I did like how Silva acknowledged it though. "This is exhausting" and even the roll of the eyes when he was stabbed. :lol
Questions About Bond Films that You Have been Afraid to Ask SPOILERS
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I honestly can't recall that at all. i saw him sink down and then into the credits :-/
I believe you just see hands very briefly right before the intro theme starts
Solo4114
Master Member
Fun thread.
I just watched You Only Live Twice last night. Setting aside the rather glaring continuity error in the subsequent film (OHMSS), I have a few questions about YOLT.
At several points in the film, Bond just happens to have some gadget or piece of equipment with him that he needs in the moment. In several cases, this has not been previously introduced, either.
Examples:
- The safe-cracker that he brings with him to Osato.
- The ninja suit and hand a knee suction cups that he happens to have with him while disguised as a fisherman, and which do not appear under his clothing for most of the fisherman scenes, but which he has just as he needs to sneak into Blofeld's volcano lair.
Questions:
1. Where's he keeping all this stuff? (the safe cracker is in the jacket pocket, but the jacket shows no visible bulge)
2. WHY is he carrying around with him? He was going to meet Henderson so...he brought along his safe cracker?
At several points, Bond also dons clothing of his opponents. This includes wearing: (A) the outfit of Henderson's killer; (B) Bond AND all the astronauts wearing the jumpsuits of their guards; and (C) Bond wearing the space suit.
Question: How is it that everyone seems to fit into everyone else's clothing?
Bond also "disguises" himself as a Japanese man. Setting aside the more obvious "Why do you look like a white dude" questions (sorry, but fake epicanthic folds don't quite do it), Sean Connery is 6'2. Even if we assume the average height of his opponents is 5'9 (and I wouldn't be so sure of that in 1960s Japan)...
Question: Why does nobody notice that suddenly Phil who just came back from assassinating Henderson/the astronaut headed for the space shot/this newcomer to the village, is not quite half-a-foot taller?
Lastly:
Bond is launched via submarine tube to where he can swim to Japan undetected, instead of flying in. Setting aside the question of the effective range of the launcher, and the need to breathe during that period and an apparent lack of breathing apparatus...
Question: How did Bond get from the coast into downtown Tokyo...in a suit? Did someone meet him at the beach and take him to a stocked hotel room? Did he just happen to have a perfectly pressed, tailored suit under his wetsuit, including a set of dress shoes?
I just watched You Only Live Twice last night. Setting aside the rather glaring continuity error in the subsequent film (OHMSS), I have a few questions about YOLT.
At several points in the film, Bond just happens to have some gadget or piece of equipment with him that he needs in the moment. In several cases, this has not been previously introduced, either.
Examples:
- The safe-cracker that he brings with him to Osato.
- The ninja suit and hand a knee suction cups that he happens to have with him while disguised as a fisherman, and which do not appear under his clothing for most of the fisherman scenes, but which he has just as he needs to sneak into Blofeld's volcano lair.
Questions:
1. Where's he keeping all this stuff? (the safe cracker is in the jacket pocket, but the jacket shows no visible bulge)
2. WHY is he carrying around with him? He was going to meet Henderson so...he brought along his safe cracker?
At several points, Bond also dons clothing of his opponents. This includes wearing: (A) the outfit of Henderson's killer; (B) Bond AND all the astronauts wearing the jumpsuits of their guards; and (C) Bond wearing the space suit.
Question: How is it that everyone seems to fit into everyone else's clothing?
Bond also "disguises" himself as a Japanese man. Setting aside the more obvious "Why do you look like a white dude" questions (sorry, but fake epicanthic folds don't quite do it), Sean Connery is 6'2. Even if we assume the average height of his opponents is 5'9 (and I wouldn't be so sure of that in 1960s Japan)...
Question: Why does nobody notice that suddenly Phil who just came back from assassinating Henderson/the astronaut headed for the space shot/this newcomer to the village, is not quite half-a-foot taller?
Lastly:
Bond is launched via submarine tube to where he can swim to Japan undetected, instead of flying in. Setting aside the question of the effective range of the launcher, and the need to breathe during that period and an apparent lack of breathing apparatus...
Question: How did Bond get from the coast into downtown Tokyo...in a suit? Did someone meet him at the beach and take him to a stocked hotel room? Did he just happen to have a perfectly pressed, tailored suit under his wetsuit, including a set of dress shoes?
laserpistol76
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Yeah, I didn't see that either.
laserpistol76
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Has anyone noticed that in Casino Royale, Bond is armed with a P99, but in Quantum of Solace, he has a PPK? I read that QOS takes place a few minutes after CR. I haven't seen much of QOS, but this has been bothering me about whether Bond had it all along, or the writers thought that he should go back to the PPK.
