DAD/YOLT: The H.M.S. Tenby Connection
Matt Sherman
Did you hear the "Ipcress File" sound effect in DAD? How about the
submarine capture from TSWLM or gunbarrel noise from Dr. No?
In which two 007s does Bond dryly say, "Point taken."? One is DAD!
Where does Gregg Wilson, Michael Wilson's son, appear in DAD?
In what Bond film does M SAY "License Revoked!"? It's DAD!
In what two Bonds are Count Lippe's car featured? One is DAD!
...And did you notice all the cars in Korea that were updated Bond
cars? ...And Michael Wilson's two cameos onscreen...in DAD?
The list of insider references, stolen sound effects and movie homage
moments is way up now over 175 (!) ...check it out...and get to the
bottom of this post to check out the twenty insider jokes and bizarre
references the ng found!
For Die Another Day, all 19 previous Bonds were intentionally given
homage with visual or verbal references by EON. . . look at how many
the ng has found to date. . . How many can we find? How many were not
meant to be there but by coincidence seem to be pulled from another
film?
Dr. No: Bikini plus white belt and diving knife worn by Jinx Johnson
(and Ursula Andress).
Dr. No #2: Wellington's Arch in London is featured in Gustav Graves'
London scene. The Duke of Wellington's portrait was stolen in the
1960's and featured in Dr. No's headquarters as one of EON's
first-ever insider jokes.
Dr. No #3: Inside the Cuban clinic is placed a bizarre sound effect
that duplicates the tinkling noises of Dr. No's gun barrel sequence.
Dr. No #4: Bond is sent for at a club where is a member when MI-6
"finds him" in both films.
Dr. No #5: The melting/explosion of the Ice Palace is highly
reminiscent of the collapse/explosion of Dr. No's headquarters.
From Russia With Love: The Cigar Factory scene is reminiscent of the
rug bazaar.
FRWL #2: "Raoul's" character and dialogue, age and looks, office HQ
and association with MI-6 are perhaps the closest to that of Kerim Bey
of any subsequent Bond film. A very likeable supporting character.
FRWL #3: Bond sniffs unappreciatively at Rosa Klebb's knife shoe,
inside Quartermaster's lab.
FRWL #4: Bond ejects the dagger from his old attaché just before he
sniffs Rosa's shoe.
FRWL #4: Bond is filmed during a (potential) liaison with an opposing
agent.
FRWL #5: Two women fight together in DAD as they did memorably in FRWL
and more briefly in GoldenEye.
FRWL #6: A trick suitcase is used against the villain and also to help
Bond escape from capture.
FRWL #7: Jinx: "My friends call me Jinx." Bond: "Mine call me James
Bond." Taken from when Bond meets Tatiana Romanova.
FRWL #8: In the ice palace sequence, there is a game board
(referencing the chess match).
Goldfinger: Bond sets the timer in the plastic explosive in the
pre-credits as in Goldfinger. The explosive is clearly labeled for our
edification as Goldfinger-type "C-4!"
Goldfinger #2: Bond arises from the water in a black scuba outfit,
presumably a Goldfinger in-joke added to the C4 as there is no need
for a surfer to use scuba equipment.
Goldfinger #3: Bond's Aston uses an ejector seat, the fourth such
device if we include not only Goldfinger but the ejection from the
helicopter in GoldenEye and the clever ejector seat move on the
airplane in Tomorrow Never Dies!
Goldfinger #4: Jinx is subject to a laser table. Note the clever
script lines about her unwillingness to talk, which is why she should
die on the laser table! The DAD script is adorable! How can you not
like this film?
Goldfinger #5: All of DAD clearly is an homage Goldfinger in visual
style, parsing down of dialogue to minimum as needed to move plot,
zippy and quirky soundtrack (remember Vic Flick strumming a banjo in
Goldfinger?), etc. Hey, if you are gong to remake a film 17 times, do
it right the 17th time. Hooray!
Goldfinger #6: Pussy Galore struggled to pilot a plane during Bond's
fight aboard the same plane, as does Jinx in DAD.
Goldfinger #7: Bond is a member of a club where he pretends to be
scheduled for a lesson. He arranges a brief meeting with the main
villain and they plan to play the club's sport for cash. Bond is just
behind the villain in score (as in Ian Fleming's source novel
Goldfinger and the DAD film) when the stakes become elevated by Bond's
introduction of an item the villain smuggles. Both combatants play
hard and a bit dirty until Bond triumphs.
Goldfinger #8: Bond: "You're joking!" Q: "…I never joke about my
work."
Goldfinger #9: Q's famous "…Pay attention and this will only take
another 90 minutes or so" has been cleverly given homage in a nice
moment by "You can probably shoot through the manual in just a few
minutes."
