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  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Thanks for weighing in, @QBranch. I appreciate a little help from you now and then outside of gadget equipping me for the field. ;)
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Ha ha, no probs 0Brady. Just be sure to bring my gear back in one piece!
  • mdo007mdo007 Katy, Texas
    edited January 2013 Posts: 259
    Samuel001 wrote:
    AgentJamesBond007 wrote:
    DoubleOhhSeven wrote:
    ;
    Samuel001 wrote:
    Kevin McClory didn't have the rights and lost them in a 1999 court case, anyway, so it would only have ever been a wish. McClory did in November '06, days before the opening of Casino Royale, too. It's all explained in the, very good, book 'The Battle for Bond'.

    Ah I see. Than I guess the writer of the article was misinformed. And you're right, McClory died on Nov. 20th 2006 but that was 6 days after CR premiered in London. For some reason I thought he died the following year. Either I've heard of the book and now I'll definatly check it out.

    I thought the 1999 court case was over getting the rights of Casino Royale for MGM...

    It was about McClory claiming he had rights to the Bond character. He and Sony teamed up but lost the case against MGM/EON. From this MGM/EON got the Casino Royale, something the case was never about! In 2005 when Sony bought part of MGM, who still with McClory had the rights to Thunderball. This meant EON now owned all the rights to film any Bond novel and reclaimed the Thunderball novel. Even today EON buy the rights to the continuation novels. They have the recent ones Devil May Care and Carte Blanche, I'd imagine, just so someone else can't film them!

    So this means we may see Gardner, Benson, and any non-Fleming Bond novels be made into Bond film in the future, Awesome!!! Can I have a link to back your claim so I can put it on this thread:

    http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/4850/post-fleming-bond-novels-that-should-get-movie-treatment/p1

    Also what about this interview with Craig saying EON doesn't have Film right to adapt Gardner's novel:

    http://www.thebookbond.com/2007/11/craig-says-eon-doesnt-own-gardner.html

    Is what Craig in the interview say was well "mis-informed".
  • thelionthelion
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    Sorry to bump this, but I've been looking for years and never found out:

    What's the name of the track that plays in Diamonds are Forever, when Bond is trying to escape the coffin? I remember it has chorus singing.

    Thanks in advance.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Could Eric Pohlmann have played Blofeld in YOLT and OHMSS? (Or was it ever considered and if not why?)

    I wonder about it and I am asking the question carefully, as I know great voice actors are not necessarily great actors. And his appearance may not have matched the voice. That said, I always thought that it was a great loss not having his sinister voice for Blofeld after TB. You could scar Donald Pleasence all you wanted, he was not nearly as menacing. Would Pohlmann have needed the scar at all? Telly Savalas was physically more menacing than Pleasence, but he also lacked the voice. But maybe Pohlmann would not have been a believable fighter against Lazenby.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I just noticed that Bond says to Fiona Volpe that he slept with her ''for King and Country''. Shouldn't it be for Queen and Country? I mean the Queen has reigned since the very first Bond novel.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    thelion wrote:
    Sorry to bump this, but I've been looking for years and never found out:

    What's the name of the track that plays in Diamonds are Forever, when Bond is trying to escape the coffin? I remember it has chorus singing.

    Thanks in advance.

    @thelion, it's called 'Slumber, inc', track 17 on the 2003 EMI CD.

  • 00Ed00Ed
    edited February 2013 Posts: 140
    Ludovico wrote:
    I just noticed that Bond says to Fiona Volpe that he slept with her ''for King and Country''. Shouldn't it be for Queen and Country? I mean the Queen has reigned since the very first Bond novel.

    I had never noticed that until the several mentions it has received in this thread. I checked the DVD, and sure enough, "King and Country." It must have been a slip of the tongue, but then how did it make it all the way to the final cut of the film? Strange.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    00Ed wrote:
    [quote="Ludovico"]I just noticed that Bond says to Fiona Volpe that he slept with her ''for King and Country''. Shouldn't it be for Queen and Country? I mean the Queen has reigned since the very first Bond novel.

    I had never noticed that until the several mentions it has received in this thread. I checked the DVD, and sure enough, "King and Country." It must have been a slip of the tongue, but then how did it make it all the way to the final cut of the film? Strange.[/quote]
    I said that a while back after having rewatched it since a while. It is a weird sounding delivery, like it was dubbed in, if I recall correctly.
  • 00130013
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    DarthDimi wrote:
    thelion wrote:
    Sorry to bump this, but I've been looking for years and never found out:

    What's the name of the track that plays in Diamonds are Forever, when Bond is trying to escape the coffin? I remember it has chorus singing.

