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  • fjdinardofjdinardo
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    In Moonraker whats the name of the parade in Rio and what is the song they are singing during the parade?
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    fjdinardo wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    One question I have from just watching Octopussy again is, who exactly is Kamal Khan? What's the nature of his relationship with Octopussy? And what is he motivated by, why does he seem to want to set off a nuclear bomb? Orlov has a clear motive but Khan- is he motivated by money or politics? Even once Orlov is out of the picture (although, granted, Khan doesn't know he's been killed) he's still devoted to setting off the bomb, but I don't know why.

    Holy Crap. I never thought of this. Yes what is his motive?

    Octopussy is a mess. IMO of course.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited December 2020 Posts: 16,383
    fjdinardo wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    One question I have from just watching Octopussy again is, who exactly is Kamal Khan? What's the nature of his relationship with Octopussy? And what is he motivated by, why does he seem to want to set off a nuclear bomb? Orlov has a clear motive but Khan- is he motivated by money or politics? Even once Orlov is out of the picture (although, granted, Khan doesn't know he's been killed) he's still devoted to setting off the bomb, but I don't know why.

    Holy Crap. I never thought of this. Yes what is his motive?

    Same here! I'd seen it loads of times and the last time I suddenly realised that we get no indication of what he wants at all. Is he even the main villain or is he Orlov's henchman?
    I guess they could have just hand-waved it by saying he's KGB, like they did with Kristatos, although I guess that wouldn't quite work as Orlov's scheme is a totally renegade one. It is odd.
    And why he kidnaps Octopussy herself at the end is totally impossible to fathom.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    I'm sure this has been asked before. Probably.
    In TND, after Carver's stealth boat has been destroyed at the end, we have a scene where one of M's aides informs her, that Carver went down with the ship and it seems Bond made it.
    How do they know that Bond made it?
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 14,572
    Good one Benny, they couldn't have known just yet. It seems that line was added in to give M a happy ending. Without it, she wouldn't have made her jovial quip about Carver presumed drowned while aboard his yacht.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    QBranch wrote: »
    Good one Benny, they couldn't have known just yet. It seems that line was added in to give M a happy ending. Without it, she wouldn't have made her jovial quip about Carver presumed drowned while aboard his yacht.

    Never made sense to me.
    The line too Moneypenny about Carver committing suicide always felt like a dig at Robert Maxwell, who disappeared a few years before whilst on his yacht under mysterious circumstances. Is it implied that Maxwell was in the same league as Carver. Corrupting the media for his own gains?
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Benny wrote: »
    QBranch wrote: »
    Good one Benny, they couldn't have known just yet. It seems that line was added in to give M a happy ending. Without it, she wouldn't have made her jovial quip about Carver presumed drowned while aboard his yacht.

    Never made sense to me.
    The line too Moneypenny about Carver committing suicide always felt like a dig at Robert Maxwell, who disappeared a few years before whilst on his yacht under mysterious circumstances. Is it implied that Maxwell was in the same league as Carver. Corrupting the media for his own gains?

    It certainly was a Maxwell dig, and Maxwell certainly was a massively bent guy.
  • Risico007Risico007
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    I have 2 questions

    1. Why does there seem to be a movement against using Chapter titles for film titles?
    2. Is it true that Michael G Wilson hates the title Risico?

    just curious thanks for any insight
  • ggl007ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España
    Posts: 2,541
    Risico007 wrote: »
    1. Why does there seem to be a movement against using Chapter titles for film titles?

    just curious thanks for any insight
    Spectre is a chapter title
    ;;)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    ggl007 wrote: »
    Risico007 wrote: »
    1. Why does there seem to be a movement against using Chapter titles for film titles?

    just curious thanks for any insight
    Spectre is a chapter title
    ;;)

    That's a point! :)
  • Risico007Risico007
    Posts: 9,846
    ggl007 wrote: »
    Risico007 wrote: »
    1. Why does there seem to be a movement against using Chapter titles for film titles?

    just curious thanks for any insight
    Spectre is a chapter title
    ;;)

    sigh but beyond that
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 16,383
    ggl007 wrote: »
    Risico007 wrote: »
    1. Why does there seem to be a movement against using Chapter titles for film titles?

