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Now finally available, the "Gunbarrel" opening from You Tradition as Lewis Gilbert did in the director's seat. I shudder to think of the score being in the hands of a composer departing as radically from established In the end, the score to You Only Live Twice is one of the movie's saving graces.
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Upon again in The Man With the Golden Gun. World" is a suspenseful cut, with an oriental sound that Barry would draw Barry uses an effective hint of reverb on the soft, flowing pieces that highlight the outer space scenes, such as "Capsule in Space" and "James Bond-Astronaut," proving once again his mastery of making music that perfectly augments the visuals. Reprise the romantic mood of the main theme are "Mountains and Sunsets" and "The Wedding," which expertly capture the tranquility of the Japanese setting. Most of the following tracks, however, deliver sheer suspense and action, such as "Fight at Kobe Dock/Helga," "A Drop in the Ocean," and "Bond Averts World War Three." The only tracks to
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It's a beautiful piece based on silky string progressions, with an appropriately oriental flavor. Still, his delivery is on-target, and his opening off-camera scenes, when we only hear his voice, areīarry's score is lush and smooth, and the title song (sung by Nancy Sinatra) departs from the previous action/adventure title styles, focusing instead on the romantic. Mostly effective-although his diminutive size flies in the face of Fleming's description of the character and tends to minimize the threatening air he ought to possess the grotesquely scarred face is scant compensation for the size 32 suit. For the first time, the face of Ernst Stavro Blofeld is revealed, and Donald Pleasance's portrayal is Regardless, You Only Live Twice manages to be highly entertaining, at times delivering an exciting, engaging spectacle and some of the series' finest comic lines ("I've stolen Osato's new process for making monosodium glutamate."). The screenplay by Roald Dahl (who was, incidentally, a masterful writer ofįiction any kid who has never read Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryĪnd/or Charlie and the Great Glass Elevatorĭeserves utmost pity) departs more radically from Fleming's novel than any of those previous, and the character of James Bond comes painfully close to mere caricature. Me.but if the two scenes were switched, at least the Agena could reasonably (palm trees in Siberia?), and an Atlas/Agena rocket (the unmanned docking craftįor the Gemini missions) that represents the American spacecraft. Sophomoric dialogue plot holes bigger than the Sea of Tranquility and more than a few embarrassingly bad special effects.Īlthough not special effects per se, among the most egregious cinematic gaffes are the clumsy insertions of two rocket launches: a Titan/Gemini that purports to be a Soviet rocket Bigger in scope than any of the previous pictures, You Only Live Twice is loaded to the brim with improbable gimmicks and gadgets huge, futuristic sets gorgeous, beautifully photographed scenery Newcomer Lewis Gilbert assumed directorial duty for Bond's fifth outing, abandoning the more subtle tongue-in-cheek approach of Terence Young and Guy Hamilton and replacing it with brazen silliness. The former was high adventure with a splash of campiness, but the latter went over the top-literally-into outer space. If Thunderball was a small step toward the absurd, You Only Live Twice was a giant leap. As the countdown begins, Bond joins forces with the gorgeous JapaneseĪgent Kissy Suzuki, and scores of Ninja warriors, to mount a daring raid onīlofeld’s lair and prevent a calamitous world war.
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Instigating global warfare from his massive headquarters nestled in an inactive Chief of the evil SPECTRE organization, Blofeld is bent on James Bond (Agent 007), who races to stop the space-jackings’ true mastermind,Įrnst Stavro Blofeld. World superpowers are hurled toward the brink of war. Seizes manned space missions from Earth’s orbit, suspicions mount and the Music Composed and Conducted by John BarryĬlick on the album cover to order from