Pale Horse said:Very Bond-esque
Walecs said:Agreed, it reminds me of The Man with the Golden Gun.
I feel the same. I wonder if they've purposely shied away from tropical island environs for that precise reason. Despite all of their filming in Hawaii, I'd argue that the South Pacific is close to the top of the list of potentially fruitful settings, as a culture and as an environment.
The ruins of Nan Madol, a circa 12th century city built in a lagoon on Pohnpei, Micronesia:
Kanganaman Village, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea: