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Alec's parents had him later in their lives...some 10 years after WW2 whilst living in shame. Unable to cope with that shame any longer the father kills himself (and mum) while Alec is still young.
• After dealing with the sumo henchman in the Osato building, Bond — who had no idea he'd find himself in such a situation — suddenly produces bulky safecracking equipment from his pocket once he spots an office safe. The gizmo makes a noticeable bulge in Bond's jacket... which was clearly not there in previous scenes.
• Bond, only feet behind her, is unable to catch Aki when she runs away from him — in high heels.
• Mr. Osato orders Bond (who is posing as a British businessman) to be killed moments after meeting him. So a carload of thugs tries to gun down 007 right in front of the company headquarters as he's leaving. Talk about bad publicity...
• Bond watches on a video screen mounted in Aki's sports car as the same carload of thugs is dropped by Tiger's helicopter — which appears dangling a giant magnet within seconds of Aki's distress call — into Tokyo Bay. So what camera is taking these pictures?
• In a ridiculously lame "blue screen" shot, watch as Aki's car takes two hairpin turns (or rather the film in front of the car does) while her hands remain perfectly still on the steering wheel.
• Firing his PPK, Bond misses two henchman who are crouching only five feet away from him.
• To escape a pack of goons at the Kobi docks, Bond makes two 30 foot dives off a building onto pallets stacked with tarp-covered boxes. Naturally, they cushion his fall. So how did he know the boxes contained marshmallows and not machine parts? Ouch!
• During the wedding scene, Bond is pretending to be Japanese with the not-so-successful aid of a Mr. Spock wig. Watch as the 6-foot-2 Connery puts on the hunched posture of a scoliosis sufferer so as not to tower over everyone else in the shot.
• 007 scouts out the perfectly camouflaged volcano crater in his miniature gyro-copter and finds nothing. Fortunately for the good guys, SPECTRE attack choppers pick that moment to engage Bond in an aerial dogfight. From this action, Bond and Tiger amazingly deduce that there must be something about the volcano requiring further investigation.
• Blofeld launches interceptor rockets from his secret volcano base at night. Even with a "radar blackout" device, wouldn't the villagers on the island — not to mention anyone within a hundred miles — be able to see them taking off? (Shades of MOONRAKER!)
• Posing as a fisherman out pearl diving with Kissy, Bond stumbles upon the secret of Blofeld's lair. Without the slightest idea of what he'd find that day, it's revealed that 007 nevertheless had the foresight to bring along the very devices — suction cups — that enable him to stealthily penetrate the hidden base.
Not forgetting of course SPECTRES extravagant copycat system of having a camera satellite in parallel orbit with the intruder missile.
I thought SPECTRE was run for profit so why doesnt someone say to Blofeld 'This is mental. On top of all the expense of hollowing out a volcano and the costs of a space programme, do we really need to pay for another launch just so we can - in your words - 'watch it all on TV'?. Youve lost the plot Ernst.'
Presumably the piranha pool put most people off expressing this sentiment.
Xenia Onatopp: I count two: motoring and, uh, baccarat. I hope the third is where your real talent lies.
This quote from GE never made sense to me. What did Bond mean by the third passion?
Hahaha, excellent. That's it!
Like Octopussy, her allegiance to Kamal is not absolute.
Yes, but then we'd never have the great "Goodnight, sir!", one of the best last lines in a Bond film.
If I remember correctly, the producers were really hoping to convince Anthony Hopkins (then very big because of Silence of the Lambs) to play 006 and had the part written with him in mind, which makes a lot more sense, agewise.
When Bond kills the guard in the lake he didn't bother to take the machine gun! He could took it as a back up and could of had more chance in saving Quarrel.
Ah, I never noticed this before! Good point!
Guess they were too preoccupied with trying to stay hidden at the time. There were also guards and dogs looking for them. Although Bond could have grabbed it once the guards and dogs left, grabbing that guards machine gun may have exposed them, where at the time, their best chance of survival was to stay underwater.
Hahaha that's hilarious. At first I assumed it was a blank but then only seconds later he shoots and kills a guard (pretty sure even in Russia he'd get in alot of trouble for that) with the same gun that he never changed or reloaded. The whole PTS is one giant plothole. Trevelyn's scheme to appear dead makes no sense as Bond could've very easily been killed in the ensuing chase. But I suppose Trevelyn and Orumov figured Bond would slide down the converyer belt, avoid hundreds of bullets, and then catch a plane in mid-air.
Haphazardstuff pointed out a much more sensible alternative. Why didn't Trevelyn just shoot Bond while he wasn't expecting it instead of putting his own life in danger in a gunfight and then blowing up the compound that resulted in his scaring. Bond would've been dead, Trevelyn never would've been seen or heard from again, and MI6 would've naturally assumed that the two agents were caught and killed during the mission.
I think the whole movie is pretty medicore but yeah that PTS has some problems. It's as if the writers forgot about telling a story just to have a cool opening. Then we flashforward nearly a decade and Bond doesn't look a day older. His hair's even exactly the same. I know most people didn't have a problem with this but it bothered me alittle.