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Draco's men, the agents of SPECTRE were all in Switzerland wearing orange colored jackets.
General Gogol, Orlov, the other Russian officers, they're all speaking English.
It's also the same case in Goldeneye, when there's a Russian meeting when Ourumov was presenting his report to the Minister, they're all speaking English 😅.
It's okay for them to speak in Russian (at least to make things more realistic and believable), with just English translations in the subtitles.
That's why as much as many people are bothered by the pure French speaking in the PTS of No Time To Die, it makes for a more realistic scene, because both Madeleine and her mother are French, of course, I do expect them to speak French and not English.
Just find it funny, that even in scene full of Russians, they're speaking English 😅.
There are many instances throughout the series, when foreign characters speak English.
Yes, it's more of a general observation.
Yes, but when they're talking to another foreign character with a different nationality/race, for example when they're talking to Bond, that's okay.
But in a scene full of characters with the same nationality for example in both the Russian meetings in Octopussy and Goldeneye, I find it funny that they're speaking English, I mean, they're all Russians in those scenes, so I think them speaking a Russian language would make it more realistic.
It's also the same in The Spy Who Loved Me in the briefing between Anya and General Gogol they're also speaking English despite of them being both Russians.
Think of in No Time To Die, the PTS scene, Madeleine and her mother are both French, so they speak French language, same when Madeleine was talking to Mathilde, she's also speaking French to her, but when Madeleine was talking to Bond, of course it's English, it makes things a bit realistic, at least for me.
Wow, wait till you see Dr. Zhivago, gonna blow your mind ... nothing but Russian characters, in Russia, speaking only English to each other.
Someone once said: the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.
You know, I wonder, were Bond films ever dubbed into Russian? Indeed, what was the first Bond film to get a Russian release? Goldeneye perhaps?
That's the problem with the old movies (Dr. Zhivago, is it the one with Julie Christie? Yes, I haven't seen it yet), there's not much believability when it comes to those scenes, I think, that's where the modern films, at least excelled.
Although not all (I'm looking at you, Black Widow), but most of the modern movies of today do have foreign characters speaking in their native languages in some conversations (especially when both of them are the same nationality), I couldn't name them all, but I do watched several movies that did those (mainly action films).
As much as I disliked No Time To Die, the French dialogues there do really made it a bit realistic and believable (those scenes with Madeleine and her mother in the PTS, and the conversations between Madeleine and Mathilde, those felt a bit realistic and believable).
Sadruddin holding a cigarette between his middle and ring finger while showing Bond to his tuk tuk. Much like how Telly's Blofeld held his cigarette unusually.
When Vijay pops the tuk tuk up on two wheels, we see a cow chasing it.
Vijay smashes the tennis racquet over the thug's head, and then pushes him away, racquet still in place. Vijay loses his racquet. During the marketplace fight, Vijay is nowhere to be seen. Afterwards, he reappears to taxi Bond away, and upon reaching Q-Branch, we see Vijay has reacquired his broken racquet and put it back in the case. In short, it looks like Vijay went back for his racquet, leaving Bond to fight on his own, while risking his own life returning to the thugs in the crashed vehicle. Must've been one expensive racquet.
When Vijay drives the tuk tuk through the hidden entrance to Q-Branch (the paper poster of the dragon), the dragon's mouth is nearly closed. When the replacement poster slides down to conceal the torn one, the dragon is now cheekily poking its tongue out, much to Gobinda's annoyance. I hadn't noticed the first poster was different to the second. Great humour there.
A red car plummets to the ground way down below and after a few seconds a yellow model follows. Although later both are seen some 10, 15 feet apart nose down in mud. How did this occur when the plane was traveling at such high speed between disposal.
A film in which Bond is driving an invisible car, anything can happen.
He shows a clip where Paris asks Bond if : 'do you still sleep with a gun under your pillow' etc, while Brosnan's Bond looks over a rail and surveys a crowd below.
However if you go back to the actual scene shortly earlier in the movie Bond is in a different position when asked the question. Not by any rail, or studying a crowd, but regarding her fixedly. Even her voice intonation of question varies.