    Thanks in advance.

    @thelion, it's called 'Slumber, inc', track 17 on the 2003 EMI CD.

    Yes, I heard that one on youtube sometime ago, but I can't find it now. I'll have to buy the album, which I think is totally worth it.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    00Ed wrote:
    [quote="Ludovico"]I just noticed that Bond says to Fiona Volpe that he slept with her ''for King and Country''. Shouldn't it be for Queen and Country? I mean the Queen has reigned since the very first Bond novel.

    I had never noticed that until the several mentions it has received in this thread. I checked the DVD, and sure enough, "King and Country." It must have been a slip of the tongue, but then how did it make it all the way to the final cut of the film? Strange.[/quote]

    In the French dubbing it was for Queen and Country.
  • thelionthelion
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    @DarthDimi and @0013, Sorry for only awnsering now, but thank you to you both. I was looking for the track for years!
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
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    I was halfway through a response to the @Hotmess query on License to Kill when it got cut off, but the reason it did poorly wasn't to do with it being too graphic, it was merely to do with the competition it had in the summer of 1989. There was a bevy of other big hit releases at the time when Bond '89 came out, and Dalton and Bond came a poor second I'm afraid

    Furthermore the incidents you suggested before such as Doctor No, and OHMSS, weren't macabre in any way or anything overly upsetting. Maybe you should go back and view up a little. License to Kill was the most graphic and grown up of all the releases at the time, and we never before saw Shark mutilations, or exploding heads, or people in cocaine grinders or impaled on forklifts for example

    Hope that helped you out
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited March 2013 Posts: 13,926
    He does have a scar on his right cheek, but I don't recall it continuing up over the eyebrow.
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    edited March 2013 Posts: 987
    According to the SMERSH photo file of James Bond in Ian Fleming's FRWL he has <i>a three inch scar showing whitely down the sunburned skin of his right cheek.</I>
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
    edited March 2013 Posts: 4,813
    Here's a question I'm almost embarrassed to ask because the answer is probably obvious:

    In Dr.No, when Miss Taro is turned over to the Superintendent, Bond says something like 'And by the way, be careful of her nail varnish'.
    I figure Bond was just mocking her because she made such a fuss about her nails being wet a few minutes ago, but have any of you considered that maybe Bond told them that because he suspected they were poison? I'm probably looking too deep into it but I thought I'd at least see what you guys thought.

    On the one hand, Bond mocks her and it's funny, but then the Superintendent certainly wouldn't have gotten the joke (just the audience would). What may make more sense is if Taro was planning to use those nails on Bond and he was literally warning the occupants of the car to watch out for her.

    So what do you guys think? Was it just a joke or a serious warning?
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    Master_Dahark wrote:
    Here's a question I'm almost embarrassed to ask because the answer is probably obvious:

    In Dr.No, when Miss Taro is turned over to the Superintendent, Bond says something like 'And by the way, be careful of her nail varnish'.
    I figure Bond was just mocking her because she made such a fuss about her nails being wet a few minutes ago, but have any of you considered that maybe Bond told them that because he suspected they were poison? I'm probably looking too deep into it but I thought I'd at least see what you guys thought.

    On the one hand, Bond mocks her and it's funny, but then the Superintendent certainly wouldn't have gotten the joke (just the audience would). What may make more sense is if Taro was planning to use those nails on Bond and he was literally warning the occupants of the car to watch out for her.

    So what do you guys think? Was it just a joke or a serious warning?

    That is an interesting theory. It could be either. Maybe those that have read the Fleming novel can give us some information on this?
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    edited March 2013 Posts: 987
    This entire sequence was not from the novel and created solely for the film, the quip about 'being careful of her nails' along with the whole seduction of Miss Taro and Dent's execution was used to highlight the cold, callous darker side of Bond's personality (particularly his intense dislike of traitorous and dishonorable people as referenced in the first book Casino Royale). The line was just a final cruel jibe for Taro's ears only.
  • AgentJamesBond007AgentJamesBond007 Vesper’s grave
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    TheHotMess wrote:
    If the deaths of Vesper and Tracy scar Bond emotionally for the rest of his life. Why does he continue to flirt with women and potentially put them in danger as well?

    Because they are nothing more than flings. No emotional feelings.
  • DarioOnatoppDarioOnatopp
    Posts: 40
    Here's something that's bugging me.

