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[DaveBond21]

One of my friends was adamant that, in LALD, Whisper was Mr Big - because he was so big!!

It took a long time for me to convince him otherwise.

[Rayliottaasbond]

Funny, I always thought Tee Hee was Mr. Big when I was a child.

[hilly]

When I first saw TSWLM, aged 8, I was convinced that the title referred to Stromberg and he had the hots for 007. I can clearly remember sharing this theory in the cinema with my rather bemused Grandad as the lights were going up and the credits were rolling...

[Jaws0178]

Because I was over 21 when I first started watching the Bond series, there wasn't much that I misinterpreted. However, I never understood the 69 Bollinger line. Other than that, I pretty much knew what was coming. I never realized the meaning of the delicatessen line either

[SecretAgentFan]

Since I´m from Germany and saw GOLDFINGER when I was 9 I could not understand why the name Pussy Galore was so funny.

Yeah, sad story, I know.

[Colossus]

I did not know Holly Goodhead was supposed to be a dirty name and only maybe a few years ago didn't realize Honey Ryder was supposed to be one either.

[Dan Gale]

I showed THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS to a friend of mine for the first time in 1988 on a crappy pan-and-scan VHS. When Bond pulled the assassin's rip-cord in the land rover and the parachute spilled out of his backpack, I remember my friend saying "Wow, I thought those were his GUTS for a second..."
Now, whenever I see that sequence, I try and NOT see it as the assassin's beige innards...

[DaveBond21]

I showed THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS to a friend of mine for the first time in 1988 on a crappy pan-and-scan VHS. When Bond pulled the assassin's rip-cord in the land rover and the parachute spilled out of his backpack, I remember my friend saying "Wow, I thought those were his GUTS for a second..."
Now, whenever I see that sequence, I try and NOT see it as the assassin's beige innards...

I know what you mean. I bet some people always think of Dr Evil whenever they see Donald Pleasance's Blofeld in YOLT.

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[Guy Haines]

I showed THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS to a friend of mine for the first time in 1988 on a crappy pan-and-scan VHS. When Bond pulled the assassin's rip-cord in the land rover and the parachute spilled out of his backpack, I remember my friend saying "Wow, I thought those were his GUTS for a second..."
Now, whenever I see that sequence, I try and NOT see it as the assassin's beige innards...

I know what you mean. I bet some people always think of Dr Evil whenever they see Donald Pleasance's Blofeld in YOLT.

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Unfortunately, I reckon a lot of people think of Dr Evil when Donald Pleasance appears in re-runs of YOLT, such has been the impact of his version of Blofeld and Mike Myers' spoof of it. Does make you wonder how the character would have developed had Jan Werich been retained in the role. Dr Evil with a beard and a deep voice borrowed from another actor? Well, it would have been different!

[Colossus]

Ultimately Dr. Evil is a positive thing on Pleasence's Blofeld because it was the most iconic and a tribute is better than no tribute at all like the other onscreen Blofelds who dont have that icon factor.

[hilly]

When Dr No was shown on ITV when I was a kid, they used a montage of clips from the film as a trailer for it. I can always remember that, in the montage, the "WHEN A MAN GETS IN MY WAY" ornament-crushing scene was swiftly followed by his HQ exploding.
My friends and I were convinced that Dr No somehow caused an explosion by squeezing that ornament.
Even today, 30-odd years later, I still can't watch that scene without expecting something to blow up immediately afterwards...

[DaveBond21]

When Dr No was shown on ITV when I was a kid, they used a montage of clips from the film as a trailer for it. I can always remember that, in the montage, the "WHEN A MAN GETS IN MY WAY" ornament-crushing scene was swiftly followed by his HQ exploding.
My friends and I were convinced that Dr No somehow caused an explosion by squeezing that ornament.
Even today, 30-odd years later, I still can't watch that scene without expecting something to blow up immediately afterwards...

Ah, that is an interesting point, hilly. The way trailers are edited can give the impression that certain scenes belong together or that the action we are watching is in chronological order.

