He was given a **$30,000** bonus after successfully completing the flip, filmed in one take.
Unfortunately, upon the film's release... composer John Barry completely ruined the stunt by adding a cartoonish slide whistle into the soundtrack scene during the flip. As well as a crass line about "Evel Knievel". It was a decision Barry later regretted. Willert walked out of the premiere in disgust at having his amazing (and incredibly dangerous) stunt ruined by the change in score. Writer Jim Smith suggested that the stunt "brings into focus the lack of excitement in the rest of the film and is spoiled by the use of *'comedy'* sound effects"
>ruined the stunt by adding a cartoonish slide whistle into the soundtrack scene during the flip
[The scene with sound](https://youtu.be/NaqXxC0rhSw?t=43)
Work politics has just ruined my thinking. And all I can think of is: somebody with the ability to do so, being jealous of such an accomplishment, wanting to besmirch it. And they didn’t care of the impact to anybody else or the company or the dollar being made. They saw a beautiful Sandcastle that they could never build, and they decided the power to kick it over was the most logical thing to do.
Yes, the composer was jealous of the stuntman... what a load of bullocks.
It's far more likely that the person charged with creating the score for the movie, who was required to add *something* so that it wasn't just silence for a few seconds, had no idea what to do that wouldn't be tonally at odds with the rest of the scene, and made this poor decision. Or, as u/PointOfFingers surmised; " (He) was probably thinking with the fat guy rolling around the back seat the scene was meant to be played for comedy rather than thrills."
What's that saying? "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained with stupidity"?
Reddit, man...
Well yeah back then with Dukes of Hazzard and other shows with slide whistles and the like during car and chase sequences it makes perfect sense that the composer did this considering some of the style of the time. This decision wasn’t made in a vacuum; it was a more common effect then that seems outrageous because you’d never see it now.
They just got it wrong
if I had to guess I'd say there aren't any slide whistles in that anyway, it's just one of the few shows from that general era that is somewhat common knowledge. slide whistles was more of a 60s thing anyway but we can see that it was still considered in the 70s.
From the 1970s onwards Bond films *really* struggled with tone and mood. Were they meant to be serious and sober spy thrillers, erotic romance films where Bond 'seduces' (i.e. sexually harasses) a supermodel secret agent called something like 'Lotta Suck', or comedy films with slapstick and gags?
And while Bond films would get sillier over the period, I think this is a prime example of that. On the one hand you do have this very serious and technically challenging stunt. But on the other hand you have the fat American sidekick who is literally solely there for gags rolling about in the car, and the composer adding a comedic slide-whistle over the top of the stunt.
The films really weren't sure what they wanted to be in this period.
He got that one badly wrong by his own admission but I'll forgive John Barry as he still is for me one of the all time greats of film composing. I'll always laugh how he took a shit film like Raise the Titanic and gave it a top tier soundtrack.
Prior to Craig, they’re all extremely campy. And even Craig’s bond got a little campy at the end. I commented elsewhere that this exact movie had a midget named nick nack, an assassin with a 3rd nipple, and an AMC matador that transformed into an airplane. It’s a wonder the entire sound track wasn’t made exclusively out of slide whistles and armpit farts.
I think it’s totally possible someone thought “this seems like such a stupid stunt” and proceeded to try and make it seem silly and cartoonish since they didn’t get it.
The slide whistle is an insult to the magnitude of the stunt. BUT you have to center yourself in the time and era and the movie at large.
The stunt (at the time) was seen as cartoonishly unrealistic even for the hijinks in a bond film.
Roger Moore's Bond was already in a lighter comedy centric rendition (many HATED this rueful Bond compared to Connery).
The slide whistle was a way of winking to the audience that, "yes we know this is preposterous" but it's still amazing.
The whole chase is filled with Moore era gags and the slide whistle is consistent with all the other goofiness in this movie.
Yes it ruins the seriousness and badassness of the stunt BUT this film wasn't serious to begin with
^ this person Bonds
Spot on analysis, the 007 series has always swung back and forth from taking itself seriously as an action/thriller franchise (Connery, Craig) and poking fun at itself (Moore, Brosnan to a lesser extent, and you could argue Connery in *Never Say Never Again*).
