Daily Dialogue — March 16, 2013

Sir Frederick Gray, Minister of Defence: My God, what’s Bond doing?
Q: I think he’s attempting re-entry, sir.

— Moonraker (1979), screenplay by Christopher Wood

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is innuendo, suggested by Hawkewood. Today’s suggestion by Mark Walker.

Trivia: Producer Albert R. Broccoli called Steven Spielberg requesting permission to use the indelible 5-note leitmotif from his Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Broccoli wanted to use it as the entry code for an electronic laboratory door lock in a scene in Moonraker. Some years later, Spielberg called Broccoli requesting permission to use the 007 theme music for a scene in a movie he was producing titled, The Goonies. Broccoli pointed out that there were more than 5 notes in the 007 theme music. Spielberg suspected the producer’s tongue was firmly planted in his cheek as he continued to banter. He was right. The Steven Spielberg/Cubby Broccoli connection has another twist — an interest in directing a Bond film while in negotiations with Broccoli until Star Wars producer/creator George Lucas offered the script for the first Indiana Jones film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary from Mark: “It probably isn’t very subtle, and is a classic example of the “fun” side of Bond portrayed during the Moore years. They may not be my favourite Bond years, but there is no denying that is a fantastic line. And it is a great and simple way of telling us that Bond has triumphed yet again (just in case we were worried for a minute). He has beaten the baddy, got the girl and is on his way home…..things are back to normal, and all is right in the world!”