I'll try to approach this authoritatively.
The 1967 version of Casino Royale made for a fairly ponderous comedy. Several directors oversaw individual segments and the whole goulash was then strewn together, resulting in major continuity gaps and narrative flaws. None of this was helped by Peter Sellers walking off the project prematurely. I've always though that Sellers came across as a cool dude but apparently, except for Stanley Kubrick, everyone reported that he was a monster to work with.
On the other hand, this Bond spoof is placed right in the middle of one of my favorite decades for film set design. So, visually, it more than makes up for what it lacks in story.
...Oh yeah, the score to Casino Royale was by Herb Alpert which lent the perfect union of kitsch for later generations to gawk at --and yet another reason why this chaotic mess deserves to be enshrined.
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my favorite shot, hands-down: slo-mo feathers and ursula andres spinning on a circular bed
some anonymous loser
no 60s comedy is worth it's salt without a hallucination sequence
60s computers were the BEST! I've always puzzled over how the 60s could look more modern than the 70s. is it because the 70's saw us scaling back on our vaunted expectations of the future due to the mounting political corrosion ? what do you say, Joey Polanski?
woody allen IS Jimmy Bond... this was his second film, following "what's new pussycat?"
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Somehow I've never seen this flick. But it looks like Terry Gilliam directing (the original) Star Trek. Thanks as always for expanding & lowering my cultural horizons!
This blog is all about cultural horizon alteration, trimming and mowing.
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