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From Russia with Love

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The One With… the knife-shoe.The second James Bond film in the Eon Productions series, From Russia with Love was directed by Terence Young once again and starred Sean Connery once again. Released one year and four days after Dr. No, it came out on October 11, 1963 in the UK.James Bond is tasked with escorting a defector clerk from USSR to the West and a Soviet coding machine. Of course, she's female and very attractive. It all turns out to be a deadly trap set up by the SPECTRE organization to get rid of him and acquire the machine.Notable scenes in this film: A boat chase that ends with a wall of fire. A helicopter chase. A long, drawn-out fight between Bond and Red Grant on the Orient Express. Sean Connery and Robert Shaw did most of the fight scene themselves. A Cat Fight between two Romani, sometimes removed from TV broadcasts, which serves nothing more than to have two scantily-clad women fighting each other. Rosa Klebb's shoe dagger. Tatiana's seduction of Bond by entering his hotel room and getting into his bed. Wearing only a black ribbon around her neck and a pair of black stockings. The love scene used for screen-testing Bonds. The very first appearance of Blofeld, complete with hidden face and white Persian cat. The very first appearance of Desmond Llewelyn as Q.This film and its title are so well known that variations on the title are common as newspaper headlines for articles to do with Russia. A London exhibition of pre-Red October Russian art, sponsored by the Russian government, couldn't resist a gag, calling itself From Russia.Over 40 years later the film was adapted into a video game for 6th-generation consoles, 007: From Russia with Love, with Sean Connery reprising his iconic role for the last time before his passing.It was the last James Bond film that Ian Fleming saw before his death in 1964, a month before the release of the sequel, Goldfinger.
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Self-Plagiarism: The boat chase was inspired by The Red Beret, which was made by Albert R. Broccoli's Warwick Films and also directed by Terence Young and written by Richard Maibaum.
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Can't Kill You, Still Need You
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Can't Kill You, Still Need You: During the fight in the Gypsy camp, a knife-wielding Bulgar rushes Bond from behind, only to get sniped by Red Grant, as it doesn't suit SPECTRE's plan to have Bond dead at that point.
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Creator Cameo: Some reports maintain that Ian Fleming appears standing next to the Orient Express train. He is wearing grey trousers and a white jumper and stands on the platform to the right side of the train. Some sources deny that this is him.
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Heal It with Booze
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Heal It with Booze: Bond helps treat Kermin Bay's gunshot wound with some alcohol.
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Friendly Target: Ali Kerim Bey.
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Dragon-in-Chief: Although Blofeld's presence looms over the film, he's in the background and doesn't directly confront Bond.
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One Last Smoke
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One Last Smoke: Defied Trope — Grant's not that stupid. However, when Bond tells him he's willing to pay for it with the 50 gold sovereigns in his case, that grabs his attention.
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Villain Opening Scene: The film appears to begin with Bond, but it is actually a double, who is killed by Red Grant for a SPECTRE training mission.
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Swarm of Rats
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Swarm of Rats: Appears as Bond escapes from the embassy in the sewers.
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Title Drop: Bond writes "From Russia, with love" on the photo of Tatiana that he gives to Moneypenny. The title is also heard in the song 'From Russia With Love' (sung by Matt Munro) which can be heard playing on the radio when Bond first appears in the film, and again a few times later.
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I Am Very British
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I Am Very British: While masquerading as Nash, Grant puts on a British accent and peppers his speech with stereotypical Briticisms in an attempt to maintain his cover, though he tends to get his stock British phrases mixed up, such as saying "old man" when he apparently intended to say "old fellow". Lampshaded by Bond once he's caught on to the ruse.
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Eiffel Tower Effect: The famous monuments of Venice (St Mark's Campanile, the Doge's Palace...) and Istanbul are showed. There is even a scene inside Hagia Sophia.
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Mr. Fanservice
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Mr. Fanservice: Bond himself, of course, appears shirtless as he prepares for a shower and has no fewer than three love scenes throughout the movie. Grant as well, who appears in a towel as he relaxes at SPECTRE's training center.
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The Brute
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The Brute: Red Grant, a muscly assassin for SPECTRE who happens to be very enthusiastic about his job. He is interesting in that he also has the most direct role in the action.
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The Heavy: Donald "Red" Grant drives the plot from when Bond arrives in Istanbul to the journey on the Orient Express. He has more presence than his boss and is the biggest physical threat to Bond in the film.
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Villain Ball
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Villain Ball: Grant could have easily shot Bond at any point, killed Tatiana, made it look like a murder suicide and carried out the plan without a problem. Instead he chose to gloat and be greedy, letting Bond trick him. Even if he hadn't, his initial plan of shooting Bond until Bond kissed his feet would have probably put the plans in serious danger. This is what you get when you hire a semi-intelligent sadistic psychopath to be your primary assassin, KGB.
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Insert Cameo: The hand that writes "From Russia, with love" on the photograph belongs to director Terence Young.
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In the Back: Grant kills Kerim via knife to the back.
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I Owe You My Life
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I Owe You My Life: Bond shoots a man who was about to kill a Gypsy leader. The leader declares him his honorary son. James cashes in the debt almost immediately by asking the leader to cancel a fight to the death between two young women.
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My Name Is ???
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My Name Is ???: Blofled is listed in the credits as played by "?"
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Stand-In Portrait: Some of the scenes featuring Rosa Klebb had to be reshot after the set was struck. The solution was to blow up a still frame from the existing footage and film the reshoot with the actress standing in front of her own image.
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Just Train Wrong: In the establishing shot of the train leaving Beograd, the driving wheels of the locomotive are Boxpok driving wheels, which are of American design. This same shot shows a delta-style trailing truck while a Cartazzi design truck would be typical for an English locomotive. The Orient Express is easily halted but real-life trains cannot stop so quickly, which is why many vehicles are wrecked on level crossings every year. Some of the stock footage of the "Orient Express" clearly shows a British Railways train with red coaches in place of the blue Wagons-Lits sleeping cars.
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Mook Lieutenant: Morzeny is in charge of training the SPECTRE mooks. He later leads the boat squadron sent to obtain the Lektor in the climax.
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Deadly Training Area: A villainous example: on SPECTRE Island, we see a variety of mooks training in both armed and unarmed combat. One hapless chap is even dodging blasts from a flamethrower.
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Adaptational Villainy: Kronsteen is not a nice man in the book, but he's still just a Soviet Colonel doing his job. The film makes him into a board member for the world's most powerful terrorism-for-hire organization and gives him about a million levels in smugness.
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Terrifying Pet Store Rat: Averted. Because of difficulties getting the right reactions from tame rats, the production ended up using real wild rats — described in marketing materials as "ferocious and disease-ridden" — caught in the sewers of Madrid.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: In the train after telling 'Nash' (really Red Grant) and Tatiana to go to dinner, Bond searches Nash's things which includes his briefcase (with Bond carefully opening it the same way Q instructed at the beginning of the film, indicating the briefcase is the same as Bond's own). Later on when he has Bond at gunpoint, Grant forces Bond to open up his own briefcase to retrieve the gold sovereigns he offered (which Bond does without incident). Then Grant asks about the 'other' case ... Come to that, practically everything in the magic attache case ends up being used - it's a Chekhov's Armoury. Chekhov's Sniper Rifle, Chekhov's Throwing Knife, Chekhov's Fifty Gold Sovereigns, Chekhov's Tear Gas Cartridge...which becomes standard for Bond adventures, where every blessed gadget Q gives him is going to be needed before the closing credits. About the only thing Bond doesn't use (or at least isn't seen using on camera) is the spare pistol ammo. When Bond and Tatiana get on the boat, Tatiana reports there's a "Chart, pistol, some flares..." The Chart comes in handy right away, the flares and pistol will take a little bit... The lethal effects of the shoe knife are first demonstrated on Kronsteen, so the audience knows what will happen if Klebb lands a kick on Bond.
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Serendipitous Survival: Kerim survives Krilencu's first assassination attempt, a bomb planted on the exterior wall of his office near his desk, because his girlfriend pulled him away from said desk for a make-out session mere seconds earlier. To which Bond makes a wisecrack about Kerim's "violent technique" scaring her off.
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Non-Indicative Name: None of the film is actually set in Russia. The plot itself is made to look like a Soviet one, but is actually devised by the supranational SPECTRE. Tatiana Romanova is Russian, and even then, when we meet her, she's working in Istanbul.
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Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Grant tries to kill Bond with his garotte wire-wristwatch. Bond stabs him in the arm with a knife and strangles him to death with his own wire.
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Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date: We see a couple in the middle of one...then pan over to James Bond and Sylvia Trench making out near Bond's car.
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Mauve Shirt: Kerim Bey.
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Adaptational Sexuality: The film eliminates Rosa Klebb's scene from the book of outright trying to seduce Tatiana, just having a scene where she plays with a visibly uncomfortable Tatiana's hair while talking of "a labour of love".
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Orient Express
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Orient Express: How Bond, Tatiana, and Karim Bey make their escape from Istanbul with the LEKTOR. Also features the first of several fights that Bond has on a train.
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Psycho for Hire
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Psycho for Hire: Grant is described by Morzenzy as a homicidal paranoic. Krilencu kills for pleasure.
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Booby Trap
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Red Grant accepts a bribe of fifty gold sovereigns from Bond for a last cigarette, and then demands to know if he has any more. Bond makes an overly hasty grab for the other briefcase so that Grant will get suspicious, stop him and open it himself, setting off the tear gas Booby Trap.
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False Flag Operation: A shtick of Blofeld and SPECTRE. As part of his long-term Evil Plan to Take Over the World, Blofeld is Playing Both Sides. SPECTRE pretends to be the KGB to steal the Lektor and destroy Bond. SPECTRE performs one as the British early in the film, killing one of the Bulgarian drivers who work for the Soviets. This causes the Soviets to heat up the normally routine observations both sides play in Istanbul.
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Grenade Launcher: Rifle grenades are used to try and force Bond to stop in the speedboat chase.
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Supervillain Lair: SPECTRE Island.
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Incredibly Obvious Tail: Justified because the British and Russian agents in Instanbul tail each other as a matter of course, and no secret is made of it.
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Adapted Out: The main villain of the book was General Nicholai Sergenovich Grubozaboyschikov (G). His role is taken by Blofeld. The changing of the book's ending meant that Rene Mathis' re-appearance was omitted.
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Batman Gambit: Bond plays on Grant's greed and suspicion to get him to open the booby-trapped case. The bribe gets him interested, but when Bond too-quickly grabs the second suitcase, Grant insists on opening it himself in case there's a weapon there. Because the latches need to be set in an unusual manner to open the case safely, Grant naturally unlocks the case in the normal way....getting a face full of tear gas.
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Spy School
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Spy School: The SPECTRE training academy: a spy school for bad guy spies.
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: When M and his staff are listening to a recording of Bond and Tania while they're on a boat, Tania in particular makes references to things she and Bond did the previous night that aren't fully explained. In the same recording, when Tania asks "Am I as exciting as all those Western girls?" Bond responds, "Well one time me and M were in Tokyo, we had an interesting experience..." M stops the recording at lightspeed.
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Flare Gun
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Flare Gun: Bond uses a flare gun to ignite spilled fuel.
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Room Disservice
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Room Disservice: Rosa Klebb's last gambit to kill Bond and steal the code machine is to disguise herself as a hotel maid.
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Bad Boss
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Blofeld's introduction to the franchise has him monologue about Siamese fighting fish, comparing them to SPECTRE. He's also shown giving orders to his subordinates, explicitly mentioning that Bond's death should be "a particularly unpleasant and humiliating one". His second and final scene in the film, where he has Kronsteen killed, establishes his Bad Boss tendencies, fondness for sadistic ploys, and his status as The Dreaded.
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Perfect Poison
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Perfect Poison: Blofeld puts Kronsteen at ease by directing his anger at Rosa Klebb for their operation's failure - then having Morzenzy kick Kronsteen with a poisoned blade. He drops dead in a matter of seconds; Blofeld times it, observing they need to develop a faster-working poison.
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Surprise Checkmate
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Surprise Checkmate: The Chessmaster Kronsteen doesn't quite manage checkmate, but gets his opponent's king pinned down to a single square. The opponent sees that the game is hopeless and surrenders. This is partly in the interest of realism; nobody gets checkmated at the grandmaster level (and a good bit below that). A decent player always knows when to resign; to do otherwise is considered boorish.
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IKEA Weaponry
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Ikea Weaponry: Bond uses an ArmaLite AR-7 Explorer as a Sniper Rifle. This rifle really exists, and you can still buy one today. When it's disassembled, the receiver, barrel, and magazines fit inside the stock. The rifle is .22 calibrenote although a script error has Q say it's ".25 calibre'', rather small for effective long-range shooting, but the ways in which Bond uses it mean the small calibre doesn't cause a problem.
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Make It Look Like an Accident
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Make It Look Like an Accident: Grant disposes of Karim Bey and a Russian agent by making it look like they killed each other. Bond and Tatiana's death is supposed to look like a Murder-Suicide, but (fortunately) the psychopathic Grant gets too caught up in making Bond beg for his life.
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Adaptational Heroism
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Adaptational Heroism: Calling Kerim's character in the book a "bad guy" is probably a stretch, but the film still omits most of his less savory character traits, most infamously his cheery endorsement of the "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization.
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Armed Legs
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Armed Legs: Rosa Klebb has poisoned blades contained in her shoes.
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Adaptational Location Change
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Adaptational Location Change: In the novel, Bond's encounter with Klebb takes place in Paris. In the film, it's in Venice.
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies: Bond tells Moneypenny he'd never look at another woman. Kerim Bey tells Bond the bomb blast didn't kill him because he was relaxing on the sofa.
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Leg Focus
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Leg Focus: Bond is using a periscope installed under the Soviet embassy to spy on a meeting inside, when Tatiana enters. He can't see her face from his angle, but what he can see impresses him greatly.
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Cold-Blooded Torture
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Cold-Blooded Torture: Grant mentions that SPECTRE tortured a British agent in Tokyo to death for Bond's recognition code.