Goldfinger #10: The window is shot out of Graves' plane in a moment
similar to the Goldfinger climax with Bond threatened by a
depressurizing plane.
Thunderball: Bond used Q's "rebreather" in both films, discarding them
after use onscreen in both films, swimming this time "beneath the ice"
(pun intended), which reminds viewers of Largo's covered swimming pool
in terms of a confined space.
Thunderball #2: After he's distracted the guards and jumped through
the window to move around them at the Cuban clinic, Bond goes through
a patient's room, saying "Good day" in Spanish and lifting a grape.
The whole Cuban clinic is an homage to Thunderball in a pleasant way.
Thunderball #3: Jet pack appears in Q's lab. Bond: "Does this still
work?"
Thunderball #4: The audio cue as Bond exits the water next to the
Yacht Club is lifted directly from the Thunderball score.
Thunderball #5: Bond: "Yes, of course."
Thunderball #6: The "fast car Bond needs" in Cuba should look
familiar. It is make/model as driven by Count Lippe in Thunderball.
You Only Live Twice: Jinx sliding down a cable within the Ice Palace
is right out of the ninja attack from that film.
YOLT #2: MI6 uses the same kind of secret headquarter the Japanese
Secret service uses…a subway station.
YOLT #3: Little Nellie can be seen in the background of Q's lab.
YOLT #4: Scenes of the Icarus unfolding in space are shown on screens
in the Ice Palace…how? Was there another satellite filming Icarus?
Shades of an insider joke on YOLT.
YOLT #5: The name of the ship Bond is on when he is "debriefed" by
MI-6…the HMS Tenby.
YOLT #6: Both films display/use Japanese swords.
Casino Royale: Bond escapes a firing squad at the last moment than
jumps right back into trouble ala Woody Allen.
O.H.M.S.S.: The Cuban clinic is akin to Blofeld's Piz Gloria with its
eerie, hypnotic voices instructions gene patients in tutoring them
with new identities and languages.
O.H.M.S.S. #2: Jinx leaves Bond in an empty bed, as Tracy did in the
earlier film.
O.H.M.S.S. #3: The four-note guitar backing from O.H.M.S.S. is clearly
heard during the chase in through the Cuban clinic.
O.H.M.S.S. #4: Bond wades through relics of former missions.
O.H.M.S.S. #5: Graves asks Frost, "What would I do without you?" or
the same line previously asked of M and Bond to Moneypenny. Note that
most of the homage lines are delivered/edited with a quick dramatic
pause for an extra "script beat" before they are delivered onscreen.
O.H.M.S.S. #6: Bond is seen inside his office, and in a reverse of
leaving MI-6 in the O.H.M.S.S. scene, he is working right after his
reinstatement to active duty in the DAD version.
O.H.M.S.S. #7: "Saved by the bell" and its rings are perhaps to the
very noisy fight Bond has with a henchman amongst the bells near the
Piz Gloria? Note that in O.H.M.S.S. it almost sounds like the Bond
theme is being played as bells' sound effects have been added to for
the track!
O.H.M.S.S. #8: The windshield-breaking move where Bond rescues Jinx by
disrupting the Aston's glass may be a cue from the death of Tracey.
O.H.M.S.S. #9: Gustav's diamond mine headquarters as seen through his
filled with greenery, glass-paneled office, looks MUCH like Blofeld's
biological lab as seen through Blofeld's glass-paneled office filled
with greenery!
O.H.M.S.S. #10: The abbreviation "OHMSS" is written on a CD on
Moneypenny's desk as she types a report at the end of the film.
O.H.M.S.S. #11: Bond escapes from an "avalanche".
O.H.M.S.S #12. Speed-up/slow-down editing with sounds effects attached
plus crash-cutting/Peter Hunt style editing (eliminating all
establishing shots not pertinent to the action) used to great effect
in film. "Crash cutting" would include when Bond used the ice car's
parachute to knock off a motorcyclist from his bike... yet the
audience was not delayed to the action watching Bond set in place or
even retrieve the parachute beforehand. Peter Hunt borrowed this style
of action film editing from the French New Wave movement's "Jump
Cuts", forever changing action films.
Diamonds Are Forever #1: Glass floor of Gustav Graves' Ice Palace main
room reminiscent of Whyte House apartment glass floor displaying Baja,
California oil rig and other Willard Whyte concerns.
DAF #2: Bond smuggles diamonds by Bond in both films. In both films,
the villains illegally secure the diamonds before they are smuggled
between countries.
DAF #3: Icarus diamond-laser satellite reminiscent in design and use
of Blofeld's diamond-laser satellite. (Both satellites super-heat
stuff by harnessing the sun's reflected/empowering rays until the
items explode.)
