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Skyfall, past Bond references???

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  • ZekidkZekidk
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    Haven't read the entire thread, but here are some "references" to other movies:

    - names of secret agents operating revealed: Mission Impossible
    - Komodo Dragon: Star Wars
    - Bond looking over London: Batman (looking over Gotham City)
    - MI6 cage: Silence of the Lambs
    - Skyfall lodge: Home Alone/ Straw Dogs

    Maybe it was a good idea afterall, that they left out the Indiana Jones-scene.

  • lukejmcgrathlukejmcgrath
    edited November 2012 Posts: 2
    gt007 wrote:

    I'm not sure if "Don't touch your ear" counts as a reference. It's just something Bond says because the last time someone did it he got in terrible trouble.

    Really liked that one, a reference but not nostalgic and more "don't ruin this mission like that other douche did".

    Two things I've been thinking: The "exploding pen" line was a blatant GoldenEye reference but a touch odd as that's a well regarded entry and a decent gadget. When watching the film I first thought of the pen gun in NSNE!

    More pressingly, in Kim Newman's empire review he mentions there's a reference to the 1967 CR. Anyone spotted this yet, or did I fall asleep during Woody Allen bit?

  • thebritishconnectionthebritishconnection
    Posts: 1
    Did anyone get the reference to the Buretta - at the begining of Dr No Bond is told the gun is light enough for a woman's handbag or something like that.
  • oo7oo7
    Posts: 1,068
    Zekidk wrote:
    Haven't read the entire thread, but here are some "references" to other movies:

    - names of secret agents operating revealed: Mission Impossible
    - Komodo Dragon: Star Wars
    - Bond looking over London: Batman (looking over Gotham City)
    - MI6 cage: Silence of the Lambs
    - Skyfall lodge: Home Alone/ Straw Dogs

    Maybe it was a good idea afterall, that they left out the Indiana Jones-scene.

    star wars?
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    Posts: 6,306
    LeChiffre wrote:
    Could the whole exposition of Silva's character be a reference to a Bond film that never was ie Dalton's unmade 3rd film? I seem to remember that that was supposed to be set during the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese and Silva -real name Thiago Rodrigues- was an MI6 agent operating at this time and going rogue, possibly a plot device from the script?

    I had this thought as well.

  • RossiRossi
    edited November 2012 Posts: 157
    Bond "dies" // his body falls from a waterfall -> You Only Live Twice & Arthur Conan Doyle's The Final Problem.

    M's reaction to Bond's death -> The Man From Barbarossa

    M's "retirement" -> Cold Fall.
  • ReminatorReminator
    Posts: 1
    I don't know if anyone mentioned this, and I'm not sure if you can consider it a reference. But before Q leaves Bond with his new gadgets he says something like, "Do try to bring the equipment in one piece." A line which is similar to what Q says in several of the movies when equipping Bond with gadgets.
  • Marc_AngeMarc_Ange
    Posts: 1
    Not sure if it was deliberate, but the scene in which Bond was looking for Patrice in the glass walls of the hotel/building (with his gun cocked ready to fire) reminded me a lot of TMWTGG.
  • CallyTeddyCallyTeddy
    Posts: 1
    Did anyone notice at the scene where silva is tied to the statue that the bottle of scotch says 1962 referencing Dr.No I saw it yesterday (the first day it came out in the US)
  • AgentprovoAgentprovo
    Posts: 86
    My only comment on this string is this.

    Forget what's past, move on and bin the references!
  • jackdaggerjackdagger
    Posts: 498
    Wasn't there a scene in TMWTGG where someone shoots a mirror reflection?
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    edited November 2012 Posts: 2,629
    LeChiffre wrote:
    Could the whole exposition of Silva's character be a reference to a Bond film that never was ie Dalton's unmade 3rd film? I seem to remember that that was supposed to be set during the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese and Silva -real name Thiago Rodrigues- was an MI6 agent operating at this time and going rogue, possibly a plot device from the script?

    Couldn't have been. China didn't take over Hong Kong until 1997, which would have been 5-6 years after the attempted third Dalton film. Also, the year TND came out.



    Let's see:

    DN: Being issued a Walther PPK
    FRWL: Turkish bazaar
    GF: Ejector seat
    TB: Underwater fight
    YOLT: Bond's "death"
    OHMSS: Invasion of an isolated compound
    DAF: Scorpion
    LALD: Jumping on the kimono dragon to escape
    TMWTGG: Hideout on isolated island
    TSWLM: Silva pulling out his dentures
    MR: Patrice falling to his death.
    FYEO: Silva having a knife thrown into his back
    OP: Fight on top of the train
    AVTAK: Shower scene
    TLD: Patrice as the sniper
    LTK: Signature hand gun
    GE: Fallen statues at compound
    TND: Writing Bond's obituary
    TWINE: Explosion at MI6
    DAD: "You must be joking"
    CR: Bond being tied to the chair and breaking into M's house
    QOS: "Be careful what you wish for"

    I know, I know, some of these might be a stretch.
  • 00130013
    Posts: 1,817
    In my opinion, we should have the distinction between reference and connection, the former being intentional and the latter unintentional because they belong to the common knowledge of Bond.
    For example:
    - references: "you must be joking", the ejector seat, exploding pen.
    - connection: signature hand gun, shower scene, fight in top of the train, scorpion, Istambul, ecc.
  • gt007gt007 Station G
    Posts: 1,182
    Not a reference to a previous Bond film, but definitely a nod to the 50th anniversary of the series: "50 year old Macallan. A particular favourite of yours I understand."
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,351
    I thought Bond setting Traps in his house was a reference to the Pierce Brosnan movie "Live Wire." Pierce sets up similar traps to kill bad guys.
  • DB5DB5
    Posts: 408
    Reminator wrote:
    I don't know if anyone mentioned this, and I'm not sure if you can consider it a reference. But before Q leaves Bond with his new gadgets he says something like, "Do try to bring the equipment in one piece." A line which is similar to what Q says in several of the movies when equipping Bond with gadgets.

