The James Bond Questions Thread

Cipher

echo said:

I don't think it's that simple. It can't be coincidental that it's 1964. And involves gold.

So it's completely impossible that there was another gold heist in 1964? Or must it be a reference to events which don't fit with M's question simply because it's an obscure way to link two Bond films?

As you and 00Beast point out Draco doesn't fit into the GF heist given that Goldfinger used Koreans and no bullion was taken from Fort Knox. But let's ignore that and say Draco was involved in some way. That means he took part in a scheme that included gassing a few thousand people, smuggling a nuke into the U.S. and then detonating it on U.S. soil. Even if he didn't know about the nuke, wouldn't that put Draco pretty high on the list of NATO enemies? And if that was the case would M be having a friendly chat with him about the time Draco helped a madman almost kill tens of thousands of people? I don't think so. M wouldn't even be at the wedding (and neither would Bond if he wanted to keep his job).

So, IMO, it's simply a coincidence or perhaps a nod to an actual heist that was committed in '64.

echo

In a film that is full of knowing nods to other Bond films, a reference to gold and '64 is not likely a coincidence.

Baltimore_007

Where were Bond and Solitaire heading at the end of Live and Let Die, we are told they have sixteen hours to 'find something to do' but where were they actually making for, it seems highly unlikely they would still be on the (fictional) island of San Monique for that, unless they were travelling round in circles, so it seems likely they made it back to the US mainland, such as Louisiana again etc, and were travelling north. I'm sure I remember at some point that Bond had the intention of returning to London, now with Seymour in tow I guess, but there was some confusion to a lesser extent there, but I never paid much attention to it, but for the benefit of this 'questions' thread and all.. Anyone who can shed some light would be appreciated

echo

Not sure, but I always assumed it was New Orleans-New York. I'm not sure why they would be going there.

TouchMyButtons

Quick question regarding 007 literature.

My dad asked me about a month ago what Fleming Bond Novel is considered the best. I couldn't answer his question because quite frankly, I had no clue.

I have a personal opinion of my favorites, but has there ever been a official survey conducted by the Fleming family or perhaps by any bond related group ?

DoubleOhhSeven

echo said:
In a film that is full of knowing nods to other Bond films, a reference to gold and '64 is not likely a coincidence.

You're right about that. I always assumed it was a reference to GF. OHMSS easily takes second place for Bond film with the most nods to the past. The first and undisputed king is DAD where those nods became obnoxious rather than charming for the most part in OHMSS. The only one I didn't like was Bond going through all of the props for the previous films with theme music to accompany them.

DoubleOhhSeven

Does anyone have a link to the CR Bahamas shirt Daniel Craig wore? Many thanks.

JWESTBROOK

TouchMyButtons said:
Quick question regarding 007 literature.

My dad asked me about a month ago what Fleming Bond Novel is considered the best. I couldn't answer his question because quite frankly, I had no clue.

I have a personal opinion of my favorites, but has there ever been a official survey conducted by the Fleming family or perhaps by any bond related group ?

Casino Royale and Goldfinger seem to be considered 'the best' around these parts, but I can only vouch for CR so far. CR is indeed better than LALD in the novels, but they're both my top two books ever.

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

JWESTBROOK said:

TouchMyButtons said:
Quick question regarding 007 literature.

My dad asked me about a month ago what Fleming Bond Novel is considered the best. I couldn't answer his question because quite frankly, I had no clue.

I have a personal opinion of my favorites, but has there ever been a official survey conducted by the Fleming family or perhaps by any bond related group ?

Casino Royale and Goldfinger seem to be considered 'the best' around these parts, but I can only vouch for CR so far. CR is indeed better than LALD in the novels, but they're both my top two books ever.

That you've ever read, ever?

Master_Dahark

DoubleOhhSeven said:
Does anyone have a link to the CR Bahamas shirt Daniel Craig wore? Many thanks.

http://www.magnoliclothiers.com/bahama-royale-shirt-shirts-p-130.html

Here you go-- I have one myself! You can't beat the customer service; free shipping and tailor made!

JWESTBROOK

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 said:

JWESTBROOK said:

TouchMyButtons said:
Quick question regarding 007 literature.

My dad asked me about a month ago what Fleming Bond Novel is considered the best. I couldn't answer his question because quite frankly, I had no clue.

I have a personal opinion of my favorites, but has there ever been a official survey conducted by the Fleming family or perhaps by any bond related group ?

Casino Royale and Goldfinger seem to be considered 'the best' around these parts, but I can only vouch for CR so far. CR is indeed better than LALD in the novels, but they're both my top two books ever.

That you've ever read, ever?

It should be noted I don't read often.

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

JWESTBROOK said:

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 said:

JWESTBROOK said:

TouchMyButtons said:
Quick question regarding 007 literature.

My dad asked me about a month ago what Fleming Bond Novel is considered the best. I couldn't answer his question because quite frankly, I had no clue.

I have a personal opinion of my favorites, but has there ever been a official survey conducted by the Fleming family or perhaps by any bond related group ?

Casino Royale and Goldfinger seem to be considered 'the best' around these parts, but I can only vouch for CR so far. CR is indeed better than LALD in the novels, but they're both my top two books ever.

That you've ever read, ever?

It should be noted I don't read often.

You should read some classics. Good ones, like Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Wells, Bradbury, Dumas, and so many more. There is brilliant work just sitting and waiting to be read.

