Bond Movie Producers Have 'All The Money In The World'

Meaning, they have way enough money to arrange for any car to be in the flick, any accoutrements, any types of guns, planes, helicopters, ships, space-ships, whatever.

Or clothes, shoes, champagne, vodka.

I hope you can start to see the problem with all of these present-day 'action/adventure/thriller' movies - yes they have this formula about playing chase-y around the park, in hot cars, being pursued by serious men in black helicopters, while Bond or Tom Cruise or Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg or whoever never creases his Savile Row threads not even just a little (slight exaggeration there because I think this latter thing has happened; but you get my point), but is it actually true that the gear is all that hot, really...?

Part of the whole attraction is the suave mindset being show-cased as amazing clothes, and expensive cars - and sheer style.

Or it's meant to be that.

You are forced to watch these 'Eau Sauvage' ads with Johnny Depp right now on Fox, where he drives a classic American car up Route 66 and digs some sand in the cactus desert, and buries something - none of which really makes any kind of sense at all... 

I feel sorry for the kids these days - they are getting a hapless mish-mash, a parody of the old school hard-boiled Raymond Chandler thriller thing, but which doesn't genuinely add up to the genuine article.

You see, no rich person who is savvy, about clothes, or cars, or accessories, or style, uses the kinds of high-priced junk being foisted onto the mass market as 'the genuine article.'

I promised a friend here that I would post a few examples of today's 'real thing' but that I would also pull these pics and articles down after a short while - and I will, so you'd better take note now if you're interested in this kind of affair even just slightly...

Here is a real watch - it costs half a million dollars (literally it is $500,000 and worth every penny:

The Christophe Claret Soprano Minute Repeater -
which chimes out the exact peal of the famous Westminster Cathedral Bells

And here is a brand new - and by that I mean these things are fully handmade brand new from scratch in England - car, about a million bucks each:

You think Lancia is out of business? Oh but no - this is the Lancia Aurelia Outlaw,
and it is brand new to you for around $1,000,000. Cheap at twice the price.

Aurelia Outlaw - better than a Pagani Huayra? You bet.

And here is the proper Chelsea Boot - most kids have no idea that this, is the kind of shoe (boot) worn by John Steed of the Avengers, beneath his Savile Row trouser; this is a Tony Gaziano special (Gaziano & Girling):

Even the great Jason King wore Chelsea Boots, as well as 'whole-cut' loafers and benchmade suedes too, which are among the most difficult of shoes to make properly:

All from the great Tony Girling of Gaziano & Girling, in London and Northamptonshire.