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Too many locations for 007?
If you compare the early James Bond films with those made more recently you'll notice one thing. While the earlier ones tend to feature exotic locations they do not see James Bond hopping from one location to another so much as now.
The 1st 007 film was Doctor No. Made in 1962, the audience first met James Bond in London then was sent on his mission in Jamaica. In the chase up released in the next year he travels to Istanbul in Turkey, before boarding the Orient Express for Venice.
While it is true the Orient Express travels through one or two states while on route, it's the train that's the location rather than those nations. And in the third film, Goldfinger Bond trails the villain's Rolls Royce thru France to Switzerland then was kidnapped and brought to Kentucky in the U. S..
But once again in Thunderball, Bond is sent to a health clinic in Britain then was allotted a mission in the Bahamas, where he remains for the totality of his mission. Similarly You Only Live Twice (Hong Kong, London and Japan), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (London, Portugal and Switzerland) and Diamonds Are Forever (London, Amsterdam and Las Vegas).
But at some particular point the films saw Bond jetting around the planet far too much so that the audience loses any real sense of having arrived anywhere exotic at all as there is never enough time to adjust and take in the local details and culture.
Casino Royale is a good example of this. The film's short pre-titles sequence is in Prague; but he also hops between London, the Bahamas, Miami, the Bahamas again, London, Montenegro, Lake Como and Venice (where Vesper Lynd finally stops wearing her Algerian Love Knot necklace). It's all too much, the locations just pass in a blur. And the follow up was no better; Bond travels from Lake Como in Italy to London, the Haiti, Austria and Bolivia, a genuine whirlwind of travelling that never he's him settled.
And that sure is a shame as part of the charm of both the books and the early films was the sense of having visited somewhere you might not otherwise have visited. Instead you get the sense of perpetually being in motion, from one airfield to another and as any person who has had to travel at length for business will tell you, spending an enormous proportion of your time in airports and on planes shortly dispels any concept of the glamour of travel.
The 1st 007 film was Doctor No. Made in 1962, the audience first met James Bond in London then was sent on his mission in Jamaica. In the chase up released in the next year he travels to Istanbul in Turkey, before boarding the Orient Express for Venice.
While it is true the Orient Express travels through one or two states while on route, it's the train that's the location rather than those nations. And in the third film, Goldfinger Bond trails the villain's Rolls Royce thru France to Switzerland then was kidnapped and brought to Kentucky in the U. S..
But once again in Thunderball, Bond is sent to a health clinic in Britain then was allotted a mission in the Bahamas, where he remains for the totality of his mission. Similarly You Only Live Twice (Hong Kong, London and Japan), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (London, Portugal and Switzerland) and Diamonds Are Forever (London, Amsterdam and Las Vegas).
But at some particular point the films saw Bond jetting around the planet far too much so that the audience loses any real sense of having arrived anywhere exotic at all as there is never enough time to adjust and take in the local details and culture.
Casino Royale is a good example of this. The film's short pre-titles sequence is in Prague; but he also hops between London, the Bahamas, Miami, the Bahamas again, London, Montenegro, Lake Como and Venice (where Vesper Lynd finally stops wearing her Algerian Love Knot necklace). It's all too much, the locations just pass in a blur. And the follow up was no better; Bond travels from Lake Como in Italy to London, the Haiti, Austria and Bolivia, a genuine whirlwind of travelling that never he's him settled.
And that sure is a shame as part of the charm of both the books and the early films was the sense of having visited somewhere you might not otherwise have visited. Instead you get the sense of perpetually being in motion, from one airfield to another and as any person who has had to travel at length for business will tell you, spending an enormous proportion of your time in airports and on planes shortly dispels any concept of the glamour of travel.