Baltimore_007

That reminded me of a scene from Finchers Se7en where Freeman turns up at the library to do some research and the night staff are just sitting around playing card games and he says something like,

'I'll never understand, all these books, a world of knowledge at your fingertips, and what do you do, you sit there all night and play poker'

I've read some really good pieces of literature going back far enough, Dickens, Chaucer, Dostoevsky, Twain etc but interest seemed to have waned over the years, it's surely to do with the boom of computers and people just seem more dependant now in sitting in front of a screen than taking the time to read a good book. It's a bit of a shame almost

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

Absolutely @Baltimore_007. Though I love it, I don't read as much as I'd like to these days. Other interests, more time spent here then there, it all adds up.

Baltimore_007

I do worry for some kids education today if I'm being honest, proper communication as I remember it, has gone by the wayside for 'text speak' and some kids today can't even tell the alphabet or count to 20 even, it is a bit of a worry. I do feel books and novels will be obselete sooner or later, as the computer is everything today, but it does have some very good features such as Wikipedia, but it's not the way for kids to learn or get an education, I was never taught that way, there was no such things when I was at school, and some people simply don't have the patience anymore to read a good book, only last year I was reading a Garland novel and I couldn't put it down, it was such an engrossing read, but not everyone will do that now

DoubleOhhSeven

Master_Dahark said:

DoubleOhhSeven said:
Does anyone have a link to the CR Bahamas shirt Daniel Craig wore? Many thanks.

http://www.magnoliclothiers.com/bahama-royale-shirt-shirts-p-130.html

Here you go-- I have one myself! You can't beat the customer service; free shipping and tailor made!

Many thanks good sir.

In regards to the books I always got the impression that FRWL and GF are considered the best. However I would say CR and OHMSS are at the top in terms of quality.

I'm under the impression that FRWL and OHMSS are considered the best (my favorite however is YOLT).

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 said:
Absolutely @Baltimore_007. Though I love it, I don't read as much as I'd like to these days. Other interests, more time spent here then there, it all adds up.

@Baltimore and @0BradyM0
Is there a discussion about books in general? I love to read and would like very much to talk with other about serious reading material.

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

I have a question regarding the novels. Do we ever find out how Bond gets the scar on his right cheek? I assume it is from the war.

Samuel001

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 said:
I have a question regarding the novels. Do we ever find out how Bond gets the scar on his right cheek? I assume it is from the war.

No, we don't. It's from the war though, I would think, like you assume.

00Beast

From Russia with Love

Kerim Bey's son asks what happened to his father after 007 tells him of Kerim's death. 007 then says, "He took care of that, they other man died first." What on Earth does Bond mean?

echo

Thanks to Kerim, the other guy died first (so Kerim got a bit of revenge)..or so Grant made it seem.

The novel is much clearer on this revenge point. Bey has a bomb buried by the periscope and his sons explode it after Bey is killed, wiping out the Russians there.

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

echo said:
Thanks to Kerim, the other guy died first (so Kerim got a bit of revenge)..or so Grant made it seem.

The novel is much clearer on this revenge point. Bey has a bomb buried by the periscope and his sons explode it after Bey is killed, wiping out the Russians there.

Thanks for the spoiler... :-L

echo

It's been 55 years!

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

echo said:
It's been 55 years!

What a dim excuse. I don't care if it has been two centuries, never spoil good books.

Baltimore_007

@echo Brady (and others) don't like spoilers, I guess time is irrelevant etc, but fair enough, I can see why people take umbrage about giving away important plot information sometimes, things can slip out unintentionally sometimes, but there you go

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

Baltimore_007 said:
@echo Brady (and others) don't like spoilers, I guess time is irrelevant etc, but fair enough, I can see why people take umbrage about giving away important plot information sometimes, things can slip out unintentionally sometimes, but there you go

Well, duh. What's the fun of having brilliant work ruined for you??

echo

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 said:

echo said:
It's been 55 years!

What a dim excuse. I don't care if it has been two centuries, never spoil good books.

Name calling is unnecessary.

You're in a "James Bond questions" thread, not in a dedicated "film" or "novels" thread.

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

echo said:

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 said:

echo said:
It's been 55 years!

What a dim excuse. I don't care if it has been two centuries, never spoil good books.

Name calling is unnecessary.

You're in a "James Bond questions" thread, not in a dedicated "film" or "novels" thread.

I didn't call you a name. Just because I am in a questions thread doesn't mean I want parts of the novels ruined for me. Spoiling is spoiling, no matter what it is that you are ruining for someone else. This thread isn't labeled as "spoilers", so I expect to come here free of them in regards to the novels. It isn't hard to answer someone's question by saying, "well, in the novel FRWL, this happens", and then use a spoiler tag.

00Beast

In Moonraker, why does Corrine run away into the woods when she sees that Drax's Dobermans are about to attack, instead of just getting into the golf cart she came in? I'm sure it would go faster than her trying to outrun them! Goodness! And where was she running to? I mean come on! This has always bugged me.

DoubleOhhSeven

echo said:
Thanks to Kerim, the other guy died first (so Kerim got a bit of revenge)..or so Grant made it seem.

The novel is much clearer on this revenge point. Bey has a bomb buried by the periscope and his sons explode it after Bey is killed, wiping out the Russians there.

I never read the novel but damn that is so cool. I was they'd left it in the movie. Kerim getting revenge beyond the grave.

00Beast said:
In Moonraker, why does Corrine run away into the woods when she sees that Drax's Dobermans are about to attack, instead of just getting into the golf cart she came in? I'm sure it would go faster than her trying to outrun them! Goodness! And where was she running to? I mean come on! This has always bugged me.

I never thought of that. Maybe because the scene was so effective with John Barry's haunting tune. For a film generally considered one of the silliest Bond movies that scene is one of the most frightening in the series.

The best answer I can give is that she was afraid and instinctively ran. When you're facing death you're not in the state of mind to think things out logically. Plus if she ran in the golf cart Chang probably would've killed her.

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