Actor: Adolfo Celi
Mission:
Use stolen nuclear missiles to extort money from the United Kingdom.
Fate of the Bond villain:
Shot in the back with a harpoon from a speargun by his mistress, Domino.
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Bond villain: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
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007 Film: From Russia With Love (1963)
Actors: Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)
Mission: Humiliating MI6 for the death of Julius No by using Russian agent Tatiana Romanova and a Soviet decoding device as bait to lure James Bond into a trap, killing him and leaking compromising photos of Bond and Tatiana to the press before selling the decoder back to Moscow.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives (No contact between him and Bond)
Mission: Use stolen nuclear missiles to extort money from the United Kingdom.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives (No contact between him and Bond)
Actor: Donald Pleasence
Mission: Capture United States & Soviet spacecraft from orbit in order to provoke war between the superpowers on behalf of an undisclosed Asian country.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives.
Actor: Telly Savalas
Mission: Extort the world with viruses that render crops and livestock totally infertile.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives.
Actor: Charles Gray
Mission: Create an industrial laser attached to satellite and magnified by diamonds, which is capable of destroying targets anywhere on the face of the Earth. Used to target nuclear stockpiles of countries that refuse to pay him.
Fate of the Bond villain: Presumed dead.
007 Film: For Your Eyes Only (1981)
"Wheelchair villain"
(implied to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld)
Actors: John Hollis (body), Robert Rietty (voice)
Mission: To kill Bond as revenge by remotely hijacking Bond's helicopter and making it crash.
Fate of the Bond villain: Presumed dead after Bond drops him in a smokestack.
007 Film: Never Say Never Again (1983)
Actor: Max von Sydow
Mission: Hold world powers for ransom with nuclear weapons.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives. No contact with Bond.
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007 Film: For Your Eyes Only (1981)
"Wheelchair villain"
(implied to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld)
Actors: John Hollis (body), Robert Rietty (voice)
Mission: To kill Bond as revenge by remotely hijacking Bond's helicopter and making it crash.
Fate of the Bond villain: Presumed dead after Bond drops him in a smokestack.
007 Film: Never Say Never Again (1983)
Actor: Max von Sydow
Mission: Hold world powers for ransom with nuclear weapons.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives. No contact with Bond.
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007 Filming location: SPECTRE Headquarters / Thunderball (1965)
SPECTRE HEADQUARTERS
Bond movie: Thunderball (1965)
Place and location in the movie: SPECTRE Headquarters, Paris, France
Actual place and location: 35 Avenue d’Eylau, Paris, France
What happens here in the movie: Emilio Largo arrives at SPECTRE meeting.
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Bond movie: Thunderball (1965)
Place and location in the movie: SPECTRE Headquarters, Paris, France
Actual place and location: 35 Avenue d’Eylau, Paris, France
What happens here in the movie: Emilio Largo arrives at SPECTRE meeting.
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007 Soundtrack: Thunderball (1965)
SOUNDTRACK RELEASED: 1965
SCORE COMPOSER: John Barry
TITLE SONG: "Thunderball"
COMPOSED BY: John Barry, Don Black
COMPOSED BY: John Barry, Don Black
PERFORMED BY: Tom Jones
Thunderball is the soundtrack album for the fourth James Bond film Thunderball.
The album was released by United Artists Records in 1965. The music was composed and conducted by John Barry, and performed by the John Barry Orchestra. This was Barry's third soundtrack for the series. The soundtrack was not finished by the time the film was released in theatres and only featured twelve tracks, roughly only the film's first half; the last seven tracks were released for the first time when the soundtrack was issued on Compact Disc on 25 February 2003. Additionally, the music in the film was unfinished days before the film's release in theatres due to a late change by Eon Productions to use a title song with the same name as the film.
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TRACK LISTING
- "Thunderball (Main Title)" – Tom Jones
- "Chateau Flight"
- "The Spa"
- "Switching the Body"
- "The Bomb"
- "Cafe Martinique"
- "Thunderball (Instrumental)"
- "Death of Fiona"
- "Bond Below Disco Volante"
- "Search for the Vulcan"
- "007"
- "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"
CD bonus tracks
- "Gunbarrel/Traction Table/Gassing the Plane/Car Chase"
- "Bond Meets Domino /Shark Tank/Lights out for Paula/For King and Country"
- "Street Chase"
- "Finding the Plane/Underwater Ballet/Bond with SPECTRE Frogmen/Leiter to the Rescue/Bond Joins Underwater Battle"
- "Underwater Mayhem/Death of Largo/End Titles"
- "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Mono Version)"
007 Book: Thunderball (1961)
Bond book: ThunderballAuthor: Ian Fleming
Publication date: 27 March 1961
Thunderball is the ninth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, and the eighth full length James Bond novel. It was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 27 March 1961, where the initial print run of 50,938 copies quickly sold out. The first novelization of an unfilmed James Bond screenplay, it was born from a collaboration by five people: Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, Ivar Bryce and Ernest Cuneo, although the controversial shared credit of Fleming, McClory and Whittingham was the result of a courtroom decision.
