Month: January 2026
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Brushing up on a little Danish
One of Bond’s many sly euphemisms for sex, this particular quip comes from Tomorrow Never Dies, during a scene at Cambridge where Bond is interrupted mid-tryst by an urgent call from Moneypenny. Unfazed, Bond answers the phone without missing a… Read More →
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But James, I need you!
Bond’s abrupt departure from the romantic log cabin at the opening of The Spy Who Loved Me is prompted by an urgent summons from M, and it immediately crystallizes the character’s priorities. When his companion protests with the above, Bond’s… Read More →
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Character Spotlight: Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb
Lotte Lenya is perfectly cast as the curmudgeon SPECTRE Number 3 Rosa Klebb in From Russia With Love. Lenya strips Klebb of any conventional glamour, with a low, monotone voice and an almost teacher-like authoritativeness that gives disciplinarian nun vibes.… Read More →
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The Thunderball score is intoxicating
There’s something genuinely intoxicating about the Thunderball score that other Bond movies have never quite replicated. Even when the movie’s pacing starts to drag or the plot gets a bit murky, John Barry’s music acts as this incredible, seductive tether… Read More →
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Careful, James! It’s 5,000 years old!
Bond and Melina’s two-person submarine sequence in For Your Eyes Only briefly places Bond outside his usual element before reaffirming his trademark competence. While his Royal Navy background makes some familiarity with underwater operations plausible, deep-sea exploration hardly feels like… Read More →
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I always thought I loved animals
This exchange between Scaramanga and Bond in The Man with the Golden Gun is one of the movie’s more revealing and unsettling moments. Scaramanga recounts a childhood affection for animals, only to describe how that sentiment curdled after he witnessed… Read More →
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Organic espionage: Bond’s Dr. No hair trick
One of the most elegant examples of Bond’s intuition and tradecraft appears in Dr. No, when he uses a single strand of hair stretched across his hotel room closet to detect whether someone enters in his absence. He reinforces the… Read More →
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Liver not too good, it’s definitely him
Following the North Korean prisoner exchange in Die Another Day, Bond undergoes a full-body medical scan with mostly normal readings such as a normal heart rate, stable blood pressure, scorpion poison/antidote they surmise resulted from torture, but otherwise no obvious… Read More →
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“James Bond” as a codename?
The recurring notion that “James Bond” might be a transferable codename is a misguided attempt to tidy up the ending of No Time To Die, and if it comes to fruition, this Bond fan will not be happy. It’s an… Read More →
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Jealous husbands, outraged chefs, humiliated tailors!
So here’s who M says would pay $1 million to have Bond killed in The Man With The Golden Gun, where he also mentions that the “list is endless.” Telling a double-oh that the “list is endless” is a harsh… Read More →
Filed Under: The Man With The Golden Gun