![]() And I think it is down to the fact that it was the first one I saw at the cinema.” For Arnold, seeing within the first five minutes of YOLT, James Bond being murdered and, “a giant spaceship eating a smaller spaceship,” was enough to make him a, “dyed in the wool,” fan from then on.īefore getting the Bond composer job he had won a Grammy for his work on the Hollywood science fiction film Independence Day. You have an experience with a James Bond film at the cinema and it becomes your favorite one, I don’t think it is necessarily the best one but it is my favourite one. Apart from Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is Not Enough mentioned above, Arnold has scored three other Bond films to date ( Die Another Day 2002, Casino Royale 2006 and Quantum of Solace 2008), and YOLT was his inspiration.Ī young boy, Arnold had seen YOLT on a rickety old projector with a single speaker under the screen at a Royal Legion club Christmas party. Sitting wearing a The World Is Not Enough (1999) cast and crew branded hooded top, Arnold was speaking on his birthday, on 23 January, at BFI Southbank in London, which was screening You Only Live Twice (YOLT) as part of its Screen Epiphanies series – talking to notable people working in film about what inspired them. “ Barbara told me the story that what actually happened was she was in a record shop buying up scores to lay up against the film just to see who they might want to score it and the shop assistant said, ‘you're buying a lot, what are you doing,’ and she said, ‘getting some stuff for the next Bond film,’ and he said, ‘you should listen to David Arnold then’”. “There is a shop assistant I owe a very large drink or a very small house too,” David Arnold, five times Bond movie composer mused when talking about how he got the job to compose for Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). FSWL contributor Rob Coppinger attended the British Film Institute (BFI) screening of the 1967 Bond film You Only Live Twice with composer David Arnold introducing the film. ![]()
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