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Aug 21, 2015 - 6:55 AM
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Tall Guy
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I mean of course favourite and least favourite...
There have been some great lines from Bond films, but also some pretty execrable ones, in my opinion. Give a few examples of either, or both, which have stood out for you. Don’t worry about the exact wording – paraphrasing will be perfectly acceptable.
Some favourites , which I hope are self-explanatory–
“Looks like a lady’s gun” “Do you know about guns, Mr Bond?” “No, I know a little about ladies.”
(Translated from Spanish) “We’re teachers on sabbatical and have just won the lottery.”
“Look after Mr Bond. See that some harm comes to him.”
A couple of least favourites (apart from the terrifyingly sexist ones I mention in connection with Roger Moore from time to time) and why -
“You wouldn’t want to lose time as well as the shuttle” (good idea, weak writing)
“Why did you kill my pet python?” “He had a crush on me.” (rubbish joke, and it would be obvious why he killed the snake, duh)
Odd that there are so many from both sides of the coin from the same film.
Feel free to share yours…
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My favorite exchange is the classic.
Bond: Do you expect me to talk?
Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.
Ignoring all the awful sexism, my least favorite.... "I'll buy you a delicatessen in stainless steel!"
Special mention of a second favorite from Living Daylights: "If he fires me, I'll thank him for it!" Timothy Dalton foreshadowing the Daniel Craig reboot almost 20 years earlier.
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Aug 21, 2015 - 9:01 AM
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MI6
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Here are a few of my favourite ones:
For Your Eyes Only
Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.
That's putting it mildly, 007!
Octopussy
Mr. Bond is indeed of a very rare breed......soon to be made extinct.
You seem to have this nasty habit of surviving.
You know what they say about the fittest.
Moonraker
My God, what's Bond doing?
I think he's attempting re-entry, sir.
The Spy Who Loved Me
Q, have I ever let you down?
Frequently.
But James, I need you!
So does England!
And Thomas is right about "Keeping the British end up, sir". It's a classic line from the 007 films.
Dr. No
East, West, just points on the compass, each as stupid as the other.
Flattery will get you nowhere - but don't stop trying.
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the people who make the Bond films call these Groan lines.
when there had only been 2-3 bonds it used to boil down to Connery nailed it and Moores were cringey and unfunny.
connerys "Shocking..." after electrocuting that guy in the bath in thunderball was good.
and in ohmss Lazenbys Bond quip "This never happened to the other fella..." worked well.
Some werent always spoken by Bond. I even liked Willard whytes "Burt Saxby????? tell him hes fired"! after the guy had been shot!
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Aug 21, 2015 - 11:41 AM
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MusicMad
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A topic, TG, which fascinates me ... partly because I find I have different views on many of the famous lines.
For example: unlike Disco Stu, I do enjoy the one liners and even if Roger Moore's dialogue is often seen as sexist in this PC world I refer to L.P Hartley's oft-used statement (from The Go-Between): The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
I didn't/don't like those sexual innuedo final lines to The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker and The World is Not Enough despite the laughs they generate.
But, from Moonraker we do have some excellent lines delivered by Hugo Drax. I particularly like the unloved season and Britain's contribution to civilisation. I agree, TG, that the python joke was weak.
From the start, of course, we have Sean Connery's delivery of Bond, James Bond ... and his reply to Honey No, just looking.
George Lazenby's occulist line is a little strained but excellent. His one-liners re: a little stiffening and you'll have to be [an inspiration] worked and were perfect for the scenes.
Similarly, Sean Connery's delivery of the lines re: diamonds (knowledge of) and collars and cuffs matching - despite the sexism - work brilliantly, though I know many other lines in this film are now derided.
I like M's retort to the Admiral in Tomorrow Never Dies re: no balls.
Lines which I think are so wrong as to deride the JB007 franchise and should have been excised (along with the writers) include:
Daniel Craig's retort to the barman re: not giving a damn whether the martini is shaken or stirred and, earlier, M's statement that she would have him shot/killed if he uttered her surname (in her apartment when only the two of them are present ... how stupid is that!)
And, in a previous incarnation: Pierce Brosnan's Make mine a pint in GoldenEye ... so wrong.
And just about every line in Skyfall which did everything (according to its director) to dispense with the JB007 history.
These entertainments were never meant to be literary classics and I, for one, am so grateful for that! 
Mitch
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connerys "Shocking..." after electrocuting that guy in the bath in thunderball was good.
Goldfinger teaser, actually, and even more amusing because of the lady involved, so that it's taken several ways, as it were....
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hey sean, sorry, bad memory. goldfinger it is. still a great line.
to be honest the dialogue throughout both goldfinger and diamonds are forever was a notch up, not many wasted words.
kidd and wint had some good lines too.
"Dr tynan sent us...
wheres joe?
He couldnt make it.
Bitten by the bug!" (after the pair had done him in with a fkn scorpion!!)
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Yeah, I'd completely forgotten about Wint and Kidd - they're my favorite double act in Bond. (Though some of these exchanges need their context to work best.)
Mr. Wint: The scorpion.
Mr. Kidd: One of nature's finest killers, Mr. Wint.
Mr. Wint: One is never too old to learn from a master, Mr. Kidd.
Mr. Wint: Very moving.
Mr. Kidd: Heartwarming, Mr. Wint.
Mr. Wint: A glowing tribute, Mr. Kidd.
Mr. Wint: If at first you don't succeed Mr. Kidd...?
Mr. Kidd: Try, try again, Mr. Wint.
Mr. Wint: And for dessert, the piece de resistance... a Bombe Surprise.
Tiffany Case: Mmm! That looks fantastic. What's in it?
Mr. Wint: Ah... But then there would be no surprise, Madame.
Mr. Kidd: If God had wanted man to fly...
Mr. Wint: ...He would have given him wings, Mr. Kidd.
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i dont recall a single line from the dialogue of any Bond in the last 20 years.
maybe goldeneye. Something about foreplay to famke janssen !
and which film/whats that one from dench about "if i want sarcasm bond i'll talk to my teenage son" or something.
the kidd and wint stuff, we start to wander into just plain sharp and well delivered dialogue and not strictly groan lines but my fave is
Photographing her body coming out of the water...
Well, mrs whistler did want some pictures of the canals for the children
How kind of you, Mister Kidd, the children will be so....thrilled!"
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the kidd and wint stuff, we start to wander into just plain sharp and well delivered dialogue and not strictly groan lines but my fave is
Photographing her body coming out of the water...
Well, mrs whistler did want some pictures of the canals for the children
How kind of you, Mister Kidd, the children will be so....thrilled!"
I forgot this one. This thread reminds me why I find Diamonds more entertaining than it seems like it should be - because of all this great dialogue!
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was there ever a line in a Bond film that said
"At last an amusing thread in a desert of dullness lately"?
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