On the 7-hour flight over the pond on Sunday morning, they showed Goldfinger. I’ve seen the movie a dozen times (who hasn’t) and it helps having my most favourite James Bond starring in the movie – Sean Connery. And I just love the female protagonist’s name – Pussy Galore. The way Connery says her name in the entire movie is just hilarious.

I woke up in time to see the last 20-minutes of the film. If you want to learn how not to design a fight scene for your video podcast, watch the fight scene between Bond and Mr. Hat (don’t remember his character’s name). It’s the most inelegant, unsophisticated and poorly choreographed fight scene I’ve ever seen.

Here’s the reasons it’s so poor:

• There’s no muscial score. Therefore, there’s no clash of cymbals or the croon of violins to set the mood.
• You can hear their patent leather shoes slapping against the wax floor throughout the entire scene.
• The black top hat that Mr. Hat flings off his head towards Bond bounces off the gold bars at one point, however, when Bond throws it towards Mr. Hat, it then sticks in the marble wall.
• The punches looked so pansie.
• When Bond is thrown against the wall by Mr. Hat, he barely gets off the floor.

As for the conference, there was a “fight scene” that took place at the Corporate Podcasting Summit that was actually really good. It was between the guy from Podshow UK who was sitting on a panel and a guy from Podcast User Magazine who was in the audience. I think Paul or Jason will be blogging about it, so keep your eyes peeled on their blogs.

Update – Jason provided an excellent summary.

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