Spotted References to Other Bond Films in NTTD? (Spoilers)
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If you see any references to other Bond films in NTTD, post them here!
On Her Majesty's Secret Service:
-The 'all the time in the world' quote and music.
-The theme tune being played in the background.
The Living Daylights:
-The Aston Martin V8.
Multiple Roger Moore/Timothy Dalton films:
-The painting of Robert Brown as M.
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Dr No:
-The coloured dots on the screen in the opening titles.
I can think of some more specific references as well:
Dr. No:
Obruchev is killed by falling into boiling water in a villain's lair- the same death as Dr. No
Goldfinger:
the Aston Martin DB5's updated gadgets
Thunderball:
Primo in NTTD has a deformed/missing eye, like Emilio Largo
On Her Majesty's Secret Service:
Repeated music cues and quotes; the virus-related plot; Bond and Madelaine's romance appears heavily inspired by Bond and Tracy
Diamonds are Forever:
Bond visits an oil rig platform
For Your Eyes Only:
Bond kills Logan Ash in revenge for Felix's death by crushing him under a car. In FYEO, Bond kills Locque in revenge for Luigi's death by kicking his car off a cliff.
Bond arguably is responsible for killing Blofeld in both FYEO and NTTD.
Octopussy:
The stealth plane/submarine is similar to the Acrostar jet in Octopussy.
The Living Daylights:
The Aston V8 returns.
GoldenEye:
Bond works with another 00 agent on a mission.
Bond visits Cuba.
Bond uses a motorbike to perform a stunt in the pre-title sequence.
"The spectre of defeat..."
Dr. No visual references are all over the place in Safin's lair. The large circular tunnels look like a large version of the air vent tubes through which Bond escapes. The place where Mathilde escapes from Safin has a large circular skylight with a net, virtually identical to that in the room where Dr. No gives professor Dent the spider to kill Bond with. There's probably more.
Bond killing the main villain by shooting him is from „TSWLM“.
Q having a tea set also is from „TSWLM“
Also, there definitely was a musical cue from „Tomorrow Never Dies“.
The villain‘s lair being blown up by the British Navy, also „TND“.
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Live And Let Die
When Nomi arrives at Bond's house and takes off her wig is both a nod and a subversion to the wig gag - "start by getting your head together" - from LALD.
For Your Eyes Only:
The scene with the Cessna floatplane flying away from the exploding ship looks just like the illustration on certain FYEO posters.
Goldeneye:
Bond's Omega watch has an EMP gadget which is kind of like a mini Goldeneye. And then as a visual gag when Bond uses it to destroy Primo's bionic eyeball, it becomes a literal golden eye.
Die Another Day:
I may be mistaken, but when Bond finds the cigar butt in his house, I think the label said Delectado.
The glider/submarine (I forget how it's referred to in the film) is a bit like the Switchblade gliders used in a very similar way in DAD.
Every single start to a bond film, when he turns and shoots the pistol to kill one of the guards in the round tunnel, making it look like the opening gun barrel sequence.
Well played Sir…well played!
Remind med of when Bond visits an oil platform?
...When Bond meets Felix and Logan on the sea platform near Cuba and Logan betrays them...not sure exactly what its for but I presumed some sort of oil drilling. Is this right?
"The spectre of defeat..."
It‘s a fishing cutter.
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OK, thanks for clearing that up. Sometimes its easy to miss these details in the cinema on first viewing...
"The spectre of defeat..."
Deliberately or not....
Bond's first fight with Primo in Matera takes choreography from Bond's first kill in Casino bathroom except it ends with into the wall not the sink...
Bond's last fight with Primo/cyclops takes choreography from the Hotel Splendide stairwell fight with Obanno.
The last time Bond sees Madeleine the light is very reminiscent of when she is falling asleep as he watches her in L'American in Spectre.
Obviously the Spectre ring Q uses to sequence the DNA of all the Craig era villains in Spectre is in the safe room in the Norway flashback.
I think the duralex glasses make a return when Bond has his second drink with Palomo 🥃
The plant in Madeleine's office (and the plant her daughter almost touches, I think) is the plant that's used to make Digitalis, the poison used on Bond in CR.
Bond throwing his visitors pass in the bin in Moneypenny’s office, very Connery throwing hats about to impress her.
The ‘air suits’ worn by the scientists when they are giving primo the ‘weapon’ are straight from the Dr No prop room.
Bonds stance on the motorcycle in intake is identical to the Skyfall/Istanbul stance
In SP Bond knocks out the guard in the Hoffler Clinic and says ‘Stay’ like he’s talking to a dog, Nomi does the same to someone on the island but says ‘Down Boy’
there were so many I lost count, and have forgotten!!!
Not a Bond film - but when the SPECTRE victims at the Cuban party die in a 'nanobot mist', with their faces hideously breaking out in boils, it reminds me of the climax of Christopher Lee's awful (but interestingly sub-Bondian) swan song as Hammer's Dracula, 'The Satanic Rites Of Dracula' (1973): this is a scene in which the Count's acolytes, corrupt establishment figures, die in a similarly grotesque fashion - the horsemen of his intended bubonic apocalypse - before the entire evil scheme is extinguished in a conflagration.