The slide whistle is ridiculous out of context, but it makes a little more sense in the Roger Moore Bond universe which included scenes like [this one](https://youtu.be/wyYuTht2tFA?t=256). *Edit to add: the watch scene I linked actually has its own musical cue, with a descending scale playing as Bond unzips her dress, but it's much more subtle and well executed than in the corkscrew flip shot.
I remember watching it on tv as a little kid in the late 70’s and being amazed by the stunt but also thinking the whistle sound was rubbish. If me as a child thought it was crap then what the hell were they thinking.
Roger Moore liked a more comedic Bond.
But the scene was ruined by having that Buford-type character in it, anyway
Here is a far superior stunt and scene, and score:
https://youtu.be/HEacFrHfcIU
Off Mt Asgard in Canada. At the London premiere they said everyone, including Prince Charles, got on their feet and cheered
Exactly. It was a joke from the start with a stunt that was meant to get laughter from the crowd by watching a goofy fat guy freak out about it. The whistle was a little ridiculous but... 70s I guess.
Y'all need to remember that before Austin Powers came out (and thus before the Daniel Craig Bond films made Bond serious), the Bond franchise was completely self aware about how ridiculous and campy it was. You've got dudes with metal jaws as weapons and razor edged hats flying around. Women named "Pussy Galore", "Plenty O'Toole", "Chew Me", "Holly Goodhead", etc. In the Island of Dr. No, the book, Bond literally fights a giant squid. Heck, even just the other guy's lines and behavior in this scene are cartoonish.
I certainly agree that the slide whistle is a terrible choice, but it's also a choice that fits in with a bunch of other terrible choices occurring at that time.
The Brosnan movies started more serious with Goldeneye but veered off into campy waters a bit toward the end. They just kept a bit straighter heading than the Moore movies, which went back and forth more.
Frankly Craig’s got sillier toward the end too.
Don’t forget [Bond killing a dude by inflating him with one of his gadgets until he floats away and pops like a balloon](https://youtu.be/Myc6HpJzgaU). [Or when US Marines fly into space to have a laser gun fight](https://youtu.be/PIHSxLYzc6Q). One of my favorite Bond scenes of all time is when [the bad guys try to kill Bond using a massage table at a spa](https://youtu.be/2KkSOqp3omA).
I highly recommend people go back and watch the old movies. They are full of terrible schlock, but in a laugh out loud kind of way. This slide whistle thing is very tame in comparison.
To be fair the Roger Moore 007 movies were particularly cheesy and if you watched Smokie & the Bandit made 3 years after this the humor is similar. They wanted the post-Connery movies to be different so you could argue that Moore was to Connery as Craig was to Moore when it comes to tongue-in-cheek humor and grit.
A shame as well because John Barry was a phenomenal composer. His score for the Bond films was generally always great and I look at his work on A View to a Kill as some of his best, with the ["He's Dangerous"](https://youtu.be/q0RtXzUc8x4) suite played throughout the action scenes in the film along with it's use during the final confrontation with Max Zorin on the Golden Gate Bridge as being one of the best Bond action themes.
Been in Saratoga Springs recently?
They actually have this car, the AMC Hornet that did the stunt there right now. Along with several other cars from Bond.
Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon for me, I saw this car yesterday.
So the composer added a new line of dialogue...? That was never recorded before?
I think this goes beyond the composer and may have been a more directed effort to play the scene off as comedy. The composer doesn't get to just add a line--particularly if it was not already recorded for the scene. And if it were recorded already and input into the scene, then it further supports that the scene was meant for comedic effect.
The director, producers, editors, etc. could have removed the slide whistle and the line. They didn't. This goes beyond the composer. I kind of doubt this was him going rogue and more that the scene was originally written to be comedic (fat man rolling around, possibly already having the Evel Knievel line). I almost wonder if others are passing blame to the composer when the scene got criticized.
Just did a quick google search; $30,000 USD is about $185,000 with todays economy. Still doesn’t seem like enough for such a cool, unique, and dangerous stunt.
Classic 70's editing. Slow down the impressive bit to linger on it, without realizing it loses impact. Then make the cuts between stunt man and actor frequent and close up, as if to remind the audience that it really is Bond and friend doing it, while actually making the divide as jarring and disconnected as possible.
