According to a mini-war that broke out on Wired’s Twitter feed, Thunderball has the best gadgets of any Bond film.
Although most of us think of Thunderball strictly in terms of the rebreather and/or the jet pack, the full list is actually quite impressive.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI jus bought a fantastic new german James Bond book with an orignal theme: an Atlas
Der große James Bond Atlas Door Siegfried Tesche ISBN 3577073055, 9783577073059
(see for some example pages: http://books.google.nl/books?id=5l_hNpaTm04C&printsec=frontcover&dq=james+bond+atlas)
In this Atlas you can find regional and world maps with all shooting locations: the locations where they really shot, those who are filmed on a place or studio but ar supposed to be elsewhere nad the stock footage etc.
After a couple of pages about Fleming, general story, verhicles, traveling gear (=gadgets) and Bond’s traveling companions (=girls) you first get a part where every movie, inculding QOS, NSNA and bóth older CR’s, is covered with a world map with the locations and textual info about the shooting period inculding photo’s.
The second part is more geographical. You have more detailed regional maps, almost all countries, major cities and/or world parts have pages of there own (see index in example)
In all a very interessing book, also for just browsing. But also very revealing info about locations. Example: the hotel lobby in Venice in CR 06 is really the entrance of a museum in Praque.
Downside for some of you is probably that its German so even some movies have diffrent names, I can read it because i’m from Holland and learned the lanquage at school because Germany is our neighbour, but because its such an original book I like too bring it under your attention.
A little translation with the example legenda (so you can read the maps):
Yellow dot (Reiner Drehort)= where they actually shoot while in the script it stands for an other place.
Green dot (Schauplatz an dem auch gedreht wurde)= where the shot and its really that place in the movie
Red dot (Schauplatz, an dem nicht gedreht wurde)= hard locations the didnt film but the story said they were in (like Afghanistan in TLD)
The url one more time: http://books.google.nl/books?id=5l_hNpaTm04C&printsec=frontcover&dq=james+bond+atlas
From Holland with Love
Flapflop
P.S.
Studio footage (like on the 007 stage) is also noted as yellow dot
Sounds like a great book,now we will have to keep our eyes open for one written in the Queens English…
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