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Misconceptions and false memories: Our wrong ideas from we weren't familiar with Bond.
I didn't really catch up on Bond until I was 14-15 years old. Until then, I was strongly influenced by my parents' or my uncle's memories of the movies, James Bond Jr., scattered scenes and wrong magazine articles. Did it happen to you? Here are my cases:
Dr. No: I thought Dr. No looked like his James Bond Jr. version, green skin and all.
FRWL: I thought the end of TSWLM was the end of FRWL.
TB: I remembered the jetpack scene with Bond flying around the Parliament Bridge, getting very high (almost surpassing Big Ben) and wearing his tuxedo and no helmet.
OHMSS: OK, brace yourselves. I thought it was about Bond faking a marriage with a mousey looking but beautiful agent (maybe I saw something with Ruby). She's murdered halfway through the film, which would turn into a slapstick-laden revenge story that ended with Bond singing opera in a theatre while the audience there goes ROFLTAO.
DAF: I mixed the Amsterdam lift fight, Bambi and Thumper and Wint and Kidd: Probably influenced by playing Streets Of Rage on my Mega Drive, I thought there was a big fight between two acrobatic gay martial artists and Bond in a huge storage lift.
TMWTGG: I thought there was a rickshaw chase, and that the final confrontation was in a hall of mirrors, much like Enter The Dragon.
MR: I thought that DAF picture of Sean playing golf on the moon was from MR.
LTK: I thought it was a an Italian-made semi-official entry, much like NSNA, especially because of the simplicity of the title and an actor I hadn't seen (I was 6 or 7, then). At the end it ended up being my fav movie of all time XD
GE: I thought Pierce Brosnan would sport a beard.
I can't deny that several of these scenes would have been awesome.
Dr. No: I thought Dr. No looked like his James Bond Jr. version, green skin and all.
FRWL: I thought the end of TSWLM was the end of FRWL.
TB: I remembered the jetpack scene with Bond flying around the Parliament Bridge, getting very high (almost surpassing Big Ben) and wearing his tuxedo and no helmet.
OHMSS: OK, brace yourselves. I thought it was about Bond faking a marriage with a mousey looking but beautiful agent (maybe I saw something with Ruby). She's murdered halfway through the film, which would turn into a slapstick-laden revenge story that ended with Bond singing opera in a theatre while the audience there goes ROFLTAO.
DAF: I mixed the Amsterdam lift fight, Bambi and Thumper and Wint and Kidd: Probably influenced by playing Streets Of Rage on my Mega Drive, I thought there was a big fight between two acrobatic gay martial artists and Bond in a huge storage lift.
TMWTGG: I thought there was a rickshaw chase, and that the final confrontation was in a hall of mirrors, much like Enter The Dragon.
MR: I thought that DAF picture of Sean playing golf on the moon was from MR.
LTK: I thought it was a an Italian-made semi-official entry, much like NSNA, especially because of the simplicity of the title and an actor I hadn't seen (I was 6 or 7, then). At the end it ended up being my fav movie of all time XD
GE: I thought Pierce Brosnan would sport a beard.
I can't deny that several of these scenes would have been awesome.
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Back in the day, every time I watched Jaws meeting Dolly, I would think, 'let's see the braces!', but I cannot remember whether I actually saw them or not. Weird.
@NickTwentyTwo Now this is an interesting case. I'll make a confession. As long as it has nothing to do with aliens, I would welcome some supernatural things on Bond movies. It worked on LALD, and the Bond vs androids idea on the abandoned third Dalton project strikes me as attractive: Bond vs Terminator XD
@Torgeirtrap Lucky you. Misconceptions tend to be confusing the first time one watches an actual Bond film.
That's very funny and it really brings it home. My dad always tells me that when he saw FRWL (that was around 1964-66, on a double Bond feature) for the first time and Red Grant killed the SPECTRE opereative disguised as Bond, some people on the audience, unfamiliar with the movies, gasped and whispered "OMG, they killed James Bond!”.
So a bit of familiarity popped up when Telly Savalas came onscreen and I wondered why Kojak - which was a popular series at the time - was in this. What I took away from that was the shock ending. It's never left me.
Yes, that ending left quite an impact, and for a child it’s way worse.
This is an interesting concept, indeed. Frost would be THAT crazy.
Didn't find out that it was NSNA until I was a teenager.
This is amazing! Looking back, I can see why you would think that.
@bigladiesman Yes, I think I was lucky in that regard. I give that credit mostly to the wonderful artwork by Robert McGinnis, Frank McCarthy and others, used on the VHS covers. They felt very representative of what happened on screen, so there weren't that many misconceptions to have watching the films for the first time.
@Last_Rat_Standing This is AWESOME
@Torgeirtrap Ah, yes, those WB tapes with a silvery cover am I right?
@mattjoes This one is funny as heck! It reminds me of my DAF elevator fight hodgepodge.
@bigladiesman No, these (black cover) ones:
I think they were released around 1992/1993.
Never seen them. Thanks!
I don't know how many countries these were released in. The pictures above is the German edition, and I have the Norwegian edition.
Maybe someone here knows more about these?
The Bond fandom on Twitter was reminding Cal Dyson of this just yesterday ;))
I believe I had a copy where he said "Now you can tell them about the one that got away."
The copy I have now says "Sorry old chap, better luck next time."
I believe they talk about the different lines Bond used there in some Bond documentary.
Same here. I do recall seeing a version of TB with the first line ("..got away"). maybe it was the TV edit.
I guess I now have my homework assignment for Tuesday :-)
Oh I wonder if he’ll do this for one of his new Bond myths videos, hope so! 🤞
Only a little, and when I had watched TB maybe 2 or 3 times.
I remember my father wanting me to see the sequence when I was a kid and telling me there were no tricks or FX on it.