In the training sim, Bond refers to the virtual M's seemingly fatal wounding as "just a flesh wound." He makes this remark to John Cleese who said the same thing in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" after having all his limbs removed by king Arthur.
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Die Another Day (2002) - 33 trivia entries
Directed by Lee Tamahori, starring Colin Salmon, Halle Berry, John Cleese, Judi Dench, Pierce Brosnan, Rick Yune, Rosamund Pike, Toby Stephens (add more)
In the training sim, Bond refers to the virtual M's seemingly fatal wounding as "just a flesh wound." He makes this remark to John Cleese who said the same thing in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" after having all his limbs removed by king Arthur.
When Gustav Graves parachutes in, the Union Jack Parachute is a reference to "The Spy Who Loved Me" when Roger Moore skis off the snowy cliff and floats to safety with his Union Jack parachute.
Sean Connery had already filmed his scenes to play James Bond's father in a cameo when somebody remembered that James Bond is an orphan.
The camouflage crocodile from 'Octopussy' can be seen in the background just after he plays with the jetpack.
Bond reads from a book about birds. The real James Bond which Ian Fleming took as the name of his spy wrote a bird-spotting book, called 'Birds of the West Indies'.
The "Players Navy Cut" poster in the tube station behind the "Vanish" is a reference to one of the Fleming books where the female character falls "in love" with the image of the sailor on the packet. Sorry can't remember which book though.
When Jinx is coming out of the water in Cuba, it looks very much like the Ursula Andress scene from Dr No.
In the room full of archives from previous films the magic levitating rope that failed to work properly in Octopussy is seen on the bottom shelf of the center rack.
Next to Rosa Klebb's shoe in the Q scene you can see the suitcase from From Russia With Love, although in this one the knife comes out blade first, rather than handle first.
There are two references to "Diamonds are Forever". When Bond's reading a magazine on the plane, that line is printed clearly at the bottom of one page. Also, when Graves is talking about his business, he says "Well, diamonds are for everyone", slurred together a bit. Close enough.
The sunglasses Bond takes off the guy at the start are in fact Pierce Brosnan's own sunglasses - at the time of filming he'd had them for 3 years and fancied wearing them during the scene.
When Q gives Bond his new watch he mentions that it is the twentieth watch he has had, a reference to the fact that this is the twentieth (official) Bond film.
During the fight with Miranda Frost, Jinx runs up a wall and jumps off to land behind her; Michelle Yeoh does the exact same move in "Tomorrow Never Dies".
Halle Berry was the first Oscar winner to play a Bond girl. While Kim Basinger holds both honors, she won her Oscar fifteen years after her Bond appearance, whereas Berry won hers while "Die Another Day" was still in production.
When the Ice Palace is melting, and Zao has just fallen in, when Bond shoots down the chandelier, it mirrors the fate shared by Alex Travelyn in Goldeneye.
The jet pack Bond triggers when talking to Q is the one he used from Thunderball.
With all those tributes to past Bond movies, they didn't use the one line Bond keeps saying 'Shaken, not stirred'.
In Dr No the famous gun barrel sequence features a strange beeping sound instead of the Bond theme, in this films gun barrel sequence they combined lots of music pieces and you can hear the beeping sound in the background.
Bond plays with Rosa Klebb's dagger boot from 'From Russia With Love' in Q's lab.
Bond running down the side of the "diamond mine" is a lot like Michelle Yeoh's wire work in Tomorrow Never Dies.
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