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And on that note we'll be leaving Diamonds Are Forever behind.
Now I'm really excited as we're moving onto the Roger Moore Era. Bond meets Blaxploitation for the first and (probably for the best) last time in
Things We've Learned From…..Live and Let Die.
1) A fortunate rupture in the space-time continuum caused Bond to reverse age 15 years between 1971 and 1973, complete with a slimmer belly and better head of hair.
2) A pre-title sequence without Bond is no fun.
3) M will be a rude jerk to Bond despite the fact that he is the one who barged into Bond's home in the middle of the night to send him away on a moment's notice.
4) Felix Leiter continues his trend of brilliant disguises complete with different facial features, hair, voice, weight, height, build, attitude, and demeanor.
5) Bond is the whitest guy on the planet.
6) A 22 year old Doctor Quinn "Medicine Woman" looked like a goddess.
7) Kananga obviously didn't go to the "Felix Leiter School of Disguises".
8) Just because Bond is being held captive in 1970s Harlem doesn't mean he can't get his flirt on.
9) The CIA will send an inexperienced and incompetent rookie agent to assist the great 007 on his top secret mission.
10) After someone leaving a poisonous snake to kill him, an impostor posing as a hotel waiter delivering his champagne, and a voodoo message of death being left on his bed Bond will simply drink said Champagne, crack a light-hearted joke, and go to sleep.
11) Quarrel Jr. will happily aid the man who basically got his father killed.
12) Upon discovering Rosie is a double agent, Bond will do the gentlemanly thing and have sex with her before exposing her and threatening to kill her.
13) Bond has no moral quandary with using a young virgin's religious beliefs to trick her into having sex with him.
14) Bond has no moral quandary with using the same de-virginized girl as bait for a vengeful diplomat criminal and his blood-thirsty drug dealing associates.
15) The ruthless New York Mafia will simply stand by and allow Kananga to monopolize the drug business and subsequently run them out of business. Because the Mob is known for their good sportsmanship.
16) Apparently Foghorn Leghorn became a man and joined the Louisiana Police Department.
18) He also have great magnetism.
(And I agree wholeheartedly about number 15)
I loved Live and Let Die but even as a kid I thought Kananga's plan was one of the dumbest and poorly thought out schemes in the history of the series. I immediately thought to myself that all this guy would accomplish is royally pi--ing off every crime family in New York and in turn would suffer their combined wrath as he would now have given them all a common enemy/threat. Bond didn't even need to do anything after Kananga disclosed the details of his misguided scheme. All he'd need to do was sit back and allow Kananga to walk his way straight into spectacular calamity.
=)) Oh I am still laughing, @DoubleOhhSeven. That was perfect. JW FoghornLeghorn Peppah!
and
#19) If you drive a big bus into a overhang without the proper clearance, you can shave off the top of the bus like it was made from butter. No problem! And thereby also setting up further vehicle and mechanical sight gags, say for use in films, that would only progress downhill from there, into further banana peel humor.
21) keeping gasbullits in your mouth will make you blow up like a balloon and burst, without the bloody mess any other explosion of the human body would leave.
22) The fishing boat that's the worst upkept with the laziest captain is equipped by a secret service.
LADA has a couple of Looney Tunes moments doesn't it? J.W. Pepper aswell as Bond pulling a "Bugs Bunny" and using the crocodiles as stepping stones. :))
24. For the right price, an African-American taxi driver will take you to a KKK rally.
25. Swallowing a compressed gas pill is no way to go.
26. There are times when a shark doesn't fit in.
27. Baron Samedi loves 7-Up.
28. It is possible to jump on the backs of alligators to escape certain doom.
29. Old ladies can cuss like a sailor.
30. Q does not get up very early in the morning.
31. People do smoke cigars while parasailing.
32. Never get an assistant named Rosie.
36. Billy-Bob however does own the fastest boat in that perticular perish.
39. Bond in New York has been done already.
40. Best way to deal drugs is to hand them out for free, get everyone addicted and then put your price up.
41. Quarrel had a son the same age as him.
A fact that shocked me at the time I learned it. If I had to guess I'd say Moore was in his mid to late 30s at the time of LALD. While Connery looks to be in his early 50s for DAF.
Physically Moore was never the most impressive Bond but in terms of his face he's dashing in every Bond film until FYEO or arguably OP. And you have to remember that physical fitness has come a long way since the 70s. Unless you were Charles Bronson no one was walking around at 45 years old with a ripped physique.
Haha! I call that the "Moore Maneuver". He does it in TSWLM too to Sandor. Moore finds some structure hanging above him, grabs on, and gives a slow and gentle kick that wouldn't knock over a house of cards.
lol
I don't know that Bond actually killed those two thugs. I was under the impression that he just knocked them out.
When did Mr. Big say that Bond killed them?
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure it's assumed Bond just knocks them out. Otherwise why would Bond immediately go for one of their guns.
Amen.
The guy simply could not fight.
lol, he basically waddles up the stairs for his only cool Bond moment in fyeo, where he kicks the assassin's car off the cliff. Connery would have kicked the car and shot him as he fell away….
And Craig would have killed him with his bare hands, then shot him and then kicked the car off the cliff.