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The French Know Where 007 Acquired His Savoir-Faire
By ELAINE SCIOLINO

PARIS, Jan. 18 — James Bond has never seemed fascinated by the French, but the French certainly are fascinated by James Bond.

The British secret agent has driven British cars, worn Savile Row and Brioni suits, flashed Swiss watches and demanded Russian caviar and Norwegian honey.

But he speaks French — at least in the 1953 novel “Casino Royale.” He detests English tea. He insists that his tournedos béarnaise be served rare and his vodka martinis be splashed with the French aperitif Lillet.

He has sported a French cigarette lighter and French cuff links (S. T. Dupont) and drunk rivers of French Champagne (Bollinger). He has romanced beloved French actresses like Sophie Marceau.

For three days this week, French and foreign researchers came together in a conference sponsored in part by the National Library of France and the University of Versailles to dissect and psychoanalyze, criticize and lionize Ian Fleming’s debonair creation.

Titled “James Bond (2)007: Cultural History and Aesthetic Stakes of a Saga,” the conference — France’s first scholarly colloquium on James Bond — was aimed at developing a “socioanthropology of the Bondian universe.”

“James Bond is a fascinating cultural phenomenon who transcends nationality and politics,” said Vincent Chenille, a historian at the National Library who helped organize the conference, which ended Thursday. “He’s very human. His faults are identifiable.”

Hubert Bonin, an economic historian from Bordeaux, who spoke on “the anguish of capitalist conspiracy and overpowering,” had a different explanation. “In France we have the myth of the savior, the Bonaparte, the de Gaulle,” he said. “Here, we’re always searching for the providential hero. James Bond is a very reassuring figure for France.”

The conference was a breakthrough in French scholarly circles. Umberto Eco, Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin have all written seriously about Bond, but the French intelligentsia has been slow in embracing global popular culture.

Mr. Fleming, a French speaker whose Bond novels were translated into French decades ago, never has been considered a first-rate novelist. Film studies in France focus on the “artistry” of directors like Truffaut and Hitchcock; Bond films have been treated as haphazard commercial enterprises that, lacking a single director, have no artistic or thematic unity.

“This conference is a revolutionary act,” said Luc Shankland, a lecturer on media and cultural studies at the Sorbonne who is writing his doctoral dissertation on Bond and British cultural identity. “To put this artifact of popular culture in a setting like the highbrow National Library is a kind of provocation. It’s been a taboo in intellectual circles to say you like James Bond.”

But on the political and the popular level, the French appreciate James Bond. Sean Connery, who is married to a French painter and played Bond in seven films, is a chevalier in the French Legion of Honor and commander of Arts and Letters. Roger Moore, a star of seven later Bond films, is a French officer of Arts and Letters.

French television routinely airs Bond films; 7.1 million viewers saw “The World Is Not Enough” last month on the leading French channel, TF1. A Bond fan club publishes a magazine called “Le Bond” and organizes trips to sites in the novels and films.

As far back as 1973, Jean-Paul Belmondo parodied Bond in Philippe de Broca’s film “Le Magnifique.” Last year a Bond spoof called “OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies,” with a comic actor playing a French spy made to resemble a young Mr. Connery, was a runaway hit.

The “Casino Royale” remake has been seen by more than three million people in France since it opened in late November. Eva Green, the film’s Bond girl, is half French in real life. French magazines have published lengthy descriptions of her upbringing in France, favorite Parisian restaurants and boutiques, and devotion to her mother, the well-known French actress Marlène Jobert.

The film has had a ripple effect. At one point, Bond rattles off his martini order: three measures of Gordon’s gin, one of vodka, half a measure of Lillet, shaken over ice and topped with a thin slice of lemon peel. The recipe, taken from Mr. Fleming’s novel, has shone the spotlight on Lillet, a little-known aperitif produced near Bordeaux since 1872.

“We’re a small company, and our distributors used to be told: ‘Lillet? That’s old,’ ” Bruno Borie, the chief executive of Lillet, said in a telephone interview. “The film has given a boost to the brand. It’s changed our place on the map.”