    just curious thanks for any insight
    Spectre is a chapter title
    ;;)

    Ha! I didn't realise that :)
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    If any of you have Spotify, go to the OHMSS soundtrack. Who is Michael McDonald? I've never heard of him.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 13,791
    You must be referring to the long-time well-loved singer-songwriter who started out with the Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, and moved on to his own very successful solo career.

    https://www.michaelmcdonald.com/
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Did he help with OHMSS or is that some type of error?
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Oh now I see what you're seeing, @PropertyOfALady.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/4BVd2gkQNWj30YN5P3r8Av?highlight=spotify:track:3M0zi8iD2KRzY71XcGFUpE


    Digging deeper, it is a doppelgänger of the artist I cited (and there are still others). A sound engineer involved in the remastering of the tracks, he's credited with OHMSS, DAF, others. 192 credits listed on the link below.
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    Michael McDonald (2)
    https://www.discogs.com/artist/391381-Michael-McDonald-2
    Profile:
    American audio engineer, music producer and film mixer from California who is currently chief engineer at Private Island Trax in Los Angeles (former studio: Trax Studio (3)).
    Not to be confused with New York engineers Michael McDonald (4) (Reggae) and A.T. Michael MacDonald (Jazz).

    Michael has engineered many artists since 1982, he began his guitar playing career in Bakersfield, California experimenting with his home tape recorder. Along the way Mike became a successful guitar repair specialist, he used his income from session work as a guitarist and a successful tour to raise money for bigger and better recording equipment. In 1988, Michael moved to his studio to a multi-room facility in Hollywood were he engineered Martika’s debut album. In 1990 he began to take on audio post jobs for hundreds of TV and film projects.

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  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Thank you, @RichardTheBruce. You've solved a question I've had for a long time now.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
    edited December 2020 Posts: 7,021
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    mattjoes wrote: »
    Was M Bond's Mother?

    No, though that was interestingly what the young Ian Fleming called his stern and overbearing mother. It is believed to be where Fleming got the idea for referring to the fictional Head of the British Secret Service as M in his books (as opposed to C which is the actual designation in the real world).

    This theory on the origins of M in the novels was propounded by John Pearson in his 1966 biography of Fleming and, to my mind, it still holds true today. Pearson knew Fleming well as they had worked together at the Sunday Times where Fleming was the Foreign Manager.

    M was an authority figure to be feared and respected in Fleming's youth, adolescence and indeed throughout his whole life. His father had been killed when the boy Fleming was just 9 years old during WW I in 1917. In fact, his mother died in the month prior to his own death in August 1964.
    My question was a little joke in reference to an old thread about Skyfall in this forum, but I appreciate your informative and detailed response!
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    mattjoes wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    mattjoes wrote: »
    Was M Bond's Mother?

    No, though that was interestingly what the young Ian Fleming called his stern and overbearing mother. It is believed to be where Fleming got the idea for referring to the fictional Head of the British Secret Service as M in his books (as opposed to C which is the actual designation in the real world).

    This theory on the origins of M in the novels was propounded by John Pearson in his 1966 biography of Fleming and, to my mind, it still holds true today. Pearson knew Fleming well as they had worked together at the Sunday Times where Fleming was the Foreign Manager.

    M was an authority figure to be feared and respected in Fleming's youth, adolescence and indeed throughout his whole life. His father had been killed when the boy Fleming was just 9 years old during WW I in 1917. In fact, his mother died in the month prior to his own death in August 1964.
    My question was a little joke in reference to an old thread about Skyfall in this forum, but I appreciate your informative and detailed response!

    Ah, yes. I remember that thread now. I think it was a troll thread if I remember correctly.

    I knew you were being facetious but it got me thinking and a reply was soon rattled out anyway. That's sometimes how I roll. :)
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    My replies were pretty abrupt in that thread. Regret would be unprofessional.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited December 2020 Posts: 18,271
    QBranch wrote: »
    My replies were pretty abrupt in that thread. Regret would be unprofessional.

    I remember it.

    Here it is:

    https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/5019/was-m-bonds-mother/p1
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    Thank you, @RichardTheBruce. You've solved a question I've had for a long time now.

