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[Mister Asterix]

When Bond electrocuted the one thug in the building in Venice it reminded me of Bond electrocuting Oddjob in Goldfinger.

[kneelbeforezod]

There's no Moneypenny, but as Vepser says "I'm the money" he answered "Every penny of it". Got it?

Does anyone else agree with this? Someone I saw it with claimed this was definitely a Moneypenny reference. But... that would be a pretty rubbish reference wouldn't it, especially in a script that seems to be aiming a lot higher?

Surely it's just a case of 2 words coincidentally turning up in consecutive lines?

Edited by kneelbeforezod, 21 November 2006 - 01:56 AM.

[Mister Asterix]

There's no Moneypenny, but as Vepser says "I'm the money" he answered "Every penny of it". Got it?

Does anyone else agree with this? Someone I saw it with claimed this was definitely a Moneypenny reference. But... that would be a pretty rubbish reference wouldn't it, especially in a script that seems to be aiming a lot higher?

Surely it's just a case of 2 words coincidentally turning up in consecutive lines?

[mra]But did you notice there were a few words that used the letter

[Jeff007]

Within the same movie, did you notice Bond utter, "the big picture" well being tortured. Referencing back to M saying it at her house.

[icecold]

The suit Craig wears in the end scene is an exact replica (or so I was told) of Connery's blue three piece in Thunderball..

The Venice scene reminded me so much of FRWL.. isn't the boat that Craig is driving toward the end at least very similar if not identical to the model Connery drives in the boat chase in FRWL?

No, and no. lol

Craig is wearing a baby blue tie. The only three piece I remember seeing Connery wearing in Thunderball had a dark blue tie. As for the rest, maybe, but Bond has worn a few three piece blue suits so I dont see the big connection.

As for the second one, the boat at the end of CR is a sailboat, the one in FRWL is a small motorboat.

[Vauxhall]

There's no Moneypenny, but as Vepser says "I'm the money" he answered "Every penny of it". Got it?

Does anyone else agree with this? Someone I saw it with claimed this was definitely a Moneypenny reference. But... that would be a pretty rubbish reference wouldn't it, especially in a script that seems to be aiming a lot higher?

Surely it's just a case of 2 words coincidentally turning up in consecutive lines?

Well yes and no, I suppose. The words turn up in the consecutive lines of the code agreed by MI6 for Bond and Vesper to identify themselves, but it also must have put in intentionally by the writers. There is no way that the words "money" and "penny" would have ended up coincidentally within the same phrase, without them inferring a Moneypenny reference I imagine.

[kneelbeforezod]

The words turn up in the consecutive lines of the code agreed by MI6 for Bond and Vesper to identify themselves

That was code?! Hold on... surely not, it's just Bond being witty isn't it? It's neither a code nor a Moneypenny reference.

[bond_girl_double07]

The suit Craig wears in the end scene is an exact replica (or so I was told) of Connery's blue three piece in Thunderball..

The Venice scene reminded me so much of FRWL.. isn't the boat that Craig is driving toward the end at least very similar if not identical to the model Connery drives in the boat chase in FRWL?

No, and no. lol

Craig is wearing a baby blue tie. The only three piece I remember seeing Connery wearing in Thunderball had a dark blue tie. As for the rest, maybe, but Bond has worn a few three piece blue suits so I dont see the big connection.

As for the second one, the boat at the end of CR is a sailboat, the one in FRWL is a small motorboat.

Damn it! I thought I was so cool

How about this for a connection.. like all the other movies, I try to fit Connery in there somewhere gah!

[pieffra]

haven't seen the movie yet... but St. Mark's square was also in Moonraker

[Mr Ashdown]

There's a very clever reference to the spoof "Casino Royale". Mathis tells Bond that "the calvary will not be riding in at the end...."

[spynovelfan]

The film ends with James Bond brutally killing a villain named after the central character in Quentin Tarantino's best-known film. 'Hands off, mate - it was our idea first and we'll do it as we like'?

