Bond Blu Ray Question

Thank you. I couldn’t go that route, since spending money for a Terence Young film in 4K is a bridge too far for me.

Going to the archives:

And @stromberg said back then: “Don’t entirely agree with that list (you know that I’m a terrible nitpicker when it comes to fonts”

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This one’s from a later discussion:

:winking_face_with_tongue:

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Okay, this is deep (and scary).

I googled “font for Diamonds are Forever poster,” and got the answer Helvetica Black. I later saw that there had been an entire font thread on the old forums.

Then @stromberg and I are going back and forth, and I do the same google search again, and the answer comes back Folio.

To summarize: AI Overview says Helvetica Black.

When you click on “Dive Deeper in AI Mode,” Folio becomes the answer.

It’s as if there is more than one Blofeld, or James Bond kills James Bond, or the Frankfurt Airport plays Schiphol, or the Bond girl changes her hair color over the course of one scene.

DAF is meta in ways I never expected.

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Sans doute.

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There’s a lot of false information on Bond fonts out there. I know that somewhere on the interweb, there’s one or the other list on the topic that’s quite good – I just don’t know where to find it right now.

When it comes to fonts, I rely on what I know myself. The job I have for some 15 years now doesn’t require the knowledge any more (magazine work, it’s all one basic design with no need to come up with lots of new things or fonts), so I forgot a lot about it, but when I worked in various advertising agencies in the years before, people came to me before trying to look up a font in the Font Book. When it comes to Bond, I’m more or less a mere fan. But when it comes to fonts and typography, I guess one can still consider me a nerd. :nerd_face:

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Fun fact: “photographer” from that discussion is the guy with whom I later worked on the German fan club magazine for several years :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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Amazing that they managed to make those awful Steelbook covers the best option of all the Connery 4K releases. Which, they should be, but the quality should be much, much higher across the board.

Also, I didn’t know we picked up a new film in the franchise. Never heard of Diam onds Are Forever

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It is the companion film to:

Diamonds Are Forever Forever Forever Forever Forever Forever

as well its British cousin:

Diamonds Are Forever Forever Forever Forever

They were still rationing in '71.

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This is the best version of the film. No expenses spared, although I think they still had some more room on that poster for a few more "Forever"s.

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Maybe, if Connery hadn’t been paid so much.

Look at the attack on the oil rig. No money for re-shoots.

And not many people know that once reunited with Tiffany in the water after his swan dive, Bond was supposed to say to her: “This isn’t over yet,” followed by a cut to a safe house in Reno where M, Q, and Moneypenny would be waiting.

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They might have been able to afford those extra "forever"s if the “one minute…and counting” guy hadn’t commanded such a lofty salary.

In an alternate universe where this film had a sequel, we find out in the next installment that he was actually the real Blofeld.

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Alright, alright, I have now preordered the 4k Connery discs.

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Eh… pre ordered something which is already out? You have a timemachine, haven’t you?

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Since I encountered the films in their German dubbed version first I decided to buy that German release which is scheduled for August 28th.

It‘s not the collector‘s box, though, just the cheaper version. But I need to keep some room for the Moore 4ks…

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Ach so Herr Bond, geschüttelt, nicht gerührt, nehme ich an? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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It’s not that bad.

Interestingly, Connery was dubbed by a different German actor in DN before the one took over who dubbed him for the most part of his career, and that is the voice I still hear thinking of Connery.

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Oh! I watched all German version and recorded them on my Video 2000 recorder from ARD when they were shown the first time on German television, on Dutch television the first seven were just broadcast in 1990. FRWL was somehow shown first on ARD, around my school exams, I still remember all of this.

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At least we know the geniuses behind the Craig-era posters still have work after the Amazon takeover.

Can’t wait for the next films to get the steelbook treatment.

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Genius. You’re hired.

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If we’d had blu ray in 1971.

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