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EXACTLY. When I first saw GF (about age 13) I didn't think much of it, but having since become an aficionado of classic rock & pop to a great degree the line just feels utterly jarring - how on EARTH could Bond think that The Beatles output up until early 1964 was worth listening to with a pair of expensive earmuffs??
If this line had appeared after The White album (’68) or even Rubber Soul (late ’65) I would have been fine with it…. But ‘Can’t buy me love’? You don’t need earmuffs for that claptrap.
Er, I think you are a bit confused @AceHole - earmuffs are for keeping your ears warm and dulling sounds, earphones or headphones are for listening to music! Bond is being a bit of an old fuddy duddy here and not really hip, as a young(ish) man would have been in the swinging 60s. A more apt line might have been, "My dear girl, some things are just not done. Like eating oysters when there's an R in the month!"
If you watch closely at Bond's backpack, you can see it wiggle a bit as the rope shoots towards the wall.
Don't know about that, only that it is an old saying, and one Bond would have been aware of. I've had oysters (live) and it's not all it's cracked up to be. Just like swallowing some slimy sea water…but then I didn't have a Dom Perignon '53 to wash it down with!
Ah, it seems I got it back-asswards, should say "like eating oysters without an R in the month" - glad he didn't take my advice. "You've just killed James Bond!" :-(
from wikipedia:
"It was once assumed that oysters were only safe to eat in months with the letter ‘r’ in their English and French names. This myth is based in truth, in that in the Northern Hemisphere, oysters are much more likely to spoil in May, June, July, and August. In recent years, pathogens such as Vibrio parahaemolyticus have caused outbreaks in several harvesting areas of the eastern United States during the summer months, lending further credence to this belief."
Which reminds me i haven't eaten oysters in ages. Not since 2012 I think.
From @Pussfella...
That is very neat.
...and INCREDIBLY nerdy :p
Yes, thanks @haserot. I can't say I knew that.
That is very interesting indeed!
Yes, that was an intentional reference.
How'd you miss this one when it's a plot point?
That's a great observation. I had no idea.
Yeah, I'm not going to defend the plot of TWINE, but isn't this basically the entire reason that Bond knows something is up?
I dunno. It's not high on my watch list.
^#(^
it's right in the movie... when looking up stuff on Elektra King, Bond takes the receipt he got from the swiss banker and matches the amount Sir Robert bought the stolen reports for to the $5mil price tag left on a ransom photo of Elektra..
i too don't understand how one misses this - it's plain as day in the film....
Agreed, it is a major plot point and significant in revealing Elektra as the villainess later on in the film.