The Best Connery Location

Lemme see.

This is tough! The early films did travelogue so well. If we have Dover and Miami, should we add Venice to the list, too?

I could do. I was going to originally but Bond technically wasn't there, the film was but when we saw him there it was against back projection. I'll add it anyway.

Venice....only because i can testify to its beauty after a visit a few years ago

For me it's a tossup between Bahamas, Japan and Las Vegas.
Like Louis Renault in Casablanca, I'll see which way the wind is blowing before I cast my vote.

I will vote soon. More I see this poll, the more I wonder Dover. Utter shithole.

Mmm, maybe i should withdraw my vote and spend the next week thinking about it, lemme see, nah....Venice!

Hilly wrote:

I could do. I was going to originally but Bond technically wasn't there, the film was but when we saw him there it was against back projection. I'll add it anyway.

Connery technically wasn't in Miami, either.

Ordinarily I'd go with Venice. It's distinctive and as silvertoe says, a place of utter beauty. But considering we don't spend too much time there, I'm tossing up between Jamaica, Istanbul and Japan because of how they're integrated into the stories and the supreme location work. Combine that that the exoticism of such locations, it ups the sense of adventure one gets from watching Bond's mission unravel in locations I've never visited or otherwise seen too much of.

Connery wasn't in Kentucky, either.

So are we voting for "the location" or use of the location in the relevant film?...if it's the latter i might have voted differently

No hard and fast rule I imagine but I'll let Hilly clarify. I feel the integration of a locale in Bond film is important to the Bond mythos which is why I went down that route.

Nothing earthshattering just the use of it in the film.

Hilly wrote:

Nothing earthshattering just the use of it in the film.

In that case Switzerland is the best used location IMO

From Goldfinger? Interesting. It uses that strip of road very well, but it could have been anywhere really. The Swiss portion of Goldfinger was actually set in England in Fleming's book.

Switzerland was used much more effectively in OHMSS imo.

Voted for Jamaica, the Bahamas and Japan ... in each case, something about the place is learned that goes beyond mere 'nice location' travelogue and was probably broadly unknown previously to seeing the movies (the Junkanoo in TB, for example).

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wrote:

From Goldfinger? Interesting. It uses that strip of road very well, but it could have been anywhere really. The Swiss portion of Goldfinger was actually set in England in Fleming's book.

Switzerland was used much more effectively in OHMSS imo.

Of course ...not thinking straight,i had OHMSS in my head...not Connery,my bad!

I think Jamaica was the best, in terms of how it's used and balanced with story. Contrast that with Tokyo, a fine location, but it feels like it's taking more precedence over plot than anything else so the balance is off.

silvertoe wrote:

Venice....only because i can testify to its beauty after a visit a few years ago

It is certainly the most beautiful city I have been to, but I voted for The Bahamas here, although Jamaica was also a candidate.