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BOND THEME
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Bond.
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James Bond.
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007 has ruled the world of
big-screen action heroes
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for 50 years now.
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To date, over a quarter
of the planet's population
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has seen him going about his
spectacular day job.
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My name is Pussy Galore.
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I must be dreaming!
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The man is in a league of his own
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when it comes to watches,
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sharks
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and villains.
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Look after Mr Bond.
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See that some harm comes to him.
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And, of course, no-one can match him
when it comes to his cars...
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..which have enthralled us
for generation after generation.
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And none more so than this one.
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The Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5.
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It is, without doubt, the most
famous car in the world,
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and the one that laid the
foundations for the whole Bond/car
relationship.
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Which makes it the perfect place
to start our celebration
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of 50 years of Bond cars.
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Well, nearly the perfect place.
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Because if we're going to be
thorough
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we should start with the very first
Bond adventure,
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Dr. No.
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Usually, when a man gets in my
way...
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With the whole film made on a very
tight budget of just �350,000
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the fact was that Bond's debut
car chase was never going to set
the world on fire.
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At the wheel of a humble
Sunbeam Alpine,
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he gets chased, briefly,
by a hearse.
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The hearse falls over a cliff...
and that's your lot.
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I think they were on their way
to a funeral.
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To give you a flavour of how
hand-to-mouth things were back then,
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I have a copy of a lovely letter
written by the Bond producers
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to the people at the Sunbeam
Motor Company.
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It's sort of complaining that they
couldn't get a free car to film with
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and had to rent one locally for -
and I quote - "a considerable sum".
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That "considerable sum"
was 12 shillings a day!
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However, on its release in 1962,
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Dr. No was a big hit,
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as was the next film,
From Russia With Love.
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This meant they could really push
the boat out with the third film.
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Goldfinger.
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Do you expect me to talk?
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No, Mr Bond. I expect you to die!
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With evil super-baddie
Auric Goldfinger
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planning to destroy America's
gold supply,
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Bond faced his most daunting
challenge yet.
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And to help 007 win the day,
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Q equipped him with
a rather special car.
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You'll be using this Aston Martin
DB5 with modifications.
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Windscreen, bullet-proof,
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as are the side and rear windows.
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Revolving number plates, naturally.
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Valid all countries.
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The revolving number plates,
I think, was my contribution
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because I was getting so many
parking tickets at the time
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because the office was in Mayfair
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and there were a lot of warden
ladies, you know, very vicious.
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And I thought, "Wouldn't it be
lovely, you get the ticket,
she's marking away,
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"and then you press the button
and the revolving...
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"And she's left with egg
on her face!"
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I thought, "That's a good thing!"
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See this arm here?
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Open the top and inside are
your defence mechanism controls.
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And somebody said, "Why not put
machine guns in it?" I thought,
"Nothing wrong with that."
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And so the gadgets added and added
and added.
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Now, this one, I'm particularly keen
about.
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See the gear lever here?
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If you take the top off,
you'll find a little red button.
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- Whatever you do, don't touch it!
- Why not?
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Because you'll release this section
of the roof
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and engage and then fire
the passenger ejector seat.
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That, I think, came from my stepson.
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He'd seen obviously, an ejector
plane seat and that had impressed
him.
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Ejector seat? You're joking!
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I never joke about my work, 007.
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With the car gadgets planned out,
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all that was needed
was an actual car.
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So the Bond producers went and asked
Aston Martin
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if they could borrow one of theirs.
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And in reply, the Aston Martin
bosses said...
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"No, absolutely not.
It isn't worth the bother."
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Harry Saltzman, the Bond producer,
came back at them quite indignantly.
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"Well, have you seen Dr. No?"
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"Actually, no", replied the chap
from Aston.
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"What about From Russia With Love"?
Again, "No.
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"But I'll tell you what.
We will sell you a car.
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"At the full price. �4,500."
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At this point Saltzman
slammed the phone down
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and the most famous car
in cinema history
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was on the verge of being a Jaguar.
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A Jensen was also considered.
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And a Chevrolet.
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But the Bond producers
kept plugging away at Aston,
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who, in the end, still with
absolutely no idea of what they were
letting themselves in for,
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begrudgingly lent them a second-hand
development car.
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And the Bond special effects chaps
could go to work making their
creation come to life.
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In the end, gadgetising the car
cost �25,000,
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more than five times the price
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of an actual DB5.
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But boy, was it worth it!
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First out of the box
was the tyre shredder.
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And then all the other gadgets
were unleashed
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in the legendary chase sequence
against Goldfinger's evil henchmen.
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Some of it was wonderfully low tech.
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The smoke coming out of the back
of the car,
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that was very simple.
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We had a very small prop man and we
put him in the boot of the car.
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There was a hole and a smoke
canister and all he had to do
was open the thing.
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And the canister was leaking
and there was this smoke coming.
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The poor bugger was practically
asphyxiated!
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Aghh!
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In the film, the setting for
the car chase is in the grounds
of Goldfinger's factory
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in Switzerland.
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But in reality, the chase
was actually shot here
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amongst the alleyways and buildings
of Pinewood Studios
in Buckinghamshire.
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This is where the angry, fat
Fraulein shoots at Bond.
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And this is the location
for the climax of the chase,
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where Bond fires at what he thinks
is a car coming towards him
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and then swerves violently
to avoid it.
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Actually, it's probably a good job
he crashed,
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because at one point in the chase,
the Aston's four-litre, six-cylinder
engine went a bit dicky
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and was only running
on three cylinders!
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But the misfiring engine
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is not the memory that haunts
the director.
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You did get a great letter from
a schoolboy, that I read about.
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Addressed to the director,
Goldfinger.
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"Dear sir,
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"when the Aston Martin
leaves the UK,
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"the wheels are Pirelli's 568s,
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"but when it arrives at the petrol
station in Switzerland,
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they're Dunlop's 426s",
or something.
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And I didn't even bother to ask my
editor to have a look and see,
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because I knew that the little
bugger was right!
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Was the letter signed James May,
by any chance?
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He'd have been two, but I think
he would have noticed!
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So there we are. A car that nearly
never happened.
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Gadgets dreamed up by overgrown kids
with too many parking tickets,
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a man suffocating in the boot
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and a chase, sometimes on three
cylinders, sometimes not,
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round some grubby warehouses.
