The James Bond Questions Thread

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  • w2bondw2bond is indeed a very rare breed
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    Uhh, if that bothers you, he doesn't have a license to break the traffic laws either
  • RareJamesBondFanRareJamesBondFan Touch it. You can touch it if you want.
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    I'm sorry but they really dropped the ball not tying this one up. Who is Yusef Kabira? He is one of Blofeld's liutenantns? I really hope this gets cleaned up in the next installment. Mendes please.

    Personally I spilled my popcorn everywhere in the theater when they told me Patrice was Spectre, Damn. And who else has been Spectre all allong? What about Dryden? That would explain so much and make Casino Royale so much more enjoyable in retrospect. Explain so much. That would explain how Max Denbigh got hired at MI6 in the first place. The very first mole. Clearly the British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (palyed by Tim Pigott-Smith in Quantum Of Solace) was also compromised by Blofeld as well. He doesn't want Bond to win. If you watch closely, all the clues are there.

    And how far does Spectre's control of the Bolivian police extend? I would also love to see an expanded role for the fat unfriendly German from Casino Royale... Goldfinger is back. There's so much to explore still. Craig better come back for another one. Let's figure it out.
  • TokolosheTokoloshe Under your bed
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    I'm sorry but they really dropped the ball not tying this one up. Who is Yusef Kabira? He is one of Blofeld's liutenantns? I really hope this gets cleaned up in the next installment. Mendes please.

    Personally I spilled my popcorn everywhere in the theater when they told me Patrice was Spectre, Damn. And who else has been Spectre all allong? What about Dryden? That would explain so much and make Casino Royale so much more enjoyable in retrospect. Explain so much. That would explain how Max Denbigh got hired at MI6 in the first place. The very first mole. Clearly the British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (palyed by Tim Pigott-Smith in Quantum Of Solace) was also compromised by Blofeld as well. He doesn't want Bond to win. If you watch closely, all the clues are there.

    And how far does Spectre's control of the Bolivian police extend? I would also love to see an expanded role for the fat unfriendly German from Casino Royale... Goldfinger is back. There's so much to explore still. Craig better come back for another one. Let's figure it out.


    They could have made much more of it all by simply having lots of minor villain actors from CR, QOS and SF sitting round the table in the SP board meeting. I'm annoyed they didn't do this!
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    DCisared wrote: »
    Does it annoy anyone else that bond doesn't gather up his parachute and hand it to the binman is spectre? It probably shouldn't bother me but it does every time.

    He still hasn't tidied up that one from Goldfinger.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Bond litters in practically every film. I don t like him.
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
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    Bond litters in practically every film. I don t like him.

    The next Bond film will certainly be Bond vs environmentalists. It will feature the most boring and uneventful car-chase ever; an Aston pursued by a Prius.
  • Major_BoothroydMajor_Boothroyd Republic of Isthmus
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    So I'm sure this has been asked before but...

    1979's For Your Eyes Only...what would it have looked like? Considering the intentional restraint shown by EON in 1981 with returning Bond to earth with FYEO - what would the follow up have looked like - still in the Moonraker vein? A rehash of TSWLM. Would the more serious Fleming elements of FYEO have survived if it had been made in 79? I'm guessing that they had moved so far away from Fleming by 79 - that it would have continued doing the bigger is better approach.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    So I'm sure this has been asked before but...

    1979's For Your Eyes Only...what would it have looked like? Considering the intentional restraint shown by EON in 1981 with returning Bond to earth with FYEO - what would the follow up have looked like - still in the Moonraker vein? A rehash of TSWLM. Would the more serious Fleming elements of FYEO have survived if it had been made in 79? I'm guessing that they had moved so far away from Fleming by 79 - that it would have continued doing the bigger is better approach.

    Maybe MR would have been more faithfully adapted in 1981 when EON would go down to earth again after the bombastic TSWLM in 1977 and FYEO in 1979?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    So I'm sure this has been asked before but...

