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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 1648561" data-attributes="member: 1015">Just for fun, I thought that I would post some Bond trivia in this thread.  Maybe you'll find out a few things about the Bond films that you didn't before.Oh, and remember that all this month, there are James Bond movies on Spike TV every Wednesday and Sunday Night.  Tonight, For Your Eyes Only and Live and Let Die are on.  But anyways, on to the trivia...Dr. No <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In Ian Fleming's novel, Honey Ryder was named Honeychile Ryder and she emerged out of the ocean wearing only a belt and no bikini.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Due to Ursula Andress' heavy accent, her actual voice isn't used in the movie.  Rather, her voice is dubbed by Monica Van der Syl.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In the first draft of the script, Dr. No was a monkey (I kid you not!)</li> </ul>From Russia With Love <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The helicopter chase scene was filmed in Scotland, and Sean Connery dodged a real helicopter</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This is Sean Connery's favorite Bond movie.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">From Russia With Love was the last movie President John F. Kennedy watched before he was assassinated.</li> </ul>Goldfinger <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When Goldfinger was released, the public knew nothing about lasers.  This movie sparked public interest in that technology.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In Ian Fleming's novel, Pussy Galore was a lesbian.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">CIA Director Allen Dulles assigned a research team to determine the feasability of the homing system in Bond's Astin Martin.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Harold Sakata (who played Oddjob) represented the United States in the 1948 Olympics as a weightlifter.</li> </ul>Thunderball: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">To accomodate the crowds following the movie's release, New York's Paramount theater ran the film 24 hours a day.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When Bond is in Largo's pool with the sharks, Sean Connery was actually in the same pool of the sharks (with no protection).  In the scene where Bond gets a look of panic on his face as a shark swims by, Connery is not acting.  Connery refused to shoot this scene more than once.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thunderball was going to be the first Bond movie, but legal entanglements with Kevin McClory resulted in Dr. No coming out first.</li> </ul>You Only Live Twice: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Little Nellie is an actual helicopter that has a top speed of 130 mph.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You Only Live Twice was planned to be the final Bond film.  Sean Connery felt that he was being typecast due to playing Bond so many times.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Aki's Toyota convertable was Japan's very first convertable car.</li> </ul>On Her Majesty's Secret Service <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's been rumored that Diana Rigg disliked George Lazenby so much that she would eat garlic before filming their love scenes.  However, both stars have denied this claim.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The actors who were originally going to play James Bond and Tracy were Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot.  Those two would later appear together in Shalako.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Timothy Dalton was offered the role of Bond, but he turned it down because he felt that he was too young at the time to convincingly play Bond.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tracy's death was originally going to be the opening scene in Diamonds are Forever, rather than the closing scene in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.</li> </ul>Diamonds are Forever <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Howard Huges owned the hotel this movie was filmed in.  Rather than asking for money to film there, he asked for a film print of the finished movie.  He was a huge fan of the Bond movies.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bond does not smoke in this movie, but at the time smoking was considered unfashionable by the public.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A scene was shot where Bond meets Sammy Davis Jr., but was not included in the final cut because the director felt that it was "too much."  The scene can be viewed on the Special Edition DVD.</li> </ul>Live and Let Die <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Jane Seymour was only 20 years old when this movie began filming.  She celebrated her 21st birthday on the set.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">One of the speedboat chase's jumps set a world record.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Whenever something went wrong during filming, one of the crew members would shout "Send for Sean!" as a joke.</li> </ul>The Man With the Golden Gun <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cristopher Lee, who plays Scaramanga, is Ian Fleming's cousin.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Felix Leiter is a major character in the novel of The Man With the Golden Gun, but he dosen't appear once in the film version.</li> </ul>The Spy Who Loved Me <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The villain in this movie was going to be Ernst Blofeld (along with SPECTRE), but legal issues with Kevin McClory (who was working on his own Bond project that would later become Never Say Never Again) required the writers to remove all reference to Blofeld and SPECTRE from the script.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Richard Kiel (who played Jaws) could only wear the metal teeth for a few minutes at a time because they hurt so badly.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This is Roger Moore's favorite Bond film.</li> </ul>That's enough for now.  I've listed trivia for the first 10 Bond films.  Maybe later I'll post triva for the latter 10. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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