"No Time to Die" puts an end to Daniel Craig's James Bond era, but there are many Easter eggs, references to other 007s, and nods along the way.
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No Time To Die saw Daniel Craig bid farewell to James Bond in the hail of bullets, blood and Bond Easter eggs-these are the ones we found. After a long delay, "No Time to Die" finally premiered in the fall of 2021, as the last revolutionary strategy of the modern era. Beginning with "Casino Royale" in 2006, Daniel Craig helped reshape the Bond formula that looked visibly tired after Pierce Brosnan's departure, bringing the legendary James Bond (James Bond) The film series has become a more fashionable and impactful beast, which makes people feel historic rather than prehistoric.
No Time To Die continued the journey of change and made several bold and creative appeals on the big screen that had never been seen before. Although "No Time to Die" has been working hard to push James Bond into the future, however, Gary Fuyong (director/writer), Neil Purvis, Robert Wade, and Phoebe Wallerbridge (writer) have enough Time to commemorate the past of 007.
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In the last chapter of Daniel Craig, there are many references to previous works by the current Bond, as well as further tributes. From iconic songs and déjà vu dialogues, to capricious table decorations and familiar vehicles, the Easter egg hunt in "No Time to Die" covers the entire James Bond pedigree.
In the true James Bond tradition, no time to die begins with the classic barrel sequence...almost. Bond played by Daniel Craig turned around to shoot at the audience as usual, but where a little blood should shed on the screen, the familiar red trace was conspicuous because of its absence. Since Dr. No in 1962, the lack of blood is indeed strange, especially in the modern era of violence, but about two and a half hours later, when James Bond realized that he did have time to die, the meaning became clear. The bloodless opening of No Time To Die was an early sign that 007 did not win the battle.
The introductory flashback of No Time To Die found that young Madeline Swann escaped from the vengeful Safin and came to slaughter her father Mr. White, the SPECTER agent. When Madeleine tried to hide in White's safe room, the camera slid over the ghost ring on the top of a stack of (possibly forged) passports. In classic and modern James Bond movies, all Blofeld employees wear clothes with the octopus brand.
In one of Dr. No’s most iconic scenes, Hani Ryder, played by Ursula Anders, emerges from the sea and greets Sean Connery’s 007 on the beach. It’s not a coincidence that "No Time to Die" saw Bond played by Daniel Craig and Madeleine Swan played by Léa Seydoux. This woman emerged from the water and Bond came to land. It was no coincidence to meet her.
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Back in the dry land, Bond and Swan drove the silver Aston Martin DB5 through the mountainous beauty of Matera, Italy. This iconic vehicle made its debut in "Gold Finger" in 1964 and has made cameo appearances throughout the series. Daniel Craig's 007 incarnation won himself a DB5 (without a classic license plate) in Casino Royale, and finally got a suitable Connery version in Skyfall.
Madeleine pleaded with Bond to let the Aston Martin DB5 engine make full use, refuel and speed up, but Bond replied vaguely: "We have all the time in the world." Here, "No Time to Die." Quoting a famous moment in George Lazenby's only 007 performance in Her Majesty's Secret Service (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), Bond is holding the body of his late wife. Once again, the Easter egg serves as a prelude to the upcoming tragedy, and this line is repeated in the final sequence of No Time To Die, because James Bond, who is about to die, bids farewell to Madeleine by radio.
The Matera sequence of No Time To Die is dominated by the ghost of Eva Green's Casino Royale character Vesper Lynd. Bond fell in love with Linde in Daniel Craig's film debut, then found out that she had betrayed him, and then watched her die in the dramatic ending. In the subsequent movie, Bond bravely tried to prove Vesper's innocence and confirm that their love is true. Although a new romance was found in No Time To Die, the reason why the former 007 visited Italy was to be in front of Vesper's grave. Express his respect.
