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  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Yep! The Specially Ultimate Edition.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    =bg= wrote: »
    "...controlled by." You read that in Casino Royale. Does that just mean someone with direct supervision?

    @=bg=, can you repeat the entire sentence? Maybe the chapter too?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Is it Le Chiffre s Eurasian mistress, controlled by Station F?
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    Is the pinup on the wall next to Brosnan in THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH... Monica Bellucci?

    http://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/The-World-is-not-Enough/images/The-World-is-not-Enough-1058.jpg

    That's a tough call. Initially I thought the lips, the cheekbones, and the brows weren't quite right and the hair not reflective of Bellucci's typically straighter and free-flowing style, but these are all things that can be affected by makeup and stylizing and the picture is also at an angle.

    These shots have made me second-guess whether that could in fact be her:

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    The lips, the cheekbones, and the eyes still don't seem quite right though. That would be pretty amazing if that actually was Bellucci in that photograph, given her close call in Tomorrow Never Dies and eventual appearance in Spectre. Can anyone verify? I'm leaning toward no myself.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    In SP, what does Blofeld/Hinx want with Swann exactly? Thought about this thanks to another thread and I still feel like I've yet to have this answered since it crossed my mind back in 2015.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    To extinguish the connection she has with her father, The Pale King. That knowledge.

    What Bond and Q are looking for: "its name is...Spectre" she says.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Surely that bit of information is obvious, considering he's already run into talks of 'The Pale King' (and the entirety of Spectre) in Rome. Plus, she's known her whole life what her father is (even meeting Blofeld at one point during her childhood), so I don't buy any sense of urgency in suddenly needing to find and eliminate her.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @Birdleson, that's why I'm surprised when she seems genuinely confused by his mentioning of him visiting her as a kid - if she recalled the previous story, surely she would've remembered who he was. I still assume both stories are one and the same.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    It's not obvious to the MI6 holdouts, Bond and the rest.

    If your point is Blofeld would have done better to just leave her alone, that's not what villains normally do. Thinking they're in control, they end up exposing themselves these ways. Or through vanity, with the ring.

    But remember they went after Swann because OO7 went after Swann, Hinx got that on CCTV.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    But 007 went after Swann to find Blofeld; in turn, Blofeld would've known that Bond's end game was to find him (which he obviously was ready for by sending him a car to deliver him to his lair). There's no logical reason they'd have for suddenly needing to kill her (aside from the fact that she can lead Bond to him, but if that's the case, why not shoot Bond on sight? Why chauffeur him to your front door instead of executing him with a car bomb?)
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    It's the omnipotence felt by the villain, sees himself as puppet-master over events controlling almost everything.

    There's the Bond villain (and in literature and cinema) legacy that the evil-doer wants to explain his caper to the hero face to face. Witness Goldfinger.

    So beyond logic. And required, really.
  • joshdeese93joshdeese93
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    During the stealth boat battle at the end of Tomorrow Never Dies, we see Bond firing his new Walther P99, with what appears to be a suppressor. However, in one scene, he is firing both an SMG and the Walther. When the Walther fires, it makes loud cracks, as if it weren't suppressed.

    What gives?
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Continuity error?
  • TokolosheTokoloshe Under your bed
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    In SP, what does Blofeld/Hinx want with Swann exactly? Thought about this thanks to another thread and I still feel like I've yet to have this answered since it crossed my mind back in 2015.


    I think we are meant to interpret from the previous actions with Mr and Mrs Sciarra that after a SPECTRE agent's death, the organisation will execute all of someone's remaining family members in order to maintain secrets.

    Lucia says that with him being dead, she is a dead woman. Mr White worries that if the organisation find his daughter they will kill her too, hence accepting Bond's offer to protect her.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    Continuity error?

    Most likely, I'd say, though I've not noticed this myself.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Tokoloshe wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    In SP, what does Blofeld/Hinx want with Swann exactly? Thought about this thanks to another thread and I still feel like I've yet to have this answered since it crossed my mind back in 2015.


    I think we are meant to interpret from the previous actions with Mr and Mrs Sciarra that after a SPECTRE agent's death, the organisation will execute all of someone's remaining family members in order to maintain secrets.

    Lucia says that with him being dead, she is a dead woman. Mr White worries that if the organisation find his daughter they will kill her too, hence accepting Bond's offer to protect her.

    That makes sense. Never thought of it that way.
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    Continuity error?

    Most likely, I'd say, though I've not noticed this myself.

    I have noticed this myself. It was probably simply overlooked by the sound editor. Part of me considered whether they maybe went with a louder gunshot to compete with the rest of the noise, but they could have easily gone with a louder volume suppressed gunshot as well. Like a "Pewt!" raised really loud in the mix. So likely just an oversight.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Exactly. They killed Solange after Alex Dimitrios got killed.
  • BennyBenny In the shadowsAdministrator, Moderator
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    Between SF and SP, how did the government build the Centre For National Security that C would eventually use so quickly. On a prime piece of real estate in central London.
    Even with private funding it would never go up that quick.
    :-O ;) @-)
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    It's not something you're supposed to dwell on. But you're right, only a month or two prior M looks across the Thames from her office, and there is no construction to be seen.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    I take it that it's not meant to be three years (2012-2015) that have passed then?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    The government knew about the attack beforehand, so they had everything in place.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    I take it that it's not meant to be three years (2012-2015) that have passed then?
    Nope. I'd say about 3 months at most.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    jake24 wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    I take it that it's not meant to be three years (2012-2015) that have passed then?
    Nope. I'd say about 3 months at most.

    So it's set in the past for the first time? I suppose three years is too long...
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Unless SF was set in the future?
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    Again, it's not something to think about. There's a notepad on Swann's desk with a date that reads April 2015. In QoS, we see vehicles produced in 2008 when the time stamp on on the surveillance footage in CR reads July 2006.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    It is a parallell dimension where time jumps are normal.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    edited April 2017 Posts: 10,588
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    It is a parallell dimension where time jumps are normal.

    If that's the way you want to rationalize it, then be my guest.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    It s as good an explanation as any.
  • ProfJoeButcherProfJoeButcher Bless your heart
    edited April 2017 Posts: 1,690
    Why would anybody need an explanation?

    Do people stay up wondering why Pierce looks so good despite being 75 years old?
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