“Commander, this tracing means that the Russians can track our nuclear submarines underwater and sink them.”
From The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
I like the way Agent XXX/Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) was introduced in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Instead of showing the agent on a mission, in the thick of it, they use the bait-and-switch strategy to make the audience think that the USSR’s “best agent,” according to General Gogol (Walter Gotell), is not much different from James Bond: a man on a mission, bedding a beauty and ready to answer their country’s call.
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An initial shot of Atlantis made it look sizable – maybe that of an extremely large yacht. However, having a motor boat for scale really shows just how massive Stromberg’s headquarters really were meant to be:
In an unrelated note – Atlantis reminds me of the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), which opened in 1961:
So this sharp knife gadget appears in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) while Bond and Triple X walk through the makeshift Q Branch. Bond comments, “That’ll bring tears to your eyes.” when it pops up in a forceful, deadly manner
It’s obviously supposed to be something, I just have no idea what…the box that the Q Branch technician has it covered with is pretty non-descript.
Any ideas what it could be???
EDIT: Twitter user Ibrahim_M_ says that it’s a camel saddle…looking up some camel saddle images, I think he’s right! Mystery solved! 🙂
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!
Nobody Does It Better is my favorite James Bond theme of all time…and this performance is top notch!