DAF #4: Icarus is a diamond-based laser (as it appears to bear
diamonds aboard its "reflector")
DAF #5: Icarus financed by diamond smuggling/the diamond cabal.
DAF #6: Scorpions in titles and Bond's tortures bring back Mr. Wint
and Mr. Kidd.
DAF #6: (They picked one of my favorite 007 films to homage
continually! Hey, I have my reasons why I like it!) The Cuban clinic
scene mimics DAF's opener with the masked doctors seeking to alter
both a villain's (Graves') and a henchman's (Zao's) facial features.
It wasn't merely Telly Savalas' Blofeld they were altering to Charles
Gray's features but Blofeld's doppelganger henchmen, too. Think about
it. Or if you like, "Angelo" becomes "Derval" as in Thunderball.
DAF #7: As 007 reads the Gustav Graves feature in "High Life" magazine
on the flight from Havana to London, you can clearly see the words,
"Diamonds Are Forever" as a subheading at the bottom of that page!
DAF #8: Both films feature diamonds smuggled away from South Africa.
DAF #9: Graves delivers the line, "DIAMONDS ARE FOR EVERy one."
DAF #10: Hovercrafts appear in both films.
DAF #11: Bond's car is clearly seen on two wheels just before it turns
over in DAD. Publicity shots of the Aston "on two wheels" DAF-style
were used in magazines worldwide.
DAF #12: The sonic agitator ring recalls Q's slot machine/magnetic
ring from DAF.
Live and Let Die: Bond prominently enjoys a good cigar ala Roger
Moore.
LALD #2: A black American agent sleeps with Bond before he comes to
understand her true identity/allegiance. (Jinx Johnson's strong
character reminded me strongly of the delightful and strong in
real-life Gloria Hendry.)
LALD #3: A woman in the title sequence "melts".
LALD #4: A powerful magnet is used during a fight, as in LALD and
TSWLM.
LALD #5: Rows of explosions demolish a vegetated area.
LALD #6: Bond uses the same revolver he used on the island of St.
Monique.
The Man With The Golden Gun: The turning mirrors in the Cuban DNA lab
are right out of Scaramanga's "Island Fun House".
TMWTGG #2: Bond's car flips over and back upright again in DAD as in
TMWTGG.
TMWTGG #3: Bond's ring is a "sonic agitator". The "solex agitator"
drove TMWTGG's plot.
TMWTGG #4: Moon disables Bond's airborne vehicle, designed to
transport him to non-Communist territory after he kills the villain,
with a big gun he wishes to demonstrate for Bond's benefit.
TMWTGG #5: MI-6's ship is in Hong Kong harbor, nearby the sunken Queen
Elizabeth of TMWTGG.
TMWTGG #6: The copper bullet around Zao's neck containing four
conflict diamonds might be taken for a golden bullet homage. Bond had
to snatch both bullets during a fight scene.
TMWTGG #7: Jinx's "Off! Off!" are reminiscent of the scene with Bond
and Goodnight while Bond was almost cut in two by Scaramanga's laser.
TMWTGG #8: Bond retrieves an item, in this case a diamond, from a
woman's navel.
The Spy Who Loved Me: Ice Palace reminiscent of Stromberg's Atlantis
in terms of architecture.
TSWLM #2: Cars are upended and crash vertically... near innocent
workers... for a laugh for the viewing movie audience.
TSWLM #3: The same sound effect is cues for the Icarus laser as for
the submarines being "gobbled" in TSWLM.
TSWLM #4: Union jack parachute as worn by Gustav Graves.
TSWLM #5: Bond's stolen skimobile is quite similar in design to the
now famous first ever jet ski from TSWLM.
Moonraker: Swordfight with Gustav Graves reminiscent of other
marvelous 007 swordfight, with Chang inside Venetian glassworks. Both
fights include errant slashes that topple and shatter glass cases.
Moonraker #2: Colonel Moon's waterfall "death fall" may be an homage
to Jaws' waterfall "death fall" in Brazil Glastron Carlson sequence at
Iguaçu Falls. Watch the camera angle and speeds in both sequences.
Moonraker #3: Graves (somewhat similar to the MR novel character of
Hugo Drax), having just tried to slash Bond in their fencing duel,
refers to it as "good sport", as Bond commented on the "good sport"
after Drax has just tried to have him killed on the hunting field.
Moonraker #4: A baddie seeks to send Bond down without a parachute
(and also as in YOLT).
Moonraker #5: Bond surfaces in a bubbling pool of water surrounded by
much interior vegetation, similar to the scene with the water python
in Drax's headquarters.
Moonraker #6: Both movies were to have bad guys named "Chang".
For Your Eyes Only: Madonna both appears in film and sings title song,
the second such double appearance, as Sheena Easton also appeared in
her Bond film, over Maurice Binder's titles.