Last month the French accessories company S. T. Dupont introduced two James Bond “seduction cases.” The $3,880 “mini-seduction case” includes a bottle of S. T. Dupont’s own label of Champagne, two flutes, a Dupont cigarette lighter and a metal “Do Not Disturb” door sign. The deluxe $25,800 model comes in a yardlong buffalo leather trunk and includes a setting for caviar, an ice bucket, an MP3 player with Sony speakers, a Baccarat bud vase and candles.

At the Paris conference, speakers dazzled the audience with Bond trivia. Some lamented the fact that the “Casino Royale” remake had lost the novel’s French setting and had been transported to Montenegro.

It was noted that the title “Casino Royale” had a grammatical error in French: “casino” is a masculine noun, “royale” a feminine adjective, an effort by Fleming to give the novel a French-sounding title. The first French translation corrected the error.

As for his culinary tastes, Bond was a “pitiful connoisseur of wine,” said Claire Dixsaut, a researcher at the European Center for Audiovisual Writing. He “never ordered a gastronomic menu,” he said. “He loves grilled chops, sole meunière, rare tournedos and fresh vegetables. He was, at the table as in his investigations, in search of the truth.”

Other topics included Switzerland as a financial haven in James Bond, the geopolitics of James Bond, the evolution of female figures in James Bond and the metamorphoses and permanence of the Bondian personality.

The scholarly seriousness has amused some Bondophiles.

“The propensity people have to speak of so many things with so much seriousness — it’s incredible,” Jean-François Halin, a screenwriter of “OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies,” said in a telephone interview. “In our film, we mock the French colonial, paternalistic vision of the world. We make fun of the James Bond films. But I guess you can find seriousness in everything.”
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Damien wrote:After suffering through For Your Eyes Only, I -- who as a kid had all sorts of Bond tie-in toys, like a brief case with all sorts of 007 secret agent gizmos (to be a boy in the mid-60s was to be obsessed with James Bond, including collecting the bubble gum cards) -- said Nevermore, and I haven't seen a Bond film since.
I find that amazingly odd, since many Bond purists consider For Your Eyes Only to be one of the best Bonds precisely because it reverts to the harder edge and complexity of the early 60s Bonds as opposed to the far-fetched 70s Bonds, particularly since Eyes Only followed the most heavily criticized (ie, most cartoonish) 007 film, Moonraker (which, nevertheless, is my all-time favorite guilty pleasure in the Bond canon).
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Funnily enough, watching 'From Russia with Love' as we speak. 45 minutes in and Sophie and Famke are to be bumped.
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Sabin wrote:Favorite Bond Villainess - Sophie Marceau ('The World is Not Enough')
runner up - Famke Janssen ('GoldenEye')
No Lotte Lenya, no credibility.
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Sabin wrote:I just watched 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. It's my first Roger Moore Bond movie. My God, if this is the best of them, I can understand why the 70's were such a dreary decade to be alive. What a lifeless husk of a man! Did people really enjoy him? Seven movies. Seven! I just looked it up now and I'm utterly taken aback. Did nobody take pause and reflect the sanity of having a nearly 60 year old Bond star in...what was it? 'Octopussy'? The man is totally humorless.

After suffering through For Your Eyes Only, I -- who as a kid had all sorts of Bond tie-in toys, like a brief case with all sorts of 007 secret agent gizmos (to be a boy in the mid-60s was to be obsessed with James Bond, including collecting the bubble gum cards) -- said Nevermore, and I haven't seen a Bond film since.
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I just watched 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. It's my first Roger Moore Bond movie. My God, if this is the best of them, I can understand why the 70's were such a dreary decade to be alive. What a lifeless husk of a man! Did people really enjoy him? Seven movies. Seven! I just looked it up now and I'm utterly taken aback. Did nobody take pause and reflect the sanity of having a nearly 60 year old Bond star in...what was it? 'Octopussy'? The man is totally humorless.

I didn't really enjoy 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. Some of it was inspired narrative but for the most part, just a languishing experience. The 'Austin Powers' parody is dead-on. Barbara Bach is gorgeous, but such a lifeless performer that I couldn't abide.

I'm twenty minutes into 'Goldfinger' and already I can't turn it off.

I've seen 'Dr. No', 'Goldfinger', 'The Spy Who Loved Me', the Brosnan Bonds and 'Casino Royale'. I'm eager to watch the rest for the sake of symmetry of the thing, but the prospect of six more Moores is genuinely off-putting. I'll play my hand in its incomplete form.

