When TND was released,we were talking about bond in my local pub of the time. The landlord had strong memories of watching Dr No at the cinema when it came out and how “I’d never seen a film with a pre title sequence before!”
2 Likes
I remember once seeing a list of ‘Best Bond Gadgets’ that included the flamethrower aftershave from Live And Let Die. This of course was not a gadget, just an aerosol and a lit cigar making an improvised weapon.
4 Likes
To kill a very obvious, fake, rubber snake.
4 Likes
Always a danger in a wet bathroom
4 Likes
And also:
… Speckled Kingsnakes (Lampropeltis getula holbrooki ), one of which threatens Bond in his bathroom about half an hour in. Now I’ve kept two speckled kings, and while they do have a tendency to chew on your fingers, they’re quite harmless; Bond’s dispatching of said snake with an aerosol fireball is wholly gratuitous. It wasn’t even all that big a kingsnake.
http://www.mcwetboy.net/snakesonfilm/2009/08/live_and_let_die.php
2 Likes
Similar to the “danger” Bond was in with the tarantula in Dr No.
2 Likes
Tom Mankiewicz took Conan Doyle at his word I assume, as that “vent” that opens to let out a speckled Kingsnake to poison the unfortunate person in the room is the exact “solution” to The Speckled Band.
Doyle’s lackadaisical approach to research has been much noted.
1 Like
Baritsu…
1 Like
And at one point forgetting Watson’s first name.
2 Likes
I thought it was “doctor”?(•‿•)
1 Like
Doctor who?
I plead guilty, not of getting Bond wrong, but of getting the English language wrong because of Bond…
I am not an native speaker of English, and until WAY too late in life I honestly believed that ‘octopussy’ was the right English word for an octopus.
6 Likes
Don’t worry. It took some time for me to find out why Pussy Galore was such a dirty name.
5 Likes
Being 9 years old at my first Bond movie, I didn’t get why the audience laughed at “Agent XXX.”
Love this franchise.
4 Likes
I was 11 when I first saw The World Is Not Enough in the theaters. It took me a long time, to realize that the final line of the film: “I thought Christmas only comes once a year” was one of the dirtiest lines in the franchise. Though, perhaps more embarrassing, I was 16 when I first played Everything or Nothing and it took me a good 5 years at least before I put together that the final line of the game was even dirtier: “call it a hint of bigger things to come.”
3 Likes
I was at uni playing The James Bond Drinking Game when we all realised at the same point (when Rog meets her at the back of the Venini factory) the implications of ‘Dr Goodhead!’ The look on his face when he says it😂
2 Likes
The old site had a thread of jokes in Bond films we didn’t get as kids that dawned on us as adults. One I would add to that is Tracy in OHMSS while driving her Cougar in the race track:
“I hope my big end can stand up to this.”
4 Likes
AVTAK - 'I’m an early riser, myself…"
2 Likes
Also, AVTAK: “I’ll fill you in later, Moneypenny.”
2 Likes