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Hardly the ingredients
for a Avengers Assemble, is it?
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But when the lights went down
in the cinema in September 1964,
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wow!
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The public went mad for Goldfinger.
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And they went equally crazy
for the DB5,
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which ended up going
on its own world tour
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and opening up Bond
to a whole new audience.
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The Aston changed everything.
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And this brings us to
an important question.
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Why was it, above all others,
chosen to be Bond's car?
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Well, to find the answer,
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a good place to start
is with the Bond books.
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This, as you may have noticed,
is not an Aston Martin.
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It's a 4.5-litre 1930s
super-charged Bentley.
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And this is the car
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that Bond's creator Ian Fleming
chose to give his secret agent
in the books.
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In Fleming's mind,
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the Bentley was the obvious choice
for Bond.
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As a young reporter for Reuters,
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the author had covered the 24-hour
Le Mans race
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and had seen the mighty Bentleys
vanquish all the foreign johnnies.
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Also, a Bentley was exactly
the right sort of car
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for Bond's cover as a wealthy
bachelor about town.
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Fleming was, without doubt,
a proper petrol-head.
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He writes brilliant car chases
full of lovely details
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about exhaust notes and
super-chargers at full chaff.
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In Casino Royale, the very first
Bond book,
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he writes how Bond's car
was his only personal hobby.
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And then in the book Moonraker,
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Bond's beloved Bentley is destroyed
during a frantic car chase,
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leaving him in need of a new set
of wheels.
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And then in 1957, as Fleming is
sitting down to write his new book,
Goldfinger,
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he receives a letter
from a Dr G. Gibson,
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a car enthusiast
from Cambridgeshire,
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who says he hopes Fleming will have
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"the decency to fix Bond up with
a decent bit of machinery.
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"I would suggest an Aston Martin,
a DB3."
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And when Goldfinger is published
a year later,
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this is what we read:
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The film-makers simply updated
Fleming's DB3 to a DB5.
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And Dr Gibson, wherever you are
up there,
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thank you, sir.
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You have no idea what you started!
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But now we must leave
the Aston Martin
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and move on to the next great
Bond car.
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You can't say your own films,
from the past, what's your favourite
Bond car?
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- Bond car? - Yeah.
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Um...
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I don't know. I love that little...
Is it the Datsun in Japan
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- when the girl drives up.
- Toyota 2000.
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Is that what it is? I love that car.
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I know I'm being a bit specific,
but that's one of my favourites.
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TYRES SCREECH
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Get down!
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Daniel's favourite car appears
in the film You Only Live Twice
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where Bond has to prevent
World War III
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by destroying the hollowed-out
volcano belonging to his arch enemy,
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
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I shall look forward personally
to exterminating you, Mr Bond.
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Since the film was set in Japan,
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the star car had to be Japanese.
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And this is what was chosen.
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The Toyota 2000 GT.
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Daniel Craig clearly has
very good taste.
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Because even without
the Bond connections,
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this 2000 GT is a very important
car.
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Developed jointly by Yamaha
and Toyota in the mid-'60s,
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when Toyota was desperate
to shake off its stodgy image,
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this exquisite front-engined
rear-drive machine
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became known as Japan's first
super car.
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The engine is a two-litre Toyota
straight six
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that was then worked on by Yamaha.
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Yamaha also have contributed
the wood inlay on the dash,
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the same wood they used
on their pianos.
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The whole thing is wrapped up in
this beautiful light aluminium body.
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It is...
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..absolutely gorgeous.
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And rare. One of these today would
set you back half a million pounds.
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Unlike the Goldfinger DB5,
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the 2000 GT didn't have
any fighting gadgets.
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In fact, it needed a bit of help
to dispense with the baddies.
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Which Bond could watch live
on the in-car TV.
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How's that for Japanese efficiency?
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Just a drop in the ocean!
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Now, there's something else you need
to know about this car.
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Something that's not immediately
obvious with me in it!
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It is quite small.
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However, Sean Connery isn't.
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The original 2000 GT as delivered to
England to be kitted out with all
its gadgets and stuff
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was a hard top, just like this one.
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And when the Bond producers took
delivery,
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they found, with filming
just about to start,
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that Sean Connery simply wouldn't
fit in it!
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The solution, obviously,
was a convertible.
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But this was a brand new car.
No convertible version existed.
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However, we are talking about Toyota
here.
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So when the Bond people got
on the phone, Toyota simply said,
"Yeah, come back in two weeks",
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and sure enough, a fortnight later,
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the whole thing had been re-designed
and rebuilt as a soft top.
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Without question, then,
the Bond films of the '60s
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had seen 007 in some truly
iconic cars.
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But as the '70s came around,
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the films entered a new car era.
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The era of smash, bang and wallop.
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In Diamonds Are Forever,
Live and Let Die and The Man
with the Golden Gun,
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the car carnage was off the scale.
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And as with Goldfinger,
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these films were all directed
by Guy Hamilton.
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At the time, Bullitt had just come
out with that very intense, terse
car chase with the Mustang
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and the Chargers.
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Were you not tempted to go in that
direction? You went the other way,
really.
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No, because I don't like a car
chase. I find them boring.
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Everybody's done car chases before.
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What can we do that makes this one
different?
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One thing that was different
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was to devise some nifty stunts.
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I gotcha now!
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Lean over!
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Diamonds Are Forever had one of the
most famous stunt moments in it
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with the car on two wheels through
the alleyway.
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But also one of the real
Hall of Fame Blooper moments
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cos it went in on one set of wheels
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and came out on the other!
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It's a significant change from
being that way to being that way!
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Did the audience notice at the time?
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I was waiting for them to all stand
up and walk out of the cinema!
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And to my amazement they were still
sat there, giggling!
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The blooper came about because
Guy filmed the car coming out of
the alleyway first
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and then suddenly had to fly back
to England.
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So he left the producer Cubby
Broccoli in charge of filming
the car
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going into the alley.
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And three weeks later,
Cubby comes along and says
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here are the rushes, we've got
your goddamn wheelie shot.
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Well, I went to rushes
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and it's wheelie side up,
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and the shot I'd got of it
coming out the other end
it's wheelie side down!
