Talk:From Russia with Love (film)

message: This article was split off from From Russia with Love. Edit history prior to the split is at 
.--Kchase T 19:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The background section appears to me to lack a neutral tone of voice. Sum0 23:20, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I've removed the last part now, since it has nothing to do with the background. - Jetro 13:39, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background 

message: Sorry to mess up this article again... but about everywhere I've read, the budget for this film was $ 2 000 000, not $2 500 000. I've often heard: "The producers doubled their budget for their next film". I googled it just now and according to most pages the budget was $ 2 000 000, not 2,5 mill. - Jetro 15:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: IMDB is questionable as a reliable source, but if you can find another legit reference (online or otherwise, but cite it properly, please!) that corroborates that figure, that's sensible. (Background: discussions on WikiProject Films are asserting that IMDB is getting less and less support on WP as a RS, since it has minimal editorial control, and numerious errors infiltrate the database.) David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 14:19, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Budget 

message: All references to "pre-credits", "the film opens ..." & "the theme song plays" and the like should be edited out as they are nothing to do with "plot".  Only the story within the film is relevant.  This was corrected until reverted!--Olaf Legend 05:38, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot 

message: Please do not incorporate changes based on what you think you remember from the film, or they will be eliminated with extreme prejudice (joke). ... As this article is a GA candidate, please ensure your changes are verified with cited references and based on review of the film in front of you. Shouldn't be hard, it's out on video in 4-5 forms. Thanks.  - David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 17:30, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Stop edit warring ... and certainly, desist from personal remarks here and in your edit summaries. How are my comments not neutral? By sources, I refer you to WP:RS for the policy guidelines on sources to cite. David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 14:26, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot accuracy and other accuracies 

message: An editor posted uncited trivia that this is Connery's favorite of (his) Bond films (no mention in Inside FRWL, ... perhaps elsewhere?), and added another uncited rumor that it was one of JFK's favorite films as well. The film was released in England 10/10(?)/63, and released publicly in the USA after his assassination. There is uncorroborated trivia at IMDB that states that this was the last film that JFK viewed (private screening in the White House no doubt, two days before his death in Dallas), but no mention of being a favorite. As this article is a GA candidate, if something can't be tied in with a verifiable, reliable source, it may removed. Please cite sources for rumors like this. (BTW, there is discussion in the WikiProject Films about using IMDB as a RS ... consensus, last time I checked, was decidedly against accepting IMDB as a RS, as there is loose editorial control, no visible fact-checking, and no citing of sources, or even contributors (which allows the insidious inclusion of biased information).) -- David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 13:54, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: One of JFK's favorite films?

message: There are a few sentences that need to be referenced, but I've got the feeling that they can be ref'd with the inside documentary from the DVD. Here they are:
* For the opening chess match, Kronsteen wins the game with a reenactment of Boris Spassky's victory over David Bronstein in 1960. (Production Designer Syd Cain built up the "chess pawn" motive in his $150,000 set for this brief sequence.) A boxer at Cambridge, Young choreographed the final battle between Grant and Bond, a scene so violent some on the production worried the unbridled brutality was excessive.This paragraph has one more sentence, the only one with an inline citation. All of this needs to be cited—one inline citation at the end of the paragraph is insufficient.
* After the unexpected loss, production proceeded, experiencing complications from rewriting by Richard Maibaum during filming. Editor Peter Hunt set about editing the film while key elements were still to be filmed, helping to restructure the opening scenes. Hunt and Young conceived of moving the training exercise on a Bond double to preface the main title, a signature feature that has been an enduring hallmark of every Bond film since. The briefing with Blofeld was rewritten, and back projection was used to refilm Lotte Lenya's lines.This entire paragraph lacks citations and it needs some.
* On July 6, 1963, while scouting locations in Argyll, Scotland, for that day's filming of the climactic boat chase, Terence Young's helicopter crashed into the lake  with Art Director Michael White and a cameraman aboard. The craft sank into 40-50 feet of water , but all escaped with minor injuries. Despite the calamity, Young was behind the camera for the full days' work.Again, a paragraph with only one citation at its end (which I omitted so that only what needs citing is presented here).
Cliff smith 03:36, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added all three (as per my comments on the To-Do list above), and the information is from Inside From Russia With Love. Do I need to cite after every sentence? I thought that in formal writing, if the source is the same for the entire paragraph, the footnote is placed at the end of the paragraph. Please let me know if there's another which specifies sources must be after each and every sentence. David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 13:44, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah. However, Harvard refs aren't in use on this page, though footnote refs are inline citations all the same. But at any rate, I think that the main thing is to eliminate any possibility of any material in the article being challenged if it were not specifically cited. Citations at paragraph ends are cool, but if you've got two sources for one paragraph, for example, you wouldn't know specifically what in the paragraph came from where. Cliff smith 02:39, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Referencing

message: Hello, sorry for the delay, here are my comments:
*Flow the first sentence into the second. "X is a Y spy film." - not a great intro line.  Whole first paragraph doesn't read like elegant prose.
** Vikrant Phadkay 15:56, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to WP:MOSFILMS#Cast and crew information, actors and characters are supposed to be bold. Cliff smith 02:47, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent, I thought as much.  Thanks for clearing that up for me.  The Rambling Man 07:49, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA review comments 

