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  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
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    Are we to believe that between Hai Fat dying and the climax of the film that Scaramanga arranged to have Hai Fat Construction come to his island and build out the solex and all the generators? Or did Hai Fat arrange to have all that built on Scaramanga's island before his death and that was where they would take investors to show them the power generated?
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    The finale of TB, with the Disco Volante being chased by the marine, is that still in the Bahamas? Or, since it's the US marine, are they in US waters?

    I always wondered.
  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
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    "The target is Miami, repeat the target is Miami."

    I believe the whole climax occurs off the coast of Florida? But maybe not. I always wondered why would they want an atomic bomb to go off in Miami, there are other more populous places? Or was it the closeness to Cuba?

  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    Dink's revenge.

    After the events of GF, Dink defected to the USSR and, like Kronsteen, masterminded the entire plot of TB. "Man talk? I'll show you man talk."
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited October 27 Posts: 16,597
    So Q stands for Quartermaster, but where is that actually established? Fleming only mentions Q once I think, along with several mentions of Q Branch, but does he specify that Q Branch is so named because it's the quartermasters? Certainly Boothroyd in Dr. No has the title of 'Armourer', not quartermaster.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    mtm wrote: »
    So Q stands for Quartermaster, but where is that actually established? Fleming only mentions Q once I think, along with several mentions of Q Branch, but does he specify that Q Branch is so named because it's the quartermasters? Certainly Boothroyd in Dr. No has the title of 'Armourer', not quartermaster.

    That's a good question. Without checking through the texts I'm not entirely sure. It may well have been something that the Bond films came up with on their own but I suppose it sounds plausible enough anyway. Remember that Major Boothroyd was the Armourer in the Dr. No novel but was not the head of Q Branch. Again it was the films that merged the two together, I suppose for the sake of simplicity.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited October 27 Posts: 16,597
    Yeah, it's a kind of bit of repeated wisdom, but I'm not sure where it's ever been established officially. Film-wise, Boothroyd in Dr No is addressed as 'armourer'; Q in FRWL is referred to as 'the equipment officer'; he's called Q in GF, but no mention of quartermaster... I feel like M has said 'quartermaster' at some point in the films (Skyfall is one), but the idea that the Q in Q Branch is short for quartermaster kind of feels like something we've all gone along with but maybe there's no actual basis for it in the fiction.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Yeah, M says 'quartermaster' in SF, and Bond calls Q that in DAD. Surely there are other instances earlier on.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Talking of Q, apart from the DB5, do we know of any other gadgets that really worked in real life? I understand Little Nellie could really fly, so did the jetpack, otherwise do we have any other?
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    Talking of Q, apart from the DB5, do we know of any other gadgets that really worked in real life? I understand Little Nellie could really fly, so did the jetpack, otherwise do we have any other?

    I don't know if it exists exactly as is but I wonder, with today's tech, if you could make a little ring camera like Bond uses in AVTAK.
  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
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    No camera but...

    https://appleinsider.com/inside/apple-ring
  • fjdinardofjdinardo
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    Was watching LTK with my partner the other day. And it was the scene were Bond was in the water after jumping off the Wavecreast.


    Why did Bond follow the mini sub back to the Wavecreast to destroy the coke instead of just swimming to the bottom of the plane and just hoping on the plane there? I feel there was no need to destroy that coke especially with all this guys after him.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited November 29 Posts: 16,597
    Well he wants to screw up Sanchez's organisation, if he doesn't have the coke then he's lost all that money for nothing. Plus Bond is vaguely moral, I'm sure he's not keen on drugs being sold!
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    mtm wrote: »
    Well he wants to screw up Sanchez's organisation, if he doesn't have the coke then he's lost all that money for nothing. Plus Bond is vaguely moral, I'm sure he's not keen on drugs being sold!

    Both TLD and LTK were released at the time of President Reagan's War on Drugs and both films had drug related plots. Hard drugs get destroyed on a large scale in both films too. As you say, Bond is a moral sort of chap (after a fashion) and even in Fleming's work the dangers of heroin were referred to in 'Risico' as like a giant hypodermic plunged into the heart of England.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Here's an utterly random question: we know Danjaq/MGM own James Bond 007 and when Ian Fleming Publications want to write a Bond book they have to license Bond from Danjaq/MGM, but in a Bond film we see the credit 'Ian Fleming's James Bond': do you think they have to ask permission from Fleming's estate to use his name? Or even perhaps license it in some way?
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