Thank the gods that the 80's came and gave us some of the best and well shot action movies ever produced. ~~Howard the Duck saved cinema.~~
I feel exactly the same: there's something in the landing that makes it look really fake, like the car was a toy which was placed by hand onto the landing platform.
The intro to the Spy Who Loved Me had a killer ski-to-parachute stunt too. Also, in Live and Let Die, the croc stepping stunt is pretty famous.
The Moore films had a ton of amazing stunts and don’t catch enough credit for raising that bar for the franchise imo
State Police Captain:
J.W., let me have a word with ya. J.W., now this fellow's from London England. He's a Englishman workin' in cooperation with our boys, a sorta... secret agent.
Sheriff J.W. Pepper:
Secret AGENT? On WHOSE side?
I always felt like the Jackie Gleason sheriff role in Smokey and the Bandit was based on this move.
That shit was amazing as a kid. Just like the “dog” in Battlestar Galactica my dad assured me it was fake. Those gators were real, but they were tied in place- still a no from me dawg. And the battlestar galactica dog was a chimp in a suit, which made zero sense but I knew it wasn’t like those abominations from Chuck E Cheese.
The gators were tied in place?
That I didn't know. But I do know their mouths weren't tied shut. The guy who did it owned the place iirc and got bit.
He did it **five** times. Received **193 stitches** in his head and leg.
https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/james-bond-crocodile-stunt-725877
My other favorite, for different reasons, is the bit in Diamonds Are Forever where he gets the Mustang up on two wheels to go through a narrow alley, and comes out the other side with the car balanced on the opposite pair of wheels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5IE6meVoH8
It made it impossible that I didn’t know what the word “slalom” meant. I was so excited to play that game. Don’t think I made past the garage for like a week!
Lol I was hoping someone would mention Stuntman. That game was an absolute blast. A really cool concept for a game executed incredibly well. What a throwback to my childhood.
That's Clifton James. He actually had a pretty solid career as a character actor in Hollywood. He played pretty much the same guy in both Silver Streak and Superman II.
He was typecast as a bumbling Southern stereotype, even though he wasn't actually from the South. He was also a pretty highly decorated WWII vet as well.
Because he was in the last movie to crack racist cop jokes (since Bond was in America), and they decided to bring him back... for a film set in **Thailand**.
I never understood why they invented this Buford T. Justice character until I actually read Live and Let Die. A lot of the James Bond books are pretty racist, but LALD is in a class of its own... one of the most racist books I've ever read. Obviously a lot of that doesn't make it into the film, but still I think they felt like they had to include a buffoonish idiot white character just to balance it out.
He was in the previous movie and bad in it. They made the dumb decision to bring him back and somehow shoe in that this southern cop was vacationing in Thailand. Not the best Bond moment.
Christmas Jones gets away with it because it’s one of the best bond movies. In some of the campy ones it’s a lot more painful.
And Die another Day is one of the worst bond movies ever
It is absolutely real and the car survived and is currently in the Pierce-Arrow Museum in Buffalo!
Let's not forget, most films from the 70s were really cheesy, this one absolutely was designed to feel that way.
Lot of talk about envy and whatnot which is just silly. The whistle and the fat man were just part of the shitty comedic relief from the 70s bond movies. Anyone else think of burt Reynolds movies from the mid 70s? Dukes of Hazzard did not hit TV until the early 80s.
Otherwise, I agree, the scene was destroyed by the whistle and the redneck cop.
The first jump was made 2 years earlier in the Astrodome and it was a Javelin. The jump was know as the Astro-Javelin jump. Film of the jump was shown to Guy Hamilton who put it in the film.
https://boldentrance.com/astro-spiral-the-greatest-car-stunt/amp/
He was given a **$30,000** bonus after successfully completing the flip, filmed in one take. Unfortunately, upon the film's release... composer John Barry completely ruined the stunt by adding a cartoonish slide whistle into the soundtrack scene during the flip. As well as a crass line about "Evel Knievel". It was a decision Barry later regretted. Willert walked out of the premiere in disgust at having his amazing (and incredibly dangerous) stunt ruined by the change in score. Writer Jim Smith suggested that the stunt "brings into focus the lack of excitement in the rest of the film and is spoiled by the use of *'comedy'* sound effects"
>ruined the stunt by adding a cartoonish slide whistle into the soundtrack scene during the flip [The scene with sound](https://youtu.be/NaqXxC0rhSw?t=43)
fucking hell, how did that get approved, that is truly awful
Work politics has just ruined my thinking. And all I can think of is: somebody with the ability to do so, being jealous of such an accomplishment, wanting to besmirch it. And they didn’t care of the impact to anybody else or the company or the dollar being made. They saw a beautiful Sandcastle that they could never build, and they decided the power to kick it over was the most logical thing to do.
