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What did Bond say!?


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#1 Arbogast777

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 04:32 PM

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...

#2 Bucky

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 04:38 PM

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

#3 DamnCoffee

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 04:47 PM

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

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 04:48 PM

Or maybe even 'Guten Abend', harkers? :cooltongue:

#5 Arbogast777

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 04:52 PM

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!

#6 DamnCoffee

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 04:52 PM

Or maybe even 'Guten Abend', harkers? :angry:


meh, same thing :cooltongue:

#7 RedKelly

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 05:20 PM

I thought he said, an almond?

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 05:34 PM

I hear good omelette in this scene. :cooltongue:

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 05:44 PM

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.

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 07:33 PM

Or maybe even 'Guten Abend', harkers? :angry:


meh, same thing :cooltongue:


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

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 07:37 PM

Or maybe even 'Guten Abend', harkers? :D


meh, same thing :cooltongue:


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

Meh, same thing :angry:. 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 :lol:

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Posted 10 July 2007 - 09:22 PM

Or maybe even 'Guten Abend', harkers?


meh, same thing


No it isn't!:cooltongue:

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

#13 RazorBlade

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 07:41 AM

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

#14 DamnCoffee

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 09:18 AM

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


Thank God it wasn't :cooltongue:

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 10:04 AM

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...

#16 DamnCoffee

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 10:30 AM

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 :cooltongue:

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 10:57 AM

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?)

#18 Judo chop

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 02:52 PM

I hear good omelette in this scene. :cooltongue:

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

Either way. I'm easy.

#19 00Twelve

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Posted 11 July 2007 - 03:00 PM

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 :cooltongue: ).

#20 Vauxhall

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Posted 12 July 2007 - 12:10 AM

I hear good omelette in this scene. :cooltongue:

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.

#21 Bondian

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Posted 12 July 2007 - 02:12 AM

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

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Posted 29 July 2007 - 02:10 PM

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.

#23 autquisest

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Posted 29 July 2007 - 06:21 PM

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

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Posted 31 July 2007 - 02:38 PM

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).