and they won'tsee us. But no, it was
like a really super low tech versionof Tony Stark getting his Iron Man suit
on. Yeah, it was greatpicking up Knight's tracking signal. Bond flies
a seaplane into red Chinese waters andlands at Scaramanga's island. Such a gorgeous

(44:07):
flight. Absolutely. Scaramanga welcomes andthe shows Bond the solar power plant operation
that he has taken over, thetechnology for which he intends to sell to
the highest bidder. While demonstrating theequipment, Scaramanga uses a powerful energy beam
to destroy Bond's plane. I wasbummed for that. Yeah. After they
dine, Scaramanga proposes a pistol duelwith Bond on the beach, Bond with

(44:29):
his walter and him with his singleshot golden gun, as he says he
only needs one shot. The twomen stand back to back and are officiated
by Nick Nack to take twenty paces, but when Bond turns on fire,
Scaramanga has vanished. Nick Knack leadsBond into Scaramanga's fun house, where Bond
stands in the place of the mannikinof himself when Scaramanga walks by, Bond

(44:50):
outwits and kills him. Good Nightkills Scaramanga's security chief, Craw, accidentally
sending his body into one of thetemperature control VADs that seems pretty roight.
His body heat raises the temperature ofthe helium cooling the solar plant, which
begins to spiral out of control.Bond retrieves the Soulex unit just before the
island is destroyed, and they escapedunharmed in Scaramonga's Chinese junk. Bond then

(45:14):
fins off a final attack by nickNack, who smuggled himself aboard, placing
nick Nack in a wicker basket onthe main mast of the ship. Bond
and Good Nights celebrate their mission byromancing each other way of putting it Okay,
So, dude, I really likedall of the conversation while they were

(45:35):
eating, where Scaramanga was saying,you know, like we are just the
same, except you get paid peanutsand you you know, have a crappy
pension. But you enjoy killing asmuch as I do. That's why you
do this crap um. I likedall that. I'm always interested to see,
like, even when it's done poorly, I'm interested to see the villain

(45:57):
trying to trying to talk to theto the good guys like we're the same,
right, you know, they're tryingto relate to them, like don't
you understand me and you if ourlives had been slightly different. This is
shins on at a card all overagain from meisum. I always enjoy that,
And you know, Bond has agreat way of telling him. There's

(46:22):
I can't remember how I haven't thequotes that I liked it. There's a
magnificent four letter word for this,and you're full of it something like that,
right, yeah, yeah, SoI Doug that I liked all that.
That whole conversation I liked. Iknew from the beginning that Bond was
going to pretend to be that mannequinthat wax figure. Yes, it's just

(46:42):
like, oh okay, because atthe very beginning, like I really liked
it. I really liked that coldopen because we found out several things.
We found out that Scottamana lives onan island. We found out that Nick
Knack is his little man servant,and that Nick Knack is tasked with conscitantly
trying to kill him, and alsoif we find out that if he does

(47:05):
get succeed in killing him, hegets everything. Yeah. So, and
we found out that that wax figureof Bond was there. Yeah so,
I'm just really great looking wax figure. Man. It was probably because it
wasn't a wax figure, but Ijust kept thinking, like or immediately I
was like, oh, yeah,this is all gonna have to wind up

(47:28):
here and he's going to be inthat fun house. And I'm so sad
that it was destroyed. I amtoo. But Nick Knack would have gotten
it, yeah, So, Imean we can't what he would have done
with it. He would have hireda smaller man servant and yelled for Tabasco.
I wonder, Yeah, I wonderif he would have like had evil

(47:49):
plans or if he just would havelived there without having to be someone's servant.
Uh. Yeah, I wonder ifhe just would have lived out the
rest of his days there, becauseI was a really sweet place. Yeah.
I think it would have been interestingif they had like not destroyed it,
and then Bond may have been like, well, you've earned it,

(48:09):
enjoy your place. Just don't dothe things that he was going to do,
and then a movie or two downthe road, secret agents are disappearing.
Yeah, like the best killers inthe world are disappearing, and it's
because Nick Knack misses what he hadwith Scaramanga and is like bringing people there

(48:30):
and making them fight to the deathand some sort of like you know laser
like real life laser tag. Yeah, you know, like super cool.
Yeah that would have been really fun. Yeah. Um, but he never
kidnaped Bond because he didn't he knewthe only man who would take him down
would be Bond. He's already beenthere. He knows the plays inside it
out. Yeah, that would havebeen really cool. Yeah. Um.

(48:52):
Anyway, let's see how annoyed wereyou that Mary Goodnight was basically illiterate.
Yeah. I was just thinking ofthat whole thing where she's where Bond is
finally just like just just push allthe buttons, Yeah, just push all
the buttons, even though the buttonsare all clearly labeled. And he tells

(49:13):
her like the interlocked system, andshe like looks and she's like, oh
here, and it doesn't say thatshe's not She's not like quote just a
common woman off the street. She'ssupposed to be in my six age,
Yeah, who supposedly has known Bondfor two years. Yeah, except you
know, she can't read a sign, a giant sign that says, you
know, don't raise the temperature onthis or the place will blow up.

