You Only Live Twice (novel) the previous novel, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". James Bond is drinking and gambling heavily and making mistakes on his assignments when, as a last resort, he is sent to Japan on a semi-diplomatic mission. Whilst there he is challenged by the Head of the Japanese Secret Service to kill Dr. Guntram Shatterhand. Bond realises that Shatterhand is Ernst Stavro Blofeld and sets out on a revenge mission to kill him and his wife, Irma Bunt. The novel deals on a personal level with the change in Bond from a depressed man in mourning, to a man of action bent
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