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! 🙂
The Daniel Craig introspective James Bond should be over. We know where he came from. We know how he got here. Now let’s have a true, formulaic James Bond movie in the Craig era.
Read More»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.
Read More»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!
“I dunno…Tabasco??” *shrugs* “Sounds good.”
Kurt Jurgens as Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)