Favorite Bond - Daniel Craig
...just putting it out there. Connery's the suaver ride, but Craig is the blunter tool I buy.
runner up - Sean Connery
Worst Bond - Roger Moore

Favorite Bond Girl - Eva Green ('Casino Royale)
...I say she's a Bond "Girl".
runner up - Honor Blackman ('Goldfinger')
Worst Bond Girl - Halle Berry ('Die Another Day')
...really difficult to choose. Denise Richards cannot be taken seriously but really she's quite repugnant and Barbara Bach was inept, but there's something about watching Halle Berry's image on film that chills my spine.

Favorite Villain - Gert Fröbe ('Goldfinger')
runner up - Sean Bean ('GoldenEye')
...I also really like Jonathan Pryce's Elliot Carver. I seem to be the only one. He deserved a much better movie.
Worst Villain - Toby Stephens ('Die Another Day')

Favorite Bond Villainess - Sophie Marceau ('The World is Not Enough')
runner up - Famke Janssen ('GoldenEye')
...'The World is Not Enough' is a very underrated Bond movie, marred by Denise Richards' unsightly performance. But Sophie Marceau is fantastic, the action very good, and really 80% of the right ingredients.
Worst Bond Villainess - no idea. yet.

Favorite Henchman - Harold Sakata ('Goldfinger')
runner up - Alan Cumming ('GoldenEye')
...stupid? Sure. Funny. Oh yeah.
Worst Henchman - Richard Keil ('The Spy Who Loved Me')

Favorite Song - "Goldfinger"
runner up - "Nobody Does It Better"
Worst Song - "Die Another Day". Slightly worse than "You Know My Name". Maybe it's just Madonna or maybe I don't do enough coke and give enough blowjobs on disco floors, but, well, I don't get it.

Favorite Bond Movie - 'Casino Royale'
runner up - 'Goldfinger'
Worst Bond Movie - 'Die Another Day'
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Saw it again. Just a fantastic time. Couldn't have asked for anything more from popcorn entertainment. First two hours, one of the best crafted screenplays of the year? Then it begins to drag, and would be insufferable were Daniel Craig and Evan Green not so adept in their roles. The Gleeb's more right than wrong. No excusing his 'Brick' pan though. Yeesh.
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Someone's got to be the dissenter here and it might as well be me. :)

Although nostalgia is admittedly a key factor in my outlook, Timothy Dalton, for me, is second only to Sean Connery. I'd put Daniel Craig in third place (subject to change, of course) with Roger Moore coming in fourth and Pierce Brosnan fifth. As for George Lazenby… I just don't know and probably never will.

"On Her Majesty’s Secret Service," featuring the divine Dame Diana Rigg and an ending that has me this close to teary eyes, would be my favorite had Connery stuck around. As it is, I rank it second behind "Goldfinger."

While I echo Sonic's comments about the ladies of the Dalton era (although Talisa Soto did look exceptionally ravishing in her low-cut red casino dress), Tim's two outings do more for me than Brosnan's four and were a welcome breeze after Moore’s seven.

I can barely tolerate "Live and Let Die" with its gloomy plot and settings. Christopher Lee deserved a better movie than "The Man With The Golden Gun." I know everyone is naturally suppose to hate the outer space element of "Moonraker," but, for me at least, it isn't until Bond actually gets into space that that incredibly dull movie finally starts to get interesting (I've always liked Michael Lonsdale's soft-spoken megalomaniac though). While "Octopussy" has the heavenly Maud Adams back for a second match, "For Your Eyes Only" is almost ruined entirely by that ice-skating Lolita-wannabe (I cannot presently think of another Bond character I wanted to see get mangled more). "A View To A Kill" is a joke, but I happily run with it. Christopher Walken, Grace Jones, Duran Duran, and the Golden Gate bridge climax is enough for me to forgive a recycled script, Tanya Roberts' colossal bimbo, and a ridiculously too old Roger Moore.

"The Living Daylights" is saddled with two weak villains, one of which gets bumped off (almost literally) in a very silly demise. The Aston-Martin sequence, however (and not to sound like some kind of a stoner or something), rocks. Add to this the extended cargo plane section (the runway, the takeoff, the midair ramp fight, and the crash) that had me astonished as a youngster, Q's "ghetto blaster" quip that has me in a fit of giggles even now, and two songs that I adore which bookend the movie.

I like "Licence To Kill." A lot. Robert Davi was the first and thus far the only Bond villain who frightened me (the shark, the off-screen heart removal, and what happened to that poor bastard in the pressure chamber probably had something to do with that). The bar fight and that stupid Wayne Newton cameo aside, I like how nearly all of the humor and tongue-in-cheek action found in the previous entries was lacking in this one…until the last fifteen minutes or so when that insane, completely over-the-top truck battle out in the desert takes over. I also like the solid development of Bond's almost father-son relationship with Q.

"GoldenEye" is too frantic for me (the Nintendo 64 game is great though). There are some excellent stunts, I love the Tina Turner theme song, and Famke Janssen steals every scene she's in with ease. But Brosnan, despite nicely filling out a tuxedo, is a bore. Jonathan Pryce’s delightfully hammy performance (as well as his character’s suitably gruesome demise), the motorcycle chase, the BMW, Vincent Schiavelli's Dr. Kaufman, and the presence of Michelle Yeoh elevates "Tomorrow Never Dies" to another level.

Sophie Marceau and Dame Judi Dench in a more prominent role than usual give some merit to "The World Is Not Enough," but the film pretty much peters out after a truly exciting pre-credits sequence. The less said about "Die Another Day" (particularly in hindsight), the better.

As for "Casino Royale," the title sequence did look pretty cheap, but I actually dug it and the song as well. Not only does the Madagascar chase drag on, there are far too many leaps and maneuvers and twists for my taste. The gadgetry is gone, but it’s been substituted with Bond's newfound acrobatic skill. It was almost like watching a Jackie Chan movie. I missed Miss Moneypenny and the impossibly constructed villain's lair/hideout. Judi Dench gives her best M routine yet while Jeffrey Wright is wasted as Felix Leiter. The torture scene was cringe-inducing. Eva Green is exquisite and I was quite surprised by (and not at all sure I enjoyed) that third act twist (or twists). She and Craig have a tenderness together that I haven't felt in these films since, hell, George and Diana.
This installment also has an edge over the others in that Craig is the first Bond I actually want to sleep with ("sleep" being the suitable word). But there were also times he looked oily and creepy (and I don't necessarily mean the scenes in which he's in some kind of agony). I know exactly what Reza means by "funny stick-out ears." I had the exact same thought when his head came splashing out of the Bahamian water. But two seconds later, the rest of his body came into view and that was it for me.
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Today I was doing some Christmas shopping with my dad, and we were near a theatre in time for the 1:00 shows, so we decided to go see a movie. I wanted to see The Queen, he wanted to see Deja Vu, so we decided on two random choices--Casino Royale or The Fountain.

We went with Casino Royale. I've seen a few Bond movies, but I've never gone to see one at the theatre.

I enjoyed Casino Royale. It was a little bit long; one of the chase sequences (the one set in Madagascar) goes on longer than it should have, and it doesn't completely regain its momentum after the fake climax. But I thought Daniel Craig made a great Bond, and Eva Green was a nice match as the Bond Girl. I don't have a lot to say about it, other than that I enjoyed it--I always enjoy movies and TV shows about spies and military intelligence and double agents and double crossing and things like that; for a Saturday afternoon entertainment, it was a lot of fun.
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Here's how I would rank them...

1. From Russia With Love
2. Goldfinger
3. Dr. No
4. Casino Royale
5. You Only Live Twice
6. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
7. The Spy Who Loved Me
8. Goldeneye
9. For Your Eyes Only
10. Thunderball
11. Live and Let Die
12. Octopussy
13. The Man With The Golden Gun
14. Diamonds Are Forever
15. Tomorrow Never Dies
16. The Living Daylights
17. Moonraker
18. A View To A Kill
19. License to Kill
20. The World Is Not Enough
21. Die Another Day

Favorite Bond: Sean Connery
Runner-up: Daniel Craig
Worst Bond: Timothy Dalton

Favorite Bond girl: Daniela Bianchi (From Russia With Love)
Runner-up: Diana Rigg (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
Worst Bond girl: Jill St. John (Diamonds Are Forever)

Favorite Bond villain: Gerte Frobe as Aurich Goldfinger (Goldfinger)
Runner-up: Donald Pleasance as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (You Only Live Twice)
Worst Bond villain: Robert Carlyle as Victor "Renard" Zokas (The World is Not Enough)

