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The Ssssnake With the Golden Gun poster - by Neiru
Poster by the delightful detail-nailing damsel, 
Neiru - go witness her wonderful work! [I'll link to her post of this poster, when/if she puts it up!]
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This poster is based upon this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gbejljhge.....enGun.jpg?dl=0
Guest starring:
Uthalla-Raptor as the ravishing raptor, Agent Mary Goodnight.
And
MatthiasRat as Nick Nack, the diminutive and dastardly French hench-butler.
Featuring a special appearance of [my old Pathfinder character] Slivernian Syrcuros as the villainous, silvery, sinister serpent: Scaramanga.
~
Hey all you dimension-hopping entertainment junkies! We've got a double-doozy for you, this time!
Today, October 5th, 2022, marks two parallel anniversaries in two different worlds, for two cinematic sister-series!
In one world, today is the 60th anniversary of something called 'The James Bond Film Franchise', as its first entry, 'Dr. No', was released on October 5th, 1962.
In another parallel dimension, the initial release of the first film in the 'Ames Sond 00S Cinema-Series' - 'Dr. Ssssnow' - was on March 6th, 1962, in the UK. But, it only came out in the USA on October 5th - or '10/05', as the Americans format their dates.
The producers chose that date as the numbers '1005' could almost be viewed as '1 00S' - the 1st 00S film! As the years went by, this date became known as 'Ames Sond Day', for the world-wide community of snake-spy film fans that was generated by the legendary series.
For you trivia fans: The Sond series has a tradition of being released in March, as a tribute to honour the original author's birthday, on the 6th of that month.
To commemorate the 60th anniversary, we present this scan of the poster above (only recently recovered and restored, from the archives), from the 9th entry in the storied cinema-series: The Ssssnake With the Golden Gun, released in 1974. At that time, the series was only 12 years old and had only had three actors playing Sond. It was Roger Moorelia's second outing as the serpentine super-spy-python [or spython], after 'Live and Let Sssspy', released in 1973.
Fun fact: The same artist who made the above poster returned to create the poster for another Sond adventure, 22 years later, in 1995. That was, of course, the classic entry, 'GoldenEyessss'
And, linked below, for your viewing pleasure, is a pivotal scene from the 9th film itself. Witness as our pythonic protagonist finally comes face-to-face (or scaly snout to scaly snout) with the viper-python hybrid, Francisco Scaramanga. Spy and assassin, the two snakes are evenly matched in skill and size and strength, two sides of the same coin, one a twisted reflection of the other.
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Scene 1, Dining in the Devil's Den: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50223495/
Scene 2, Devil's Duel: [coming soon!]
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In the meantime, enjoy these other posters from special years in the cinema-series' history:
Ten years ago, it was Sond's 50th anniversary, and 'Sssskyfall' hit theatres in March - although the human equivalent was coming out in the first week of October, just like Dr No had.
And twenty years ago, it was Sond's 40th, in 2002. That year saw the release of 'Sssspy Another Day'!
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Neiru - go witness her wonderful work! [I'll link to her post of this poster, when/if she puts it up!]~
This poster is based upon this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gbejljhge.....enGun.jpg?dl=0
Guest starring:
Uthalla-Raptor as the ravishing raptor, Agent Mary Goodnight.And
MatthiasRat as Nick Nack, the diminutive and dastardly French hench-butler.Featuring a special appearance of [my old Pathfinder character] Slivernian Syrcuros as the villainous, silvery, sinister serpent: Scaramanga.
~
Hey all you dimension-hopping entertainment junkies! We've got a double-doozy for you, this time!
Today, October 5th, 2022, marks two parallel anniversaries in two different worlds, for two cinematic sister-series!
In one world, today is the 60th anniversary of something called 'The James Bond Film Franchise', as its first entry, 'Dr. No', was released on October 5th, 1962.
In another parallel dimension, the initial release of the first film in the 'Ames Sond 00S Cinema-Series' - 'Dr. Ssssnow' - was on March 6th, 1962, in the UK. But, it only came out in the USA on October 5th - or '10/05', as the Americans format their dates.
