Not to mention, Safin is basically a rebooted Dr. Noah…
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Hey, no joking about CR67 when I’m around here.
I had hoped so much that we’d see Bond playing Debussy on piano at his Jamaican home…
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“What’s the time?” M.
“Time for you to die,” Elektra.
The World Is Not Enough.
“Do you know what time it is?”
“What?”
“Time to die,” Nomi to Oruchev.
No Time to Die.
The bells chiming in Matera over the Aston Martin and those at the end of OHMSS. It’s almost a spiritual sequel.
Also, Madeleine’s mother dead on the couch looks the same pose as Felix Leiter’s wife in Licence to Kill. Or Felix in the body bag. I doubt it was intentional foreshadowing, but fun to speculate.
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Just realised something…
Blofeld’s signature cat is a Persian, notoriously one of the hairiest breeds of cats.
What is the opposite of a Persian in terms of fur/aspect?
A Sphynx, like Q’s cats!
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Or Mr. Bigglesworth…
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Exactly! 
Blofeld’s cat was originally a Turkish Angora:nerd_face: 
Possibly Spectre’s greatest failing was giving Bloferhauser a Persian.
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Remember what we see and her moments before we first see Mathilde?
Just found this (the joke is at the end):
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Everything is connected.
Watched Dr No this morning. Safin behind the curved window in Madeleine’s childhood home very reminiscent of Dr. No’s glass curtains in the guest rooms.
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It reminded me of Madonna on the cover of MDNA.
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We are no longer allowed to discuss Madonna and James Bond together.
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When Safin smashes the poison blood on Bond’s face, it’s just like the female photographer scratching Quarrel with her flash bulb in Doctor No.
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I guess I’ll Die Another Day.
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Saffin clearly had some Dr. No traits, I especially liked that it Iooked like he survived after being shot where his heart should be in the beginning.
I am also wondering if Primo is supposed to be like Emilio Largo. He seems to be high up in Spectre, has one eye, and the name Primo is like Number 1, which was his number in the Thunderball novel.
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They didn’t use the numbers in Spectre did they?
Also, in the novel, those numbers change constantly which is how we get the odd pairing of Largo being Number 1 and Blofeld being Number 2.
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Another one I just thought of, they used We Have All The Time In The World for the end credits which was also used for the end credits of another Daniel Craig film, The Jacket. That one used the Iggy Pop version
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The yellow life raft - a clear callback to TB and YOLT.
Electro-magnetic watch - different function, but inspired by LALD (I wonder how effective it would be at killing nanobots - could that be why Q stopped receiving telemetry from Bond’s second round of smart blood?).
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