In the early 1970s, the producer Albert R. Broccoli commissioned the artist Salvador Dalí to make a tarot deck for the upcoming James Bond film Live and Let Die. Based on Ian Fleming’s 1954 novel of the same name, Live and Let Die was released in 1973—the eighth 007 film and the first to star Roger Moore. It a strange, mystical Bond movie, that’s part an attempt at Blacksploitation and part about Harlem gangsters, Caribbean drug farming, and voodoo-practicing witch doctors. In one scene, a psychic named Solitaire (Jane Seymour), reads a tarot deck. This was to be Dalí’s contribution to the film.
I love when sites throw the “give us yer e-mail!” modal popup, as I’m mousing toward the Reader View button. Immediately justifies my decision to ignore all their web design and just read the dang content.
Also that movie was off the scale.