message: Sorry to be a pain but something has just dawned on me - in the lead you talk about the computer game, but this isn't developed in the article at all.  Perhaps a new section is required to discuss the impact of the film on culture or similar.  Otherwise it ought not appear in the lead.  I think all the other modifications have been carried out well, so I'm sorry to drop this in at the last minute.  See what you can do and I'll be happy to promote to GA if you can sort it.  The Rambling Man 16:51, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Great, good and dedicated work, well done, I'm promoting now.  The Rambling Man 16:29, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-review 

message: When Bond and his girl leave the train, they're attacked by a helicopter at some point, are they not?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Racooon (talk • contribs) 09:13, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Helicopter attack 

message: What language do the 2 gypsy women speak in the fight scene at the camp?  It sounded like it could be Turkish, but I am far from sure.  Is this authentic, or would they have spoken Romany?  This scene does look like Gorgio fantasy. PatGallacher (talk) 17:50, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: They are trying to speak in Turkish. One of the worst spellings I've ever heard actually. By the way, they are drinking Rakı straight, which is completely against the proper way. One should add ice and water on top of Rakı and drink it in its special glass. Yes, even a freedom-loving Gypsy would drink it that way. Deliogul (talk) 00:50, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Gypsy camp

message: In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :) 
* "James Bond Theme" :
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DumZiBoT (talk) 07:27, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot report : Found duplicate references ! 

message: This move request has been withdrawn by myself. YeshuaDavid (talk) 19:27, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: I've removed the uncited review from Universal Exports. I've not heard of the reviewer and there're no references for it. Universal Exports was the code name for British Secret Service in the Bond books, so this suggests it's either a joke or there's a fan site of that name. If the latter, suggest a footnote is added with a link. Phettyplace (talk) 06:55, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review section 

message: Note blatant plug of another EON Productions film Call Me Bwana via poster on side of building with a bad guy climbing out of the mouth of Anita Ekberg.119.11.30.181 (talk) 15:17, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Call Me Bwana

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thread_title: Discussion pertaining to non-free image(s) used in article

message: "From Russia With Love" has an uncanny resemblance to the Tyrone Power film "Diplomatic Courier", which might be considered the first James Bond type film.  Did Fleming use "Diplomatic Courier" as the basis to write the book?  63.192.100.48 (talk) 21:57, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similarity to "Diplomatic Courier" 

message: What is the current capitalization of the title ("From Russia with Love", with the lowercased "with") based on? In the film, the title is in all caps, and if mixed case is at all used (which I believe makes sense), then shouldn't it however be "From Russia With Love"? 31.18.253.188 (talk) 00:05, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title 

message: Actress Martine Beswick is credited as MARTIN Beswick in the opening titles. This is a fact proven by viewing the film and is verified by approx 6000 references through a google search.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.112.123.191 (talk) 16:39, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well why don't you add just one WP:RELIABLE one then - and remove the rather ridiculous number you've added in? - SchroCat (talk) 16:49, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

text: Could you please point out one personal attack I have made on you and one threat I have made towards you? Considering the filth you have written on your talk page I think your accusation to be mis-guided. Please also remove the WP:unreliable citations from the 15 you have added to suppot one tiny, insignificant pointless detail of trivia? - SchroCat (talk) 17:23, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martin Beswick 

message: The lead of Dr. No (film) states which iconic elements of the series, the kind of elements which viewers have come to expect to see in every movie, were introduced in that movie. For consistency in the Bond articles it may be a good idea to mention these kind of items in the lead of this article too. The first part of the section "Production" describes what iconic elements were introduced in this movie:
:"The film introduced several conventions which would become essential elements of the series: a pre-title sequence, the Blofeld character (referred in the film only as "Number 1"), a secret-weapon gadget for Bond, a helicopter sequence (repeated in every subsequent Bond film except The Man with the Golden Gun (film)|The Man with the Golden Gun), a postscript action scene after the main climax, a theme song with lyrics, and the line "James Bond will return/be back" in the credits."
Of these, the pre-title sequence and the secret-weapon gadget are important enough to warrant mentioning their introduction in the lead. One of those elements is still missing from the article: this was the first movie with the titles projected upon the contours/silhouettes/shapes of female bodies.MackyBeth (talk) 07:43, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction of iconic elements mention in the lead 

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message: I've removed a screenshot from the video game spinoff. It doesn't seem to meet the fair use requirements. See this discussion. Andrewa (talk) 13:52, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screenshot removed 

message: Just before the fight between Grant and Bond in the train, it doesn't seem like Bond tricks Grant into setting off the teargas bomb in Bond's briefcase, but rather Nash's, the agent Grant is impersonating. Before they went to the dinner cart in the previous scene, Bond has Grant leave the stolen case whereupon he opens it in the secret way Q instructed him to earlier and inspects the contents. Later when he asks Grant for a last cigarette, he offers to pay for it with Sovereigns in his own briefcase. Grant asks if there are more in the other one where Bond says it's likely as it's a standard briefcase for field agents. Bond begins to open it, but Grant interjects and does it himself, setting off the teargas bomb. 2603:8080:CEF0:97F0:A878:98B8:BBD9:D4EC (talk) 06:45, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential Plot Inaccuracy Regarding Teargas Briefcase Trap