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A delivery like a brick through a plate glass window? Hello, I'm from America. Let me introduce you to the .357 Magnum. My favorite gadget was the wrist-fired dart launcher.
@@ashcarrier6606 yeah the PPK was not really a step up from the beretta.. a little heavier bullet but still a mouse gun to an American.. By the was the CIA favored .38 revolvers..
@@ferdonandebull In the novel, the change made sense. The Beretta 418 is chambered in .25ACP which is really anemic, so .32ACP is a much better cartridge and the PPK is a much better design. But by modern standards, even .380ACP is underpowered. And that's why James Bond should've kept using the Walther P99 that he got in Tomorrow Never Dies.
@@Marvin-dg8vj Given how ill-proportioned transformers are versus what they pretend to be, these days Bond should be a disabled transgender woman with Down syndrome, and his cellphone should be able to transfor into a battleship where necessary.
I love any role played by Ben Whishaw, particularly in the Bond films, but the only 'Q' for me will forever be the incomparable, Desmond Llewellyn 1914 - 1999.
It is ironic that he died due to a car accident which in his movies the car is the usual recipient of updated gadgets which his character earnestly improved.
I never understood the criticism for Roger Moore's Bond having gadgets and gimmicks when they were just as many and even some more over the top things in Connery's Bond.
For me , the 1980s Bond movies were the best. The rest of the world was lowtech or it was my boyhood that made me watch the films wide eyed . Roger Moore is Bond for me. Great video 👍
Love this! When I was a child I loved the gadgets the best, but as I grew I learned to appreciate the true joy of seeing how 007 would put them to use in an unexpected way.
Such an amazing coincidence that each gadget turned out to be exactly what he needed on that particular mission, and if they were so great, how come most of them were never seen or heard of again?
@@alwaysOPEN4business It's less about "pretentious nerdiness" but more about seeing some of those gadgets in action more than once and in different contexts. As you said, it's all about entertainment.
Most likely because newer gadgets that did what those ones did, but better along with other features as time went one. Same with Bond's MANY watches and all they could do.
It so dates Bond that he carries the same model pistol that Hitler shot himself with. Although in the majority of the flicks 007 is actually shown with a Walther PP, because it looks better on screen, than the smaller PPK - Police Pistol Short (Kurz) - even so, in Dr No, it does look like Maj. Boothroyd hands him a PPK. This was the name of a pretty famous gun expert in the UK, who liking the novels wrote to Fleming, and suggested that his Beretta model of choice was, indeed, more suited to “a ladies handbag,” hence the line in the movie. And in suggesting the German pistol, instead, he ended up lending his name to that of Bond’s armourer too. It’s only the movies, I think, which decided to give the name to Q.
What happens in Dr No, the movie, is an absolute LAUGH RIOT! See, what Bond carries, and hands over to M and then Boothroyd is a Beretta M1934, chambered for .380/9x17 Corto. And Boothroyd refers to it as "nice and light...for a ladies handbag". And then he gives Bond a PPK....which is chambered for .32/7.65. And claims it's a heavier gun, hitting "like a brick through a plate glass window". So, he takes a heavier gun off of Bond and gives him a weaker one, with the argument that the Beretta is worse than the PPK. Not even the WEIGHT argument works, the Beretta M1934 weighs 1 lb 7 oz/660 g unloaded, and the PPK 21 oz/590 g This scene is taken straight out of the book, without making allowances. In the book, it makes sense, since the gun Bond carries is a M418, which was chambered in .25/6.35. And so the PPK IS a heavier gun. But that's not what the movie uses. In the book, Boothroyd also suggestes other guns than the PPK, both the Sauer M-38 and the Tokarev TT-33(remarkable for a British secret agent in the middle of the cold war). The movie, of course, gives no other suggestions, going straight to the Walther. Incidentally, the movie also references that the gun "jammed on" Bond and that's the reason for a replacement. In the original, from the book, the gun was "skeletonized" and rather than jamming, it snagged up in his clothes and he didn't get it out before getting shot himself. As for Major Boothroyd, he's the service ARMOURER, and is not Q. Notably, he's never referred to as such in Dr No. Q, on the other hand, is the Quartermaster(later eQuipment officer) and head of the Q-branch. Armourer Boothroyd is named for famed firearms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd, while Q is based on Charles Fraser-Smith, gadgeteer for the Special Operations Executive of WW2. These devices were called "Q-gadgets" after the WW1 Q-ships.