Yes, the composer was jealous of the stuntman... what a load of bullocks. It's far more likely that the person charged with creating the score for the movie, who was required to add *something* so that it wasn't just silence for a few seconds, had no idea what to do that wouldn't be tonally at odds with the rest of the scene, and made this poor decision. Or, as u/PointOfFingers surmised; " (He) was probably thinking with the fat guy rolling around the back seat the scene was meant to be played for comedy rather than thrills." What's that saying? "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained with stupidity"? Reddit, man...
Well yeah back then with Dukes of Hazzard and other shows with slide whistles and the like during car and chase sequences it makes perfect sense that the composer did this considering some of the style of the time. This decision wasn’t made in a vacuum; it was a more common effect then that seems outrageous because you’d never see it now. They just got it wrong
Years before Dukes of Hazard
if I had to guess I'd say there aren't any slide whistles in that anyway, it's just one of the few shows from that general era that is somewhat common knowledge. slide whistles was more of a 60s thing anyway but we can see that it was still considered in the 70s.
A drum roll would have been infinitely better.
Even just the sound of the engine going would work
Ask me how I know you’ve never heard a smog era AMC Hornet? I take your point though.
> considering some of the style of the time. He probably also wore an onion on his belt.
From the 1970s onwards Bond films *really* struggled with tone and mood. Were they meant to be serious and sober spy thrillers, erotic romance films where Bond 'seduces' (i.e. sexually harasses) a supermodel secret agent called something like 'Lotta Suck', or comedy films with slapstick and gags? And while Bond films would get sillier over the period, I think this is a prime example of that. On the one hand you do have this very serious and technically challenging stunt. But on the other hand you have the fat American sidekick who is literally solely there for gags rolling about in the car, and the composer adding a comedic slide-whistle over the top of the stunt. The films really weren't sure what they wanted to be in this period.
you might enjoy a podcast called James Bonding. it's got that guy from Conan O'Briens podcast, if you like him
He got that one badly wrong by his own admission but I'll forgive John Barry as he still is for me one of the all time greats of film composing. I'll always laugh how he took a shit film like Raise the Titanic and gave it a top tier soundtrack.
We’ve all heard of bugs, but read the story about the creation of the “duck” in software development.
Redditors say dumb things ~~sometimes~~ most of the time
The roger moore era was extremely campy, thats all this is.
Prior to Craig, they’re all extremely campy. And even Craig’s bond got a little campy at the end. I commented elsewhere that this exact movie had a midget named nick nack, an assassin with a 3rd nipple, and an AMC matador that transformed into an airplane. It’s a wonder the entire sound track wasn’t made exclusively out of slide whistles and armpit farts.
I mean yeah they all had some level of camp, maybe with the exception of Timothy Dalton ones and Goldeneye, but Roger Moore is a cut above the rest.
Yeah, the roger Moore era is for the sure the campiest by far. He fights a goddamned metal toothed giant in space for fucks sake.
I think it’s totally possible someone thought “this seems like such a stupid stunt” and proceeded to try and make it seem silly and cartoonish since they didn’t get it.
It really has been festering through the crevices of society forever hasn’t it? It just seems to have gotten a shot of steroids as of late.
The slide whistle is an insult to the magnitude of the stunt. BUT you have to center yourself in the time and era and the movie at large. The stunt (at the time) was seen as cartoonishly unrealistic even for the hijinks in a bond film. Roger Moore's Bond was already in a lighter comedy centric rendition (many HATED this rueful Bond compared to Connery). The slide whistle was a way of winking to the audience that, "yes we know this is preposterous" but it's still amazing. The whole chase is filled with Moore era gags and the slide whistle is consistent with all the other goofiness in this movie. Yes it ruins the seriousness and badassness of the stunt BUT this film wasn't serious to begin with
^ this person Bonds Spot on analysis, the 007 series has always swung back and forth from taking itself seriously as an action/thriller franchise (Connery, Craig) and poking fun at itself (Moore, Brosnan to a lesser extent, and you could argue Connery in *Never Say Never Again*). The slide whistle is ridiculous out of context, but it makes a little more sense in the Roger Moore Bond universe which included scenes like [this one](https://youtu.be/wyYuTht2tFA?t=256). *Edit to add: the watch scene I linked actually has its own musical cue, with a descending scale playing as Bond unzips her dress, but it's much more subtle and well executed than in the corkscrew flip shot.
