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Easter Eggs, Symbolism & Call Backs (Major Spoilers)

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  • LibrarianLibrarian
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    NickTwentyTwo wrote: »
    I missed the Bernard Lee one in the film?

    I think his potrait wasn't in NTTD. I saw only potraits of Judi Dench and Robert Brown
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 13,803
    Librarian wrote: »
    NickTwentyTwo wrote: »
    I missed the Bernard Lee one in the film?

    I think his potrait wasn't in NTTD. I saw only potraits of Judi Dench and Robert Brown
    Yes I agree, and I note it did appear in TWINE.
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  • jobojobo
    edited October 2021 Posts: 7,507
    Librarian wrote: »
    NickTwentyTwo wrote: »
    I missed the Bernard Lee one in the film?

    I think his potrait wasn't in NTTD. I saw only potraits of Judi Dench and Robert Brown

    I have heard different versions of this. Some claim there was a Bernard Lee portrait somewhere, although I couldn't see one myself.
  • ImpertinentGoonImpertinentGoon Everybody needs a hobby.
    Posts: 1,351
    jobo wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    NickTwentyTwo wrote: »
    I missed the Bernard Lee one in the film?

    I think his potrait wasn't in NTTD. I saw only potraits of Judi Dench and Robert Brown

    I have heard different versions of these. Some claim there was a Bernard Lee portrait somewhere, although I couldn't see one myself.

    I may be getting my M's mixed up, but wasn't Lee prominently framed in the scene were Mallory gets new information from Tanner? Like, he sits straight in front of a portrait of Dench and then in their conversation there is a portrait of Lee next to him? Or was that Brown?
  • RyanRyan Canada
    Posts: 692
    Not sure if it counts since it's not a Bond reference, but the prologue in the PTS is filled with nods to the original Halloween. Made it feel all the more appropriate that the film opened in October as opposed to April!
  • DenbighDenbigh UK
    Posts: 5,970
    I think the fight between Bond and Logan Ash could be a callback or homage to the fight between Bond and Red Grant on the train in From Russia With Love.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Posts: 7,551
    Denbigh wrote: »
    I think the fight between Bond and Logan Ash could be a callback or homage to the fight between Bond and Red Grant on the train in From Russia With Love.

    I could see that: confined space, man disguising himself as an ally, incapacitated person in the room/next room.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
    Posts: 4,634
    Ryan wrote: »
    Not sure if it counts since it's not a Bond reference, but the prologue in the PTS is filled with nods to the original Halloween. Made it feel all the more appropriate that the film opened in October as opposed to April!

    I feel that Blofeld’s reappearance was meant to be a Silence of the Lambs homage. The music and the editing felt like Hannibal’s first appearance in the movie. My dad even mimicked Lecter’s tongue slurping!
  • jobojobo
    Posts: 7,507
    ImpertinentGoon wrote: »
    jobo wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    NickTwentyTwo wrote: »
    I missed the Bernard Lee one in the film?

    I think his potrait wasn't in NTTD. I saw only potraits of Judi Dench and Robert Brown

    I have heard different versions of these. Some claim there was a Bernard Lee portrait somewhere, although I couldn't see one myself.

    I may be getting my M's mixed up, but wasn't Lee prominently framed in the scene were Mallory gets new information from Tanner? Like, he sits straight in front of a portrait of Dench and then in their conversation there is a portrait of Lee next to him? Or was that Brown?

    That was Brown
  • jobojobo
    Posts: 7,507
    Was it just me, or did Leiter's fishing boat look strikingly similar to the one that sinks with the ATAK in FYEO? I am not sure if it was a deliberate homage, but it sure reminded me of FYEO.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited October 2021 Posts: 12,480
    SPOILERS in this article - but it is great! Mark Tildesley goes over many nods, call backs, whatever you come them. If you have SEEN NTTD, you may really enjoy this.
    (was it posted here already? I did not check) .....
    https://variety.com/2021/artisans/news/no-time-to-die-production-design-classic-james-bond-films-1235081265/
  • LibrarianLibrarian
    Posts: 312
    I have a question: did Michael G. Wilson appeared in NTTD in a cameo role as usual?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    4EverBonded wrote: »
    SPOILERS in this article - but it is great! Mark Tildesley goes over many nods, call backs, whatever you come them. If you have SEEN NTTD, you may really enjoy this.
    (was it posted here already? I did not check) .....
    https://variety.com/2021/artisans/news/no-time-to-die-production-design-classic-james-bond-films-1235081265/

    Great read, thanks.
    Librarian wrote: »
    I have a question: did Michael G. Wilson appeared in NTTD in a cameo role as usual?