[stromberg]

The film ends with James Bond brutally killing a villain named after the central character in Quentin Tarantino's best-known film. 'Hands off, mate - it was our idea first and we'll do it as we like'?

He killed him? Hm, I was sitting next to you in the Premiere, so I know we saw the same movie. I remember White being shot "only" in the knee, as Bond seems to have learned the lesson that he can't question dead people.


Oh, and back to the elecrocuting: you don't need to go back to GF for that one. Look into P&W scripts once again: Graves' "Robocop" suit, as well as the killing of Dr. Kaufman in TND...

[MattofSteel]

P&W didn't write TND. And watching CR made me realize how unforgiveable that Robocop suit was. To be granted, however, I remember reading that idea was 100% Tamahori.

[sirmilesmeservy]

Of course the guy gets electrocuted in the sinking house ala Oddjob in Goldfinger,

[dinovelvet]

The film ends with James Bond brutally killing a villain named after the central character in Quentin Tarantino's best-known film. 'Hands off, mate - it was our idea first and we'll do it as we like'?

Nah that scene is a reference to LAYER CAKE (see page 1), and the PTS of DAF - We hear Bond offscreen, doing some damage to his quarry, before walking onscreen and announcing himself as "Bond, James Bond". David Arnold's score (from the moment White is shot to when Bond says the line, is VERY similar to Barry's DAF)

[Simon]

Clearly the whole film is a tribute to On Her Majesty's Secret Service:

This film featuring a new actor as James Bond, has him fall in love with a woman for the first time- she even saves his life at one point. Bond talks of leaving the service for her. She doesn't make it to the end credits but the organisation responsible for her death are not caught; in this film at least. He also drives an Aston Martin DBS with no gadgets apart from a secret compartment in the glove compartment which conceals a gun. Bond is also seen in a Ford (thanks to a marketing deal with the company) in this film, in which he is also seen writing his resignation to M. He has a vicious fight in the hotel next to a casino in which he has just been gambling on a card game. Bond's mission involves stopping a terrorist whose plan involves invoking terror incidents in order to affect the stock market. The Bond theme blares loudly over the end credits.


No; hang on:

A Bond film in which the Bond theme hardly appears; practically no gadgets and certainly no big save-the-day gadget for Bond, starring one the best and most celebrated actors the series has ever seen; in which Bond drives a dull Ford saloon; with a whole new type of Bond girl (who dies at the end ); all revolving around a sandy-haired Bond whose looks in this film have been somewhat contentious and rounded off with a much rockier main title theme....

It's a tribute to A View To A Kill!

Excellent stuff - I think that summarises it all perfectly.

[AgentPB]

There's no Moneypenny, but as Vepser says "I'm the money" he answered "Every penny of it". Got it?

This actually confused the hell out of my friends. They were like how could you kill Moneypenny? I guess reading the book really cements that her name is Vesper Lynd. A lot of them didn't get the password either. My friends aren't slow either, they go tons of movies.

[Smiert Spionem]

I like to think that the elevator NOT stopping at 7 was an in-joke. In every other film, at least since Goldfinger, the bomb clock stops at 007, or something goofy like that...

And... the elevator ascends to three.. four... five... six... and then the cut. There are probably in-jokes to every film, there, actually.

Rise from the surf - DN
Boating in Venice - FRWL... there's at least one other mention there, I forget which.
GF - The DB5
TB - the boat, praps? I dunno. Did it look like the Disco Volante?
YOLT - The *very* best duck
OHMSS - The love story? Maybe a casino thing? I didn't see anything.
DAD - Zukhovsky brand caviar

Can you find references to each of he films?

[deth]

DAD - Zukhovsky brand caviar

what??? really?

[stromberg]

P&W didn't write TND. And watching CR made me realize how unforgiveable that Robocop suit was. To be granted, however, I remember reading that idea was 100% Tamahori.

Oops, sorry, my mistake.

Of course the guy gets electrocuted in the sinking house ala Oddjob in Goldfinger,

Ah, forgot about that one - had that Mathis scene in mind...