Shortly before the arrival of the ghost undermined the peaceful introduction of "No Time To Die," James Bond, played by Daniel Craig, stood solemnly in front of Vesper Lind’s grave. Although this place is more exotic, this photo closely echoes Roger Moore in "For Your Eyes", who rarely visited Tracy Bond's grave. Following the For Your Eyes Only formula, Bond became a victim of a grave ambush and never allowed a moment of peace.
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In the cemetery scene of No Time To Die, another Vesper Lynd Easter egg is music, which reuses the "Vesper's Theme" from the Casino Royale created by David Arnold. Hans Zimmer later woven elements of On Her Majesty's Secret Service into his own score, bringing Lazenby's influence home.
The opening sequence of No Time To Die is composed of typical perceptual imagery and the pomp of the 1960s, but it also has a striking similarity with the corresponding introduction of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The opening ceremony in 1969 featured a British flag, an hourglass, a clock face, and a statue holding a trident. All these elements are accompanied by the voice of Billie Eilish in "No Time to Die", which strengthens Cary Fukunaga's greatest influence on James Bond. The new title includes colored dots in tribute to Dr. No, and divers that are reminiscent of Thunderball's opening remarks.
MI6’s secret biological weapons scientist wore white protective suits while arming Safin’s men with the Hercules virus. This piece of equipment is almost identical to the protective suit worn by Dr. Nou’s scientists in 1962. At the same time, the red suit in the Safin base also draws inspiration from Dr. No's followers.
Five years later, the lonely James Bond became the most miserable fisherman in Jamaica, but the mysterious cigar roots left at his door made the former 007 relapse into espionage. Several Easter eggs are wrapped in this single cigar butt. First of all, the year of this cigar is 1952, which is the year Ian Fleming wrote for the Casino Royale. More interestingly, the "Delectado" brand is a tribute to Pierce Brosnan’s Bond, who used Delectado as the code in "Dead Another Day" (in Cuban cigar factory, no less than).
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Bond opened an almost unknown secret lottery and kept some selection souvenirs during his retirement. There are newspaper clippings reporting the arrest of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, recalling Daniel Craig's clash with Christoph Waltz in 2015's Spectre. There is also a shell inside, which is a brilliant Dr. No Easter egg. During Sean Connery’s own time in Jamaica, when she was diving on the beach looking for shells, he met Hani Ryder and continued to chip in. Nomi introduced herself as one in a later scene. The name "diver".
When James Bond meets Nomi for the first time in "No Time To Die," the new 007 is asked to call her predecessor the "Bond Commander." Bond’s rank before MI6 has always been part of his character, but when he was a Double 0 agent, this title was still underestimated. Now retired, the "Bond Commander" has become more prominent-at least before the final scene.
Meeting Paloma in Cuba, Bond approached with a code (apparently a hat about Paris), but the CIA agent ignored his security agreement. This replicates the lax approach of another CIA role-Jack Wade in the golden eyes. When Wade met Pierce Brosnan's 007 in 1995, he considered Bond's code to be a sign of "stubborn British".
Daniel Craig's James Bond is not always as picky about his drink orders as other incarnations (see Casino Royale). However, in the Cuban sequence of No Time To Die, the retired agent ordered his martini in the traditional Bond way.
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Brigitte Millar played Dr. Vogel in Spectre in 2015. He is one of Blofeld's most trusted allies and a figure on his evil table. Miller (very) briefly replayed the role in "No Time to Die" that she discovered during the Cuban Ghost Party. Among the guests was the long-serving James Bond producer Michael G. Wilson.
Paloma of Ana de Armas proved to be as reckless as Bond by ramming a car onto a scaffold in Cuba, frustrating Nomi and grabbing Valdo. The attempt of Valdo Obruchev. The vehicle in question is the Chevrolet Bel Air in 1957, no stranger to the James Bond series. It appeared in "Dr. No" before, with the ghost assassin Mr. Jones driving him.
Shortly before Felix Leiter's tragic death, James began to say: "We really can't meet like this anymore." Roger Moore's Bond used the same line to Anya Amasova in "The Spy Who Loved Me" Although their relationship is slightly different, the situation at risk is similar.
