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#1 Zen Razor

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Posted 29 March 2014 - 08:00 AM

Okay recently I have had trouble understanding some of Bond one liners. I understand most of them but there are quite a few I don't really get? I was wondering if anyone can help me understand these.

 

In Casino Royale when Craig is with Eva in the train she asks Bond "How was your lamb?" and Bond replies "Skewered, One Sympathizes?" I don't really get it from what I found Skewered is when your food is on a stick? Is that what he means or is it something completely different?

 

Another is in Quantum Of Solace when he is with Fields he as her "I can't seem to find the stationary?" Does he mean the restroom? Feel free to share any other quotes you might not understand as well.



#2 AMC Hornet

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Posted 29 March 2014 - 04:16 PM

After hearing Vesper's opinion of him based on his clothes, appearance and demeanor, Bond felt as if he too had been skewered.

 

Asking Fields to help him find the stationery (writing paper and pens) was a deliberately lame excuse to draw her further into the hotel suite. Her smirk was meant to indicate that she recognized it as such, but was willing to play along.

 

What else do you need explained?



#3 glidrose

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Posted 29 March 2014 - 08:40 PM

What else do you need explained?


1. Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
2. How come Blofeld doesn't recognise Bond when they meet in OHMSS?
3. Why don't any of the villains recognise Bond when he has a bloody film series based on him?
4. Why did Bond break up with Tracy? Was it because she fell asleep in the car on the way to the honeymoon? Or was it because he blamed her for the shattered windscreen? Or is it because Bond's racist and didn't want to stay married to a woman who had converted to whatever that Indian religion is that requires you to have a red dot on your forehead. And how did she convert to that Indian religion that requires you to have a red dot on your forehead so quickly? She didn't have it on her forehead during the wedding. Was this a continuity error?
5. Why shouldn't people cook bacon naked?
6. Was Dr. Kananga inside Mr. Big the entire time? Did Mr. Big eat him and then did Dr. Kananga eat his way out?

#4 hoagy

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Posted 29 March 2014 - 09:51 PM

Amswers !  Served fresh and hot !

1.  The chicken, of course.  Eggs can't do that.

2.  Good heavens, it's not just that -- neither of them can recognize the other !  After YOLT, both Blofeld and Bond underwent SIGNIFICANT changes in appearance, voice, etc. before they met again, so, it's understandable.

3.  Being a villain is extremely time-consuming.  They're not the movie-going type.

4.  Bond never broke up with Tracy.  She left him.  In fact, she left this very plane of existence.

5.  It's ok to do that.  In fact, you should, as soon as possible.  It may help you raise your threshold of pain, so that you, too, can be a super-agent, and you'll be ready for the dreaded "hot pan of frying bacon near the naked person being tortured" torture.  Had Quantum not shot LeChifre at the moment they did, in CR, that was next up for Bond.  LeChifre clearly was getting nowhere with the "whacking the naked man's privates with a knotted rope" torture, and it would soon have been time to switch to more extreme, excruciating techniques.

6.  Big and Kananga are two of the many personalities in Sybil.  Bond saw only these two personalities.  Good thing.  Had he seen Sybil, he'd likely have seduced her.  Then, following a highly energetic moment (see number 1, above), she might have reverted to Big, or Kananga...complicating the villain-hero relationship considerably...which (see number 2, above) never happened to the other fellow, or the other other fellow.



#5 Zen Razor

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Posted 30 March 2014 - 05:47 AM

Oh okay thanks I was just wondering I didn't really understand some of them. I think that is all for now.



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Posted 30 March 2014 - 02:08 PM

7. Why didn't they start with LALD and then did faithful adaptations of all novels in the correct order?



#7 hoagy

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Posted 30 March 2014 - 03:06 PM

There are books, and other threads, which address the topic of how the producers chose to start with DN.  Generally, I understand that they wanted something exotic and fantastic.  LALD might have been regarded as having too much located-in-USA content (which, for American audiences, does not give an impression of Bond being a glamorous world-traveler) even though it has Caribbean locations, too.  Additionally, DN, with the plotline involving rockets bound for outer space, was quite current and modern at the time.

 

When the producers finally had their hands on CR, I thought they might at least have considered making a period film, and then proceeding in order.  It would have made for movies quite different than the first time for LALD, MR, and DAF.  However, FRWL, DN, GF, (skipping the short stories in FYEO and the not-allowed-to-film-the-original-plot TSWLM) TB and OHMSS WERE filmed quite faithfully to the novels.  So it would have brought them next -- following my idea -- to YOLT and TMWTGG.  TMWTGG, by the way, could have used some "punching it up."  The villain is an interesting character, though, and Bond is a wounded man trying to fix himself, so it might have worked, with superb casting and the right director, as a character-driven movie.  At any rate -- they did not "go period."

 

By the way -- having not yet "gone period" and with a number of the books pretty much still not having been filmed -- they still have that option open.



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Posted 03 April 2014 - 02:28 PM

 

What else do you need explained?


1. Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
2. How come Blofeld doesn't recognise Bond when they meet in OHMSS?
3. Why don't any of the villains recognise Bond when he has a bloody film series based on him?
4. Why did Bond break up with Tracy? Was it because she fell asleep in the car on the way to the honeymoon? Or was it because he blamed her for the shattered windscreen? Or is it because Bond's racist and didn't want to stay married to a woman who had converted to whatever that Indian religion is that requires you to have a red dot on your forehead. And how did she convert to that Indian religion that requires you to have a red dot on your forehead so quickly? She didn't have it on her forehead during the wedding. Was this a continuity error?
5. Why shouldn't people cook bacon naked?
6. Was Dr. Kananga inside Mr. Big the entire time? Did Mr. Big eat him and then did Dr. Kananga eat his way out?

 

Jeebus H. Christo man. If I were drinking coffee and reading this, I'd have one wet keyboard right now. :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:



#9 glidrose

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Posted 04 April 2014 - 08:20 PM

Glad somebody's got a sense of humor!



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Posted 05 April 2014 - 05:13 AM

The Underground scene in SKYFALL.
"Please open the door. Health and Safety,Carry on."
Would have been perfect if said by Sir Roger with the twinkle in his eye.

#11 SirCliff

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Posted 24 April 2014 - 12:13 AM

Can i admit to not really understanding one of the most obvious and classic one liners?

at the end of TSWLM the line 'keeping the British end up' I've never really got. I get the erection hint but was that a phrase in use at the time ?

basically i don't get the clean version of the double entendre

#12 AMC Hornet

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Posted 24 April 2014 - 10:19 PM

Bond was on a joint British/Russian operation with Major Amasova. They each contributed to identifying Stromberg as a wrong'un. At times, Anya was keeping her Russian end up by contacting Fekkesh, getting the microfilm from Jaws, etc, while at other times Bond was keeping the British end up by arranging to spy on Atlantis, freeing the imprisoned crews aboard the Liparus and finally shooting Stromberg and rescuing Anya.

 

Ultimately he was keeping the British end up by helping thaw relations with the Russians (or at least one, anyway).



#13 Zen Razor

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Posted 26 April 2014 - 01:31 AM

@AMC Hornet

 

I have another one that I don't fairly understand quite well its during Diamonds Are Forever when Bond meets plenty o'tool when Bond says "Why of course you are" I don't quite understand that one? Any help?



#14 AMC Hornet

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Posted 26 April 2014 - 02:14 PM

First, Lana Wood introduces herself by thrusting her fulsome chest into Bond's field of vision and says "Hi, I'm Plenty."

Bond pauses a moment to take in the enormity of her intrusion, then agrees. "But of course you are."

 

Not only was it the perfect response under the circumstances, it's also a standard British response to any unusual name (e.g. Sir Roger's identical response to Jenny Flex's introduction in AVTAK).



#15 Zen Razor

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Posted 26 April 2014 - 10:20 PM

So when she says "Plenty" and Bond replies saying "Of Course you are" he means the full package right? I guess it was exactly what I thought it was.



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Posted 26 April 2014 - 10:34 PM

So when she says "Plenty" and Bond replies saying "Of Course you are" he means the full package right? I guess it was exactly what I thought it was.

Correct - it's hardly even a double entendre.



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Posted 03 May 2014 - 07:36 PM

I still hate the one from TWINE 

 

"I thought Christmas comes around once a year" 

 

ICK!



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Posted 04 May 2014 - 12:24 AM

I still hate the one from TWINE 

 

"I thought Christmas comes around once a year" 

 

ICK!

 

Probably the worst moment in the franchise, IMO, although the similarly cringe-worthy exchange that closes out Die Another Day gives it a run for its money. 



#19 Zen Razor

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Posted 05 May 2014 - 04:06 AM

Lol yeah it was corny but It was so corny it made me laugh and enjoy it. Just thinking about it makes me smile.



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Posted 05 May 2014 - 10:41 PM

 

 

What else do you need explained?


1. Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
2. How come Blofeld doesn't recognise Bond when they meet in OHMSS?
3. Why don't any of the villains recognise Bond when he has a bloody film series based on him?
4. Why did Bond break up with Tracy? Was it because she fell asleep in the car on the way to the honeymoon? Or was it because he blamed her for the shattered windscreen? Or is it because Bond's racist and didn't want to stay married to a woman who had converted to whatever that Indian religion is that requires you to have a red dot on your forehead. And how did she convert to that Indian religion that requires you to have a red dot on your forehead so quickly? She didn't have it on her forehead during the wedding. Was this a continuity error?
5. Why shouldn't people cook bacon naked?
6. Was Dr. Kananga inside Mr. Big the entire time? Did Mr. Big eat him and then did Dr. Kananga eat his way out?

 

Jeebus H. Christo man. If I were drinking coffee and reading this, I'd have one wet keyboard right now. :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:

 

 

Fantastic. You're the only other person on this board with a sense of humor.