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James Bond Sets, Locations, and Lairs
| Sets, Locations, Lairs | James Bond Location Map |
| They used to say that you could tell a musical was bad when the audience exited "whistling the sets." Well, the Bond series has always boasted sets that evoked whistles from its first film to the latest. Production designers like Ken Adam, Syd Cain, and Peter Lamont have pushed the envelope of what was possible and even improbable in film design with their nefarious lairs, gleaming command headquarters, and pristine offices. From underground grottoes to cities in space, the architects of Evil have made sure that both the Good and Bad Guys of Bond have had only the best 5-star accommodations. Their lavish designs have influenced real-world architecture so much that when scouting locations for Diamonds Are Forever, Ken Adam was astonished to find a Palm Springs house that he might have designed! And when Blofeld offers to buy Bond "a delicatessen in stainless steel" in For Your Eyes Only, it evoked in audiences memories of past film-sets' gleaming stanchions and single support staircases. On this page we pay tribute to the film designs of the Bond series from drawings on paper to their 3-D reality, and to the men who thought "outside the box" to present a slightly futuristic world of glamor, intrigue, and hidden surprises! |
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| Dr. No's Crab Key Facility Dr. No (1962) | Goldfinger's Laser Room Goldfinger (1964) | ||
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| SPECTRE Briefing Room Thunderball (1965) | |||
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| Blofeld's Volcano Lair You Only Live Twice (1967) | "Tiger" Tanaka's Office You Only Live Twice (1967) | ||
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| "Tiger Tanaka's Train You Only Live Twice (1967) | Dikko Henderson's Apartment You Only Live Twice (1967) | ||
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| Piz Gloria On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) | Willard Whyte's Penthouse (1971) | ||
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| The Liparus The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) | Atlantis The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) | ||
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| Drax's Venice Laboratory Moonraker (1979) | "The Great Chamber" Moonraker (1979) | ||
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| Dmeyers | Great idea | 12 | Apr 9 2008, 10:08 PM EDT by JustinAtheropinion | |
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Thread started: Jan 26 2008, 5:14 PM EST
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hey everyone - Greenarrow suggested this section to me and I thought the idea was too good to pass up. Wanna help out? suggestions on how we should organize it? By film? By best lair? I think Best Lair is probably a good place to start, there wasn't a featured lair in each film.
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| JustinAtheropinion | Italicide | 1 | Feb 17 2008, 6:39 PM EST by joshiorio | |
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Thread started: Feb 17 2008, 5:24 PM EST
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For some odd reason <HTML code> starting with the Atlantis Interior pictures, down through the Moonraker Launch facility, the "Italics" Code is in "Stuck" position. Can someone go up into the Jeffries Tube with a spanner and extract the little <i>, or put back the </i> that fell on the floor (no doubt during the last hit we took during the helicopter attack last week)?
<i>Thanks! </i>
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| JustinAtheropinion | Suggestion | 0 | Feb 3 2008, 2:00 PM EST by JustinAtheropinion | |
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Before we get too far afield on this page--I think it would be nice that if we have one of Adams' sketches for a set that we put up a picture in the same scale of what it looks like in the movie,as a comparison. That was the reasoning for putting up such big pictures of Atlantis and the Thunderball board room--there is SOME method to my madness--and notice, they're the same size.
I think we'll lose a big opportunity to compare and contrast if we don't.
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