I've never noticed that before...

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  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
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    That's a good one @mtm . Never seen this before.
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
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    mtm wrote: »
    Did I ever post Wai Lin's amusingly bendy arm in here? Looks painful.

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    Look at Pierce's tiny withered left arm. Poor thing.

    Whoa. I never realized that this was how they filmed that scene.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Well I think it's only visible in a couple of shots: I think they probably decided it was a bad idea! :D
  • zb007zb007 UK
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    Something I noticed after reading something on the TV Tropes website: Is it possible that on LALD, when the receptionist says "Mrs. Bond" has already checked, 007 looks a bit hurt, maybe thinking about Tracy? Or it's just Roger Moore showing some dull surprise?

    He really reacts very slowly...

    He has a pained expression on his face in diamonds are forever when moneypenny asks for a diamond in a ring from Amsterdam for a brief moment
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    So after WW II, Berlin was divided in an American, a British, a French and a Soviet sector.

    In AVTAK James Bond's mission takes him to the USA, the UK, France and the USSR.

    I never noticed that before.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    So after WW II, Berlin was divided in an American, a British, a French and a Soviet sector.

    In AVTAK James Bond's mission takes him to the USA, the UK, France and the USSR.

    I never noticed that before.

    Good catch and cool trivia.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    So after WW II, Berlin was divided in an American, a British, a French and a Soviet sector.

    In AVTAK James Bond's mission takes him to the USA, the UK, France and the USSR.

    I never noticed that before.

    Good catch and cool trivia.

    I still find that a little far-fetched, and see no real reason why that should have been intended, sorry.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    So after WW II, Berlin was divided in an American, a British, a French and a Soviet sector.

    In AVTAK James Bond's mission takes him to the USA, the UK, France and the USSR.

    I never noticed that before.

    Good catch and cool trivia.

    Thanks, Thundy :)
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    I still find that a little far-fetched, and see no real reason why that should have been intended, sorry.

    I never said there was a link between the two. It just struck me as an interesting little coincidence.
  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
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    zb007 wrote: »
    Something I noticed after reading something on the TV Tropes website: Is it possible that on LALD, when the receptionist says "Mrs. Bond" has already checked, 007 looks a bit hurt, maybe thinking about Tracy? Or it's just Roger Moore showing some dull surprise?

    He really reacts very slowly...

    He has a pained expression on his face in diamonds are forever when moneypenny asks for a diamond in a ring from Amsterdam for a brief moment

    I always thought it was cruel of Moneypenny to ask such a thing after the man's wife died just 2 years before. I get the relationship between them was flirty. Just didn't ring true to me.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Ha! Yeah that was rather in bad taste of her, I hadn’t noticed that before!
    :)
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    I always felt it was the producers trying to let the audience 'forget' about OHMSS.
  • matt_umatt_u better known as Mr. Roark
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    Probably unintentional but it’s nice to notice that Bond has been referred to as the “last rat standing” (with Brofeld being obviously the cat) in the last movies while in the novels is revealed by Tiger that James was born in the Japanese Year of the Rat. Sweet.
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    thedove wrote: »
    zb007 wrote: »
    Something I noticed after reading something on the TV Tropes website: Is it possible that on LALD, when the receptionist says "Mrs. Bond" has already checked, 007 looks a bit hurt, maybe thinking about Tracy? Or it's just Roger Moore showing some dull surprise?

    He really reacts very slowly...

    He has a pained expression on his face in diamonds are forever when moneypenny asks for a diamond in a ring from Amsterdam for a brief moment

    I always thought it was cruel of Moneypenny to ask such a thing after the man's wife died just 2 years before. I get the relationship between them was flirty. Just didn't ring true to me.

    I think Moneypenny was jumping up and down dancing about the office when she found out Tracy had been murdered.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    thedove wrote: »
    zb007 wrote: »
    Something I noticed after reading something on the TV Tropes website: Is it possible that on LALD, when the receptionist says "Mrs. Bond" has already checked, 007 looks a bit hurt, maybe thinking about Tracy? Or it's just Roger Moore showing some dull surprise?

    He really reacts very slowly...