FYEO #2: Bond dismounts a biker across the chest with a parachute and
flips two others through the air with his car. Reminiscent of bikers'
dismounts and deaths in FYEO Cortina D'Ampezzo scenes.
FYEO #3: Bond throws the parking break as in GoldenEye than rides away
backward. Melina shifted her transmission and sent the "getaway car"
also in reverse in FYEO.
FYEO #4: The scene as Bond hangs onto the ice cliff resembles the
monastery climb. In both films, a tying rope slips and Bond drops
some distance further down the cliff.
Octopussy: Bede AcroStar MiniJet may be seen in Q's lab.
Octopussy #2: Alligator Mini-Sub hangs alongside the Bede Jet!
Octopussy #3: Bond notices he needs to "borrow" the sunglasses of the
South African smuggler to complete his impersonation, a tip of the cap
to Bond needing a last-minute moustache to complete his doppelganger
bit in the Octopussy teaser.
Octopussy #4: Bond cases and sneaks onto a mysterious island HQ just
offshore after binoculars are used.
Octopussy #5: Q's old "rope trick" is lying beneath Q's table
onscreen! Apparently also an insider joke as Q is still "…Having
trouble keeping it up…"!
Octopussy #6: A moderate Communist resists a hard line Communist
wishing to turn a superweapon on the West's border in preparation for
a massive ground invasion.
Octopussy #7: Bond pulls the cord on another's parachute.
Never Say Never Again: Bond finds out in a pointed manner that a woman
he is bed with wields a knife.
NSNA #2: Bond throws a jar with a liquid specimen at the magnet to
activate it. A urine specimen was thrown to dismantle another
henchman's attack in NSNA.
NSNA #3: "Bond meets Jinx" scene due to its locale (waterside with a
drink in hand) and overt dialogue scene had a very similar look and
feel to the scene when Bond meets Fatima Blush in NSNA. "Fatima: I
made you all wet." Bond: "Yes, but my martini is still dry."
A View To A Kill: Lawrence Makoare plays "Mr. Kil," a "name to die
for." (Bond was meeting Mr. Kil with a view to killing him later!)
AVTAK #2: Bond glacier sky surfing sequence is reminiscent of
"California Girls" snowboard bit in the AVTAK teaser. In both films,
Bond dismantles a crashed, stolen sit-down snow ski to create a
surfboard. In both cases, he is considered to be both "skiing" and
"surfing". Think about it.
AVTAK #3: On the floor on the right-hand side of Q's lab door, you can
see Q's robot dog snooping device!
AVTAK #4: Bond is suspended "over a cliff on a cable" much like the
Russian in the Siberian pre-teaser sequence.
AVTAK #5: Max Zorin and Gustav Graves both plan to watch their
climatic destruction from the front windows of their aircraft
headquarters.
AVTAK #6: Gustav Graves is reminiscent of Max Zorin. Both men are
fairly young, rich (though his fortune and opportunities are
"inherited" from his Communist support base), he has a quick, bad
temper and psychotic/sociopathic conversational manner, and breaks
with his former Communist allies. Zorin's Pegasus colt was "Ithacus"
(mythological suitor of Penelope). Graves' satellite is "Icarus"
(mythological flier burned going close to the sun).
AVTAK #7: The camera lingers on the medal Graves steals from his
father as the now "British" Graves treasures his father's award. Bond
is awarded the Order of Lenin in AVTAK and the pseudo-medals prepared
for both films are similar in appearance.
The Living Daylights: The giant Russian cargo plane with the huge exit
in back, and several vehicles that exit the rear, at least one of
which contains a parachute, is one obvious reference.
TLD #2: Beach opening credits resemble TLD's opener as in both the
audience views set traps for tanks/armored vehicles.
TLD #3: An exciting Aston Martin car chase through ice and snow with
numerous gadgets are featured in both DAD and its predecessor.
TLD #4: M warns the assembled team that Bond and Johnson are
unreachable "…IN THE MIDDLE OF A Korean AIRBASE." Bond, of course,
admonished Kara that they were perhaps hopelessly stuck "…In the
middle of a Russian airbase."
TLD #5: A bust/head of the villain is displayed in that villain's
headquarters.
License To Kill: Bond is released from active duty and purposed for
quarantine/debriefing when he directly and angrily disobeys M then
escapes MI-6 to seek revenge.
LTK #2: Working as an MI-6 sniper, Bond is about to kill his quarry
when his shot is blocked/interrupted. As also in the "Living
Daylights" film and original Fleming short story where Bond hesitates
to kill a woman, perhaps Bond hesitates in DAD because Miranda Frost
enters his sights and he cannot therefore "see" Moon clearly.
