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~ What examples of humor do you find in early Bond films?
~ How did humor change during the following years?
~ What was the first instance of "over the top" humor?
~ How much humor is needed in a Bond film, anyway?
~ Which are your favorite humorous scenes?
~ Which films have a good balance of humor and which seem far too campy, over the top, or just misfired/misplaced humor?
~ Which Bond actor's handling of humor do you like best? Or like least?
These are just starters; you don't need to answer all of them but it is nice if they are touched on over the next few days. These are just to get us thinking about things to discuss regarding humor in Bond films.
For me, I especially enjoyed all the interaction between Pierce and Desmond. :-bd I think they had great chemistry; the humor in their scenes was delicious. They are my favorite pairing of Bond and Q.
Some scenes and pairings I also enjoy a lot are:
The whole fighting Jaws in the Pyramids then trekking through the desert in evening wear (TSWLM; as previously mentioned by DaltonCraig007). I find the humor in this film sparkling and fun; it is still one of my favorite Bond films.
The escape by cello with Dalton and D'Abo; I found it amusing and nicely done. His exasperation with her throughout the film seems natural and I found that humorous. Their romance was rather well played. Aside from the cello scene, also him taxiing the plane and watching as she drove the jeep, trying to communicate with her; his exasperation is hilarious.
The entire intro scene with Daniel and Eva on the train in CR. A timeless scene for me, very well acted, with nice wit and spark. I think Dan does best with dry wit, with that tinge of sauciness or subtle sarcasm. And thinking of him, he has had good humorous moments. For other examples, the entire scene of breaking into Judi's apartment in Skyfall; and I liked his banter and chemistry with Eve very much ("... nothing major"). I think they should in general stick to that sort of humor for his films. I believe the whole bit of Bond jumping on the front of the train in Skyfall, with the man commenting to the woman, "He's keen to get home" was a deliberate nod to Moore's era. It was okay, the entire scene, but just that one part with that comment and the delivery of it and the way the couple looked - it took me back immediately to Moore-land. I'm glad that only happened once in Skyfall. As a one time nod, that was acceptable. But I wouldn't want more of that in Craig's era.
In general, I appreciate do witty, dry humor, and more subtle humor in Bond films. That works best for me.
However ... I also enjoyed Bond in a gorilla suit, and although it was rather OTT, it amused me and did not make me feel it was far too much (unlike the Bondola, for example, which I truly found not funny, just stupid and annoying). I find plenty of decent humor in the Moore films, sprinkled generously with sometimes going too outlandish (like most of Moonraker). But even in Moonraker (definitely stupid clown and overblown yuk-yuk land), I could find a good line delivery by Moore enjoyable ("Did I?" as he shoots the assassin out of the tree and answers Drax's comment that he missed his shot). Yet much of Moonraker is buffoonery of the unfunny kind.
What else? Well, I love the scenes with Pierce and Robbie Coltrane very much. Oh yes! That kind of banter and chemistry was great fun and they both had some very good lines.
Who had the best delivery of quips? There is the more subtle, serious, hint of sarcasm or stifled pleasure, always with a hint of danger, from Sean - which I like a lot. But I also like Roger's delivery of lines, his body language (yes, the raised eyebrow, too) and demeanor. Some of Roger's humor was too stupid or OTT but for the most part he was smooth and genuinely funny so many times. I like his line delivery very much indeed ("Just keeping the British end up, sir" is just one).
Unlike other fans, I found Pierce's delivery to be fine. I like his Bond and honestly I did not find the line delivery seeming forced in his first three films. The only downbeat for me is in DAD. DAD's script had incredibly stupid dialog. I thought he was fine in most of the film - but there was an essence there, just a slight difference ... because the film was so awful, the lines so terrible, and the film changed from being potentially quite good to stupid ... where I think Pierce did not enjoy saying them. Just my feeling about it. (I still like his "Put your back into it," remark, though). ;)
I'll find more to write about late today. There are many fine scenes throughout the years that made me laugh or smile. Please continue to share some of your favorites - and least favorites - regarding humor in Bond films.
Cheers!
:)>-
YOLT Olga"I have you" Bond, "Then you'd better enjoy yourself,"
TB I liked the pool scene where Largo with the skeet rifle turns to Bond with the gun pointed at him and Bond (Connery's perfect style. HE WAS SO FRIGGIN COOL ) just calmly moves the gun away so its not pointing at him. This was a subtle but masterful scene well handled by both actors.
