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Pictured: Anglo-Soviet cooperation made a reality.
The Film
- "What's the matter, sailor? You never seen a major take a shower before?"
- The ending
:- When the champagne bottle cork pops off, Bond is scared of it thinking his gun had went off, which actually ilicts a slight chuckle out of Anya.M: 007!
Gogol: Triple X!
Defense Minister Grey: Bond, what do you think you're doing?
Bond: (Beat) Keeping the British end up, sir! (Closes curtain) - Cue a big band reprise of "Nobody Does It Better".
- When the champagne bottle cork pops off, Bond is scared of it thinking his gun had went off, which actually ilicts a slight chuckle out of Anya.
- Jaws, in the ruins, watches Bond and Anya escape in the telephone van. He picks up a huge boulder to throw at them, but drops it in frustration... on his foot. He doesn't scream, but his pained grimace is priceless.
- Also, at the ruins: Bond single-handedly knocks down the scaffolding and says, "Egyptian builders!" This reportedly got the biggest laugh out of the Egyptian governmental advisors—the producers were concerned that they'd veto the line.
- According to Roger Moore, he didn't actually say the line, it was added in post-production. And following the take, the sound recordist ran over and said, "We'll have to go again, I couldn't hear him". The director then mouthed "Shut up" at him.
- YET AGAIN in the ruins, when Anya and Bond try to escape in the van whilst Jaws rips the van apart, the entire scene is one MASSIVE snark fight between Bond and Anya.Bond: Thanks for deserting me back there...
Anya: Every women for herself, remember?
Bond: Still, you did save my life...
Anya: We all make mistakes, Mr. Bond. - After Q gives Bond his new car:Bond: Q, have I ever let you down?
Q: Frequently!
[Q winces as Bond speeds off, screeching tires the whole way]- Thankfully for Q, the car survives the film, just like the Little Nellie from You Only Live Twice.
- Meta-example: During a scene where Bond and Anya are walking through the desert, someone decided to put the soundtrack from Lawrence of Arabia over the action as a joke. It got such a good reaction that the cue made it into the final cut.
- Roger Moore is at his cheeky best in this movie. The entire van sequence is priceless thanks to his continuous snarky commentary on Anya's driving. Best part - this was all ad-libbed, since no one knew that Barbara Bach couldn't drive stick.Let's try reverse. That's "backwards".
- And afterwards on the boat.Anya: I took a survival course in Siberia.
Bond: Yes, I heard a lot of your people do.
- And afterwards on the boat.
- Every time Jaws is thrown out of a vehicle or falls off a cliff, he fixes his suit and tie and walks away as if nothing happened.
- Probably the only time someone pulls a No-Sell on Bond's Character Catchphrase:Bond: My name is Bond. James Bond.
Max Kalba (unimpressed): What of it? - Stromberg dies with part of his face buried on a plate of lettuce. What a way to go.
- Even the opening titles get one. Bond swaggers up to a squad of marching soldier girls and they become literal pushovers when faced with so much sexy.
- Bond realises the pilot of the black helicopter trying to machine gun them to death is the Sexy Secretary he was checking out earlier. She gives him a flirtatious wink. A somewhat bemused Bond returns her smile, looks over at Anya and gets a Death Glare from her.
- As Sandor holds onto Bond's tie for dear life on the edge of a rooftop:Bond: Where's Fekkesh?
Sandor: Pyramids!
(Bond snatches his tie back from Sandor, who falls to his death)
Bond: What a helpful chap. - After Anya says she is going to kill Bond when the mission is over, the next scene features them being lowered from a helicopter onto a submarine and the look on their faces is hilarious, as Bond has this awkward grin whereas Anya is trying her hardest to avoid looking at him.
- When Bond discovered Max Kalba's body, he grabs a nearby "Out of Order" sign and places it on top of Kalba.
- While traveling in the telephone van, Bond puts his arm around a sleepy Anya. When she wakes up and sees Bond's arm around, she shoots him a dirty look and he quickly removes his arm as he looks bewildered as to why she did that.
Behind The Scenes
From Roger Moore's autobiography:- At a press junket in Sardinia, Moore played a prank on Ken Adam by telling German reporters that Klaus Adam (his real name) was a war hero who shot down thirty-two planes in WWII and they flocked over to him. What he neglected to tell them was that Adam fought on the British side in that war and those were German planes he shot down.
- Richard Kiel was afraid of heights. When the director told him he would have to cross the top of some scaffolding high above the temple, he went pale and quipped, "I don't even like being this tall".
- While filming Sandor's death scene, actor Milton Reid balked at falling six storeys. The stunt co-ordinator pranked him by saying that they would put boxes up to the fourth storey, so he would fall two. Reid asked if he could just fall one, only to be told that they needed a long scream. Reid said, "Well, can't I do a short fall and a long scream?"
- This comes from the commentary that while filming in Faslane, Roger Moore came down with shingles and while staying at a motel, he accidentally broke a pane of glass that set of a fire alarm at 10 PM, causing the hotel to be evacuated. Eventually, everybody was allowed back in the motel and he went off into a deep sleep. At 2AM, a disoriented tourist who couldn't sleep due to the false alarm Roger triggered ends up triggering an alarm himself. Roger ends up sleeping through that alarm and when he is awaken, the crew wondered he wasn't out there at 2AM for the other alarm and Roger says he never knew it went off as he slept through it.
