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Amid the usual banter, Kilt-Man discusses and reviews his favourite Bondian music ... the fabulous, awesomely catchy secondary James Bond theme!!!
Kick-back with Kilt-Man.
https://youtu.be/7qmf_-ee-6E
Cheers
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He gets it.
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He's got a point about the 007 theme in MOONRAKER. It's supposed to be a suspenseful chase, and the arrangement is anything but that.
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He's got a point about the 007 theme in MOONRAKER. It's supposed to be a suspenseful chase, and the arrangement is anything but that.
I still love the arrangement in Moonraker, so elegant and stately, but it really doesn't suit the sequence in question.
Chris Kilt-Man
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I still love the arrangement in Moonraker, so elegant and stately, but it really doesn't suit the sequence in question.
Chris Kilt-Man
Yep. As a kid playing the vinyl album, it never even occurred to me to question the tone of the piece. It was James Bond and it was cool.
My favorite version of "007" for pure listening is by Roland Shaw. It's an amazing jam and I get swept up in it.
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I'm sorry but Moonraker is a light entertainment film, designed to be a for-all-the-family Sunday afternoon film—to be enjoyed as much by granny as the four-year old kid bouncing on her knees while Dad sleeps off his roast dinner.
Anyone who thinks the boat chase sequence is intended to have any kind of real tension in it is kidding themselves. Gilbert made it as a light entertainment sequence and Barry scored it as light entertainment sequence, correctly.
Trying to make tension out of it would have made it completely out of place at that point in the film. That film is about making you smile and laugh right up to the last act and only gets anything like serious once you're into that last act, i.e. once they happen upon Drax's lair.
Cheers
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I'm sorry but Moonraker is a light entertainment film, designed to be a for-all-the-family Sunday afternoon film—to be enjoyed as much by granny as the four-year old kid bouncing on her knees while Dad sleeps off his roast dinner.
Anyone who thinks the boat chase sequence is intended to have any kind of real tension in it is kidding themselves. Gilbert made it as a light entertainment sequence and Barry scored it as light entertainment sequence, correctly.
Trying to make tension out of it would have made it completely out of place at that point in the film. That film is about making you smile and laugh right up to the last act and only gets anything like serious once you're into that last act, i.e. once they happen upon Drax's lair.
Well, I have the advantage of having seen the film so seldom as to be practically unfamiliar with it by now. So I'm wrong, but I win.
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