The story centres on the theft of two atomic bombs by the crime syndicate SPECTRE and the subsequent attempted blackmail of the Western powers for their return. James Bond, Secret Service operative 007, travels to the Bahamas to work with his friend Felix Leiter, seconded back into the CIA for the investigation. Thunderballalso introduces SPECTRE's leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the first of three appearances in Bond novels, with On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice being the others.
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007 Director: Peter R. Hunt
Who: Peter R. HuntBorn: 11 March 1925, London, England
Died: 14 August 2002, Santa Monica, California, USA
Peter R. Hunt was an English film editor, director, and television producer. Hunt was known for his work on the James Bond films with his innovative editing style.
Peter R. Hunt´s 007 production:
Director:
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969)
Editor:
"Dr. No" (1962)
"From Russia with Love" (1963)
"Goldfinger" (1964)
"Thunderball" (1965)
"You Only Live Twice" (Second unit director, supervising editor, 1967)
James Bond: 1962-69
He gained recognition for his film editing techniques when he utilized quick cutting, allowing camera swings during action and inserts interleaving other elements while working as editor on the first three Bonds.
Hunt then acted as second unit or action unit director until his directorial debut, the sixth James Bond film, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". He also worked with Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli on the 1963 Bob Hope film "Call Me Bwana", and with Saltzman and a few other Bond veterans on the non-EON thriller "The IPCRESS File". "Call Me Bwana" is the only film produced by the James Bond production company Eon Productions that is not a Bond film. Hunt also directed some episodes of the 1971 British television series, "The Persuaders!", which starred future James Bond Roger Moore, and Tony Curtis.
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007 Director: Terence Young
Who: Shaun Terence YoungBorn: 20 June 1915, Shanghai, China
Died: 7 September 1994, Cannes, France
Shaun Terence Young was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing three James Bond films, "Dr. No" (1962), "From Russia with Love" (1963), and "Thunderball" (1965).
Terence Young´s 007 production:
Director:
Director:
"Dr. No" (1962)
"From Russia with Love" (1963)
"Thunderball" (1965)
Writer:
"Dr. No" (1962) (uncredited)
Miscellaneous crew:
"From Russia with Love" (1963) (Body double: Pedro Armendáriz – uncredited)
"Goldfinger" (1964) (Director: pre-production – uncredited)
James Bond: 1962-63, 1965
Young had previously worked five years earlier with the then relatively unknown Sean Connery, who was to play Bond, on "Action of the Tiger". For the first Bond film, Lois Maxwell claimed that "Terence took Sean under his wing. He took him to dinner, showed him how to walk, how to talk, even how to eat." It led to three of the first four Bond films: "Dr. No", "From Russia with Love", and "Thunderball". They became financially and critically successful and helped Sean Connery become a superstar during the 1960s.
During the filming of "From Russia with Love", Young and a photographer nearly drowned when their helicopter crashed into the sea while filming a key sequence. They were rescued by other members of the film crew. Young was back behind the camera thirty minutes after being rescued.
007 Film: Thunderball (1965)
007 Film: ThunderballRelease year: 1965
Directed by: Terence Young
Produced by: Kevin McClory
The film follows Bond's mission to find two NATOatomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE, which holds the world ransom for £100 million in diamonds, in exchange for not destroying an unspecified major city in either England or the United States (later revealed to be Miami). The search leads Bond to the Bahamas, where he encounters Emilio Largo, the card-playing, eye-patch-wearing SPECTRE Number Two. Backed by CIA agent Felix Leiter and Largo's mistress, Domino Derval, Bond's search culminates in an underwater battle with Largo's henchmen. The film had a complex production, with four different units and about a quarter of the film consisting of underwater scenes.Thunderball was the first Bond film shot in widescreen Panavision and the first to have over a two-hour running time.
CAST:
- Sean Connery as James Bond (007): An MI6 agent assigned to retrieve two stolen nuclear weapons.
- Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo (voice dubbed by Robert Rietty): Main antagonist. SPECTRE's Number Two, he creates a scheme to steal two atomic bombs.
