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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Dead Reckoning’s Motorbike Jump: How 13,000 Jumps, 500 Skydives, Computer Simulation, and an Engineered Ramp Created Cinema’s “Biggest Stunt”
The motorbike BASE jump executed by Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning was promoted by both Paramount and the media as “the biggest…
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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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Shark POV: How ‘Jaws’ Improved On The POV Shot Used In ‘The Creature From The Black Lagoon’
Steven Spielberg borrowed the underwater POV shots from the 1950s Universal monster movie but eclipsed them with confident and beautiful cinematography–and masterful pacing. Chrissie Watkins,…
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‘Jaws’: The Monster Movie That Invented The Summer Blockbuster
How did a B-movie-type monster movie become a genre-defining blockbuster that changed modern film-making? On June 20, 1975, Jaws opened across North America and changed…
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From Russia With Flames: The Making of the Boat Chase That Nearly Killed Its Director
The boat chase in From Russia with Love turned into one of the most dangerous shoots in early Bond history. Real boats were blown apart….
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The Encor Series I: A Modern Esprit S4 Wearing Bond’s Most Iconic Disguise
The Encor Series I is built on the chassis of a Lotus Esprit S4, but for James Bond enthusiasts, the first publicity images — that…
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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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How Bond’s Lotus Esprit Submarine Inspired the Real-Life Rinspeed sQuba
When The Spy Who Loved Me hit theaters in 1977, the sight of a Lotus Esprit diving into the sea and transforming into a submarine…