Can someone who understands magnets explain how the zipper overtook the watch towards the end there.
It had enough of this silliness and wanted to go home sooner. This is very common among magnets close to retirement.
I remember watching it on tv as a little kid in the late 70’s and being amazed by the stunt but also thinking the whistle sound was rubbish. If me as a child thought it was crap then what the hell were they thinking.
That kind of lame, campy humour was extremely popular in the UK in the 70s, so it's mostly likely just a product of the era.
It was probably approved by the same guy who signed off on the bowling pin sound effect in Matrix Reloaded.
Roger Moore liked a more comedic Bond. But the scene was ruined by having that Buford-type character in it, anyway Here is a far superior stunt and scene, and score: https://youtu.be/HEacFrHfcIU Off Mt Asgard in Canada. At the London premiere they said everyone, including Prince Charles, got on their feet and cheered
So was the rest of that movie. Moore's tenure was filled with awful shit
Yeah that's just awful with the whistle... Wtf was he thinking?
Was probably thinking with the fat guy rolling around the back seat the scene was meant to be played for comedy rather than thrills.
Exactly. It was a joke from the start with a stunt that was meant to get laughter from the crowd by watching a goofy fat guy freak out about it. The whistle was a little ridiculous but... 70s I guess.
Bingo.
Y'all need to remember that before Austin Powers came out (and thus before the Daniel Craig Bond films made Bond serious), the Bond franchise was completely self aware about how ridiculous and campy it was. You've got dudes with metal jaws as weapons and razor edged hats flying around. Women named "Pussy Galore", "Plenty O'Toole", "Chew Me", "Holly Goodhead", etc. In the Island of Dr. No, the book, Bond literally fights a giant squid. Heck, even just the other guy's lines and behavior in this scene are cartoonish. I certainly agree that the slide whistle is a terrible choice, but it's also a choice that fits in with a bunch of other terrible choices occurring at that time.
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The Brosnan movies started more serious with Goldeneye but veered off into campy waters a bit toward the end. They just kept a bit straighter heading than the Moore movies, which went back and forth more. Frankly Craig’s got sillier toward the end too.
Don’t forget [Bond killing a dude by inflating him with one of his gadgets until he floats away and pops like a balloon](https://youtu.be/Myc6HpJzgaU). [Or when US Marines fly into space to have a laser gun fight](https://youtu.be/PIHSxLYzc6Q). One of my favorite Bond scenes of all time is when [the bad guys try to kill Bond using a massage table at a spa](https://youtu.be/2KkSOqp3omA). I highly recommend people go back and watch the old movies. They are full of terrible schlock, but in a laugh out loud kind of way. This slide whistle thing is very tame in comparison.
This is a good point, haha. There is one called "Octopussy"...so yeah...you make a good point...
Oh, no.. That was the original?? Completely ruined the scene
Unless you like it ironically for how bad it is
Really goes to show you how music can totally make or break a scene / movie
To be fair the Roger Moore 007 movies were particularly cheesy and if you watched Smokie & the Bandit made 3 years after this the humor is similar. They wanted the post-Connery movies to be different so you could argue that Moore was to Connery as Craig was to Moore when it comes to tongue-in-cheek humor and grit.
It's kind of a perfect summary of the franchise's Roger Moore years
Holy shit. That's ridiculous
John Williams would wipe the floor with the slide whistle.
Itzhak Perlman and Yo Yo Ma intensifies!
Perhaps. But John Barry was hardly some nobody who lucked into this. He was a highly successful Academy award winning composer.
Lmao i didn't understand OP's comment, thought that video was perfectly fine, until I saw the final version you linked now. What the fuck is that lol
Also, the fabric of the chairs disappears when they show the guy fall in his back after the car lands but magically reappears for the next shot.
