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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 10, 2018 4:56:21 GMT
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Nov 10, 2018 7:11:45 GMT
In my favourite Bond movie ever, Casino Royale (2006), the late Chris Cornell’s 'You Know My Name' plays over the visually-stunning opening credits sequence, which is my favourite opening credits sequence of all the Bond films. The simplistic-looking silhouettes and the different suits of the cards (hearts, spades, clubs and diamonds) being incorporated into the main titles (along with quick reveals of both Craig's and Green's faces at different points) make the opening titles for Casino Royale the most imaginative and visually-exciting I've ever seen. Not to mention the gun barrel sequence finally shows us who is shooting at Bond/is getting shot by Bond.   And, of course, the playing of cards is an important plot point in the movie itself.     There are multiple card games throughout the movie. The first being Bond winning easily/showing off a bit.
Bond then versus the main villain of the movie, Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), figures out his 'tell' and gets a bit cocky.
It's all fun and games until someone poisons your drink.
But it's all worth it to see the look on your opponent's face when you beat him.
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Post by poelzig on Nov 10, 2018 7:31:45 GMT
Poker? I don't even know her.
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Post by teleadm on Nov 10, 2018 8:22:36 GMT
Thanks for participating, and keep on dealing the cards. There were many I had totally forgotten, and many I hadn't even thought of!  Henry Fonda being tricked in The Lady Eve 1941, by confidence tricksters Charles Coburn and Barbra Stanwyck.  Henry Fonda gambling again in A Big Hand for the Little Lady/ Big Deal at Dodge City 1966, but who was fooling who?, with Jason Robards and Charles Bickford. |
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Post by mattgarth on Nov 10, 2018 12:54:30 GMT
THE PLAINSMAN -- Gary Cooper is holding the notorious 'Dead Man's Hand' (aces and eights) before being shot in the back.
Other Western references to it:
John Ford's STAGECOACH: 'Luke Plummer' (Tom Tyler) is dealt it before going out into the Lordsburg streets with his brothers to face the Duke's 'Ringo Kid.'
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE: Ford returns to it just before Lee Marvin steps out onto Shinbone Boulevard to meet up with Pilgrim hashslinger Jimmy Stewart.
WINCHESTER '73: 'Dutch Henry Brown' (Stephen McNally) nearly draws that hand while trying to win back his stolen rifle from gunrunning card shark John McIntire.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Nov 10, 2018 13:13:14 GMT
Last Year at Marienbad
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Post by delon on Nov 10, 2018 13:16:11 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 10, 2018 13:25:43 GMT
THE PLAINSMAN -- Gary Cooper is holding the notorious 'Dead man's hand' (aces and eights) before being shot in the back.
The Las Vegas police homicide division's patch  |
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 10, 2018 13:31:55 GMT
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Post by delon on Nov 10, 2018 13:54:08 GMT
Rain Man (1989)
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Post by delon on Nov 10, 2018 13:56:54 GMT
Bob le Flambeur (1956)
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Post by jervistetch on Nov 10, 2018 13:59:11 GMT
Bats**t crazy ventriloquist Anthony Hopkins had some crazy card tricks in MAGIC.  |
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Post by teleadm on Nov 10, 2018 14:38:09 GMT
 The card game scene in John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn 1964 (in some version this scene was cut), with John Carradine, James Stewart and Arthur Kennedy. |
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 10, 2018 14:49:50 GMT
The card game scene in John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn 1964 (in some version this scene was cut), with John Carradine, James Stewart and Arthur Kennedy. If memory serves, that scene is followed by a various characters riding out in raucous pursuit of hostiles or the like. Comic relief doesn't always fit and in my view the scenes were rightly cut. Spielberg might have drawn from the raucous pursuit scene here for similar ones in The Sugarland Express and Jaws. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 10, 2018 14:57:10 GMT
This is the REAL Faro Table run by the REAL Doc Holiiday … it is in the Birdcage Theater in the REAL Tombstone, Arizona.   olde timey players Film versions:   |
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 10, 2018 15:02:14 GMT
House of Games with the inestimable Ricky Jay  |
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Post by teleadm on Nov 10, 2018 15:03:10 GMT
The card game scene in John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn 1964 (in some version this scene was cut), with John Carradine, James Stewart and Arthur Kennedy. If memory serves, that scene is followed by a various characters riding out in raucous pursuit of hostiles or the like. Comic relief doesn't always fit and in my view the scenes were rightly cut. Spielberg might have drawn from the raucous pursuit scene here for similar ones in The Sugarland Express and Jaws. I agree about that scene, it felt like an unnecessary distraction, or comic relief, that didn't work at all. Even the greatest directors do miscalculated mistakes sometimes. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 10, 2018 15:08:00 GMT
Faro  TOMBSTONE: THE TOWN TOO TOUGH TO DIE. William C. McGann, 1942. Richard Dix (Wyatt Earp), Edgar Buchanan (Curly Bill Brocious), Kent Taylor (Doc Holliday), Rex Bell (Virgil Earp), Victor Jury (Ike Clanton), Frances Gifford (Ruth Grant) |
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Cool Hand Luke (1967)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2018 15:16:50 GMT
McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971)
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