TSWLM after the fight at the construction sight and Bond and Anya drive away, Jaws drops the boulder on his foot. That was cute and funny. The climatic end to a funny sequence.
DAF Tiffany to Metz "Keep tooting on that honker and you're gonna get a shot in the mouth" and to the annoying kid at the water baloons, "Go blow up your pants." How many of us have wanted to say that to an annoying kid? Though I did not care for the film, it does have some great zingers.
I can accept more than one kind of humor in Bond films, as it suits the story and actor. But the big OTT scenes ... especially when permeating the entire film ... I can do without those ever returning (Moonraker and DAD, mainly looking at you).
For me, I'll do a quick note regarding my appreciation of the humor in all the Bond films, not just individual scenes:
Dr No - subtle, not much, suited the story; Bond was cool!
FRWL - similar and very much suited the story; some playfulness with Tania was very nicely done
GF - a bit more, and Connery's assurance and delivery was confident
TB - same; Connery handled all lines with a smoothness and sincerity, that hint of danger beneath the wit
So in those first four, the humor was mild or just starting to add a bit to the film but really handled well and complemented the whole film.
YOLT - Here things go a bit "off" humor wise for me, but I admit mostly because of the "turning Bond Japanese" routine.
OHMSS - Now, I know many love this film but I only like parts of it. The humor for the most part is what I do not enjoy. It came across as stupid and annoying to me. Those stupid, silly girls for one thing. Bond as Hillary ... just no. But still not yet over the top or totally ruinous for the film.
DAF - The first true entry into camp, as has been mentioned. I like some of the lines between Bond and Tiffany. But it was definitely a mixed feeling, this film, uneven and though I like parts, it sure felt like a different kind of Bond film. So, mixed feelings re the humor.
LALD - Such a take on the era, the blaxploitation, the funkiness, the fashion, etc. I enjoy the film as a period piece per se and I love the theme song and whole soundtrack. But humor? Well, this was Moore's first and his own style was coming through just fine. JW Pepper, however, was OTT and a strong contrast to Bond. Love him or hate him, I think JW Pepper noticeably marked the turning point in OTT outlandish humor injected into Bond films.
TMWTGG - I was disappointed in the film, and I got annoyed at Moore's Bond for his treatment of Goodnight (and I found her so silly, not amusing). I found Nick Nack to be quite annoying but not funny, and of course JW made another appearance. I found the humor in this one not to be for me. I don't watch it often.
TSWLM - Yay! Finally, I got the Bond film I had been wanting, with a great performance by Moore and humor that I really enjoyed throughout. It was smoother, funny, witty, silly at times (Jaws dropping the block on his foot) but it worked. I like the humor in this film, I really do. For me, the humor sparkles in TSWLM.
Moonraker - And then we plummet to the depths of Bond films. Yuk. Far too over the top, outlandish, and stupid humor mixed with Corrine's horrible death (so not funny) and just a few good lines by Drax and Bond. Bad, unfunny film that turned Jaws into a buffoon and that was not all: we also had Dolly, a ludicrous laser fight in space, and the horrendous Bondola. Ugh.
FYEO - What a relief! Bouncing back from the unfunny abyss that was MR, this film pulls together everything in a good balance. My favorite, delightful performance by Moore, and the humor shines just right throughout this fine story. Well done!
Octopussy - Mostly okay, but a few OTT moments that seemed silly for sure. Not so bad as Moonraker (nothing is; though DAD comes close). The nice chemistry between Maud and Roger helped and I liked Bond in the clown suit because it contrasted the seriousness and tension of the scenes.
AVTAK - Mostly no, not good humor. The "California Girls" moment, the keystone cops chase scene with the fire truck, and the final shower scene; no, it just felt stupid. A blimp nearly running down Stacy. I wish it had; I found Stacy so irritating. But I enjoyed Fiona's moments with Moore, yes. That had a nice spark, but that was about all.
TLD - as I've mentioned, I enjoyed the humor in this film. It suited the characters well and was nicely played. Not OTT or stupid.
LTK - what little humor they tried to inject did not sit well with me. Q in the field like that, in that way? No. The winking fish at the end? No. But overall, it was a very serious film, darker indeed.
