You Only Live Twice (film) You Only Live Twice (film) You Only Live Twice is a 1967 British spy film and the fifth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name. It is the first James Bond film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story. In the film, Bond is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet
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