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Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society
Club Notice - 03/16/01 -- Vol. 19, No. 37
Chair/Librarian: Mark Leeper, 732-817-5619, mleeper@avaya.com
Factotum: Evelyn Leeper, 732-332-6218, eleeper@lucent.com
Distinguished Heinlein Apologist: Rob Mitchell, robmitchell@avaya.com
HO Chair Emeritus: John Jetzt, jetzt@avaya.com
HO Librarian Emeritus: Nick Sauer, njs@lucent.com
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1. We are continuing the discussion of the lyrics to the title
songs from the James Bond films.
The song for THUNDERBALL may have been the best Bond ditty ever.
Just about every line describes Largo, the villain. The only bad
line is the one working in the title. "He strikes like
Thunderball." Who or what is Thunderball and how does Thunderball
strike?
After this high point we fall to YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. The lyric
goes:
You only live twice or so it seems,
One life for yourself and one for your dreams.
You drift through the years and life seems tame,
Till one dream appears and love is its name.
And love is a stranger who'll beckon you on,
Don't think of the danger or the stranger is gone.
This dream is for you, so pay the price.
Make one dream come true, you only live twice.
I don't think that is about anything in the film. I would
interpret the song for you but frankly, I cannot figure out what it
is talking about. There seems to be sort of an Australian
Aborigine philosophy there that you live half your life in the
Dreamtime. Then suddenly an invader from the Dreamtime shows up in
the wrong world and that is love. There is some concept that love
is both dangerous and expensive, but it is worth it because it has
your name on it. Besides you have to take one dream from the
Dreamtime and make it real in our world because there is just the
real world and the Dreamtime. I don't know what I'm talking about.
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE had no main title song, but it did
have a rather nice love song "We Have All The Time In The World"
that almost entirely makes sense in the context of the film. Of
course this lyric pictures a life that will get boring:
We have all the time in the world,
Just for love,
Nothing more, nothing less,
Only love.
It sounds like they will get bored with each other soon.
Now DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER has a song that restores some of the
earlier nuttiness.
Diamonds are forever,
They are all I need to please me,
They can stimulate and tease me,
They won't leave in the night,
I've no fear that they might desert me.
Diamonds are forever,
Hold one up and then caress it,
Touch it, stroke it and undress it,
I can see ev'ry part,
Nothing hides in the heart to hurt me.
I don't need love,
For what good will love do me?
Diamonds never lie to me,
For when love's gone,
They'll lustre on.
Diamonds are forever,
Sparkling round my little finger.
Unlike men, the diamonds linger;
Men are mere mortals who
Are not worth going to your grave for.
I don't need love,
For what good will love do me?
Diamonds never lie to me,
For when love's gone,
They'll lustre on.
Diamonds are forever, forever, forever.
Diamonds are forever, forever, forever.
Forever and ever.
Now the claim has been made that there is a male chauvinist taint
to the Bond films. Here clearly is a feminist song if I ever heard
one. Never mind the fact that the singer seems to have deep
psychological problems and in addition is doing things with
diamonds that not only seem rather kinky, they are bound to reduce
the value of the stones on the open market. Also her attitude will
probably ruin her social life as well as the luster on the
diamonds. These are images best not dwelled on.
That was the last time that Sean Connery would play James Bond for
Eon Productions. He did repeat the role in the remake of
THUNDERBALL for another set of filmmakers, but that does not really
count. I am getting into the swing so I will talk about the next
few next week and leave it go with that. [-mrl]
Mark Leeper
HO 1K-644 732-817-5619
mleeper@avaya.com
The secret of success is knowing whom to blame for your failure.
-- E. L. Kersten
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