Tag: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
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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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Flashing the Union Jack is obviously unwise
Sure, it made for an iconic moment when Bond parachuted into frame beneath it in The Spy Who Loved Me, but let’s be honest, advertising your national allegiance mid-mission is hardly the move of a stealth operative. It looks brilliant… Read More →
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is trippy
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is a fascinating entry in the Bond canon. Released in 1969, it perfectly reflects the experimental spirit of its era, emblematic of the late-’60s cultural transformation. Blofeld’s mountain-top complex borders on science fiction, with his… Read More →
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Argent on a chevron sable, three bezants
The reveal of the Bond family coat of arms in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is one of those quietly fascinating moments in the franchise’s lore. “Orbis non sufficit” (the world is not enough) turns out to be more than… Read More →
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Who is the biggest Bond dork? Lazenby
It’s a combination of his bellowing, sometimes overbearing voice, hist outfit choices and probably just culturally some of the aspects of the late 1960s/early 1970s that crowns George Lazenby as the dorkiest Bond overall. Doesn’t matter though – On Her… Read More →
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Unusually small for Nymphalis polychloros
Quite the random line from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service…why did they have M suddenly have a butterfly collection hobby? Surely a writer lost a bet and insisted having “lepidoptery” in the script…? Read More →
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