LTK #3: A female agent conceals a small pistol in a "weeping eye"
holster (concealed below her dress).
LTK #4: Jinx trounces Frost with a knife to the heart and says later,
"I think I broke her heart." Sanchez has a knife taken to the heart of
Lupe's lover with a heart quip, too.
LTK #5: M says, "LICENSE REVOKED." The controversial working title to
License To Kill!
GoldenEye: We see Bond's laser watch cut an icy semi-circle in an
almost exact duplicate of the moves from the GoldenEye teaser sequence
and the escape from Janus' train.
GoldenEye #2: Bond's struggle to right the falling helicopter is
almost a straight mimic of Bond's attempts to right his plane in the
opener of GoldenEye ("C'mon c'mon".) Both times Bond is successful in
averting disaster, of course.
GoldenEye #3: Both movies feature villains disfigured facially by an
explosion set by Bond.
GoldenEye #4: The great expense of damages to Aston Martins and
Ferraris raised eyebrows when the Xenia/Bond car chase was filmed.
Xenia's car was originally to have been a yellow Ferrari. A yellow
Ferrari and a red Countach (rather similar to an old Lotus) are
trashed during the final scenes of DAD.
GoldenEye #5: Bond begins his teaser mission alongside an MI-6
colleague.
GoldenEye #6: Jinx sets a timer for a bomb at the Cuban clinic for
three minutes!
GoldenEye #7: Bond tells Q in a dry manner, "Point taken..." after
touching Rosa's shoe in Q's lab. The same quip is delivered to M's
"…Sexist, misogynist dinosaur" speech in GoldenEye.
GoldenEye #8: The large golden-irised eye of the GoldenEye credits is
clearly seen twice during the DAD titles.
GoldenEye #9: A bullet hurtles through the gun barrel in a "shot" from
GoldenEye's titles opener.
GoldenEye #10: Q's car again has "…All the usual refinements."
GoldenEye #11: A "hand identigraph" allows a villain access in both
films to the secret satellite guidance center.
GoldenEye #12: The purplish lightning of Graves' glove, the
paper/debris strewn about the plane during the climax fight and even
the rumbling Icarus shockwaves themselves through Korean territory are
very close visually to the destruction onscreen caused by the
GoldenEye satellite.
GoldenEye #13: Bond and Jinx come up inside a level of Graves' plane
by lifting a plate just as Bond and 006 did in the GoldenEye teaser.
Moments later, they pass one of the GoldenEye gas canisters (near the
Ferrari)! A few moments later, Jinx drops from ceiling inside one
level aboard Graves' plane while pursuing the pilot where toilet paper
and accessories are stored. Like Bond, she "…Had to stop in the
bathroom".
GoldenEye #14: Jinx's disrobe to throw off the Cuban guards reminds us
of Xenia's revealing outfit and strip down in GoldenEye.
GoldenEye #15: Zao's car spins around and about in an almost identical
scene to that with Xenia's Ferrari.
GoldenEye #16: Both films feature the villain's "death" in the
pre-credits sequence, but later we discover they survived under a new
identity.
Tomorrow Never Dies: Jinx's cable and leather outfit are an almost
direct lift of Wai Lin's. Note that Miranda Frost later comments on
"Jinx's tailor!". This one is too good not to be true.
TND #2: An expatriate foreigner who is now a recognized member of
British high society is the main villain, as in TWINE as well! In
GoldenEye, the other of the four Brosnan Bonds, the villain is an
expatriate "Englishman" (Although Trevelyan is technically a Lienz
Cossack who passes himself off as an Englishman and then as a Russian
– note Ourumov's surprise when Bond tells him Trevelyan's true
identity)!
TND #3: Bond studies wall art for a few moments to discern where he
can reveal a villain's secret supplies/room in both Carver's Hamburg
HQ and the Cuban clinic.
TND #4: Bond hefts and uses a square glass ashtray for destruction in
both films. The ashtrays seem to be nearly identical. Someone check
the TND DVD.
TND #5: The car chases in both films go up and down a circular run and
both end when a car crashes through a wall. Note the height of both
barrier walls in both films as they are nearly identical.
TND #6: Bond provides air mouth-to-mouth for Jinx as he did Wai Lin
after henchmen plan to drown the women.
TND #7: The fiery explosions behind M as she speaks are eerily similar
and perhaps even lifted in homage directly from TND's teaser
explosion. In both cases, M is asking Charles Robinson, et al,
regarding Bond's whereabouts.
TND #8: Bond's descent along Graves' geodesic dome mimics Wai Lin's
cable walk even in its body posturing.
TND #9: Villains in both films launch private-invite publicity parties
to reveal their satellite capabilities. Graves plans to "…Change your
world" while Carver seeks "…World domination."
