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If I had a to work it out. I'd say that Ling and the gunmen were in on it. That the police were in on it. That the big production was needed to get the media to put it on the front page of the newspaper. Fake News is hard to come by! LOL!
As an interesting aside for Doctor Who fans - one of the policemen who discover Bond is Anthony Ainley - later to become The Master at the end of Tom Baker’s reign!
And is he alive in the end on the train or do you see it more as an “extra scene“ that doesn't belong to the story?
I never watched it in the way that this belongs to the rest of the film. In my voodoo free world he died in the coffin full of snakes.
The same goes for the Baron Samedi story. It doesn't make sense, unless one accepts that it's all a drug-induced dream or something. At any rate, the movie means to leave the viewer irritated and to embrace the supernatural stuff, or reject the film altogether.
I really love LALD below the line, but having Sheriff J.W. Pepper as possibly the most realistic character is something to think about.
Exactly that bit is irritating.
Good question. They had a very similar relationship to Xenia and Alec, so you could ask the same question about them.
But personally i would say no. I think both Max and Alec were too smart and ambitious to get burned by such psychos. Both of these gals are oversexed and nuts so it might seem that there's something going on, but i think it's purely... Business.
Actually i think there is more going on between Franz and Dario :))
You've hit on an interesting side story. To answer your question, yes the first one that popped up with an animatronic so the eyes moved but nothing else. The second one was the real Samedi and he does meet his maker in the snake coffin. However Tom Mankiewicz discovered when writing the script for LALD that Baron Samedi is a powerful figure within voodoo community. So it was decided that he appear on the train at the end of the film. I believe it was thought he would return in a future adventure. Plus it was great to get Geoffrey Holder's laugh one last time in the film.
I have searched for the clip but can't find it. I have never understood the small sequence in OHMSS. It occurs when Bond (as Sir Hilary) is heading up to Piz Gloria. Bunt and Bond have made it to the helicopter. Bunt says something to Bond and it has something to do with his smoking or his pipe. Bond replies "knock out you mean. I hope." This is said while Bond is knocking the pipe against the helicopter.
I have never been able to catch what Bunt says to Bond.
Can someone share what Bunt says to Bond and why he makes the quip?
She says ‘first you must your pipe knock off’ - meaning knock the lit tobacco out of the pipe to extinguish it (the correct term would be something like ‘knock your pipe out’)
However in Britain, ‘knock off’ is a colloquial (slang) term meaning to ‘get off with’ or have sex with someone (‘Did you knock her off?’, ‘Who did you knock off last night’ etc)
So in essence, Bond is hoping she isn’t suggesting he have sex with his pipe... or variation on the theme!
Thank you for explaining that. I don't even remember how the subtitles in my copy of the film translate that.
According to discogs.com, this version was released in 1971, the same year as the film. Does anybody know if the Italian version of the song was included in the film for its Italian release? It would make sense to think so, since it would boost sales of that Italian-language single.
Then whey didn't they use this photo?
I think I'm right in saying that that was a Player's cigarette advert that they used in DAD as opposed to an actual picture of the cigarette packet as is shown in your second picture.
Hmm, I'm really not sure but no doubt someone else will know more about all of this.
If it didn't, I understand Bond's visit to Drax could be considered to have a diplomatic purpose, even if he says no apology will be issued just yet, but observing how the shuttle is built, getting a tour of the construction facilities... it seems to have little relation with finding out how the shuttle was hijacked in mid-flight. Bond doesn't need a degree in engineering to investigate the theft.
Someone who drops a ball (or anything else, I suppose) clumsily can be called Butterfingers.
It's not a particularly funny joke, that one.