Time For 007

James Bond movie musings. 007 words, 007 sentences. Twice daily at 10:07 AM/PM UTC.
A View To A Kill (1985)

And I’m Dick Tracy

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A View To A Kill delivers one of those wonderfully random Bond moments when a police officer dismisses Bond’s famous introduction with the above line plus “And you’re still under arrest” after Zorin frames him for murder. It feels both completely out of place but oddly fitting considering the absurdity of the following scene where Bond steals a fire engine and leads police on an exaggerated chase through San Francisco. It’s easily one of the campiest sequences in the movie and is the perfect, strange blend of humor and chaos that defines the movie as a whole.

So yeah. Now you know that the comic detective Dick Tracy gets a mention in the middle of a 007 adventure.

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The World Is Not Enough (1999)
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