After seeing Felix's incredible impression of Jack from the Titanic, James Bond found a yellow inflatable life raft. The rescue boat is very similar to that you only live twice, where Sean Connery's Bond and Kissy Suzuki have sex on their own yellow inflatable raft to end the movie. Daniel Craig had no such luck. He mourned the death of Felix alone.
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After the Aston Martin DB5 was hit hard by Italy and needed some new wheels, Daniel Craig's James Bond has been waiting patiently in the garage for dust removal of the old Aston Martin V8 since 1987. Timothy Dalton drove this car in The Living Daylights, and although the model is slightly different, the matching license plates confirm that the cars are the same in terms of James Bond's ever-loose classic.
There is also a small statue of an English Bulldog in James Bond's garage-exactly the same as the one seen on M's desk in "Skyfall". After the death of Judi Dench's character, the deliberately cheesy decorations were passed to 007 and apparently have been guarding V8 ever since. In front of the garage behind Bond, there is also a set of snowboards-no doubt from the snow-related pranks in 007's past movies.
In "No Time to Die", the scene of "shaking" is performed sternly, and the script does something more innovative in "Bond, James Bond". As seen in the trailer, Bond returns to MI6 as a retired civilian. After uttering his last name at the front desk, he was forced to give his full "James Bond" nickname to the confused police officer, accidentally omitting the team's most famous quote. Madeleine later repeated this sentence in "No Time To Die," and she promised to tell Mathilde about her late father's antics. Review version, possible.
Before they started getting along, Nomi joked to Moneypenny of Naomi Harris, "I understand why you shot him" and mentioned her aging ex. Although 007 was on the shooting line, when Moneypenny (who was still a field agent at the time) was ordered to shoot a villain, the line went back to Skyfall in 2012.
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Letting 007 throw things around in Moneypenny's office is a recurring metaphor in the James Bond series. In No Time To Die, the ID he discarded was thrown into a nearby trash can, but the previous items included a cigar box and a hat.
One of the outstanding scenes of "No Time to Die" is James Bond's visit to Q's home and a brief introduction to the quarters officer Ben Westshaw's quarters. We met his pet (hairless) cat, which made up for a gag in "Ghost" in 2015. The suspended Bond asked Q for help, but his friend refused, begging: There is a mortgage and 2 cats to feed."
From Desmond Llewelyn to Ben Whishaw, all versions of Q showed an aversion to 007 playing with laboratory equipment. In a funny joke, there is no time to die to show that Westshaw's Q is doing exactly the same thing in his apartment. Moneypenny moved to touch something, but made her master give a firm "let go" warning.
During an unconventional treatment with Madeleine Swann, Safin talked about the “profound” impact of death on the child. Although Rami Marek’s villain compares himself with Swann here, his words also apply to James Bond played by Daniel Craig, who was immediately orphaned and lost his life in Casino Royale. Parents and adoptive father Hannes Oberhauser.
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After Madeleine Swan refused to shake hands with her predecessor (because of nanobots, but Bond didn't know this), Nomi asked Tanner if 007 was always so repulsive to women. As one of the most notorious Casanova in the movie, Nomi's evaluation of Bond's romantic skills is quite ironic, which makes the line subtly excavate the rhetoric in the previous James Bond movies.
After learning that Blofeld meticulously planned Madeleine's "betrayal", Bond was enraged and began to kill, whispering "Go to death, Blofeld, go to death!" Through gritted teeth. For Daniel Craig’s James Bond style, this line seems a bit too direct, but it’s actually torn directly from Ian Fleming’s novel that you only live twice, in which the protagonist is also seen Strangled his nemesis.
Although Christoph Waltz's Blofeld may be weird, even he may not want "cuckoo!" as the last sentence, but this is Evil Ernst in No Time To Die Lines. This theme comes from Spectre, in which Blofeld repeatedly referred to 007 as the cuckoo in his nest-a foster brother who appeared as an outsider and destroyed his family, similar to the way cuckoos lay eggs in other nests.