    1979's For Your Eyes Only...what would it have looked like? Considering the intentional restraint shown by EON in 1981 with returning Bond to earth with FYEO - what would the follow up have looked like - still in the Moonraker vein? A rehash of TSWLM. Would the more serious Fleming elements of FYEO have survived if it had been made in 79? I'm guessing that they had moved so far away from Fleming by 79 - that it would have continued doing the bigger is better approach.

    Well, yes, I imagine you are right, especially given the MR novel's more outlandish material.

    A very interesting question, by the way.
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    In GoldenEye, why doesn't the pen grenade explode when Bond arms it and places it in Q's pocket? It's clearly functional, as is demonstrated on the test dummy.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    Milovy wrote: »
    In GoldenEye, why doesn't the pen grenade explode when Bond arms it and places it in Q's pocket? It's clearly functional, as is demonstrated on the test dummy.

    Err because Q clearly deactivates it.

    It would be very easy here to make some crack about a 'dummy' but it's beneath me.
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    I was just watching the scene and I didn't notice. Just watched it again - I guess he disarms it when the pen is in his hand, which is out of frame. Thanks for the implied "dummy" crack though.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited August 2016 Posts: 18,344
    Q clicks the pen twice to disarm it. It wasn't very bright of Bond though as the blast would certainly have killed him too, but I guess he knew Q would deactivate it again. It's a film thing but I don't think it would be in the weapons training Bond received!
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    No I think he was thinking, "I hope this explodes, then I won't have to be in Die Another Day in the future."
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    tanaka123 wrote: »
    No I think he was thinking, "I hope this explodes, then I won't have to be in Die Another Day in the future."

    Good one! :))
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    I'm still amazed at Q's lunch...how the hell does he manage to eat that ? ...obiously a binge eater he he !!
  • edited August 2016 Posts: 19,339
    barryt007 wrote: »
    I'm still amazed at Q's lunch...it's a seriously large baguette,how the hell does he manage to eat that ? ...obviously a binge eater he he !!

  • RareJamesBondFanRareJamesBondFan Touch it. You can touch it if you want.
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    Why does James Bond straight up lie to M's Face in Spectre? Jesus

    And why the does he steal a car from MI6? JESUS!

    He was never this badly behaved inthe old ones!
  • Eon has always been quite scrupulous about giving the audience a Bond that is appropriate for its time. These times quite clearly require a Bond that is a petulant child.
  • Birdleson wrote: »
    Because they don't know what the Hell else to do with the character anymore than have him behave as a petulant child. This has been a long time in the making. Plot driven Bond films seem to be a thing of the past.

    Sad but true. It's obvious that the recent Bond films carry nothing but the Bond character name in their stories. Bond was never this thuggish, or bad mannered. Whilst he bent the rules, he always remained a pro. The Sam Mendes films have failed as far as I'm concerned in the story telling and continuation of the Daniel Craig style that was so well played in both Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace.
    Why the need to make him a bogan thug, who disregards orders, makes massive errors and are basically both homages to past movies. It doesn't help that Spectre is just Skyfall re-tweaked.

  • All they need to do with a future Daniel Craig film is ignore all that has happened in Skyfall and Spectre, and take the character back to the one we saw in Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace. At least he was James Bond then. Enough of these fcuking homages and looking into Bonds past. Touched on in the past. A line here a reference there. But not an entire sub plot that is part of the films focus. Sam Mendes does not know how to make a good Bond film. Despite the box office receipts.
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
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    I was thinking about the lyrics to "Goldeneye" recently and something came to mind. I know that early drafts of Goldeneye had Trevelyan as an older mentor to Bond. This got me thinking;

    "You'll never know how I watched you from the shadows as a child."

    Could this be a reference to that? Speaking of a young, inexperienced MI6 agent Bond as a "child" watching and learning from Trevelyan?
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Trevelyan wasn't Bond's mentor in the first draft. Just a senior agent who betrayed the MI-6 for the KGB, responsible for tricking three 00-agents into deathtrap in Russia when they were "assigned to rescue him" when it was merely a trap. Bond was among the 00s.
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
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    Trevelyan wasn't Bond's mentor in the first draft. Just a senior agent who betrayed the MI-6 for the KGB, responsible for tricking three 00-agents into deathtrap in Russia when they were "assigned to rescue him" when it was merely a trap. Bond was among the 00s.