The producers chose that date as the numbers '1005' could almost be viewed as '1 00S' - the 1st 00S film! As the years went by, this date became known as 'Ames Sond Day', for the world-wide community of snake-spy film fans that was generated by the legendary series.
For you trivia fans: The Sond series has a tradition of being released in March, as a tribute to honour the original author's birthday, on the 6th of that month.
To commemorate the 60th anniversary, we present this scan of the poster above (only recently recovered and restored, from the archives), from the 9th entry in the storied cinema-series: The Ssssnake With the Golden Gun, released in 1974. At that time, the series was only 12 years old and had only had three actors playing Sond. It was Roger Moorelia's second outing as the serpentine super-spy-python [or spython], after 'Live and Let Sssspy', released in 1973.
Fun fact: The same artist who made the above poster returned to create the poster for another Sond adventure, 22 years later, in 1995. That was, of course, the classic entry, 'GoldenEyessss'
And, linked below, for your viewing pleasure, is a pivotal scene from the 9th film itself. Witness as our pythonic protagonist finally comes face-to-face (or scaly snout to scaly snout) with the viper-python hybrid, Francisco Scaramanga. Spy and assassin, the two snakes are evenly matched in skill and size and strength, two sides of the same coin, one a twisted reflection of the other.
~
Scene 1, Dining in the Devil's Den: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50223495/
Scene 2, Devil's Duel: [coming soon!]
~
In the meantime, enjoy these other posters from special years in the cinema-series' history:
Ten years ago, it was Sond's 50th anniversary, and 'Sssskyfall' hit theatres in March - although the human equivalent was coming out in the first week of October, just like Dr No had.
And twenty years ago, it was Sond's 40th, in 2002. That year saw the release of 'Sssspy Another Day'!
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Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Snake / Serpent
Size 853 x 1280px
File Size 348.2 kB
Haha, yes! Although, if you look at it a certain way, you could say there were TWO flying AMCs in that film. Sond did that corkscrew flip-jump in an AMC Hornet X, and Scaramanga's car (an AMC Matador) transformed into a functional plane.
Did you know that someone had really, truly built a plane-car at that time, in the real world, and the filmmakers were in talks with those inventors, to put it into the movie? Sadly, both the inventors died.. in a car-plane crash (a test flight). >___> [This is all true.]
Did you know that someone had really, truly built a plane-car at that time, in the real world, and the filmmakers were in talks with those inventors, to put it into the movie? Sadly, both the inventors died.. in a car-plane crash (a test flight). >___> [This is all true.]
Somewhere on a "making of" short or DVD bonus, you can see the computer simulation, animated in wireframe, that Calspan (Cornell) did to prove that you could actually do that jump with a car.
> Sadly, both the inventors died..
Kind of related, kind of unrelated: the two big airports in Oklahoma City, USA are each named for someone who died in a plane crash. The same plane crash, as it turns out. <_<
> Sadly, both the inventors died..
Kind of related, kind of unrelated: the two big airports in Oklahoma City, USA are each named for someone who died in a plane crash. The same plane crash, as it turns out. <_<
Heh! Good job, Oklahoma.
And yes, I have seen that special feature, showing how the stunt was devised on a computer. But, to go a step deeper, it was originally a stunt for a car show (or a series of car show events), made on a computer, which HAD to use that specific car. So when the Bond film producers asked for it to be in the movie, they realized they'd need to license the use of AMC vehicles and shoehorn the very American car into the Thailand locale.
Also, thanks for the fave. :>
And yes, I have seen that special feature, showing how the stunt was devised on a computer. But, to go a step deeper, it was originally a stunt for a car show (or a series of car show events), made on a computer, which HAD to use that specific car. So when the Bond film producers asked for it to be in the movie, they realized they'd need to license the use of AMC vehicles and shoehorn the very American car into the Thailand locale.
