Corrected entry: This is the only James Bond film in which M's first name, Miles, is said. In the books, his name was said to be Admiral Sir Miles Messervy, in the novel "The Man with the Golden Gun".
Captain Defenestrator
12th Sep 2012
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Correction: Gogol says, "After you, Miles" when M gestures to him to go before him in the scene where they walk across the catwalk in Q's laboratory. M politely offers him to go first by saying "After you, Alexis" but Gogol replies "No, no, no after YOU Miles." This was done to show how the two heads of the respective rival agencies have put their differences aside.
Correction: General Gogol, M's Russian counterpart, is introduced in this film. In later films, he and M are on a first-name basis, and he calls him "Miles," at least once that I can immediately recall, in "A View To A Kill."
29th Jan 2015
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Corrected entry: Stromberg's ship "The Liparus" had to be large enough to house the three submarines, the operations room, the room with the weapons and missiles, and the rooms for the captured prisoners...but with a ship that had at least a few hundred crew, where did they sleep?
Correction: It's a giant supertanker that doesn't actually have any oil tanks. The crew quarters are probably in the normal place, and all the other things you mentioned are housed where the oil tanks would normally go.
9th Sep 2014
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Corrected entry: In the first scene featuring Stromberg, he is onboard his submarine sitting at his dining table. In the background there is a fireplace against the wall with a lit fire in it. Having a fire burning in a submarine would not be a good idea as when the submarine is submersed there is only a limited oxygen supply and the fire would consume a lot of that valuable oxygen. Also, where are the fumes from the chimney venting to? Are the fumes supposed to vent outside the submarine whilst it is submerged, without seawater getting in and flooding the sub? (00:15:00 - 00:16:00)
Correction: This is Stromberg's submersible fortress, and Bond villains are fond of ostentatious displays of wealth. His fortress having a large enough oxygen supply and adequate filtration system to have a fireplace would certainly be part of that display.
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Correction: I never heard M called Miles in "A View to Kill", I even checked transcripts of the film to see if "Miles" is ever said. Additionally, in "A View to Kill", M was played by Robert Brown, not Bernard Lee and Robert Brown played Admiral Hargreaves in "The Spy Who Loved Me." We know Judi Dench's M is not Miles, but a different character and M is also a title that's given. So the theory is is that Admiral Hargreaves became the new M, and thus wouldn't be addressed as Miles.
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