In the publicity for “Die Another Day” it’s been claimed that there are visible references to all of the other movies somewhere in Bond 20. Let’s see if we can find them all. I’ll start with the obvious:
Dr. No: Jinx walking out of the ocean in a bikini with a wide belt.
From Russia With Love: While walking through Q’s storeroom, Bond picks up a shoe and pops out a spike from the front. This is Col. Kleb’s poisoned shoe from the end of FRWL.
Goldfinger: The villian threatens Jinx with a laser while she’s tied to a table.
I noticed several others, but not all, and I like to see what others spotted.
When Bond and M are talking in the abandoned underground station, they’re standing in front of a firing range. (Or is it the back? Remind me to find out before I go to a firing range.) Behind them you can see targets; not just the regular bulls-eye targets, but with drawings of people on them. One of them looked like Pussy Galore from Goldfinger.
The whole plot seemed pretty similar to “Diamonds are Forever”. There’s a master criminal Bond thought was dead who is involved in both smuggling diamonds and building a killer satellite.
I can’t remember which one, but IIRC there was a fairly recent Bond where he also had his official license revoked and was acting as a rogue agent.
Someone else noted in another thread that there’s a scene in which Brosnan is shown looking at a book on “Birds of the West Indies.”
This is an in-joke that Bond fanatics will get. Ian Fleming lived in Jamaica much of the year, and was an avid birdwatcher. One of his favorite birdwatching guides was “Birds of the West Indies” by an ornithologist named… James Bond!
That was where he got the name for his fictional secret agent.
In the old gadgets place, there’s also the jet pack from Thunderball, and the suitcase knife from From Russia With Love.
“I never joke about my work.”, a line from Goldfinger.
The underwater breathing thing is probably a reference to Thunderball.
“Diamonds are foreveryone”, from Diamonds are Forever.
The watch laser was from Goldeneye.
And, while this isn’t a reference to an old movie, it’s still interesting. When Bond is in the Cuban guy’s office, he picks up a book called “Birds of the West Indies”, a book written by a guy named James Bond. In fact, this is how Ian Fleming first came up with Bond’s name.
Dr No…Jinx coming out of the water
From Russia With Love…The Briefcase
Goldfinger…The Laser
Thunderball…The Jet Pack
You Only Live Twice…Asians dying and coming back as westerners (reverse of YOLT plot element)
On Her Magesties Secret Service…?
Diamonds are Forever…the whole Laser in Space bit
Live and Let Die…?
The Man with the Golden Gun…(the Hong Kong hotel?)
The Spy Who Loved Me…(Parachuting off a cliff?)
Moonraker…?
For Your Eyes Only…?
Octopussy…The GatorSub
A View to A Kill…?
The Living Daylights…(snowy car battle?)
Licence to Kill…The whole exiled Agent bit
GoldenEye…The watch (though the watch was in others…)
Tomarrow Never Dies…(Stealth Boat/Invisible car?)
The World is Not Enough…?
Someopne on the radio mentioned that there is a scene where Bond eats a grape and that it is just like a scene from one of the earlier movies. Sorry I cannot be more specific.