Favorite henchman: Robert Shaw as Red Grant (From Russia With Love)
Runner-up: Harold Sakata as Oddjob (Goldfinger)
Worst henchman (tie): Rick Yune as Zao (Die Another Day) and Gotz Otto as Stamper (Tomorrow Never Dies)

Favorite villainess: Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb (From Russia With Love)
Runner-up: Famke Janssen as Xena Onatopp (Goldeneye)
Worst villainess: Sophie Marceau as Elektra King (The World is Not Enough)

Favorite Bond song (tie): "Goldfinger" and "Diamonds Are Forever" (Shirley Bassey)
Runner-up: From Russia With Love (Matt Monro)
Worst Bond song: Die Another Day (Madonna)

Favorite Bond moment: The scene with the laser in "Goldfinger"
Runner-up: The torture scene in "Casino Royale"
Worst Bond moment: Pretty much any scene in "Die Another Day"... there's so many to choose from.

Favorite Bond gadget: The laser watch
Runner-up: The jet pack
Worst Bond gadget: The invisible car
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Penelope wrote:I really enjoyed Casino Royale, it was certainly more Flemingesque than any Bond epic since For Your Eyes Only; Daniel Craig is a fantastic 007, and Eva Green is one of the most fully developed Bond girls in a long, long time. All the techs--cinematography, editing, sound, art direction--are top-notch. It admittedly goes on too long--everything after the baccarat game ends is rather anti-climactic--and the Chris Cornell song is hideous (tho the rest of David Arnold's score is wonderful). A solid *** effort.

Once Again, I must agree with Penelope. Craig is one of the best Bonds I´ve ever seen. The Technical categories are all Oscar worthy. The tenderness of the Eva Green/Daniel Craig approach is another high point. Don´t forget the screenplay, full of shades. And finally, the delicious Judy dench, more delicious than ever.
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Reza wrote:p.s. I know we tend to differ on a lot of things but my telepathic mind knows that we DID agree on the torture scene (straight out of the book). I could sense that you got a real kick out of that sequence. S & M par excellence!
Well we all know how you love to bust balls, Reza. :p
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Penelope wrote:Well, since we're making other lists, herewith....

Here's where I think Casino Royale ranks in the canon:

1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Confession. Everyone loves this, and I've never seen it.

5. Octopussy


:(

Fave Bond Actor: Roger Moore (ok, sue me; I'm not saying he's the best, just my favorite--he's the one I grew up with).


:(

Pass the embalming fluid. (Oh, wait. Roger drank it all.)


Runner-up: Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only.


NOW we're talking! Great Bond girl, and Moore's best Bond outing by far.

Unfortunately, it also contains one of the WORST Bond girls as well, Lynn Holly Johnson.

Eva Green was fine, but Bond girl #1 was more to my taste. Mmmmmmm...!

Worst Bond Girl: Denise Richards as Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough.


Call me a freak, but the idea of Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist is so absurd, I loved it. And since everything else in the World of Bond is at a similar level of absurdity, why not this?

Worst is Lois Chiles in whichever one she was in. And ALL the babes in the Timothy Dalton movies. Every one of them.

And have I mentioned Lynn Holly Johnson?

Fave Main Villain: Michel Lonsdale as Hugo Drax in Moonraker.
Runner-Up: Louis Jourdan as Kemal Khan in Octopussy.


Gah! You really do love the Moore films. Louis Jourdan is the WORST Bond villian. (If you don't count Christopher Walken.)

Davi's a good choice, though.

Trivia: what recent major studio film featured 3 Bond villians in the cast?


Fave Villianess: Sophie Marceau as Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough.


And she's the main villain. Is there another Bond movie where the main villain is female?

Great Bond flick, too.


Fave Theme Song (tie): "All Time High" by Rita Coolidge for Octopussy.


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Worst Theme Song (four-way tie): "The World Is Not Enough" by Garbage


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GREAT song! And unlike the other three songs, that one actually has a vocalist in the Shirley Bassey, Sheena Easton school of belters.

Wouldn't you think Casino Royale would've been smart enough to harken back to the Bassey era for their opening sequence? The song sucked and it looked like a Target commerical.

Reza, the only good thing about Never Say Never Again is Barbara Carrera.


