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[SamuelKevlar]

I recently bought DAF on DVD, and watched it when I got it home. Hadn't seen it in a long time so the following only struck me then:

Do the Bond creators think Holland is part of Germany (like the Germans themselves thought 60 years ago...)?

Think about it:

+The tour guide has a German accent.
+Bond greets Peter Franks with "Guten Abend", then also uses a German accent.
+ Bond travels from Holland to the US with Lufthansa, a German airline.

Any ideas as to why they did this? Ignorance? Laziness? Not-so-subtle Nazi propaganda? Your guess is as good as mine.

Personally, I feel my national Dutch pride has been irreparably harmed by this Bond flick.

PS: This post is to be read with tongue deeply in cheek.

[Triton]

I don't know SamuelKevlar if it's ignorance or product placement and a joke or all of the above.

Perhaps the joke is that Bond doesn't know Nederlands and it's the one foreign language that Bond doesn't speak fluently or understand. Of course James Bond can speak sweet nothings to Kara in Afghan Persian in The Living Daylights.

We can presume that Peter Franks is an English smuggler who doesn't understand the Dutch language either.

Or perhaps Sean Connery cannot pronounce goedenavond with his Scottish brogue.

As for the filming of the Lufthansa airliner, perhaps KLM didn't offer the producers enough assistance or enough of product placement gratuity?

[Brix Bond]

Perhaps DAF is just a REALLY God-awful film.

[SamuelKevlar]

That's always a possibility...

And as for KLM: maybe the Bond producers thought thirty years ahead and knew that if they worked with our national airline, they'd just be working with Air France Junior anyway...

That's one of the recent developments in Nederland that's really p'd me off.

[H.M.Servant]

maybe it's just like Nigel Powers said in Goldmember

"there's only two things I hate;
intollerance to other cultures, and the bloody Dutch"