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Really? Never noticed that. Cool. I'll check that.
I have looked at it over and over. The glasses, the hair, the hipster sweater. There is no definitive proof, I guess...but it sure looks like him to me. It's like an Easter egg thrown in.
He looks a different build to me. What I did find quite surprising about that scene in Skyfall is how causal everyone in MI6 dresses! Lots of jumpers going on :D
Am I right, guys?
I actually posted this question by mistake. Just after I wrote this, I saw Bond entering the tarot shop with that evident hint: that large High Priestess card on display. I'm quite confused...
This is my preferred explanation, and I'll explain why I see it this way. But first of all, for the first time, I'm noticing that despite being an extremely fun film, on repeated viewings LALD's screenplay leaves a lot to be desired, confusing viewers: this scene we're discussing, Solitaire suddenly attacking Bond at NOLA Airport (many of us believe she’s creating a distraction to help him out of the situation), the deceased Strutter apparently at the phone, Bond's watch magically sprouting a buzzsaw...
Now about the scene in question. The way I see it, Solitaire, at the moment, is the least interested person on making things easy for Bond: the reading of The Lovers' card has left her conflicted, unhappy, suffering and fearing for her powers and life. To sum up: I don't think Bond buzzing around made her happy and hopeful.
BTW, another personal impression: I think the shoeshine man in Harlem is a CIA agent talking to Strutter, not an enemy, but, fortunately, this is left ambiguous for suspense's sake.
That’s one interpretation but sources such as the ‘in collaboration with EON’ (take that to mean as much or as little as you wish) JB Encyclopedia give Solitaire as the sender of the card.
That’s the version that I go for as well, just because it makes sense to me that Solitaire has already seen in the cards that she and Bond will be lovers and so it is her ‘duty’ in following the ‘path’ laid out by the cards to protect Bond. She will have been aware of the plot involving Rosie leading Bond to his death, and admitted she had seen the ‘intervention of a woman’ in the cards (though kept it to herself that she meant her rather than Rosie).
It's also more romantic if Solitaire is the one warning Bond with the card.
Watching on pan-and-scan, VHS and maybe other options that showed less detail. Can't speak for laserdisc. I imagine this thread would've looked a lot different and less active about 30 years ago.
He really reacts very slowly...
Yep. Further research has revealed that the tattoos are common knowledge: both done while he was in the Royal Navy. This is one of my gaps in knowledge. No more, though.
https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Goldfinger/images/Goldfinger-116.jpg
You have a better eye than eye do. I have seen GF countless times and just never noticed that. Maybe there's something else in that scene (and in that picture specifically) that catches me eye a little more. LOL
Just looking through the SF 'Bond On Set' book, and it says Gregg Wilson makes a cameo. He is to the left of Bond during the drinking game at the Turkish bar. We see his face a couple of times.
As "obvious" as that seems, I can't say I ever really noticed that. Good stuff. Would love to see a return to that.
And pool girls. We have had those in some form in about half the films, ever since GF.
Look at Pierce's tiny withered left arm. Poor thing.