Sure, he's hurt when he'd found out that Elektra's dead, but why to still continue the plan of inserting that Plutonium Rod into the reactor? Knowing that no one would benefit from it? For me, Renard would do it for himself, since there's no Elektra to benefit from the success of that plan, it's Renard who would handle that Business pipeline, and to the lesser extent, the King Industries (because the heiress was already dead), so the one who would benefit the Oil Monopolization was Renard.
He's also greedy, because if he's doing it for Elektra (and her wishes), when he knew that Elektra's dead, he should've killed Bond (as a revenge) and stop the plan (since he's not doing it for himself, but for Elektra), maybe have him kill Bond, set up a bomb to destroy that submarine and leave/escape.
There are some really interesting concepts in TWINE but it is almost too much plot for one movie and we have some un-finished or under developed loose ends as a result. The dynamic between Renard and Electra is an interesting one. The victim becomes the abuser. How she treats him so cruelly when we can only imagine how cruelly he must have treated her in captivity.
Back to your observation, yes I think Renard was dying and prepared to die regardless of Electra being alive or not.
But again, why to still put the plutonium rod to the reactor? Knowing that Elektra's dead, so no one would've benefit from the success of it? Unless, Renard was going use it to his own interests?
If he's bringing the plan to its conclusion, then it didn't makes sense, because if he's doing it as a suicide mission, then who would've benefit from it? So, if the plan succeed and Renard died, there would be a monopoly on the Oil/Pipelines, so that's all? Who would benefit from it? Bond? Other staffs of the King Industries? Christmas Jones?
Doesn't makes sense, there's should be a motivation behind the plan, unless again, he's doing it for his own gain? To which would've make more sense.
Like it the plan succeeded, Renard would have more gain in terms of the Oil Pipelines.
- Victor Zokas, a.k.a...
- Renard, the anarchist.
He was operating
in Moscow in 1996.
Pyongyang, North
Korea, before that.
And he's been spotted in
Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, Iran,
Beirut and Cambodia.
- All the romantic vacation spots.
- His only goal is chaos.
Line in film His only goal is chaos. Renard does not care. He not greedy. He already is dying. He is just bad. As has been told earlier in film.
Also why make comment like this. For me is rude and offend.
I'm just asking because as I'm having a marathon of the Brosnan Era, I've noticed that Gabor and Mr. Kil are a bit lookalike, and I've asked here if I was the only one, just to confirm because maybe I'm just being delusional.
There's nothing wrong in it, I'd just liked to hear the side and the opinion of this forum.
Thanks, yes, or maybe because it's in the way EON executed them that way, again,nothing bad in there, just realizing that I'm not alone in noticing that.
No one's making a comment in here, let alone writing bad or offensive words towards such people, none of us bullying them, it's a matter of notice, hence, the title of this thread.
Then wait till you see the comments in Who should/could be a Bond Actor, I'm sure you would've likely to get offended by some comments in there.
(Many people say it's a remake of OHMSS, but for me, it had more similarities with Goldeneye).
* A man from Bond's past comes back to haunt him (the dead is alive), Blofeld and Trevelyan, and both are also close to Bond (Blofeld was his step brother, and Trevelyan was his friend).
* Both are leader of a criminal syndicates: SPECTRE and Janus.
* The dynamic of Bond and Bond Girl:
Madeleine questioning Bond's psyche and job, that train dinner scene for example (similar to how Natalya questioning Bond's psyche and job, that beach scene in particular).
Bond teaching Madeleine how to assemble a gun (similar to how Bond teaching Natalya how to hold a gun).
* Also Both Bond Girls distrusted Bond for the whole film, quite antagonistic towards him.
* Both Bond Girls that got kidnapped by the main villain's men: Madeleine got kidnapped by Mr. Hinx and his men in Austria, Natalya got kidnapped by General Ourumov and his men in Russia, also both are taken inside the car, also Bond chased them using unusual vehicles: Tank/Plane.
* Both main villains that have accomplices that works in the Government (General Ourumov and Max Denbigh).
* Both plots are targeting London (Nine Eyes and the Goldeneye Satellite).
* Both films where M was firstly introduced and confronted Bond.
In A View To A Kill, when Bond entered Zorin's room in Chateau in France, there's a portrait of Napoleon in there.
Of course in The Living Daylights, Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the icons whom Brad Whittaker idolized.