- Claudine Auger as Dominique "Domino" Derval (voice dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl): Largo's mistress. In early drafts of the screenplay Domino's name was Dominetta Palazzi. When Claudine Auger was cast as Domino the name was changed to Derval to reflect her nationality. The character's wardrobe reflects her name, as she is usually dressed in black and/or white.
- Luciana Paluzzi as Fiona Volpe: SPECTRE agent, who becomes François Derval's mistress and kills him before being sent to Nassau.
- Rik Van Nutter as Felix Leiter: CIA agent who helps Bond.
- Bernard Lee as M: The head of MI6.
- Guy Doleman as Count Lippe: SPECTRE agent who tries to kill Bond in the health clinic.
- Martine Beswick as Paula Caplan: Bond's ally in Nassau who is kidnapped by Vargas and Janni.
- Molly Peters as Patricia Fearing: a physiotherapist at the health clinic.
- Earl Cameron as Pinder, Bond and Felix Leiter's assistant in The Bahamas.
- Paul Stassino as François Derval and Angelo Palazzi: Derval is a NATO pilot, who is also Domino's brother. He is killed by SPECTRE agent Angelo Palazzi, who impersonates him. Palazzi is later killed by Largo.
- Desmond Llewelyn as Q: MI6's "quartermaster" who supplies Bond with multi-purpose vehicles and gadgets useful for the latter's missions.
- Roland Culver as the Foreign Secretary: British Minister who briefs the "00" agents for Operation Thunderball and has doubts about Bond's efficiency.
- Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny: M's secretary.
- Philip Locke as Vargas: Largo's personal assistant and henchman who according to Largo abstains from alcohol, smoking and sexual intercourse emphasising his devotion as a killer. He is killed by Bond with a spear gun on the beach.
- George Pravda as Ladislav Kutze: Emilio Largo's chief nuclear physicist who aids his boss with the captured bombs.
- Michael Brennan as Janni: One of Largo's thugs who is usually paired with Vargas.
- Anthony Dawson as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, voiced by Eric Pohlmann (both un-credited): The head of SPECTRE
- Bill Cummings as Quist: Another of Largo's inefficient thugs who, after failing to assassinate 007, is thrown into a shark pool under orders from his boss.
- André Maranne, best known for portraying Sergeant François Chevalier in the Pink Panther films, cameos as SPECTRE #10.
007 James Bond actor: Sean Connery
Who: Thomas Sean ConneryBorn: 25 August 1930, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Sir Thomas Sean Connery Kt. (/ˈʃɔːn ˈkɒnəri/; 25 August 1930) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award). He was knighted by Elizabeth II in July 2000, and received the Kennedy Center Honors in the US.
Connery is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 (six Eon Productions films and the non-Eon Thunderball remake, Never Say Never Again). In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His film career also includes such films as Marnie, The Name of the Rose, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Murder on the Orient Express, Dragonheart, and The Rock.
Connery has been polled as "The Greatest Living Scot" and "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". In 1989, he was proclaimed "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted "Sexiest Man of the Century".
Sean Connery trivia facts:
Sean Connery´s 007 production:
Dr. No (1962)
Connery is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 (six Eon Productions films and the non-Eon Thunderball remake, Never Say Never Again). In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His film career also includes such films as Marnie, The Name of the Rose, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Murder on the Orient Express, Dragonheart, and The Rock.
Connery has been polled as "The Greatest Living Scot" and "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". In 1989, he was proclaimed "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted "Sexiest Man of the Century".
Sean Connery trivia facts:
- Formerly worked as a milk delivery man. During his time as a milkman, Connery delivered to Fettes School in Edinburgh – the same school which James Bond attended in Ian Fleming‘s novels following his expulsion from Eton.
- Of the six actors who have played James Bond, he is the only one who, like Bond, served in the Royal Navy.
- His favorite Bond film is From Russia with Love(1963).
Sean Connery´s 007 production:
Dr. No (1962)
From Russia with Love (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)
Thunderball (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Never Say Never Again (1983, an unofficial 007 film)
James Bond: 1962–71, 1983
Connery's breakthrough came in the role of secret agent James Bond. He was reluctant to commit to a film series, but understood that if the films succeeded his career would greatly benefit. He played the character in the first five Bond films: Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), and You Only Live Twice (1967) – then appeared again as Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Never Say Never Again (1983). All seven films were commercially successful. James Bond, as portrayed by Connery, was selected as the third-greatest hero in cinema history by the American Film Institute.