Also, the Bahamas arrival: not only music wise did it have a strong resemblance to LALD's New York arrival (a man comes...). If you like, you can also count it (albeit not that strong) for MR's Rio arrival with the Concorde.

Bond driving the Ford to the One And Only Club: an identical product placement to the one in DAD, except that they had the brand new car this time, instead of an old one with the same name as the one being advertised.

[spynovelfan]

The film ends with James Bond brutally killing a villain named after the central character in Quentin Tarantino's best-known film. 'Hands off, mate - it was our idea first and we'll do it as we like'?

He killed him? Hm, I was sitting next to you in the Premiere, so I know we saw the same movie. I remember White being shot "only" in the knee, as Bond seems to have learned the lesson that he can't question dead people.

True! I need to see the film again. Okay, they just knee-capped Tarantino's character - for now. Bond 22 will be called KILL WHITE.

I'll go again. The PTS is very very tenuously (ie not at all) a reference to Fleming's short story OCTOPUSSY, in which a man who has betrayed Britain with a surname with a wide 'y' in it discovers he has been found out, and is faced with the angel of his destruction, James Bond.

Kind of.

[Mister Asterix]

[mra]Something I noticed last night watching Goldfinger right after Casino Royale. In both films: The villain loses at cards thanks to Bond. Bond then sleeps with the villains girl in Bond

[DamnCoffee]

Plus that fat german guy is an exact mock up of Mr. Goldfinger himself, look at the clothes for instance.

[Mr. Du Pont]

I noticed both times I saw the movie that during the pre-title sequence Craig's delivery of his very first line was slightly different than the way he spoke during the rest of the movie. I might be wrong, but it almost sounded like a bit of a tribute to Sean Connery's accent, cadence, etc...

...a far more subtle "tribute" than: This never happened to the other fella.

Make a point of listening very carefully to that line again the next time you see the movie and tell me if I'm wrong. Again, it's the very first line: M really doesn't mind you earning a little money on the side Dryden. She'd just prefer it if it wasn't selling secrets.

[Colossus]

Plus that fat german guy is an exact mock up of Mr. Goldfinger himself, look at the clothes for instance.

Yeah, the portly German golfer guy with the yellow vest telling Bond to get his ride!

[ACE]

DAD - Zukhovsky brand caviar

what??? really?

Love it. And to think the Zukovsky brand caviar in DAD was itself a reference to the character and foodstuff in TWINE......

No, no and no!

[Judo chop]

This may have been mentioned already, but the guy that mistakes Bond for a valet and barks at him about parking his car I thought had a very Auric Goldfinger quality about him.

[Mister Asterix]

[quote name='Mister Asterix' post='656213' date='25 November 2006 - 10:42']
[mra]Something I noticed last night watching Goldfinger right after Casino Royale. In both films: The villain loses at cards thanks to Bond. Bond then sleeps with the villains girl in Bond

[DaveBond21]

I like this in-joke:-


In CR - M - "God, I miss the cold war".


In GE - M - she calls Bond a "relic of the Cold War".

[Maltara]

Got two good ones and one dubious one, don't think they have been mentioned yet but sorry if it's repetition:

1) In the pre-credits sequence, Dryden (section chief Prague, Bond's second kill) opens his drawer to get his gun. Inside there is a partly obscured piece of paper with "Universal Exports" written on it. I don't think the film makes any other reference to the traditional MI6 front company, but it was nifty to see here.

2) In several scenes, particularly the last time we see it, Le Chiffre's boat in the Bahamas flies a tiny Danish flag (red background with a white Scandinavian cross). This is an homage to Mads Mikkelsen, who is Danish but plays the supposedly Albanian Le Chiffre.

3) For some reason, the Ocean Club in the Bahamas prominently displays the Canadian flag on its front lawn in several scenes. Why I am not sure (someone on the set was Canadian?) but it reminded me of Thunderball when Bond gets assigned to "Station C in Canada" but blew M off by saying he had a lead in the Bahamas. Most likely a coincidence but nonetheless a strange one.