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So he says, "What do you think,
Guy?" I said, "They have to do it
again.
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He said no - BLEEP - way!
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After Diamonds Are Forever,
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Connery handed over the baton
to Roger Moore,
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who gave us a more light-hearted
Bond.
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Mm, such a delicate touch!
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Sheer magnetism, darling.
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My attitude was that Bond
is not real.
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He's not a spy.
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00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,800
He walks into every bar in the world
and the barman knows him.
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"Ah, Martini shaken, not stirred."
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On the first wrong answer
from Miss Solitaire,
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you will snip the little finger
on Mr Bond's right hand.
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In Roger's first film,
Live and Let Die,
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where he battled voodoo
and evil heroin dealers...
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..he was given a rather
unconventional car chase.
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We're in Jamaica and what I did
notice was that they've got
double-decker buses.
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And I thought, "Bond in a bus.
We can have some fun with a bus!"
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Before we went out there,
they took me down to the skid pad
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near Hammersmith
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to be able to spin.
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At first you think, "Oh, no,
it's going to tip."
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But they don't tip.
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Despite Roger's training,
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an expert was needed at the wheel
for the stunt sequences.
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00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,640
And instead of using
a normal stunt driver,
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the Bond people drafted in
an actual London bus driver,
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00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,960
Maurice Pratchett.
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Maurice, yes. He was a lovely fellow
who got to drive under the bridge.
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You don't think I was going to go
driving under a bridge?
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I hope he got paid stunt money.
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All change! End of the line.
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In the next film,
The Man with the Golden Gun,
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Bond takes on the deadly
triple-nippled assassin, Scaramanga.
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Ready!
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SINISTER LAUGH
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This was Bond's car.
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The AMC Hornet.
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00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,960
Which, in one of cinema's
eggiest-ever product placement
moments,
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00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:20,840
Bond commandeers from
an AMC showroom in Bangkok.
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00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,360
- Can I have my demonstration?
- Certainly.
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00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,760
And then uses it to give chase
to Scaramanga
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who is, completely coincidentally,
driving another AMC car.
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00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,040
Where the hell have they got to?
324
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Scaramanga was on the opposite
riverbank
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and making a clean getaway.
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00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,000
You goofed, boy.
327
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,600
Now, up until this moment,
328
00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:03,200
the little Hornet's only claim
to fame was that it was available
with denim seat covers!
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00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,200
All that was about to change!
330
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,200
- You're not thinking that...
- I sure am, boy!
331
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,560
Ever heard of Evel Knievel?
332
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:28,960
Not only was the astro spiral jump
the most spectacular Bond stunt yet,
333
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:33,880
it was also the first car stunt
to be worked out using computers.
334
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:39,720
However, it still needed
a human being in the hot seat.
335
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:45,240
The car that they drove, the
steering wheel was in the centre.
336
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,920
It had to be very carefully
balanced.
337
00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,680
It also needed a huge run up.
338
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:56,680
They did it at 49 miles an hour
or something,
339
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,840
and it had to be really spot on.
340
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,000
We had divers, we had ambulances,
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00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,840
we had air ambulances.
342
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:10,080
You know, because this was not
tested, if you follow my meaning.
343
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,240
But, on the day,
344
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:17,320
the driver had to dash back
to America for family reasons
345
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,520
and the mechanic said,
"All right, I'll do it."
346
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,920
And this very brave fellow
who'd never done it before
347
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:30,000
just came down and that was it.
348
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,440
- And it was one take. - One take.
349
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,480
And Cubby, ever generous,
350
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,560
went up to him with a roll
of 100 bills.
351
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,520
And he said, "There."
352
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,880
And the guy said,
"Can I do it again?"
353
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,120
The car thrills weren't over,
though.
354
00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:52,560
Because after Bond's spiral jump,
Scaramanga makes his escape
355
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,320
in dramatic fashion.
356
00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:11,680
This is the car you see in the air
in the film.
357
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:16,040
The Bond producers, ever proud
of their record of doing things
for real,
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00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,840
had wanted to use an actual
flying car, an AVE Mizar,
359
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,960
which was a Cessna light aircraft
mated to a Ford Pinto.
360
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,280
But shortly before filming began,
361
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,480
the inventors of the AVE were in a
routine flight in their creation
362
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,160
when the plane bit sort of came away
363
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,600
and the two chaps found themselves
flying at quite a height
364
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,520
in a second-hand Ford Pinto.
365
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,800
Sadly, both of them were killed
366
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:44,480
and the Bond people retreated to
the safety of a model flying car.
367
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,840
So far, then, the films of the '70s
368
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,520
had given us some excellent
car stunts
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00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:57,520
but what they hadn't given us was
a car to match the Goldfinger DB5.
370
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,600
A car that was a star
in its own right.
371
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:07,120
However, in the next film,
The Spy Who Loved Me,
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all that was about to change.
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Observe, Mr Bond,
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00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,720
the instruments of Armageddon.
375
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:20,400
This time, Bond is up against
the web-fingered baddy, Stromberg,
376
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,880
who has the modest ambition
of blowing up the world,
377
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:28,480
and then starting a new civilisation
under the sea.
378
00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:33,600
Stopping him is a formidable
challenge, and to help him,
379
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,880
Bond is issued with a new car.
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00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,840
A Lotus Esprit.
381
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,760
Now, the baddy's lair
was in Sardinia.
382
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,960
And when Q arrived there to give
Bond his new Lotus,
383
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:58,600
007 drove off before Q could give
him the usual briefing
384
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,320
on how all the gadgets worked.
385
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:04,120
- One or two rather special
accessories... - Q, have I ever
let you down?
386
00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:05,680
Frequently!
387
00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:14,400
That was done deliberately,
because when the car unveiled
its party piece,
388
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,440
the Bond makers wanted the
cinema-goers to experience
389
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,320
a moment they would never forget.
390
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,920
MACHINE GUN FIRE
391
00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:29,000
Can you swim?
392
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,240
Unquestionably, your biggest Bond
car moment,
393
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:45,840
when it turns into a submarine.
394
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,360
Do you remember the response
at the time, how people received
that moment?
395
00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:51,040
- It was a...
- GASPS
396
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:58,320
That got applause from behind
the Iron Curtain, I'm sure.
