Tally ho, reference hunters

Films No Time To Die (Spoilers)
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Presumably a homage to every other Bond’s last film that there’s at least a sideline in some sort of biological fiddle-faddle

OHMSS - Virus Omega (Lazenby doomed from the off by the choice of film; if they’d given him Live and Let Die, he’d have made nine).
Diamonds are Forever - whatever it is they’re doing to quasi-clone Blofeld, that soon-forgotten thing.
A View to a Kill - the remarkably subtle Dr Karl Nazi.
Licence to Kill - Milton Krest’s fish (OK, that’s blown out of all proportion, but it’s Krest, so…).
Die Another Day - the DNA replacement therapy… unlikeliness.
No Time To Die - the DNA targeting non-therapy… nanobot… unlikeliness.

Frankly, if you’re the next Bond and you’re reading this rubbish (which I know you are - hi), and then you read the script (…script…ha!) and it’s bio-anything - you’re basically doomed, missus.

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While watching that scene with Q giving specific instructions while Bond presses every button on the console I did think “The Man With The Golden Gun”. I don’t believe for a second it was a deliberate reference (why would they??), but at least we were spared the image of Bond opening the shutters by pressing a big red button with his arse

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Chalk that up as a loss.

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24

I saw paintings of both Judi and Robert Brown. Imagine Bernard Lee must have been there as well, but if it was I missed it

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Yes, was there to the left of Gary M - but then as Brown M regularly invited Gogol to his office for drinks ‘n’ nibbles, he was to the left of everyone.

Bang goes my theory that he and The Dench were the same M. Hey ho.

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The title sequence seemed like a gold mine of references. The dots at the beginning emulating Dr No. The hourglass being a nod to OHMSS. Pretty sure I saw a Thunderball-esq SCUBA girl at one point. Will have to watch it a few more times to find more.

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Also spotted that, and assumed that when Madeleine initially said to Bond: “There’s something I need to tell you”, when they got into the DB5 to escape, that was also about the pregnancy.

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Oh, and I thought

James-Bond-a-detail-from--004

:laughing:

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Craig and Connery having different touches…

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It’s all in Craig’s little finger…

Anyway, it seems when Q inquires about the wherefrom of the data stick and then puts it into the ‘sandbox’ it picks up some criticism they got for shoddy security (read: writing) in SKYFALL.

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I thought it a reference to it having literally passed through the digestive tract of the pantomime scientist, and I’ll stick (b-bm) with that theory.

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I thought that too

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BTW, has anyone spotted MGW?

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M saying “shut up Q!” like in TMWTGG.

Not really a reference but a nice throw back to a clearly very irritated M when his Quartermaster is rambling on…

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I think he’s visible to the left of screen when Bond and Paloma enter the Cuban party.

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Ooo, very good. I hadn’t considered this!

Also, re the hand on the abdomen, I did not notice this but love that it’s there and love that it is subtle enough to miss on first viewing.

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I also caught that tummy touch by Madeleine. I immediately figured she was pregnant. Also, were there dedications to Rog and Sean and I just missed them? Or were they not there?

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No, not there.

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The film was locked before Sean passed away.

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The 1957 Bel Air Paloma drives into the scaffolding is from Dr. No. I only spotted this because I just bought the Johnny Lightning car

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