You Only Live Twice (film) declined the offer to direct, but accepted after producer Albert R. Broccoli called him saying: "You can't give up this job. It's the largest audience in the world." Peter R. Hunt, who edited the first five Bond films, believed that Gilbert had been contracted by the producers for other work but they found they had to use him. Gilbert, producers Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, production designer Ken Adam and director of photography Freddie Young then went to Japan, spending three weeks searching for locations. SPECTRE's shore fortress headquarters was changed to an extinct volcano after the team learned that 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