Told But not Seen

James Suzuki

Here is a question.
What's the Bond story/scene which is mentioned only but you want to see.
I have always wanted to know what Bond and M got up to in Tokyo, mentioned in FRWL.
Also, love to see the background of how Bond gave Valentin that limp mentioned in GE, shooig him and stealing his girl.

Number24

Octopussy tells Bond the story of her father. this is really the short story, amd I'd love to see that.

James Suzuki

Number24 wrote:

Octopussy tells Bond the story of her father. this is really the short story, amd I'd love to see that.

Definitely. It would use been silly to use flashbacks. But I want see what happened to major dexter

Matt S

Number24 wrote:

Octopussy tells Bond the story of her father. this is really the short story, amd I'd love to see that.

That would be great to use as part of a story, updated to today. I wonder if somehow this short story and "From A View to a Kill" could be combined into a film? Kind of like how "For Your Eyes Only" and "Risico" were combined to make the film FYEO.

am747

In LTK, Bond was supposed to go to Istanbul on a mission .... May be the mission to Istanbul could somehow have led to Sanchez. And this could have given Bond the opportunity to go on the official mission and also take revenge )

Barbel

"By the way, congratulations. The Italians were most impressed by the way you handled the Rome affair."

M to Bond in LALD. All we are told is that the Italians "seem to be missing one of their agents, a Miss Caruso" who is of course in Bond's bed when M knocks Bond's door at an indecently early hour. There was originally going to be a PTS with 007 chasing a bad guy through a garden. Said bad guy jumps over a wall, which unfortunately for him led to a drop from the top of a building. There's definitely a story there!

James Suzuki

Barbel wrote:

"By the way, congratulations. The Italians were most impressed by the way you handled the Rome affair."

M to Bond in LALD. All we are told is that the Italians "seem to be missing one of their agents, a Miss Caruso" who is of course in Bond's bed when M knocks Bond's door at an indecently early hour. There was originally going to be a PTS with 007 chasing a bad guy through a garden. Said bad guy jumps over a wall, which unfortunately for him led to a drop from the top of a building. There's definitely a story there!

Yep! I wanna see that story. I also want to learn how Bond got to the log cabin with that blonde at the start of TSWLM

Barbel

Yup, plus of course the "African job" Bond is on the last leg of at the start of MR.

Thunderpussy

The Rome Affair, sounds like Bond helped out The man from Uncle.

James Suzuki

Barbel wrote:

Yup, plus of course the "African job" Bond is on the last leg of at the start of MR.

A real bad sexual innuendo could be made there )

Thunderpussy

No such thing as a "bad" innuendo !

Gassy Man

Pretty much everything told in exposition in Skyfall and Spectre -- Bond learning of his parents' fall, his disappearing into the priest hole as a boy and then emerging as a man, the rats actually being turned loose and then on each other in Silva's story, Blofeld visiting White's home and having dinner, Bond arriving at the Oberhauser home as a boy, etc. You know, the stuff that is integral to the story but only given minimal lip service in the movie proper.

James Suzuki

Gassy Man wrote:

Pretty much everything told in exposition in Skyfall and Spectre -- Bond learning of his parents' fall, his disappearing into the priest hole as a boy and then emerging as a man, the rats actually being turned loose and then on each other in Silva's story, Blofeld visiting White's home and having dinner, Bond arriving at the Oberhauser home as a boy, etc. You know, the stuff that is integral to the story but only given minimal lip service in the movie proper.

Agreed! That's a fantastic point you raise. I felt like Spectre, specifically, could of had a few flashback scenes, even if they were only a few seconds in length, to show Bond and Oberhauser when they were little.

Thunderpussy wrote:

No such thing as a "bad" innuendo !

Point taken, TP

Matt S

James Suzuki wrote:

Gassy Man wrote:

Pretty much everything told in exposition in Skyfall and Spectre -- Bond learning of his parents' fall, his disappearing into the priest hole as a boy and then emerging as a man, the rats actually being turned loose and then on each other in Silva's story, Blofeld visiting White's home and having dinner, Bond arriving at the Oberhauser home as a boy, etc. You know, the stuff that is integral to the story but only given minimal lip service in the movie proper.

Agreed! That's a fantastic point you raise. I felt like Spectre, specifically, could of had a few flashback scenes, even if they were only a few seconds in length, to show Bond and Oberhauser when they were little.

Thunderpussy wrote:

No such thing as a "bad" innuendo !

Point taken, TP

Flashback scenes in a Bond film don't seem right. It makes me think of the flashback scenes in Roger Moore's film Street People, with Roger Moore playing his own dad.

James Suzuki

Matt S wrote:

James Suzuki wrote:

Gassy Man wrote:

Pretty much everything told in exposition in Skyfall and Spectre -- Bond learning of his parents' fall, his disappearing into the priest hole as a boy and then emerging as a man, the rats actually being turned loose and then on each other in Silva's story, Blofeld visiting White's home and having dinner, Bond arriving at the Oberhauser home as a boy, etc. You know, the stuff that is integral to the story but only given minimal lip service in the movie proper.

Agreed! That's a fantastic point you raise. I felt like Spectre, specifically, could of had a few flashback scenes, even if they were only a few seconds in length, to show Bond and Oberhauser when they were little.

Thunderpussy wrote:

No such thing as a "bad" innuendo !

Point taken, TP

Flashback scenes in a Bond film don't seem right. It makes me think of the flashback scenes in Roger Moore's film Street People, with Roger Moore playing his own dad.

Flashback scene in Moonraker and OHMSS worked fine.

Matt S

James Suzuki wrote:

Matt S wrote:

James Suzuki wrote:

Agreed! That's a fantastic point you raise. I felt like Spectre, specifically, could of had a few flashback scenes, even if they were only a few seconds in length, to show Bond and Oberhauser when they were little.


Point taken, TP

Flashback scenes in a Bond film don't seem right. It makes me think of the flashback scenes in Roger Moore's film Street People, with Roger Moore playing his own dad.

Flashback scene in Moonraker and OHMSS worked fine.

In OHMSS, do you mean the flashback from 10 seconds earlier of Tracy being dragged away? And the dart gun in the centrifuge? I never really thought of those as flashbacks since they're only reminding us of or reinforcing something we already saw in the film. They're not taking us to the past or showing anything new. They're more for mood. But I get your point. Just a few seconds of Bond and Oberhauser together as children in Bond's head may have been a good idea.

James Suzuki

I think it's a method which would make their relationship easier for the audience. Less forced. With the audience figuring out for themselves, through flashbacks

Gassy Man

James Suzuki wrote:

Gassy Man wrote:

Pretty much everything told in exposition in Skyfall and Spectre -- Bond learning of his parents' fall, his disappearing into the priest hole as a boy and then emerging as a man, the rats actually being turned loose and then on each other in Silva's story, Blofeld visiting White's home and having dinner, Bond arriving at the Oberhauser home as a boy, etc. You know, the stuff that is integral to the story but only given minimal lip service in the movie proper.

Agreed! That's a fantastic point you raise. I felt like Spectre, specifically, could of had a few flashback scenes, even if they were only a few seconds in length, to show Bond and Oberhauser when they were little.

Thunderpussy wrote:

No such thing as a "bad" innuendo !

Point taken, TP

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heartbroken_mr_drax

The Fairbanks story in TMWTGG, sounds interesting - Scaramanga going after someone else.