    In LALD, when Bond comes face to face with Kananga/Mr. Big, Kananga says "You've been picking at me like some kind of maggot. First, you go up to Harlem and kill one of the brothers."

    I couldn't recall Bond killing anyone while he was in Harlem so I went back and the only thing I can think of is one of the two men that took Bond into the back alley suffered a more serious head injury than was implied. Or am I missing something?
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited March 2013 Posts: 13,926
    It would appear Kananga is talking about one of these guys. Although, watching that scene again in slow mo doesn't clarify that either one of them died. The one walking in front with the gun ducks down away from the ladder- and in doing so it seems to miss his head, hitting his left arm which shields him. The guy walking behind tries to duck, but he appears to cop it square on the head with the ladder. I would expect this to be a fatal blow- however, he then gets back up, either holding his trench coat or possibly his chest as if he got hit there. Who knows, really? Perhaps one of them suffered from internal bleeding.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I don't think anyone answered to that one:

    I always Wonder how Silva and Mathis worked for MI6, as they are obviously not British nationals?
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Ludovico wrote:
    I don't think anyone answered to that one:

    I always Wonder how Silva and Mathis worked for MI6, as they are obviously not British nationals?

    I thought Mathis was just a separate contact that was working with MI6 to help Bond in beating and capturing Le Chiffre? Perhaps I'm wrong. As for Silva, I'm not sure; perhaps it one of those things you just go with, just like Tom Hardy working for the CIA in 'This Means War'?
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    Mathis was a French intelligence agent in the novel. Can't remember them ever mentioning it in the film but I'm assuming he was still a French spy, just helping MI6 (or did they mention him working for MI6?).

    I think the only reason Silva wasn't British was because they wanted Javier Bardem in the movie. Can't think of any other reason.

    Still, it's not impossible for either of them to work for MI6 (could've become British citizens before becoming secret agents). Just more unlikely than somebody from the UK.
  • TuuliaTuulia
    edited March 2013 Posts: 2,081
    Ludovico wrote:
    I don't think anyone answered to that one:

    I always Wonder how Silva and Mathis worked for MI6, as they are obviously not British nationals?

    Why "obviously not"?

    I need to watch CR and QOS again soon - like thelivingroyale I also can't remember if Mathis worked for (and not just with) MI6 in them. Reading books can confuse a person... :P and so I'm thinking of him as a French guy.

    As for Silva... nope, I can't see how it's obvious he (or rather his previous incarnation, employed by MI6) wouldn't be a British national. You can't mean the name or the accent, surely?
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Tuulia wrote:
    Ludovico wrote:
    I don't think anyone answered to that one:

    I always Wonder how Silva and Mathis worked for MI6, as they are obviously not British nationals?

    Why "obviously not"?

    I need to watch CR and QOS again soon - like thelivingroyale I also can't remember if Mathis worked for (and not just with) MI6 in them. Reading books can confuse a person... :P and so I'm thinking of him as a French guy.

    As for Silva... nope, I can't see how it's obvious he (or rather his previous incarnation, employed by MI6) wouldn't be a British national. You can't mean the name or the accent, surely?

    Because of name and accent yes. I should have said ''unlikely''. But like thelivingroyale said, it is possible that they became British citizens before working for MI6. Or both might have had one British parent, which would give them British citizenship and right of abode. Or they could have been born in a British controlled territory, or certain parts of the Commonwealth, which would make them British citizens, or at least give them the right of abode.
  • TuuliaTuulia
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    ^^ Well, "unlikely" sounds a bit better than "obviously not". ;) One can't make assumptions on somebody's citizenship based on name or accent, though.

    Of course, having a "British name" and British accent wouldn't make anyone a British citizen, either.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    edited March 2013 Posts: 14,824
    Tuulia wrote:
    ^^ Well, "unlikely" sounds a bit better than "obviously not". ;) One can't make assumptions on somebody's citizenship based on name or accent, though.

    Of course, having a "British name" and British accent wouldn't make anyone a British citizen, either.

    Of course not, but still, the link is then more obvious. I wonder what tights them to the UK and gave them enough legitimacy to become MI6 agents. I am Canadian and all competences aside I don't think I could qualify.
  • TuuliaTuulia
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    ^^ But you are Canadian - not British, so...? :)
    What do you mean by legitimacy in this context? Legitimacy doesn't follow from a name or accent here, does it?

  • MrBondMrBond Station S
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    Isn't Mathis just a contact who is working for some sort of station in Europe. Just like Kerim
    Bey did (Station T). And Silva, well he could've borned in another country but perhaps moved to the UK in his teens?
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