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The films are playing in order on TV right now, on channel Gem.
When in the PCS of TWINE Sir Robert King crosses the floor in MI6 Headquarters, there is a crest on the floor, showing a lion and a unicorn, with the inscription "MILITARY INTELLIGENCE - DIVISION 00 - PER PIU SIGUREZ A". There is an obvious gap between those last two letters, and they must have somehow lost the second "Z", in which case it would be "For more security" in Italian if it were at least spelled "SICUREZZA" (no "G"). Nothing else makes real sense, either, but why would a British intelligence service choose an Italian motto?
I mean, there are of course old French mottoes from ancient Anglo-Norman times (Honi soit qui mal y pense, Dieu et mon droit) and the occasional Latin phrase, all easily explainable from history. And nothing against the beautiful Italian language. But it seems out of place to me in this case.
Has anybody read more about this than I could find? Did the set decorators simply goof?
Apart from this, I find "Division 00" a little awkward, too.
Just stumbled upon this because I have a question of my own. The phrase you’re to referring is most certainly not Italian, nor is it Latin. Might be some sort of dialect, but that does make even less sense.
To be honest, looks like someone wanted it to sound like Latin, but messed it up.
I mean we saw it, even in the colors of the champagne for example, it's real! Those Bollingers in both Octopussy and AVTAK for example.
I mean they do get drunk on set right? 😅
For sure it's a part of Product Placement, the brand was displayed, so they're really drinking it right?
Thank you for those who will answer 😊
I remember reading on the back of a Bond magazine in the late 1990s that they didn't drink real alcohol on set but that it was things like ginger ale etc. That's the only source where I can remember reading about that. However, I do recall Christopher Lee saying that he was drinking real Guinness etc. on the beach at the beginning of TMWTGG so that flies in the face of what it said on the back of that magazine!
Hey, I just realised this may be a solution to one of my favourite pet peeves in TV crime shows: The investigator meets someone in a bar, orders a beer, but after a few words with the suspect or whoever the other person is, says thank you and leaves without even having touched the drink. Always thought it was strange. But maybe it was because they didn't use fake beer and were afraid their protagonists would start gibbering after the fifth take.
Avec plaisir!
I mean the majority of the Bond Girls only pointed guns towards an enemy, but had any of them shoot it?
Had any of the Bond Girls (in the classic era) shot someone (using a gun) before?
Because if my memory serves, there's none, yes they may have their guns as a style or just pointing it or just holding it, but to use it to shoot someone, I don't remember.
Can someone help me at this, thank you 😊.....
Domino shot Largo with a speargun - in both films
Tiffany shot a few oil rig guards
Holly zapped several MR elites with the laser pistol
Melina fired both crossbows
Wai Lin dual-wielded MP5s on the stealth
Jinx shot someone on Zao's helicopter at Los Organos
Yes, thanks!
Never thought of those, though I'm only looking for only guns/pistols like that of Bond's.
So yes, Tatiana, Tiffany, Wai Lin and Jinx! They're the Bond Girls who shot those baddies using a Pistol!
Thank you! :)
Thanks, @mtm for the additional answer, really and much appreciated! :)
The actors on the American TV Cheers hated drinking the "beer" on the show. It was an awful mix and was required so that the head of the "beer" would show. You will notice that they rarely take sips on camera and when they do, they are acting to the max. LOL!
Yes I am sure that intoxication could be real depending on the number of takes and number of angles that are required for each shot. I also wonder how they are able to stomach the food in scenes. Never hot and likely sitting for hours. I enjoy on shows when the meal is over most of the plates are still full! LOL
Yes, but do you think those liquors had already mixed with something or diluted for it to not to be heavy? I've seen some hacks on Facebook on making those liquors and if not a food coloring, they're using Iced Tea.
And I'm not sure if it's connected but there are really some incidents of getting drunk on set, I don't know if it's something to do with the taping or they happened to just get drunk to avoid stress.
Yes, about the food thing, I've seen that many times in TV shows and even in Bond films, look at Stromberg's table in TSWLM or even at Octopussy when Kamal was having a dinner with Bond and Magda, the plates were still full, don't remember if Dr. No had some because it's not that fully shown on screen.
No problem.....
Though I doubt that the producers will stop as long as they can get money from Bond,
Quantity is valued over quality these days for the sake of money at EON.
If there's no money coming in for Bond, maybe they would stop making them, but until there's money coming in, they wouldn't.
How are the lights still on in the tunnel afterwards?
Fire, I think, it's lighted by those torches.
Then what about Judi Dench M? Did she have a Military Rank? It's never implied at all.
Was she an Admiral or what?
And bonus question, MI6 stands for Military Intelligence Unit 6/Six.
Are agents there should be from Military, or it's not necessary? And if it should, then what is Nomi's military rank? Is she in the Military as well?
Thank you for those who will answer.
There's always the fan theory I like that Brown's M is Admiral Hargreaves from The Spy Who Loved Me.
As for Dench's M, her first M (if we are counting them as two separate characters) is based on Stella Rimington the MI5 chief at the time who worked up the ranks of MI5, the whole point is she's seen as a bureaucrat with no experience in the field.
The first woman admiral in the real life Royal Navy was promoted in 2021 and women in the army wouldn't have been in combat roles until 2016 so it's unlikely that Mansfield served but it's possible. There's a line in Skyfall where she says 'I was never a good shot' which implies she may have been an agent, like Eve, who couldn't cut it.
But having a military background isn't a prerequisite for being an agent, only one of Sherwood's three main 00s are. I think Nomi could be ex-military with her attitude but probably not the Navy given the whole 'Commander' Bond thing, but as far as I know there isn't any evidence in canon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_the_Secret_Intelligence_Service
So, being from the military is not a pre-requisite for being head of His Majesty's Secret Service. And neither is it a prerequisite for being an agent (most of whom would not live the life Bond lives anyway).
Apparently it doesn't work though: Hargreaves is a Vice-admiral in TSWLM whereas M is wearing the insignia of a Rear admiral in TLD, so he would need to have been demoted for it to be the same person which seems unlikely.