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Indeed, it's even more interesting to think about how many (or few) times that Bond actually uses his own Walther PPK or P99 during those battles, because most of the time, especially during finale battles, he's using an automatic weapon that he picked up during the fray.
LMAO! I don't think that's where they wanted to go with it. I think they wanted something more along the lines of the scene when Bond stabs Stamper in the chest at the end, he looked like he enjoyed it.
In any event,
For doing his 'monastery climb' in For Your Eyes Only', Moore took Valium and drank beer before some tricky scenes (?)
Director John Glen (seriously) considered bringing back Jaws for a third time in the above release
The Living Daylights gave us the only intentional nude scenes of the franchise
Kara Miloy was the last blonde haired main Bond girl
Composer John Barry had a cameo in Daylights as the leader of an orchestra
Producer Barbara Broccoli had a cameo during the snow sequence as Dalton and d'Abo escape from the self destruct car and cello case ride
It would have made perfect sense to swap 'Blofeld' with Jaws in the PTS-- and it would have been symbolic to do away with the campiness and bring Bond back down to earth for the rest of the movie
Tsai Chin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0157796/) who plays one of the card players in the high stakes game in CR also played the woman who helps Bond fake his death in YOLT!!! How cool is that?! I can't be the only person on here not to know that, right?
http://www.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/5IanFleming.jpg
The clothes he is wearing match that of these in the actual scene from the film:
http://www.jamesbond-shop.com/Ian_Fleming_FRWL_Cameo.jpg
1995-1999 Llewelyn
1999-2002 Cleese
2012 Whishaw.
:O
Worth a mention again, in that Timothy Dalton didn't kill anyone in his two appearances. At least, not by way of his Walther or any other firearm. Villains died because of Dalton's Bond or at his hands, but they were special (deaths) or unusual, or however you want to see it as, but Bond never actually shot anyone (dead) during his tenure. Maybe Tim's just too nice to be doing cold blooded killings, and decided on some crazy or special exits for his adversaries instead
Yes he did. He shoots one man at Krests's with a harpoon (which is shooting) for vengeance on them for killing Sharky.
Professional wrestler turned actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's grandfather appears in You Only Live Twice as the SPECTRE driver whom Bond fights in Osato Chemicals.
Pierce Brosnan's Bond has the most onscreen kills.
1. 001 and 005 have never been mentioned in the books or the films
2. 008 is the only other double-O to get a mention in the films who hasn’t been or doesn’t get killed
3. Only two leading ladies have been older than the actor playing Bond – Honor Blackman (37 to Connery’s 34) and Diana Rigg (31 to Lazenby’s 30)
4. Diamonds are Forever was the first film in the series where Bond only has sex with only one woman
5. Casino Royale was the first Bond film in which James Bond was alone and without a Bond girl at the end of the movie. In his three appearances so far, Daniel Craig’s Bond has yet to close the film in the arms of a woman, breaking the tradition of the first 20 movies.
6. Quantum of Solace marks the first film of the series in which Bond does not sleep with his leading lady.
7. A hand with a pair of eights in Texas Hold ‘Em Poker is called an “Octopussy”. This same hand is shown during one of the card games in Casino Royale.
8. Sean Connery only ever orders a Martini “Shaken not Stired” once in his movies (Goldfinger). Roger Moore never did.
9. Monty Norman’s Bond theme was originally written for a musical theatre adaptation of the V.S.Naipaul novel A House for Mr Biswas
In The Living Daylights, Gogol was supposed to fake his death, not Pushkin
That he does. I was surprised to spot that on IMDB years back, and instantly had to watch the film and look out for him. Very cool.
In QOS, when Bond throws the guy off the roof and Greene' henchman steps out of the car to shoot him, there's a single shot in which we see a large number like a white neon sign on the roof. It says "299 792 458 m/s". This is actually the speed of light (in vacuum). (Here's a picture of it: http://www.led-professional.com/resources-1/articles/tech-talks-bregenz-martina-paul/IMG_0033-var.jpg/image_large). Apparently it was put there for some science/tech convention.
It's a funny thing though, a film titled 'quantum' something also showing, albeit in one quick shot, the speed of light. ;-) I hesitate to read anything into this at all but for those who want to spot hidden codes in Bond films, even when they are completely unintentional, it might lead to something... You see, sunlight is the clue. Sunlight travels in space at 299 792 458 m/s. It comes in light quanta. The dune hotel runs on hydrogen fuel cells, hydrogen being also the main fuel for our Sun and thus the indirect source of sunlight one might say. Furthermore, the word 'solace' has 'Sol' in it, which also hints at the Sun. When sunlight is directed through a drop of water - you know, like the water Greene is harvesting in Bolivia - it is dispersed and what is revealed after dispersion is... a spectrum of light, spectrum being the word Newton thought up after the Latin word for ghost or *spectre*. So who knows, QOS may have secretly left behind several clues that SPECTRE is the ghostly organisation behind Quantum... :D
Just noticing the re-emergence of this thread and the above post from the first page (from March 2011) caught my eye. Is this the same John Barry flat in London which was used for the exterior of M's flat in Skyfall? Quite amusing if it is!
Back to useless trivia- on the first day of my studies, everyone had to stand up and tell the class a bit about themselves. After I revealed my love for Bond, the teacher thought he'd test my Bond knowledge by asking me a challenging question. As I stood there, ready to show everyone how much of a Bond fan I truly am, the teacher hits me with: What is the name of Blofeld's cat?...
You cracked the code it seems @DarthDimi!!!
Anyone else name films that MGW does his cameos?