Moonraker script

[secretagentfan]

Wow.

What a bad idea. Good that they changed that.

I do like, however, Jaws toasting with “Shaken but not stirred”. Although it probably was nixed because there is only one dude who is allowed to say that.

[Arbogast777]

@secretagentfan

I do like, however, Jaws toasting with “Shaken but not stirred”. Although it probably was nixed because there is only one dude who is allowed to say that.

Oh but wait, my friend…

[jamesb007nd]

Also what’s not in the actual movie;
In the space station Bond and Holly see people in a room doing all kinds of gymnastics activities and there is a room where a couple is going to make love.

[jamesb007nd]

Well, now that I have been generous enough to purchase and review this script for you all, is anyone good enough to now purchase the The Spy who Loved Me script and do the same? It costs only 2.588,76 euro so that shouldn’t be a problem, right?

[MrKiddWint]

@jamesb007nd

It costs only 2.588,76 euro

Is the Union Jack parachute included?

[secretagentfan]

[stromberg]

Some info and pictures about the deleted scenes (in French, beg your pardon).

Moonraker – Les scènes coupées

[sharpshooter]

Thanks for sharing these details. Very interesting.

@jamesb007nd

After Bond’s free fall, there is also a fragment from within the circus where a kind of trapeze act is performed, which is of course subsequently disrupted by Jaws falling through the circus tent canvas and the entire tent ends up in chaos.
Then Jaws looks up through the broken tent canvas and sees Bond in the distance in the air with a grin on his face disappearing from view with his parachute.

I think this would have probably extended the scene, and this specific gag, longer than it needed to be. The still images that merge into the title sequence show us what happened while pushing the movie forward.

@jamesb007nd

Just like in the novelisation, it is Bond who is chased by Chang to the clock tower, while in the film Chang emerges from the completely destroyed glass-blowing art hall, with Bond following behind him.

In the film it seems like once his mask comes off Chang is almost scared of being directly identified and wants to get out of there. He chooses to hide in the dark rather than take Bond on directly. In those moments Bond is simultaneously in a position of weakness and regaining a sense of control.

@jamesb007nd

When Jaws then takes out the two guards, it is Bond who knocks Drax down and puts him in the air lock himself.
Surprisingly, it is Jaws who pulls the lever and lets Drax be sucked into space.

That would have worked really well. But nonetheless, this is a Bond film and the main man gets the final kill all to himself.

[Dustin]

@jamesb007nd

Oh! Before I forget, in the script, in Gogol’s “I was already awake” scene, at the end the lady sitting in his bed turns out to be Anya Amasova.

Bit of a Profumo-vibe there; glad someone axed that idea.