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RIP Roger Moore
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Not Sure
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Not skiing but my favorite
Smellytele
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1st bond film I saw in the theater when I was 9. Went with my dad. Loved that opening scene even though I had never even skied and wouldn't for another 5 years.
My favorite of the actors who portrayed Bond. Loved the crazy stunts and self-deprecating sense of humor.
My wife is devastated by his passing.
My wife is devastated by his passing.
Rowsdower
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The bad guys didn't whack their poles before dropping in. Dangerous.
Not Sure
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Haha ....The Blonde haired dude looks like a young "Rudy"
from_the_NEK
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Was ski BASE jumping an actual thing back then or did they come up with it for that movie?
eatskisleep
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Rest in Peace Roger Moore. Great actor!
1972 was the first:
https://www.tetongravity.com/story/...e-story-of-the-first-base-jump-in-ski-history
The Spy Who Loved Me was 1977.
1972 was the first:
https://www.tetongravity.com/story/...e-story-of-the-first-base-jump-in-ski-history
The Spy Who Loved Me was 1977.
BenedictGomez
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Ditto.
I saw the first Craig one and didnt like it, so I didnt see the last one (or two if he's done 3, dunno).
Smellytele
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Shane McConkey reenacted it. They had to get the bindings that released upward instead of down ward - Tyrolia 480 bindings. They hooked up a "string" to pull up on the bindings to release them. I believe he ended up dying later because of a jump that the bindings didn't release.
SIKSKIER
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Dont remember which movie but there was a ski sequence where he jumps the road and the bad guy goes into the giant road snowblower and blows out guts.
urungus
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The original stuntman in the movie was the legendary Rick Sylvester. A couple years before shooting the James Bond sequence, he did the first ever filmed base jump, skiing off the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. https://www.tetongravity.com/story/ski/hot-dog-the-legacy-the-story-of-the-first-base-jump-in-ski-history
Another tidbit ... Although set in Austria, the base jump in The Spy Who Loved Me was actually filmed in Mount Asgard in northern Canada. Globetrotting James Bond has never "officially" been to Canada, maybe he'll show up at Whistler or Mont-Tremblant in some future movie.
Also Roger Moore was my favorite. RIP.
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Edd
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His finest performance was, perhaps, in the Oscar nominated classic, The Cannonball Run.
https://youtu.be/xiTUKJrlYUA
https://youtu.be/xiTUKJrlYUA
What a bummer. He was actually more James Bond to me than Sean Connery simply due to when I was born.
Agreed. RIP Roger.
I was just starting to search out this clip but then I found this post. This is my favorite movie memory of Roger Moore and my dad. We used to watch it every time it came on.
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Rowsdower
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I thought Casino Royale was brilliant but his next two (Quantum and Skyfall) were decidedly "meh" imo. I haven't seen Spectre yet, but it was supposed to have been a raspberry so I doubt I'll go out of my way to watch it.
I don't mind Craig as Bond. I just think the writing for him has been terribly inconsistent. He doesn't get into a good groove, waffling between being too brooding/dark and then jumping through explosions for half an hour.
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