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Hellish Copter
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Hellish Copter: The first Bond-attacked-by-helicopter scene.
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Tranquil Fury
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Tranquil Fury: Bond's reaction to the death of Kerim Bey. Notable in the fact that it is one of the few times we ever see Bond mad at all. Bond is also angry when he sees "Nash" slip drugs into Tatiana's drink during dinner on the Orient Express. After they take her back to their cabin, Bond decides to talk to "Nash" in private, where Bond immediately takes out his gun and looks sorely tempted to kill him right then and there.
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Becoming the Mask
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Becoming the Mask: Tatiana is sent by SPECTRE (under the guise of SMERSH) to seduce him into a trap. She pretends to be a Russian cypher clerk who's fallen in love with Bond's picture, only to fall for him for real.
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Villainous Rescue
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Villainous Rescue: A knife-wielding Bulgar charges up behind Bond, only to be shot dead by Grant who's watching from a distance.
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Latex Perfection
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Latex Perfection: A part of the opening to show that the Bond that Grant just killed was actually live practice.
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You Have Failed Me
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You Have Failed Me: Kronsteen, who ends up becoming the first henchman killed by his boss of the series. The use of this trope started out more as a subversion as it was made to look like Rosa Klebb was to be executed for her failure. Even more so, her tone made it sound like she was ready to pay the price for her failure.
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Characterization Marches On
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Characterization Marches On: Q is quite a bit more respectful toward Bond while explaining the attache case's gadgets, as opposed to their usual banter in later films. Q's relationship with Bond is not cemented until the next movie, Goldfinger.
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Death by Adaptation
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Death by Adaptation: Kronsteen, although it's possible his literary counterpart was also executed for his plan's failure. Rosa Klebb is shot dead during her final confrontation with Bond. In the book, she is merely taken into custody by the French. The next book, Dr. No, casually mentions that "she died" (implicitly under interrogation).
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Scenery Porn
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Scenery Porn: The footage of Istanbul.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When discussing Tatiana's request that Bond meet her in Istanbul to retrieve the Lektor after seeing Bond's file photo, M says that "girls do fall in love with pictures of film stars."
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Adaptational Alternate Ending
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Adaptational Alternate Ending: The original novel had Bond struck by Rosa Klebb's poison-stained stiletto and left in an Uncertain Doom until Ian Fleming wrote Dr. No (where it was revealed that he survived). The film has him hold Klebb off with a chair until Tatiana can kill her, and ends with Bond and Tatiana riding triumphantly down Venice's Grand Canal. This was arguably for the better, to avoid a maudlin Downer Ending. Besides which: Since Dr. No was the first Bond film, and M ordered Bond at the beginning of the film to replace his Beretta with the Walther PPK because of the Beretta jamming up on him (in an unseen incident that caused Bond to get injured), Bond didn't have the Beretta in the film version of From Russia With Love anyway.
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Kansas City Shuffle
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Kansas City Shuffle: Kronsteen's plan works on British Intelligence believing it's a KGB trap and thinking they can outsmart the Soviets anyway.
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Honey Trap
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Honey Trap: Tatiana's purpose. Of course, because it's James Bond, she falls in love with him anyway.
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Defector from Commie Land
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Defector from Commie Land: Tatiana Romanova, although she's actually in Turkey first.
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Post-Climax Confrontation
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Post-Climax Confrontation: After defeating Red Grant and supposedly home free, Rosa Klebb turns up for some shoe fighting action and forces Tania to decide where her loyalties lie.
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Smug Snake
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Kronsteen's arrogance and status as the Know-Nothing Know-It-All bites him hard in the ass. When asked by Blofeld to defend his plan, he could with ease, but doesn't think it's necessary. Instead, he simply remarks, "Who is Bond, compared with Kronsteen?" That's a bunk answer and it lets Klebb off the hook. The competition wasn't between Bond and Kronsteen, it was between Bond and Grant. Kronsteen stupidly lets Klebb change the parameters of the argument and pays for it with his life.
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Flirtatious Smack on the Ass
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Flirtatious Smack on the Ass: Bond does this to Tania. She responds in mock disapproval that there are some English customs she's not going to put up with.
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Trap Is the Only Option
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Trap Is the Only Option: Kronsteen devises his trap with the obvious implication that it is a trap, saying that the British always view a trap as a challenge.
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Bond One-Liner
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Bond One-Liner: After Kerim Bey shoots Krilencu as the latter tries to escape by climbing from a hatch hidden inside the mouth of Anita Ekberg on a billboard for Call Me Bwana, Bond quips, "She should have kept her mouth shut". Earlier in his confrontation with Grant, as he was impersonating Captain Nash, he addresses Bond as "old man." After Bond kills Grant with his own garrote wire, he pockets the money in Grant's coat and says, "You won't be needing this... old man." After Tatiana shoots Rosa Klebb dead after the latter had been trying to stab Bond with a poisoned dagger concealed in her shoe, Bond says of Klebb, "She's had her kicks." There's also "I'd say one of their aircraft is missing", which for younger viewers falls almost nonsensically flat, but it's a reference to One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, or at least to the wartime phrase it's based on, so it was still a relevant and clever reference for the target audience in 1963.
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Non-Action Big Bad
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The film inaugurates the Bond film tradition of the secondary villain vengefully trying to kill Bond in a final action scene after the "proper" plot is over... except in this case the character in question isn't a minion but the main villain's boss, a previously Non-Action Big Bad.
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Danger Room Cold Open
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Danger Room Cold Open: The pre-title sequence shows Bond getting stalked and killed by Donald "Red" Grant with his garrote wristwatch before it's revealed to be a SPECTRE training exercise for Grant, and "Bond" is actually a SPECTRE mook.
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The Dragon
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The Dragon: While Thunderball would establish Emilio Largo as being Blofeld's proper Number Two, here he's shown to have multiple Dragons. Kronsteen is the one who devises the strategies for SPECTRE's operations, Rosa Klebb is the one who oversees how they're carried out, and Morzeny is the one he calls in when he needs to set an example. Red Grant is also one for Rosa Klebb, being the one she selects to carry out SPECTRE's plan.
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Smoking Hot Sex
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Smoking Hot Sex: Tatiana lights up after sleeping with Bond on the train.
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Adaptational Modesty
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Adaptational Modesty: In the novel, the fighting gypsy girls are completely naked. This would never have passed the censors in 1963, so they were given (scant) clothing.
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Psycho Lesbian
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Psycho Lesbian: Implied with Klebb when she keeps feeling up Tatiana, culminating in her caressing Tatiana's hair while saying "a labour of love". Quite explicit in the novel, where Kronsteen notes that she has "overcome the sex instinct," and can have a lover tortured to death just as easily as a stranger; and her effort to seduce Tatiana sends the latter fleeing from the room.
