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Oh the little things you notice and I might end up like Carter if I join something like the SIS.
Sorry to shatter your dreams but they have something called aptitude tests before they let you in. Probably best to set your sights a little lower; why not have a crack at Maccy D's? I reckon you stand maybe a 50/50 shot of getting the gherkin choppers job. On a good day and with a fair wind behind you.
You need to stop these spammy questions / posts to avoid getting another warning. It's getting tiresome.
According to a prop passport made for CR Daniel's Bond was born in 1968 making him 38 when joining the 00 section, it's generally considered that Fleming's Bond was born between 1920 and the You Only Live Twice official obituary date of 1924 though circumstantial evidence would dispute this later date, likewise James Bonds enrolment to the 00 section is equally hazy though it is certainly around about the 1950 mark making him between his mid twenties to early thirties. He is also thought to of worked previously for the secret service since either 1937 or 1938 though not in the 00 section.
And according to the James Bond Dossier that Sony released during the PR-campaign for CR. He worked as a stationed agent in Jamaica and Rome before he got promoted to a 00-agent in 2006. Which would have made him 38 Years Old then.
-Why did Blofeld had Kronsteen executed and not Rosa Klebb?
I don't think Blofeld was incorrect: Klebb merely followed Kronsteen's plan. I think she defended herself very well in the meeting, while Kronsteen was very arrogant. I think his fate was sealed when he said "Who is Bond compared to Kronsteen". He was bragging, which is not very professional, especially in such circumstances.
Moreover Klebb had still a mission to perform, whilst Kronsteen surely could not help any further.
And I hate to make such comparison, but somehow it reminds of a board room scene in The Apprentice.
Well, now I'm stuck imagining Bond fighting against Donald Trump on a snowmobile. But anyway, Klebb chose Red Grant for the operation, and it only went south when he started bragging and got greedy. Furthermore, Kronsteen and Klebb could continue to be used after the mission ended. Killing Kronsteen just because he couldn't help more on this particular assignment would astoundingly short-sighted.
But in any event I agree that Kronsteen's continued bragging did nothing to help his case and hurt his chances of surviving rather badly.
I was thinking more about Lord Allan Sugar. And of that scene in particular. Klebb chose Grant, but Grant was recommended and he was SPECTRE's best pupil. And they didn't know that Grant got greedy. Kronsteen should have, in Blofeld's eye, thought about any shortcomings during the execution phase. I think Krosteen lost his life when he said, after at least part of his plan failed, that it was still infallible. I don't know exactly how he could have saved himself, but saying he could make modifications with the new variables may have helped. Instead, he said that the man with the upper hand was negligible. This, and to show to Klebb what was at stake, probably pushed Blofeld to condenm him.
At the end of the train scene in Casino Royale, Vesper says she'll be keeping her eyes "off (Bond's) perfectly formed arse." It might just be me, but Bond's been sitting down the entire time they've known each other. Unless she has x-ray vision or a camera hidden in the seat, how would she have known about Bond's arse and its apparently pleasant shape?
By plot hole, were you talking about the question I proposed?
I think she was being sarcastic. This or she can size up a man's arse just as easily as she can size the rest (remember the scene with the suit).
9/11, ultimately, had the effect of making the films more serious and less flippant. By the time of the attacks, DAD had already been written, but they also made it so that Bond was imprisoned in North Korea during the time of 9/11: "While you were away, the world changed."
Based on Barry's music crescendoing, I assumed the code word actually was "imminent." It has always bothered me because why choose a WWIII code word that is so easily confused with another word, "eminent"?
That is interesting, thanks.
I wonder if the producers ditched Savalas to try and avoid any association with OHMSS (after how it was badly received). There's probably some other reason, but it'd make sense.
Yeah I wonder what Gray thought of it when he read the script. It obviously didn't stop him from taking the role.
I may be wrong, but I understood that Pleasence did not look menacing enough physically to be the Blofeld of OHMSS. I was not always completely convinced by Savalas as Blofeld, but he was a credible adversary against Lazenby-Bond. Pleasence in a fist fight would have been laughable, however great he is as an actor.