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"At least he wont be using heroin flavoured bananas to finance revolutions"

Monsieur_AubergineMonsieur_Aubergine Top of the Eiffel Tower with a fly in my soup!
edited June 2011 in Bond Movies Posts: 642
Who wishes they had seen more of this plot? They sort of revisit the notion in LALD. but i don't remember seeing Whisper stuffing banana skins with the White stuff? Whilst we are on the subject, what other missions hinted at in the JB series do you find most intriguing. Mine has to be the OP backstory concerning Major Dexter Smythe.

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  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
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    November 1964. The bullion kill. Mentioned by M to Draco in OHMSS.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited June 2011 Posts: 13,356
    November 1964. The bullion kill. Mentioned by M to Draco in OHMSS.
    That's probably a reference to Goldfinger.
  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
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    November 1964. The bullion kill. Mentioned by M to Draco in OHMSS.
    That's probably a reference to Goldfinger.
    I'd like to think so. It would be consistent with OHMSS's references to earlier Bond films(the opening credits, Bond going through his desk scene, his quip "A little about women"). Although wouldn't Draco's men have been killed by Kisch during the gas scene?

  • actonsteveactonsteve
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    "Moneypenny? Is 007 back from that African job?"
    "He's on his last leg sir.."

    I'd have liked to see Bond in Kenya or Tanzania.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
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    "Moneypenny? Is 007 back from that African job?"
    "He's on his last leg sir.."

    I'd have liked to see Bond in Kenya or Tanzania.
    Well, at least we saw Bond in safari suit in OP ;-) .

  • LiveAndEatPieLiveAndEatPie
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    I always thought the precredits of OP should have been some mini-mission concerning Major Dexter Smythe, even just briefly, to tie it in with the rest of the film.
  • anotherbondgeekanotherbondgeek
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    November 1964. The bullion kill. Mentioned by M to Draco in OHMSS.
    That line always annoyed me a bit: it's a clever reference but Goldfinger definitely wasn't set in November. The weather, the leaves on the trees...meh, it's always annoyed me.

  • JBFan626JBFan626
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    November 1964. The bullion kill. Mentioned by M to Draco in OHMSS.
    That line always annoyed me a bit: it's a clever reference but Goldfinger definitely wasn't set in November. The weather, the leaves on the trees...meh, it's always annoyed me.

    It's possible...Ft. Knox, Kentucky is in the South where it's still pretty warm into November. The Swiss locations were all green, suggesting it could have been late summer there, and so it's plausible Operation Grand Slam didn't happen until a few months later.
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    edited June 2011 Posts: 987
    November 1964. The bullion kill. Mentioned by M to Draco in OHMSS.
    That line always annoyed me a bit: it's a clever reference but Goldfinger definitely wasn't set in November. The weather, the leaves on the trees...meh, it's always annoyed me.

    It's clear from Goldfinger that no gold was actually planned to be stolen in the doomed 'Operation Grand slam', nor were any of Goldfinger's contractors actually paid before the job so a possible explanation may be that the 'Bullion kill' mentioned in OHMSS is a reference to the illegal take over of Auric's sizable criminal network and assets by various crime syndicates keen to benefit after his death.