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Adaptation Distillation
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Adaptation Distillation: The book is generally regarded as one of Fleming's best, but many of the changes for the film are still considered good decisions - the book's unusual format (where the entire first third is SMERSH planning their konspiratsia, following Grant, Klebb and finally Romanova before Bond ever turns up) is distilled into a much shorter sequence; there's more Scenery Porn in Istanbul and events are slightly reordered so Bond plays a greater role in the actionnote The sequence at the Hagia Sophia is original to the film, and extracting Tanya and the SPEKTOR from the Embassy is done by Kerim before Bond even arrives.; Kerim isn't a creepy sexual predator; the sequence on the Orient Express gives Bond slightly less of an Idiot Ball moment when he realises "Nash" isn't who he says he is, and the changed ending neatly resolves what happens to Klebb, Kronsteen and Tatiana.
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Man on Fire
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Man on Fire: Bond takes out some SPECTRE henchmen that were pursuing him and Tatiana by using a flare gun to light some leaking gasoline barrels.
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I Kiss Your Foot
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I Kiss Your Foot: Red Grant is enough of a psycho sadist that merely killing Bond wouldn't be enough:
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Impersonation Gambit
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Impersonation Gambit: A villainous example occurs when Red Grant takes the place of Bond's Orient Express contact Captain Nash.
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Belly Dancer
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Lisa Guiraut's Belly Dancer character; she has no dialogue of any sort, and her sole function in the plot aside from titillating the audience for four minutes is that her performance, entirely by coincidence, provides distraction for the Russian agents sneaking up on the Romani camp.
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Spanner in the Works
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Spanner in the Works: Once Bond and Tania had got the Lektor, the plan was for Kerim to arrange for the train to stop so they can get into a car driven by his sons to an airport where they can get on a plane to London via Athens. Unfortunately, Grant murders Kerim, forcing Bond to send for help in finding a new escape route. Col. Klebb would have killed Bond and made off with the Lektor is Tania hadn't had a sudden change of heart.
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The Lancer
 From Russia with Love / int_60b21fa3
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The Lancer: Kerim Bey, to Bond. He is the one helping Bond out the moment he comes to Istanbul.
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Drink-Based Characterization
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Drink-Based Characterization: Grant orders a Chianti with his grilled sole, albeit red instead of white. This tips Bond off that he's an imposter.
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Sacrificial Lion
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Sacrificial Lion: Kerim Bey.
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Thriller on the Express
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Thriller on the Express: A significant portion takes place on the Orient Express, where Grant finally makes his move to kill James Bond.
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Shooting Gallery
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Shooting Gallery: SPECTRE uses live targets.
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I Know You're Watching Me
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I Know You're Watching Me: After M. excuses Miss Moneypenny from the room, she "discreetly" turns on the intercom in her office so she can continue listening to the taped conversation between James and Tatiana:
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Grievous Bottley Harm
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Grievous Bottley Harm: During the Gypsy Cat Fight, one of the Gypsy women picks up a bottle to bludgeon her opponent, only to be interrupted by the arrival of Krilencu and his men.
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Double Tap
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Double Tap: When Grant shoots the Mook trying to stab Bond, he shoots him again to make sure he stays down.
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Tactful Translation
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Tactful Translation: Averted.
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Chess Motifs
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Chess Motifs: Chess-champion Kronsteen turns out to be a SPECTRE agent, and uses chess analogies in their latest plan to outwit and destroy James Bond.
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Shoe Phone
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Shoe Phone: This film is the first to have gadgets, although they are rather mundane compared to later versions. Specifically, the tear-gas bomb disguised as a tin of talcum powder, and Rosa Klebb and Morzeny's shoe-daggers. Grant has a wire garotte hidden inside his watch.
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Kneel Before Zod
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Kneel Before Zod: The first thing psychopathic assassin Red Grant does to James Bond when he captures him:
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Bond Villain Stupidity
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"Red" Grant's greedy nature leads to his downfall in the film. For all the Bond Villain Stupidity mentioned elsewhere, none of it would actually have mattered if Bond hadn't been able to dupe him into trying to steal the fifty gold sovereigns (little more than $1000 in 2019 terms) from one of the two field equipment briefcases, which causes him to unwittingly activate a tear gas cartridge that gives Bond the opening he needs to take it down.
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Stocking Filler
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Stocking Filler: Daniela Bianchi (to be precise, she wasn't wearing garters, but black silk stockings rolled above the knees; this isn't clearly seen in the scene as released, but an alternate version was shot - there are several promotional photos from that version - which clearly show her exposed, stockinged legs). The "alternate version" from which those photos come was actually a screen-test of Bianchi. According to 007 film lore, this scene has been used ever since to screen-test potential "Bond girls".
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Action Prologue
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Action Prologue: The very first, though with Bait-and-Switch as the Bond there is just a masked mook.
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Out-of-Character Alert
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Out-of-Character Alert: Bond chastises himself for not recognising Grant posing as a British gentleman spy when the man orders the wrong wine with a fish course at dinner, and keeps butchering English phrases. Unfortunately, Bond only realises this hideous faux pas after Grant has him at gunpoint.
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So Much for Stealth
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So Much for Stealth: Grant breaking a twig during the Action Prologue — in a subversion, he picks up the twig and snaps it deliberately, presumably to get his target moving towards him.
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Chekhov's Armoury
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Come to that, practically everything in the magic attache case ends up being used - it's a Chekhov's Armoury. Chekhov's Sniper Rifle, Chekhov's Throwing Knife, Chekhov's Fifty Gold Sovereigns, Chekhov's Tear Gas Cartridge...which becomes standard for Bond adventures, where every blessed gadget Q gives him is going to be needed before the closing credits. About the only thing Bond doesn't use (or at least isn't seen using on camera) is the spare pistol ammo.
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The Faceless
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The Faceless: Blofeld. According to Lucky Number Slevin, this is what makes him the best Blofeld - "That's when the villain is most effective - when you don't know what he looks like." The credits even refuse to tell us the actor's name, and simply feature a question mark. For the record, the body is Anthony Dawson (Professor Dent from the previous film) and the voice was Eric Pohlmann.
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Smart People Play Chess
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Smart People Play Chess: Kronsteen, who is a literal chessmaster. Chess journalist George Koltanowski said that Kronsteen was based on USSR Grandmaster Paul Keres. He probably derives his name from synthesis with another Soviet Grandmaster, David Bronstein.
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Handshake Refusal
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Handshake Refusal: As Kronsteen leaves the chess match, a member of the press offers his hand to shake, but Kronsteen just ignores him. Given that he's summoned to a meeting with Blofeld, this is rude, but understandable.
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Ready for Lovemaking
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Ready for Lovemaking: Tania sneaks through the window of Bond's hotel room while 007 is getting ready to take a shower, and climbs into Bond's bed wearing precisely one black velvet neck ribbon and a pair of black silk stockings. (When Bond asks Tatiana if she wore anything at all when she snuck into his room, she replies, "This!", pointing to said ribbon. (Incidentally, this very scene is used to audition future Bond girls).
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Blofeld Ploy
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Blofeld Ploy: Trope Namer and Trope Codifier, all in one convenient package. Also an Unbuilt Trope — like all examples actually featuring Blofeld, he kills the man he actually thinks is responsible for the mess. He is wrong, since it was Klebb's man Red Grant who actually stuffed things up, but a) Neither he, Klebb or Kronsteen knew that, b) That was still more Grant's fault personally than Klebb's, and c) Kronsteen was being an ass. Also deviates from the usual in that it's Morzeny who executes Kronsteen, on Blofeld's (implied) orders.
