Russian Transport in "Die Another Day" James Bond movie???

Antanov 124.

I'm a big Bond fan but I hated Die Another Day!

I haven't seen the film, but I doubt it's a stock AN-124, since there's no greenhouse glass below the cockpit of a -124. If it's a turboprop, it could be an AN-12 or AN-22, or it could be a studio model with no "real" existance...

Call me "weird"...but I liked Mr. Lazenby, and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".

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Or Il-76 (I haven't seen this movie)

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Which part? The quality of the film, and Mr. Lazenby?

...or my being "weird"?...lol

thx. I figured such. same with the copter in the hold with the blades not folded?

Craig

saw it a couple years ago but I remember the cockpit being ridiculously huge, big enough for a fight scene.

I forget exactly which mark of helicopter it was, but some flavour of the MD500 series or similar. So with a rotor diameter of ~8.04 metres and the An-124 hold 6.4 metres wide, yes, there would be some artistic license in there.

Jon.

The best part of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was Diana Riggs A.K.A. (kick Ass) Mrs. Emma Peel on the Avengers. George Lazenby was rather bland as James Bond. For my money, Sean Connery is the definitive 007.

Lazenby was offered a 7 movie deal by the Bond producers EON, but quit the role, because he felt that the tuxedo clad Bond would die out in the new hippie culture that had permeated society in the late 60s and early 70s. Bond producer Cubby Brocolli, remarked that Lazenby could have been the best Bond had he not quit after just one film.

Gary

Don't forget the music score...which is the BEST work John Barry ever did for a Bond film. There were other touches as well, that make this film stand out. The brief seen at "M's" residence, Quarterdeck, is the only time the estate has been seen in the films (it appeared often in Fleming's novels). There is also the scene in Bond's office; illustrating something that is obvious in the books, but neglected in the films: Bond is a civil servant, spending most of his time in the office. The "spy adventures" are a once-a-year diversion, at most. Ans I found Lazenby's "blandness" refreshing...as Fleming's novel version, is nowhere near the suave "babe-magnet" that the screen versions are.

And a decision he has rued to this day. He freely admits he should have never listened to his "hip" hippie friends. Lazenby has aged well. He appeared in "Gettysburg" (as Pettigrew); and made an appearance in several episodes of "The Pretender" (as Michael Weiss's father).

Ewwww!!!...lol.

There was *nothing* from that "film" that deserves the accolade "best"...lol.

For "special effects", you just gotta give the award to the miniatures work with the Vulcan, in "Thunderball"...just for the subject matter!

:o)

I agree, that the "special effects" miniatures of the Vulcan, in "Thunderball"...was great. The subs where kind of cheesy.

Do the 007 agents get promoted up to 006 and so on to M in the books, providing that they don't get killed?

BTW, I read that the character "Mrs. Emma Peel" on the Avengers, was derived from the show biz term for Man Appeal.

Gary

Well, the subs were real. That makes them not as good as a good model : )

No. One of the books mentions two other 00 agents and the number series was gapped. Don't remember the numbers, but there *were* only 2, and they

Fleming's real spy boss was known as "C".

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WinBear

Actually, I don't think there was any "system" in the numbering. If I remember correctly (and I can't recall which book...most likely "Casino Royale"), there are/were only like four agents in the "Double 0" branch.

You commented on the film "Moonraker". Read the book. Except for the title, and a few character names....the two are totally different. The book deals with nuclear arms in the 1950's. And it has a GREAT chapter or two of Bond and M at a country club, sharing dinner, playing bridge, etc. Sounds boring on the surface....but it may be one of the most exciting few chapters I have ever read, of anything. Fleming made a hand of bridge..."edge-of-your-seat" exciting!

The scope of Moonraker was certainly imaginative, on par with You Only Live Twice. A worthwhile flick although Drax's pronunciation of pie-thon as pith-on was annoying. Thunderball Vulcan was way cool! Cheers,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

Drax certainly had some of the best one-liners of any Bond villain.

But to go back to shuttle launch from "Moonraker", technically, it is way and above better than the Vulcan from "Thunderball". The shuttle launches in MR were done a full year before the real thing flew and, 25 years on from the movie, still look realistic - in fact, on the DVD commentary, Lewis Gilbert (director) thought they were NASA stock footage!

The Vulcan crash in TB is ok, if you can ignore the wires and the out of scale water, and it was no more better (or worse) than the stuff Gerry Anderson was doing or Eiji Tsuburaya in Japan at the time - the difference is that TB won an Oscar.