It may be hard to imagine at first as it would seem an odd pairing of a lot of love/relationship songs to a James Bond film. However, the filmmakers make strong use of the two most action related songs "Help!" and "Ticket To Ride" and use non-traditional women to go with some other songs. This includes the female flying gadget named Little Nelly and Blofeld's cat. For example, the filmmakers sync "Another Girl" for Bond's introduction to Little Nelly and "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" to Blofeld's losing his white (and disappearing) Persian cat. It also doesn't hurt that Bond has scenes with several women including:
Miss Moneypenny
Aki
Helga (bad girl)
Kissy
Ling (Chinese girl in Hong Kong)
Japanese Masseuse
Naturally, the song "Help!" with the lyrics "help me get my feet back on the ground" works well with everything from space walks to ninjas repelling into Blofeld's volcano lair. "Ticket To Ride" working well for scenes with Aki's white convertible as well as rockets into space and Blofeld's monorail cars (looking a bit like a Disneyland ride).
With 46 separate song syncs, the film syncer needs to realize that the odds of getting all of those syncs correct as the filmmakers intended is unlikely. Sometimes equally good ideas exist in multiple songs. Further, with songs of approximately the same length, different songs could be used without affecting the rather obvious syncs around them. For example, the songs:
"Another Girl"
"I've Just Seen A Face"
"Yesterday"
All clock in at 2 minutes, seven seconds.
With that said, there are some common themes that are present in Help! album syncs that certainly help the syncer find his/her way. Over time, that will be made more clear.
Below are the video highlights from the full album sync. If there is interest in the full film sync, I'll consider posting it.
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