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Spy Speak
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Spy Speak: Exchanged between Bond and one of Kerim's sons when he arrives in Istanbul:
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An Offer You Can't Refuse
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An Offer You Can't Refuse: Klebb gives Tatiana the choice of either participating in her honey trap of James Bond, or get shot.
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Chairman of the Brawl
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Chairman of the Brawl: Bond picks up a chair for his fight with Klebb.
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Establishing Character Moment
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Establishing Character Moment: Grant is introduced hunting down and killing a fake James Bond in a training exercise, demonstrating his cunning and brutality. Blofeld's introduction to the franchise has him monologue about Siamese fighting fish, comparing them to SPECTRE. He's also shown giving orders to his subordinates, explicitly mentioning that Bond's death should be "a particularly unpleasant and humiliating one". His second and final scene in the film, where he has Kronsteen killed, establishes his Bad Boss tendencies, fondness for sadistic ploys, and his status as The Dreaded.
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Plunger Detonator
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Plunger Detonator: Kerim Bey uses one to blow a hole in the floor of the Russian embassy so Bond and Tatiana can escape.
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Nerd Glasses
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Nerd Glasses: Rosa Klebb wears particularly hideous thick-framed and thick-lensed glasses in many scenes.
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When Harry Met Svetlana
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When Harry Met Svetlana: One of the earliest and best-loved examples, and likely Trope Codifier. Bond goes in to exfiltrate a beautiful Russian crypto tech who wants to defect with a code machine.
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Absurdly Spacious Sewer
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Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: The catacombs in Istanbul. While big enough for Bond and co. to navigate through, they are extremely cramped as well.
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Batman Cold Open
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Batman Cold Open: The man who appears to be Bond is actually a mook dressed up as Bond for Grant to kill to demonstrate his assassination abilities, making basically a villains' Danger Room Cold Open.
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Travel Montage
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Travel Montage: We pan over a map to show a ride with the Orient Express through Yugoslavia, with stock footage mainly of British trains in the background. A cheap method but understandable. With a budget of only 2 million USD Bond was still low budget at that time back in 1963.
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Super Wrist-Gadget
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Super Wrist-Gadget: Long before Bond himself began wearing Omega watches with all kinds of cool functions, Red Grant wears a watch with a garrotte wire concealed in the winding mechanism.
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Undercover as Lovers
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Undercover as Lovers: James and Tatiana Romanova attempt to exit Turkey via the Orient Express as a married pair of British vacationers.
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Pin-Pulling Teeth
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Pin-Pulling Teeth: While dropping grenades on Bond from a helicopter, a SPECTRE mook pulls their pins with his teeth. For some reason he needs to have a grenade in each hand, even though another mook is flying the aircraft.
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Gadget Watches
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Gadget Watches: Red Grant kills people with a garotte concealed in his wristwatch.
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A Glass of Chianti
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A Glass of Chianti: Bond first grows suspicious of Red Grant when he orders a glass of red Chianti (nonspecific red wine in the videogame adaptation) with fish, at the time a major faux pas for wine lovers. A case of Cuisine Marches On: nowadays, it's not a faux pas to drink red wine with fish or white with meat (there's a number of white wines that go very well with some particular kinds of meat, and a number of red wines that mix perfectly with fish.) Some professional sommeliers' opinions can be found here.
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Stated by Red Grant to Bond on the train. The only reason SPECTRE kept Bond alive up to that point was for him to get the Lektor, and with it within their grasp, Bond and Tatiana are now expendable (That and the fact that the half the point of the mission was to kill Bond in a way that would embarrass MI6, which Grant was now set up to do). Unfortunately for SPECTRE, things don't go as planned.
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Truck Driver's Gear Change
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Truck Driver's Gear Change: The music in the mosque shifts up a half-step twice over 30 seconds. First it starts at G Major when Tanya leaves the map at the base of the column, shifts up to A-Flat Major when the Russian agent is killed by Grant, and then to A Major when the camera reveals Grant and as Bond finds the dead agent and the map
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Villainous Breakdown
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Villainous Breakdown: Rosa Klebb, who was mostly calm throughout the movie, is a desperate wreck when she fights Bond. Justified in that if she fails to kill Bond and get the Lektor, she'll end up like Kronsteen.
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Prolonged Prologue
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Prolonged Prologue: The first 25 minutes is made up entirely of exposition setting up the main story. Bond himself doesn't appear at all until 18 minutes into the film.note While Sean Connery appears in the first few minutes, it's as an imposter via Latex Perfection. The next 25 are spent on Bond waiting until it's time for his mission to recover the LEKTOR device and assisting his friend Kerim Bay, by the time the main story finally kicks off the film is 50 minutes in; nearly half the movie's running time.
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Hot Gypsy Woman
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Hot Gypsy Woman: Two of them. They end up together in James's bed.
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Big Bad
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Rosa Klebb's fatal flaw is not properly vetting her people. Kronsteen says that his plan went wrong when Klebb chose Grant as Bond's assassin, and he has a point. She could have investigated Grant better and possibly uncovered his fatal flaw (which happened to be Greed), even though on paper he was totally the right guy.
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Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?
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Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: Averted (or rather, unbuilt): Bond's gear is nothing like as outlandish as it would become in later films. The most "gadgety" equipment he has is the suitcase, containing spare ammo, hidden strips of gold coins, throwing knives, a disassembled rifle that (except for the too-small infrared sight) is available commercially, a Suicide Pill (In the novel, anyway - and Bond threw it out. No mention of it is made in the film) and a tear gas booby trap, all of which are multipurpose and could be used in nearly any mission, not just one specially written for the gadget.
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Visible Boom Mic
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Visible Boom Mic: Aboard the Orient Express, as Bond and Tatiana are given their passports, what appears to be a shadow of a boom microphone is visible overhead.
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As You Know
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As You Know: Kronsteen's dialogue to Blofeld at the beginning is basically this, as he essentially recaps the ending of Dr. No, mentions that M is the head of British intelligence, and that they have an agent named James Bond who was responsible for killing Dr. No. All information Blofeld most certainly would have been aware of, but which viewers who may not have seen Dr. No yet might not be, especially as neither Bond nor M appear on screen until about 15 minutes into the picture.
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13 Is Unlucky
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13 Is Unlucky: When Bond and Tatianna break into the Russian embassy to steal the Lektor:
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Greater-Scope Villain
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Greater-Scope Villain: Blofeld is this here. He's not directly active in the plot this time, but it's clear that him and the rest of SPECTRE are a much bigger threat that Bond will have to face in the future.
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Evil Counterpart
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Evil Counterpart: Red Grant and Bond. Each is a loyal agent, and a blunt instrument serving their respective espionage organizations. (Spectre and MI-6 respectively) Both are highly skilled, great physical combatants, and are shown with some gadgets in their respective arsenals.
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Dirty Communists
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Dirty Communists: Subverted. The original Fleming story had them, but most were changed to agents of the supranational criminal union SPECTRE, running a False Flag Operation.
