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Not a spoof!

posted 17 years ago by cesco_the_large
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I don't see the point about even speaking the words 'james bond' when talking about this.

It has nothing to do with it and it DOES NOT pretend to.

It is NOT a james bond spoof. Not even a spy spoof!
There are no spies on the movie, just a regular guy who isn't a spy and who has not any kind of training, knowledge or practice on the subject.

There are even barely guns in the movie!!

The plot and the characters have nothing to do with a spy movie.

Instead, it's much more of an innocent adventure movie HIGHLY inspired by Hergé's genious character Tintin.

I could spot DOZENS of similar gags and scenes that are in Tintin books, mainly in The Broken Ear, the Temple of the Sun and the Secret of the Unicorn.

So stop labeling every movie with a group of 4 or 5 widely popular labels. It's insulting.

NOTE: I'm a huge Bond fan, I just find the comparison ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 17 years ago

Hear hear! I think the problem is the title, which sounds just like a dozen or so Bond ripoffs made at the same time. You'd really think folks would do their homework.
If I would compare, I'd call it a lighthearted version of the later Indiana Jones movies, or the earlier adventure serials.

[–] [email protected] 15 years ago

This movie came up in a discussion thread for the recent "OSS 117 - Cairo, Nest of Spies" in a 'similar movies' topic. I'd made the case that it wasn't a spy film, but a homage to old cliffhanger adventure serials. The OP there insisted that the James Bond movies were very much the same thing, and thinking on it, I pretty much saw the point. Still, I wouldn't use the word 'spy' anywhere near this one.

[–] tintinrulz 13 years ago

Definitely heavily inspired by The Adventures of Tintin.

[–] murph24 10 years ago

I'd made the case that it wasn't a spy film, but a homage to old cliffhanger adventure serials.

And I'd say you were absolutely right - with a dash of Hitchcock (the ordinary man in extraordinary situations) thrown in. Basically we've got the heroic guy saving the damsel in distress against a backdrop of exotic locations; sometimes you get that in James Bond movies, but That Man From Rio never deals with government agents thwarting schemes to rule the world. And while I do see it as a spoof - how else can you describe a film that has Belmondo swinging on vines to rescue the heroine? - it certainly isn't in the 007 ballpark.

[–] Synergetic11 10 years ago

It's an action movie spoof, not a Bond spoof, but it does have Bond elements in it.

The Belmondo/De Broca film "Le Magnifique" aka "The Man from Acapulco" from (1973) WAS a Bond spoof though.