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...AND DUTY HAS NONE
hehe. ...you said "duty"
It's actually more English folk music, but there you go.
Shatterhand
I like all the mentioned Fleming titles. RISICO. PROPERTY OF A LADY. THE HILDEBRAND RARITY. Could all take on greatness matched with a good film. OO7 IN NY is weaker but even that looks good on fan art.
Way back when I speculated Quantum could be a contraction of Latin QUANTUS UMBRA (great shadow). Anyway, non-English titles would be a classy way to go.
Random thoughts.
THE BIG PICTURE
THE WAY WE DIE
DEATH CUCKOO
THE GOLD STANDARD
PER FINE OUNCE (unpublished Geoffrey Jenkins book from 1966)
It is interesting to look at the "generic" Bond titles and see just how many other Bond films they could have covered. I think there are a few categories of titles.
1. Generic - could be virtually any Bond movie - LTK, OHMSS, FYEO,
2. Shoehorned lines or contrived scenes/ideas - YOLT, LALD, AVTAK, TLD, TWINE, DAD
3. Could be used for a few films - FRWL could be TSWLM; DAD or YOLT could be SF; QOS could have been the Lazenby follow up re Tracy's death; "Operation Thunderball" could have been the code name for a number of missions. And SP could have been used for a few of the earlier films. At a push, DAF could have been used for DAD. I'm torn on TND - on the one hand, it is a terrible pun of a title specific to the movie but on the other hand with a bit of scripted philosophical mumbo jumbo it could have represented the mad dreams of a Drax or Stromberg.
4. Specific to the plot, could not be used in any other film - DN, GF, TMWTGG, MR, OP, GE, CR, SF.
Octokill
Pussyfinger
ThunderGold
OctoThunder
Dr. Pussy
PussyFinger
SpectreBall
Quantum of Pussy
Casino Pussy
Later on, they can bring out the third brother BRONZEFINGER.
XXX: THE RETURN OF GUY HAMILTON
But that's the best part!