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Post by Cyggy on Mar 5, 2022 4:04:13 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 12, 2022 20:14:58 GMT
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 13, 2022 15:28:57 GMT
Love the music, the dialogue, the Paris location and the close rapport between Tom Baker and Lalla Ward.
DOCTOR: Nice, isn't it? ROMANA: Yes, marvellous. DOCTOR: Marvellous. Absolutely. ROMANA: Absolutely marvellous. DOCTOR: Well, I think it's marvellous. ROMANA: So do I. Though it's not quite as you described it. DOCTOR: Really? How did I describe it? ROMANA: You said it was nice. DOCTOR: It's the only place in the world where one can relax entirely. ROMANA: Mmm. That bouquet. DOCTOR: What Paris has, it has an ethos, a life. It has ROMANA: A bouquet? DOCTOR: A spirit all of its own. Like a wine, It has ROMANA: A bouquet. DOCTOR: It has a bouquet. Yes. Like a good wine. You have to choose one of the vintage years, of course. ROMANA: What year is this? DOCTOR: Ah well, yes. It's 1979 actually. More of a table wine, shall we say. Ha! The randomiser's a useful device but it lacks true discrimination. Should we sip it and see? ROMANA: Oh, I'd be delighted. Shall we take the lift or fly? DOCTOR: Let's not be ostentatious. ROMANA: All right. Let's fly then. DOCTOR: That would look silly. We'll take the lift. Come on. ___________
TANCREDI: Time is running out, Doctor. DOCTOR: What do you mean, time's running out? It's only 1505. __________
DUGGAN: But it's a fake! You can't hang a fake Mona Lisa in the Louvre. ROMANA: How can it be a fake if Leonardo painted it? DUGGAN: With the words This is a Fake written under the paintwork in felt tip. ROMANA: It doesn't affect what it looks like. DUGGAN: It doesn't matter what it looks like. DOCTOR: Doesn't it? Well, some people would say that's the whole point of painting.
9/10
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Post by johnnybear on Mar 28, 2022 7:00:14 GMT
The best story of series seventeen and the Graham Williams era! Scaroth was indeed a fantastic baddie and with Julian Glover still with us I wonder why the Jagaroth race has never been seen again? I know they were destroyed four hundred million years ago but Scaroth was caught in the time field when the Chateau blew up so it's more than probable that he survived somehow and is still trying to recreate his race anew in the distant past or extreme future! Big Finish usually don't miss a gap anywhere so I wonder why they haven't jumped on this possibility? JB
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Post by Black Orchid on May 1, 2022 13:14:49 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 8, 2022 0:52:47 GMT
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Post by GC on Nov 1, 2022 19:03:07 GMT
#boommic watch...
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Post by dsjr on Mar 3, 2024 16:41:38 GMT
Oh go on, I loved this - dear old David Graham overacting a bit, but the commentary and one in particular of the extras, said extra hiving a version of that certain 'BBC Humour' I remember when working at a high end HiFi store that many engineers from broadcasting House used to visit and buy from, all of them talking of the 'BBC mentality' there and in the organisation as a whole. I also thougght david Grahan had immortalised himself as Parker in Thunderbirds (Yes, M'Lady...)
Tom and Lalla were obviously getting on extremely well at this point although in studio at one point in an extra, he lost it briefly in frustration or whatever and she just stood stock still almost stony faced while Tom very briefly exploded (maybe she was concentrating hard on what she had to do).
Don't know about you here, but I find it fascinating how much work and many little takes it needed to create a complete scene sometimes. Watching the carefully edited end result afterwards it looks so damned easy...
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 4, 2024 2:52:45 GMT
I've read that story about the 2 guys going to Paris.
I have read about Tom Baker & Lis Sladen re-writing dialogue at the rehearsal stage, but I don't hear it much about other eras. Nice to know the spirit of Ian Hendry was continuing on here. (Patrick Macnee once said in an interview, of THE AVENGERS, "There never was any great writing! It was all him and his co-stars re-writing the dialogue at the rehearsal stage.")
My favorite exchange in the story has long been...
"Be careful, darling, he's not as stupid as he looks." "My dear, NOBODY could be as stupid as he looks!"
Funny about Julian Glover's casting in FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. I read that Albert Broccoli, on seeing the 1980 FLASH GORDON, got the idea to use 4 of its cast in his next Bond movie. He thought of Timothy Dalton as James Bond, Ornella Muti as Melina Havelock, Max Von Sydow as Kristatos, and Topol as Columbo. He didn't get Dalton until 3 movies later. He did get Topol. I WISH he'd gotten Ornella Muti. But there's no question in my mind... Max Von Sydow would NOT have been half as good as Julian Glover. He's been my 2nd-favorite Bond movie villain for decades. (Max wound up instead in the independant film NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN.)
Crazy thing: in the JAMES BOND 007 newspaper strip, when they adapted the short story "Risico", on which a huge chunk of the film FYEO is based, artist John McLusky made "Kristatos" a dead ringer for Topol... 20 years before the movie was made! Except, Topol wound up playing the other character, instead.
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Post by profh0011 on Aug 8, 2024 21:15:11 GMT
This just reminded me of a scene from Corman's USHER...
"You've murdered your sister, and I'll see you HANG for it!" "Arrange it QUICKLY, then..."
(The guy was in a HURRY to die!)
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