Connery's selection as James Bond owed a lot to Dana Broccoli, wife of Cubby Broccoli, who is reputed to have been instrumental in persuading Cubby that Sean Connery was the right man. James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, originally doubted Connery's casting, saying, "He's not what I envisioned of James Bond looks" and "I'm looking for Commander Bond and not an overgrown stunt-man," adding that Connery (muscular, 6' 2", and a Scot) was unrefined. Fleming's girlfriend told him Connery had the requisite sexual charisma. Fleming changed his mind after the successful Dr. No première; he was so impressed, he created a half-Scottish, half-Swiss heritage for Bond in the later novels.
Connery's portrayal of Bond owes much to stylistic tutelage from director Terence Young, polishing the actor while using his physical grace and presence for the action. Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny, related that, "Terence took Sean under his wing. He took him to dinner, showed him how to walk, how to talk, even how to eat." The tutoring was successful; Connery received thousands of fan letters a week, and the actor became one of the great male sex symbols of film.
During the filming of Thunderball in 1965, Connery's life was in danger in the sequence with the sharks in Emilio Largo's pool, which he had been in fear of when he read the script. He insisted that Ken Adam build a special Plexiglas partition inside the pool, but, despite this, it was not a fixed structure and one of the sharks managed to pass through it. Connery had to abandon the pool immediately, seconds away from attack.
Connery was forced to wear a toupee during each of the Bond movies because he had started balding at the age of 21.
In 2005, From Russia with Love was adapted by Electronic Arts into a video game, titled James Bond 007: From Russia with Love, which featured all-new voice work by Connery as well as his likeness, and those of several of the film's supporting cast.
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Food: Club sandwich
Bond book appearance: Thunderball
Experience of 007 Travelers: Restaurant Brasserie Kämp, Helsinki, Finland
A club sandwich, also called a clubhouse sandwich, is a sandwich with toasted bread. It is often cut into quarters and held together by hors d'œuvre sticks. It frequently has two layers which are separated by an additional slice of bread.
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Before meeting Domino to tell her about her brother's death and Largo's plot, Bond downs a club sandwich.
Ian Fleming: "Thunderball"
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Bond book appearance: Thunderball
Experience of 007 Travelers: Restaurant Brasserie Kämp, Helsinki, Finland
A club sandwich, also called a clubhouse sandwich, is a sandwich with toasted bread. It is often cut into quarters and held together by hors d'œuvre sticks. It frequently has two layers which are separated by an additional slice of bread.
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Before meeting Domino to tell her about her brother's death and Largo's plot, Bond downs a club sandwich.
"Bond almost ran through the lobby of the hotel. When he picked up his key at the reception desk they gave him a telephone message. He read it going up in the lift. It was from Domino: 'Please telephone quickly.'
In his room, Bond first ordered a club sandwich and a double Bourbon on the rocks and then called the Police Commissioner."
Ian Fleming: "Thunderball"
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007 Travel story: Paris (FRANCE) 2013, day 2/7: Eiffel Tower & Louvre
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Sunday 13th of October 2013
We went to Cafe Pizzeria Foresta, where we had British breakfast.
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| Mika |
After breakfast we checked out and took our bags to our next hotel Mercure Paris Terminus Nord. (12 Boulevard de Denain, 129,00 EUR / 1 night, no breakfast included, booked via booking.com)
We got a 6th floor room, number 633. Stunning double bed and extra bed. The room was very nice in every way. 007 stayed here in Ian Fleming's short story collection's "For Your Eyes Only" story "From a View to a Kill" and ate in Terminus Nord's restaurant in John Gardner's book "Death Is Forever".
"When Bond was in Paris he invariably stuck to the same addresses. He stayed at the Terminus Nord, because he liked station hotels and because this was the least pretentious and most anonymous of them."
Ian Fleming: "From a View to a Kill"
"Of all the railway stations in Europe, Bond liked the Gare du Nord best. The place held special memories for him. It was also within walking distance of one of his favourite restaurants in Paris - Terminus Nord.
Bistros and restaurants hovering in the shadow of any great railway terminus should normally be avoided. Inevitably their clientele consists of birds of passage, people leaving and arriving at the station. So it follows that the service is perfunctory, at best; at worst, slapdash; while the food is only passable. Happily Terminus Nord, directly opposite the Gare du Nord, is a prestigious exception. Its service is impeccable, while the food attracts gourmets who are not merely passing through the French capital or using the railway station."
John Gardner: "Death Is Forever"
Metro was quite handy when we first understood how it works. The price of a single ticket is 1.70 euros / person. We traveled by subway close to the Eiffel Tower.
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| Mika & Pirita |
Then we went to see the place on Avenue d'Eylau, where was SPECTRE headquarters in Sean Connery movie "Thunderball",
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| Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi) in front of SPECTRE headquarters in "Thunderball" Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC |
and then to the place from "A View to a Kill" where Bond grabs Renault taxi at the foot of Eiffel Tower and runs down the stairs.