Maybe it was intentional or not but the helicopter arriving during the pursuit in Norway looked almost exactly like SIlva's arriving in SF. Not to mention the use of ear pieces by Bond and Paloma at the Cuba party was like Bond and Moneypenny in the Macau casino.
I was surprised they passed on the opportunity to have Bond say, 'don't touch your ear' again!
When Logan Ash leaves Bond and Felix on the boat I thought the limpet mine he uses to sink the ship is very reminiscent of the Goldeneye mines that Brosnan plants in Trevelyan's lair.
Not a Bond film, but the Safin's poison garden is 100% a reference to the YOLT novel, in which "Shatterhand" has a "Garden of Death" on his Japanese island.
I couldn't see them clearly, but are the explosives planted by Bond and Nomi in the lab not identical or very similar to the ones in Goldeneye planted by Bond and Alec ?
As Bond drives Madeleine away in the DB5, believing she's betrayed him, Craig's performance channels Dalton's in TLD as he drives after the mission to assassinate the sniper targeting Koskov: it's a mood of barely contained anger, coupled with a temporary recklessness as to consequences.
Nomi's cover for Jamaican clubland in her first scene recalls, for me, "freelance" in DN (played by 'Miss Jamaica' 1961, even though, in DN, the character's accent is Anglified) - or perhaps the Jamaican Martine (Paula) Beswick. (Indeed, I'd have loved to have seen a scene with Marguerite LeWars bar-hopping on a motor scooter in DN!) Nomi's discarding of her wig to reveal her short hair recalls Rosie Carver in LALD and her look, in the plane, wearing nattily framed shades, channels May Day in AVTAK. Lashana Lynch's vocalisation of her dialogue - accent, inflections and intonations - when playing Nomi as fully allied with Bond among the MI6 team, for the final act of the movie, is sometimes of a piece (to my ear) with Naomie Harris's in SF, thereafter and here.
When Bond, in his inflatable life boat, gazes down at the cigar, thinking of Leiter, who's just died, this recalls the significance of the lighter gifted to Bond by Della and Leiter in LTK (but with less development). In LTK, avenging Leiter is the main driver of Bond's motivation in the film whereas in NTTD, with even bigger personal stuff at stake for Bond, avenging Leiter is structurally relegated: it's more on a par, in a subsidiary plot, with vengeance for Lisl and Ferrara in FYEO.
The endearing Paloma feels to me like a re-working of TMWTGG's Mary Goodnight but with the twist that, unlike Goodnight, she actually has "excellent" competence as an agent. I'm trying to remember whether Goodnight says "Ciao!" at some point, too, like Paloma...
OMHSS
the « Over and Out » track from the OMHSS soundtrack is used. That is the track when MI6 is flying helicopters to Piz Gloria, masquerading as the Red Cross
FYEO
Bond pulling the Range Rover to kill Ash is very reminiscent of Roger kicking Emile Locke’s Mercedes in Corfu
Blofeld trying to kill Bond at Vesper's grave is the pre-credits from For Your Eyes Only. in FYEO, Tracy's grave was basically a stand-in for Vesper's grave anyway, adding an additional layer of in-joke.
Bond arriving in Cuba on a parallel mission with a rival black lady secret agent is Die Another Day. With the clever twist that this time he's working for the CIA, and she's 007 of the British Secret Service!
Q opens a desk drawer and finds his tea-set is a variation of "Don't touch that! That's my lunch!", whichever film that was.
And of course Nomi says "ouch" when she gets the tracker plugged into her neck in the exact tone of voice CraigBond did four films ago.
EDIT: one more from Q: he stops himself when Bond hands him the USB thingie and reminds himself to use a different computer this time ("sandbox" I think he called it). Cant believe they let him keep his job after that incident in SkyFall!
another EDIT: one more. when Bond walks out wearing the nice suit Paloma has given him in Cuba, the bass vamp from the Bond theme leads to the four note hook You Know My Name. In Casino Royale, it was the opposite: in that film , when he put on the suit Vesper gave him and looked in the mirror for the first time we heard the famous four note hook from the original Bond theme.
A lucky guess and not quite right but was interested to see the light theory about Bond and Madeleine beginnings and endings confirmed in the making of book.
the opening credits borrow symbolism from OHMSS: the hands of the clock, the hourglass, the figure of Brittania.
For a moment the collapsing statues are reminiscent of Goldeneye though I can t see how thatd be significant, more likely coincidence. But each and every perceived OHMSS parallel I would assume is deliberate
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EDIT: one actually from Goldeneye ... Obruchev, the snivelling little scientist kidnapped during the raid and secretly working with the villain, occupies a similar role in the plot to Goldeneye's Boris, and is just as annoying.
I think its when he's talking to Safin at the end, and Safin's talking about his dead family...
Bond says "I had a brother once..." (long pause, just long enough to make us think he means Blofeld and really scare the crap outta us) "...from Langley!"
He's referencing both Felix's opening line from Casino Royale and the dreaded Brothergate scandal from the previous movie (which thankfully is otherwise ignored)
Could also be a reference back to Diamonds are Forever ("I gotta brudda!" "Small world")