(49:37):
Yeah. Yeah, she was realdumb. But yeah, and that was
unfortunate for her careage. It wasreally aggravating, and I'm sure it was
just some like sexist mentality. Wecan't do this because Bonds supposed to be
the good guy. But you knowwhat freaking Felix Slider was the was the
person who saved the day in Golder. Absolutely, it doesn't always have to

(49:58):
be Bond. Yeah, Harry Goodnightwas He was like, where's good Night?
And He's like, uh, there'snothing to do here. So she
just sort of does whatever she wantsand she must accidentally kills Bond by bending
over. Yeah, and what shewants is to just kind of walk around
in a bikini because she's on holiday. She almost kills bottom backing into a
button, Like, dude, really, how an Epp can you get?

(50:21):
Yeah, you're a secret agent,how how did am I six? Yep?
Anyway, that was super annoying.Yeah, I feel like they did
not do her character justice, andI was annoyed with the really like they
had this like Skyromana's security chief Krawand you're just like, okay, that's
fine. I didn't know there wasanother person he had a security chief.

(50:44):
Well. What's funny is like earlierin the movie, he's like, it's
just me and knick Knack, andthen like he's like this just the two
of us. And then he's like, oh and here's my security chief Kraw
And you're like, what that wasjust the two of us? Yeah,
yeah, no, I know too. I know Austin powers, you know,

(51:05):
Mini me amazing, but yeah no, uh so, and then he's
he's super rapy, like yeah,I mean I guess you know, I
guess he's been stuck on that islandby himself because he gross. It feels
like Scaramanga kind of forgot about himfor a minute. So it's like he's
just down there like alone all thetime. Because Scarmonga and nick Nack have

(51:29):
this weird relationship where they're just likealways hanging out and nick Knack is always
trying to kill Scarmonga. He's like, you'd be the death of me.
Yet Nick Knack good friend. Getme my food and we can dine together
on the beach. That was yeah, that was awkward, man, Like
as soon as Scaramoga walks out ofthe room, Cross is just like all

(51:51):
over good night man. Yeah.Gross. And it made me wonder because
like Anders was all like, oh, he only we only do that,
we only have acts, we're onlylovers right before I kill because it focuses
them or whatever. Like I wonderif like like she and craw were together,
Like, I mean, all ofthis is just like these are such

(52:12):
poorly rendered characters, like very illdeveloped. Like it was just another like
save the Cat moment or yeah,you know, save the good night moment.
It wasn't like it did seem likethat was an unnecessary uh inappropriateness.
Yeah, yeah, it was allright. So uh let's let's get into

(52:37):
our questionnaer here, is this agood introduction to James Bond? I think
so? I think it's all right. Yeah, I mean it's not.
It's not terrible or anything. Yeah. Um. There were a lot of
people, like critics and fans whodid not like this movie at all.
Yeah. Uh, and I thinkyou and I both ended up feeling pretty

(52:58):
okay about it. Yeah, youknow it's mid range. Yeah, yeah,
I mean it's not great. Yeah, I probably, I would say.
Before the JW. Pepper stuff poppedin, I was like, dude,
this is a pretty good movie,Like I'm ranking it pretty high.
Yeah, And then JW. Pepperhappened. Mary Goodnight was a total like
klutz, illiterate lady who was constantlyin danger. Yeah, and I'm like,

(53:23):
you're supposed to be an agent andlike there were several notches taken out
of the movie, right, um, but still it's no thunder bawl,
it's no, it's not you know, you being not boring covers a multitude
of sins. Yep. So Iwould take JW. Pepper screaming racial obscenities

(53:44):
over like ten minute underwater sequences murderyou can't tell what's happening. And also
there is no sound other than globeglobe globe globe. I'm like, you
know what, at least JW isinteresting and infuriating based on this movie,
would you want to keep watching thefranchise? Sure would? I would be.

(54:07):
You know, if this was thefirst thing I ever saw, I
probably would be like maybe not,but it wouldn't be on my high how
am I to do list? Yeah, I think I would just be like
if I just knew nothing about it, nothing else was coming, you know.
Good. Yeah. Would you recommendthis movie to anyone you love?

