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  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    He’s also the Kristatos’ guy who got eaten by a shark.

    That's legendary stuntman George Leech...I mean the driver of the car.
  • BirdlesonBirdleson
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    I must learn to read more carefully! I blame you!
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    StirredNotShaken wrote: »
    This is more because I don't really pay much attention to specific timestamps of when things happen in movies, but I never realized that the first time we see Eva Green's face in Casino Royale is 58 minutes into the thing.

    I guess technically not, as her face appears in the opening titles! :)
  • 00Beast00Beast
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    MooseWithFleas wrote: »
    Never noticed at the end of AVTAK when Dr. Mortner goes to get the dynamite, there is just a shelf full of uzi's right next to it.

    Rather than use a high round ammunition weapon with near guarantee to hit Bond from close range, with no risk of self inflicted damage... the man chooses a pack of dynamite! Which not only presented a fatal risk (that occurred!), but would also have had a low success rate in the first place. Not only did it require a direct hit, but the dynamite throw would need to have been timed perfectly, because if he throws too early it just bounces off Bond and lands on the poor civilian passersby on the bridge.

    Then again... my mind doesn't work like that of a former nazi scientist, with a passion for steroid genetic breeding and equestial frivolities.

    This one has always bothered me, haha- I like what it provides for the finale but really don't understand why they would have included the shelf of Uzis in the first place since it so obviously undermines the dynamite move.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    I went through the Brosnan films again recently and noticed that the same “descent” sound effect is played in Arnold’s soundtrack both when Bond discovers Paris’ body in TND and when he puts the walther under his pillow in DAD before he sleeps with Frost. If it was done intentionally it’s a very cool and subtle nod to Paris and Bond’s relationship.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    I quite liked that he had a chase motif that he used in the TND bike chase (when they get to the rooftops) and used again in the TWINE boat chase. It’s basically three different variations of the first four notes of the bebop part of the Bond theme.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    So this is more of a question than a solid observation, but in the Osato office fight in YOLT, is Bob Simmons wearing some sort of pair of high heeled boots? Or lifts or something? They look very strangely tall and they don’t match the shoes Connery is wearing.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Here's a thing I never knew but is probably old news to everyone else: in the Living Daylights PTS obviously the main bulk of the sequence is shot at Gibraltar (with the Land Rover's plunge famously shot at Beachy Head), but I had no idea until this week that the "it's all so boring Margot" yacht scene was shot in Morrocco and nowhere near Gibraltar :)
  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia
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    In Octopussy, just as Bond is bicycle kicking Gobinda on top of the train, as the train exits the tunnel, you can see Gobinda's sword is bent in an obviously fake way, exposing the prop.
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
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    How many characters in the Craig era had names that started with S.

    Solange
    Slate
    Severine
    Silva
    Swann
    Sciarra
    Safin


    :-O
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    I feel like a real dummy after this newest one, having watched CR a hundred times. Just took notice for the first time of the fact Solange is seen getting out of the Aston Martin when Bond is watching the old surveillance footage. Only ever paid attention to Dimitrios himself before…
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    I was watching OP last night and when we get to the scene in M's office and Bond gets his assignment, Operation Trove I noticed that when either Bond or Jim Fanning handle the egg, the hands seen in close up are the same.
    Never spotted that one, or maybe I subconsciously ignored it. Haha.
  • slide_99slide_99 USA
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    TripAces wrote: »
    How many characters in the Craig era had names that started with S.

    Solange
    Slate
    Severine
    Silva
    Swann
    Sciarra
    Safin


    :-O

    And M.

    M(ansfield)
    Mallory
    Mathis
    Mathilde
    Madeline
    Mitchell
    Moneypenny
    Mollaka
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
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    slide_99 wrote: »
    TripAces wrote: »
    How many characters in the Craig era had names that started with S.

    Solange
    Slate
    Severine
    Silva
    Swann
    Sciarra
    Safin


    :-O

    And M.

    M(ansfield)
    Mallory
    Mathis
    Mathilde
    Madeline
    Mitchell
    Moneypenny
    Mollaka

    We could avoid the S&M jokes...but I guess I just didn't.

    Something else I just noticed:

    Every major character in Casino Royale ends up dead by the end of the Daniel Craig five-film arc:

    Bond
    M
    Felix
    Vesper
    Mathis
    Mr White
    Le Chiffre
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
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    TripAces wrote: »
    slide_99 wrote: »
    TripAces wrote: »
    How many characters in the Craig era had names that started with S.

    Solange
    Slate
    Severine
    Silva
    Swann
    Sciarra
    Safin


    :-O

    And M.

    M(ansfield)
    Mallory
    Mathis
    Mathilde
    Madeline
    Mitchell
    Moneypenny
    Mollaka

    We could avoid the S&M jokes...but I guess I just didn't.