TND #10: Jinx knifes an assailant in the throat, similar to a TND
deleted scene where Wai Lin was to throw a Shuriken into a guard's
throat.
TND #11: Bond uses a remote control car.
The World Is Not Enough: Icarus was the son of Daedalus in Greek
mythology. A father and son fly too close to the sun and are
burned/fall to their deaths. Colonel Moon and his father die aboard a
plane that uses sunlight as weaponry... Jinx turns the DAD plane
toward the "sunbeam" before father and son die aboard the craft...
Greek mythology as Bond plot. Reminiscent of "Elektra" King (daughter
who slays father for Greek mythology as 007 plot). Also, Janus,
two-faced god of Roman mythology is a simile for Alec Trelveyan's
two-sided face in GoldenEye.
TWINE #2: David Arnold's "love theme" for the final minute of DAD
lifts straight from TWINE's romantic theme/theme song. David Arnold
also gives homage O.H.M.S.S. and another half-dozen of John Barry's
Bond scores in pleasant ways in DAD. Especially prominent besides
TWINE are cues from THUNDERBALL, YOLT and O.H.M.S.S.
TWINE #3: Jinx shares an apple with Bond as Elektra shared a cube of
ice in the earlier Purvis/Wade written film. The scriptwriters' homage
to "ice" in DAD is duly noted.
TWINE #4: Jinx faces drowning and beats the door hoping to be rescued,
than later asks Bond why he waited so long to save her. Bond pounded
the airlock window in the TWINE submarine in the same manner as his
air supply ran low.
TWINE #5: The "fire woman" of TWINE's poster and book campaigns
returns (sort of) in Kleinman's DAD titles.
TWINE #6: A female ally of MI-6 turns out as traitor using sex to
manipulate/blind Bond.
TWINE #7: Jinx's dive backwards is an "I can top this!" reference to
Bond's spectacular high dive near the Zhukovsky submarine.
TWINE #8: Frost, now converted openly from good girl to bad girl above
the Korean demilitarized zone, appears to Jinx in tube top and shorts
similar to Denise Richards' TWINE appearance in the nuclear
dismantling DMZ.
TWINE #9: After straining to pull himself using Graves' parachute to
shore and to a safe landing, Bond quickly stretches out an arm and
shoulder, as he injured himself in the TWINE pre-credits sequence!
TWINE #10: Bond dives over Graves during the swordfight just like he
dove and rolled through a closing door during the shootout with
Renard's crew.
TWINE #11: As Bond dives Moon's flamethrower on the hovercraft, the
shot looks remarkably like the duck from the bomb in KGB headquarters
used to "assassinate" Zhukovsky.
TWINE #12: Both films feature geodesic domes.
Ian Fleming's Resource Material: Bond's cover as "James Bond,
Ornithologist" and his reading "Birds Of The West Indies" (as written
by James Bond!) onscreen.
Ian Fleming's Casino Royale: The Miranda Frost character is a nod to
Vesper Lynd. (Purvis and Wade re-read the Fleming novels before
bringing DAD to the screen.)
Casino Royale #2: General Moon wields scissors for an audience
frightening moment. Perhaps Bond was brutalized as in the Casino
Royale novel in a sensitive area?
Ian Fleming's Moonraker: British-adopted foreigner awaits knighthood,
seeks to play Bond for money (angrily and with vast pride) at
"Blades". ("Gala Brand" was originally the name for "Miranda Frost" as
well.)
Ian Fleming's Goldfinger: Korean henchmen and staff populate the
villain's headquarters.
Ian Fleming's Thunderball: Domino was enamored of the Players
Cigarette's sailor character. Two different posters for the Players
Cigarettes Sailor appear in the London Underground MI-6 Headquarters!
Ian Fleming's O.H.M.S.S.: Miranda Frost's "Love For Dinner" and "Death
For Breakfast" are pulled straight from Fleming's novel (to good
effect in the film)!
Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun: Bond is captured by bad
guys. Perhaps he has been brainwashed to be turned against M
himself/herself? M's "office" has an invisible partition to protect
her/him from Bond.
Kingsley Amis as Robert Markham's Colonel Sun: "Colonel Moon" was to
have been named "Colonel Sun" in the original DAD draft.
John Gardner's License Renewed: Bond is a "blunt instrument" who
serves M and England in that disagreeable but necessary capacity.
John Gardner's Icebreaker: "The Ice Palace" is the given nickname of
the villain's headquarters.
Icebreaker #2: Bond is tortured in an attempt to reveal MI-6
information, via icy water.
John Gardner's Role Of Honour: Bond dispatches with a throwing knife
to the throat as used effectively by Jinx in DAD.
Raymond Benson's The Facts Of Death: Invisible/surface changing car
appears (disappears).