    In "Goldfinger" Q says, with regard to the DB5 "we'd appreciate you bringing it back, along with all your other equipment. Intact for once when you return from the field."

  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    Posts: 2,629
    Not to mention Desmond's Q constantly asks for the equipment to be brougt back in pristine condition.
  • bondbat007bondbat007
    Posts: 1,407
    I look forward in Bond 24 or wherever to have Bond bring back a broken gadget and to have Q completely devastated. Their relationship has the chance to be very funny
  • 3blindmice3blindmice
    Posts: 4
    Give us a break, people are just desperately looking for references. Somewhere, someone said there are references to the old films to hype it up on the web and now everyone is looking for them... its called clever marketing.
    He said this, she said that, i've never read so much rubbish.
  • sirseanisbondsirseanisbond
    Posts: 2,189
    I thought it was fitting that Mallory drank cognac in his first scene with Judi because it seemed like a reference to the Goldeneye scene where Bond tells her that her predecessor kept some cognac in his office, where as she preferred bourbon. I only wish that in SF when Judi goes home to find Bond still alive that she had been drinking bourbon instead of the same Courvoisier which Mallory had been drinking. Only then did it become apparent it was product placement. They missed an opportunity their really because they could have advertised Makers Mark or something and still kept some series continuity.
  • alopiasmagalopiasmag
    Posts: 2
    -Bond jumping off from a crocodile.... reference to Live and Let Die...
    -Scorpion... that is definitely a reference as he is taunting death with it, and it was used to kill in DAF.
    -Palm Reading Gun... LTK
    -DB5... Obviously GF, Thunderball
    -"You must be joking" - Reference to Goldfinger.
    -Bond being issued PPK - Maybe a reference to Dr. No.
  • alopiasmagalopiasmag
    Posts: 2
    Oh.... and the office at the end. "M's" Classic office from all of Sean Connery's Bond Movies. Leather covered door... coat rack at Moneypenny's office...
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    Some of these aren't references. Simply common action. Bond getting his PPK isn't a reference to anything. He needs his gun, someone must give it to him. There is only that action and that action alone.
    Zekidk wrote:
    Haven't read the entire thread, but here are some "references" to other movies:

    - names of secret agents operating revealed: Mission Impossible
    - Komodo Dragon: Star Wars
    - Bond looking over London: Batman (looking over Gotham City)
    - MI6 cage: Silence of the Lambs
    - Skyfall lodge: Home Alone/ Straw Dogs

    Maybe it was a good idea afterall, that they left out the Indiana Jones-scene.

    Mate, none of these make any sense. Where the hell are komodo dragons in Star Wars? Did Lucas recently edit them in or something, or are we all cracked? Bond looking over London is just simply him looking over London, and not a Batman ripoff. They aren't remotely the same. So every time a character stands and looks at a city they are ripping off Batman? HAR HAR. I won't even touch on the Home Alone thing, as that is just too unworthy of the time.
  • TalonTalon
    Posts: 1
    This thread is fun. I just have a couple to add.

    Opening credits, the first glimpse of a female looking over her shoulder underwater - looks very much like Vesper in CR.

    TWINE - personal vendetta against M.

    I like the "pit of some animal", this one happens to be a Komodo dragon. YOLT has the piranhas, I forget the other times that this happens in Bond films.

    I also like his line about how he knows what a woman looks like who is scared and is trying to conceal it. Definitely a Vesper reference there.

    I came online looking for references and found a ton on here. Keep it up, this is fun.
  • humour42humour42
    Posts: 1
    The stag statue on the gateposts of Skyfall seems identical to that seen in the garden of the house in Thunderball from which Bond escapes by jetpack.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    humour42 wrote:
    The stag statue on the gateposts of Skyfall seems identical to that seen in the garden of the house in Thunderball from which Bond escapes by jetpack.
    I think the stag is just the Bond family animal or something? Am I correct, or in the dark?
  • ElijahBondElijahBond
    Posts: 1
    I dont 't know whether anyone has already mentioned this because its so obvious, but near the beginning of Skyfall when bond steps out of the shadows and only his eyes are in the light. This is pretty clearly linked with the bond opening credits of Casino Royale just at the end when they block out everything but his eyes.
    Also, not sure if mentioned already, but when bond hands in those bullet fragments to Tanner and says "For her eyes only".
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    ElijahBond wrote:
    I dont 't know whether anyone has already mentioned this because its so obvious, but near the beginning of Skyfall when bond steps out of the shadows and only his eyes are in the light. This is pretty clearly linked with the bond opening credits of Casino Royale just at the end when they block out everything but his eyes.
    Also, not sure if mentioned already, but when bond hands in those bullet fragments to Tanner and says "For her eyes only".

    I wouldn't say that's a CR reference, just good cinematography and tension build up.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited November 2012 Posts: 12,837
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    Bond getting his PPK isn't a reference to anything.

    I think it might be a reference to DN. Yeah he needs his gun, but why make a point that he's getting a new one?

    The gun itself is definetly a LTK reference.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited November 2012 Posts: 28,694
    thelivingroyale wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    Bond getting his PPK isn't a reference to anything.

    I think it might be a reference to DN. Yeah he needs his gun, but why make a point that he's getting a new one?

    The gun itself is definetly a LTK reference.
    The gun was shown being given to do that LTK reference. That's just my thoughts on it.
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