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  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    I got nothing.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Where's Mike Myers when you need him? ;)
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    Not penning Austin Powers 4. ;)
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Shrek 6: The Shrekening. :))
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Or starring in

    Fenech: The Forgotten Basterd

    An Inglourious Basterds spin-off by Quentin Tarantino
  • barryt007barryt007
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    He is taking over from Craig in the next Bond film : 'Ear today,gone tomorrow'..
  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
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    This is weird. Every time I see Carter fall in the pit I wonder (albeit briefly) whether he is bitten by a snake - which is what I always assumed - or whether he survived.

    Then the thought is gone.

    Now I realise everyone else has been wondering the same thing, and finally we are discussing it.

    For what it's worth Baron Samedi fell into a coffin full of deadly snakes, and it did him no harm! Maybe Carter is a disciple of the great man and has a bit of voodoo knoo hoo (I mean 'know how')
  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
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    He can touch his ear and speak at the same time. That's multi tasking.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    Nah Carter survived,but lost Bond in all the confusion and the speed Bond was travelling at...that's my theory anyway...I think the snake was more concerned about the mongoose !!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    https://www.facebook.com/Carters-Family-Fish-Chips-Eastbourne-104761729624914/
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    I don't quite mean to lead the currently ongoing conversation away from Carter, but I have this particular question to ask if anyone knows the answer to.

    On wikipedia, I was reading about Geoffrey Jenkins' Per Fine Ounce novel rejected by Glidrose, and I came across the paragraph where it says Harry Saltzman forbid any studios to adapt Colonel Sun into a movie just because Glidrose refused to publish Jenkins'novel. But, it didn't say why.

    So, the question is why?

    Was Saltzman a close friend of Jenkins' or something?
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    I see... There must be more that story... Now, imagine if it starred Connery...
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited December 2016 Posts: 17,813
    Birdleson wrote: »
    I think it was because he was somehow invested (either personally or financially) with PER FINE OUNCE.. It's been awhile since I read the while backstory, but I believe it was something like that.

    That's correct. I talk about it a bit in my article here:

    http://thebondologistblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/kingsley-amis-draxs-gambit-and-reform.html

    I do find it a bit odd though as by September 1976 and the time of the filming of TSWLM (and Amis' visit to the set) the relationship and partnership between Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli was very much at an end so why would Saltzman's word have any sway on what was Broccoli's call whether to film Colonel Sun or not. Plus there is fact that the person Amis spoke to the requisite Eon on TSWLM set was merely a PR man (and therefore not an Eon authority or decision-making person) on his visit in September 1976, as recounted in his Collected Letters (2000), edited by Zachary Leader.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    In Tomorrow Never Dies, how the hell is the sea vac being controlled through nothing but air on the Devonshire?
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    It's connected to a cable. The Computer radar doesn't show the cable.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    But where is this cable connected to exactly? I'm still not entirely sure how this thing works.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    The cable is connected to the very back of the sea drill. How it works exactly is anyone's guess at this point.
  • w2bondw2bond is indeed a very rare breed
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    Still doesn't make sense, a cable won't provide enough structural stability to allow the seavac to turn 90 degrees
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
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    @jake24 I imagine it would function similarly to this;
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    Something I wonder about is Bond's wealth.

    Is he rich? Does he earn a great lot as agent?

    In OHMSS he just plays the cards privately at the beginning, helping Tracy out with 20.000 Francs just so. He obviously can afford living in expensive places even when he is not on the job.

    Maybe I'm confusing something and don't think straight at the moment, so if anybody can bring light into that it would be great.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
    edited December 2016 Posts: 15,423
    @BondJasonBond006:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)#Personal_life
    In 1955 Bond earned around £2,000 a year net (equivalent to £47,000 in 2015) although when on assignment he worked on an unlimited expense account.
  • Major_BoothroydMajor_Boothroyd Republic of Isthmus
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    I always assumed he made extra cash gambling - the film version of James Bond especially is owning virtually every gambling house he goes to - the ones in DN, OHMSS and even that brief scene in DAF - it doesn't seem like he's doing it for assignment. Not to mention winning an Aston in CR. But that wad of cash he walks out with in DN always made me think he just made his caviar and dom perignon money through immense gambling skills.

  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    The whole practice would certainly make one skilled at pointing out tells and forming those of one's own while on the spy job. And the money, of course the money.
  • Major_BoothroydMajor_Boothroyd Republic of Isthmus
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    Are there any birthdays celebrated in the James Bond movies? I can think of a mention (Moneypenny saying it was her birthday 'last week' in SP to M). Any others?
  • Major_BoothroydMajor_Boothroyd Republic of Isthmus
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    Ah of course!
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Major_Boothroyd wrote: »
    Are there any birthdays celebrated in the James Bond movies? I can think of a mention (Moneypenny saying it was her birthday 'last week' in SP to M). Any others?

    Not one from the films but in William Bond's Solo (2013) James Bond celebrates his 45th Birthday, which I thought was an original enough idea for the literary Bond as it had never been done before.
  • GumboldGumbold Atlantis
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    Oh mine was a vodka shot,so im quite satisfied ;)
    who shots vodka? thats disgusting
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Major_Boothroyd wrote: »
    I always assumed he made extra cash gambling - the film version of James Bond especially is owning virtually every gambling house he goes to - the ones in DN, OHMSS and even that brief scene in DAF - it doesn't seem like he's doing it for assignment. Not to mention winning an Aston in CR. But that wad of cash he walks out with in DN always made me think he just made his caviar and dom perignon money through immense gambling skills.

    He is as lucky as Gladstone Gander. Or is he cheating?
  • Major_BoothroydMajor_Boothroyd Republic of Isthmus
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    I remember seeing a film where they mention that half of everything is luck...

    I don't think bond was much of a cheater - seeing as he wasn't too impressed with Auric cheating at cards (or golf) in GF. Q was the cheater in DAF with his device - that would see him getting his legs broke by mobsters if the pit boss caught him in the casino in Las Vegas!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Maybe that is why he wasn t seen in LALD?
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