    Something else I just noticed:

    Every major character in Casino Royale ends up dead by the end of the Daniel Craig five-film arc:

    Bond
    M
    Felix
    Vesper
    Mathis
    Mr White
    Le Chiffre

    And don't forget about M's husband, the most important character of the bunch. I guess all of them had a short life expectancy.
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    TripAces wrote: »
    Every major character in Casino Royale ends up dead by the end of the Daniel Craig five-film arc:

    Bond
    M
    Felix
    Vesper
    Mathis
    Mr White
    Le Chiffre

    Tobias Menzies...survives Game of Thrones and Daniel Craig's James Bond films. A bonafide legend.
  • slide_99slide_99 USA
    edited June 2022 Posts: 693
    Brosnan's Bond never made a phone call in all 4 four of his movies. Interesting, especially seeing as how he brought Bond into the era of cell phones.
  • ProfJoeButcherProfJoeButcher Bless your heart
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    slide_99 wrote: »
    Brosnan's Bond never made a phone call in all 4 four of his movies. Interesting, especially seeing as how he brought Bond into the era of cell phones.

    That's a good one!
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    When Bond arrives at his hotel in Istanbul, the receptionist tells him his room is number 32. Shortly after, Bond checks the telephone with his bug detector, and we see the phone's dial card has '32' written on it. When filming commenced on FRWL, Connery was aged 32.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
    edited July 2022 Posts: 7,024
    QBranch wrote: »
    When Bond arrives at his hotel in Istanbul, the receptionist tells him his room is number 32. Shortly after, Bond checks the telephone with his bug detector, and we see the phone's dial card has '32' written on it. When filming commenced on FRWL, Connery was aged 32.
    Coincidence? You decide.

    ---

    I never noticed that apart from singing Thunderball, Tom Jones has starred in Live and Let Die, The Fugitive, Mars Attacks, Men in Black and countless other films.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    mattjoes wrote: »
    QBranch wrote: »
    When Bond arrives at his hotel in Istanbul, the receptionist tells him his room is number 32. Shortly after, Bond checks the telephone with his bug detector, and we see the phone's dial card has '32' written on it. When filming commenced on FRWL, Connery was aged 32.
    Coincidence? You decide.

    ---

    I never noticed that apart from singing Thunderball, Tom Jones has starred in Live and Let Die, The Fugitive, Mars Attacks, Men in Black and countless other films.

    I never noticed him in LALD either. Would have been fun to see him in DAF.
  • slide_99slide_99 USA
    edited July 2022 Posts: 693
    I just realized that if they had kept the deleted line in TWINE about villains not living in hollowed-out volcanoes, it would have actually rendered the previous Bond eras as not canon to Brosnan's.
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
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    Both the last films of Craig and Brosnan involved cutting apples or fruits.
    In Die Another Day, there's Jinx cutting a fruit while having sex with Bond.
    In No Time To Die, there's Bond cutting an apple for Mathilde.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited July 2022 Posts: 14,601
    slide_99 wrote: »
    I just realized that if they had kept the deleted line in TWINE about villains not living in hollowed-out volcanoes, it would have actually rendered the previous Bond eras as not canon to Brosnan's.
    This is a little known fact, and something I discovered just last year:

    In DAD, Bond is reading the British Airways High Life magazine on the plane, and on the cover, one of the articles reads: 'LIFE IN A HOLLOW VOLCANO - Inside the millionaires' homes'.

    I'll leave it up to you guys to decide whether or not millionaires are considered 'villains'.

    There's also a nod to Goldeneye on the same cover.
  • CharmianBondCharmianBond Pett Bottom, Kent
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    Mathilde's doudou is hers and later Bond's valiant right-hand rabbit but it first appears on Madeleine's bed in the Norway pre-title sequence, as Safin comes up the stairs. Suggesting it might have more of a sentimental significance.

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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Yep, dou dou was passed down from Madeleine to Mathilde. Perhaps the slinky was too?
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Ah wow, I did not know that.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    That’s a great one. Thanks for sharing @CharmianBond
  • ColonelAdamskiColonelAdamski UK
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    slide_99 wrote: »
    I just realized that if they had kept the deleted line in TWINE about villains not living in hollowed-out volcanoes, it would have actually rendered the previous Bond eras as not canon to Brosnan's.

    I think you can read it the other way too. She could also be saying "not everyone in the world is a villain in a hollowed out volcano". She isn't actually denying the past existence of them. I wouldn't have taken that as an admission to a new 'timeline' I don't think.
    I think her quote is something like "you seem to think the world is populated by villains in hollowed out volcanoes" or something.
  • slide_99slide_99 USA
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    ColonelAdamski wrote: »
    slide_99 wrote: »
    I just realized that if they had kept the deleted line in TWINE about villains not living in hollowed-out volcanoes, it would have actually rendered the previous Bond eras as not canon to Brosnan's.

    I think you can read it the other way too. She could also be saying "not everyone in the world is a villain in a hollowed out volcano". She isn't actually denying the past existence of them. I wouldn't have taken that as an admission to a new 'timeline' I don't think.
    I think her quote is something like "you seem to think the world is populated by villains in hollowed out volcanoes" or something.

    The line is, "Well contrary to what you may believe, 007, the world is not poulated by madmen in hollowed-out volcanoes filled with big-breasted women threatening the world with nuclear annihilation."

    So, apparently Brosnan-Bond once mentioned this to her, and she didn't believe it? Or it was a joke on his part? Or hers? I know it's silly to overthink something that was probably written as fan lip service, but it's good that they cut it out. They probably realized that it would open up a whole can of continuity worms.

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