57 years ago today, the first James Bond movie, Dr. No premiered.
The below graphic is composed of letters from different James Bond movies. Can you name the movie for each letter?
Happy Global James Bond Day 2019!
Check the answers for each letter after the jump!
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“James Bond Will Return” is a signature phrase splashed at the end of (almost) every James Bond movie that promotes 007’s never-give-up/against-all-odds attitude and shows a sense of pride in the world’s longest running movie series.
Throughout the years, it has been used to reveal the movie title of the forthcoming James Bond movie, albeit sometimes in error. It has also not been used at all. Some quick facts:
- It does not appear at the end of any of the unofficial movies (Casino Royale (1954), Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again (1983)
- It does not appear in Dr. No or Thunderball
- It has been bland with just words (The World Is Not Enough), has had a fancy backdrop (The Living Daylights), and has had a custom image to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the James Bond movies (Skyfall)
- The incorrect next movie is listed at the end of The Spy Who Loved Me as For Your Eyes Only – the next movie is in fact Moonraker (thanks, Star Wars)
- The title of A View To A Kill is incorrect at the end of Octopussy, adding “From” to the beginning of the title
Regardless, below are all of the instances where “James Bond Will Return” appears in the credits from all of the movies:
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of From Russia With Love (1963)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Goldfinger (1964)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of You Only Live Twice (1967)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Live And Let Die (1973)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Moonraker (1979)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of For Your Eyes Only (1981)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Octopussy (1983)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of A View To A Kill (1985)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of The Living Daylights (1987)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Licence To Kill (1989)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of GoldenEye (1995)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of The World Is Not Enough (1999)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Die Another Day (2002)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Casino Royale (2006)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Quantum Of Solace (2008)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Skyfall (2012)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of Spectre (2015)
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- “James Bond Will Return” from the end of No Time To Die (2021)
Which is your favorite?
Can you guess which movie poster each letter comes from in the above ‘ransom note’ collage? The answers after the jump!
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A highlight from Spectre (2015) didn’t involve explosions or a chase, but was the mysterious Spectre meeting.
Global interest and plausibility of a complex criminal conspiracy is peaking. Daily, the drip drip drip of information between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign and Presidency is consistent and amazing. If it weren’t for real daily news broadcasts and headlines, it might seem we are stuck in an unbelievable episode of House of Cards or a (slightly muted) James Bond movie.
Politics and results of this real world scandal aside, the next James Bond movie (tentatively titled Bond 25) should reflect the times now more than ever and should partially retreat from following the traditional Bond movie formula. Simply put: it’s too good to pass up.
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Quantum Of Solace (2008) boasts one of the most brutal deaths at the hand of James Bond (Daniel Craig).
After tracking would-be assassin Edmund Slate (Neil Jackson) to Haiti, Bond visits Slate’s hotel room only to instantly jump into a fight to the death. Slate meets his end when Bond mercilessly stabs him in the neck (likely in the jugular vein) and his leg (likely in the femoral artery) only to let him bleed out on the floor.
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Agent Strawberry Fields (Gemma Arterton) from Quantum Of Solace (2008) is underrated. Not only is she sexy, I was initially sold on her insistence that she wasn’t going to fall into James Bond’s (Daniel Craig) clutches. But alas, as we see in this scene, she even surprised herself in her collapse at the hands of Bond’s charm. There was definitely something about her short, red hair, fair skin and overcoat that was seriously attractive.
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007 is often asked who he works for, and the fictional import/export company he says is his employer is called Universal Exports.
It is mentioned several times throughout various James Bond movies, which I have listed below:
Dr. No (1962)
007 is shown walking into M’s office, which has a Universal Exports sign on the outside
The Aston Martin DBS montage at the beginning of Quantum Of Solace (2008)
The Quantum Of Solace (2008) gun barrel sequence is unique because it comes at the end of the movie, not at the traditional start. I actually enjoyed this subtle change more than I thought I would – specifically because there’s nothing better than hearing the Bond theme blaring at the end of a Bond movie. It’s an exclamation point!
Following this gun barrel sequence is a cool animation to incorporate the gun barrel circle into the movie’s logo, as seen below. Nothing crazy, but another way the series has had fun with the 007 logo and movie title logos over the years. Kudos!
The Quantum Of Solace Gun Barrel Logo