    He has a pained expression on his face in diamonds are forever when moneypenny asks for a diamond in a ring from Amsterdam for a brief moment

    I always thought it was cruel of Moneypenny to ask such a thing after the man's wife died just 2 years before. I get the relationship between them was flirty. Just didn't ring true to me.

    I think Moneypenny was jumping up and down dancing about the office when she found out Tracy had been murdered.

    I think she let Irma Bunt hide in her flat.
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    thedove wrote: »
    zb007 wrote: »
    Something I noticed after reading something on the TV Tropes website: Is it possible that on LALD, when the receptionist says "Mrs. Bond" has already checked, 007 looks a bit hurt, maybe thinking about Tracy? Or it's just Roger Moore showing some dull surprise?

    He really reacts very slowly...

    He has a pained expression on his face in diamonds are forever when moneypenny asks for a diamond in a ring from Amsterdam for a brief moment

    I always thought it was cruel of Moneypenny to ask such a thing after the man's wife died just 2 years before. I get the relationship between them was flirty. Just didn't ring true to me.

    I think Moneypenny was jumping up and down dancing about the office when she found out Tracy had been murdered.

    I think she let Irma Bunt hide in her flat.

    No wonder Irma Bunt got away with it!
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    And no one ever identified the submachine gun used to shoot Tracy. Not even IMFDB. Another mystery.
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    I think you could take that MP scene one of two ways: either as a harsh Tracy reference (sorry, the precredits were about revenge) adding to the continuity or as a one-off of her suggesting something Bond was opposed to, commitment. We all know he's never serious about her as she is for him.
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    More of an observation here, but in my last night's viewing of TWINE, Bond and Christmas escape from the sub being shot out of the torpedo tube. I just realized that's the second time in the series Bond had been shot out of one, the first being in YOLT, which I thought was really unusual for the time.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    BT3366 wrote: »
    Benny wrote: »
    I'm sure someone has mentioned it before but in GE an ejector seat on a helicopter.... Isn't really a good idea....if it was actually airborne....?!!! 🤔

    Believe it or not, helicopter ejection seats are a reality.

    :-O

    https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/43264/are-there-any-helicopters-with-ejection-seats

    The system works just as it does in GE. Blades are blown off before the passengers are jettisoned.

    Blimey! Thanks @Benny I did not know that! As long as the rotors were blown off first it would probably work!
    Benny wrote: »
    I'm sure someone has mentioned it before but in GE an ejector seat on a helicopter.... Isn't really a good idea....if it was actually airborne....?!!! 🤔

    Believe it or not, helicopter ejection seats are a reality.

    :-O

    https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/43264/are-there-any-helicopters-with-ejection-seats

    The system works just as it does in GE. Blades are blown off before the passengers are jettisoned.

    Blimey! Thanks @Benny I did not know that! As long as the rotors were blown off first it would probably work!

    So just where do those ejected blades end up? I wouldn't want to be anywhere below.
    matt_u wrote: »
    Probably unintentional but it’s nice to notice that Bond has been referred to as the “last rat standing” (with Brofeld being obviously the cat) in the last movies while in the novels is revealed by Tiger that James was born in the Japanese Year of the Rat. Sweet.

    hmm, @matt_u -- I never thought of that before, but, whatever we think of the writers, they are asked by EoN to take a deep dive into the Fleming novels. I would bet that the rat reference in SF was not by accident.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Don't go in there Bond!
  • matt_umatt_u better known as Mr. Roark
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    peter wrote: »
    BT3366 wrote: »
    Benny wrote: »
    I'm sure someone has mentioned it before but in GE an ejector seat on a helicopter.... Isn't really a good idea....if it was actually airborne....?!!! 🤔

    Believe it or not, helicopter ejection seats are a reality.

    :-O

    https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/43264/are-there-any-helicopters-with-ejection-seats

    The system works just as it does in GE. Blades are blown off before the passengers are jettisoned.

    Blimey! Thanks @Benny I did not know that! As long as the rotors were blown off first it would probably work!
    Benny wrote: »
    I'm sure someone has mentioned it before but in GE an ejector seat on a helicopter.... Isn't really a good idea....if it was actually airborne....?!!! 🤔

    Believe it or not, helicopter ejection seats are a reality.

