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Yeah, it doesn't look like an accident to me.
I think the FRWL one might be a (very) dark brown.
Perhaps not, which leads to an even worse conclusion: that Campbell actually staged that fall, which added NOTHING at all to the scene. :-O
I respectfully disagree, I think it adds to the scene well.
The commotion and panic of evacuating the airport.
It also gives Carlos a better chance of not being caught or recognised.
Just my two cents.
I respectfully disagree, I think it adds to the scene well.
The commotion and panic of evacuating the airport.
It also gives Carlos a better chance of not being caught or recognised.
Just my two cents.
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I agree with @Benny on this one. To me it adds to the whole danger and unpredictability they were going for in CR. People fall, life is messy. We don't know if Bond will survive. Yes it's just a fall but showing this represents a bigger theme within the picture.
Similar lamps can also be seen in DN, DAF and LALD:
Notice something else about that last screenshot, from LALD? If you look at the wall behind M, you see that the ship painting we usually see in M's office now hangs on the wall in Bond's apartment! See the second screenshot in the first spoiler tag for comparison.
As if that's not enough, Bond must have helped himself to more prints from the headquarters, as not only has he taken ownership of M's ship painting, but also M's other ship prints – first seen all the way back in DN:
A gift from Monepenny perhaps; the map of the West Indies seen in her office in OHMSS can also be seen in Bond's kitchen in LALD:
@Torg Nice one, thanks! I have the map, but didn't know it was in LALD too.
https://live.staticflickr.com/4912/31179877727_2677034a6d_o.jpg
Superb catch!
Perhaps, but I doubt M would give away his ship painting!
How/where did you source the map, @QBranch?
I was quite pleased when I noticed it, haha! Still trying to find out if more stuff from Bond's LALD apartment appears in other films.
"Time to face destiny."
"Time to face gravity."
- Graves and Bond, DAD
"It was gravity which pulled us down
And destiny which broke us apart"
- Bob Dylan, 'Idiot Wind'
For years I have heard the theory that the white passenger ship shown moored in the harbour of Port Royal, Jamaica, when Bond seeks out Quarrel for the first time, is SS "Yarmouth Castle", which sank after a disastrous fire in 1965, killing 90 people. There is even a Gordon Lightfoot song about this incident.
I now decided to try to confirm this. I dropped my Dr. No Blu-ray into my computer and made a couple of snippings of the ship, which conveniently is only seen from its stern. Even snipped from Full-HD, the image was surprisingly small. I blew it up as well as I could using Photo Zoom 5 and my old Photoshop version. I still haven't managed to get a clear picture of the ship's name. However, one can see that it is a single word and not two words.
Now this shouldn't be surprising since the "Yarmouth Castle" that sank was only rechristened from "Evangeline", its original name since 1927, in 1964. It gets a bit more complicated in that "Evangeline" had a more or less identical sister ship named "Yarmouth" (without the Castle) from the beginning, which was renamed several times in the fifties and was even called "Yarmouth Castle" as well for some time..
As I understand it, both ships were owned by the shipping company F.L. Fraser (that's the "F" on the funnel of the vessel in Dr. No) but were sold in 1961. So the ship in the movie was possibly already laid up during the filming or at least had its final days in the livery shown.
As for the name, I've come to the conclusion that the writing on the stern looks considerably more like eight letters (YARMOUTH) than ten (EVANGELINE), and the first and last letters give me the impression of being Y and ...TH. Perhaps someone with a 4K disc and/or system can improve on this.
Anyway, I'm rather confident that the ship seen in Dr. No is actually NOT the ill-fated future "Yarmouth Castle" ("Evangeline" before 1964), but its sister ship "Yarmouth"...whose further fate seems to have been so much less exciting that I didn't really find anything about it.
Update to the final sentence: She was simply scrapped in 1979. Nothing...sinister.
Yes, I thought about that. Confronting face to face LeChiffre in CR is not actually his first mission, but let's say it's the main mission of the movie. Like confronting Blofeld in the desert, for the first time, again face to face.
Yeah, looks like you’re right.
Only noticed in the making of LALD when she was being interviewed.
Yep, according to her bio one eye is brown the other green
Once you know it’s there you can never not notice it again! Can’t remember on which disc it is, maybe Dr No, but there’s a documentary on the restoration process and they talk about that scene there, and the debate they had over whether they should correct such mistakes as part of the restoration.
http://jamesbondmemes.blogspot.com/2019/10/james-bond-in-biarritz.html?m=1
hahaha that's fun for sure. Some fans will go all the way!
They certainly do! Got to appreciate this level of detective work!