397
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,480
And that was just the start of it,
398
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,640
because Q had stuffed the Lotus
full of weaponry.
399
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,200
And then when it came out of
the water,
400
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:17,280
lowered the window and dropped
a fish out,
401
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:22,680
and Cubby said, "How did the fish
get in there?"
402
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:27,040
We said, "Let's not worry about
how it got there!"
403
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,320
The Lotus was unquestionably
404
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:37,040
the first car since the DB5 that
could match 007 for screen presence.
405
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,440
And the story about how the Esprit
actually got into the film
406
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,560
is a tale worthy of Ian Fleming
himself.
407
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:48,040
The man we have to thank is a chap
called Don McCloughlin.
408
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,920
In the 1970s, he was the PR boss
at Lotus.
409
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:58,560
And when he heard from friends at
Pinewood that the Bond people wanted
a new car for their next film,
410
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,960
he, naturally enough,
wanted it to be a Lotus.
411
00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:09,520
The problem was, though, that with
the films now the most successful
franchise in the world,
412
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,640
everyone was fighting to get their
products into a Bond movie.
413
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:19,560
Don decided the only way to hook
the Bond people was, instead of
going begging to them,
414
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,000
get them to come to him.
415
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,120
And so one day he turned up at
Pinewood in a prototype Esprit.
416
00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:28,320
The car hadn't even gone on sale
yet.
417
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:33,200
And he deliberately taped over every
part of the car - the speedo, the
steering wheel, the gear knob -
418
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,280
that said the word Lotus.
419
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,200
He then parked the car
outside the Bond offices
420
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,160
and went off to see a friend
across the way.
421
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,200
Sure enough, when the Bond big-wigs
came outside at lunch time,
422
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,720
they saw his amazing-looking car
423
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:54,240
and immediately crowded round. But
they couldn't tell what it was.
424
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,080
And then Don came outside,
425
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:57,960
pushed his way through the crowd,
426
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,320
and deliberately avoiding answering
any of their questions,
427
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,200
simply got in the car and drove off.
428
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:09,880
He gambled that this tactic would
make the Bond people desperate
to find out what the car was
429
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,520
and come after it.
430
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,400
It took a pair of 007-sized cojones,
431
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,200
but it worked.
432
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:24,160
Besides Don, there's also another
unsung hero in the Lotus story.
433
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:30,200
When the Bond crew started filming
the chase sequence in Sardinia,
434
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,280
the stunt driver was struggling
to make the Lotus look exciting
on camera
435
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,280
because it was so grippy.
436
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,240
Watching this problem unfold
437
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:45,400
was Lotus employee Roger Becker, who
delivered the Esprit to the set.
438
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,800
To make it slide, you've got to be
going very quick
439
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:54,000
and taking the car up to and beyond
its limit on a corner.
440
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,840
And that was something that
the stunt driver, he somehow
couldn't quite handle.
441
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:04,480
And I guess the real turning point
was what was a very simple shot,
442
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,640
two or 300 yards up the road
was a right-hand corner
443
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,240
and then driving up the hill
into the next chase scenes.
444
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,360
And mysteriously, the stunt driver
had disappeared.
445
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,640
So the camera crew who were parked
up on top of a hill
446
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,080
said, "Well, bring the car up
anyhow."
447
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,640
So I jumped in the car, absolutely
flailed it up the road,
448
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:29,400
slid it round this corner,
up the hill, onto this dirt area
where they were parked,
449
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,640
all sideways, and when the dust
settled,
450
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,760
there's the first director and
assistant director standing there
451
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,760
and they said, "Would you mind
going and doing that again,
452
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,560
"and this time, we'll have
the cameras rolling!"
453
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:48,640
From that moment on,
Roger was deputised
as James Bond's stunt driver.
454
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:57,920
The most hair-raising part
was the helicopter chase
455
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,640
because it was close.
456
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,920
And I guess the most exciting part
of all
457
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,160
was the pass underneath
the helicopter.
458
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,160
I come round a left-hand corner with
explosions going on all around me
459
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,680
and then you look up and there's
this helicopter pointing at you
460
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,680
at a height off the ground
461
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,720
that I was absolutely convinced
was not enough.
462
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,600
And you've got to drive straight
at it at 70, 80 miles an hour.
463
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:29,440
There's only one thing you can do.
Put your foot down as hard
as you can and close your eyes!
464
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,560
But, as exciting
as the chopper chase was,
465
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,560
it's the submarine sequence
that raises the most interesting
question.
466
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,280
Namely what, in Bond's
fantasy car world,
467
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,520
is actually possible
in the real world?
468
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,520
You see, when the Bond people came
up with that amazing underwater
Lotus sequence,
469
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,400
for all their incredible skills,
470
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,880
they were never able to make a real,
working submarine car.
471
00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:00,040
So some of it was made using the
shell of an Esprit with two divers
inside it,
472
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,800
and the other bits were filmed
using these models.
473
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:08,160
The bubbles coming out of the back
were actually Alka Seltzer tablets
dissolving!
474
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:17,680
Well, let's see if today we can get
by without the indigestion tablets.
475
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,960
Because I can't think of a better
50th birthday present
476
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:27,880
than for us to make that Holy Grail
of Bond cars a living, breathing
reality.
477
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,480
And with this magnificent machine,
478
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,520
we may well have done just that.
479
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,240
Now, the more alert viewers
will already have noticed
480
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,720
that this is not, in fact,
a Lotus Esprit,
481
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,960
but a Lotus Excel.
482
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:50,680
That's because our Bond submarine
car has been lovingly hand-crafted
on a budget!
483
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,240
And an Excel is really way cheaper.
484
00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:02,200
And likewise for budgetary reasons,
485
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,840
the location for our maiden voyage
is not Sardinia,
486
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,480
but a reservoir neat Matlock.
487
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,960
Before I head out into that warm,
sapphire-blue water,
488
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:25,200
let me talk you through the features
of the world's first working -
hopefully - submarine car.
489
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,520
First, the windscreen, which would
cave in under pressure from
the water.
490
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:32,640
That's been replaced with a special
plastic used in aircraft windows
491
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:36,280
and for the visors of astronauts'
space helmets.
492
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:40,040
Then, despite the fact that Lotuses
are legendary for never leaking,
493
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:44,480
we have taken the precaution
of fitting it with a glass fibre
inner skin.
