The BBC has an audio-visual slideshow with Sir Ken Adam discussing his absolutely huge set designs for the James Bond movies – hollowed-out volcanoes for ninjas to climb into, rockets, monorails, flooded sets with submarines, pure fantasy fun executed on a scale few modern movies are ever likely to repeat because of cost and the fact they don’t need to build a huge set for real when they can CGI it in later. Which just makes Ken’s sets all the more amazing, really.
(the famous hollowed out volcano lair for You Only Live Twice, designed by Ken Adam and (c) Eon. Over the top? Maybe. Genius? Certainly)
Fri, Oct 31, 2008
Film, TV and radio