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Made of Iron
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Made of Iron: Klebb tests Grant by punching him in the abdomen with brass knuckles. He doesn't even flinch.
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: In a SPECTRE meeting, Kronsteen mentions "the killing of our operative, Dr. No". Sylvia Trench reappears, once again denied a romance with Bond as he's called away on a mission. This was meant to be a Running Gag throughout the series, but the character was dropped after this film. One could argue that Moneypenny played out that gag, in her own way.
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Sex–Face Turn
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Sex–Face Turn: Tatiana Romanova is assigned to seduce Bond in the first place as part of a Honey Trap but really falls in love with him after she is successful.
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Imposter Forgot One Detail
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Imposter Forgot One Detail: Grant pretends to be a British agent, but consumes red wine with fish, something a Brit would never do. He also says "cheero" instead of "cheerio", and "old man" instead of "old chap," along with addressing Bond as "Oh-Oh-Seven" rather than "Double-Oh-Seven." Bond doesn't put two and two together until after Grant gets the drop on him, then curses himself for missing it.
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Killed Mid-Sentence
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Killed Mid-Sentence: A non-lethal version is Played for Laughs. Bond is in the Soviet embassy waiting for his friend to set off a bomb so he can steal the coding device. He checks his watch, frowns, then goes to the Russian on the desk.
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NiceToTheWaiter
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Nice to the Waiter: A porter in the hotel in Istanbul lightly coughs and asking Bond if he needs anything else, seemingly to remind him of the tip. Bond nonchalantly sticks what is apparently a rather large sum of money in the porter's pocket, saying, "No, only this." The porter is audibly grateful.
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Adaptation Dye-Job
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Adaptation Dye-Job: Tatiana, who's a brunette in the book, is played by Daniela Bianchi, who's blonde.
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MacGuffin
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MacGuffin: The Lektor, which only exists to get James Bond to Istanbul.
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Nose Tapping
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Nose Tapping: Kerim Bey does this while referring to his nose as his "old friend", who tells him that "something smells".
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My Card
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My Card: Grant, posing as Captain Nash, uses this phrase verbatim when introducing himself to Bond.
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Tricked-Out Shoes
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Tricked-Out Shoes: SPECTRE agents develop a weapon that fits a hidden, retractable poison blade into the sole of a shoe, to give it a "nastier kick".
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Agents Dating
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Agents Dating: SMERSH (in the book) and SPECTRE (in the movie) cook up a plan to kill Bond with Tatiana Romanova, a KGB enlisted woman. He knows it's a trap but goes along with it, because (aside from the obvious reasons) it comes with a chance to steal the valuable encoding device.
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Slipping a Mickey
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Slipping a Mickey: Grant puts chloral hydrate in Tatiana's drink.
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Fatal Flaw
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Fatal Flaw: Kronsteen's arrogance and status as the Know-Nothing Know-It-All bites him hard in the ass. When asked by Blofeld to defend his plan, he could with ease, but doesn't think it's necessary. Instead, he simply remarks, "Who is Bond, compared with Kronsteen?" That's a bunk answer and it lets Klebb off the hook. The competition wasn't between Bond and Kronsteen, it was between Bond and Grant. Kronsteen stupidly lets Klebb change the parameters of the argument and pays for it with his life. Rosa Klebb's fatal flaw is not properly vetting her people. Kronsteen says that his plan went wrong when Klebb chose Grant as Bond's assassin, and he has a point. She could have investigated Grant better and possibly uncovered his fatal flaw (which happened to be Greed), even though on paper he was totally the right guy. "Red" Grant's greedy nature leads to his downfall in the film. For all the Bond Villain Stupidity mentioned elsewhere, none of it would actually have mattered if Bond hadn't been able to dupe him into trying to steal the fifty gold sovereigns (little more than $1000 in 2019 terms) from one of the two field equipment briefcases, which causes him to unwittingly activate a tear gas cartridge that gives Bond the opening he needs to take it down.
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Actionized Adaptation
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Actionized Adaptation: In the book, Tanya obtains the decoding machine with no difficulty. The film has Kerim bomb the place as a diversion so Bond can steal it. Also, the helicopter and boat scenes were exclusive to the film.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: The reaction of the two SPECTRE helicopter mooks when Bond shoots the arm of the one who just unpinned a grenade and dropped it inside the aircraft. Then *BOOM*.
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Avenging the Villain
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Avenging the Villain: SPECTRE carries out the plan to kill James Bond in retaliation for Dr. No's death. The "R" does stand for "Revenge" after all.
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Ms. Fanservice
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Ms. Fanservice: Grant's masseuse who strips down to her underwear, the Gypsy women who have a catfight and the belly dancer are purely for the male audience's viewing pleasure. Plus, of course, there's Tatiana in the nightie on the train.
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Just Between You and Me
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Just Between You and Me: Bond actually works out SPECTRE's plan entirely by himself (once he's told it is SPECTRE, that is), but Red Grant is perfectly happy to fill in the details while he has him cornered at gunpoint.
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Fake Defector: What Tatiana is told her mission is to be. Her mission is actually a set up to lure Bond into a situation where SMERSH can kill both of them in a manner that embarrasses the British government.
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Sadist
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Sadist: Red Grant. His SPECTRE file describes him as a homicidal paranoiac, which comes into view when cornering Bond, where, instead of just of going with the fake murder/suicide, Grant plans to humiliate and torture Bond.
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Sequel
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Sequel: The film is one to Dr. No, as Kronsteen mentions the death of Dr. No, and SPECTRE itself appears after being mentioned by No in the latter film. Also, Sylvia Trench reappears for a due romantic picnic with Bond.
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ColdOpen
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While this is the first film in the series to feature a Cold Open, it's just a short sequence of Red Grant taking out a Bond impersonator, which lacks any real context. It wouldn't be until the next film that the Cold Open typically became a self-contained action sequence that serves to set up the film's plot.
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Come Back to Bed, Honey: Bond's Post-Sex cuddling with Sylvia Trench is interrupted by a phone call from headquarters.
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Chopper on Standby
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Chopper on Standby: SPECTRE is able to deploy a helicopter to chase Bond across the plains after he kills Red Grant and leaves the Orient Express.
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Cool Guns
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Cool Guns: Bond is issued an ArmaLite AR-7 "takedown rifle" as part of his equipment kit. When this rifle is disassembled, the receiver, barrel, and magazines fit inside the stock, allowing it to fit neatly into Bond's briefcase. Bond takes aim at Krilencu with it, then lets Kerim pull the trigger at the latter's insistence on wanting to settle the score personally. Later, Bond uses the rifle to wound a SPECTRE pilot, making him drop a live grenade that blows up his helicopter. Sean Connery famously posed with a Walther LP-53 air pistol for the poster. Apparently, it was photographer David Hurn's own personal weapon which he provided when a prop PPK didn't turn up for the shoot. SPECTRE trainees can be seen training with Armalite AR-10s. Red Grant uses a Broomhandle Mauser C96 to shoot a man about to backstab Bond during the gypsy camp fight.
