From Russia with Love (1963)
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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The train fight recalls Sean Connery's similar fight in From Russia with Love (1963), and the relentless, seemingly unstoppable henchman (Dave Bautista) that trails after Bond reminded me of Richard Kiel's "Jaws" character in both The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).
Elsewhere, a drifty night-time car chase through the streets of Rome evokes memories of a much-loved child’s toy equipped with springy surprises and clip-on flames, while Dave Bautista’s Mr Hinx is essentially a latterday Jaws who gets to batter Bond on a train in a sequence that nods not only to The Spy Who Loved Me but also From Russia With Love .
Given that, Mendes does know how to stage a fight (see his brutal close-quarters match with Dave Bautista, which recalls Connery’s fight with Robert Shaw way back in From Russia With Love), shoot a spectacle (CGI overkill aside, the Mexico City prologue is impressive an opening as the franchise has ever delivered), and design a modern supervillain lair.
The film contains some wonderful chase scenes and a couple of fight sequences reminiscent of the original Bond outings — a scene aboard a moving train harkens back to “From Russia With Love.”
Bond fans will enjoy playing spot the reference, with shout-outs including the From Russia With Love train fight and an alpine chase from innumerable 007 pictures.
He's the film's most emphatic nod to Bond's 53-year reign over movie screens: The character first appeared in 1963's From Russia With Love (even his Persian cat makes a cameo here), and in the ensuing years the uber-baddie has been played by a gallery of delightfully malign actors: Donald Pleasence, Max von Sydow and Telly Savalas, for starters.
The story trots from Turkey to London to Shanghai to Macao to Scotland, starting with a conscious throwback (the train sequence) to "From Russia With Love"-era Bond, moving on to grim acts of 21st century-brand urban terrorism (London under attack from Bardem's master sniveler) and culminating in a scene taking Bond and M to the wilds of Scotland.
But the stripped-down, slightly grittier feel of the movie carries us along - and, perhaps, even announces a direction for the series that's both new to young fans and as old as "From Russia With Love."
"Skyfall" easily moves into the top 5 of Bond movies ever, maybe even the top 3 with "From Russia With Love" and "Casino Royale."
Skyfall can take its place alongside From Russia with Love , Goldfinger , and On Her Majesty's Secret Service as the best Bond can offer.
If we could magically delete "Quantum" from the Bond repertoire, 2006's "Casino Royale" and "Skyfall" would be the greatest 007 one-two punch since "Goldfinger" followed "From Russia With Love" back in the 1960s.
Turkey plays a major role in the second, often most critically celebrated Bond film, “From Russia With Love,” which, like this one, includes a lethal fight on a train, a formidable blond male adversary and an island headquarters.
There are the Bond homages, of course (not least being a dagger-adorned shoe not unlike the one sported by Lotte Lenya in From Russia with Love), but other espionage sagas also factor into play, from a throwaway gag line invoking TV's Get Smart to the casting of Caine — Cold War spy Harry Palmer in three 1960s thrillers — in a key role.
It is never clear what he’s up to or why—something about destroying the world with signet rings that deliver 10,000 volts of electricity, mobile phone cards that drive adversaries into violent rages, and shoes with knives in the toes like Lotte Lenya in From Russia With Love.
And so they go and get Valentine, with old-Bond gadgetry, like Rosa Klebb’s poisoned toe-tip blade in “From Russia with Love,” as well as a variation on the “Men in Black” amnesia “flashy thing.”
There's Daniel Craig (aka Bond, James Bond) actually playing Joe Bang, a genius, good ol' boy safecracker in bleached blond hair and eerily reminiscent of Robert Shaw as the brilliant assassin in "From Russia With Love."
One of the many joys in Steven Soderbergh's breakneck-speed, Red-State-seeded heist comedy "Logan Lucky" has to be Daniel Craig's overt nod to 007's muscled, white-haired nemesis Red Grant, Robert Shaw's Soviet assassin from the James Bond classic "From Russia With Love."
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Guy Ritchie’s feature film version doesn’t so much capture the exact way the TV show was (at all, really), but it does offer the most stylish movie depiction of 1960s spies in a mixture akin to From Russia with Love and In Like Flint.
(He’d have looked great with the plutonium hues of Robert Shaw in From Russia With Love.)
This despite orders from both of their superiors to eliminate one another if necessary, passing up an incredible opportunity later in the film for a “From Russia With Love”-like fight scene (that film’s epic train tussle comes to mind) — or a more overt display of whatever physical urge these two metrosexual men from U.N.C.L.E.
Their escape is almost foiled by a Soviet agent (Armie Hammer), who with his slow-burn, hulking presence and almost superhuman strength seems a close relation to Robert Shaw’s assassin in “From Russia With Love.”
The Connery who played Bond in that film and in "From Russia With Love" had a masklike countenance and an edge of cruelty.
Furthermore, I consider Daniel Craig to be the most effective and appealing of the six actors who have played 007, and that includes even Sean Connery, from his (and the franchise’s) debut in 1962 with Dr. No, through From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967) and, after a one-picture hiatus, Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
In “Casino Royale”, M (Judi Dench) refers to Bond as a “blunt instrument”, but Craig delivers much more than this in an excellent performance; the flat out best acted Bond since Connery’s work in “From Russia With Love”.
Two important things: this is, for starters, the absolutely lowest stakes that any Bond film ever plays with, outside of maybe - maybe - 2006's Casino Royale .
There hasn't been a truly vicious brawl in the Bond films since Sean Connery and Robert Shaw duked it out in From Russia With Love.
When the vengeful Bride (Uma Thurman) squares off against fellow assassin Ellie Driver (Daryl Hannah) in the cramped confines of a mobile home, the mayhem is right up there with the Sean Connery/Robert Shaw train-compartment slugfest in “From Russia With Love.”
And while “The Winter Soldier” modeled itself after the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s, “Black Widow” is happier hitching its trailer to more of a flashy international intrigue sort of oeuvre; there’s plenty of James Bond to be found, especially with its cartoon Russian villainy that evokes “From Russia With Love.”
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In one moment, he’s Tarzan swinging from the trees before the dream morphs into the train fight between James Bond and Red Grant in From Russia with Love , with Konakawa in the Bond role.
From Russia with Love (1963) – Bu en meşhur James Bond filmlerinden biri de trendeki amblematik sahneyle Paprika’ya konuk oluyor.
Les citations cinématographiques et artistiques sont également très nombreuses, passant des précédents opus de Satoshi Kon à de courtes références à From Russia With Love, Tarzan, The Cell, Akira, en plus des nombreux contes pour enfant dont s’alimente le scénario de Satoshi Kon et Seishi Minakami.
Joely Richardson plays Dominka’s deathly-ill uninsured mother, a most scary Charlotte Rampling is “The Matron,” the Lotte Lenya-esque agent-trainer ripped out of “From Russia, With Love,” and a delightfully tipsy Mary Louse Parker plays a “mark.”
A diminutive operative with a knife in her shoe, Klebb (an indelibly ferocious Lotte Lenya) appears in the Cold War-era film “ From Russia With Love .”