    Yes, he did.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 16,413
    In Die Another Day, Frost complains that Bond is a double-O and she shouldn’t be with him, he replies “It’s just a number” :)
  • LibrarianLibrarian
    edited October 2021 Posts: 312
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    I have a question: did Michael G. Wilson appeared in NTTD in a cameo role as usual?

    Yes, he did.

    Were he was? Maybe in SPECTRE meeting in Cuba?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Librarian wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    I have a question: did Michael G. Wilson appeared in NTTD in a cameo role as usual?

    Yes, he did.

    Were he was? Maybe in SPECTRE meeting in Cuba?

    That s it. I have read that he had another cameo as well, but couldn t spot that myself.
  • LibrarianLibrarian
    Posts: 312
    Thanks :)
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 16,413
    Librarian wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    I have a question: did Michael G. Wilson appeared in NTTD in a cameo role as usual?

    Yes, he did.

    Were he was? Maybe in SPECTRE meeting in Cuba?

    Yes I think he looks straight at the camera: when we are looking from Bond’s POV as he and Paloma are walking around the meeting talking on the radio.
  • RyanRyan Canada
    Posts: 692
    I missed it on the first viewing but I was happy to spot him the second time.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Just like in FYEO, he gets attacked by Blofeld and his people after visiting the grave of an old lover in the PTS.
  • 00Heaven00Heaven Home
    Posts: 575
    Bond still has his gunshot scars from Skyfall.
  • Pierce2DanielPierce2Daniel
    Posts: 4,409
    There are a lot of obvious references in NTTD (OHMSS, TLD), however there are a lot of seriously deep-cut/superfan references. Which you have to appreciate. Despite being made by such a young director, there is a lot of nostalgia. I suspect as the film is designed as a culmination picture. It's literally meant to end a story that started with CR. So naturally there are tons of references to Craig's run. I jotted down a few other references I noticed...
    • Whilst driving in Norway, Nomi is talking to M about Ash and says "Capture and kill."
    • Nomi picking up Bond in Norway reminded me of Camile picking Bond up in her car.
    • Which is the same thing M says to Bond in QOS.
    • The whole opening in Jamaica - where Nomi and Leiter are tailing Bond felt like something from a Connery film.
    • Vesper's theme used in PTS (love that)
    • Safin has a famous painting in his lair. Much like Dr No.
    • When Bond gets on the lifeboat in Cuba, I immediately was reminded of those classic moments in TSWLM in Egypt or the end of DN. The most obvious visual callback was TB and YOLT.....Didn't Austin Powers also riff on the Bond films always ending with a scene on a boat.

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  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
    Posts: 7,021
    patb wrote: »
    Q asks where the USB stick as been and uses a sandbox, clearly a reference/lesson learned from SF

    I thought this was great.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
    Posts: 7,021
    mtm wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    I have a question: did Michael G. Wilson appeared in NTTD in a cameo role as usual?

    Yes, he did.

    Were he was? Maybe in SPECTRE meeting in Cuba?

    Yes I think he looks straight at the camera: when we are looking from Bond’s POV as he and Paloma are walking around the meeting talking on the radio.

    Does he work for Spectre? And if so, does he die with the others? Did they really kill off Michael G. Wilson after so many films?

    Well, I guess they can always bring him back in a new continuity, without the baggage he has accumulated over the years. Michael G. Wilson will return.
  • MinionMinion Don't Hassle the Bond
    edited October 2021 Posts: 1,165
    mattjoes wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    I have a question: did Michael G. Wilson appeared in NTTD in a cameo role as usual?

    Yes, he did.

    Were he was? Maybe in SPECTRE meeting in Cuba?

    Yes I think he looks straight at the camera: when we are looking from Bond’s POV as he and Paloma are walking around the meeting talking on the radio.

    Does he work for Spectre? And if so, does he die with the others? Did they really kill off Michael G. Wilson after so many films?