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These Gloves Are Made for Killin'
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These Gloves Are Made for Killin': SPECTRE hitman Red Grant is always seen putting on gloves before he kills someone, even in situations where fingerprints or other trace evidence would be difficult-to-impossible to find using early-1960s forensic methods. He even does it in the confrontation with James Bond on the Orient Express, when his fingerprints are already all over the compartment. Justified to some extent, as his signature kill method is a wire garrotte, which would also hurt his own hands if he didn't somehow protect himself.
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Rosa Klebb coerces Tatiana Romanova to defect to MI-6 → elaborate scheme hatched by SPECTRE to steal Lektor decoding machine from the Russians and selling it back to them while exacting revenge on Bond for killing their agent Dr. No.
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Undignified Death: "The first one won't kill you...nor the second...nor even the third. Not 'til you crawl over here and you kiss my foot!"
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Sniping the Cockpit
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Sniping the Cockpit: Downplayed. Bond shoots the co-pilot of the helicopter trying to kill him. The shot itself isn't anywhere near enough to bring it down on its own, but the fact that the co-pilot was holding a primed grenade at the time causes the helicopter to explode.
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Equippable Ally
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Equippable Ally: Bond acts as an impromptu front stock for Kerim Bey when the latter insists on sniping Krilencu.
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Evil Gloating: Lampshaded, by the gloater himself no less.
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Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the novel, James Bond kills Red Grant by shooting him dead. The film adaptation has Bond strangle him to death. Klebb's fate in the novel is being arrested, with the following book Dr. No revealing that she died in custody. In the film, Tatiana shoots her.
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Brick Break
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Brick Break: At the SPECTRE training facility, some SPECTRE agents are shown doing this.
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Playing Both Sides: Blofeld's plan is to stage an elaborate revenge scheme against 007 for the death of Dr. No by stealing the LEKTOR cryptographic device from the Russians. Bond will be assigned to recover the device, where SPECTRE's hired assassin Red Grant, will kill Bond. They will then leak compromising photos of Bond and the Russian pawn, Tatiana Romanova, to the press and then sell the device back to the Russians, with neither the British nor the Russians knowing that this was set up by Blofeld.
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Neck Snap: Bond tries this on Red Grant during their fight scene, and fails.
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Briefcase Blaster: Bond's attache case, which is the first real Bond gadget. Amongst its other tricks, it features a rifle folded up inside and a tear gas booby trap.
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Sylvia Trench was supposed to be a recurring character like M, Q, and Moneypenny. Instead she was written out and never mentioned again after her picnic with James.
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Mooks
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Mooks: The Bulgars for the KGB, the gypsies and Karim's sons for MI6, and black-clad vaguely Germanic mooks for SPECTRE.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: 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". There’s a Murder on the Orient Express
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Renegade Russian
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Renegade Russian: Rosa Klebb. (In the novel, she is explicitly working for the USSR and has not defected to SPECTRE.)
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Clock Discrepancy
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Clock Discrepancy: Played for Laughs. Bond is in the Russian embassy waiting for his friend to set off a bomb so he can steal the coding device. He checks his watch, frowns, then goes to the Russian on the desk.
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Adaptational Karma
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Adaptational Karma: There is no mention of anything happening to Kronsteen, either from MI6 for trying to kill one of their agents or from SMERSH for failing in the book. He doesn't get the same treatment in the movie adaptation.
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Hollywood Darkness
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Hollywood Darkness: When Bond knocks out the mook sent to pick up Grant.
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This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself
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This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: Kerim Bey insists to Bond that he has to shoot Krilencu himself, injured arm or no.
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Fake Action Prologue
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Fake Action Prologue: The film begins with James Bond duelling with Red Grant in a hedge maze, only to be killed by Grant. It turns out that it's actually a test for Grant to determine his efficiency; the "Bond" killed is actually another man in disguise working for SPECTRE.
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Bad People Abuse Animals
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Bad People Abuse Animals: In his opening scene Blofeld forces two Siamese Fighting Fish to fight to the death, then feeds the loser to his cat.
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Schmuck Bait
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Schmuck Bait: Cited by Kronsteen when enacting his Evil Plan. British Intelligence will suspect they're being set up, but with the lure of getting hold of a LEKTOR won't be able to resist the challenge of outsmarting the Soviets. Bond makes several moves designed to outsmart this Obvious Trap (like stealing the LEKTOR a day early) but doesn't realise it's not the Soviets he needs to worry about. Red Grant accepts a bribe of fifty gold sovereigns from Bond for a last cigarette, and then demands to know if he has any more. Bond makes an overly hasty grab for the other briefcase so that Grant will get suspicious, stop him and open it himself, setting off the tear gas Booby Trap.
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Bond ends up strangling Red Grant to death with his own garrote. The two SPECTRE helicopter henchmen die when Bond shoots the arm of the one who dropped grenades as he had just unpinned one, which falls into the aircraft. They don't have the time to throw it out before it explodes, ridding Bond and Tatiana of that threat. Klebb is shot by Tatiana, whom she recruited, with the gun she brought.
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Fake Shemp
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Fake Shemp: Terence Young disliked Daniela Bianchi's legs, and used a stand-in for the scene where Bond spies on the Russian embassy in Istanbul with a periscope. Bianchi also claimed that the walk-through nude scene in the bedroom where Tatiana meets Bond was done by a body double and not her.
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Dream-Crushing Handicap
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Dream-Crushing Handicap: Tatiana Romanova explains that she wanted to be a ballerina, but was rejected for being too tall. In fact, "Too Tall to be a Ballerina" could be a trope in its own right: in Real Life, aspiring dancers are more likely to be rejected for being too short.
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The Chessmaster
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The Chessmaster: Kronsteen is a literal example; a chess grandmaster who also devises the intricate plan to steal the Lector and embarass the British Secret Service in the process. Interestingly, Blofeld is not this; he simply questions and then approves Kronsteen's plan.
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You're Insane!
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You're Insane!: "Tell me, which lunatic asylum did they get you out of?"
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Company Cross References
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Company Cross References: A giant poster of Call Me Bwana can be seen as Kerim Bey and Bond snipe Krilencu. Eon Productions produced both films.
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Adaptation Name Change
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Adaptation Name Change: The "SPEKTOR" cryptography machine from the novel becomes the "LEKTOR" in the film, probably to avoid confusion with the villainous organization "SPECTRE". Grant's first name is changed from Donovan to Donald. Kerim's given name was changed from "Darko" to "Ali", possibly because the context of "Darko" (what you think it is) would be uncomfortable even for 1963.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: When Bond and Kerim spy on the Russian consulate, Kerim notes an agent named Benz to the right of the periscope. Benz later appears at the train station when Bond, Kerim, and Tanya board the Orient Express, and follows them onboard.
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Cat Fight
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Cat Fight: Bond is taken to visit some Gypsies, who proceed to stage a formal cat fight between two half-naked young ladies over a man for his benefit. Later, he apparently sleeps with both of them. This has absolutely no relevance to the plot, by the way. It is signaled by the immortal line "It must be settled... the Gypsy Way." Averted in the original book, where this was a brutal, unarmed fight to the death between two women who are both vying for the affections of one man. That also involved both girls ripping each other's clothes off.