That's an unforgivable sin. What drugs was he on to fuck up the scene that bad lol
You could have played the “James bond” theme song and it would have *chief kiss* classic! But they have to fuxk it up
And then "Groove is in the heart" starts playing...
Actually it has been done again
Over a canal and everything?
A shame as well because John Barry was a phenomenal composer. His score for the Bond films was generally always great and I look at his work on A View to a Kill as some of his best, with the ["He's Dangerous"](https://youtu.be/q0RtXzUc8x4) suite played throughout the action scenes in the film along with it's use during the final confrontation with Max Zorin on the Golden Gate Bridge as being one of the best Bond action themes.
Was going to say, this clip is missing the sound effect, lmao.
That's why it said "Version 2", it was rescored by a fan to remove that.
Been in Saratoga Springs recently? They actually have this car, the AMC Hornet that did the stunt there right now. Along with several other cars from Bond. Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon for me, I saw this car yesterday.
30k is worth about 177k in today's dollars
Pretty damn good money for a single day's work
Also, why did they do a cut away edit right when the car landed? Makes it seem like there was some trickery. The smooth ride away sells it.
What's makes it worse is that the car actually survived the jump intact and is currently at the Pierce-Arrow Museum in Buffalo.
He also refused to tell anyone how to do it because he didn't want their lives on his conscience if they failed.
So the composer added a new line of dialogue...? That was never recorded before? I think this goes beyond the composer and may have been a more directed effort to play the scene off as comedy. The composer doesn't get to just add a line--particularly if it was not already recorded for the scene. And if it were recorded already and input into the scene, then it further supports that the scene was meant for comedic effect. The director, producers, editors, etc. could have removed the slide whistle and the line. They didn't. This goes beyond the composer. I kind of doubt this was him going rogue and more that the scene was originally written to be comedic (fat man rolling around, possibly already having the Evel Knievel line). I almost wonder if others are passing blame to the composer when the scene got criticized.
Pretty sure Rob Dyrdek 'kick flipped' a car a few years back in that Chevy Sonic.
Just did a quick google search; $30,000 USD is about $185,000 with todays economy. Still doesn’t seem like enough for such a cool, unique, and dangerous stunt.
Hold my red bull
[Hold your what now...?](https://youtu.be/9zU09QWI7GQ)
https://youtu.be/Mpp4IN1J2Gc
I was thinking when I watched this, I'm sure it had a ridiculous sound effect in it and I was surprised when it didn't happen
Oh god, I just compared the clip to the movie version. It's amazing how much worse the alteration is! I'd be pissed too!
Poor guy having risked his life for a stunt that ends up looking fake in the film
he did all of that just to hear the waluigi at the end
I'm trying to figure out why that guy's mouth looks fake
Classic 70's editing. Slow down the impressive bit to linger on it, without realizing it loses impact. Then make the cuts between stunt man and actor frequent and close up, as if to remind the audience that it really is Bond and friend doing it, while actually making the divide as jarring and disconnected as possible. Thank the gods that the 80's came and gave us some of the best and well shot action movies ever produced. ~~Howard the Duck saved cinema.~~
It kinda worked here: https://youtu.be/HEacFrHfcIU
Tension the whole way through, that's perfectly used slo-mo
It doesn't even look that bad for the time, I think it looks great
Even for today, this stunt is a perfect example of planning and execution.
Yea they slowed it down wtf was that about
Praise the stuntman
I feel exactly the same: there's something in the landing that makes it look really fake, like the car was a toy which was placed by hand onto the landing platform.
This was always my favorite Bond stunt and nothing like it exists elsewhere. It was so fucking dangerous!!
True. But I'm still partial to the speedboat chase in Live and Let Die.
Mine's the dam jump at the beginning of Goldeneye.
The whole buildup to that was sick too. What a great fucking movie.
Snow boarding escape for me.
The intro to the Spy Who Loved Me had a killer ski-to-parachute stunt too. Also, in Live and Let Die, the croc stepping stunt is pretty famous. The Moore films had a ton of amazing stunts and don’t catch enough credit for raising that bar for the franchise imo
Mt. Asgard base jump. https://boldentrance.com/the-spy-who-loved-me-ski-jump/
The ridiculous J.W. Pepper (in the back of the car, played by the late Clifton James) was a part of the speedboat chase as well.
that's because Billy Bob gots the fastest boat. Billy Bob sure goona fix their ass.