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[AMC Hornet]

I know I stand alone when I insist that "if it's 69 you were expecting me" was not a deliberate double-entendre. If it is, then so is "Bollinger, 75" in AVTAK, for it refers to the same thing - Bond's preference for a 10-year-old Bollinger.

Yeah, uh, no. I don't agree with your assessment. The two movies can't really be compared...The reference to '69 could be taken as both the year and a sexual position. It was quite clearly a double-entendre, because it literally had at least two meanings, depending upon how old you were.

"Moneypenny...Fairbanks."
"Alaska."
"No, Bill Fairbanks, 002."
"Oh, poor Bill. I miss him."
"Yes, but the man with the golden gun didn't."
"Officially that was never confirmed."
"Where was 002 when it happened?"
"Beruit, 69, in a cabaret with a lady named Saida."

AHA! So we know precisely what ol' Bill was up to when he bought it ("At least he died happy"). It's a wonder Saida didn't have to take the bullet out of her thigh instead of the wall before the police arrived. That Scaramanga really is a trick-shot artist!

Moreover, returning to the junk after her tryst with Bond, Miss Anders tells Scaramanga she's late because "it was a double feature." And still Bond had the energy to banter with Goodnight, once he'd let her out of the wardrobe!

...Or am I just growing a dirty mind from reading all these posts?

Edited by AMC Hornet, 28 October 2010 - 01:26 AM.

[Inspector Mathis]

I certainly misinterpreted a lot of the things others have posted about here, especially the innuendos. The name Pussy Galore and movie title Octopussy were completely oblivious to me in terms of their suggestiveness, I used to think it was just a reference to cats.

Also I used to think the line "there's no sense in going off half-cocked" from Live and Let Die just meant Bond had to restock up on ammo before taking on Mr. Big.

Edited by Inspector Mathis, 28 October 2010 - 08:15 AM.

[Colossus]

^Yaknow the things we thought of as younger are actually better than what they did in the movies.

[AMC Hornet]

It wasn't until I got my UE DVDs with the subtitle option that I finally understood what Nick Nack said to Scarmanga at the end of the PTS.

"I'll get you yet, and I'll enjoy every sou you leave me."

I'd always thought he'd said "I'll enjoy seeing you outlive me" which, of course, doesn't make much sense.

[Bill]

I never thought "If it's 69, you were expecting me" was a double entendre.

Edited by Bill, 29 October 2010 - 08:33 PM.

[Colossus]

I never thought "If it's 69, you were expecting me" was a double entendre.

I still don't believe that's a double entendre simply for it being just too sick especially for 1979, in each movie the champagne year is always usaully around 10 years earlier than the movie is set to show it's really good and fine and it just happened to be 10 years earlier.

[AMC Hornet]

Thank you, Bill and Colossus. I no longer feel like I'm a lone voice in the wilderness.

Not that any of this matters - it's just a line in a movie, like "I admire your cleavage, Miss...?"

[Colossus]

Yeah i know Hornet if it intentional then it makes even modern stuff like "cunning linguist" look like a Disney cartoon. Heck even the normal seedyness of that era like "half cocked" still was at a sort of properness.

[DTC1977]

When I was a kid I couldn't understand why Leiter told Bond that Goldfinger had been taking his gin rummy opponent 'to the cleaners every day for a week.'

I took this literally as meaning that the two of them were doing their laundry together!

[WhatMeWorry?]

At the end of TWINE, when Bond says "I thought Christmas only comes once a year", I used to think that Bond just really enjoys Christmas time.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

I first tought M was called like that because her full name was Moneypenny.

And also the "jelous husbands, outraged cheffs" line in TMWTGG. why would a chef wanted to kill Bond? He spends a lot if money in expensive food (maybe because he doesn't gives tips )

[Dan Gale]

I recall seeing the name "Jaws" in the end titles of THE SPY WHO LOVED ME after watching only the finale on TV and turning to my Dad and asking if the shark Richard Kiel bit into was supposed to be the shark from the film Jaws. I guess I thought it was a cameo or something. I was only 25 at the time.
(I jest, I was about 8.)