Insider Joke #1: Quartermaster tells Bond about his Omega [and also
the Bond films themselves], "...That's about 20 of them now, isn't
it?" Bond replies, "...Has it been that many?" [watches 007 has lost
and also 20 Bond films over 40 years?]
Insider Joke #2: Bond quips "...Just a flesh wound" to John Cleese as
Q. Perhaps the best-known movie or TV line of all time from John
Cleese's famous comedy troupe is "...Just a flesh wound!" from Monty
Python and the Holy Grail.
Insider Joke #3: Q's legs distorted behind the Vanish remind us of
Monty Python's "Minister of Silly Walks" bit. Note carefully that we
should NOT see Q's legs behind the Vanish to begin with.
Insider Joke #4: Bond reads "High Life" for an in-flight travel
magazine, just the type of life 007 lives… and Bond gives a quick quip
about his martini being shaken (the plane has presumably experienced
turbulence in an earlier, deleted scene or perhaps some encounter
happened between Bond and the flight attendant?)
Insider Joke #5: Bond's appearance post-Korean capture is reminiscent
of the "Robinson Crusoe" beard and long hair. Recall the producers
aghast at Lazenby's publicity appearance with long hair and a beard.
Pierce Brosnan appeared pre-GoldenEye with a similar "Crusoe" look.
Insider Joke #6: Anticipating audience reaction to the "Vanish," the
car lift rolls beneath an underground "Way Out" sign! Get it?
Insider Joke #7: Pierce Brosnan, married between TWINE and DAD is now
wearing a "wedding [sonic agitator] ring" as Bond.
Insider Joke #8: All Moon's cars at the Korean base are updated makes
of former Bond cars.
Insider Joke #9: When Bond enters the Cuban clinic through the hidden
door, listen for the brainwashing sound effect from The Ipcress File
and therefore Bond's "colleague" Harry Palmer.
Insider Joke #10: The "abandoned station for abandoned agents" is
"Vauxhall Cross" and therefore a handy reference to the real MI6
headquarters in London, located at 85 Vauxhall Cross (a five-minute
car ride from where Bond enters the station).
Other #1: Producer Michael G. Wilson makes yet another 007 movie
cameo, this time in "Havana" (leaning against a car in scene as Bond
strolls across a city street).
Other #2: Michael Wilson again appears onscreen VERY briefly inside
intelligence headquarters (the white-moustache general standing
alongside M).
Other #3: "Gregg Wilson" wrote The High Life magazine article about
Gustav Graves.
Gregg is Michael Wilson's real-life son.
Other #4: Roger Moore's daughter, Deborah, makes a cameo appearance
onscreen in DAD.
Other #5: Bond drops his heart rate as in the old Derek Flint series.
Other #6: The plane with the glass panels is visually reminiscent of
Dr. Evil's sub in Goldmember.
Other #7: Bond is captured at least once, and boats are either used or
seen onscreen, as in all 21 previous Bond films.
Other #8: A dreadlocked black character delivering a message to the
star after a fight says "…The place needed redecorating anyway." as in
Tomb Raider (and it looks to be the same actor in both films, too.)
Other #9: "Zao" looks very similar to "Shinzon" in the forthcoming
"Star Trek Nemesis", which was trailed in theatres before DAD.
Other #10: The N64 version of TWINE has a level where terrorists take
over MI6 and you have to shoot them. One of them is in M's office
pointing a gun at her.
Other #11: According to television news reports on 11/11/02, Sean
Connery filmed a cameo as James Bond's father. However, when it was
realized that GoldenEye backed the original Ian Fleming novels with
Bond as orphan…
Other #12: A deleted scene shows Bond sneaking into London (under
MI-6's airport watch, it is assumed) by holding onto the front wheel
of the plane as the landing gear deploys, after riding to London first
class, of course!
Other #13: Brosnan injured his knee, which delayed principal film
shooting for several weeks. Zhukovsky would have said, "His knee aches
every day, twice as bad when it is cold outside…"
--Matt Sherman
With their Bond 20, EON is "...More of a problem eliminator."
He's Never Been Cooler…The biggest Bond Movie EVER…
…When Danger Becomes a Temptation. When every move brings you closer
to the edge. When you live each day like it's your last, there's a
surprise around every curve…
…Live for the moment and Die Another Day.
David A McIntee
"Matt Sherman" <m...@007forever.com> wrote
> Moonraker #6: Both movies were to have bad guys named "Chang".
Chang in DAD isn't a baddie, though (and even if he was, he'd be more likely
a nod to General Chang in TND - itself a reference to Star Trek VI...)
> TWINE #6: A female ally of MI-6 turns out as traitor using sex to
> manipulate/blind Bond.
This is one thing that disturbs me- the fact that they've done the Gardner
formula twice makes me worry that they're going to stick with it until we're
as sick of it as we are of Gardner doing it...