Goldeneye - a rather superb effort with good humor throughout. The only moments I did not care for were the stupid female assessor at the beginning (I think her name was Caroline) and the moment when the bicyclists toppled over like dominoes (that was my only "Oh are we going there again?" moment; meaning Moore's more silly humor). Other than that, which both occurred early on, I enjoyed the film tremendously including the repartee with Natalya and Bond and the great intro of the new M - and of course I already mentioned how I enjoyed Robbie's Valentin Zukovsky.
TND- One of my most watched Bond films. I think it has a good balance of serious scenes mixed with humor that mostly worked quite well. As always, I enjoyed Desmond and Pierce's scenes a lot. Carver was not OTT in my opinion; silly and someone we were happy to see killed off. But I did not find OTT or truly stupid humor in this film.
TWINE - This is more of a mixed bag for humor. Loved Valentin coming back for this one; that was the best part. I find Christmas Jones lacking in every way pretty much and what humor there was in the film was slim. Very unfunny final ending. Not a well written story, no.
DAD - Just a hash of bad and stupid decisions to make such a mess of this film. Terrible CGI, crappy dialog and wrong direction given to actors (especially the entire character of Jinx), so overall a poor Bond film with humor that jarred. As soon as Bond entered the hotel dripping wet in his hospital garb, the film went downhill quickly. Shame. It could have been so much better. I do not find the humor in this film enjoyable, no. It usually bounces off the bottom of my list alternating with Moonraker.
CR - Fine film in every way, including sparkling dialog, wit, and the right balance of humor throughout. I cannot fault it at all in the humor department. It went back to being subtle, dry wit with many good lines; I appreciate the balance of humor in this film. More my cup of tea.
QOS - A chaotic, poorly edited film that feels off kilter. I did not find much humor in this film really. What amused me? Well, I did enjoy the Opera scene, in which I found humor in Bond's comments as he let the Quantum members know he was watching them. Lacking but nothing terribly bad, humor wise.
Skyfall - Back to a very good balance of humor and a great Bond film. Solid dialog, sparkling and witty at times, much more to my liking and Craig's delivery was fine throughout. M and Bond, Eve and Bond, the new Q and Bond - all had very good scenes, with the right touch of humor.
In QOS, for example, I can't understand why we need to focus on an Italian woman lamenting her broken jars of tomato mash. Here we have a foot chase, shot and edited by people who seem to eat XTC for breakfast; hardly any shot lasts more than a second. Is that vague silhouette Bond or Mitchell? I don't know. And why we need to constantly cut back to the turmoil in the street, is beyond me. Those cuts serve no purpose other than to pull me out of the chase even more and leave me even more confused! And amidst all the fuss, blurry action, ten-cuts-per-second rage, I suddenly need to watch a woman going mad over broken jars and then get back into the moment and take Bond's final confrontation with Mitchell seriously? I'm sorry, at that point I'm swallowing aspirins to combat the headache resulting from one of the clumsiest editing jobs in the history of the Bonds. So I'm not laughing, lady. Sorry.
Also, I hate it when we go into stereotypes. Yes yes, Italians and their "Maaamaaa miaaaa!" get some people to laugh - perhaps - but that has the comedic sophistication of a fart in a raunchy 80s sex comedy. This isn't The Pink Panther! Some of the very worst of the worst include:
- the Germans and their sausages in OP
- the Indian street performers in ... oh look, OP again
- the stereotypical clumsy fat American policeman in DAF, LALD and ATVAK
But the worst, the VERY WORST, is AVTAK's cab driver. What is that guy doing? "My caaaa! My caaaa!", meanwhile performing some kind of weird dance with his feet and arms, as if this is a Benny Hill show. AVTAK has enough issues with plot logic and credibility as it is, we really don't need a 5 year old's concept of "making fun with the French and their funny language: hihihihi" in this particular Bond film - or any other for that matter.
Stereotypes, stereotypes, they do abound don't they? Oh, I do think The Pink Panther comparison is apt for certain moments in certain Bond films. ;)
Okay, I'm reading your post again and laughing. This is the best laugh I've had all day (yeah, it's been a quiet day). You said: "Here we have a foot chase, shot and edited by people who seem to eat XTC for breakfast; hardly any shot lasts more than a second. Is that vague silhouette Bond or Mitchell? I don't know."