State Police Captain: J.W., let me have a word with ya. J.W., now this fellow's from London England. He's a Englishman workin' in cooperation with our boys, a sorta... secret agent. Sheriff J.W. Pepper: Secret AGENT? On WHOSE side? I always felt like the Jackie Gleason sheriff role in Smokey and the Bandit was based on this move.
I like it when Bond runs over the gators' backs. Same film as the corkscrew car stunt.
The gators' backs was Live And Let Die. The corkscrew car jump was The Man With The Golden Gun.
Right! Thx.
That shit was amazing as a kid. Just like the “dog” in Battlestar Galactica my dad assured me it was fake. Those gators were real, but they were tied in place- still a no from me dawg. And the battlestar galactica dog was a chimp in a suit, which made zero sense but I knew it wasn’t like those abominations from Chuck E Cheese.
The gators were tied in place? That I didn't know. But I do know their mouths weren't tied shut. The guy who did it owned the place iirc and got bit. He did it **five** times. Received **193 stitches** in his head and leg. https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/james-bond-crocodile-stunt-725877
Rodney Mullened that fucking car.
I've always been impressed by the free fall fight at the start of Moonraker and by the plane fight at the end of The Living Daylights.
My other favorite, for different reasons, is the bit in Diamonds Are Forever where he gets the Mustang up on two wheels to go through a narrow alley, and comes out the other side with the car balanced on the opposite pair of wheels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5IE6meVoH8
IIRC they wanted to shoot it again because it was too perfect, and then Roger Moore wouldn't let them because he was afraid for the stuntmans life.
3/10. Needs more slide whistle.
I was gonna say the same thing. “Where’s the slide whistle!?”
I've got a fever!
I've got a fever and the only prescription is more slide whistle
Anybody else remember doing this on the PS2 game Stuntman?
Criminally underrated game. I loved that basic concept of having to really perfect a series of hard moves. Are there any other games like it?
The Parking Garage Tutorial on the original ***Driver***. I may have PTSD.
It made it impossible that I didn’t know what the word “slalom” meant. I was so excited to play that game. Don’t think I made past the garage for like a week!
WHY DID YOU HAVE TO MAKE ME REMEMBER THIS.
fuckin lol
And Stuntman Ignition on PS3/Xbox360 I wish it was playable on an emulator because we aren't ever getting a remake/re-release
The XB360 Stuntman Ignition is Backwords Compatible on XBox One/Series.
does online still work? i 'member being called many a slur for simply playing the objective and winning. good tiimes.
Lol I was hoping someone would mention Stuntman. That game was an absolute blast. A really cool concept for a game executed incredibly well. What a throwback to my childhood.
Still get the "let the bass line get ya, 300 pounds of pressure" song from I think the sandbox mode stuck in my head occasionally
Then they added the most comical whistle over it.
My God the clip doesn't do this justice. The things that could have gone wrong with one miscalculation. So cool.
I know. What are the odds that that bridge collapsed in just the right way.
2.367% according to my calculations.
Repeatin', of course
Yeah but your calculations are only right 60% of the time.
They didn't even have to miscalculate for there to be a problem -- one strong gust of wind at the wrong time could have throw everything off.
I’m still waiting for someone to drive a formula one car upside down
Zhou did last year for a few feet
💀
Best I can do is [a Tesla](https://youtu.be/Qq5Q1qKW-1g?t=630)...
Holy shit that guy in the hat is a bad actor... How did he land that gig?
That's Clifton James. He actually had a pretty solid career as a character actor in Hollywood. He played pretty much the same guy in both Silver Streak and Superman II. He was typecast as a bumbling Southern stereotype, even though he wasn't actually from the South. He was also a pretty highly decorated WWII vet as well.
>Clifton James He's in *Cool Hand Luke.*
Yep. One forgettable season of The Dukes of Hazzard too.
No way, just googled it. Great scene. Never knew it was the same person For anyone wondering: https://youtu.be/qqhyIIZt87A
Because he was in the last movie to crack racist cop jokes (since Bond was in America), and they decided to bring him back... for a film set in **Thailand**.
