Similarities between Dr No and LALD

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  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    Bond's Personality didn't really lighten up until GF.
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Sorry if someone has already mentioned this but. In Dr No Bond says Ciao to Moneypenny as
    He leaves the office. While in LALD Moneypenny also says Ciao to Bond on leaving his home ?
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • welshguy34welshguy34 Posts: 219MI6 Agent
    In regards to Bond asking quarrel to fetch his Shoes, I don't think anything racist was meant by it.

    Perhaps not, but it certainly comes across that way. Maybe I'm especially sensitive to it as a Black man who has occasionally been spoken to that way by White people, but I wince every time I view that scene.

    Yes I agree. I am white and find that line a bit offensive towards Quarrel.
  • zaphod99zaphod99 Posts: 1,415MI6 Agent
    welshguy34 wrote:
    In regards to Bond asking quarrel to fetch his Shoes, I don't think anything racist was meant by it.

    Perhaps not, but it certainly comes across that way. Maybe I'm especially sensitive to it as a Black man who has occasionally been spoken to that way by White people, but I wince every time I view that scene.

    Yes I agree. I am white and find that line a bit offensive towards Quarrel.

    It does indeed jar. However it has some counterweight in as much as Bonds fury at Quarel's death which he clearly does feel, particularly in the novel.
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  • MarcAngeDracoMarcAngeDraco Piz GloriaPosts: 564MI6 Agent
    Both feature a secondary double agent Bond girl. Further, Bond is well aware of it and sleeps with them anyway (LALD is a little more questionable, but Moore does say that he wouldn't have killed her before he slept with Rosie).
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,281Chief of Staff
    Yes, it's in the list in post 17 above.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    There are quite a few. Some accidental, some ( I'm sure) deliberate. {[]
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • sinlumsinlum Posts: 233MI6 Agent
    edited December 2024

    I'm resurrecting an old thread again 😁. Here are some I thought of:

    • Bond gets a hostile reception from the locals upon initially meeting them - Quarrel is hostile towards Bond in DN as are the locals following Bond's arrival in Harlem in LALD
    • Bond uses "normal" gadgets to aid him in his mission - the Geiger counter in DN and the morse code transmitter in LALD
    • Scenes involving Bond with Honey in DN and Rosie in LALD near water are in similar locations
    • Bond lands on both the villains' islands under the cover of darkness
    • Bond protecting Honey from the bullets on the beach in DN is similar to how Bond protects Soliatire from the shots from the helicopter in LALD
    • Bond is left alone by the villains only to escape unnoticed - Bond escapes his prison cell in DN and also escapes being eaten by the crocodiles in LALD


  • IcePakIcePak Perth, Western AustraliaPosts: 183MI6 Agent

    As per my post made last month:


    Has anyone else noticed that there are some similarities between the films of the Connery and Moore eras? That in most cases, the Moore films are somewhat remakes of Connery's films?


    Live and Let Die - Dr No

    Both are set in Jamacia, both spend time establishing the Bond character, and in both Bond has to uncover the identity of a secret villain who's killing people.


    The Man with the Golden Gun - Diamonds Are Forever

    Both films have cheap production and silly plot elements, focusing more on comedy.


    The Spy Who Loved Me - You Only Live Twice

    These two films are epic adventures on a grand scale in which Bond has to overcome a villain that threatens to bring about the end of civilisation.


    Moonraker - You Only Live Twice

    Moonraker is basically a remake of Spy, drawing on that film's plot and the silliness of YOLT.


    For Your Eyes Only - From Russia with Love

    Two tense cold war thrillers that are far more subdued than most of the other films in the series.


    Octopussy - Thunderball

    Two large scale films in which the first half shows Bond enjoying life in a foreign location, while the second half is more tense and serious as Bond works to overcome a nuclear threat.


    A View to a Kill - Goldfinger

    Both films have Bond tracking down an industrialist who's set on destroying some aspect of society so that he can profit.

    1. CR 2. OHMSS 3. GE 4. TLD 5. OP 6. FRwL 7. FYEO
    8. TMwtGG 9. AVtaK 10. TSWLM 11. SF 12. LtK 13. TND 14. YOLT
    15. NTtD 16. MR 17. LaLD 18. GF 19. SP 20. DN 21. TB
    22. TWiNE 23. DAD 24. QoS 25. DaF
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