Apparently they didn’t want to re-shoot a scene with Roger Moore hiding at the pyramids in The Spy Who Love Me (1977), and they ended up with James Bond frozen in position! 🙂
James Bond (Roger Moore) meets with Mojaba Club owner Max Kalba (Vernon Dobtcheff) and Kalba’s large nose in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens) shows his ruthlessness in this scene from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Although short, I enjoy it because it shows a side of Stromberg that he technically could have avoided revealing.
He didn’t need to be the one to push the button to blow up the helicopter with Professor Markowitz and Dr. Beckman. His minions could’ve done it. He didn’t need to see the video of it either, but he chose to.
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Stromberg blows up the helicopter with Professor Markowitz and Dr. Beckman on board in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Stromberg’s button push helicopter explosion from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) is so satisfying. Maybe it’s the vintage plastic buttons he uses on his control panel. Or the perfectly timed, in-sync explosion that is perfectly edited when he pushes the button. Or the secondary button that illuminates on the upper-right hand side when it happens. Likely, it’s a combination of all three. I could endlessly watch this GIF loop!
Karl Stromberg’s sub-eating ship Liparus “eats” in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
“I dunno…Tabasco??” *shrugs* “Sounds good.”
Kurt Jurgens as Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
“Commander, this tracing means that the Russians can track our nuclear submarines underwater and sink them.”
From The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
I like the way Agent XXX/Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) was introduced in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Instead of showing the agent on a mission, in the thick of it, they use the bait-and-switch strategy to make the audience think that the USSR’s “best agent,” according to General Gogol (Walter Gotell), is not much different from James Bond: a man on a mission, bedding a beauty and ready to answer their country’s call.
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An initial shot of Atlantis made it look sizable – maybe that of an extremely large yacht. However, having a motor boat for scale really shows just how massive Stromberg’s headquarters really were meant to be:
In an unrelated note – Atlantis reminds me of the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), which opened in 1961:
