Tag: Octopussy

In Octopussy, Bond’s desperate escape from Kamal Khan’s hunting party ends with him scrambling aboard a tourist boat. When asked if he’s with the group, his exhausted reply above is a perfectly timed quip. The scene is also a fun… Read More →

Bond dusts off his biology hat in Octopussy when he identifies the octopus tattoo as belonging to the genus Hapalochlaena, a “sign of an old secret order of female bandits and smugglers.” Roger Moore’s Bond always seems to enjoy showing… Read More →

Bond’s feast with Kamal Khan in Octopussy is an all-time Bond/villain dinner scene. Roger Moore’s queasy reaction when the cooked sheep’s head arrives, eyeballs and all, ranks among his funniest facial expressions, recalling his look of utter dismay after accidentally… Read More →

In Octopussy, Bond delivers this familiar saying to Magda while angling for a goodbye kiss. Once denied, it’s no skin off his back since he only pretends to be disappointed. He already knows she’s about to steal the fake Fabergé… Read More →

Octopussy‘s hot air balloon raid into Kamal Khan’s fortress stands as one of the most bizarre and uninspired action sequences of any Bond movie. Starring elephants, generically tame fistfights, swords and a weird man that yells and breaks down the… Read More →

This is one of those baffling editorial choices that refuses to justify itself. In Octopussy, as Roger Moore’s Bond swings on vines through the jungle evading Khan’s men, the added Tarzan yell turns what should be a tense escape into… Read More →

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy Rita Coolidge’s theme All Time High for Octopussy, but I’ve always wondered what a theme would be like using the unique (and vulgar?) title in the lyrics. Thanks to generative AI, we can do… Read More →

The death of General Orlov in Octopussy brings a fitting end to one of the most complex plots of any Bond movie. In short, his plan to detonate a nuclear device on a U.S. base in West Germany is designed… Read More →

M’s warning to Bond in Octopussy underscores how deeply the Cold War shaped Bond movies’ dramatic stakes. Set against the Cold War tension between United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, Bond movies often relied on plausible deniability as a narrative… Read More →