The other good thing is that it's better than all those Rog... okay, I'll stop here.

If you were to ask my teenaged self to choose my method of death, I'd have wanted Carrera to force me at gunpoint to sign a confession saying she was the best I ever had. That scene had quite an effect on me in my formative years.
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Well, since we're making other lists, herewith....

Fave Bond Actor: Roger Moore (ok, sue me; I'm not saying he's the best, just my favorite--he's the one I grew up with).
Runner-up: Sean Connery (technically, the best Bond, but what can I say).
Worst Bond: Pierce Brosnan (handsome, charming, and, when given the opportunity, a very fine actor--but he was never given the opportunity in the Bond series, he was rather bland as Bond).

Fave Bond Girl: Diana Rigg as Tracy DiVicenzo in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Runner-up: Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only.
Worst Bond Girl: Denise Richards as Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough.

Fave Main Villain: Michel Lonsdale as Hugo Drax in Moonraker.
Runner-Up: Louis Jourdan as Kemal Khan in Octopussy.
Worst Villain: Robert Davi as Franz Sanchez in License to Kill.

Fave Secondary Villain: Harold Sakata as Oddjob in Goldfinger.
Runner-Up: Kabir Bedi as Gobinda in Octopussy.
Worst Secondary Villain: Bruce Glover and Putter Smith as Wint and Kidd in Diamonds Are Forever.

Fave Villianess: Sophie Marceau as Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough.
Runner-Up: Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb in From Russia With Love.
Worst Villianess: None; they've all been good.

Fave Theme Song (tie): "Nobody Does It Better" by Carly Simon for The Spy Who Loved Me; "All Time High" by Rita Coolidge for Octopussy.
Runner-Up: "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Moonraker" both by Shirley Bassey.
Worst Theme Song (four-way tie): "Tomorrow Never Dies" by Sheryl Crowe; "The World Is Not Enough" by Garbage; "Die Another Day" by Madonna; "You Know My Name" by Chris Cornell for Casino Royale.

Fave Location (tie): Istanbul in From Russia With Love; Piz Gloria (Switzerland) in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Runner-Up (tie): India in Octopussy; Rio De Janeiro in Moonraker.
Worst Location: Outer space in Moonraker.

Reza, the only good thing about Never Say Never Again is Barbara Carrera.
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Penelope wrote:but the Bahamas have been used before (Thunderball)

And the Bahamas was also the location used in Never Say Never Again.

Why is it that this film always gets shortshrifted when lists of Bond films are compiled? If there was any animosity involved it was between the producers etc. The film is very much a Bond film (remake of Thunderball) and has all the usual elements.

My top 5 Bond films:

1. From Russia, With Love
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. Thunderball
4. Goldfinger
5. The Spy Who Loved Me

Some more Bond Favorites:

Fave Bond Actor: Sean Connery
Runnerup: Pierce Brosnan

Fave Bond Film: From Russia, With Love
Runnerup: O.H.M.S.S.

Fave Bond Babe: Ursula Andress as ''Honeychile Rider'' in Dr. No
Runnerup: Halle Berry as ''Jinx'' in Die Another Day

Fave Main Villain : Lotte Lenya as ''Rosa Klebb'' in From Russia, With Love
Runnerup: Donald Pleasance as ''Blofeld'' in You Only Live Twice

Fave Secondary Villain (Male): Robert Shaw as ''Red Grant'' in From Russia, With Love
Runnerup: Geoffrey Holder as ''Baron Samedi'' in Live and Let Die

Fave Villainess (Tie): Luciana Paluzzi as ''Fiona Volpe'' in Thunderball
Barbara Carera as ''Fatima Blush'' in Never Say Never Again


Runnerup (Tie): Karin Dor as ''Helga Brandt'' in You Only Live Twice
Caroline Munro as ''Naomi'' in The Spy Who Loved Me

Fave Title Song: ''Goldfinger'' from Goldfinger (sung by Shirley Bassey)
Runnerup (Tie): ''Diamonds are Forever'' from Diamonds are Forever (sung by Shirley Bassey)
'' Nobody Does it Better'' from The Spy Who Loved Me (sung by Carly Simon)

Fave Location: Istanbul in From Russia, With Love
Runnerup: The Bahamas in Thunderball/Never Say Never Again
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