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Octopussy: Vijay’s death is tragic and unexpected
Vijay’s death in Octopussy is one of the movie’s most jarring creative choices. As Bond’s local MI6 contact in India, Vijay’s levity and upbeat demeanor complement Roger Moore’s lighter interpretation of 007. Their dynamic adds texture to Bond’s time on the subcontinent and helps ground the early portion of the… Read More →
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Rumor: Jacob Elordi OFFERED James Bond role
The Jacob Elordi James Bond rumor has escalated quickly, moving from quiet audition chatter to reports that he has actually been offered the role, according to the celebrity gossip account DeuxMoi. If true, the Australian actor would follow George Lazenby as only the second performer from Australia to play 007.… Read More →
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Alimentary, Dr. Leiter.
In Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond delivers one of the series’ more gross wordplays when explaining to covert CIA agent Felix Leiter where smuggled diamonds are concealed inside a corpse. The line cleverly riffs on Sherlock Holmes’ famous line “Elementary, my dear Watson,” replacing an intellectual phrase with an anatomical… Read More →
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Character Spotlight: Gemma Arterton as Strawberry Fields
In Quantum of Solace, Strawberry Fields begins as a confident MI6 operative tasked with steering James Bond away from Bolivia, only to be swiftly disarmed and bedded by him. For such a short appearance, Fields has quite an effect on Bond, and it’s no surprise given her stark namesake hair… Read More →
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Bond’s surprisingly careless honeytrap mistake and redemption
In From Russia with Love, Bond’s decision to sleep with Tatiana Romanova directly beneath a mirror feels uncharacteristically sloppy for a seasoned operative who already knows she’s entangled in espionage. The predictable result is surveillance by Rosa Klebb, turning intimacy into leverage for a staged murder plot, as revealed by… Read More →
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Natalya Simonova’s puzzling Severnaya dogsled escape
In GoldenEye, the implied escape of Natalya Simonova from the destroyed Severnaya facility is an oddity. Thrust into the Arctic cold in office clothes, she conveniently stumbles upon an unattended dogsled, an oddly primitive lifeline given the scale of the attack and the likelihood of an official security response to… Read More →
Filed Under: GoldenEye