It's an abbreviation for 'pretty damned quick' which was fashionable at the time.
Which in itself cane from the first Retail credit card machines which were supplied by and labelled PDQ. PDQ machines as they were known. And so someone coined them Pretty Damned Quick machines as the money came out of your account way faster than any other method at the time.
The guy has been grieving and suffering, but he's hearing from his old friend, he's recovering physically and the news is that Sanchez and his cartel have been destroyed. Surely he can be allowed a few moments of lighter mood. His ongoing grief can be taken as read. Besides, the film-makers needed briefly to 're-set' Bond's world to normality for the sake of the franchise, restoring Bond to his job with the Secret Service but also positioning the Leiter character in a token scene for possible re-use in the future.
Sorry, I don‘t agree at all.
Even I was in the Secret Service professionally, someone has raped and killed my wife and tortured me with a shark that makes me lose half of my body, I wouldn‘t pop a beer and laugh to celebrate when hearing that the bastard was dead.
One other thought... Perhaps we ought to remember that this is the same Felix who was prepared to risk missing his wedding altogether, at the drop of a top hat, all for the chance that "We just might catch the bastard." If he'd had his priorities straight, he could have delegated the job to Hawkins and the DEA and carried on straight to church. And then, during his own wedding reception, he's seen taking time out to file his report and have a business meeting with Pam. I'm not suggesting that his love for Della isn't profound or that his grief at her loss isn't devastating, but it's not altogether inconsistent with his character that he should be talking a little shop with Bond, on the phone, some time after the tragedy, and trying to be a little upbeat about the outcome for Bond. The sort of dialogue which Gardner added to the phone call in the novelisation may well have been considered too ponderous for the end of the movie - involving, as it does, an allusion to Bond's loss of Tracy, further to the one the movie had already afforded us earlier on ("He was married once... but it was a long time ago.")
Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
Sorry, but explaining something that does not look right by all means by something else, that does not look right is not making it any better.
Putting his professional priorities over the upcoming wedding ceremony was done just for dramatic entertainment purposes.
Taking the rape and loss of his wife thru the villain and having been almost killed by the villain would have set Leiter into a different mood, no matter where his professional priorities are. It just doesn‘t make sense and it kind of tasteless ( just like Mathis‘s dumping imo).
President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
I fear tonight will be one of those times where everyone agrees on the quality of the movie, much like when we watched DAD or OHMSS. Don't you agree, Higgins?
I fear tonight will be one of those times where everyone agrees on the quality of the movie, much like when we watched DAD or OHMSS. Don't you agree, Higgins?
As I‘ve said many times before, I like LTK much more than TLD.
President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
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It's an abbreviation for 'pretty damned quick' which was fashionable at the time.
Which in itself cane from the first Retail credit card machines which were supplied by and labelled PDQ. PDQ machines as they were known. And so someone coined them Pretty Damned Quick machines as the money came out of your account way faster than any other method at the time.
One other thought... Perhaps we ought to remember that this is the same Felix who was prepared to risk missing his wedding altogether, at the drop of a top hat, all for the chance that "We just might catch the bastard." If he'd had his priorities straight, he could have delegated the job to Hawkins and the DEA and carried on straight to church. And then, during his own wedding reception, he's seen taking time out to file his report and have a business meeting with Pam. I'm not suggesting that his love for Della isn't profound or that his grief at her loss isn't devastating, but it's not altogether inconsistent with his character that he should be talking a little shop with Bond, on the phone, some time after the tragedy, and trying to be a little upbeat about the outcome for Bond. The sort of dialogue which Gardner added to the phone call in the novelisation may well have been considered too ponderous for the end of the movie - involving, as it does, an allusion to Bond's loss of Tracy, further to the one the movie had already afforded us earlier on ("He was married once... but it was a long time ago.")
Putting his professional priorities over the upcoming wedding ceremony was done just for dramatic entertainment purposes.
Taking the rape and loss of his wife thru the villain and having been almost killed by the villain would have set Leiter into a different mood, no matter where his professional priorities are. It just doesn‘t make sense and it kind of tasteless ( just like Mathis‘s dumping imo).
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
As I‘ve said many times before, I like LTK much more than TLD.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Time reference:
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Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Please get your disks out, start the player and get done with the menus.
Pause right in front of the gunbarrel.
We play the movie at 19:10 GMT precisely
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
We start directly in front of the gunbarrel
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
He wouldn‘t miss the chance to bash Michael Kamen
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Live And Let Die Hard?
Another Way To Die Hard?
Die Hard Another Day?
I'll stop now...
No Time To Die Hard...
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!