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Right Under Their Noses
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Right Under Their Noses: How Kronsteen gets the summons from SPECTRE during his chess match — printed on a paper coaster underneath a glass of water brought to him.
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Alone with the Psycho
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Alone with the Psycho: Bond is cornered by the psycho SPECTRE assassin, Red Grant, who was planning a sadistic fate for Bond after he got the Lector. Fortunately, he was enough of a sucker to be tricked into setting off Bond's tear gas booby trap in his attache case, allowing Bond to tackle him.
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Famous-Named Foreigner
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Famous-Named Foreigner: Tatiana Romanova, named after the House of Romanov, the royal house of Russia, which did have a Tatiana.
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With Lyrics
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While this is the first of the Bond films to receive a true theme song, only the instrumental is played over the opening titles. The With Lyrics version doesn't play until the end of the film.
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Assassin Outclassin'
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Assassin Outclassin': Grant is recruited by Col. Klebb to eliminate Bond and Tatiana once they deliver the Lektor. He would have succeeded were it not for his own ego. Klebb attempts to kill Bond herself, but Tatiana has a change of heart.
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The assassin Krilencu is Bulgarian, but his name has a suffix that's a blend between a Ukrainian (-enko) and a Romanian one (-escu).
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Interrupted Intimacy: Kerim is enjoying some quality time with his mistress when his office is hit by a limpet mine.
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Dark Is Evil
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Kerim's given name was changed from "Darko" to "Ali", possibly because the context of "Darko" (what you think it is) would be uncomfortable even for 1963.
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Groin Attack
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Groin Attack: Klebb literally tries to kill Bond at the end by kicking him in the crotch with her poison tipped shoe.
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Bound and Gagged
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Bound and Gagged: Grant to a Russian mook. He later murders him and makes it look like the British did it.
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Spotting the Thread
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Spotting the Thread: Red Grant is impersonating Captain Nash, Bond's MI6 contact in Yugoslavia. Bond is initially suspicious as "Nash" calls him "Old Man" rather than "Old Chap" like a Briton would, so he inspects his briefcase and finds the standard-issue MI6 equipment, allaying his fears. However, during dinner, Nash orders red wine with his seafood dish rather than white wine, something that no cultured Briton would do, he "accidentally" spills Tatiana Romanova's glass and slips some pills in while refilling it and toasts with "cheero" instead of "cheerio". Bond starts to see that Nash isn't who he seems, however, he doesn't put two and two together till after Grant gets the drop on him.
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Kill and Replace
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Kill and Replace: Grant intercepts Bond's contact Captain Nash, kills him and impersonates him.
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Plot-Based Voice Cancellation: Immediately prior to meeting Bond, there's a scene in which Grant dupes and kills another agent, and his dialogue is deliberately too quiet for the viewer to hear. His assumed English accent when he finally talks to Bond is thus that much more surprising. Grant is English, a criminal recruited by SPECTRE. Bond only assumes he's Russian because he doesn't know yet that SPECTRE has been playing the British and Russians off against each other so they can get the Lektor. In the original novel he's stated to be from County Armagh in Ireland, but this doesn't seem to be the case in the film.
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Unbuilt Trope
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Unbuilt Trope: The film was made before the conventions of the series had become rote, and as such has a very different feel to later Bond films. The big Trope Codifier for the Bond films was the next film: Goldfinger.
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Distracted by the Sexy
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Distracted by the Sexy: The guard at the gypsy camp is knifed because he's watching the belly dancer. Bond stays focused on the mission despite Tatiana constantly hitting on him, though Kerim Bey enjoys suggesting that he's not as impervious as he's making out. Fortunately Kerim falls for this trope, leaving his desk to 'relax' with his girl just when a bomb detonates on the other side of the wall.
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Evil Plan
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Cited by Kronsteen when enacting his Evil Plan. British Intelligence will suspect they're being set up, but with the lure of getting hold of a LEKTOR won't be able to resist the challenge of outsmarting the Soviets. Bond makes several moves designed to outsmart this Obvious Trap (like stealing the LEKTOR a day early) but doesn't realise it's not the Soviets he needs to worry about.
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Would Hit a Girl
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Would Hit a Girl: Bond is very willing to hit Tatiana when he thinks she has something to do with the death of Kerim Bay.
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Product Placement: Of an interesting sort: Kerim snipes Krilencu as the latter tries to escape by climbing from a hatch hidden inside the teeth of Anita Ekberg on a billboard for Call Me Bwana, a movie that Albert R. Broccoli produced.
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Fanservice Extra
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Fanservice Extra: Lisa Guiraut's Belly Dancer character; she has no dialogue of any sort, and her sole function in the plot aside from titillating the audience for four minutes is that her performance, entirely by coincidence, provides distraction for the Russian agents sneaking up on the Romani camp. Red Grant's masseuse at the SPECTRE training facility.
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Insult Backfire
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Insult Backfire: Bond insults Grant for being uncivilized by ordering red wine with fish, which is considered a major faux pax. Grant comes out on top by simply reminding him of his current predicament.
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Reverse Psychology: Bond makes an overly hasty grab for the second suitcase, to make Grant think he has a hidden weapon in there. This makes Grant insist on opening the suitcase himself, triggering the tear gas Booby Trap.
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Makeup Weapon
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Makeup Weapon: Bond's gimmicked briefcase includes a tear gas greanade disguised as a tin of talcum powder.
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Self-Destructing Security
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Self-Destructing Security: Bond's attache case has numerous built-in gadgets including a magnetically attached tear-gas canister stored inside. Opening the case without first rotating the clasps triggers the grenade and gives any would-be-snoop a face full of the gas. This turns out to be just the edge Bond needs when held at gunpoint by Red Grant, whose greed Bond uses to trick him into opening the case.
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Sylvia Trench reappears, once again denied a romance with Bond as he's called away on a mission. This was meant to be a Running Gag throughout the series, but the character was dropped after this film. One could argue that Moneypenny played out that gag, in her own way.
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Artistic License – Physics
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Artistic Licence - Physics: Bond destroys a number of attacking speedboats over a large area simply by dumping fuel in the water and lighting it; however this would have no effect if the boats were moving at high speed, since they would be cooled by the splashing water (and its evaporation) faster than they could be heated; likewise, the bow-wave of the boats would extinguish the flames immediately around them. Later movies were worse. This could work if the area of burning fuel was large enough. Depletion of atmospheric oxygen by the combustion would cause the boats' engines to stall and the humans to suffocate, leaving them stuck in the middle. Also could be justified due to the fact that Morzeny ordered the boats to slow down just before Bond lit the fuel.
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Love Before First Sight
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Love Before First Sight: This was Tatiana Romanova's cover story, which is the reason that the only agent who could extract her was James Bond.
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Situational Hand Switch: During the gypsy camp shootout, Krilencu shoots Kerim Bey in the right elbow, forcing him to shoot left-handed for the rest of the shootout. Even when he shoots right-handed to kill Krilencu the following night, the arm appears to still pain him.
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