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It looses some of its unintentional hilarity when translated. Elvis is talking to his mother, as if he was on holiday there.
The dialogue:
«Jo Mami, isch scho chli heiss hie, bruechsch no öppis?»
Yeah Mommy, it's a bit hot here, you fancy anything that I can bring you?
Taubman declared in an interview that it was Marc Forsters idea that he should phone his mother in that scene.
Mathieu Almaric thought it a good idea to do it in Swiss-German, Mathieu and Anatole made up the 2 minute phone call within one hour. Some of the dialogue was done in French as Anatole and his mother (in reality) are bilingual, as are a lot of Swiss people.
Luckily for all of us the editor trimmed that phone-call to a few seconds, I really don't want to imagine Elvis talking in his hilarious accent for two minutes in Swiss-German with his mother on screen....
I have to admit though, at the time, the Swiss audience laughed loud out when that scene came up, it is funny but embarrassing as well.
I have that interview, but it's in German of course. If anyone is interested I can post it and/or the links.
Some newspapers titled the movie "Quantum of Swiss" by the way :)) back in 2008.
Marc Forster also is Swiss, but I'm sure you people know that.
"That feels wonderful"
"Feels even better from where I'm sitting. Would you like it harder?"
"Drat, I dropped the soap"
"I'll get it *giggles*
"THAT is not the soap"
:-& :-&
Same here.
"Now you listen heya troopah boy! We got a swamp full o' black Russians drivin' boats to beat the band!"
Perhaps Lazenby in OHMSS: This never happened to the other fella. It is a bit strange since it kind of breaks the fourth wall, It does make me laugh though.
Eh? What's that mean?
He's apologizing for allowing himself to be caught on camera shooting an unarmed man, so he said he'll shoot the camera first next time so he isn't caught. Her retort is meant (rather harshly) as Bond could shoot himself instead, so he isn't caught doing something like that again.
Dalton's 'Exquisite' line to Karla always jarred. All of a sudden he's moved by music?
What about 'are you calling me a horses arse?'
Smooth, Tim.
"I would ask you if you could remain emotionally detached, but that's not your problem, is it, Bond?"
"No."
Glad I'm not alone. I know it's a favourite film for a lot of people but the dialogue is excruciating. Especially the jarring " For England James" we repeatedly endure from Bean right to the end. The "I might as well ask you if all those vodka martinis drown out the screams of the men you've killed" line was a hilariously naive way of trying to make the film seem profound.
I think GE was intentionally trying to be camp. There is no other explanation for some of the lines in that film. Having said that, I can't get enough of it personally.....such good fun..all delivered with such OTT charisma by all concerned (I remember them all like it was yesterday)
"Lovely girl......tastes like.....like strawberries!" ..."I wouldn't know".... "I would!".... "mmmm"
"Stop it! Both of you!. You're like....like boys with toys!"
""You know James...I was always better"
"Do you know how to disarm the weapon?" ... "I suppose that depends on what kind of weapon you're talking about disarming"
"You were saying something about the lost art of interrogation Mr. Bond"
"No...no....no.....no more foreplay. Take me to Janus".... "Biatch!"
"Don't ever do that again!" ....."This is not one of your games, Boris. Real people will die! You pathetic little worm!" .... "She was in the mainframe. Check the computer."..... "She's a moron. A second-level programmer. She works on the guidance system."
"Hey, Bond. Do you do any gardening?"
"Nobody screws with Boris Grishenko!"
"I think I've died and gone to heaven"..... "Not yet"
I took the liberty of extracting the specified bits from the original draft.
This is the worst quote, because it is the last line and therefore resonates. It's one of the most embarrassing moments in the series. What were they thinking?
Conversely, I think "I think he got the point" is one of the best one-liners. TB's dialogue is underrated; some of it is up there with Simon Raven's in OHMSS.
"Just keep my mind on your driving."
Lazenby was winging them.
“Game, set and match?!” There’s something tragic about the flatlining uninventiveness of that.
But far worse than that or any stainless-steel delicatessens for me, are Purvis and Wade’s attempts at getting thematic. I do love Skyfall’s “...we’re accountable to the people we’re trying to protect. You can’t keep working in the shadows. There are no more shadows.” “You don’t get it....he comes from the same place as Bond, a place you say doesn’t exist. The shadows!” Wait, what? Mallory was talking about public accountability, M, and you’ve gone off on some weird sort of pun. They’re not the same shadows, they’re... Then, at the hearing, poor Dame Judi has to say, “Our world isn’t more transparent (who said it was?), it’s more opaque. It’s in the shadows” and give Mallory a little ‘told you so’ heads up at which point Mallory must be thinking - Eh? Christ, she really has lost it.
Very P&W, all tangled up and tripping over its feet, like “Not sure I can survive your best shot.” “Doubt you’ll get the chance!” No, Moneypenny, that doesn’t work, he wasn’t saying your best shot is, like, having sex, he...look, you’re just doing it wrong. “In your defence a moving target is harder to hit.” “Then you’d better keep moving!” No, hold on, what’re you...are you...you’ve got that all backwards, Eve.
But my all-time favourite line is by the Aston Martin in Scotland, Bond looking up at the sky: “Storm’s coming.” Oh, P&W! It’s wonderfully thematic and weighty and I’m sure the storm is very sorry about it - but it just isn’t coming, is it? Bloody weather.
It's funny. I work in a supermarket and everytime I go past the big display of strawberries we currently have I keep thinking of that damn line. Same happens when I see "Rock Salt" on the shelf.
One line I think is a bit jarring in GE is Bean's "ready to save the world again?" in the PTS. Fan fiction sounding nonsense.
Also, Famke's line of "It's clean...I had to ventilate someone" is interesting in that Martin Campbell says in the commentary that it didn't get the intended laugh in an early screening.
What kid from Thailand would say that though :p
I can't say it's the worst line but there are a couple of lines from LTK that instantly come to mind:
"You know we have laws in this country too"
"Do you have a law against what they did to Leiter??"
Cheesy and contrived in line and delivery.
Why yes we do have a law James. It's called attempted murder.
Another one I've just thought of, this time TWINE:
Valentine telling the great James Bond to "chill out" at the casino.
A lot of people complain about Goldeneye's dialogue but I think TWINE's comes off as worse the more I watch it.
"Do you want to put that in English for those of us who don't speak Spy?"
I hate the line "when it comes to a choice between you and Elliot I've made my bed...you don't sleep in it anymore"
Though that may be down to Hatcher's terrible delivery more than the line itself.
"No, a duplicate (pin). With a transmitter inside that set off the barm."
A lack of consistency in Elektra's tone, where she goes from yelling in Bond's ear with "It is MY oil... MINE!" to a softly-spoken and poetic "It runs in my veins, thicker than blood."
For example:
"Where's Drax?" (she's said as if her jaw was melting.)
or the way she 'pretends' to be frightened in her hotel room when Bond surprises her...
or "Hang on, James." (she's saying it so calm as if her head is put on the pillow and she's peacefully sleeping.)
and...
"But the three (globes) that have gone they'll kill millions"
She couldn't sound less bothered if she tried.
"Now...you said something about...going down together??"
The line and delivery is awful...and Brosnan knows it.
And then, there's that speech of killing millions. She must have been taking pills to tone down the intensity, who knows? :))