(54:29):
I think so? Okay, um, probably, while just still saying,
you know, like just be prepared. There is some sexism and there is
some racism in this Yeah. Imean that's like every one of them.
Yeah. I feel like I wouldhave to give that disclaimer on most of
them, especially sex the sexism,not not really the racism so much,
right, I don't I'm not sure. I Mean I could be wrong,

(54:52):
but I'm not sure that I've reallyfelt with any other movies that there was
just like a really strong racist Yeah. And like the most racist thing I've
seen was either J. W.Pepper or um the yellow face that Bond
was doing anything and uh you onlylived twice? Right, but and maybe

(55:14):
some of Live and Let Die wasBut I think you know J W.
Pepper again, he's not the goodguy. He's a comedic foil at best,
and if anything, I feel likehe is I kind of feel like
he is. There there a bilityor their chance to make fun of Americans

(55:36):
for being racists, like Southern piecesof crap. Yeah, you know,
like I think like that was theirtheir idea of at least at the very
least Southern Americans, which they're notcompletely far off in some ways. For
some people I've known, people likeJAJP. I feel like you work for
one of them right now. Butthere are also way more people in the

(56:02):
South who are not like that.But yeah, sure, you know,
I don't know, there are alot of people who down here anything like
that. It's it's tough, it'syou know, it's hard because we don't
run in those circles. So yeah, we don't see those people right until
we go to Walmart and we're justlike, oh yeah, or until like
those people feel like they're in asafe place, which is just like around

(56:25):
a bunch of other white people.Yeah, and then they feel like because
they're with white people, it's okayto be racist now, m But they
don't. I think the theme withpeople like that is that they don't think
they're racist. They think they're right, which means they're not racist, you
know, Like, but anyway,that's that's going down a different thing.
Yeah, I mean, I've knownI've known racist who knew they were racists.

(56:47):
Yeah, or either that or youknow, they like to pull the
I don't care if brown blue,purple green. I'm like mm hmmmmmm,
now you would you would have aproblem with them for that. Yeah,
yeah, just just that they're differentfrom me. That's what they really they
were, really is like anyway,I thought all the actors did a pretty

(57:09):
good job. Honestly, I didtoo. Um, I've heard this movie
was a waste of Christopher Lee.I thought he did a fantastic job.
And you know, it may havebeen a waste, but I did to
some degree. But he did agreat job in his role. I do
kind of wish there had been moreof him. Yeah. I was a
little more interested in his backstory then, yeah, than they gave us,

(57:31):
Like yeah, they said some interestingstuff and then they were just like like
that cold open was awesome. Wheredid his third nipple come from? Well,
I'm pretty sure he was just bornwith that. It was a house
fire when he was a child,because that's what happens when you're caught in

(57:52):
a fire. Can you experience atrauma at a young age, you can
get a third nipple. Yeah,yeah, that's what that's what happens.
Yeah, that's what happened to ChandlerBaine. He thought it was hives and
then it turned out nope, hehad a severe allergic reaction that turned into
a third nipple. Yes, alsothought, uh, whatever, poor knick

(58:19):
Knack's real life name is. Ican't say it, don't. I don't
know. I'm not I don't.I'm scared to even try to say it
because it will not be correct.Um. I think I read maybe on
Wikipedia that this was like his firstbreakout role. Yeah, yeah, so
that's cool. Yeah this was beforea few years before Fantasy Island. That's

(58:39):
pretty cool. Yeah, all right, let's get to some quotes. Um.
When do we do our ranking?Um? I believe it's um after
our favorite scene? Yes? Sorry, sorry, sorry, it's been so
long, I forgot our format.Um do you have favorite quotes? Nah,

(59:00):
I didn't have many. I evenforgot. I realized, like at
the beginning of this podcast, Iforgot to write down in my notes what
my ranking was. I forgot towrite what my favorite scene in least favorite
scene were. Like, man,I just I just forgot to make notes
on things. Yeah, that's interesting. I'm sorry. All right, Oh

(59:20):
well, out of the habit yeah, tell me your quotes, like Sister
Act two that was back oh tothe Habit, back in the habit was
back in the habit, So itwas like Sister Act three. There should
have been a third. No,there shouldn't have been. Have you seen
the second one? I'm saying bothof them? Okay, I have I
seen Sister Act one and two.If Matt Carroll of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

(59:46):
podcast and many other podcasts and ummany more too, Calm, I'm sure
um if you ever listen to this, sir, just like to give you
a shout out, because every chanceyou get, you mentioned Sister Act,
specifically Sister Act back in the Habit, and I love you for that.

(01:00:09):
Man. I just wanted to recognizethat this will be fun and also Aladdin,
like you are referencing Aladdin and SisterAct as often as you can,
and I love you for that.This will be fun. Anybody who knows
Matt and listens to all of thoseshows, let him know there's a shout

(01:00:30):
out in this episode of Breaking Yeah. Okay, So that it was one
of the things that I noticed whenI was looking back over the quotes.
I didn't like a lot of thedialogue in this movie. I thought the
dialogue was like bollocks. It wasawful garbage. You wanted to put it
in the bin. It was doodoo. I'm sorry, but I did

(01:00:53):
like these James. Bond says,I mean, sir, who would pay
a million dollars to have me killed? And him says jealous husbands, Outraged
chefs, humiliated Taylors. The listis endless outraged chefs. Um Bond,

(01:01:13):
when when Andrews comes into his room, says, miss Andrews, I didn't
recognize you with your clothes on.Yikes. I like that one, Um
Bond to Scaramanga. There's a usefulfour a letter word and you're full of
it. Yeah like that? Ilike that. Yeah. Uh. Bond
says Q. I'll need this,and he writes something down on a piece

(01:01:34):
of paper and hand. Q saysreally double O seven. Bond says,
oh, I admit it's a littlekinky, like what Um good Night says
please hurry back. Bond says,I'll ring as soon as I do.
A midnight snack might be just thething, right, And then she says,
I'll keep the wine properly chilled,and he says and everything else warm.

