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[Arbogast777]

I've been meaning to ask this for awhile because it's been driving me nuts since I first saw the movie...

The scene where Bond players poker with Dimitrios. He turns away from the bar with his Mount Gay with soda and says something to the guys sitting there. Can anybody tell what he says!? I even turned the subtitles on and it didn't have it...

[Bucky]

if it is the part i am thinking of i believe he is saying good evening in german.

[DamnCoffee]

He says "Guten Haben" which is German for 'Good Evening', Bond also says it to Peter Franks in Diamonds are Forever.

[Santa]

Or maybe even 'Guten Abend', harkers?

[Arbogast777]

Ahhhh, ok. I kept trying to hear something in English, but now that I listen to it I can hear "guten haben" clear as day. Thanks!

[DamnCoffee]

Or maybe even 'Guten Abend', harkers?

meh, same thing

[RedKelly]

I thought he said, an almond?

[Righty007]

I hear good omelette in this scene.

[byline]

Ahhhh, ok. I kept trying to hear something in English, but now that I listen to it I can hear "guten haben" clear as day. Thanks!

If you watch the DVD captions using your television's closed-captioning, the foreign-language captions are there (though, oddly enough, not if you select subtitles to be shown via the DVD). So, per the DVD, the closed-captioning displays the line, guten Abend, or "good evening" in German. (It actually reads 'n Abend.)

Also, the song lyrics can be viewed via your TV's closed-captioning, but not the DVD's subtitles. Not sure why that is; I discovered it by accident when we left our TV's closed-captioning on.

Another point of confusion involves what the embassy official tells Bond early on in the movie. According to the DVD, he says "Laissez tomber," basically telling Bond to drop his weapon.

[dinovelvet]

Or maybe even 'Guten Abend', harkers?

meh, same thing

It's actually N'Abend, which is a shorthand greeting, like Hi or Hey.

[Santa]

Or maybe even 'Guten Abend', harkers?

meh, same thing

It's actually N'Abend, which is a shorthand greeting, like Hi or Hey.

Meh, same thing . I was more interested in correcting his German for 'good evening' than what Bond said - harkers has just done his GCSEs and I'm hoping German wasn't one of them

[DaveBond21]

Or maybe even 'Guten Abend', harkers?


meh, same thing

No it isn't!

Yes, and Bond shortened it to N'Abend, which basically corresponds to when we, in English, bid someone...."Evening".

[RazorBlade]

It isn't what he said in that scene it's who he said it to. Spectulation on this board has been Goldfinger.

[DamnCoffee]

Harkers has just done his GCSEs and I'm hoping German wasn't one of them

Thank God it wasn't

[Vauxhall]

It isn't what he said in that scene it's who he said it to. Spectulation on this board has been Goldfinger.

Yes, it has been speculation that the character was a nod to Goldfinger, but I would say that it wasn't actually intended to be the same character. In fact, the man at the bar was known variously as "Schultz" and "Fat German" in scripts...

[DamnCoffee]

the man at the bar was known variously..."Fat German" in scripts...

Ah you could imagine how upset the guy would be when he realised what character he was playing

[Skudor]

It's interesting that they should choose to have him say it so fluently, as if he was very fluent in German - practically native. Most foreign German speakers would go with the more formal Guten Abend in my view. I guess it's because of his early years in Germany (with his dad on a military base, no?)

[Judo chop]

I hear good omelette in this scene.

Some say it's a nod to Goldfinger. Some say to A View to a Kill.

Either way. I'm easy.

[00Twelve]

Fleming's profile on Bond includes fluency in German and French. Great to see a tiny hint at that here (or at least, what I've built up in my mind to be a hint ).

[Vauxhall]

I hear good omelette in this scene.

Some say it's a nod to Goldfinger. Some say to A View to a Kill.

Either way. I'm easy.

Whilst others say it's merely a coincidence. Again, whatever way - I'm easy!!

The touch of apparent fluency was very nice though.

[Bondian]

I thought it was "gotta hate em". With reference to that goddamn site that we do not mention.

[James Blond]

Thanks for clearing that up. I always thought he said "Good almonds", which doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But it looked like that was what he was eating when he said it.

[autquisest]

Anyway, if I remember correctly the funny thing was not what he said but to whom...

[byline]

Yup. Neither my husband nor I picked up on the "Goldfinger" nod till I read it on one of the message boards. Now, ever since, I can't help but see the resemblance (and notice that his SUV was gold).