The Q Branch scene from GoldenEye (1995) is one of my favorites of the series. It has it all: physical humor, great chemistry between Bond (Pierce Brosnan) and Q (Desmond Llewelyn), funny one-liners and quips and…the only time another movie’s theme is mentioned in a previous movie? Although it’s great, it does have its flaws.
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This all=time one-liner at the end of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) gets me every time. As Bond (Roger Moore) and Triple X (Barbara Bach) are caught in the act in an escape pod, a stunned General Gogol (Triple X’s boss), M (Bond’s boss) and Sir Frederick Gray (Bond’s boss’s boss) can’t believe their eyes.
The exchange is legendary: “Bond!” “Tri-PULL X!” “Bond! What do you think you’re doing?” make the men sound more like disappointed parental figures rather than government intelligence. A speechless Q can only watch in awe, almost jaw-dropped.
And then 007 quickly quips a legendary James Bond line of lore. It ends with a celebratory-sounding chorus line version of the movie’s theme, declaring “nobody does it better” in a hilarious double entendre. HA! So awesome!
James Bond (Roger Moore) and Q (Desmond Llewelyn) load the Identigraph 3D generated image system in For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Q Branch’s Identigraph machine from For Your Eyes Only (1981) has been updated with the latest in AI technology to perform as a chatbot. Ask it anything related to the world of James Bond!
Query: Create a poem about James Bond’s love for martinis.
Q enters your query into the Identigraph in For Your Eyes Only (1981)
A martini, shaken not stirred,
A drink that Bond, forever preferred.
A symbol of his suave and style,
A drink that always made him smile.With a twist of lemon, or a pearl of olive,
Bond’s martini, always had a certain finesse.
A sip, a taste, and a subtle nod,
Bond’s love for martinis, always in the spotlight.Whether in a casino, or in a spy chase,
Bond’s martini, always in the right place.
A drink of class, a drink of grace,
Bond’s martini, a love story without a trace.So let us raise a glass, to Bond and his martini,
A love story, that will forever be mini.
A drink that defined a spy, a legend,
A drink that will forever, be remembered.
Answers generated by ChatGPT. 🙂
The official 007 Twitter account has just posted six awesome character posters in anticipation of tomorrow’s trailer to No Time To Die and they are AWESOME! They feature Daniel Craig as James Bond, Léa Seydoux as Madeleine Swann, Rami Malek as Safin, Lashana Lynch as Nomi, Ben Whishaw as Q and Ana de Armas as Paloma.
Some quick, random thoughts about them:
- Bond is a badass in gloves and tactical holster on his thigh – almost looks like an assassin. Is Bond required to kill Safin?
- Swann looks great but overall muted…does she meet her maker in the beginning part of the movie?
- Safin is devious and kind of hiding his hands (akthough you *can* definitely see skin if you look close enough) Are they or will they be metallic? Safin aka Dr. No?
- Nomi is a badass…looking left to Safin’s character in the Tweet…does she first try to take him down and Bond helps her finish the job?
- Whishaw’s Q is a treasure…we are spoiled to have someone take up the Q helm worthy of Desmond Llewelyn.
- Paloma is a lowkey (not anymore) badass apparently…between the dual klobb in the teaser to the teaser trailer and this pic, she will likely be a force to be reckoned with.
Daniel Craig as James Bond in No Time To Die (2020)
James Bond (Daniel Craig) and Q (Ben Whishaw) meet at the National Gallery in London in front of painting The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838, an oil painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner in Skyfall (2012)
