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It's bizarre when you consider that these two films are very different in many categories and that two different directors were responsible for them.
That's true and I guess Moore and Chiles weren't in space by filming that scene in Moonraker :-) So there is another similarity...
I didn't either but it makes sense as both scenes were filmed in Mexico.
Seriously, the lift or elevator, was never just an elevator with Bond. From LTK and SP. But look at the lift in DAF in the Whyte House. The lift where the fight in DAF takes place. I loved the lift in Spy that has a futuristic look about it.
Did the set decorators happen to watch this episode back in late 1969, only to search out the same items for DAF less than two years later?
Great spot. :-bd
Fascinating. Definitely some leftover studio set pieces or something, who knows. I looked up the (nine) production designers listed on IMDB for the series and none of them seem to have credited crossover with Diamonds Are Forever specifically. I bet Bond got a discount on a used set, to be honest.
I do like the hint of the Japan flag behind "Blofeld" as the actor was in YOLT.
It looks like Japanese flag-inspired pop art (who knew Blofeld was a fan).
Do we rule it out as having appeared in YOLT?
I believe I've heard stories that the motorcycle chase in TND was a relatively late addition to the script, however I wonder if that's true, because is it not just a direct reference to the stunt that Michelle Yeoh was known for, which is jumping a live bike onto a live train?
Or was it really just a coincidence they went back to bike jumping for her Bond movie?
I blame having seen DAF many, many times! :))
Watching several 1960's tv shows, like ITC productions for example, artwork or other small pieces of interior tend to pop up which are also part of Bond movie sets. This is the first time I've noticed this on Special Branch though, which was a Thames Television/ ITV show. I guess all of these productions sourced their interior from the same places.
The Japan flag artwork is a nice bit of continuity – first and foremost between two Bond films following each other, featuring the same villain – but also, like you mention, the fact that Charles Gray also featured in a Bond film which takes place in Japan. Never really thought about this piece of trivia before.
It's been a while since I last watched YOLT, so I can't be sure. Will definitely look for the artwork next time around!
That clip made me think of the train sequence in SF!
Tracy also knows to find Bond in Piz Gloria- if Draco had sent Campbell to follow Bond and he had reported back (and didn't know about the plan to go in disguised as Bray) that would make it all make slightly more sense.
It's just for fun: I think the filmmakers probably intended him to be MI6, but it does almost fit better the other way. Before anyone attacks, it's just lighthearted and I don't think I'm right or anyone else is wrong.
It's Draco who had gave him information on Blofeld's whereabouts, so, it's expected that he would send a man of his to help Bond on his mission, as long as Bond would do his share as part of the deal of course: to marry Tracy 😉.
Although, as it is, the film intended him to be working for MI6, but him working for Draco makes more sense, not even the MI6 was involved in the Piz Gloria attack.
PS MI6 never comes up in the novels. What was its first utterance in the movies? Brosnan era? In OHMSS Fleming does refer directly to "SIS" [Secret Intelligence Service], a much used catchall (in the press, for instance) for what was, I think, publicly known only later as MI6.
Hence ... On Her Majesty's Secret [Intelligence] Service
You may have a point, well, whatever it is, the film clearly indicates it that he's a British agent too, like what I've said:
But yes, it's clear he's a British Agent, that's what the film was intended him to be.
People liked to make speculations, and it's a bit interesting to consider things.
Anyway, regarding MI6/SIS, that's what people generally called the British Intelligence in real life, most people were familiar with it being called MI6, not just in James Bond, but in real life as well, although SIS is the most appropriate way to call it, but MI6 is the first name of that institution (there's even MI5, but it's their Local Intelligence Security), it's easy to call it MI6, to make it specific.