Tag: You Only Live Twice
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One for yourself, one for your dreams
The above lyric from You Only Live Twice has always felt like a euphemism of encouragement. But take it seriously and it becomes a sly invitation to reinvent Bond. Imagine a Bond 26 under Denis Villeneuve that leans into a… Read More →
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How’s that for Japanese efficiency?
Tiger Tanaka’s dispatch of Bond and Aki’s pursuers in You Only Live Twice is very satisfying. Instead of sending backup in the form of another car, he instead sends a helicopter to magnetically pick up the pursuers’ car and fantastically… Read More →
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Bond 26 news on old release dates
Why not drop Bond 26 news on previous Bond movie UK release dates? I think it’s a simple marketing tactic that gives fans the Bond 26 news they want and pay homage to Bond movies of old. There are 25… Read More →
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Impregnable?
James Bond’s dry one-word jab at Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice is wit in its most lethal form. By calmly recycling Blofeld’s own boast about the control room’s supposed invulnerability, Bond punctures the moment like a verbal… Read More →
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Well, I won’t need these
Bond’s throwaway line in You Only Live Twice is a wry nod to oysters’ supposed aphrodisiac qualities after he realizes Kissy Suzuki has no intention of maintaining their honeymoon “appearances.” The joke lands lightly, but it leans on an overblown… Read More →
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Rubbish. Bond is alive.
This is one of Blofeld’s most revealing lines in You Only Live Twice, precisely because of how irritated he sounds. He becomes visibly fed up with incompetence and, more pointedly, with James Bond’s relentless refusal to die. That irritation curdles… Read More →
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This is extortion. Extortion is my business.
Blofeld is unusually forthright about his intentions in You Only Live Twice, and nowhere is that clearer than this curt admission. When he demands $100 million in gold bullion from Japanese government officials, he does so without euphemism, openly acknowledging… Read More →
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It can save your life, this cigarette.
Tiger Tanaka delivers this line in You Only Live Twice with his characteristic dry wit. The humor isn’t overt, but it lands effectively because it’s attached to one of the movie’s more memorable gadgets: the rocket-firing cigarette, aptly nicknamed the… Read More →
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Oh, the things I do for England.
Variations of this line surface throughout the Bond franchise, but its use in You Only Live Twice stands out for how overtly self-satisfied it feels. Here, Bond delivers it not as a weary acknowledgment of duty, but as a triumphant… Read More →
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Really? Well, I like the plumbing.
In You Only Live Twice, Bond is visibly astonished when he visits Tiger Tanaka’s residence and is treated to a traditional Japanese spa experience attended by several scantily clad women. The aforementioned humorous quip perfectly captures his mix of surprise… Read More →
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