chitty chitty bang bang as part of the bond canon: discuss

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writer: ian fleming
producer: cubby broccoli
bondgirl: truly scrumshus
villain: gert frobe

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

ts: oddjob vs the child-catcher!!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"We have a new car for you, Bond. The Aston Martin was a bit conspicuous, don't you think...?"

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i haven't read the books for years: now i really want to!!

(my favourite gimmick in the book: the aeolian harp in the cave to scare away meddling kids — and their parents )

(ps book&film combined surely also contain most of roald dahl's subsequent plot ideas)

screenplay: roald dahl well blimey you astound me

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

haha spot the grotesquely unfair imputation therein

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Let us not forget Benny Hill's cameo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Design by Ken Adam too. Compare Goldfingers lair with the sweet factory. How he loves those sloping glass walls.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

posh with a capital p!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

In Cubby's Autobiog he regards it pretty much as a Bond film, but one with the worst lead. (DVD would just go missing for whole days on end during the shoot - end up pisshed in Amsterdam with Broccoli trying to drag him off ov whores).

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

shoiken not stoirred

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

eighteen years pass...

i: in the book she's called MIMSIE POTTS
ii: most of the film doesn't actually bother with the car at all
iii: at one point there's a song about STICKS

― mark s, Friday, 24 December 2021 18:14 (four years ago)

Is it good? Because if so not bond👨‍⚖️

― Nerd Ragequit (wins), Friday, 24 December 2021 18:20 (four years ago)

it is not good

― mark s, Friday, 24 December 2021 18:21 (four years ago)

I liked the film when I was five- the Golden Age of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is five- but never revisited the film and never read the book so HI DERE.

― Santa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 December 2021 18:26 (four years ago)

The song about sticks is really all about the dance accompanying it though?

― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Friday, 24 December 2021 18:27 (four years ago)

correct and who the hell wants that, no one is who

the books are illustrated by john burningham which is a distinct plus tbf

― mark s, Friday, 24 December 2021 18:33 (four years ago)

The song about sticks is really all about the dance accompanying it though?

We report. You decide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUr7fu-LXj4

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 24 December 2021 18:44 (four years ago)

the only good scene in any bond film but also still very bad

― mark s, Friday, 24 December 2021 18:44 (four years ago)

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