I don't know either! :-O
I would like to raise a point concerning Timothy Dalton's Bonds and humor, or rather the alleged lack of humor in those films. As far as TLD is concerned, I think the humor was in excellent equilibrium with the film. I am glad though that they cut the magic carpet ride; that scene might as well have destroyed the entire film for me. Anyway, there is humor in TLD, but it's not of the kind that Homer Simpson would appreciate. I like, for example, when Bond insists that he will not stop for the cello and the film immediately cuts to him sitting in the car waiting for Kara and her cello, making the delicious remark about the violin. It helps that Dalton and d'Abo have some of the best ever Bondian chemistry between them, for their acting alone makes the moment great. And it happens constantly throughout the film. When Kara remarks that they are free and Bond dryly points out they're in the middle of a Russian airbase in Afghanistan, I laugh. I also laugh with the horse's arse comment and how Kara attacks Bond with those pillows. Maryam d'Abo earns that moment because she acts it out so well. My mother really enjoys the naked Russian soldiers during the attack on the airbase, as they cower away as if they were violated, but that's something else entirely. ;-) Not all bits of comedy work well for me in TLD though. The supervisor with his face crushed between Miss Miklos' two deadly weapons, is IMO a stain on an otherwise excellent film. The salt corrosion bit is somewhat childish but Dalton's great line delivery more than compensates. He got the boot? I'm still not sure about that one.
In any case, Dalton hardly ever smiled when delivering funny lines; he spat them out, almost with contempt for the fact that society demands a man to get a little cynical in the presence of an adversary or smart in the presence of a dame. But that's what I like about his Bond. I can't help thinking that's how I should read the Fleming Bond too.
LTK is almost devoid of humor - at least some will say. But the PTS alone has some good stuff in it. I thought Sharky and Della's dad really stole the show. But... I will admit that despite my love for Dalton's Bond and LTK, I have a gripe with LTK's humor. It feels forced and even more so, unbalanced. Clearly the story, one of the most brutal ones in the history of Bond, left but few opportunities for puns, jokes or even funny situations. But some folks must have felt a bit uncomfortable about a humorless Bond film and so they squeezed comedic material in it. A few good things aside (the lighter flame surprising Della, some of Davi's line deliveries, Truman-Lodge (an underestimated beacon of humor in LTK)), most of the funny elements in LTK should never have been there or should at least have been edited better. As I already mentioned, the PTS delivers great material from Sharky and Della's dad, but right about the same time we witness Lupe taking a painful beating from Sanchez. I can neither invest in the comedy nor in the drama. They switch places too fast. However, where the film totally goes off the rails, is when Q gets brought in. I have debated the absurdity of old, loyal Q aiding a rogue agent in other posts before, so I won't make that case now. But I will say this: in a film where one of the surviving Bond girls gets whipped by the villain, where Felix gets massacred by a shark, where his nice wife is killed by a drug lord's goons, where a character is framed by Bond and subsequently executed in the most bloody and gory way, where business associates are terminated in cold blood, where henchmen have forklifts driven through them, where narcotics agents commit suicide with potassium cyanide, where a guerilla fighter gets his body chopped in pieces and where the villain is set on fire by Bond... we have explosive tooth paste, an alarm clock bomb, an X-ray camera which surprisingly enough emits a beam of visible light and a detonator hidden in a pack of cigarettes. So we blend the seriousness of a Michael Mann war-on-drugs plot with gadgets delivered by Loony Tunes! Not to mention the fact that Q dresses up in a sombrero hat, a fake moustache and a peasant's clothing, then manoeuvres a broomstick around in the sandiest streets of South America, merely to signal that Sanchez' cars are on their way. A pair of binoculars and a simple stakeout would have sufficed. I'm glad for poor old Q that LTK didn't take place at a Spring Break festival. Imagine him trying to blend in there. Look, we are constantly asked to shiver and tense up under the rising pressure of Bond feeling the heat around the corner as he slowly dismantles Sanchez' organisation from the inside, yet between every two steps Bond takes, we have at least one scene with Q and Pam and maybe even Lupe which is supposed to make us laugh yet hardly ever does. It's confusing. My only gripe with LTK: for a film that throws all classical charms overboard, it handles its humor in the clumsiest and most confusing way ever. I regret that, because LTK is a Bond film I generally love and admire. Some may argue the comedy in this film is actually complementary to the violence and drama, I say it's the film's worst enemy. LTK is not only the film in which we see the blood stains from whipping on a girl's back, it's also the film in which - HAHAHA! - Bond and 'Uncle Q' must share a room. Hope you don't snore, Q. I can't shake the feeling that they really wanted to make a hard-boiled, serious and edgy Bond film, but cowered away at the last moment and inserted some comedy.