(01:01:58):
I trust that whole ext change wasso cringe. It was cringey,
but we were but you and Iwere both like, shoe get it.
And that was not the only timethey've referenced that either. M so um
yep, we already mentioned j W. Pepper and uh I these were not
my favorites, but I put downlittle brown water hog and brown pointy heads.

(01:02:23):
Um. I did really like thisone where his wife Maybel says,
oh, look, j W,I just gotta have me one of those
cute little elephants, and he spitsand says, elephants, we're Democrats.
Maybel goes, back then the partieswere switched. So what was your favorite

(01:02:45):
scene, babe? Okay, Ihave a couple really a fee Okay,
well, I guess he could havebeen like a blue dog democrat. Never
mind, um, all right.All obviously, early like the car stunt.
That was awesome. I think what'seven greater than that is knowing that

(01:03:08):
the stunt man did it in thefreaking first take. That's so cool,
yes, so impressive. Um.Also, I really loved when the car
turned into a plane and then thefollowing sequence after that was just absolutely gorgeous.
I think that's when they were aroundPouquette. I think I read that,

(01:03:31):
like the location scout person was gonnago with a different location, but
then heard from somebody to check outthat area, and he saw that and
he was like, yeah, we'vegot a film here. It was so
pretty. It was just so sopretty, them flying to Scaramanga's layer.
I guess yeah, I loved allof that so much. That was good.

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I think I think that's also likemaybe where Scaramanga's home is. I
think I read that that is theplace that is now referred to as James
Bond Island. Was it it mayI know that there's a place that's referred
to as James Bond Island from thisfilm. I don't remember what that was,
but that's pretty neat. It isum sadly. My favorite scene is

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just kind of a joke. Okay, when he's at that that fights that
fighting school and the guy. Theguy is doing all the fancy stuff and
and like swaggering around and then theylike want Bond to fight him, and
like as the guy bows to Bond, Bond just like kicks him in the
face yep, and walks away likenonchalantly like, yeah, all right,

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that was really funny. Yeah,it reminded me of Indiana Jones. Yes,
and that's like my favorite scene inIndiana Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones movie.
There was something else from an IndianaJones movie that, um, I
was reminded of from this film.Oh yeah, yeah, when good Night

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bends over and accidentally hits whatever buttonthat makes that laser thing turn on.
Uh, and I believe it wasin Temple of Doom Willie is bending over,
um when they're in that like undergroundarea and accidentally like she bends over
and hits like a booby trap thinglike rock with her butt. That then

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in traps short round uh, anIndie inside that room that starts like enclosing
on them yet. But that's alsoit kind of seems like a trope in
movies for like someone to accidentally bendover and hit a button. Yep.
What is your least favorite scene?Least favorite? I mean, without thinking

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too hard about it, I meanprobably just the JW. Pepper stuff um,
up until the car chase, justanything with him in it up until
the car chase. I think myleast favorite scene there, I think is
tied anything with Mary Goodnight being inidiot Yeah, which was just cringey,

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like especially with the her not beingable to read buttons, the like the
big clear labeling on all the buttonsor Bond just like knocking that kid into
the water. Yes, Oh mygosh, that was messed up. That
was so rude, like offers themtwenty thousand of whatever the currency is and

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then just like I have to oweyou knock Yeah. Yeah, because he's
even kind of like laughing while hedoes it. Yeah, that was rude.
Okay, yeah, alright, alright, alright, that reminds me of
some more things that I didn't like. Okay, so he slaps around that
young boy, knocks him into thelike skeleton water, right, yeah,

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now that we know that that wateris full of dead bodies. Gross.
Um. I did not like whenBond was literally slapping around Anders. Yeah.
Also really did not like the scenewhere Bond had sex with Anders while
good Night was in the closet.Okay, yep, mm hmm, all
right, well there you go,there we go. What do you hope

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to see going forward? Um?I really don't know. Uh. I
would love to see Bond have amore meaningful relationship with women or a woman.
Huh. It would be really awesomeif if maybe you know, like

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lasinb did, if we could justtake a break and if Bond could just
have a meaningful relationship with one woman, right, that would be awesome.
Maybe if you could just be morerespectful. Yeah, okay, I don't
know. I just I'll nothing likeJW. Pepper. Yeah, I want
to see less slide whistles. Yeah, or hear less slide whistles. Sure,

