Bond when he meets Grant/Nash
Lodgey89
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Why is James so suspicious of Red Grant when he first meets him? He really interrogates him saying ‘You look very fit Nash’ and when Grant says also ‘ I know this territory like the back of my hand’ Bond gives him a real suspicious stare. He checks the briefcase as well before heading off for Grub.
Grant is also British so why would Bond suspect he’s an imposter of Nash?
Grant is also British so why would Bond suspect he’s an imposter of Nash?
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DAF, Bond's tux trousers has a little strip of "Silk" running down
the outside leg. Which should only be worn by an ex military Man
under the rules of etiquette.
You'll notice the stripe on the black/midnight blue trousers in every Bond film except Goldfinger! I can't tell if you're joking, but the stripe has nothing to do with Bond being a military officer. If it did, it wouldn't be a good idea for Bond to let people on to that fact.
Grant would not have betrayed Spectre for the money when he could have taken the money, killed Bond and still worked for Spectre.
I always thought the stripe on the outseam was added as a way of adding luxury to a dinner suit, differentiating between non dinnerwear trousers and to cover the seam. Like the cumberband they probably did get inspiration from military dress uniforms.
Yes, the stripe is there to cover and decorate the side seam, and it also visually connects the trousers with the jacket. I do believe this came from military uniforms, just as so much tailored clothes did.
It may owe something to a play by a Solzhenitsyn's An Incident at Krechetovka Station where a State operative begins to suspect his fellow traveller is a spy.
Similarities of a vague kind in the last episode of the BBC drama Summer of Rockets which is really growing on me.
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I think Craig could possibly play Grant even better.
Bond knows full well this is a trap, and he is deliberately walking into it.
He spends much of the film waiting for the trap to fall into place.
At this point in the story Bey has just been killed, and Bond and Tatiana are now alone on the train, and he's not so sure about Tatiana.
So this is the ideal moment for the trap to be sprung, and here comes this stranger claiming to be on his side, doing a bad imitation of a British old boy stereotype.
Of course Bond is watching his every move extra close, he is already 99% positive Nash is whatever he has been waiting for.
I think he could have disposed of Nash at any point, if he was playing it safe, but his assignment is still to wait and see what he is up to.
As good as Craig is as an actor, Shaw was far superior and his performance is right up there in the top 5 characters in the whole canon.
Bond had no reason to suspect Nash as being an enemy, the meeting had been arranged by MI6. A couple of odd characteristics like the saying of “old man” and the red wine “blunder” (which is total snobbery), just sent signals to Bond that Nash was an uncouth character who was trying to pretend he was a station or two above his standing. Nash’s clumsy way of drugging Tatiana didn’t make Bond stop him from doing it and he accepted the “escape route is only for one” statement as professional.
The whole train sequence is probably the greatest in the series.
I have always thought that Daniel would have been a terrific Red Grant.
It is indeed a superb scene. Bond at some level recognised that Grant was not quite 'one of us' something jarred from the get go. At that time Mi6 would have recruited from a mixture of public schools (which in Britain are private schools) Oxbridge or military officers.
Its beautifully played by Connery who although ostensibly of that class is never quite at home in it.
Is that right? I didn't know that- yikes, that's what mine have!
To be fair, he does go around telling everyone his real name, so I'm not sure he'd worry!
It would not compliment it at all. So it isn't just a case of 'etiquette', it is also a case of WTF?
Especially when he had seen Grant put a drug into Tatiana's drink. Would Bond have accepted Grant's explanation so easily and not been on alert until he was sure?
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I think what gets lost in that From Russia with Love scene is the immediate class distinction. Grant is not a svelte, dignified British gentleman but a hulking brute, His walk, his bearing, his expression all betray a quality of lower class lack of refinement barely concealed in a suit. Contrast Grant with the real Captain Nash, who is more fitting of the type. Grant is more like an American bodybuilder who kicks sand in the face of the 99 pound weakling. Perhaps it is not as obvious because Connery himself is more brutish than, say, a David Niven or Cary Grant type. But Bond is disdainful toward Nash all along, and Bond's instincts are true.
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