Some of my least favorite humorous scenes
AVTAK the chase for May Day after Bond leaves the Eifel tower. The cab driver, Bonds car being smashed, finally cumulating in Bond crashing the wedding on the boat. OTT all the way.
TWINE the line "Christmans comes once a year", and the satellite heat image of Bond and Christmas making love. This was so juvenile. I wanted to barf like a chicken.
DAD a lot of the humor here was not intended but it comes off as funny. Halle's high dive scene, the invisible car, the parasurfing, the entire ice palace sequence.
TMWTGG The karate school sequence. Save for the fight between Bond and the black suited expert, the whole sequence was cringe worthy.
MR any scene with Jaws (except for the PTS)
OP the Tarzan yell ending with Bond landing in that stream and having leeches on his chest. The Tarzan yell was so out of place in a tense sequence.
In LALD, Sheriff Pepper has an important reason to exist. The storyline of that film has race as an inescapable element, and the villains are quite vocal in their assessment: Bond is a honky. Waste him. But for LALD to present only black racism in the world of Bond would have been totally false to the reality of race relations in the USA circa 1973…and to present James Bond as the answering face of white racism would have been even more objectionable. So Sheriff Pepper was created. He is the ludicrous face of white racism…EVERYone is “boy” to him…and he was patently absurd. The audience laughed at him, and Bond purists may have cringed at his inclusion in the film…but he defused the racial elements of the storyline quite effectively. LALD played in theatres throughout America, to audiences both white and black, and nobody took offense. No theatres were burned in the marketing of this movie, and for that you can thank Clifton James and the screenwriters who created J.W. Pepper. In LALD, his humorous purpose was used quite effectively…and if he had been left in that movie alone, he might very well be remembered with substantially greater affection.
However, in TMWTGG, Pepper turns up out of the blue with no real reason to be there. The audience did not for a moment believe that that a fellow like Pepper would ever choose to spend a vacation in Cambodia, and his mindless disparagement of everyone and everything around him made him an unwelcome intrusion into a movie that already had too much absurd humor floating around in the mix. Pepper was one of the most poorly received elements in this, one of the most poorly received films in Bond franchise history . He was never seen again, and for that we can all be thankful.
Jaws has a similar history. In TSWLM, he is both deadly serious and occasionally somewhat humorous. He is pretty scary at some moments, and his reactions can be quite comic at other times. His smile can be effectively chilling, and during the pyramid scenes in combat with both Bond and Anya, he seems to be very nearly a horror film creation, transplanted into the world of Bond. He seems to fit nicely into the reality created by TSWLM, and it is clear to one and all by the end of this film that the world of Moore’s Bond is very different from that of Connery’s…and yet, somehow, we’re okay with that. I think the argument can be made that the’70s was a fairly nonsensical time and that the Bond series was only following the needs of the audience at that particular point in history. How else can one explain Gerald Ford? The one thing that puzzled me about Jaws in his first appearance, is how he actually came to BE. (I wondered the same thing about Oddjob, for that matter.) He’s unnaturally strong and very nearly indestructible. How did he come to have such strength? What sort of lunatic orthodontist would fashion a set of metal teeth for a fellow like this? The question is never answered, and never even asked by anyone onscreen, and it doesn’t really matter. When Jaws is attacked by an actual shark, he somehow has earned the audience’s sympathy…and when he emerges victorious from the battle with his namesake and swims away, smiling his terrible smile, the audience cheers.
But with MR, the Bond franchise learned a terrible lesson: sometimes giving the audience what it SAYS it wants is surrendering your decision making process to a gang of idiots. Star Wars (and science fiction in general) was immensely popular in the late ‘70s, so fine, let’s use one of the few Fleming titles left and send Bond into space. Market research tells us that Jaws was incredibly popular with the kids, let’s bring him back…and this time we’ll make him a good guy. Moonraker was the sort of film that gives the phrase “over the top” a bad reputation…and turning Jaws from a fearsome, horror movie figure into a character out of an animated cartoon was just one of the many poor choices made by Eon Productions in this film. As Jaws himself says in his only spoken line in two film appearances: “Here’s to us.”
Here’s to you, Jaws/Richard Kiel. Here’s to you, Sheriff Pepper/Clifton James. May your tribe increase no more, and may the Bond production team forever remember that Bond stories are essentially thrillers…not Monty Python adventures. (Get thee away from here, John Cleese…)
Basicly: close shot of Moore's face, cut to stuntman throwing the punch, cut back to Moore's face with a 'auuuugh' soundbit from him.