    Ahh... I see. Thanks @ClarkDevlin
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Because they don't know what the Hell else to do with the character anymore than have him behave as a petulant child. This has been a long time in the making. Plot driven Bond films seem to be a thing of the past.

    Sad but true. It's obvious that the recent Bond films carry nothing but the Bond character name in their stories. Bond was never this thuggish, or bad mannered. Whilst he bent the rules, he always remained a pro. The Sam Mendes films have failed as far as I'm concerned in the story telling and continuation of the Daniel Craig style that was so well played in both Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace.
    Why the need to make him a bogan thug, who disregards orders, makes massive errors and are basically both homages to past movies. It doesn't help that Spectre is just Skyfall re-tweaked.

    @cubby: first off welcome.

    Second: How is DC's 007 a thug and bad mannered? I find him charming and well-mannered (notice the proper way he can pour a glass of wine on the train in CR? Don't touch the glass with the bottle and curl away?);

    DC is impeccably groomed and wears the best suits (whether you agree with the TF direction, or no);

    He feels anger and emotional turmoil leaving Bronson to bleed out in SF;

    He seduces Ms. Sciarra with that Fleming sadism in SP.

    I guess my frustration with critics calling DC a thug has never washed with me since I do find him sophisticated (yet flawed, kinda like how Fleming wrote about the "blunt instrument", or, as Mathis calls him in CR a "machine".).

    Love to hear why you think Craig's 007 is a thug?
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    peter wrote: »
    Birdleson wrote: »
    Because they don't know what the Hell else to do with the character anymore than have him behave as a petulant child. This has been a long time in the making. Plot driven Bond films seem to be a thing of the past.

    Sad but true. It's obvious that the recent Bond films carry nothing but the Bond character name in their stories. Bond was never this thuggish, or bad mannered. Whilst he bent the rules, he always remained a pro. The Sam Mendes films have failed as far as I'm concerned in the story telling and continuation of the Daniel Craig style that was so well played in both Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace.
    Why the need to make him a bogan thug, who disregards orders, makes massive errors and are basically both homages to past movies. It doesn't help that Spectre is just Skyfall re-tweaked.

    @cubby: first off welcome.

    Second: How is DC's 007 a thug and bad mannered? I find him charming and well-mannered (notice the proper way he can pour a glass of wine on the train in CR? Don't touch the glass with the bottle and curl away?);

    DC is impeccably groomed and wears the best suits (whether you agree with the TF direction, or no);

    He feels anger and emotional turmoil leaving Bronson to bleed out in SF;

    He seduces Ms. Sciarra with that Fleming sadism in SP.

    I guess my frustration with critics calling DC a thug has never washed with me since I do find him sophisticated (yet flawed, kinda like how Fleming wrote about the "blunt instrument", or, as Mathis calls him in CR a "machine".).

    Love to hear why you think Craig's 007 is a thug?

    p.s. the Mathis quote I cited above is from CR the novel when Bond is considering quitting the service.

    P


  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    I think I never used this thread before but now I have a serious question concerning my beloved Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson).

    I know she auditioned for Moneypenny and then got the role of recurring role Sylvia Trench, Bond's girlfriend.

    But why did they drop her after FRWL?

    And would you have liked her to be around for the other 3 Connery movies GF-TB-YOLT?

    Furthermore I wonder if keeping her as a girlfriend when Bond would get laid at any opportunity with other women is something "out of character" for the cinematic (and written) Bond.

    In FRWL Bond seems to get along with Trench very well. So was she only his "fu**-buddy" to use the modern term? Or was she indeed his girl-friend?

    Or was it simply illogical to have her back in FRWL at all?

  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Terence Young wanted to keep her. Guy Hamilton didn t.
  • Terence Young was also the director of TB. He could have brought her back if he really wanted to.

    Personally, I don't care much for the plan I've heard of -- to have her be the plot focus of a film after being being established as a recurring minor character for 3 or 4 films -- so it doesn't bother me that she just sort of faded from view after FRWL. Bond really isn't the kind to have a long-running girl friend, she was indeed just a "modern-term" buddy.
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