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Um more Alice Cooper, I wantme yeah always. I want more
innovation yeah, and less imitation.Yes, I don't want any more trend
writing. I want them to justlike lean into what they are, yeah,
and then innovate, you know,change what they are, but not
based on what other people are doing. Yes. Do you think they're gonna

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have a disco Bond? Oh,I'm sure or maybe maybe we've gotten past
that. I don't know. Imean, yeah, I don't know.
We'll see, we'll see. Thenext one is in nineteen seventy seven,
so they it's cutting it close.Yeah, it did. It still did
really well, but there were somethere was so much crap behind the scenes

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in this movie. Yeah that um, yeah, they took them a while
to get back to doing them.Yeah. Oh, final thoughts, What
are your ratings? What is yourrating for this movie? Three fake nipples
out of five David? Oh nice? Nice? Um, Yeah, I'm
gonna go three. I'm gonna gothree. Uh. I actually just wrote

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three love or Tarot cards customized thelook Jane Seymour out of five because I
didn't change it from last week.But uh, let's see, uh I'll
change it up. Three three WoodenElephants okay? Out of twenty thousand wooden
elephants, No three, just three? And what do you what does your
ranking look like now? Oh?Geezh. At this point, I am

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starting to forget what some of themovies are about. Oh gosh, oh
good gosh. Let's see. Well, Doctor No was still number one for
sure, and I think on HerMajesty's Secret Surface is still number two for
me. Okay, okay? Man. So now the question is do I

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like the Man with the Golden Gun? Better? Thank Goldfinger? Oh?
Geez okay Goldfinger number three? Huh? I think the Man with a Golden
Gun number four? Wow? Okay? Yeah, and then live and let
dine Number five You only live twice? Number six from Russia, number seven,

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eight Diamonds are Forever, nine,Thunderball, ten Doudo Royal. My
ranking is thus number one Doctor,No. Number two on Her Majesty's Secret
Service, number three, Goldfinger,number four, Live and Let Die still
number five, The Man with aGolden Gun. I'm not saying it was

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a better movie than From Russia withLove or even You Only Live Twice.
I think it was. It wasmore entertaining to me, yes, that
one number six from Russia with Love, number seven, You Only Live Twice,
Number eight, Diamonds are Forever,number nine, Thuder, Thunderball,
and ten Casino Royal sixty seven.Yeah, so let's do a little bit

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of the trivia that we haven't talkedabout already. The budget was seven million
for this movie, and it grossedninety seven point six million. That that
is a profit percentage of one thousand, two hundred and ninety four point twenty
nine percent net profit of ninety milliondollars nine points ninety point six million dollars.

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Crazy, It is crazy. Thenthey did not what is this like
the third movie that has been aboutseven million dollars? I don't know.
I think the two before this.Yeah, we're around seven millions, so
they have not increased the budget.Mmmmmmm. So while on location in Thailand,
Roger Moore found a cave full ofbats and he couldn't resist. He

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went to Christopher Lee and was liketelling him that he had found what he
had found and said, Master,they are yours to command it. Says
Lee appreciated the joke. That's great, that's awesome. So, according to
more, Roger Moore, the director, Guy Hamilton wanted to tough and Bond
up some more in order to becloser to Fleming's original intent for the character,

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and one of the ways by havingBond twist the arm of Andrea Anders
behind her back and threatened to breakit unless she told him what he wanted
to know. That's not how youtoughen him up. Moore didn't enjoy filming
the scene, feeling that Bond wouldhave instead charmed the information out of her.
Another scene Moore didn't enjoy was pushingthe boy into the water during the
boat chase. So I think it'sinteresting that Guy Hamilton his idea to tough

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and Bond up. Oh, heused to be a man. You gotta
be tough, hey, beat upon this kid and this is the woman.
Yeah, neither of whom like reallyknow how to defend themselves and are
not a threat. Right, that'snot cool, man. So The Man
with the Golden Gun was the thirteenthand final complete James Bond novel written by
Ian Fleming. It was the firstand only one of his full James Bond

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novels to be published posthumously. Somepeople say it was unfinished at the time
of his death, whereas other expertsmaintained that Fleming had completed it before he
died. It is a controversial debateas to whether Leming wrote the novel completely
himself or whether others were involved.Fleming's own personal correspondence from the period indicates
that he had completed the novel andsubmitted it to his publisher before his death.

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The correspondence also indicated that Fleming wasnot pleased with the novel and was
considering retiring from Riding Bond novels becausehe feared he had lost his edge.
He didn't really give that opportunity home, no no. Britt Ekland, who
played Mary good Night, admitted tobeing terrified when filming the scene where she
and Roger Moore escaped from Scottramanga's Island. In his autobiography, More pointed out

(01:13:32):
one particular shot right before the secondexplosion goes off where she falls to the
floor. We saw that and went, oh yeah, and he like helps
her out right, yeah, andEckland says, yeah, she said that
wasn't acting. More came back,picked her up and helped her go on.
His arm was around her back asthe second explosion went off, and
she felt the tiny hair or hefelt the tiny hairs on her skin.