494
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,600
Yes, that has compromised
the practicality a little,
495
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,440
but we thought it worthwhile.
496
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,800
Then propulsion. These thrusters
underwater will be driven by
electric motors.
497
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,800
WHIRRING
498
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,200
And finally, ballast.
499
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,040
To compensate for the amount of air
inside the car,
500
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,600
we will have to add a lot of weight
to make it sink.
501
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,880
And after much scientific thought
and calculation,
502
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,200
we've come up with a neat and clever
solution.
503
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,960
Filling the tyres with concrete.
504
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:14,840
There is much more to talk about,
505
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,280
but let's get underway
and do that on the move.
506
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:23,240
But since the launch preparations
take a little time,
507
00:34:23,240 --> 00:34:26,120
let us return now
to Sir Roger Moore.
508
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,720
So I absolutely have to ask,
do you have a favourite?
509
00:34:29,720 --> 00:34:32,280
- Of all the cars? - All the Bond cars.
510
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,320
The little two-stroke
whatever it was.
511
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,360
The Citroen 2CV? - Yeah. - Really?! Why?
512
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,200
Because it didn't matter
if you hit it.
513
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:52,160
Roger's beloved 2CV stars in
For Your Eyes Only,
514
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,640
- when a Keystone Cops-style chase...
- Hold tight!
515
00:34:55,640 --> 00:35:01,280
..called for something cheap
and tough that could go off-road
and out-fox the big boys.
516
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:12,600
And actually, maybe Roger's choice
isn't such a bad one.
517
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,480
Especially if you've always fancied
owning a Bond car on a budget!
518
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,280
It is a bit of a come-down!
519
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:24,240
Nevertheless the 2CV
is a bona fide Bond car.
520
00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:28,560
A good one will set you back
about �6,000
521
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,560
plus all of your dignity.
522
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,720
So I don't know, you might want
to give this one a miss.
523
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:38,560
Another option is the Renault 11
from A View to a Kill,
524
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,000
since a good one costs
around �2,000.
525
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:48,480
However, if you're going to be
picky, you really should have it
with the Bond modifications...
526
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:54,560
..which do take away some of
the 11's famed practicality!
527
00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:00,520
No. If Top Gear were to recommend
a Bond car on a budget,
528
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,560
then it could only be one of these.
529
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,560
The Alfa Romeo GTV.
530
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:15,240
The GTV appears in Octopussy, when
Bond has to rush to an air base
531
00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:18,440
to warn everyone of an atomic bomb
about to go off
532
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,600
and he nicks one of these to do so.
533
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,240
SPEAKS GERMAN
534
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:31,520
Now, younger viewers might be
thinking, "Why didn't he just borrow
somebody's mobile phone?"
535
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,960
But this was 1983,
536
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,520
so the car would have been a lot
smaller and easier to steal
537
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,480
than a mobile phone of the day!
538
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,160
There are no fancy car stunts
in the GTV sequence.
539
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:49,520
But the Alfa does, as you'd expect,
give some cracking driving moments.
540
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,080
The sort of thing the purist
Ian Fleming would have approved of.
541
00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:03,920
I can't understand why there wasn't
more Alfa action in Bond's life.
542
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,040
Well, I can.
543
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,840
He'd forever be arriving at the
baddy's hollowed-out volcano
on the back of a tow truck!
544
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,280
But, even so...
545
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:16,560
Today, a good one of these
will set you back about �8,000.
546
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,880
Plus a million or so in maintenance.
547
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,800
But it is the Bond car to have.
548
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,600
It's all so boring here, Margot.
549
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,280
There's nothing but playboys
and tennis pro's.
550
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,080
If only I could find a real man.
551
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:40,960
In 1987, Roger Moore was replaced by
Timothy Dalton.
552
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,560
I need to use your phone.
553
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,880
She'll call you back.
554
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,800
Keen to take 007 back to his tough,
no-nonsense roots,
555
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:55,760
the producers introduced the new
Bond with a tough, no-nonsense
car sequence.
556
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,960
And most important of all,
reunited him with an old friend.
557
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:09,600
"Dear Mr Broccoli, I thoroughly
enjoyed meeting you and Michael
Wilson on Friday
558
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,840
"and write to confirm my
understanding of the agreement
between us
559
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,480
"relating to the arrangements
for motor cars
560
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,400
"in the forthcoming Bond film."
561
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:18,920
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
562
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:20,560
Blah.
563
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,440
"Yours, very sincerely,
564
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,040
"Victor Gauntlet, Chairman,
565
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,080
"Aston Martin."
566
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:36,080
Bond's new Aston Martin,
a V8 Volante,
567
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,200
was an update of his old DB5.
568
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:43,200
And likewise, his gadgets were
a re-boot of the ones seen
in Goldfinger.
569
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,160
Instead of a mechanical
tyre shredder,
570
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,080
the job was now done
by a laser beam.
571
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:54,720
What happened?
572
00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:56,280
Salt corrosion.
573
00:38:56,280 --> 00:39:00,240
And instead of machine guns,
there were now guided missiles.
574
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,760
Sadly, there was no ejector seat.
575
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:10,480
Time to leave.
576
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,920
But Q made up for that
with the car's winter pack!
577
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,680
Brace yourself.
578
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,240
The Aston would end up
meeting a fiery death.
579
00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:40,320
But by evoking the spirit
of the Goldfinger DB5,
580
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,120
it had helped make audiences
comfortable with the new Bond.
581
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:49,800
Which was a bit of a shame,
582
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:54,160
because despite some sterling
vehicular work,
583
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,800
Dalton was replaced
after just two films...
584
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,360
..by Pierce Brosnan.
585
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,880
Vodka Martini. Shaken, not stirred.
586
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,560
This was the mid-'90s.
587
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,480
Bond had been around for 16 movies
588
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,840
and was facing tougher competition
than ever
589
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,680
from films like Die Hard
and True Lies.
590
00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:34,640
The Bond people responded
by filling the Brosnan films
591
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,920
with spectacular action sequences
592
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,920
that were the equal of anything else
on the cinema screen.
593
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,480
Q's not gonna like this!
594
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,200
In fact,
595
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,440
there was only one area
that let the side down.
596
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,080
The cars.