While Ralph Fiennes' M waited patiently for news of Hercules' investigation, he nervously fiddled with an editing. Interestingly, this is a bulldog clip. The name provides the connection between the current head of MI6 and Judy Dench’s M and her bulldog statue.
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In the same scene, No Time To Die shows a portrait of Senior M. First, Dench sat proudly in the hallway. To the left of Fiennes is Robert Brown, who played roles in "The Spy Who Loves Me" (1977) and "License to Kill" (1989).
In Madeleine’s childhood home, Bond was taken to a hidden door. He joked, "What happened to your father and the secret room?" This line pays tribute to Spectre, where White is in L'Américain, Tangier. The hotel has a hidden hideout and a secret basement behind the mirror of the cabin where he died.
Madeleine Swann reveals how the Safin family owned a poison garden facility with a variety of nasty plants and evil weeds. In Ian Fleming’s original book You Only Live Twice, Dr. Shatterhand lives in the Garden of Death, despite The name has been changed, but it is also a deadly animal forest distributed near Japan. Obviously, the Garden of Death was the inspiration for Safin’s evil lair in "No Time To Die."
In A View To A Kill, Christopher Walken plays the despicable Max Zorin. Although the villain seems to have nothing to do with "No Time to Die", the translation of Safin’s background story proves not in this way. In a newspaper article (transcribed by Reddit user antivolk), "Dr. Zolin of the Kiln Research Institute" was mentioned. This is a subtle James Bond Easter egg that rewards viewers who have an affinity for language.
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When Bond kicked an unstable car onto the villain's prone body, the CIA's "Book of Mormon" was punished for killing Felix Wright. This scene is reminiscent of one of Roger Moore's dark moments in "For Your Eyes", where 007 kicked his suspended car from the edge of a cliff and murdered the assassin Emile Locke. It is true that when Bond gave it a boot, Locke was in the car, but the similarities between deaths cannot be ignored.
Before No Time To Die's final attack on Safin's lair, Q injected "smart blood" into the newly recovered 007. It will track the agent's vital signs and location for display. This wonderful technique was introduced in Spectre in 2015, but it was significantly simplified in No Time To Die. The original bulky device was replaced by a simple Hypo needle.
Q introduced the "invisible birds" of MI6-the folding planes used by Daniel Craig's Bond and Rasana Lynch's Nomi to break through Safin's defenses. The plane also traveled through the age of Roger Moore and dropped the double help of the James Bond Easter egg. First of all, Stealthy Bird is actually a modern variant of Octopussy's Acrostar, despite the more complicated design (Acrostar's wings just fold up) and a less comedic paint job. The Stealth Bird also pays tribute to the spy who loves me, where Bond and Amathova enter the main villain’s lair in a vehicle that should not go underwater but can go underwater.
For his final battle, Daniel Craig's 007 broke into Safin's lair alone. In order to defeat the villain's doomsday plan, he endured blows again and again. As he walked through the empty corridor, Bond swerved to the next cylindrical tunnel, created a gun barrel sequence from the movie, and returned to the bloodless opening of "No Time to Die".
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For James Bond's eulogy, M read aloud the excerpt from Jack London. When 007 was mistakenly presumed dead in Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice, the same paragraph was printed in his newspaper eulogy.
From the opening clip to the matching dialogue, "No Time to Die" bears considerable responsibility for "Her Majesty's Secret Service", and this connection is consolidated in the ending song-"We Have All in the World" by Louis Armstrong time". This is the theme of George Lazenby's 1969 adventure. By re-examining Bond's music catalog, "No Time to Die" evokes the same emotions as Tracy's death, this time for 007 himself.
The ending subtitles of No Time To Die include the iconic line "James Bond will return..." Closing words don’t always appear (especially in the age when Eon doesn’t know if Bond will return), and Bond is not yet known. When will the return 26 happen, or who will play this role. Nevertheless, Bond will return as always.
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