(01:13:54):
Gets sinned. Oh gosh, yeah, it kind of sounds like Roger Moore
is just a nice person. Itdoes seem like that. It's like the
opposite of Connery. Yeah, likeRoger Moore, you know, has been
like, oh I really hate itthat I have to slap this kid into
the water. That's not nice.I don't think Bond would do that.

(01:14:15):
I don't think Bond would threaten tobreak this woman's arm, right. Sean
Connery would have done both of thosethings without even knowing he was playing the
role. He wouldn't even know therehe did do those things. I would.
I also think it's interesting, likeso when we saw man was it
was it? The one? Wasit live? And let die when Bond

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walks up to a woman wearing abikini and takes off her top and then
uses it to like strangle her.No, that was, um, diamonds
are forever, I think, okay, okay, well, like you and
I were saying, ah, thatwas awesome, that was crazy that,
you know, like, I don'tknow, I feel like that was different
because was like, was she aI mean she was yeah, I mean

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she knew no though, you knowwhat that was? That was? Yeah,
that was diamonds her forever because hewas trying to find out where,
um, where Blowfield was. Yeah, but yeah, she was a she
was a bad guy. Yeah,yeah, I mean like she wasn't some
defenseless person who was like scared ofthe big bad guy. So I don't
know, I guess I wanted tomake that distinction since you and I felt
very differently about that and kind ofthought it was awesome. He also,

(01:15:24):
like only did that one thing toher. He did not continuously slap her
in her face and then twist herarm and threatened to rite her arm.
Right, all right, so oh, here we go. While doing the
title sequence, title designer Maurice Binderran into a problem with one of the

(01:15:44):
nude models. Her pubic hair wassticking up when they needed it flat.
After a few minutes of her tryingand failing to get it right, Binder
smeared her pubic hair with basiline.Oh god, that probably didn't come out
for weeks. She gave Binder thebrush and told him to fix the hair
to how he needed it. Thewhole thing was seen by Roger Moore and
producer Harry Saltzman, causing Moore toturn to Saltzman and quip, if you're

(01:16:08):
the producer of this film, you'renot getting the perks. Wow, how
do you feel about Roger Moore?Now? Why were they there seeing that?
I don't know. That doesn't seemlike something they needed to be on
set for. It seems like theywere probably like, hey, today's the
day for the whole for the nudemodel. Here's where we're doing all the

(01:16:30):
nakey stuff, the na stuff.Gross Man, Well, that seems to
have been a very understanding woman.May Oh my gosh. This was the
first James Bond movie to be shownat the Kremlin, according to Roger Moore
in his audio commentary. Apparently,when the movie had finished one Russian official
turned around and said, we didn'ttrain scar Romanga very well because he was

(01:16:50):
supposed to be kgb oh Wow.Though James Bond and Sky Romanga are enemies
in the movie, Roger Moore andChristopher Lee were close friends, dating back
to the early days of their respectiveprofessional acting careers. That's neat. Yeah,
they were fake Assassin's real friends.Hey. Harry Saltzman wanted an elephant

(01:17:16):
stampede in the movie so Bond andScaramanga could chase each other on elephant back.
That would have been awesome. Thatwould have been super cool. The
rest of the creative team balked atthe idea, but Saltzman went to see
an elephant trainer. It turns outthat elephants need a special shoe on their
feet to protect them from rough surfaceswhen they work a few A few months
later, while filming in Thailand,producer Albert Broccoli got a call saying his

(01:17:41):
elephant shoes were ready. Salzman hadordered about twenty six hundred pairs of them.
Cheese the sequence was not in themovie, but the man who made
the shoe had not been paid.As of nineteen ninety, Ian Productions still
owed him. Oh Wow, thatis despicable. M hmmm, that is
ridiculous. Yeah. John Barry regardedthis as his weakest score. He only

(01:18:08):
had three weeks to compose it.Uh. Yeah, it was a bad
score. It was pretty bland.Yeah, it just felt like he kind
of like hacked up stuff from previousBond movies and just kind of yeah,
did that. I feel like,uh like he did not like it either
though, Yeah, he knows.Oh okay, sorry, Uh yeah,
he did not like his own work. He knew it wasn't his best.

