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I have always wondered this too. I think every time I see it that it is some kind of coarse stone. Who knows...
We need Blu-ray screencaps of the scene!
I SAY must I repeat myself?
You said you "thought" it was the lightbulb. That is hardly a confident conviction. ;)
Owwwww
Good thing Quarrel was a badarse.
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@Master_Dahark is correct. Really, I thought some of you knew your Bond films.
;)
Freelance takes the flash bulb out of her camera, smashes it against the table and shoves it into Quarrels face. Ouch!
Pretty tough guy old Quarrel, though not when it comes to Dragons though. Bizarre.
He is not scared of a lady, but he is a superstitious man, so he might be scared of some animals, such as crabs, in certain circumstances. I know he is a fisherman, but he might not think this particular crab is harmless. He is in Crab Key, after all.
I don't see what is so odd about Quarrel having fears like that; it is quite natural. Elephants are behemoths, yet they are set off by something as tiny as a mouse that it could kill by simply stepping on it. It seems hard to believe, yet it is true in many cases. So is life.
In fact if you watch the film in question @Ludovico it supplies the answer you seek, in that anyone not up to Drax' standards of perfection will be eliminated or surplus to requirement, and Dolly was included in that. Guess Jaws had a change of heart and decided to help out in thwarting Drax' evil scheme, but above all else, the Kiel character of 1979, was poles apart from the nasty and feared one from The Spy Who Loved Me
Even if 007 brought the jet-pack for himself, why would he go through the trouble of acquiring it when he could just escape out the front entrance more easily?
Seems to me as if the directors were just adding a useless scene of spectacle to wow the audience- I mean yeah, it obviously worked, but it isn't the least bit practical, or explained, for that matter!
http://screenmusings.org/Thunderball/pages/Thbll_003.htm
So it is likely that she is the one who set it up for him to have the jet pack.
It was a smart escape because as we see, Bond had no real other way out. After he kills the Colonel the men come storming in armed, so the jet pack was the best plan present at the time. Don't think too much into it.
Was Mr Big in the film version of LALD based on real-life American drug kingpins of the early 1970s?
I think that Mr Big may have been based on certain drug dealers, as an update to the character from the novel, which of course did not concern drugs, but the smuggling of gold coins to finance Soviet operations in the United States.
So, my question remains, was Mr Big, as written by Tom Mankiewicz, based on real life drug kingpins of the early 1970s in America? If so, whom, would you say? A book I bought recently has given me a few possibles, but I'd like to hear from the good folks of MI6 Community first of all.
I don't have any specific information on this however so I'd be interested to know who you think Mankiewicz based him on. I'm sure he must have done some basic research, even if it was only from newspaper articles.
No idea. It seems that he's talking to the driver, presumably in Portuguese. I think you'd need a Portuguese speaker to translate. Maybe it's in the novelisation?
Bond happened to see the assassination of 004 and pursued the assassin. As there appeared to be no comms links between 007 and 002, there was no way of Bond notifying him of the assassination.
Thanks, Sir James. I'll reveal who I think may have inspired Tom Mankiewicz with Mr Big in a future article on my blog - it's only a theory as yet, anyway.
Here are some points that I would be grateful if someone could offer some clarification on:
1. What is the point narratively of the scene with M and Q and the radioactive lint? Why does M say the prime minister wants to be informed the moment they locate 007? Why would the PM make such a request? Is the implication that Bond has gone AWOL? The whole scene baffles me especially considering that when Bond does show up at HQ this urgent man hunt is not even mentioned. I can see why quite a few TV companies ditched this scene to get the running time down.
2. Has Draco ordered his men to kill Bond? They don't appear to be planning to take him to Draco as in the book and when the hood gets Bond to lie down in the rowing boat it seems to me the way he raises his gun that he is about to execute Bond. Does Draco have every man who goes near his daughter killed like this? Why then does he suddenly have a volte face the next day and kidnap Bond and pour his heart out to him?
I love OHMSS but seeing how I've been critical of SFs sloppy plotting I didn't feel it just to let this PTS, which is all over the place, off the hook.
It is an exciting fight, but yes, it is all over the place and does not make much sense. It is also part of its charm. Before I read the novel, when I first watched the film, I thought they were Blofeld's men trying to kill Bond or to get to Draco by killing or kidnapping Tracy.
I hate moments like that because they take me out of the film.
Any further interest in this particular question of mine?
I find it fascinating and would really love to hear some further replies on it, please, if at all possible.
Agreed about the PTS. It makes no sense whatsoever. Bond sees a girl walking into the sea so he races down onto the beach to drag her out. Then a bunch of hired goons attack him for no reason. I didn't have a clue what it was about until I read the novel.
I don't think it serves a narrative purpose. Although I think @saunders is right that it's all part of loading the film with continuity references to ensure viewers know that "this is James Bond!" Also, I always understood the particular gadget to be a joke at the expense of the previous films growing reliance upon gadgets as it's so inherently ridiculous.
I had never considered @saunders' suggestion that it's an in-joke about the search for Bond. That makes sense. I think, narratively, it's due to the fact that Bond's been hunting Blofeld (Operation Bedlam), so it would make sense that the PM would take an interest bearing in mind the events of YOLT and, particularly, Thunderball.
I've just posted on the "most incompetent Bond" thread with much the same comparison.