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諜影追蹤

2020-04-01 -

Follow in the footsteps of 007, MIB and Agent Mr Chan追隨007、黑超特警和棟篤特工陳先生的足跡遨遊天下

THE SPY

WHO LOVED ME

In the tenth Bond flick, James Bond (Roger Moore) and KGB agent Triple X (Barbara Bach) travel to the Italian island of Sardinia to infiltrate the base of shipping tycoon – and megalomaniacal supervillain, naturally – Karl Stromberg (Curd Jürgens). The secret agent duo zip around in a white Lotus Esprit, pulling up to the lavish Hotel Cala Di Volpe, which still welcomes the most glamorous faces on the Costa Smeralda – the ‘emerald coast’. After being chased across the island by a troupe of goons, Bond escapes by plunging his car into the sea – and transforming it into a submarine. The pair emerge at the small, scenic Spiaggia Capriccioli beach. Not equipped with a submersible sportscar? Hop aboard the semi-submersible NemoSub at Cagliari’s Marina Piccola port for an aquatic look at the Sardinian coast.

MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL

As the name might imply, the latest in the MIB series shifts the action out of the States and into alien territory… or the streets of London, at any rate, where studmuffin Agent H (Chris Hemsworth) and newbie recruit Agent M (Tessa Thompson) get pulled into an intergalactic firefight on the streets outside St. Paul’s Cathedral. An investigation leads them from the souks of Marrakech to Morocco’s Erg Chebbi dune sea – and from there to the fortress of intergalactic arms dealer Riza (Rebecca Ferguson) at the medieval Aragonese Castle next to the Italian island of Ischia, just off the coast of Naples. You may not be able to pull off an alien superweapon heist, but you can certainly visit this towering edifice.

GOLDENEYE

The beginning of Pierce Brosnan’s tenure as Bond starts with a bang – or a leap, more accurately, as the spy bungee jumps from the top of a Soviet chemical weapons facility. He hurtles into the abyss with only the sound of the wind roaring past his ears, and the rope – thankfully – catching around his ankles. The stunt, which was shot at the 220-metre-tall Contra (or Verzasca) Dam in Ticino, Switzerland, has consistently been rated one of the best of all time. The exceptionally courageous can re-enact the scene for themselves with a bungee jump experience. Will you choose the classic 007 jump, or up the ante even further with a backwards leap of faith?

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SKYFALL

Daniel Craig’s third outing as Bond covers locations close to home – among them Shanghai and Macao. But the truth is that none of these scenes were shot on location: a London skyscraper stood in for its considerably loftier Shanghai counterpart, while the Macao casino – complete with some 300 floating lanterns and nine-metre-tall dragon heads – was all constructed on the sound stages of the UK’s legendary Pinewood Studios. It wasn’t all cinema trickery, however: Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar was cleared out for the opening scene’s frantic motorbike chase, the streets of London played host to much of the action, and the rugged, ragged greenery of Scotland’s Glen Coe served as Bond’s childhood stomping grounds in the finale.

AGENT MR CHAN

As a Hong Kong movie, you’d expect secret agent farce

Agent Mr Chan to make good use of the city’s locations. But

one of the film’s best scenes

comes from a location given a bit of a twist. The debonair Mr

Chan steps off a pier and into

a submarine… which happens to house an impeccably stylish gambling den. The set for that den comes courtesy of Hong Kong’s own Foxglove, a bar and restaurant hidden behind an umbrella shop whose Art Deco style makes it the ideal location. Whereas the maybe not-quiteso-debonair-any more Mr Chan orders ‘a martini shaken and

stirred’, we’d advise sticking to just one of those two.

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一直被譽為最佳電影情節之一。大無畏的勇士可到這裡藉笨豬跳自行重演這神乎其技的一幕。你可選擇模仿007的經典一躍，亦可再加大注碼，依靠自己的強大信念，背向高空，後仰躍下……

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《新鐵金剛：智破天凶城》

第三度化身占士邦的Daniel Craig，於鄰近香港的地

區如上海和澳門等地出沒。但眼前地點全是「景不符實」：戲中上海高聳入雲的摩天大廈其實於倫敦拍攝，而掛上300多

個燈籠和九米高龍頭的「澳門賭場」，則是在英國著名製片廠

Pinewood Studios搭建出來的廠景。然而，並非所有場景均

如此取巧，片首激烈的電單車

追逐戰確實於伊斯坦堡的市場

Grand Bazaar清場拍攝，多場在倫敦發生的打鬥場面亦是實地