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Spectre film translation5/15/2023 ![]() ![]() In an interview published posthumously in Playboy magazine in December 1964, Fleming also suggested that SPECTRE offered much greater freedom and artistic licence for the presentation of villainy. He believed this reflected what he saw by the late 1950s as a partial thawing of the Cold War. This rather smart, though unassuming building is a far cry from the hollowed-out volcano SPECTRE headquarters seen in the movie version of You Only Live Twice, the screenplay for which was penned by Roald Dahl.ĥ) Fleming invented SPECTRE, so he says, to replace Bond’s traditional enemy during the earlier novels, the Soviet intelligence organisation SMERSH. In Thunderball Fleming gives us the address of where SPECTRE are based: 136 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris. Will we see the leader of SPECTRE in the 2015 movie adopt further guises and criminal affiliations?Ĥ) It is possible to actually visit the original headquarters of SPECTRE in real life. SPECTRE get a mention in the earlier Spy Who Loved Me and in the 1964 You Only Live Twice, but by this point Blofeld operates instead with another villainous super-group, the Black Dragon Society, based in Japan, and has assumed the alias Dr Guntram Shatterhand. Following the foiling of his dastardly plot in the Thunderball novel-Spoiler Alert-Blofeld regroups his secret organisation in the 1963 novel On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Bond encounters SPECTRE and/ or its leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld in six subsequent films prior to the Daniel Craig era of the reimagined 007. The Spang brothers’ ghost town mobster hideout in Diamonds are Forever was named Spectreville, and the deciphering machine Bond acquires in From Russia with Love was called the Spektor.ģ) Cinema audiences and the screen Bond first hear about SPECTRE in 1962 in Dr No, the first film adaptation of Fleming’s novels. Fleming was evidently fond of the word ‘spectre’ and it appears at several points in the Bond novels published during the 1950s. As Fleming originally conceived it, SPECTRE would be ‘an immensely powerful, privately-owned organisation manned by ex-members of SMERSH, the Gestapo, the Mafia and the Black Tong of Peking’.Ģ) Fleming invented SPECTRE in 1959 during the drawn-out, though ultimately abortive and controversial process whereby he, producer Kevin McClory, and screenwriter Jack Whittingham first attempted to adapt James Bond for the screen. In an earlier formulation of his thinking about an organisation of super-criminals SPECTRE stands for the ‘Special Executive for Terrorism, Revolution, and Espionage’. Fleming first introduced SPECTRE in his 1961 novel Thunderball. To coincide with the UK release today of the 24th movie in the James Bond über-franchise, Dr Matthew Woodcock of UEA's School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing has collated some useful intelligence, drawn from the original Ian Fleming books, about the secret organisation SPECTRE.ġ) SPECTRE is an acronym for the ‘Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion’. School of Education and Lifelong Learning School of Politics, Philosophy and Communication Studies School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing These include Bab el-Assa, an archway in the old city walls.Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities A number of locations were used in Tangier’s medina, including a palace used to represent Hotel l’Americain and several landmarks in the area can be identified relatively easily. Moroccoįrom Austria, Bond and Madeleine head for Morocco. The second unit also filmed along sections of both banks of the river, ending with the DB10 plunging into the Tiber next to the Ponte Sisto bridge. These include the Vatican and neighbouring Borgo district. The car chase with Hinx takes place in several locations on both sides of the Tiber. The cemetery scenes were shot at the Museum of Roman Civilization while Lucia’s house, where Bond first saves and seduces her, is the historic Villa di Fiorano.īond’s night time approach to the SPECTRE meeting was filmed on the hill of Janiculum, considered one of the best locations to view the domes and bell towers of central Rome. The first shot is of the approach to Porta San Pancrazio, which then jumps to the Arch of Constantine and Coliseum. We first see Bond driving his Aston Martin DB10 in the Eternal City as he heads to Marco Sciarra’s funeral. ![]()
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