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Originally Posted by Kristian
You worked on From Russia With Love? Holy cow! What line of work are you in now and what was your involvement on Russia?
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AH.. I was just a kid at the time Kristian, knew nothing, - had just started college - National Film School.
Russia was the first feature film I knew anything about - and that was more accident than anything. My "involvement" on this was anything - literally *lol* Planting explosives at roadsides and covering em with cork, messing about with crashed copters and "arranging" em to look like they just fell from the sky - so they could then be blown up to add the final touch. Running around scrubland for days with kit behind the cameraman and ducking the undercarriage of a swooping copter as it supposed to be targetting Bond. (That was dangerous shit - Connery actually got his shoulder knocked out by that copter in reality - the undercarriage clipped him on the way by and we took a break from that crap. He was very lucky the copter never hit his head.)
There were a lot of "mechanical devices" on that movie - trains, boats, planes, copters blah and was effects-intensive, but generally more "real" than the hi-tech movies that followed. There were also a good few accidents, but not too serious - prob the main one that troubled the producers was when the leading lady (Daniela Bianchi) got two black eyes in an accident
Dunno Kristian.. think Russia was prob a "cop out" for me - it was the first thing that came along, tho others were planned at that time. Was supposed to have gone on a documentary shoot to the Congo (Uganda) and into Edi Amin's territory where there was a war/killings going on at the time. The guy who ended up replacing me as one of the cameramen was eventually shot in the leg and still has a problem with that leg. Makes ya wonder about luck
