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Also, the re-assurance by Campbell that Bond doesn't kill any police is rich: 007 clearly runs over a cop car a little later on, completely decimating the driver's side and killing anyone inside, but a second later, you see him climb out with assistance and walk away without a scratch. I think it's noted in the commentary, but I always love seeing it.
I'd rather they put out a product that I enjoy firstly, and secondly one that the majority of the public globally enjoy and have a critically favourable response to.
How it's remembered with time is also something I look for, and we're too early for that with SP or the song.
Onto the subject at hand, I read somewhere recently that the train sequences in both GE & OP were partially filmed at the same location (namely the Nene Valley Railway and its main station near Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire). I wasn't aware of that before, but I know that I felt the similarities between the two sequences when I first watched GE in the theatre. A sort of deja vu. It's reassuring to learn that I wasn't just imagining things.
Hmm, now that I'm comparing the train locations of GE and OP, I'm feeling some similarities, as well, that's a good eye. I'll have to look into it and watch OP again real soon so I can compare them more closely.
Another pet peeve with me is how the dialect that is so prominent in Maastricht in this show rarely to never gets used.
I knew OP had its train sequence filmed in Peterborough, but didn't know that about Goldeneye. Incidently, i live near that area.
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For LALD, there's a large crocodile replica sitting in Q's lab.
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/dad_homages.php3
You're probably right. I wouldn't imagine there being an homage to TWINE since it immediately preceded DAD.
Bond uses his keychain to remote drive the car in both TWINE and DAD (different from TND where he uses his cellphone(!))
If Bond had used a remote control car-driving keychain in, say, Live and let die, everyone would be saying that its use in DAD was an intentional homage.
And I always liked that butler as well, quite an obliging and professional guy.
In TWINE, when Bond and Christmas are about to go and disable the pipeline bomb, Bond calculates that the bomb traveling at 70 mph and being 106 miles away from the terminal gives him 78 minutes to disable it, while in reality he would have 91 minutes. He did say in GE however, that numbers were never his strong side.
In GE, it was revealed that Zukovsky walks with a cane because Bond shot him in the knee at one point (presumably during the cold war, and I don't recall which knee was shot). In TWINE, he rescues Bond from Elektra's torture chair by shooting off a lock on Bond's right wrist using a gun concealed inside his cane, which means that if Bond never shot him, Zukovsky would not have been able to rescue him.
A family member of mine misses one leg, has a prothese. He can walk short bits without a cane, but caries one for the longer bits as without it it hurts too much. I think @Anthrax's assesment is right on the money.
Which he makes refferance to in the sceen in his club .
The main part of your reply that answered my question was totally overlooked by my eyes; I apologize! Makes much more sense now.