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Production Showcase: Visual Highlights of The Avengers

Appendix B to the "Avengers" movie review

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Alice, the gun-toting little old lady -- a Secret Agent of the Ministry. At one point she holds Sir August at gunpoint; but the scene pictured below is the most memorable shot. (To see Alice drunk, click here.)

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Seeking to escape the amorous advances of Sir August, a drugged "Emma Peel" ends up in a staircase borrowed from surreal artist M.C. Escher. The image below is a composite of five frames: "Emma" walks in through the door of the upper right, steps down the stairs and ends up exactly where she started. Eventually, she leaps out of a painted window.

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Invisible Jones works in the archives of the Ministry and he holds the keys to the plot. He's a former secret agent who had an accident with an invisibility serum. The voice obviously belongs to Patrick Macnee, the original John Steed; his contours can be seen briefly at the end of his scene (look for the bumps in the projected image).

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Emma Peel and John Steed walk across the Thames in giant inflated spheres. Unfortunately, this scene lasts barely a few seconds.

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Sir August de Wynter gets his own baton shoved through his chest by "John Steed". A lightning emanating from Sir August's own weather machine connects with the baton and pulls de Wynter into the air. (Is this what's considered a "sparkling performance" these days?)

(Were you aware that when you are hit by lightning, it looks a lot as if you were being filtered in Photoshop? How strange.)

(Images taken from the DVD of "The Avengers ", © 1998 by Warner Brothers)

Internal links:

>> Movie Review: The Avengers
>> Beary Bizarre: The colored Teddy Bears of The Avengers
>> Special Effects Showcase: Flight Of The Metal Bumble Bees

>> Drunk On The Set: The Main Cast of the Avengers Movie
>> Drunk On The Set: The Main Cast of the movie Con Air

External links:

>>> Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry for "The Avengers"
>>> Production details at Coming Attractions and Dark Horizons
>>> Nitpicker's problems with the movie The Avengers
>>> Official Site: The-Avengers.com

>>> Avengers Forever: A Fan Site for the Avengers TV Series
>>> Avengers Forever: Movie Review and links to additional reviews

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