    :-O

    https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/43264/are-there-any-helicopters-with-ejection-seats

    The system works just as it does in GE. Blades are blown off before the passengers are jettisoned.

    Blimey! Thanks @Benny I did not know that! As long as the rotors were blown off first it would probably work!

    So just where do those ejected blades end up? I wouldn't want to be anywhere below.
    matt_u wrote: »
    Probably unintentional but it’s nice to notice that Bond has been referred to as the “last rat standing” (with Brofeld being obviously the cat) in the last movies while in the novels is revealed by Tiger that James was born in the Japanese Year of the Rat. Sweet.

    hmm, @matt_u -- I never thought of that before, but, whatever we think of the writers, they are asked by EoN to take a deep dive into the Fleming novels. I would bet that the rat reference in SF was not by accident.

    Well, yes, quite likely. Reading YOLT I found out another possible one: in SP Bond makes a joke that becoming a priest would’ve been his only possible second option. In the book Tiger explains that the Japanese won’t call him “Bond-san” (as we know Tanaka went with Bondo-san) because the sound was too similar to the word “bonsan”, that in Japanese means... priest.
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    Just a small thing I picked up. Visiting my brother on Friday and he wanted to show off his home cinema, projection TV and 120-inch screen and pulled out QoS because he thinks the precredits chase is a good demo, then TB's precredits.

    As TB is one of my favorites and I've watched the precredits countless times, for the first time I noticed as the limo is taking the widow to the villa there are small patches of snow on the ground. A real contrast to the sun and surf of the Bahamas and a foreshadowing of OHMSS, which was to come up. Okay, not so much the latter, just always fun to spot something different you hadn't before.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    Never noticed the San Monique police in the background as Bond and Rosie arrive to board Quarrel juniors boat in LALD.
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    Benny wrote: »
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    Never noticed the San Monique police in the background as Bond and Rosie arrive to board Quarrel juniors boat in LALD.
    I wonder if San Monique acquired that vehicle from the Village after No. 6 escaped. Looks like one they used right down to the striped canopy.

    Good catch on the police. I really had to look to find them, distracted by that tourist's plaid shorts.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    The acronym DAD reads basically as "Dad."
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    echo wrote: »
    The acronym DAD reads basically as "Dad."

    In fact, I think I've mentioned this before, but I actually read the acronyms as what they sound like: AVTAK to me is Av (like avenue) - tack. It's weird. I don't like it and want it to stop.
  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
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    BT3366 wrote: »
    Just a small thing I picked up. Visiting my brother on Friday and he wanted to show off his home cinema, projection TV and 120-inch screen and pulled out QoS because he thinks the precredits chase is a good demo, then TB's precredits.

    As TB is one of my favorites and I've watched the precredits countless times, for the first time I noticed as the limo is taking the widow to the villa there are small patches of snow on the ground. A real contrast to the sun and surf of the Bahamas and a foreshadowing of OHMSS, which was to come up. Okay, not so much the latter, just always fun to spot something different you hadn't before.

    Gotta love brothers who show off their tech! LOL! Nice catch with the snow, I have never caught that. While I am not sure about the foreshadowing I do agree it provides a nice contrast to the film to come. In fact when I think about it the first half of the movie is somewhat devoid of colour. The Bahamas seems more colourful because of this!
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    echo wrote: »
    The acronym DAD reads basically as "Dad."

    In fact, I think I've mentioned this before, but I actually read the acronyms as what they sound like: AVTAK to me is Av (like avenue) - tack. It's weird. I don't like it and want it to stop.

    I basically say out the full names of all the films, with the exception of, what I sometimes call, “OhMaj”. And “Casino” sometimes I think.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    edited May 2020 Posts: 9,083
    echo wrote: »
    The acronym DAD reads basically as "Dad."

    The thought had occurred to me. Have you also noticed that YOLT rhymes with colt or volt? And DAF is probably product placement for a former Dutch carmaker? And TWINE for strings or cords? (Don't take it personally. Just kidding.)
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