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Live and Let Die’s official theme artist?
Alright, we obviously already know the awesomeness of “Live And Let Die,” performed by Paul McCartney and Wings. However, I’m getting a little semantic here, because I seem to have a minor internal dispute over exactly who gets the official artist credit. In the movie itself, the Live And Let… Read More →
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Whose, uh, funeral is it? Yours!
Agent Hamilton’s death at the beginning of Live And Let Die is particularly brutal, especially because he is casually observing a New Orleans funeral procession when a seemingly innocent question gets him stabbed in the gut. The close-up staging makes the killing even more uncomfortable, with the camera lingering just… Read More →
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What else do you call your bottom?
In GoldenEye, Natalya Simonova understandably suspects something more suggestive when Boris Grishenko offers his rather cheeky password riddle, “What I sit on but I don’t take with me?” There are certainly plenty of alternative answers involving one’s backside, but Bond cuts through the distraction and gives the obvious answer: “chair.”… Read More →
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A world of avarice and deceit
James Bond, posing as Sir Hilary Bray, quickly accepts Irma Bunt’s explanation for the heavy security and armed guards surrounding Piz Gloria. Although he’s technically undercover as a genealogist, his observation about the world feels remarkably prescient, perhaps even more so today than it did when On Her Majesty’s Secret… Read More →
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James Bond’s dynamic vices
Historically, James Bond’s bad habits have mainly centered around promiscuity, alcohol and gambling, but over the years each has ebbed and flowed. For instance, during the Craig era, his long-term relationships with Vesper Lynd and Madeleine Swann have noticeably curbed his womanizing, giving him less of the revolving-door approach to… Read More →
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Character Witness: Sheriff J.W. Pepper
Now I don’t know who this James Bond fella thinks he is, but he sure knows how to tear up a Louisiana bayou. I’d just pulled over a regular Ben-Hur doing 95 minimum when boats started jumping roads and wrecking cars and everybody generally acting like fools. Then that Englishman… Read More →