597
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,960
007 was taken out of
his Aston Martin
598
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:01,000
and put for the first time in a BMW.
599
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:07,160
And now we come to the low point
of Bond motoring.
600
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,560
In GoldenEye, he was given
this hairdresser's Z3.
601
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,480
On screen for two minutes
and did nothing.
602
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,640
In The World Is Not Enough,
603
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:23,440
he had this Z8, which drives
about 50 feet, fires a rocket,
604
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,720
then gets cut in half.
605
00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:28,600
They were just a bit pointless.
606
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,920
And then, when they did put him
in an Aston,
607
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,240
it was terrible!
608
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,760
Here we can clearly see a chase
featuring a Ferrari 355,
609
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,880
one of the best handling modern
Ferraris ever,
610
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,160
and Bond in an Aston Martin
that's 30 years older,
611
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,280
somehow keeping up.
612
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,080
I don't think so.
613
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,280
Admittedly, in Tomorrow Never Dies,
614
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,960
the car action does perk up.
615
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,720
Your new BMW 750.
616
00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:07,520
All the usual refinements.
Machine guns,
617
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,640
rockets, the GPS tracking system.
618
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,640
Capable of being driven by Bond
via his mobile phone,
619
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:22,360
the 7 series unleashes its many
gizmos during an explosive chase
in a car park.
620
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:30,480
But the fact remains we were still
watching the world's most dashing
secret agent
621
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:34,240
driving around in a sales manager's
company car.
622
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:40,400
Eventually, in Brosnan's final film,
Die Another Day,
623
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,240
order was restored.
624
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,520
Reunited with his rightful mark,
625
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,880
this time in a Vanquish,
626
00:42:55,880 --> 00:43:02,440
Bond puts the Aston to good use
in a spectacular car chase
on a frozen lake in Iceland.
627
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:08,600
When we decided there was going
to be a car chase on ice,
628
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,320
my heart sank cos I thought, "I have
to come up with something exciting
on the lake.
629
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,520
"You won't have a street
full of shoppers,
630
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:19,000
"or sidewalk cafes that cars
that can go through."
631
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,800
So I thought, "If we send both
protagonists out equally matched,
632
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:28,160
"then it's like a really good
sword-fencing competition
633
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,960
"where each one foils the other
every time."
634
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:34,680
So they both had rockets, and each
rocket cancels each other out.
635
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,960
And then we had machine guns
and mortars vying for each other.
636
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:41,240
So it was really just a competition
between two very talented people.
637
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:44,640
And that was the theme.
638
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,640
And day-to-day, the ice had to be,
what was it, ten inches thick?
639
00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:00,360
Ten inches thick on the ice.
Couldn't have more than four people
standing together.
640
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,360
Just the weight on the ice.
641
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:08,040
Because it's scary enough anyway.
The ice is like a trampoline.
The cars gave a trampoline effect.
642
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:09,800
And as it happens, during the chase,
643
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,240
we had a little argument
with an iceberg!
644
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:20,640
We came off pretty much the same way
without actually sinking,
but the same way the Titanic did.
645
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:22,440
It destroyed us!
646
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:27,120
Although Q had loaded the Aston
with high-tech weapons,
647
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:30,280
they weren't its most amazing
feature.
648
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:35,920
Aston Martin call it the Vanquish.
We call it the Vanish.
649
00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:41,640
Oh. Very good.
650
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:49,280
Now, some critics complained that
the invisibility cloak
was a gadget too far,
651
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,920
that it was taking Bond
into science fiction.
652
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:03,160
But the fact is,
the Bond people hadn't lost the plot
653
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,600
as we shall now demonstrate,
654
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,000
with a bit of Top Gear engineering.
655
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,560
Just like the Aston Martin,
656
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:15,560
we, too, have based our creation
on a classic British name.
657
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:19,240
It's a Ford Transit. Because one,
well, it is cheaper,
658
00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:22,120
two, its slab sides
are the perfect place
659
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,400
for us to fit these flat-screen TVs.
660
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,400
Here's how it works.
This is the clever science bit.
661
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:35,560
Cameras dotted on each side will be
filming everything around
the car/van
662
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:40,200
as it goes along, live, and relaying
those images to the screens.
663
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,760
Thus making the car/van blend into
the background
664
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,040
and rendering it invisible.
665
00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:52,560
In order to prove that
the technology works,
666
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:56,680
I shall now demonstrate it
with a drive through town.
667
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:02,360
OK, so here we are in town.
668
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,960
There are plenty of people about.
669
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,920
Right now, all they can see is a van
670
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,640
that looks like it's been covered
in glue and driven through Currys.
671
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,320
But, if I turn this switch here,
672
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,320
everything changes.
673
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,080
Invisibility cloak...
674
00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:20,200
..descend!
675
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,120
Unfortunately, because of the power
needed to operate the plasmas,
676
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:36,440
there has to be a chap in the back
operating quite a sizeable
generator.
677
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:42,040
Nevertheless, I have simply
vanished!
678
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,600
Yep, totally transparent.
679
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,800
I am a phantom,
680
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:50,400
a spectre,
681
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,640
drifting through town,
as invisible as the wind.
682
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,960
They're not shouting at me.
They don't know I'm here.
683
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:03,720
They're just having a laugh
cos one of them said a funny joke
or something, I guess.
684
00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:08,960
The feeling of anonymity,
of invisibility,
685
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:10,880
is absolutely, oh...
686
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:15,600
Now, that's... She only pulled out
on me because she couldn't see me.
687
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,040
These are people having lunch.
688
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:19,960
They have no idea.
689
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:23,000
I could drive right up and listen in
to their conversation
690
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,520
as a spy might,
and they wouldn't know.
691
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:32,600
My one worry is how we would deal
with insurance claims
692
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,600
because obviously nobody would have
seen me
693
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:42,200
to know that it was me that crashed
into them because I am invisible.
694
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,440
Yep, totally transparent.
695
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:49,480
So there we are.
696
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,160
Proof that an invisible car
697
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:54,680
is something that we could actually
see on the roads.
698
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,680
And now we must move on
to the current James Bond.
699
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:06,000
Vodka Martini. - Shaken, not stirred?
- Do I look like I give a damn?
700
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,800
Daniel Craig's first film,
Casino Royale,
701
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:18,240
ushered in an era of tougher,
more realistic action.
