Måned: juni 2018
“The World is Not Enough”: Scopes reportage fra gallapremieren (1999)
REPORTAGE
Søndag 5. december 1999 holdt United International Pictures gallapremiere på James Bond 007-filmen "The World is Not Enough" i Imperial-biografen i København. Æresgæst ved arrangementet var skuespilleren Ulrich Thomsen, der medvirkede i filmen som Davidov, og den engelske instruktør Michael Apted.
Filmmagasinet Scope.dk dækkede begivenheden, der også bød på musikalsk optræden af Michael Carøe. Nedenstående reportage fra premieren har ikke været tilgængelig på Scope.dk siden 2001.
En glamourøs Bond-aften
Scope trak i det store skrud og var med til gallapremieren på det nyeste kapitel om mesterspionen og kvindebedåreren James Bond - "The World Is Not Enough"
Af Puk Bang Jensen
Håret var højt og smokingen presset i anledning af Bond-cirkusets indtog i København. Imperial lagde rammer til et storstilet arrangement, der bød på sprudlende champagne, festklædte celebriteter og rytmisk musik. Michael Carøe og band stod for en let opvarmning med en samling af gamle Bond-slagere, og Elisabeth Wille havde fornøjelsen at introducere aftenens hovedpersoner. Pierce Brosnan var stjernen på lærredet, mens Ulrich Thomsen så absolut tog sig af den tjans på hjemmebanen i Imperial. Desuden var filmens engelske instruktør Michael Apted også mødt op for at kaste internationalt glans over begivenheden.
Favorit-Bond
Det var Bonds store aften, men med antallet af fremmødte deltagere fra de to Robinson-ekspeditioner kunne man godt få et fejlagtigt indtryk af at være med til et gensynsparty for tidligere øboere. Midt i vrimlen af tv-stjerner var det dog muligt at spotte nogle af Ulrich Thomsens kolleger fra den danske filmverden, og Scope satte sig for at lave en lille uvildig undersøgelse på et fuldstændigt usikkert grundlag: Hvem er den bedste skuespiller til at udføre 007's farefulde, men også behagelige gerninger?
“Die Another Day”: Urbans filmanmeldelse (2003)
FILMANMELDELSE
"Det hele er både flot og jævnt underholdende, men konceptet knager træt i fugerne," skrev gratisavisen Urbans filmanmelder Louise Kidde Sauntved i sin anmeldelse af "Die Another Day" (EON 2002), da filmen fik dansk biografpremiere 23. januar 2003.
Gengivet med venlig tilladelse af Louise Kidde Sauntved
“Lev og lad dø” (1973): Dansk repremiereplakat
“Agent 007 contra Goldfinger”: Dansk andenudgave (Grafisk forlag 1965)
“Lord of Misrule”: Christopher Lees danske forbindelse (2003)
Blandt de flere hundrede roller, Christopher Lee spillede i sin 70-årige karriere, var naturligvis Francisco Scaramanga i James Bond 007-filmen "Manden med den gyldne pistol" (The Man with the Golden Gun, EON 1974). Desuden var Christopher Lee stedfætter til James Bonds skaber, forfatteren Ian Fleming.
Christopher Lee havde også bånd til Danmark, til dels i kraft af sin kone, kunstmaleren og eks-fotomodellen Birgit "Gitte" Krøncke, som han var gift med fra 1961 til sin død i 2015. I sine erindringer, "Lord of Misrule", udgivet i 2003 af Orion Publishing, beretter Christopher Lee på side 196-199 om sit møde med Gitte Krøncke i 1960, deres første jul sammen i København, deres forlovelsesnat på Tuborgbryggeriet og deres besøg hos filmudlejeren og producenten Preben Philipsen på det fynske Nakkebølle slot:
"My wife does not care for golf and she cannot hold a tune. All the same, without golf and music we should never have met. The chain of causes which led to my marriage began with my friend Lionel Stubbs. We often went round the course together, and even more often I dropped into his flat next door to chat about golf and what the RAF was up to. One evening Lionel had a Danish friend with him who like himself was 'in hides and skins'. When the topic of tanners and trappers had given out, the Dane and I discovered a common passion in music.
Harry Rabinowitz (namesake of the conductor) had an encyclopaedic knowledge of music – in fact he wrote an encyclopaedia. I cannot fathom the technicalities. If somebody talks about the magnificent bowing and fingerwork, it is lost on me. Triple tonguing and pedal work are closed books to me. But Harry was uncanny. He not only knew all that but he could recognize any singer and give you his name, the label on the record and its number. He'd published a catalogue of pre-electric recordings. I used to test him on obscure Romanian tenors and so forth. We sat for hours together, engrossed, and soon had a rapport so close that his Brooklyn-born wife Sandy ironically suggested we ought to get married.
I replied that there was no bar in my case, since I was single. They both stared at me as if they had thought I had a secret wife. 'You're not married?' they exclaimed in unison. Married people cannot bear anybody to remain in a single state. In no time they were snowing me with comments on a dazzling Dane they knew who was the one person in the world for me. She was twenty-five and they couldn't bear her being single either. Her name was Birgit Kroencke and everyone knew her as Gitte. She was a daughter of the director of the Tuborg brewery in Copenhagen. She was a painter. She was a model who'd worked for Balmain, Balenciaga and Dior. They showed me radiant pictures to prove it. The red hair, the green eyes, the feline elegance, all haunted me. I avowed a half-wish to meet this paragon.
Having softened me up, they busily snowed Gitte, telling her the one person in the world for her was dying to meet her, and extolled me as a noble kind genius. They showed her a non-Hammer photograph and she said indifferently, 'That's a reasonably normal-looking man,' and tried to get on with her life. They gave her my address and number in London and when she flew over for a dance told me I must wait in for her call. I did what I had never done for any woman - I gave up my golf that Sunday and waited by the phone. The call never came. I said loudly, 'That's that!' Then I added, 'I've finished with this woman and never want to meet her again.'
“Agent 007 i Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste”: Dansk leje-VHS (1986)
I 1983 begyndte Metronome Video A/S at udgive James Bond 007-filmene på lejevideo (VHS) i Danmark på licens fra Warner Home Video.
Nedenfor ses VHS-omslaget til "Agent 007 i Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste", der kom på markedet i 1986. Forsiden er en bearbejdelse af Yves Thos' illustration, der blev brugt i den tyske kampagne ved biograflanceringen i december 1969. På den danske biografplakat, der var baseret på den amerikanske one sheet, var den nye Bond-skuespiller, George Lazenbys, ansigt skjult.
● Se de danske biografplakater til "Agent 007 i Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste"
Bemærk den let ændrede videotitel, "James Bond 007 i Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste". Desuden er Diana Riggs navn stavet forkert i bagsideteksten.
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