You Only Live Twice (novel) was released in 1962, and Bond's personality was somewhat skewed towards the screen persona rather than simply to Fleming himself; Sean Connery's filmic depiction of Bond affected the book version, with "You Only Live Twice" giving Bond a sense of humour and Scottish antecedents that were not present in the previous stories, although Fleming himself was part Scottish. Correspondence dating back to 1960 shows that Fleming contacted a Scottish nobleman to help develop Bond's family history, in particular seeking a Scottish "Bond" family line. Fleming's first trip to Japan was as part of the "Thrilling Cities" trip undertaken for "The
Set piece $5 million to build the freeway set. Notable examples of set pieces include the Snake Pit in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the Death Star Trench Run from "Star Wars", the storming of the volcano lair in the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice", and the burning oil rig in "There Will Be Blood". Alfred Hitchcock referred to set pieces as crescendoes or "bumps" and tried to put three of them in each of his movies. In "Psycho", these are the shower murder, the murder on the stairs, and the discovery of "Mother". One of the most well known