Also, thanks for the fave. :>
Sheriff J.W. Pepper, from Louisiana. In the Sondverse, he's a pig. You can see him in the bottom of the Live and Let Sssspy poster, in fact: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37128062/
Thanks for the fave! :}===<
Thanks for the fave! :}===<
Yes, I love this style of the older ones. :}
A lot of posters did get more simple, in an attempt to be more impactful. Or maybe they also got simpler because people realized that movie posters became more like movie thumbnails, on smaller screens, (or on VHS covers) so they needed to retain readability when condensed. It used to be that the only time you'd see them was full size, at the cinema, so they didn't need to worry about legibility upon reduction.
A lot of posters did get more simple, in an attempt to be more impactful. Or maybe they also got simpler because people realized that movie posters became more like movie thumbnails, on smaller screens, (or on VHS covers) so they needed to retain readability when condensed. It used to be that the only time you'd see them was full size, at the cinema, so they didn't need to worry about legibility upon reduction.
Hey there, Hyaku!
On my Ames Sond posters, I tend to shift most of the actor and crew names that appear on the posters in various ways.
For example, a simple pun was to make 'John Barry' into 'Bearry', implying that the alternate-furry-world version of the composer was a bear.
In the case of the actor playing Francisco Scaramanga, which was indeed Christopher Lee, [who was also Ian Fleming's cousin, the Bond author/creator - they were in the SAS together], I had always wanted to something very specific. The point of the character of Scaramanga [the titular 'Man With the Golden Gun'], is that he is a dark reflection of Bond himself. Since I made Sond a snake, I had to make Scaramanga one as well. I had a silver-scaled snakeman some time ago, named Slivernian Syrcuros, and I put him into the role.
Bond movies have always had larger-than-life villains, and I decided to make this smooth, skilled assassin a silver-scaled creature that is obsessed with gold, hence the golden gun and his golden-scaled girlfriend, the cobra we see on the poster.
So, no disrespect to the late, great, Sir Christopher Lee, it's just a tradition of my poster recreations, and a reflection of the alternate casting, in this world. [And, I personally would like to see the naga version of Sarumon that should now come to pass, in this same world.]
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Speaking of Mister Lee, my favourite thing I've ever heard about him [aside from his dabbling with metal bands in his later days] was this one moment from an interview, which went a bit like this.
Interviewer: "I understand you were in the SAS, back in the war. Can you tell us anything about that?"
C.L.: "Well.. hmm.." *leans in* "Can you keep a secret?"
Interviewer, excitedly, leaning in as well: "Oh! Yes, of course, please!"
C.L.: *leans back, smiling* "So can I." *says no more on the topic of the SAS*
On my Ames Sond posters, I tend to shift most of the actor and crew names that appear on the posters in various ways.
For example, a simple pun was to make 'John Barry' into 'Bearry', implying that the alternate-furry-world version of the composer was a bear.
In the case of the actor playing Francisco Scaramanga, which was indeed Christopher Lee, [who was also Ian Fleming's cousin, the Bond author/creator - they were in the SAS together], I had always wanted to something very specific. The point of the character of Scaramanga [the titular 'Man With the Golden Gun'], is that he is a dark reflection of Bond himself. Since I made Sond a snake, I had to make Scaramanga one as well. I had a silver-scaled snakeman some time ago, named Slivernian Syrcuros, and I put him into the role.
Bond movies have always had larger-than-life villains, and I decided to make this smooth, skilled assassin a silver-scaled creature that is obsessed with gold, hence the golden gun and his golden-scaled girlfriend, the cobra we see on the poster.
So, no disrespect to the late, great, Sir Christopher Lee, it's just a tradition of my poster recreations, and a reflection of the alternate casting, in this world. [And, I personally would like to see the naga version of Sarumon that should now come to pass, in this same world.]
~
Speaking of Mister Lee, my favourite thing I've ever heard about him [aside from his dabbling with metal bands in his later days] was this one moment from an interview, which went a bit like this.
Interviewer: "I understand you were in the SAS, back in the war. Can you tell us anything about that?"
C.L.: "Well.. hmm.." *leans in* "Can you keep a secret?"
Interviewer, excitedly, leaning in as well: "Oh! Yes, of course, please!"
C.L.: *leans back, smiling* "So can I." *says no more on the topic of the SAS*
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