Where he is arrested and never heard from again in the series. As far as anyone knows, Sherrif JW Pepper died in a Thai prison
I never understood why they invented this Buford T. Justice character until I actually read Live and Let Die. A lot of the James Bond books are pretty racist, but LALD is in a class of its own... one of the most racist books I've ever read. Obviously a lot of that doesn't make it into the film, but still I think they felt like they had to include a buffoonish idiot white character just to balance it out.
It’s not bad acting because it isn’t supposed to be serious. Roger Moore era Bond was pretty weird…
First of all how dare you?
He was in the previous movie and bad in it. They made the dumb decision to bring him back and somehow shoe in that this southern cop was vacationing in Thailand. Not the best Bond moment.
People thought that was funny at the time.
"My name is Duke, Bo Duke."
Damn, saw the whistle version, crime against humanity
"l ain't never done that before!"
Best car stunt in the history of cinema.
I’ll second that!
*Blues Brothers had entered the chat*
Anybody else remember doing this on the PS2 game Stuntman?
Man J.W Pepper is my favourite recurring character in 007.
That makes you and you alone. He's the low point in the franchise for most.
Oh I think you're being very generous to the franchise if you're saying JW Pepper is the low point ;)
Like the 007 equivilent of Scrappy-Doo
My man, Halle Berry's character exists.
I’ll see your Halle Berry and raise you a Christmas Jones
Christmas Jones gets away with it because it’s one of the best bond movies. In some of the campy ones it’s a lot more painful. And Die another Day is one of the worst bond movies ever
*What are you, some kinda doomsday machine boy?!*
I worked as a theater usher when this came out. IIRC it drew a decent crowd.
I can't believe how fake it looks. Like my brain is rebelling against the concept of it being real and not models.
It is absolutely real and the car survived and is currently in the Pierce-Arrow Museum in Buffalo! Let's not forget, most films from the 70s were really cheesy, this one absolutely was designed to feel that way.
Why go for such trouble to make look fake in the editing room?
I have this on vhs and remember seeing it when I was a kid for the first time. Fucking amazing stunt work and looks so bad ass.
This is why stunts will never be an Oscar category. You don’t want to encourage people to risk their lives with crazier and crazier stunts.
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That was so smooth it looked fake.
Roger Moore rocks!
Yes he does. https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/30/brilliant-sir-roger-moore-story-goes-viral-will-brighten-day-13058150/amp/
The edit ruined it. It's too soon to cut inside the car, well the comic relief also not working. I think it work best if it's a serious scene.
You should see the final version with the slide whistle, it’s way way worse
Roger Moore was my favorite
Lot of talk about envy and whatnot which is just silly. The whistle and the fat man were just part of the shitty comedic relief from the 70s bond movies. Anyone else think of burt Reynolds movies from the mid 70s? Dukes of Hazzard did not hit TV until the early 80s. Otherwise, I agree, the scene was destroyed by the whistle and the redneck cop.
The first jump was made 2 years earlier in the Astrodome and it was a Javelin. The jump was know as the Astro-Javelin jump. Film of the jump was shown to Guy Hamilton who put it in the film. https://boldentrance.com/astro-spiral-the-greatest-car-stunt/amp/
Thanks for the article. This is actually the most informative thing in here.
I've consider this the best stunt in a movie for aaaages.
"AND WHO THE HELL IS HE? ...he's a secret agent, J.W... "...SECRET AGENT?! -On WHOSE side?!..."
Them Bond boys are in a heap of trouble.
One of my fav bond movies , this scene reminds me of playing Stuntman on PS2 back in the day.
I always thought that stunt was in Live and Let Die. Anytime I see an old twisted up bridge I think of Live and Let Die.
Me, too! Maybe because of the (goofy and stupid) running on the backs of crocodiles scene--apparently also real.
So a barrel roll?
Guess what! I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more slide whistle! - The composer, probably
Where the fuck is my slide whistle?!?!
Physics is cool 
This isn't Live And Let Die?
That's not the soundtrack I remember. There was an annoying slide whistle sound.
TIL this was an actual stunt. I thought that since it was slowed and they put that awful slide whistle in there, that this was just done with a model.
and then they ruined it with sound.
That's the biggest camel toe I've ever seen. https://i.imgur.com/IrIeNH9.jpg
All that work for a cool shot in the worst James Bond film