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Sorry, you caught me before my edit above ... hence some discrepancies.
Campbell in the book is working out of Station Zurich. In going up the mountain, in the movie, I just assumed he was trying to keep an eye on Bond. But, yes, I don't think it's ever really explained who he is .... I forget, does Bond go see M after the scene with the safe in the lawyer's office? If so, maybe it's a bit of a plot hole ...
MI5 gets several mentions in the novels and at least once, in Moonraker, has Bond explain the difference with SIS. But SIS is almost always referred to as "the service" or "secret service".
Any idea when MI6 first gets mentioned in the movies?
No, he hadn't seen M after the Gumbold scene, it's been a while since I've watched OHMSS, but I still remember the MI6 scenes in the film, no, he didn't see M, if my memory serves, after the Gumbold scene, Bond heads to the College of Arms to meet Sir Hillary Bray, that's how I remember it, at least.
But one could assume that he works for British Intelligence, it's clear in there, since Bond met with M in his house to present the progress of his investigation towards Blofeld, so one may assume it could be it, that M may have trust Bond back into the mission, so they've sent a contact to help him.
But again, it's Draco and Tracy who had drove Bond to Gumbold's office, and while he's in the Office, that's where Campbell appeared, so a possibility that he may also work for Draco.
Or let's make this clear, given Draco's connections, maybe it's Draco's contact in British Intelligence, he's a British Agent, but at the same time, he had connections to Draco, maybe he's called by Draco to help Bond with his mission, but British Intelligence didn't know this, like he went AWOL for the mission.
Or him being a Zurich Agent like in the book could also be applied here, since Bond went to Switzerland, that would be his contact, but with the aide of Draco, since he had lost touch with the British Intelligence, like M was reassured with Bond and his investigations but also let him do his own work, so he let Draco to work with him, after all, in the scene where he's arguing with M to save Tracy from Blofeld, M knows and he'd expected that someone's helping Bond other than the British Intel itself, but M didn't want to compromise the British Intelligence, he'd let Bond to be on his own again and attack Piz Gloria, we could safely say that the British Intelligence hadn't played a role in this.
This makes the film all the more unique because this is where Bond worked without MI6/SIS on his side, in LTK, there's still Q, when in here, he's solely by himself and Draco.
But anyway, I'm sure he's meant to be with MI6 or whoever, as he's based on such a character from the book, but when they wrote the film, they didn't pay attention to everything they were doing and its a bit confused...
And then shortly afterwards, having exposed Bond's "mission" (Blofeld's word), Blofeld refers to Campbell and Bond collectively as "you perverse British."
True, it's never spelled out directly, I'm just not sure it need to be.
Absolutely. I just think the bit where he helps out with Gumbold's safe is sloppiness on the part of the filmmakers. That's an original scene not from the novel, and they didn't consider that it wouldn't make a lot of sense for him to be involved with that.
I'd guess before the office job and that things would have been clearer in that scene; but Hunt was under pressure to keep the running time down, and as Helfenstein notes elsewhere in the book it was a close run thing that further cuts were not made.
That's interesting, I guess that cut video should've been included.
Great question theres a weirdly dubbed line in DN where M states that injury rates since hes taken over Mi5 have dropped. He clearly doesn't say Mi6. Not sure when Mi6 is first mentioned.
In Moonraker, the novel, Bond says he's had to get a special dispensation from the Prime Minister in order to work in England, "for just this one assignment". That's necessary because he's "secret service," he says, and as such his "jurisdiction runs only outside the United Kingdom." Then he wonders if the job isn’t more appropriate for Special Branch, Scotland Yard or Mi5. Fleming literally never mentions Mi6, as far as I can tell.
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Unless, that is, you count Cha for Chang. ;)
Or Samba
EDIT just realized you meant last names! LOL! Oh but then Amasova counts too! LOL!
Interesting trivia @Mendes4Lyfe
One thing I have heard criticism of TB is that they don't talk about why Bond is at Shrublands. One might draw the conclusion that he's only there due to the fight with SPECTRE 6 since Pat makes a big deal of the bruise. In the novel, Fleming writes about why he's at Shrublands in greater detail.
I think Silva in SF mentions a bit about Bond's various excess consumption of alcohol and substance abuse?
NSNA is very underrated.
That's why we can't pretend that NSNA doesn't exist.
Perhaps they were tinted windows?
… well, that or it’s just a film I guess 😂 but I definitely see your point. Not sure if the real MI6 building has tinted windows (I think they’re bulletproof though).
I never spotted that, yes you're right, they don't match the exterior.