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From Russia with Love
1963 · Film · 115 min
Part of James Bond Collection
Directed by Terence Young
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
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First off, let’s not forget that you’re criticizing a movie that isn’t even out yet. For all we know it could be a critically acclaimed box office smash hit when it comes out. Not that I hold my breath for these remakes, but the possibility exists. And it’s wildly disingenuous to be a film critic of a film that isn’t out yet.
But anyway, this is funny to me. Snow White is a nearly 100 year old movie. It came out 22 years after Birth of a Nation. If you think a remake can work as a modern movie with zero changes that is kind of naive in itself isn’t it? It’s not like anyone is going to remake From Russia with Love and include the scenes where James Bond slaps women around.
And I mean, yeah, technically, the original Snow White is probably pretty offensive to people with dwarfism. They’re all heavily dehumanized as lesser people with more flaws than Snow White. Snow White has to come in and fix their life essentially, cook and clean for them, etc.
But anyway, I don’t think that’s the driving reason behind using animated dwarves, I think they couldn’t do some of the comedic elements as well with real actors as they can with exaggerated animation.
There also aren’t a lot of people with dwarfism who are lead-quality actors. You need seven of them for that movie. My guess is that test footage wasn’t working.
I think you forgot the only Bond movies who dealt with direct Soviet threats were :
- From Russia With Love (Rosa Klebb secretly works for SPECTRE but is a KGB operative so let's count it)
- Octopussy (vilain's a defector)
- The Living Daylights (defector also)
It's in Goldeneye that is created the idea that James Bond constantly fought the Soviets. I don't fault you for thinking that it's an easy thing to illustrate your point, but I like my James Bond and I like him because he's always fighting weirdo rich assholes, not the Soviets.
Actually, in all the Bond movies, I don't recall him ever having a mission to spy per your definition. Spies are typically used in situations between countries and many of Bonds foes clearly weren't countries, e.g., Goldfinger, Dr. No, Drax. They were just super criminals without allegiance to any country. The closest classic spy movie I recall was From Russia With Love but even that involved SPECTRE more than Russian.
Bond film tech is supposed to be slightly better than what we have. In the 1963 "From Russia with Love", Bond had a car phone. In Moonraker, Drax has a hidden space station. In "Die Another Day", the fight scene use robots with lasers that are powerful enough to sear steel and drill a hole through a head - in a fraction of a second.
I'm with Double0Seven in saying that the the server uses fan-less machines.
Anyone who hasn't seen "From russia with love," the BBC documentary about tetris, I encourage you to seek it out. It covers the birth of tetris in the soviet union's academy of sciences, and then the fascinating story of its inexorable spread throughout the burgeoning worldwide videogame industry.
There were many fights over the licensing in different territories, culminating with various westerners having to go cap in hand to the kremlin to beg for the rights. It was one of the first soviet-made products to be licensed for sale outside the Iron Curtain, and was a significant turning point in the Perestroika movement.
It includes interviews with all the key people including the original tetris developer, the atari and nintendo execs who fought for the rights, and even the kremlin technocrat who held their fate in his hands. It deals with software intellectual property issues, young upstart tech entrepreneurs, contractual trickery and all sorts of HN type things. It'd make a great movie.