An initial shot of Atlantis made it look sizable – maybe that of an extremely large yacht. However, having a motor boat for scale really shows just how massive Stromberg’s headquarters really were meant to be:
In an unrelated note – Atlantis reminds me of the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), which opened in 1961:
So this sharp knife gadget appears in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) while Bond and Triple X walk through the makeshift Q Branch. Bond comments, “That’ll bring tears to your eyes.” when it pops up in a forceful, deadly manner
It’s obviously supposed to be something, I just have no idea what…the box that the Q Branch technician has it covered with is pretty non-descript.
Any ideas what it could be???
EDIT: Twitter user Ibrahim_M_ says that it’s a camel saddle…looking up some camel saddle images, I think he’s right! Mystery solved! 🙂
This all=time one-liner at the end of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) gets me every time. As Bond (Roger Moore) and Triple X (Barbara Bach) are caught in the act in an escape pod, a stunned General Gogol (Triple X’s boss), M (Bond’s boss) and Sir Frederick Gray (Bond’s boss’s boss) can’t believe their eyes.
The exchange is legendary: “Bond!” “Tri-PULL X!” “Bond! What do you think you’re doing?” make the men sound more like disappointed parental figures rather than government intelligence. A speechless Q can only watch in awe, almost jaw-dropped.
And then 007 quickly quips a legendary James Bond line of lore. It ends with a celebratory-sounding chorus line version of the movie’s theme, declaring “nobody does it better” in a hilarious double entendre. HA! So awesome!
Nobody Does It Better is my favorite James Bond theme of all time…and this performance is top notch!
Carly Simon’s “Nobody Does It Better” Bond theme for The Spy Who Loved Me is one of the best…she BELTS it out!
Shades of Spectre “crown jewel” action footage from OHMSS and TSWLM ski scenes:
