Shout Out / James Bond

• The Eon Films:
  • Dr. No:
    • The title character was Fleming's tribute to the iconic Yellow Peril villain Fu Manchu.
  • From Russia with Love:
    • The chess match is a reenactment of Boris Spassky's victory over David Bronstein in 1960.
    • While flirting with Moneypenny, Bond says, "Once more into the breach, dear friends".
  • Diamonds Are Forever:
    • Two women are named Bambi and Thumper, who are keeping the real Willard Whyte prisoner in his house.
  • Live and Let Die:
    • Bond's all-black turtleneck ensemble towards the end is in homage to Bullitt. It comes full circle in Spectre as the blond Daniel Craig is dressed similarly.
  • The Man with the Golden Gun:
    • Scaramanga's funhouse, especially the hall of mirrors, was no doubt inspired by The Lady from Shanghai.
  • The Spy Who Loved Me:
    • Several nods to David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia. Subtle at first with the desert attire donned by Bond and an homage later with the iconic theme of Maurice Jarre playing while Bond and Anya wander through the desert after the van breaks down.
    • A music box in the film briefly plays "Lara's Theme" from Doctor Zhivago, another magnus opus from David Lean / Maurice Jarre.
    • General Gogol (and his successor General Pushkin in The Living Daylights) are named after two of the most famous writers of 19th Century Russian Literature.
  • Moonraker:
    • Opening an electronic lock creates musical tones from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
    • Also, Bond's gaucho ride is scored by The Magnificent Seven theme.
    • Jaws jumping from one cable car to another is inspired by a similar scene from Where Eagles Dare.
  • Octopussy:
    • Bond bursting through spider's webs.
    • Bond gets covered with leeches.
    • One mook gets Octopussy's pet namesake wrapped around his face.
    • Orlov's death was an Homage to the ending of Von Ryan's Express.
  • A View to a Kill:
    • At the Ascot derby, Moneypenny yells "Move your arse!" at her losing horse.
  • The Living Daylights:
    • Pushkin, like his predecessor Gogol, was named after a famous 19th Century Russian novelist.
    • Two to The Third Man (on which John Glen had worked as assistant sound editor), also set in Vienna: Bond and Kara ride on the Ferris wheel in the Prater, and just before, Necros (posing as a balloon salesman) asks Bond "Ballon, mein Herr?", words spoken by an insistent elderly man to Sgt Paine in the older film. Sgt Paine is played by none other than Bernard Lee, the original M.
  • Licence to Kill:
    • Bond is taken to Hemingway House to turn in his licence and his weapon. He comments that it's "A Farewell to Arms". Subtle...
    • Pam's liking for .25 Berettas, Bond's weapon in the novels before he was forced to change to the Walther PPK.
    • The climax features Bond climbing over, under, on top of and inside multiple moving trucks. Which other famous action hero could that be referencing?
    • According to Robert Davi, the name "Franz Sanchez" is an extremely subtle shout-out to Frank Sinatra: five-letter first name, seven-letter last name, initials F.S.
  • GoldenEye:
    • The commentary cites The Wild Bunch as an influence - Ouromov shooting the soldier who fires at Bond at Trevelyan's line, "If he moves, kill him".
    • A stamp of Mr. Bumpy can be seen in the left of Boris's computer.
    • The scene with a helicopter superimposed over a Bond waking up under it was stated to be one to Apocalypse Now.
  • Tomorrow Never Dies:
    • After Bond and Wai Lin are captured (first time for Lin, second for James), Carver shows them all the newspaper headlines mentioning the impending conflict. The last one reads, "The Empire WILL Strike Back!" "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK" was the actual headline on an April 1982 issue of Newsweek during the Falklands War.
    Carver: I rather like the last one. It isn't even mine.
    • A crazed man is going around sinking other ships with an unusual piece of technology. Captain Nemo would be proud...and jealous of that diamond-tipped drill thing.
  • Die Another Day:
    • During the climax on the plane when Graves throws out one of the parachutes is very similar to the climax in Air Force One when Egor Korshunov throws out the last parachute out the plane before fighting Marshall. Had Bond said, "Get off this plane," it would be cooler. And both Korshunov and Graves are killed when the heroes forcibly pull their parachutes open.
    • Bond's Virtual Reality mission is based on the stage "King's Ransom" in the Nintendo 64 game The World Is Not Enough.
    • Bond breaks out of MI6 custody and casually enters a luxury hotel, getting himself a suite, a shower, a shave, and some nice suits, similar to how in The Rock, John Patrick Mason (played by former Bond Sean Connery) escapes from the FBI's custody and makes his way to a luxury hotel to go for those same things. Additionally, there's a scene where a two-way mirror is smashed.
    • Damian Falco was named after Sidney Falco, the main character in Sweet Smell of Success, which is one of the writers' favourite films.
  • Quantum of Solace:
    • To Alfred Hitchcock - the opera house sequence is deliberately edited to resemble a similar sequence in The Man Who Knew Too Much, while Guy Haines was named after one of the main characters in Strangers on a Train.
  • Skyfall:
    • The main theme, "Skyfall", steals a line from the 1966 classic spy song "Secret Agent Man".
    Adele: You may have my number, you can take my name, but you'll never have my heart.
    • The Action Prologue closes on Bond lying motionless in the water, mirroring the iconic images that open each film in The Bourne Series.
