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One storyline had Blofeld returning, but Kevin
McClory (who owns the film rights to Thunderball)
threatened legal action, claiming that he had exclusive use of the SPECTRE concept.
At the same time, McClory began work on his rival Bond movie Warhead. Undercover
Pauline Kael called her" arguably the most delectable of all Bond women... Bach's body language says 'Whatever you have to go through to get me, I'm worth it.'" John Simon said, "Miss Bach may just be the most beautiful woman to ever enter the Bondian universe... Her looks are the absolute best that America can produce which, for me, is very probably the loveliest loveliness there is. There is nothing insipid about it, only the peace that passeth all understanding - and let us not be so churlish as to fiddle with the spelling of that 'peace'."
The Bonds are now borrowing as much from their parodies as they are from their
own movies (could this be the birth of "Jaws?"): "The man turned to the waiter
to order the drinks, and as he opened his mouth an involuntary shudder went through
B*nd's body. That was it. The light glanced off the man's pointed teeth. They
were made of burnished steel." Kingsley Amis (author
of Colonel Sun): "Early on, we have a parachute jump on skis, and the parachute
opens up to be (a Union Jack) and the whole idea is that he's up there, having
no idea that there's an enemy agent within a thousand miles, and of course
he'd carry a parachute!"
Originally
the pre-credits sequence was set at sea. Bond is making love to a girl on a raft.
Bond is paged by M, and he steps onto a surfboard, which he rides to shore and
a waiting jeep.
Writers who took early cracks at the script included Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork
Orange) and John Landis (The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London).
Anthony Burgess' story revolved around a nuclear device planted in the appendectomy
scar tissue of a beautiful Australian opera singer timed to go off as she dances
the Dance of the Seven Veils in Strauss' Solome. (The idea was later used
for Garbage's video to the title song of The World Is
Not Enough).
Writer Christopher Wood was brought in after director Lewis Gilbert came on board.
He was a curious choice, as the most respectable of his credits before this film
were soft-porn comedies like Confessions of a Window Washer.
Critics
raved about the beauty of Barbara Bach.
Barbara was also the owner of the first nude breast
in the Bond films (in the submarine shower scene).
"Bond
is a male chauvinist pig. He uses girls to shield himself against bullets."
- Barbara Bach
An unknown actress, Barbara landed the female lead role after she appeared nude in a 1975 screen test for Tony Richardson's never-made film Body Guard. Somehow Cubby Broccoli acquired
a copy of the screen test and he cast her immediately.
- "Alligator, by I*n Fl*ming" (Harvard
Lampoon parody), 1962
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