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False memories in Bond
I was reading the 'nudity in TLD' thread (hilarious btw) and about how people were convinced Dolly had braces and it gave me the idea for this.
Have you had a memory from a Bond film and then in later years watched the film again and realised you are mistaken. Right now I can think of two examples.
FYEO was a film I watched when I was young and didn't watch for many years afterwards. I though that there was a more prolonged battle at the monastery with Kriegler leading a counter attack. You can imagine my disappointment upon rewatching. There wasn't even a good fight between Bond and Kriegler.
In OHMSS, when Bond enters fake Ruby's room, I thought there was a shot of Bunt (before the jump scare) lying with her back to Bond so we can see her face. I was so sure of that I thought it must have been edited out of the tv broadcast.
I also don't remember Brosnan's films having so many cheesy innuendoes but that's just because when I was younger the jokes flew right over my head
Have you had a memory from a Bond film and then in later years watched the film again and realised you are mistaken. Right now I can think of two examples.
FYEO was a film I watched when I was young and didn't watch for many years afterwards. I though that there was a more prolonged battle at the monastery with Kriegler leading a counter attack. You can imagine my disappointment upon rewatching. There wasn't even a good fight between Bond and Kriegler.
In OHMSS, when Bond enters fake Ruby's room, I thought there was a shot of Bunt (before the jump scare) lying with her back to Bond so we can see her face. I was so sure of that I thought it must have been edited out of the tv broadcast.
I also don't remember Brosnan's films having so many cheesy innuendoes but that's just because when I was younger the jokes flew right over my head
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Snap!!
True, but that was the closest to the topic I could think of :))
Something I did remember wrong though, I believed that the blonde Russian female spy in A View To A Kill was the same character as in From Russia With Love. Back a long time ago when I only had seen most of the Bond movies a couple of times.
Well I suppose you were not entirely wrong there as metaphorically speaking Leiter was killed off at least as a character until the reboot provided a chance for his return limbs intact.
In my defence, I was only 10 at the time so didn't know better.
lol, I was thinking a bit more prosaic than that, but they are pretty funny and wacky. Some of the things we can get in our heads when we are too young to fully understand can be quite frightening. Is that what happened here do you think?
Haha your guess is as good as mine. I saw quite a few Bond movies at a young age. I first saw GoldenEye when I was 6 but that never did anything to me. I remember seeing most of Roger's movies not long after I think as a kid they all blurred together. I remember Jaws's jump scare scaring me as a kid. LALD, TMWTGG and MR I could remember most. The others were a blur until I rewatched the movies years later as I only owned the Brosnan films at the time. It's possible I could have seen some trippy movie on tv and mistook it for a Bond film. I think my second memory was just a very poor recollection of FYEO. I clearly remembered the red Lotus but remembered the Identigraph scene taking place in the Lotus itself. Similar to Bond getting data on Xenia and the Yacht from his DB5 dash printer. I saw a lot of iconic movies at a pretty young age. I was probably too young to see a lot of them but It didn't mess me up any except for maybe Robocop 1 and 2. :))
And I still see it when I watch that scene. The way he lifts the gun to his own head like that and how desperate he is in that scene...
EDIT: Maybe that's what you're looking for, Scaramanga?
I went to uni in Lancaster :)
I'm pretty sure I'm right in remembering that, so really it's probably not a false memory. It's something I've said about these films for years to my nearest and dearest.
Fantastic. A great university by all accounts.....................not that I ever got anywhere near a university myself.
the fight on the Egyptian rooftop ended with Bond's tie fraying, finally snapping
sending Sandor off the roof and not Bond swiping him away. :)
How appropriate!
Indeed, that's what I thought when I first watched it. ITV clearly had much more of a sense of humour back in those days.