Tag: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
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Thy dawn, oh master of the world
Tracy Draco’s performative poetry-off with Blofeld in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service feels a bit puzzling at first. The “master” is framed as a single figure as the center of attention, someone for whom the world quite literally “wakes,” and… Read More →
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Character Spotlight: George Lazenby as James Bond
It’s a challenge to distill any Bond actor into 007 sentences or less, but I’ll try my best with George Lazenby. His singular outing in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is too often reduced to a footnote, when in truth… Read More →
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No Time To Have All The Time
Despite the atrocity that is James Bond’s death at the end of No Time To Die, I enjoyed the throwback tune of We Have All the Time in the World by Louis Armstrong. It was a nice nod to On… Read More →
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Mr. and Mrs. James Bond
Looking back at the wedding of Bond and Tracy in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, I’ve always been curious about the guest list and the overall scale of the event. The film provides very little concrete information, but the toast… Read More →
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Distinguished representatives of the world press
Marc-Ange Draco’s exchange with Blofeld’s men as they approach Schilthorn by helicopter in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is a masterclass in controlled deception. Posing the aircraft as a Red Cross medevac and its passengers as representatives of the “world… Read More →
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Anything your heart could wish for
Blofeld’s lavish promises to Tracy in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service are meant to seduce and intimidate, but her composure signals quiet defiance rather than giving in to temptation. Despite his increasingly unsettling persistence, she maintains control by deflecting and… Read More →
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For King and Country: 1940s Bond 26
Setting a James Bond film in the 1940s would be ambitious, but it’s likely the earliest period in which the character could plausibly exist on screen. World War II provides a natural and historically grounded antagonist in Nazi Germany, aligning… Read More →
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Just a slight stiffness coming on…
Yeah, due to the altitude no doubt. This innuendo from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is unapologetically blunt and signals Bond’s sexual confidence in a room full of women while one writes her room number on his inner thigh with… Read More →
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He had lots of guts!
This Bond quip from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was quite the graphic tongue-in-cheek line, based on the circumstances, and slightly overreaches. Delivered as Bond and Tracy launch into the ski chase, the line follows a henchman’s grisly death in… Read More →
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We’ll be going on soon
If not for “we have all the time in the world” having eight words and not seven, that would obviously be the title for this post to abide by the site’s rules, but alas: this devastating line from the final… Read More →
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