Obscure Bond References in Movies/Media in General
Dirty Punker
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I just started watching 1989's The Killer (shaping up to be one of my favourite movies as I loved Max Payne 1). Without giving too much away, there is an assasination with a sniper rifle and it cuts between The Killer, the scope and the drum that was being played in the ceremony. Thunderball, no doubt.
After fleeing a hospital, he stole the policemen's key so that they couldn't get away. Very The Man With The Golden Gun.
If anyone wants to chime in, move this thread etc. it would be very much appreciated. Maybe trivia challenge would've been a better bet.
EDIT: He also uses a PPK as a backup weapon.
After fleeing a hospital, he stole the policemen's key so that they couldn't get away. Very The Man With The Golden Gun.
If anyone wants to chime in, move this thread etc. it would be very much appreciated. Maybe trivia challenge would've been a better bet.
EDIT: He also uses a PPK as a backup weapon.
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Peter Sellers introduces Ursula Andress as "a personal friend of James Bond's"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03G-exTvWIs
Was Mie Hama in that movie or one of the other YOLT girls?
1) In In Like Flint, SPECTRE is directly referenced, and there is a Bond-like 0008.
2) Clifton James plays a very J.W. Pepper-like sheriff n both Silverstreak and Superman II.
3) Sean Connery's British spy character in The Rock was imprisoned in 1967, the year Connery first quit as 007.
4) George Lazenby cameos as J.B. while driving an Aston Martin in The Return of the Man from UNCLE.
5) More or less in reverse, but John Barry's "007" sounds like a pastiche of Bobby Darin's "Somewhere Beyond the Sea," and "You Only Live Twice" sounds like a pastiche of Doris Day's "Secret Love." Of course, it's oft been reported that "Goldfinger" sounds like a pastiche of "Moon River." All of these were songs that appeared in movies. For that matter, elements of the Bond songs have turned up in pop songs, and the soundtrack to The Incredibles borrows a lot from Bond.
6) Lots of movies rip off what later became a signature for Bond movies (which themselves ripped it off from other movies): The suave hero in the tuxedo -- Indiana Jones, Arnold in True Lies, etc.
7) Lots of parodies of Bond have appeared on TV and in film. Roger Moore famously guested as Bond in a British comedy program before he got the role, for instance, and Get Smart had episodes based on Bond, the best of which might have been the funny but offensive character The Craw.
8) XXX, of course, had in addition to a Bond-like plot, a British spy dispatched by the enemy at the beginning.
9) Pierce Brosnan appeared as a Roger Moore-like Bond in a series of Coca Cola commercials before getting the Bond role.
10) Various TV shows and movies have had the spy hero using a Walther PPK -- for instance, TV's The Equalizer used one.
Not a movie, but in the TV show Mr Sloane, Nick Frost goes on a date to see OHMSS, and on the way back says that he reckons 'the new guy' will be Bond for many more years to come.
@ Gassy Man, actually the year that John Patrick Mason was imprisoned in Alcatraz in The Rock was 1962(the year of Dr. No's release) and he escaped in 1963( in reality this was the year Alcatraz closed).
The villain steals famous art made of Gold. When Jonathan Hart faces him in his lair where all the Gold items are stored the score twice goes into the Goldfinger melody, clearly.
https://youtu.be/FIykickZlHo
you can hear it at 40:30 to 41:00 in the episode
Underwater city.......
that's the one where Ace Rimmer returns, dying, and asks Arnold Rimmer to take his place, thus allowing the actor Chris Barrie to quit the series
we first see Ace in the midst of an adventure that combines Indiana Jones with 007: he is on board a WWII era plane, held prisoner by a Gestapo officer. Ace: "You expect me to concede?" Gestapo officer: "No Mr. Rimmer, I expect you to die!". The officer then throws a stuffed alligator at Ace, and leaves the plane with the only parachute. Ace wrestles the alligator in midair without a parachute, then catches up with the gestapo officer and steals the parachute from him. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYfnWRp1Q0 )
What a guy!
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Bond: “I must be dreaming.”
Monday can only get better...getting a bit thin now, but you have to try.
Anyone else want to chip in?
Someone's a Bond fan on the art direction team. I mean... it's a sign that I have got to give it a shot...
Also, on Kill Bill and Skyfall.
I know silhouettes and Bond go way back but was this intentional?
maybe if you can find a Bond image that precedes Kill Bill, in our universe where Steven Hawking claims time only moves in one direction...
Tarantino is a Bond fan so the influence on that scene is quite possible, its just the data selected to prove it is flawed
Talking about Skyfall having a fight scene shot with silhouettes in Kill Bill fashion.
Should've made that clearer and will definitely use the Stephen Hawking thing, very clever -{
As far as I'm concerned there hadn't been a fight scene with silhouettes in a Bond film.
Lots of naked ladies but no Bond fights (unless Thunderball's underwater sequence counts and maybe the spear guns shot in the titles and or I'm misremembering), so in effect, it could be that Kill Bill's silhouette fight influenced the direction of the Skyfall fight.
FBI forensics specialist Albert Rosenfeld (Miguel Ferrer, from RoboCop) identifies the gun that was used to shoot Agent Cooper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf0ZvY2usbY