Yep that's it.
Moore's fight grunts sound a bit like bed grunts. ;-) Ooooh!
Really excellent recommendations. May I add "I... comme Icare "(I as in Icarus / I wie Ikarus)? Just like "The Parallax View" it does an excellent job examining the Kennedy and King assassinations.In my opinion much better than the authorities of that time. Great great films!
And, I wanted to remark on your comment, @DarthDimi. You said about Timothy:
In any case, Dalton hardly ever smiled when delivering funny lines; he spat them out, almost with contempt for the fact that society demands a man to get a little cynical in the presence of an adversary or smart in the presence of a dame. But that's what I like about his Bond. I can't help thinking that's how I should read the Fleming Bond too.
I just want to say I like this assessment of Dalton's handling of humor. And again, I think TLD had a nice balance of humor and most of it seemed natural and fit the story well.
All right, please chime in today with other examples of humor in Bond films!
Cheers!
:)>-
I agree with much of your assessment here, @DarthDimi, good job! I would, however, like to point out the one time in which Dalton does take pains to deliver a joke with respect for the line itself: when he is surrendering his weapon to M at Hemmingway House, Dalton delivers the line about "A farewell to arms" with something approaching gentility and respect...before swinging into action and escaping his intended captors to continue his fight against Sanchez. It's almost as though the assumption of literacy on the part of the audience brought Dalton to an unusually positive regard for the joke in this deadly serious film.
:> :O) :-q :-j
Let's play with the James Bond dinner for a few days. We won't need a full week for this, but let's have some fun! B-)
A Fantasy Bond Dinner
~ You have a chance to invite three or four (max) characters from all the Bond films to join you for a special dinner.
~ Who would you invite and why? (Going for scintillating conversation, answers to Bond questions, surround yourself with Bond girls, or to provoke outright clashes?)
~ And let's say you can add one additional Bond character to be the waiter/server. Now who would that be?
~ Where would this dinner be?
~ What kind of cuisine?
~ Any particular beverages?
| Anything else you'd care to tell us about.
Oh, do paint us a picture of a Fantasy Bond Dinner!
I'll start with one right off the top of my head:
I would invite: 3 Blofelds and a Prince!
Yes: Prince Kamal Khan (because of his ego ... and also I want him in charge of getting the special goat's head recipe to the chef); Telly Savalas's Blofeld, Donald Pleasance's Blofeld, and Charles Gray's Blofeld. I think their tremendous egos would be a volatile and interesting clash. Especially when Charles comes in drag, Telly keeps reminding everyone he had the best lair, and Donald cannot stop trashing Mike Myers.
All served by Oddjob - who would send the food out on his flying hat, precisely timed, to each guest.
Location: A fab ultra modern restaurant at the top of The Gherkin in London, Bond's stomping ground; with plenty of lovely ladies and gents milling around in evening garb; a small orchestra hidden away playing ... yes ... all the soundtracks to those 4 Bond character's films (DAF, OHMSS, YOLT, and OP; not a bad selection, eh?) :-bd
(Sorry, I do not remember the correct name for that building.)
Cuisine - Lots of spicy hot Indian curry, with the goat's head special presentation, special nan served with Jimmy Dean's sausages, rice pilaf with lots of garlic (from Lazenby's private collection), to be finished off with Turkish coffee and a certain pudding.
Dessert- Why, a Spotted Dick pudding would do them nicely after all that spice. (And because the name just so amuses me I have to include it).
Drink - For this explosive crew, only champagne will do. Though they do keep fighting over which brand.
Whew! That is my Fantasy Bond Dinner #1. Who's next? I'm hungry for more!
:D
Following their old-fashion misogyny, perhaps Naomi would like to be our waitress.
The location shouldn't be anything fancy, just an old and dark tavern, "Prancing Pony" style.
The food could consist on different snacks from Spain, Italy, Greece (of course we shall have pistachios for Colombo). Perhaps a bruschette, olives, some machego and serrano. Good drinkers don't have dessert but if we must choose I'll go for some cannoli.
There would be plenty of drinks, from beer to bourbon but not any fancy cocktail (if any one asks for a Cosmo he would be kicked out.) And give us also some cigars (perhaps some Cohiba smuggled by Draco's organisation) and many packages of cigarettes.