702
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:23,800
And this no-nonsense tone
703
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:27,080
also gave us one of Bond's
most brutal car stunts.
704
00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:33,920
This is the Aston he drove, an Aston
Martin DBS. We'll come back to it
in a minute.
705
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,760
But first, let us delve
into the book Casino Royale.
706
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,560
In it, there is a passage in which
Bond is giving chase to some baddies
707
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:43,400
who've kidnapped the girl he loves,
Vesper Lynd.
708
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,120
This is what happens.
709
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,360
"He was only doing about 60
as he approached the black patch
710
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,400
"across the right-hand crown
of the road.
711
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,720
"Even so, there was no time
to save himself.
712
00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:56,880
"There was suddenly a small carpet
of glinting steel spikes
713
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:58,720
"right under his off-side wing.
714
00:48:58,720 --> 00:49:02,720
"Then he was on top of it. The
heavy car whirled across the road
715
00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:04,480
"in a tearing dry skid.
716
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,960
"And then it reared slowly up,
717
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:10,360
"its front wheels spinning and its
great headlight searching the sky.
718
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:14,120
"It seemed to paw at the heavens
like a giant preying mantis.
719
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,800
"Then, slowly, it toppled over
backwards and fell,
720
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,000
"with a splintering crash
of coachwork and glass."
721
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:27,560
For the film, the producers wanted
to recreate and up-date that moment.
722
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,160
And boy, did they!
723
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:36,200
On the storyboards, the plan was for
Bond to give chase in the Aston,
724
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,360
come across Vesper lying
in the middle of the road
725
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,000
and then swerve violently
to avoid her
726
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,120
causing the car to roll.
727
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:50,680
The stuntmen rehearsed the roll-over
with an old BMW 5 series
728
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:52,320
which flipped easily.
729
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:54,960
But when they tried it
with the actual car,
730
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,000
the more aerodynamically-shaped
Aston
731
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,320
just wouldn't roll.
732
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,480
So they thought, "Let's fit a cannon
underneath
733
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,000
"that'll fire into the ground
and flip the car.
734
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,320
"That should do it."
735
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,640
It did!
736
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:37,480
In fact, by the time the Aston
came to rest,
737
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:39,480
it had set a new world record
738
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,120
for the number of rolls
in a car stunt.
739
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:47,960
'And cut it!'
740
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:55,160
This desire for hard realism
741
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:58,920
can also be seen in the epic car
chase which forms the opening
sequence
742
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,480
of the latest Bond film, Skyfall.
743
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:11,320
The chase sequence in Skyfall
does that relentless thing.
744
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:13,160
It just builds and builds
and builds.
745
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:15,360
It starts here on the streets
in Istanbul
746
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:19,480
with the baddy in a Audi A5 being
chased by Bond in a Land Rover
Defender.
747
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,440
Then after much bashing and smashing
and tyre squealing,
748
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,400
the Audi ends up on its side.
749
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:36,160
And because the Bond people
are no fans of CGI,
750
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:40,320
preferring to make their car chases
in the old-fashioned analogue way,
751
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,360
they do get through
quite a lot of metal!
752
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:52,440
15 Audis alone will meet their maker
in this sequence.
753
00:51:53,720 --> 00:51:55,560
So what kind of Bond baddy are you?
754
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:56,760
Uh...
755
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:00,080
A cocky one. You know,
he loves what he's doing.
756
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:07,320
He's a great driver, a great rider,
a great shooter and he's a great
fighter.
757
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,000
And I have the best teachers.
758
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,960
I have Ben Collins teaching me
how to drive an Audi!
759
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:18,040
Yes, our former Stig,
760
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:21,360
having doubled for Daniel Craig
in Quantum of Solace...
761
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:25,240
is now a Bond driving instructor.
762
00:52:25,240 --> 00:52:29,440
And also the wheel man in the very
latest type of stunt vehicle.
763
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:32,800
Come on, talk us through it.
Nice t-shirt!
764
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,080
Thanks. Just need to update that
a bit.
765
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:38,280
- Did you pay for it? - Yeah,
it was in the sale! Good.
766
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,320
So how does this work? What is it?
767
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:42,560
It's a standard Land Rover, pimped,
768
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,520
they've played with the suspension,
given it more power.
769
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,080
On top of that is the pod. That's
where I sit and where I drive.
770
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:49,800
All the controls are based up there.
771
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:54,520
The way it works, the actress
or actor can sit inside
and they can do their dialogue
772
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:56,480
without worrying about steering.
773
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,880
- It's budget, that. - It's mega.
That's why the car chases are real.
774
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:02,640
So you taught Daniel to drive,
didn't you, for films.
775
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:06,360
Fast, yeah. - Yeah?
- He's got a heavy right foot.
776
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,720
He picked it up really quickly.
I met him down at Dunsfold
777
00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:12,520
and taught him drifting and took him
through an assault course.
778
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,400
Handbrake turns, J turns.
779
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,960
Occasionally I had to tell him to
try and stay off the grass,
not to spin too much.
780
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:20,160
It's amazing stuff to do.
You should write a book(!)
781
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,720
I'm just thinking the same thing.
782
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:26,720
After the Audi ends up on its side,
783
00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:29,440
the baddy and Bond commandeer
some crashed motorbikes
784
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:32,320
and continue the chase
on two wheels.
785
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:37,760
So the motorcycles come up
these stairs here
786
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:39,720
into this area.
787
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:44,920
We had to be very careful because of
the archaeological treasures
that are in this temple.
788
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:48,520
We've been having a problem
making sure we preserve them.
789
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:50,400
We can't touch anything in here.
790
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:53,360
This is one of the oldest arches
in Istanbul.
791
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,560
It dates from about
the 10th century.
792
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,280
It's restored. It's Roman up to here
793
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:01,240
and 10th century all round here.
794
00:54:01,240 --> 00:54:05,960
Inside here, you see the brickwork's
been restored in the 1900s
795
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:09,440
but otherwise,
it's completely original.
796
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,960
And from this side you can see
the great...
797
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:15,720
I bought that completely, Michael!
798
00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:17,560
Totally. I totally bought that.
799
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:20,280
I was thinking how does that work?
800
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:22,640
We try to make it pretty real.
