Canada?

Ammo08Ammo08 Missouri, USAPosts: 387MI6 Agent
in General James Bond Chat
Have any of the movie Bonds been to Canada? I've racked my brain and can't remember any.
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  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,912Chief of Staff
    Yes and no. . .the famous "ski jump" in The Spy Who Loved Me was shot in Canada, but it's doubling for Switzerland. I wouldn't be surprised if a Canadian city has doubled for another place in the Bondiverse (Vancouver has been borrowed by a number of films), but Canada itself has never been a Bond locale.
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  • Moore ThanMoore Than EnglandPosts: 3,173MI6 Agent
    In case you are wondering where exactly in Canada. The famous "ski jump" was shot on Mount Asgard. But I think it was doubling for Austria.
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  • Ammo08Ammo08 Missouri, USAPosts: 387MI6 Agent
    Well that settles it, I think that Bond needs to go to Canada in a future film. Eh?
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  • toutbruntoutbrun Washington, USAPosts: 1,501MI6 Agent
    Canada and Toronto is used for a lot of films, but James Bond I don't know.
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  • Ammo08Ammo08 Missouri, USAPosts: 387MI6 Agent
    Banff in Alberta would be a nice location or even the old city of Quebec.
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  • Moore ThanMoore Than EnglandPosts: 3,173MI6 Agent
    Having visited Toronto and the Niagara Falls area of Canada there is certainly plenty of potential for Bond to visit. From a visual and people point of view I enjoyed it very much and would thoroughly recommend it to anyone.

    Perhaps the producers think Canada is like Kansas. If something happens there the world will not know about it for weeks. :D
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I know there are many areas of the world Bond hasn't gone but I feel the big three
    that he should visit are,

    Canada, Australia and S.Africa
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  • zaphodzaphod Posts: 1,183MI6 Agent
    A film that included all three might be good.Some kind of post colonial vibe in the story perhaps?
  • LexiLexi LondonPosts: 3,000MI6 Agent
    Yeh, I remember suggesting it, in the Bond 23 car forum http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/489731/#p489731

    The Sea to Sky Highway in Vancouver... with the Pan Pacific hotel would make a great location... especially as the winter Olypics were there a few years ago.

    I'm surprised Canada hasn't been used... such diverse landscape... (although, like everyone else has pointed out, Vancouver is used as a stand in for many US cities... cheaper option :D)
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    not to forget the tall redhaired girls :D
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,870MI6 Agent
    Well, footage of the Yukon featured in the film of the jet wreckage in Moonraker.
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  • PPK packerPPK packer Posts: 45MI6 Agent
    Bond was tasked with Section "C" in Thunderball, which was Canada, but he asked to be sent to Florida to follow up with sister of the Nato pilot instead. Can't say that I blame him.

    That's probably the closest to Canada he's been.
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  • DEFIANT 74205DEFIANT 74205 Perth, AustraliaPosts: 1,881MI6 Agent
    PPK packer wrote:
    Bond was tasked with Section "C" in Thunderball, which was Canada, but he asked to be sent to Florida to follow up with sister of the Nato pilot instead. Can't say that I blame him.

    Nassau, not Florida.

    But the closest he's ever been to Canada would have to be New York, when he was there in Live and Let Die. Although in the novel The Spy Who Loved Me, he got a fair bit closer still :)
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  • raptors_887raptors_887 CanadaPosts: 215MI6 Agent
    edited March 2013
    Take a look at the filming locations on some of your favorite movies and there's a ton that are filmed in Canada but don't actually take place there. Like for example Toronto is usually a filming location for a movie that takes place in New York because the city looks similar and its way cheaper to film it there

    Since Bond movies come out of England though it is probably just easier to just film it there.
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  • StrangewaysStrangeways London, UKPosts: 1,469MI6 Agent
    Moonraker crashed in the Yukon.

    I'd love to see Bond in Canada.
    Also South Africa and Australia.
    How about Argentina? With all the Falklands nonsense they are whipping up ATM, could that make a good Bond plot or is it too political?
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,870MI6 Agent
    The (literary) Bond visited Canada in the short story 'For Your Eyes Only', you should seek that one out.
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  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    One of the early sequences in Diamonds Are Forever is, if I'm not mistaken, set n South Africa - where the dentist is murdered by Wint and Kidd (with a scorpion). But I sincerely doubt it was filmed there...
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  • PPK packerPPK packer Posts: 45MI6 Agent
    Thanks for catching my mistake DEFIANT, Nassau not Florida.

    Cheers.
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  • jamesm123jamesm123 LondonPosts: 184MI6 Agent
    In the FYEO short story Bond is in Canada.

    Edit: sorry I hadn't seen the slightly previous post with the exact same point.
  • always shakenalways shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent
    I did a future Bond location thread about 3 weeks ago
    and i mentioned Canada then, (toronto) Bond on top of CN tower ?
    after all Toronto is home to one of THE FAMILYS the Rizuttos big mafia name,
    i know silhouette man is fishing for info on American gangterism
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,870MI6 Agent
    always shaken wrote:
    I did a future Bond location thread about 3 weeks ago
    and i mentioned Canada then, (toronto) Bond on top of CN tower ?
    after all Toronto is home to one of THE FAMILYS the Rizuttos big mafia name,
    i know silhouette man is fishing for info on American gangterism

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