Obscure Bond References in Movies/Media in General

Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
edited June 2017 in General James Bond Chat
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.
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  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,907MI6 Agent
    What's New Pussycat (1965)
    Peter Sellers introduces Ursula Andress as "a personal friend of James Bond's"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03G-exTvWIs
  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    :)) :)) :)) :)) {[]

    Was Mie Hama in that movie or one of the other YOLT girls?
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Don't think so, unless one of the very minor actresses in Pussycat was also in YOLT.
  • Matt SMatt S Oh Cult Voodoo ShopPosts: 6,596MI6 Agent
    Did Dick Tracy ever return the favour?
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  • Gassy ManGassy Man USAPosts: 2,972MI6 Agent
    Lots of references over the years, some of them a wonder legally and not including the obvious rip offs:

    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.
  • MilleniumForceMilleniumForce LondonPosts: 1,214MI6 Agent
    The Wolverine - Wolverine himself throws a guy out a window, and is asked how he knew there was a pool down there, to which he replies he didn't. A reference to DAF.
    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.
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  • PPK 7.65mmPPK 7.65mm Saratoga Springs NY USAPosts: 1,227MI6 Agent
    edited June 2017
    The animated film Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm (1993) has two references that are pretty obscure. The character of Carl Beaumont is visually based on Marc Ange Draco from OHMSS, and during the climax The Joker attempts to escape via a jetpack that is modeled after the one seen in Thunderball. In The Rock, Sean Connery says the line "But of course you are." to Nicholas Cage' character a line Connery (as 007) had previously said to Plenty O'Toole in DAF.

    @ 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).
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,907MI6 Agent
    edited June 2017
    in Mel Brooks' 1977 film High Anxiety, there is an evil henchman named Braces
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  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    in Mel Brooks' 1997 film High Anxiety, there is an evil henchman named Braces
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    That's actually Dolly after "Face-Off" surgery.
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  • Gassy ManGassy Man USAPosts: 2,972MI6 Agent
    PPK 7.65mm wrote:
    The animated film Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm (1993) has two references that pretty obscure. The character of Carl Beaumont is visually based on Marc Ange Draco from OHMSS, and during the climax The Joker attempts to escape via a jetpack that modeled after the one seen in Thunderball. In The Rock, Sean Connery says the line "But of course you are." to Nicholas Cage' character a line Connery (as 007) had previously said to Plenty O'Toole in DAF.

    @ 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).
    Ah, I'm misremembering then. I saw the movie when it first came out and caught the reference but not the date -- thanks!
  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    First time I watched Duran Duran's Rio music video and the woman coming out of the water (with a knife, no less) is a reference to Honey Ryder from Dr No, 20 years after the release of the movie.
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  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 SwitzerlandPosts: 870MI6 Agent
    The Hart To Hart episode "Solid Gold Murder" from season two:

    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
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  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    George Clooney's character Jack in " the American" uses a ppk he also has an omega watch and persol sunglasses.
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    In " Entrapment" starring Sean connery the alarm code during the initial art theft is 1007
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • PPK 7.65mmPPK 7.65mm Saratoga Springs NY USAPosts: 1,227MI6 Agent
    In The Simpsons Movie (2007) when Homer enters the supply bunker prior to climbing the dome over Springfield, the Jetpack from Thunderball is seen hanging on the wall behind him.
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,907MI6 Agent
    edited July 2017
    Red Dwarf season VII episode 2 Stoke Me a Clipper
    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!
  • welshboy78welshboy78 Posts: 10,292MI6 Agent
    Trainspotting and Trainspotting 2 have quite a lot
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  • walther p99walther p99 NJPosts: 3,416MI6 Agent
    During an episode of the show White Collar Neal Caffrey is given a rebreather that looks a lot like the Thunderball one and quips "somebody's been watching Thunderball". In a later episode Neal's FBI handler tells him that his nick-name among the FBI before his capture was "James Bonds" since he was a suspected Bond forger. At which point both characters go "Bonds....James Bonds", then Neal asks if he would like another drink before saying "shaken not stirred" in a Connery accent.
  • MondayMonday Posts: 1MI6 Agent
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  • Enjoying DeathEnjoying Death Toronto, ON CANADAPosts: 1,231MI6 Agent
    Seems we have a spammer in our midst. :(
    Pussy Galore: “My name is Pussy Galore.”
    Bond: “I must be dreaming.”
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    Manic Monday! :D
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    "Mondays are Hell "
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    Tell me why I don't like Mondays...I want to shoot, oh, oh oh, the whole day down!

    Monday can only get better...getting a bit thin now, but you have to try. :D

    Anyone else want to chip in?
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    He's certainly not one of The Happy Mondays. ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    edited March 2018
    Watching Neon Genesis Evangelion for the first time...
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    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.
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    I know silhouettes and Bond go way back but was this intentional?
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  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,907MI6 Agent
    wait isn't the second image Skyfall?
    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
  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    wait isn't the second image Skyfall?
    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
    Not talking about Kill Bill.
    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.
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  • Bond fan from OzBond fan from Oz Posts: 88MI6 Agent
    The Austin Powers movies, of course.
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,907MI6 Agent
    from Twin Peaks:
    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
    (btw we later learn it's Sherrif Truman's girlfriend Josie who shot Cooper)
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