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| Bond uses a short cut in the movie "A View to a Kill" Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC |
We had pre-booked tickets (total 120 euros / 3 persons) to the Eiffel Tower. The agreed time of our visit was 12.30 PM and we needed to be there 15 minutes before. It was good that we were ahead of time, because there was 20 km running event on-going and the finish line was in front of the Eiffel Tower. We needed to find our way to another side of the road where runners came to the finish line and it showed to be quite challenging task. Nice thing was that the daughter got a medal from some friendly competitor.
We wondered why there were armed soldiers with assault rifles present, but we thought it had to be related to the safety of the running competition. Later in the evening we heard that Eiffel Tower was evacuated in that morning because of the threat call.
We had vouchers in our hands and we waited for a contact person at the foot of the southern pillar. When our guides arrived, they gave us a short presentation how everything works and we were warned about pickpockets. We were able to pass the queue, because we had our tickets and after security checks we moved to the elevator, which took us directly to the second floor. There we bought some souvenirs from the souvenir shop and filmed the scenery and also some places from 007 movie "A View to a Kill".
Did you know:
Just before the jump off the Eiffel Tower stunt was to be undertaken, two thrill-seeking members of the public made an unauthorized jump off Paris' famous landmark. It has long been a dare, lark and thrill for people to jump off famous structures without permission. The first of the film's jumps was so successful that the second jump was canceled thereby eliminating any further risk, cost and time. However, as mentioned in Inside 'A View to a Kill' (2000), two of the crew, including Don 'Tweet' Caltvedt, allegedly went and made an unauthorized jump as they were apparently so disappointed that they didn't get to jump off the Eiffel Tower. The non-permitted stunt jump cost them their jobs as it jeopardized the remaining filming of the shoot in the French capital.
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Then we moved to the other elevator and after a quite long waiting in the wind and cold weather, we were able to reach the top of Eiffel Tower, which gave us a great view over Paris. It was worth it.
There is also Jules Verne restaurant in the Eiffel Tower, but there would have been needed a reservation. After getting back to the street level, we headed towards Louvre and went to Cafe Des Beaux Arts and ate tasty "Parisienne" cheese sandwiches. The restaurant with same name (name nowadays Alcatraz) has a Bond connection: Bond ate a dinner there in John Pearson book "James Bond, the Authorized Biography of 007".
"One night, as they were dining in the crowded Restaurant des Beaux Arts, they heard a drunk American call out, ‘Here is the lovely Marthe and her English poodle.’ It was a well-known brawler called Sailor Hendrix. Bond hit him very hard between the eyes, then pushed his head into his onion soup."
John Pearson: "James Bond, The Authorized Biography of 007"
We rushed to the Louvre, took pictures of the glass pyramids.
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| Pirita |
And then we went inside the museum and found the Denon Wing, where was world famous Mona Lisa painting.
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| Mona Lisa´s smile |
Then we moved to the Sully wing, which is the home of Venus de Milo statue. We were in the museum so close to its closing time that the staff didn't even put stamps to our tickets.
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| Venus de Milo |
"On that former occasion, he had headed through the Arch and across the Louvre, where he ran them a melancholy dance through the many floors and galleries. He had even killed two of the SMERSH death squad: right there among the Egyptian Antiquities on the ground floor."
John Gardner: "Death Is Forever"
"The spectacular I.M. Pei pyramid entrance to the Musée du Louvre never failed to impress Bond. While it had its critics, the incongruous nature of a pyramid made a glass and steel tubing, surrounded by a structure that saw its origins in the thirteenth century, was the most impressive thing about it."
Raymond Benson: "Never Dream of Dying"
When day was turning to night we went to day's last Batobus riverboat cruise tour. It was "Hop on, hop off"- type of tour, but we toured the whole trip, except one station. The price for adults was 15 euros / person and 7 euros / child.
The highlight of the tour was when we reach the Eiffel Tower again. They put flashing lights to the tower and against dark blue sky, we got great photos of the beautiful tower!
Last event of the day was dinner at Terminus Nord hotel's restaurant. Food and drinks tasted good, however daughter fell asleep at the table.
"Bond ordered a Martini, giving none of his usual directions. The Terminus Nord could be trusted to provide a reasonable facsimile of what he regarded as the perfect Martini - an idiosyncrasy not shared be many of the great experts in the art of cocktail making.
At his kerbside table, Bond had an excellent view of the station facade, and while he examined the menu he also kept an eye out for signs that Harry Spraker was doing his job."
John Gardner: "Death Is Forever"
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