    • "Think on your sins" is also a memorable line from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
    • The Tennyson poem was also quoted at the eulogy for real life diplomat and MI6 controller Daphne Park.
    • The Freeze-Frame Bonus that reveals M's name as Olivia Mansfield is a reference to Captain Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, aka C, who was the first Chief of the Real Life MI6.
    • James' parents names are Andrew Bond and Monique Delacroix Bond, which is from the novel of You Only Live Twice.
    • However, "Skyfall" is not from Fleming.
    • To Apocalypse Now:
    • Broken, alcoholic agent comes out of 10-Minute Retirement to hunt down a rogue agent in his remote hideout and finds a sadistic, crazy but familiar soul in him.
    • A gunship attack made more awesome by the music it is playing to it, leaving Silva acting like Colonel Kilgore for a few minutes.
    • Silva calling M "Mother".
  • Spectre:
    • Part of the opening sequence pays homage to the "wall of eyes" shot from Metropolis.
    • The safe house has a cover of a shop called Hildebrand. Tanner says he's never heard of it. Unsurprising, as unless you read the Bond short stories by Ian Fleming, it is unlikely you would have heard of "The Hildebrand Rarity", in the collection For Your Eyes Only.
    • That's one Bullitt-looking Bond in that turtleneck (tactleneck?).
    • Denbigh's codename is "C". This was the codename of Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the original chief of the British Secret Service, along with his successors, and the inspiration for the similarly-named M.
    • Bond turns up to a meeting and sarcastically claims his name is Mickey Mouse to a guard. Hilariously becomes a Brick Joke when the guard calls him by that name once Blofeld blows 007's cover.
    • Among the names on the memorial in the old MI6 Headquarters: Emma Pill. Ironically though, in this case, the names on the memorial are actually all crew members from the film (Pill being a location manager). However, the name is similar, and Ralph Fiennes gets an Actor Allusion when British spy M noticeably brandishes an umbrella while in a pinstripe suit.
    • The monstrous giant Mr. Hinx killing a (good-looking, Spanish-speaking) Spectre assassin by ramming his fingers into his eyes calls an infamous TV death scene to mind.
    • Bond shooting at Blofeld, only to discover he's behind bulletproof glass, echoes the opening of the first episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E..
    • Mr. Hinx is said to be inspired by The Terminator.
    • Madeleine Swann: her own name a shoutout to Proust's Swann's Way, and its famous madeleine.
    • A major plot point is a Moroccan cafe called l'Americain.
  • No Time to Die:
    • The final moments of James Bond's Dying Moment of Awesome are virtually identical to that of the Nameless Assassin played by Jet Li in Hero (2002), as both men look straight on at a bright blue sky blotted out by a rain of missiles, and with a brave confident smile lets the barrage obliterate them *onscreen* with dignity rather than live and let the world suffer as a result.
    • Bond and Madeleine's idyllic life in Italy being interrupted by assassins echoes the opening of The Bourne Supremacy, while him realizing that he, Madeleine and Mathilde are about to be ambushed at the cabin is similar to a sequence in The Bourne Identity.
    • The Heracles weapon is similar to FOXDIE from Metal Gear Solid, and its use to kill Blofeld in the film is similar to how FOXDIE was used to kill members of FOXHOUND in that game.
    • Both "Madeleine" and "Mathilde" are the titles of songs by Jacques Brel.
    • Madeleine has a hairstyle that's similar to Tatum Riley (Rose McGowan) from Scream and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) from Halloween.
    • When meeting with Felix and Ash, Bond derisively refers to the latter as “The Book of Mormon.”
    • Safin's facial disfigurement and its cause were reportedly inspired by the real-world Ukrainian politician Viktor Yushchenko, who was left with similar skin conditions after what was allegedly an attempt to assassinate him by the Russian government.
• The Novels:
  • Live and Let Die:
    • At one point, Bond reads Patrick Leigh Fermor's Caribbean travelogue The Traveller's Tree. A friend of Ian Fleming's, Patrick Leigh Fermor was one of several men whose wartime exploits have led to suggestions that he was the inspiration (or rather, one of the inspirations) for James Bond.
  • Diamonds Are Forever:
    • When Bond and Tiffany escape from Serrafimo's town via a railroad handcar, at one point she tells him "That was quite an exit. Like something out of an old Buster Keaton film."
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service:
    • At his introduction to the beautiful patients at Piz Gloria, Bond tells the girl next to him he feels like a film comedian trapped in a girls' school like St. Trinian's.
  • The Man with the Golden Gun:
    • Felix Leiter at one point refers to blowing up a railroad bridge as "re-enactment of The Bridge on the River Kwai".
  • Nobody Lives for Ever:
    • The Sound of Music is mentioned twice as Bond travels through Switzerland and Germany.
    • After finding out that SPECTRE's headquarters are somewhere in Key West, Bond tells Nannie that they're "Off to see the Wizard. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
  • No Deals, Mr. Bond:
    • Bond is given the codename Seahawk for the seabound rescue mission in the first chapter. At one point, he wonders if it was a name of an Errol Flynn movie.
    • The look of Hong Kong reminds Bond of the city in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
  • Death Is Forever:
    • A mook has Bond dead on his sights, and says "Go on, punk. Make my day." Bond's ally Wimper then makes a timely appearance beside him and tells the mook to make his day.
  • Solo:
    • Bond reads Graham Greene's The Heart Of The Matter on the flight to Zanzarim.