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The whole scene is pretty stupid to me, just like Bond hitting Felix for "almost" saying 007...even though Bond says it out loud in front of the goon anyway, and it's obvious that Largo and his men already know who he is. What's the point?
Never did like that scene, trying too hard to inject some suspense and ends up just not making sense.
Is it a Walther PPK? It can still be uncocked and have a round in the chamber, you would still need to rack the slide to make sure there wasn't a round there.
Yes, you are right, there wouldn't definitely be a round, but you would think you would check before giving it back? You wouldn't be able to tell simply by whether it was cocked or not, you would need to pull the slide back to be sure.
With a PPK you can have it on 'safety', ie uncocked with a round in the chamber, but a P99 has no safety, so with a P99 it would be safer to only put a round in the chamber when needed. Still with a PPK, for safety you generally don't leave a round in chamber.
Yes, that is precisely what I said in my previous post. But it's still 'good practice' when not using it to have manual safety on and no round in the chamber, obviously Bond would probably keep a round in the chamber, but generally it's good safety to always keep the chamber empty when not firing.
Most semi-auto pistols made these days don't have an external safety on them - Glocks and Sig Sauers are the same. A quality holster should always completely cover the trigger guard.
Darn, now I understad! I always got that the other way 'round!
I never noticed before how influenced John Glen was by Spielberg's work on the Indy films. When I watched Raiders, I realized right away that OP was definitely greatly influenced, from the pacing of the action (much faster than previous Bond films and especially FYEO) to the silly humour stuff in India (all the chase in the jungle with Tarzan, hiss off etc. as well as the Rickshaw chase and street fight). I think Bond did it better, but I'm in the minority probably. Even the dinner scene in OP was cribbed, but this time ironically by Spielberg for Temple. I again think OP did it better.
Moreover, Glen seems to have been further inpired throughout his Bond directing tenure by the Indy films, because the AVTAK finale in the mines reminds me of Temple, the Afghanistan finale in TLD reminds me of Raiders, & even the truck chase at the end of LTK (with Bond climbing all of over the trucks) reminds me of Indy. Dario's bond crushing death also evokes a similar one of a big Sikh fella in Temple.
It's almost like Indy was the rough template for Bond during the 80's, just like Bourne/Nolan seem to have been for the last few Bond films. Glen certainly was known for ramped up fast cut action in comparison to the 70's Bond films.
Most people overlook the fact that the OHMSS one is not just a safe opener, its a full blown scanner and printer with its own power supply (Bond doesnt plug it in) . For 1969 thats quite something....
True, but still it takes almost an hour, and Sato's safe is open within the minute.. (that and the fact that Bond has it on him all the time apparently)
Oh it surely works, but watching the films in the wrong order you start to wonder. Same with the copier abilities of this machine: why not use the pocket size safe cracker (YOLT) and the microfilm camera (used by Bond to take the pictures of Blofeld's 'Angels of death') and be out of there in no-time? But i guess a swiss solicitor taking less then an hour for lunch is far more unbelieveable ;-)
with the early films. A fantasy Bond followed by a realistic one, you'd think
Q could have come up with a smaller copier, in a briefcase perhaps ;)
Really? Never noticed that either. It means idiot, or more directly translated a "pubic hair".
I always took it as meaning "dickhead." Either way, that's the only line Medrano utters to Greene once he arrives at Perla de las Dunas, pretty funny.