    Well, I guess they can always bring him back in a new continuity, without the baggage he has accumulated over the years. Michael G. Wilson will return.
    The next film will be titled SPECTRE Returns, with the organization now run by the 16 other Michael G Wilson's.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
    Posts: 7,021
    Minion wrote: »
    mattjoes wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    I have a question: did Michael G. Wilson appeared in NTTD in a cameo role as usual?

    Yes, he did.

    Were he was? Maybe in SPECTRE meeting in Cuba?

    Yes I think he looks straight at the camera: when we are looking from Bond’s POV as he and Paloma are walking around the meeting talking on the radio.

    Does he work for Spectre? And if so, does he die with the others? Did they really kill off Michael G. Wilson after so many films?

    Well, I guess they can always bring him back in a new continuity, without the baggage he has accumulated over the years. Michael G. Wilson will return.
    The next film will be titled SPECTRE Returns, with the organization now run by the 16 other Michael G Wilson's.

    "It never occurred to you, did it James? That the enemy could be so close... even inside your producing team. Yes, Michael was the auteur of all your pain."
  • RyanRyan Canada
    Posts: 692
    mattjoes wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    I have a question: did Michael G. Wilson appeared in NTTD in a cameo role as usual?

    Yes, he did.

    Were he was? Maybe in SPECTRE meeting in Cuba?

    Yes I think he looks straight at the camera: when we are looking from Bond’s POV as he and Paloma are walking around the meeting talking on the radio.

    Does he work for Spectre? And if so, does he die with the others? Did they really kill off Michael G. Wilson after so many films?

    Well, I guess they can always bring him back in a new continuity, without the baggage he has accumulated over the years. Michael G. Wilson will return.

    I can't wait to see a remake of Diamonds Are Forever in this new continuity.

    "You've just killed Michael G. Wilson!"
    "Is that who he was?"
  • MinionMinion Don't Hassle the Bond
    Posts: 1,165
    mattjoes wrote: »
    Minion wrote: »
    mattjoes wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    I have a question: did Michael G. Wilson appeared in NTTD in a cameo role as usual?

    Yes, he did.

    Were he was? Maybe in SPECTRE meeting in Cuba?

    Yes I think he looks straight at the camera: when we are looking from Bond’s POV as he and Paloma are walking around the meeting talking on the radio.

    Does he work for Spectre? And if so, does he die with the others? Did they really kill off Michael G. Wilson after so many films?

    Well, I guess they can always bring him back in a new continuity, without the baggage he has accumulated over the years. Michael G. Wilson will return.
    The next film will be titled SPECTRE Returns, with the organization now run by the 16 other Michael G Wilson's.

    "It never occurred to you, did it James? That the enemy could be so close... even inside your producing team. Yes, Michael was the auteur of all your pain."

    "Or did you think it was coincidence that all the women in your life can be considered slimed?"
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    edited October 2021 Posts: 10,591
    Minion wrote: »
    mattjoes wrote: »
    Minion wrote: »
    mattjoes wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Librarian wrote: »
    I have a question: did Michael G. Wilson appeared in NTTD in a cameo role as usual?

    Yes, he did.

    Were he was? Maybe in SPECTRE meeting in Cuba?

    Yes I think he looks straight at the camera: when we are looking from Bond’s POV as he and Paloma are walking around the meeting talking on the radio.

    Does he work for Spectre? And if so, does he die with the others? Did they really kill off Michael G. Wilson after so many films?

    Well, I guess they can always bring him back in a new continuity, without the baggage he has accumulated over the years. Michael G. Wilson will return.
    The next film will be titled SPECTRE Returns, with the organization now run by the 16 other Michael G Wilson's.

    "It never occurred to you, did it James? That the enemy could be so close... even inside your producing team. Yes, Michael was the auteur of all your pain."

    "Or did you think it was coincidence that all the women in your life can be considered slimed?"
    In Bond 26, 007 must face not one, but two incredible powerful adversaries when brothers Gregg Wilson and David G Wilson unite to reform SPECTRE in an effort to avenge their father.
  • GettlerGettler USA
    Posts: 326
    The shot of the helicopter appearing in the Norway chase looked strikingly similar to the shot of Silva's helicopter arriving at Skyfall right before firing down at the manor.
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