Casino Royale was the first book but not the first movie (Dr No was, 1962).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(novel)
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Casino Royale was the first book but not the first movie (Dr No was, 1962).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(novel)
James Bond's wife name?:
Spoiler: Show"Contessa Teresa 'Tracy' Di Vicenzo Bond"
Married at the end of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", but soon killed at end of the movie...
SMERSH the Russian intelligence organisation in the Bond movies was based on a real counter intelligence department of the KGB. The name was an acronym for Smert Spionam or death to spies.
The original Fleming Bond was more of a cunt than his shiny Hollywood dilution.
More a rapist than a Lothario.
Interesting fact.
What children's book did James Bond author Ian Fleming write?
Spoiler: Show"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
What military rank does James Bond hold?
Spoiler: ShowNaval Commander
Who is M's favorite fictional character?
Spoiler: ShowNero Wolfe
Who was the second actor to portray James Bond in a feature film?
Spoiler: ShowGeorge Lazenby
What was the original title of Licence to Kill?
Spoiler: ShowLicence Revoked
David Niven:unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by Darth Sushi
My thoughts precisely.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787David Niven:unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by Darth Sushi
I'd just like to hear the justification.
1967's Casino Royale is not considered an official Bond Film
Obviously going to say that it was a "stand-alone" and not part of the Broccoli series.
Of course just saying feature film doesn't limit it to the EON films.
Actually I have a real dislike for web-trivia pissing contests because people are mostly just looking up and copy/pasting from somewhere else to win/look smarter than they are/participate.
Now if anyone could prove that they were pulling facts from their head than instead of just from a webpage I might be truly impressed.
I'd say something smart here but fucked if I can think of anything that when I check to wasn't already written about someplace.OK something so obscure you would have (hopefully)needed to see the movie to know it.
"In On Her Majesty's Secret Service what did Ruby exclaim when Bond removed his kilt ?"
Spoiler: ShowIt's true!
So it's not really in line with this whole thread but then James Bond wasn't a real secret agent either.:idunno:
And he's a Lieutenant Commander.
Geez, you sound like a member of SPECTRE :PQuote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
What does SPECTRE stand for:
Spoiler: Show(Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion)
T.H.R.U.S.H. actually .Quote:
Originally Posted by Darth Sushi
Although I knew that detail about the first edition of Casino Royale without googling around, I agree web trivia contests are useless:yup:Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
And there is nothing fun with them
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Originally Posted by brightsidAlthough I knew that detail about the first edition of Casino Royale without googling around, I agree web trivia contests are useless:yup:Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
And there is nothing fun with them
Funny James Bond's parents, his Scottish father Andrew from the mountainous region of Glencoe and a fine representative of the Vickers armament firm and mother Monique Delacroix named( Delacroix ) after a Swiss banker that Ian Fleming knew from Canton de Vaud frequently argued over the same thing.
Web trivia is one thing but I have read alot of factual background about the U.S.S.R. including the Gulag Archipeligo by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn which documents (as much as can be) the activities of Department V of Directorate 6 of the KGB the so called 'wet operations' (read murder) branch of which Smert Spionam was one department. Smersh simply assasinated all foreign intelligence operatives that they found.
Interestingly the early James Bond books weave fiction amongst fact. Ian Fleming was an intelligence operative (a Lieutenant Commander himself), and some of the incidents in the early Bond books are thinly veiled accounts from his own career.
There is Bonds assasination of the Japanese diplomat in which two shooters were required since he was behind a plate glass window, one to shatter the glass and one to take out the target. Then there is the incident where Bond drives through part of Africa with an Oerlikon 20mm cannon mounted on a flatbed truck to shoot down a plane at a specific time and place.
In a way the Eon films have done an injustice to a character if you have read the books Bond was far less elegant than portrayed by Cubby Brocoli but far more real and visceral.