801
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:24,640
We try... We still do stunts,
802
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,600
but try to make them look like
they're not stunts.
803
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,040
They look like they could happen.
804
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,480
And that "being real" thing,
805
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,800
- we want to watch a Bond film and
think, "Somebody's doing that."
- Right.
806
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,960
Someone's doing the stunt.
It may not be the actor,
807
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,280
but some human being is doing it.
808
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:47,560
The human being doubling for Daniel
Craig in the bike sequence
809
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:49,800
is stunt rider Robbie Maddison,
810
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:52,720
whose skills will be tested
to their limit
811
00:54:52,720 --> 00:54:56,440
because the bike chase doesn't just
happen on the streets.
812
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:01,240
But also up here,
on the ancient city rooftops.
813
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,240
The opening scene,
we come down this pathway
814
00:55:05,240 --> 00:55:09,160
in front of us here. I'm chasing
the bad guy as fast as I can go.
815
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:13,280
- What pathway? Seriously, what
pathway? - These little ones here.
816
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:14,960
On bikes. OK.
817
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,280
What kind of speeds are you hitting
on these walls?
818
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:29,360
Fourth gear, we're probably doing
about 70 kilometres an hour
819
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:33,840
on the roof. So we're coming along
the pathways and jumping
some of the rooftops.
820
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:45,080
So if you come up here slightly
too fast on this side
821
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:46,960
and get your tyre in one of
these ridges,
822
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,680
you're going to jump off there
and there's nowhere to land.
823
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:53,000
It's one of those jumps where either
you get it right
824
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:55,720
- or you pay the consequences.
- It's really bad.
825
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:07,680
The dangerous part is that we've got
no helmets on.
826
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:10,360
So the bad guy's got no helmet,
Bond's got no helmet.
827
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:16,760
But I guess Bond can't stop, buy
a crash helmet, reject it cos it
doesn't fit, buy one that fits...
828
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:18,600
He's not expecting a bike ride,
is he?
829
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:29,120
After the bike sequence, the chase
reaches a spectacular climax
830
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:30,720
on the roof of a train.
831
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,240
And as far as cars go,
832
00:56:44,240 --> 00:56:47,280
there's also another treat in store.
833
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,360
This DB5 I'm driving
834
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,920
is not the actual one
used in Goldfinger.
835
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:59,120
But it is the actual one used
in Skyfall.
836
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:00,680
Which means
837
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:02,640
it's back!
838
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:15,520
And I suppose that's completely
inconspicuous(!)
839
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:20,040
It's no secret we've got
the old DB5 in this.
840
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:22,880
You know, the buttons are all there.
They're in the console.
841
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:26,360
I get to play with them. We blow
a few things up in this movie,
842
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:28,600
- but that's... You know. - No way!
843
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:31,360
- Explosions and things?
- We've got a few of them!
844
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:32,800
But on the car chase thing,
845
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,200
- how did you find it? Did you get
to grips with it? - I love it.
846
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:38,440
It's, you know, getting the chance
to drive some beautiful cars,
847
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,680
as well as some clapped-out cars,
848
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:45,520
it's like a schoolboy dream.
849
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:47,720
I get to wreck a few as well.
850
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:49,440
I've wrecked a few expensive cars.
851
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:53,000
Our old Stig did some stunt-driving
training with you.
852
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,680
I'm not blowing smoke, but he did
say you were very good.
853
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,680
He's a lovely man. He is on
a retainer, though, by the way!
854
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:05,040
And now that Skyfall has brought us
to the present day,
855
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:10,000
it's time to return to Matlock
and fire up our birthday present.
856
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:13,760
HMS Heath Robinson!
857
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:17,920
Good. Solar.
858
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:22,480
On. Deploying dive planes.
859
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:24,360
Oh, yeah.
WHIRRING
860
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:27,080
Listen to that comforting Bond noise
861
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:30,800
that tells you something somewhere
is making mechanical magic happen.
862
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:38,840
Nothing else to do. We are ready.
This is it.
863
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:47,040
Obviously I have switched my engine
off, so I'm rolling it.
864
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:50,080
But as soon as I hit that water,
I can fire up my thrusters
865
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:51,640
and away we go!
866
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,280
Oh, that feels peculiar!
867
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:59,560
I'm very conscious of the fact that
this is a Top Gear creation!
868
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:06,360
Here comes the w... Oh!
869
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:10,960
It's only working, isn't it?
870
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,400
I watched the film as a kid.
871
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:36,680
And now, for real,
872
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:42,400
I'm in a James Bond-style submarine
Lotus.
873
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:49,840
I'm controlling it with these
levers.
874
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:52,840
These steer the dive planes
on the back.
875
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:56,200
The buttons on top operate
the thrusters.
876
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:58,920
The thing is positively buoyant.
It wants to float.
877
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:01,320
But the thrusters
and the dive planes
878
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:03,000
drive us under the water.
879
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:08,080
Now, you'll notice I haven't
actually drowned, and yet we built
this thing.
880
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:11,520
That's because the air that's
rushing into the cabin right now
881
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:14,280
is pushing out the water.
882
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:17,960
So... Although there are
a few leaks,
883
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,160
there are a few leaks happening,
884
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:22,960
but this is, well, there's no other
word for it,
885
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:24,840
quite simply brilliant.
886
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,000
It actually works.
887
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:36,920
And now, sadly, it's time to end
the show.
888
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,680
Looking back over 50 years of Bond,
889
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:46,800
yeah, there have been movies
with maybe better car chases.
890
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:48,160
Bullitt and Ronin.
891
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:55,520
But I don't think anyone has done as
much to give the cars character,
892
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:57,600
to make them personalities
in their own right.
893
01:00:57,600 --> 01:01:01,640
And I don't think anyone has done
so many amazing things with cars
894
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:03,520
and done them for real.
895
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:07,200
Basically, I'm saying I don't think
anyone has done as much as
the Bond people
896
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:11,720
to make sure cars have their own
plinth in the cinema hall of fame.
897
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:15,440
Thanks for watching, and goodbye!
898
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:21,000
Yeah, that is a leak now.
899
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:22,320
I... I'm...
900
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:26,800
ORCHESTRAL MUSIC: "We Have
All The Time In The World"
901
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:50,960
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