  • 00Beast00Beast
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    The pre-title sequence of AVTAK. A nice little mission about Bond finding a missing 00 agent who was on to Max Zorin's Main Strike plan, apparently. It would have been neat to see some more of that mission and how it lead up to the events of AVTAK.
  • JBFan626JBFan626
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    The 'Bullion Kill' does raise an interesting question though: How much of Bond is in real time? On one hand we do see pretty much everything he does from driving from the airport to checking into his hotel. But can we assume that there maybe lull periods, say where he's lounging around for a week or two, waiting for the opportune time to sneak into the villain's facility?
  • 00Beast00Beast
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    A good point @JBFan626. We just kind of assume that Bond's missions take place in a matter of a few days, and that time isn't really an issue in the world of 007.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    A good point @JBFan626. We just kind of assume that Bond's missions take place in a matter of a few days, and that time isn't really an issue in the world of 007.
    I wish it was an issue. A sense of time is much needed in the film series, even if it's just leaves on the trees in London, signifying it's September for example.
  • 00Beast00Beast
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    @Samuel001: That would be kind of nice. I like the parts of some Bond movies when it keeps consistent with what day it is, like in Thunderball when 007 has a certain amount of time before SPECTRE expects the money to be delivered. It's easy to follow how many days Bond has been in Nassau, and it adds an extra bit of suspense when we know that Bond's time is running out.
  • 00Beast00Beast
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    I liked the side story in TMWTGG with Scaramanga shooting 002, and Saida taking the bullet out of the wall. It doesn't have to do with Bond, but it would be interesting to see Scaramanga's outside kills.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Yes, I too would have liked to see more of this plot in the PTS, based as it was on the first chapter of Goldfinger, of course.
  • DoubleOhhSevenDoubleOhhSeven
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    I most certainly would've loved to have seen more of this. It sounds alot different from what we were used to in the Bond films and was also kind of ridiculous in it's own right.
  • TracyTracy
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    They could've done a flashback scene with Zorin as KGB agent , you'd only see him from the back though but the hair would reveal him ;)
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    They must go retro after Craig, and do this.
    Michael Fassbender as James Bond in BOND GOES BANANAS.
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
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    LiveAndEatPie wrote:
    I always thought the precredits of OP should have been some mini-mission concerning Major Dexter Smythe, even just briefly, to tie it in with the rest of the film.

    I like this. It would have been better than us having to hear it thru boring exposition.
    The scene with Dexter Smythe would have been too serious a tone for Roger Moore and his interpretation. Of course any other Bond actor would have pulled it off with flying colors.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Thunderfinger wrote:
    They must go retro after Craig, and do this.
    Michael Fassbender as James Bond in BOND GOES BANANAS.

    No, I think you'll find that only HERBIE GOES BANANAS and no one else really should.
  • pachazopachazo Make Your Choice
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    OHMSS69 wrote:
    I like this. It would have been better than us having to hear it thru boring exposition.
    The scene with Dexter Smythe would have been too serious a tone for Roger Moore and his interpretation. Of course any other Bond actor would have pulled it off with flying colors.
    Moore had a number of serious confrontation scenes that he pulled off with flying colors. He could have handled it just fine.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    pachazo wrote:
    OHMSS69 wrote:
    I like this. It would have been better than us having to hear it thru boring exposition.
    The scene with Dexter Smythe would have been too serious a tone for Roger Moore and his interpretation. Of course any other Bond actor would have pulled it off with flying colors.
    Moore had a number of serious confrontation scenes that he pulled off with flying colors. He could have handled it just fine.

    Yes, I think so too. Moore was a much better actor than I think he was ever given credit for, as his non-Bond films show, especially The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) where the audience is treated to a veritable tour-de-force of acting from Moore as Henry Pelham. James Bond even gets a mention in the film:

    http://thebondologistblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/james-bond-mention-in-man-who-haunted.html
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    I like the 'African job' in MR's PTS, if for no other reason than it leaves a lot to the imagination, and could be tied to a future film. In fact, my fan story is partially based in Africa, and I've played around with the idea of loosely tying in this PTS.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Dragonpol wrote:
    Thunderfinger wrote:
    They must go retro after Craig, and do this.
    Michael Fassbender as James Bond in BOND GOES BANANAS.

    No, I think you'll find that only HERBIE GOES BANANAS and no one else really should.
    Great little film. I love Herbie. Herbie would have made a great Bond car in the Roger Moore era.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited February 2014 Posts: 14,686
    Thunderfinger wrote:
    I love Herbie. Herbie would have made a great Bond car in the Roger Moore era.
    =)) Ha ha Could you imagine Herbie replacing the Citroen in FYEO? :))
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    It would have elevated the film for many. ;)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    For those of us who think that heroin flavoured bananas is too over the top, please read this recent BBC News story that came to mind:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25640485
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Interesting,@Dragonpol. Not sure that it was a mistake though, as the exact same thing happened in Oslo recently. Not to a supermarket, but to a fruit retailer that supplies supermarkets.
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