    +1 Thanks @RichardTheBruce. I've always had a question about that. Even the CD liner notes don't offer much of a answer.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Why hasn't Charles Helfenstein written more Bond books?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,271
    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    Why hasn't Charles Helfenstein written more Bond books?

    I think OHMSS and TLD were the films he was especially interested in as a Lazenby and Dalton fan. I think he'd collated most information on those two films, particularly OHMSS over several decades. I suppose that in-depth books like that are hard to create from scratch but I too would obviously like to see Mr Helfenstein write more books. I remember him as a member of CBn Forums back in the day.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited December 2020 Posts: 16,383
    Here's a question: in OHMSS, who does Campbell work for?

    Bernard-Horsfall-in-OHMSS.jpg


    The obvious answer is that he's an MI6 agent, but when we first see him he's in Bern on one of Draco's building sites, where he helps to pass Bond a massive safecracker/photocopier. But Bond at this point in the story has 'gone rogue' (as everyone who complains about Daniel Craig films says): he's on two-weeks leave from MI6 and M has taken him off the Bedlam case, so this isn't an official MI6 action.
    So has Bond somehow tricked Campbell into working with him, or does Campbell simply just work for Draco? He's on his building site, after all; and it doesn't seem likely Bond would have been able to get the photocopier from Q if he was supposed to be on leave.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    OHMSS again:
    So Bond kicks Blofeld off the bobsled into a tree, then his bobsled crashes pretty much immediately afterwards a couple of hundred yards down the track whereabouts he plays with a dog for a bit.

    Does it not occur to him to walk up the track a bit and ensure that Blofeld is either dead or arrested? He just... leaves him there?! :))
  • MalloryMallory
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    mtm wrote: »
    OHMSS again:
    So Bond kicks Blofeld off the bobsled into a tree, then his bobsled crashes pretty much immediately afterwards a couple of hundred yards down the track whereabouts he plays with a dog for a bit.

    Does it not occur to him to walk up the track a bit and ensure that Blofeld is either dead or arrested? He just... leaves him there?! :))

    Bond does the same in Spectre, never checks Hinx is dead when he crashes through the windscreen following the plane/car chase in Austria.

    It does seem very sloppy on Bond’s part.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited December 2020 Posts: 16,383
    I would say, unlike Blofeld, Hinx isn't actually his entire objective though: at that point it doesn't really matter if Hinx lives or dies to Bond.
  • Max_The_ParrotMax_The_Parrot ATAC to St Cyril’s
    edited January 2021 Posts: 2,426
    mtm wrote: »
    Here's a question: in OHMSS, who does Campbell work for?

    Bernard-Horsfall-in-OHMSS.jpg


    The obvious answer is that he's an MI6 agent, but when we first see him he's in Bern on one of Draco's building sites, where he helps to pass Bond a massive safecracker/photocopier. But Bond at this point in the story has 'gone rogue' (as everyone who complains about Daniel Craig films says): he's on two-weeks leave from MI6 and M has taken him off the Bedlam case, so this isn't an official MI6 action.
    So has Bond somehow tricked Campbell into working with him, or does Campbell simply just work for Draco? He's on his building site, after all; and it doesn't seem likely Bond would have been able to get the photocopier from Q if he was supposed to be on leave.

    According to the JB Encyclopedia (Cork & Stutz) he's an MI6 agent. Regarding the 'gone rogue' bit, I always thought of that as 'unofficial official' business (with M's little 'what would I do without you Moneypenny' quote) in the same way as the sabbatical in TMWTGG and the two weeks leave to Rio in MR. This didn't stop Q branch providing Bond with the souped up speedboat or the third nipple so I guess Campbell is similarly 'helping nudge nudge wink wink' Bond. But I suppose there's not enough in the film to decide for sure either way.
  • Max_The_ParrotMax_The_Parrot ATAC to St Cyril’s
    edited January 2021 Posts: 2,426
    Watching TSWLM today I realised there's no real explanation for how Stromberg is able to disable the subs. We know how he tracks them, and that seems to be the focus of the discussion, but I couldn't find any mention or explanation for how he disables them. I can hazard a few guesses how he might do it, but is there anything I’ve missed to point to an explanation in-film?
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