(01:18:30):
Mmm. So this movie marked thefirst time Sir Roger Moore fired his Walter
PPK in the Bond film franchise.Wow, this was cool. The Bottoms
Up Strip Club kept the same interiorused in the movie until it closed in
two thousand and four. Whoa,I mean, once you have like an
iconic Bond location. Wow, Iguess you can't really change your stuff,

(01:18:50):
man. Yeah. The movie bearsvirtually no relation to the book other than
the name of Scaramanga, his thirdnipple, his golden gun, his occupation
as an assassin, and a briefmonologue about the shooting of an elephant when
he was younger. Even the localewas shifted from Jamaica as that location had
already been used for Doctor No andLive and Let Die. Scarromaga was changed

(01:19:11):
from an American hood into a moreurbane method How do you say that word
now? Methodical? Ah? Doyou guys ever do that? Or you're
just like you can't say a wordsuddenly that you know? You know?
Methodical assassin more akin to Bond.According to production designer Peter Merton, the
sequence for Scaramanga's car transforms into alight airplane was accomplished in the editing room.

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Wings were attached to the car anda stunt man drove the car plane
to the runway. At this point, the editor simply cut to a radio
controlled model built by John Steers.Still pretty cool. Though it was cool,
but that made me sad that itwasn't real, I suspected. Yeah,
so yeah. If you guys areinterested in listening to Alice Cooper's song

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Man with the Golden Gun, itis on his album of Love and the
CD version knows Uh claimed that itwas the It was the theme song of
the movie, but the producers optedfor the version by Lulu Let's see this
is this is weird. During thebelly dancing scene, Roger Moore was wearing
a brand new suit. When thescene was finished. As a gag,

(01:20:19):
producer Albert Broccoli got on a ladderand poured a bucket of paste all over
Moore's new suit. The heck,that's not a gag. You're just being
a dick. What what is wrongwith all these people? And by all
these people, I mean Broccoli,Guy Hamilton, Guy Hamilton, Oh my

(01:20:40):
gosh, you know, Terence Youngwas pretty bad too. Geezd It just
like did they all like, werethey all in a fraternity together? They
just seemed like do she frat bros? Yep. Not to mention like they
ruined a new suit that probably costa lot of money. Yeah, good
grief. This is the first Bondmovie since Doctor No where Bond does not

(01:21:03):
rely on q's gadgets to survive,but rather relies on his wits. During
the fight with the Henchman in Beirut, Sir Roger Moore was visibly accidentally punched
in the mouth, hence the bloodrunning down his lower lip at the end
of the fight. Yeah, that'scool. This is the final James Bond
movie with voice dubs from Nicky Vandersiel. That's crazy. Give it up for

(01:21:27):
Nicky Well, good job, NICKI, But also sometimes I wish you had
not overdubbed people like Jane Seymour.But good job. Why are they not
overdubbing anymore? Or did they usesomeone else? I don't know. I
would love for their not to beanymore overdubbing. Yeah, let's see.

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Sir Roger Moore and Sir Christopher Leeplayed Detective Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes in
New York Sherlock Holmes and the LeadingLady and Sherlock Holmes Incident at Victory of
Falls. Cast member Bernard Lee wasthe grandfather of Johnny Johnny Lee Miller,
who plays Sherlock on Elementary Meat.That's so cool. All right, let's

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get to somelictitor feedback. This onefor the Man with the Golden Gun.
Nerdy Tastic says to us, goodluck with the Man with the Golden Gun.
I love that movie. What awaste of Christopher Lee. Yeah,
Mary Mary Goodnight is the worst Bondgirl ever. She's one of those people
that is so incredibly stupid you wonderhow she managed to even become an adult,
much less get hired. It inmy six absolutely, then they bring

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that, they bring back stupid friggingracist Sheriff Pepper again and ruin what is
a truly impressive practical stunt with afriggin slide whistle like a damn Tom and
Jerry cartoon. Actually, I willsay Tom and Jerry cartoons were way better
than that slide whistle. Yeah,that's what This movie is a bad cartoon
that goes on too long. Itis by far my least favorite. Wow

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there, I mean, yes,those are very good points for weaknesses in
this movie. Um there. Butit wasn't underwater, Nope, They're or
in space. There are definitely thingsabout this film that seemed like they were
rushed, and that is part ofwhy it could have been better. Yeah.

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David Wang points out that this filmhas the lowest body count all together
and most definitely the lowest Bond killcount. Bond only killed one person in
the entire movie. Yeah, andprobably like the lowest Bond sex count maybe,
uh yeah, that's crazy. Mmmm. He also says this is probably
the last time we had ever We'reever going to get two Bond films in

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two consecutive calendar years. He alsosays probably the last Bond pre credits infro
without an actual appearance from a Fleshand Blood Bond. So interesting. Sherman
Smith says, my favorite of theones you've covered so far. We've got
someone who said this is my leastfavorite by far. Yeah, and Sherman
Smith says, my favorite of theones you've covered so far. Hey,

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Sherman Smith, thank you for listeningand for being involved on our Facebook page.
Uh would you leave us feedback?Uh and tell us why this is
your favorite one? Absolutely? Like, not in an argumentative way. Yeah.
I think it's interesting because Dave andI feel favorable ish toward this movie,