Lutso
Sr Member
Are you talking about the big ethereal ghost hands? Because I think that's just an allusion in the credit sequence...not an actual giant person pulling him out...
darthgordon
Sr Member
Okay, my question is about Die Another Day. What the heck was going on with Bond's whole, lowering his heartbeat to flat line? I was not aware that this was a skill that Bond (or anyone else for that matter) possessed.
I thought I saw regular hands grab him right before the title sequence started.
Indeed! Love Bond talk.
Bigger on the inside? :lol
Definitely some inconsistency with this stuff although conceivably it's not a huge problem. I don't recall the safe cracker being so large that it would cause a huge bulge.
Always good to have on you. Like a lock pick. :lol
As for the ninja stuff he got it from Tiger and brings it on the boat with him in that bag he has over his shoulder.
Movie magic!
For the astronauts it's not far fetched, they're large athletic men like he is. The Japanese killer? Well let's talk about that... You can see the jacket it tight on him and it's dark so I'm willing to buy it so far as getting to the car and rolling around in the back but as soon as that big guy went to carry him it would be dead obvious. Clearly this was not thought through...
The astronaut as I said I'll buy but Connery is just about the least convincing Japanese man out there. comes down to bad writing. If they had done OHMSS and YOLT in the right order we could have had a GREAT YOLT but this outing is true only in the names of a few characters.
He did in Goldfinger... So why not?
First rule about DAD...
We don't talk about DAD.
:lol
I was under the impression that he didn't do anything with his heart he merely interrupted the machinery somehow.
I don't think so honestly. Have to see it again.
That said, someone finds a body in the water they're going to fish it out, or maybe he regained consciousness and crawled out on his own. stranger things have happened!
Just a writers thing. The last scene of CR doesn't show any sidearm so we can just assume that between coming back from Vesper's death and going to get Mr. White he makes the change.
thegreatgalling
Master Member
This is too weird. I watched this last night too (bluray, not on TV) and had many of these questions. That is crazy. I guess since Skyfall, we have all been in a little Bond phase. But was not expecting to see my same questions for YOLT posted. :lol
The safe cracker was asking a little too much of the audience to buy that he just had it with him. (Had this thought last night)
I also never really bought WHY Bond needed to be Japanese for 10.5 seconds anyway and go through all the rigamarole of a wedding. OK, it gives Bond a disguise (like you said, a great one for the 8 foot hairy dude :lol) to get close to the suspicious areas without arousing suspicion, but not really. (Wouldn't Blofeld's thugs kill anyone near anyway, Japanese or Greek?). Also, was it because Bond took the private boat? Why didn't Tanaka just take him? His need to become Japanese seemed weak.
Finally, the scene where Blofeld aims his gun is just silly. I actually like when in the Connery movies, someone always shoots the bad guy RIGHT before he takes the shot, but at least in the other movies, the event is pretty quick. Here, the execution fails (pun intended). He shoots Osato "That is the price of failure, Mr. Bond" - Then motions for Bond to walk through the passage way, he sits in his rail car, slowly aims and says "Gooooooodbyyyyeeee Mr. Bonddddd" and keeps his hand out for at least six seconds before the star hits his arm...I just couldn't get Scotty from Austin Powers' voice out of my head saying he could just shoot him in the head. Blofeld could have killed Bond about 400 times in that scene and the preceding one.
I've been on one for about 30 years... :lol
A small throwback to the books. Bond is much less... "distinguishable" in them and he frequently undergoes disguises of some sort. Agreed though, dumb.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Although I like YOLT for what it is it's the first film in the Bond franchise that really isn't that good. Still head and shoulders above DAF and much of the Moore entries but at times it's almost a parody of itself.
thegreatgalling
Master Member
Ya, with regard to the YOLT Ninja outfit, this part didn't bother me so much since Bond just went through two days of intense Ninja training. It makes sense he'd have his bag. I assumed he changed quickly at the cut scene and it might be a bit of time past that we just don't see.
thegreatgalling
Master Member
I got this sense. The sad thing is that my love for the Bond movies has evolved with the Craig films. Don't get me wrong, I have seen every single one more times than I can count and know every word - even DAD :lol. When I was 14, YOLT was amazing. Then after Austin Powers it became slightly silly, and after QoS it was almost absurd.
thegreatgalling
Master Member
I was reading an interesting thread at AJB that said each Bond tends to have one over the top movie - It def. made me think. Connery had YOLT, Moore had Moonraker, Lazenby had OHMSS :lol, Dalton had License to Kill (weak example), and Brosnan had DAD. Rumor has it Craig's next Bond film takes place on the sun.
To be fair Connery was phoning it in at this point as well. It's a shame.
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