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Octopussy is a mess. IMO of course.
Same here! I'd seen it loads of times and the last time I suddenly realised that we get no indication of what he wants at all. Is he even the main villain or is he Orlov's henchman?
I guess they could have just hand-waved it by saying he's KGB, like they did with Kristatos, although I guess that wouldn't quite work as Orlov's scheme is a totally renegade one. It is odd.
And why he kidnaps Octopussy herself at the end is totally impossible to fathom.
In TND, after Carver's stealth boat has been destroyed at the end, we have a scene where one of M's aides informs her, that Carver went down with the ship and it seems Bond made it.
How do they know that Bond made it?
Never made sense to me.
The line too Moneypenny about Carver committing suicide always felt like a dig at Robert Maxwell, who disappeared a few years before whilst on his yacht under mysterious circumstances. Is it implied that Maxwell was in the same league as Carver. Corrupting the media for his own gains?
It certainly was a Maxwell dig, and Maxwell certainly was a massively bent guy.
1. Why does there seem to be a movement against using Chapter titles for film titles?
2. Is it true that Michael G Wilson hates the title Risico?
just curious thanks for any insight
;;)
That's a point! :)
sigh but beyond that
Ha! I didn't realise that :)
https://www.michaelmcdonald.com/
https://open.spotify.com/album/4BVd2gkQNWj30YN5P3r8Av?highlight=spotify:track:3M0zi8iD2KRzY71XcGFUpE
Digging deeper, it is a doppelgänger of the artist I cited (and there are still others). A sound engineer involved in the remastering of the tracks, he's credited with OHMSS, DAF, others. 192 credits listed on the link below.
Ah, yes. I remember that thread now. I think it was a troll thread if I remember correctly.
I knew you were being facetious but it got me thinking and a reply was soon rattled out anyway. That's sometimes how I roll. :)
I remember it.
Here it is:
https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/5019/was-m-bonds-mother/p1
+1 Thanks @RichardTheBruce. I've always had a question about that. Even the CD liner notes don't offer much of a answer.
I think OHMSS and TLD were the films he was especially interested in as a Lazenby and Dalton fan. I think he'd collated most information on those two films, particularly OHMSS over several decades. I suppose that in-depth books like that are hard to create from scratch but I too would obviously like to see Mr Helfenstein write more books. I remember him as a member of CBn Forums back in the day.
The obvious answer is that he's an MI6 agent, but when we first see him he's in Bern on one of Draco's building sites, where he helps to pass Bond a massive safecracker/photocopier. But Bond at this point in the story has 'gone rogue' (as everyone who complains about Daniel Craig films says): he's on two-weeks leave from MI6 and M has taken him off the Bedlam case, so this isn't an official MI6 action.
So has Bond somehow tricked Campbell into working with him, or does Campbell simply just work for Draco? He's on his building site, after all; and it doesn't seem likely Bond would have been able to get the photocopier from Q if he was supposed to be on leave.
So Bond kicks Blofeld off the bobsled into a tree, then his bobsled crashes pretty much immediately afterwards a couple of hundred yards down the track whereabouts he plays with a dog for a bit.
Does it not occur to him to walk up the track a bit and ensure that Blofeld is either dead or arrested? He just... leaves him there?! :))
Bond does the same in Spectre, never checks Hinx is dead when he crashes through the windscreen following the plane/car chase in Austria.
It does seem very sloppy on Bond’s part.
According to the JB Encyclopedia (Cork & Stutz) he's an MI6 agent. Regarding the 'gone rogue' bit, I always thought of that as 'unofficial official' business (with M's little 'what would I do without you Moneypenny' quote) in the same way as the sabbatical in TMWTGG and the two weeks leave to Rio in MR. This didn't stop Q branch providing Bond with the souped up speedboat or the third nipple so I guess Campbell is similarly 'helping nudge nudge wink wink' Bond. But I suppose there's not enough in the film to decide for sure either way.