--
--
"Oh go away, repress someone else."
http://www.btinternet.com/~david.mcintee
Redemption 03- Blake's 7/Babylon 5 convention. 21-23 February 2003
http://www.smof.com/redemption
Vote Baal in 03, and let every serpent have a paradise.
This month's guest quote: "No-one is more devoted to peace and justice than
I am" (The Master)
The Minister of Martinis
The Minister
John Moore
I don't think they referenced ST6 on purpose. I think it was
simply a coincidence.
John
David A McIntee
"John Moore" <jdwi...@midsouth.rr.com> wrote
> >> Chang in DAD isn't a baddie, though (and even if he was, he'd
> >> be more likely
> >> a nod to General Chang in TND - itself a reference to Star
> >> Trek VI...)
> >>
>
> I don't think they referenced ST6 on purpose. I think it was
> simply a coincidence.
Chang in STVI- Klingon General who collaborates with foreign (Federation)
villains to maintain tension along the neutral zone for his own devices.
Chang in TND- Chinese General who collaborates with foreign villain (Carver)
to heighten tensions in the South China Sea for his own devices.
Phil7101
>pre-credits sequence, but later we discover they survived under a new
>identity.
This description also applies to DAF too, as Blofeld is apparently killed in
the PCS, only to re-appear later, having assumed the identity of Willard Whyte.
John Moore
> "John Moore" <jdwi...@midsouth.rr.com> wrote
> > >> Chang in DAD isn't a baddie, though (and even if he was, he'd
> > >> be more likely
> > >> a nod to General Chang in TND - itself a reference to Star
> > >> Trek VI...)
> > >>
> >
> > I don't think they referenced ST6 on purpose. I think it was
> > simply a coincidence.
>
> Chang in STVI- Klingon General who collaborates with foreign (Federation)
> villains to maintain tension along the neutral zone for his own devices.
>
> Chang in TND- Chinese General who collaborates with foreign villain (Carver)
> to heighten tensions in the South China Sea for his own devices.
>
> --
> --
> "Oh go away, repress someone else."
>
> http://www.btinternet.com/~david.mcintee
>
> Redemption 03- Blake's 7/Babylon 5 convention. 21-23 February 2003
> http://www.smof.com/redemption
>
> Vote Baal in 03, and let every serpent have a paradise.
I know the plot, very well. But first of all (and least importantly), Chang in
TND was hardly mentioned or developed. Second of all, why would the Bond
writers reference a movie series that is usually looked on with disdain by the
average audience (unfortunately). I never have bought that it was on purpose.
And to me, it's always been distracting.
J
John Moore
...and important billionaire with the ability to put a satellite into space.
Hmmmm.
J
P.S. Not to mention his glass floor.
Phil7101
>South African smuggler to complete his impersonation, a tip of the cap
>to Bond needing a last-minute moustache to complete his doppelganger
>bit in the Octopussy teaser.
In addition to this, in the DAD and OP pre-credits sequences, once Bond is
disguised as the other guy, he brings a briefcase with a hidden bomb inside
into enemy territory.
Lee Edward McIlmoyle
news:3DE7C7D7...@midsouth.rr.com:
> I know the plot, very well. But first of all (and least importantly),
> Chang in TND was hardly mentioned or developed. Second of all, why
> would the Bond writers reference a movie series that is usually looked
> on with disdain by the average audience (unfortunately). I never have
> bought that it was on purpose. And to me, it's always been
> distracting.
>
> J
I agree. I don't think EON would do such a thing, and with that kind of
money, I'm certain that it wouldn't have slipped past by accident, either.
Reaching is what I call it.
But as for 'a movie series that is usually looked on with disdain'...
well... say no more, eh?
Lee Edward
John Moore
And I said that as a "fan".
J
Phil7101
>presumably a Goldfinger in-joke added to the C4 as there is no need
>for a surfer to use scuba equipment.
Goldfinger #2a : when he takes off the scuba outfit, he is fully dressed
underneath.
SKMDC
> "John Moore" <jdwi...@midsouth.rr.com> wrote
> > >> Chang in DAD isn't a baddie, though (and even if he was, he'd
> > >> be more likely
> > >> a nod to General Chang in TND - itself a reference to Star
> > >> Trek VI...)
> > >>
> >
> > I don't think they referenced ST6 on purpose. I think it was
> > simply a coincidence.
>
> Chang in STVI- Klingon General who collaborates with foreign (Federation)
> villains to maintain tension along the neutral zone for his own devices.
>
> Chang in TND- Chinese General who collaborates with foreign villain (Carver)
> to heighten tensions in the South China Sea for his own devices.
Which is obviously a lift from Frontier in Space.