Over the Edge: The Making of Moonraker’s Amazon Boat Chase
John Richardson hangs beneath a helicopter over Iguaçu Falls when he hears the stitching in his harness begin to go. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Below…
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The Bondola: Slapstick Takes the Wheel in Moonraker’s Venice Gondola Chase
A Venetian Gondola that transforms into a speed boat then a hovercraft — nicknamed ‘the Bondola’ — earned its title as Bond’s most ridiculed gadget…
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Netflix Buys Ben Affleck’s AI Filmmaking Company InterPositive
Netflix has acquired InterPositive, an artificial-intelligence filmmaking technology company founded by actor and director Ben Affleck, in a deal that signals the streaming giant’s growing…
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The Eurocopter Tiger in GoldenEye: Disentangling Reality from Fiction
In GoldenEye, a rogue Russian general and former Soviet fighter pilot steal Eurocopter’s answer to the electronic battlefield — the Tiger helicopter. The sleek, black,…
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Calculated Chaos: The Mechanics and Practical Stunts of the Live and Let Die Boat Chase
In the history of cinematic aquatic action, the boat chase in Live and Let Die (1973) stands as a massive mechanical upgrade to the daylight…
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GoldenEye’s Forgotten Motorbike BASE Jump Deserves More Respect
Everyone remembers GoldenEye for its bungee jump. It is the stunt that introduced Pierce Brosnan as James Bond: a sheer concrete dam, a silent fall,…
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Estuary Attack: Would Jaws’ Infamous Deleted Scene Ruined A Horror Classic?
Few films have achieved the level of consensus enjoyed by Jaws. It is widely regarded as the perfect blockbuster, and it may even be the…
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Tom Sims, Apocalypse Snow — and the James Bond Stunt That Transformed Snowboarding
Before 1985, few people had heard of snowboarding. Then out came A View To A Kill, featuring James Bond shredding down a mountainside in Siberia….
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How Goldfinger Predicted the Future of Laser Technology
The 1964 Bond scene that foresaw the laser’s role as a precision industrial and medical tool. When Goldfinger hit cinemas in 1964, most people had…
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Stop Motion Animation: An In-Depth Look at a Magical Art Form & It’s Histort
Stop motion animation is a unique and fascinating form of filmmaking. Instead of using drawn images or computer graphics, stop motion brings still objects to…