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so I'm interested to know why whyyou liked this one so much?
Yeah? Absolutely, Um, Butlike I said, it's Stu Little turned
us onto the Alice Cooper. Yeahintro song, Thanks Stu. Yep um.
He says, I also hope thisepisode turns into a Christopher Lee fact
fest tangent covering such things as hewas ian flaming step cousin. Yes,

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he was an intelligence officer in wW two, helped hunt Naziason may have
partly inspired Bond Cool. He hada side career in heavy metal. Oh
my gosh, I don't know whatthat one means. Um. I mean,
I know, I'm pretty sure hewas also like pretty huge on Broadway
and was like really great at singing. Also, yeah, like very musically

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inclined. But that's super cool.I see. I just left all of
that out of whatever trivia I couldfind because I knew Stu was gonna say
something about it. But yeah,like I said before, I don't really
know the guys, So I mean, yeah, you know, you can't.
I'm into a lot of stuff andyou just can't cover everything. You
can't. You just can't be obsessedwith everything. So he's kind of a

(01:25:38):
blind spot for me. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Stu. Please
forgive me. Okay, Stu Little, here's some Christopher Lee trivia for you.
Just gonna read this whole paragraph fromWikipedia. Okay. Originally, the
role of Scaramonga was offered to JackPollance, but he turned the opportunity down.
Christopher Lee, who was eventually chosento portray Scaramanga, was Ian fleming

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step cousin, as we said,and Fleming had suggested Christopher Lee for the
role of doctor Noh. In DoctorNo. Christopher Lee noted that Fleming was
a Forgetful Man, and by thetime he mentioned this to Broccoli and Saltzman,
they had already cast Joseph Wiseman inthe part. Due to filming on

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location in Bangkok, Christopher Lee's rolein the film affected his work the following
year, as director Ken Russell wasunable to sign Christopher Lee to play the
specialist in the nineteen seventy five filmTommy, and because of that, the
part was given to Jack Nicholson.Yeah, so I think that's pretty cool.
Yeah, and there we haven't that'sall you get. Man. I

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don't know, but I mean,yeah, we could do just an entire
episode on just Christopher Lee good becausehe's he's awesome. I don't think I
have the bandwidths Kioki Young says tous on the Facebook group. I'm sure
this will be in the trivia,but bond girl Maude Adams shows up again

(01:27:05):
in Octopussy. Apparently she and Moorebecame good friends. Wow. Well you
know what. It wasn't in thetrivia, but it is in the fan
feedback, So thanks for being alistener and feeding back. Was Maude Adams
Anders. Yeah, okay, Ifelt she was really really pretty. She
wasn't hard on the eyes. JoeForno over on the Facebook group says,

(01:27:29):
you really do have a magnificent abdomen. Well, this is getting weird.
Nope, now that took an unexpectedturn. Yeah, that was weird.
When did that happen? When hewas talking to the to the belly dancer
answer, yeah, And there wasa whole conversation that took place on the
group where they were discussing about howthat was actually really good thing for a

(01:27:51):
belly d answer to hear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I do
implore you if you're looking to talkabout bond with with people like this is
a good place to do it.Yeah. Man, um, it's turning
into a really good place to doit. There's a lot of good interaction
there. Yeah. Yeah, andnot from us. We just kind of

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go around liking things because we suck. But yeah, Joe Forno says,
Wow, the scene was good nightin the closet. I was really hoping
it wasn't going to go that way. For a second, I even thought,
oh, good, at least she'sgetting he's letting her leave first.
But nope, Oh god, Iknow man. And then David Wayne or
was it no, I guess itwas yeah, David Wayne says, don't

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kink shame. Yeah. David Waynesaid he thought a threeson would have been
less offensive. I mean yeat tous, but I mean probably not to
marry good Night, I'm not I'msure Bond would have loved it. I'm
not sure that the two ladies wouldhave preferred that, especially good night.

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Yeah yeah uh. To Live inDie pop culture Maven on Twitter says to
us, I thought gold Fingers reversed. Winnie the Pooh is ridiculous until the
cartoonish ending of Live and Let Die. This is my favorite that you have
reviewed so far, despite that ridiculousending. Thank you, man or lady

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or pulp cultures are, whoever youare, whatever you identify as. Thank
you. Joe Farnarado on Twitter says, your wife chased some squirrels on the
latest breaking Bond and I loved itand t he Johnson was awesome. All
right. Well, so that thatthat does it on the feedback that I

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thought applicable here. So we're gonnamove along and next episode we're gonna be
discussing The Spy Who Loved Me fromnineteen seventy seven with Roger Moore as James
Bond, Barbara Bach as Anya Amasova, Kurd Jurgens as Karl Stromberg, and
Richard Keel as Jaws. This oneto be directed by Lewis Gilbert. You'll

(01:30:05):
remember him as the director of YouOnly Lived Twice. Okay, So until
next time, be the listener wholoves our podcast and share it with a
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(01:30:51):
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