I'm pretty sure "(BOND MANEUVER)" accounts for 50% of all stage directions in the screenplay.
The very best, like no one ever was. Check out my Spider-Man fanfic here! [1]Not a one liner, but I love the exchange in Golden Eye between Bond and Mishkin where he laments the "lost art of Russian interrogation". Mishkin isn't having any of it until Natalya convinces him Bond is innocent - whereupon he happily jokes with Bond about the whole thing.
I liked Mishkin, shame he died so early.
For one-liners, there's a classic from Moon Raker: *Drax points laser pistol at Bond* "Desolated, Mr Bond." *Bond fires dart out of wrist gun into Drax, knocking him backwards into and subsequently out of the airlock* "Hearbroken, Mr Drax"
Drax actually gets a lot of good lines. "At least I will have the pleasure of putting you out of my misery", being another.
Then there's Dr Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies, who has attempted to shoot Bond, only for Bond to overpower him and take the gun, and point it at his head. "I'm just a professional...doing a job!" "Me too *bang*"
Kaufman was definitely a less is more kinda character, but he's one of my favourites.
My name is Addy. Please call me that instead of my username.It was always going to be slightly strange in that respect, given that the majority of Bond films had a lot to do with the Cold War - not necessarily in the setting or villains, but the whole nature of espionage that all sides knew all sides were doing all the time. That sort of thing is best epitomised by the guys tailing each other in From Russia With Love, since everyone assumes as a matter of course that the other side will tail them whereever they go anywhere.
The public were questioning whether Bond could or should come back with that all over, so Goldeneye had to address that, demonstrating its relevance. Skyfall eventually did the same thing for the 2010s, pointing out in M's speech that individual computer hackers are as deadly as entire armies were in days gone past. It's true, of course, and while that film's villain borrow's heavily from Goldeneye's own 006, he's essentially a cross between Trevelyan and the whole of Anonymous and its ilk.
That just makes it even more fitting that Bond's enemy is frighteningly similar to himself, and is kind of a microcosm of the battle the entire franchise was fighting at the time.
My name is Addy. Please call me that instead of my username.Some of those one-liners could get pretty dirty, for the sixties I mean. I was like, whoa, you could get away with boner jokes back then? Fred and Wilma Flinstone were in separate beds when this movie was in theaters!
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There were issues with Cold War even earlier, as it changed over the years there were suggestions that Bond belonged to the 50s/ early 60s phase.
Most spy fiction I come across paints a golden era at the start of some of the characters careers, whether it's WW 2, the early Cold War, the Cold War in general or a time before the war on terror.
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Am I a good man or a bad man?Oh definitely. For Your Eyes Only was a throwback to espionage considered classic at the time, and looks rather weird amongst most Bond films (it's far from the only film in which Bond commits cold blooded murder, but the car-off-cliff kick, having dropped a memento onto the seat moments beforehand, is something that his villains have done in the past (the assassin at the start of The Living Daylights does something similar).
My name is Addy. Please call me that instead of my username.You could tell the Cold War was getting outdated by the Reagan era. The Russians stopped being the root of all the world's evil, and became stooges of some armchair warrior who is demonstrably insane. (Gogol in FYEO, Oromov in Goldeneye) It's still lazy writing, but at least it's a healthier attitude.
I'm a skeptical squirrel![]()
I loved that part of For Your Eyes Only. It was like the "I lied" scene in Commando. One of the only memorable parts of the movie. Besides that underage chick who really just demonstrated how old Roger Moore was. And the MILF. And Tevya from Fiddler On The Roof.
"And now, Mr. Bond, you want to marry MY DAUGHTER? Without asking MY PERMISSION?"
"Uh, no, actually. But I did sleep with your girlfriend. She's dead now."
"He slept with my girlfriend! Unheard of! Absurd! He slept with my girlfriend! Unthinkable!"
"Er, yes, anyway, I was-"
"TRADITIOOOOOOON! Open relationships must be arranged by the PAPAAAAAAAAA! This must never be changed!"
"...Can we get back to business?"
"If I were a rich man, yibbadibbadibbadeiteldeiteldeiteldeiteldum"
"You are a rich man. You just offered me caviar. Is caviar kosher?"
The very best, like no one ever was. Check out my Spider-Man fanfic here! [1]You just know that the fiddler has to be The Dragon.
Oddjob. Jaws. Xenia Onnatop. The Fiddler on the Roof.
But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you.Yeah, that was a good line. For many reasons, Golden Eye is the funniest Brosnan one, because it keeps taking the piss out of Bond movies.
Die Another Day was a film-version of a Mythology Gag with a few extras tacked on to make it look a bit more like a film. The only substance to it was the references, though I did still enjoy it.
My name is Addy. Please call me that instead of my username.Too bad Toby Stevens wasn't given a better villain to play than "Max Zorin as a mecha samurai".
Also, his is the best Bond villain 'deformity' of all time. Ooh, he's insomniac. It doesn't inhibit his judgment, it doesn't factor in the plot, it's mentioned only once and keeps him looking pretty. Damn right!
I'm a skeptical squirrelI had to enjoy the Bond vehicles picture round on Pointless today. They showed shots of the cars from The Living Daylights, Gold Finger, Die Another Day, The Spy Who Loved Me, and Sky Fall (M's car in the latter case). I got them all, though thought The Living Daylights would have been the best answer to go for. Turns out Die Another Day's car was a bit more obscure (despite the shot of it being on the ice during the chase) and The Spy Who Loved Me was even more obscure than that. That I can only attribute to the angle of the shot, being that it was on land beneath the helicopter which must have fooled a few people. The shape is iconic enough I'd have thought though that more than 5 of the 100 people would remember.
My name is Addy. Please call me that instead of my username.@Rotpar: And his bow would shoot laser beams or something.
"Fiddle me this, Mr. Bond!"

What was the one liner after he blackmailed that nurse into having sex with him? I'm too lazy to dig out the DVD.
"War without fire is like sausages without mustard." - Jean Juvénal des Ursins