Perhaps Mason was an ancestor of Zed, or Zed was a reincarnation of Mason?
Zed’s dead baby. Zed’s dead.
No one thinks that instead of Marko Ramius getting to live out his life peacefully after handing over the Red October, they locked him up? You can’t let a Scottish/Lithuanian defector just go anywhere.
I mean, listen to his accent. It sounds exactly the same as Mason’s. That can’t be coincidence.
Great minds, and all that 
Except the Red October incident happened in 1983 and Mason clearly isn’t twelve years older than the already quite senior Captain Ramius. Notwithstanding, of course, the distinct physical similarity and accent to the 14th century Franciscan friar William of Baskerville.
It’s all Immortals, all the way down.
Stranger
The Rock is not a James Bond movie because it does not have anyone named James Bond in it, it does not conform to the formula of a James Bond movie plot structure, and the only thing it really has going for it is it has Sean Connery in it, who was probably the dream cast while the script was being written so it was played to his strengths.
If you want to believe the character is a retired James Bond go ahead, but even if he is, that does not make it a James Bond movie.
Exactly. James Bond would not be incarcerated for 30 years. He wasn’t even that inept in Goldfinger.
(Seriously, go back and watch that again, he is useless in that film. But still gets away with it)
Well, he does rape Pussy Galore out of her lesbianism. So…that.
Stranger
I don’t even think Never Say Never Again is a Bond film. Bond parody, yeah, maybe.
And 1967’s Casino Royale defintely isn’t.
The Rock? Mmm, I can see it.
White Lightning is more of a Bond film than Never Say Never Again.
Stranger
Actually The Rock is a sequel to Rising Sun. After ditching his Japanese girl friend John Connor was finally apprehended for his role in the death of one of the body guards of Sakamura. Though now that I think of it, Ramirez from The Highlander did marry a Japanese princess so that might be why he was so purportedly so knowledgeable of Japanese culture, throwing in a few errors to keep the Kurgan off his scent… I think the highlander theory is the one that makes the most sense after all!
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