@@mooneyes2k478 Thank you for the very informed comment but I never suggested that the novels referred to Q as Boothroyd, I wrote that the movies did, and in _The Spy Who Loved Me_ when they pick up the Lotus, tricked out as a sub, Agent Amasova wishes Q, a “Good morning, Major Boothroyd.” Wasn’t the Mk II Welrod chambered in 9mm? Because there’d be so much of the stuff knocking about occupied Europe that a discarded shell casing in that calibre wouldn’t look out of place. If Bond was intended to go on ops behind the Iron Curtain, or they wanted to put investigating agencies off his scent, maybe a Tokarev wouldn’t have been such a remarkable choice after all.
@@mooneyes2k478 Technically, the Dr. No gun was a Walther PP also chambered in .380ACP, so he was just using the same cartridge. lol Since Dr. No was a fairly low budget movie, I imagine they were stuck with the whatever props they could get their hands on. It's also why Bond only got a proper Walther PPK in From Russia With Love which had a bigger budget. It's also why the famous scene where Bond shoots Professor Dent is also a goof since the scene (and the original novel) is supposed to involve a Smith and Wesson revolver, but instead used a Colt M1911A1 instead. Again, probably because at the time of filming that scene, they didn't have access to one.
Another excellent 007 mash up though you lose half a point for cutting out 2 great lines out of Moonraker ("Oh THANK you, 007!" and "Ah! Bang on time!") But you can have 150 points to Gryffindor and a pack of Anidin, if you got all clips and music past the copyright claim police! Very well done
@@mrdynamic8678 Right. He should have had Bond carry a chopped P38 if he wanted a unique weapon with a punch. Chop the grip giving Bond the same capacity as a PPK, and shorten the barrel to help with size. Q was supposedly a weapons genius, right. It worked for U.N.C.L.E agents. After all, it was 1962 and subcompacts were just a gleam in our eyes!
Bond had Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! I’m not the sort of person who tries to think of new gadgets, but I’ve been growing pumpkin plants indoors with grow lights. However, since it’s winter in California, the potting soil is too cold. The pumpkins aren’t happy. So I wonder if an aluminum spike with a black disc on top might help. The grow lights would heat the disk, and then the heat would travel down the shaft of the spike to heat the soil. Warmer soil is supposed to stimulate plant growth. And the heat from the grow lamps wouldn’t cost anything. In theory, it could also be done outside.
I was thinking about the homing device being used in Goldfinger along with the scrolling map in the Aston Martin. Now we have GPS and Apple Airtags that can accomplish that task.
We've seen 117 (Plus 7 from Never say Never Again making it 124) gadgets in Connery-Lazenby-Moore era 26 Gadgets in Dalton era 69 Gadgets in Brosnan era 21 Gadgets in Craig era Seen in the video but they have to update due to No time to die already came out
These are the Seven best cars ever used in the James Bond films : 1. Lotus Esprit - The Spy Who Loved Me. 2. Aston Martin DB5 - Goldfinger. 3. Toyota 2000GT Convertible - You Only Live Twice. 4. BMW Z8 - The World Is Not Enough. 5. Aston Martin DB10 - Spectre. 6. Citroen 2CV - For Your Eyes Only. 7. Bentley 4 ½ litre - Casino Royale.
I remember one weekend when my girlfriend and I were bored, we turned her mum's Morris Minor in to a Bond car. Totally ruined the car but we ended up with a car that boasted twin under headlight under and over shotguns. Unfortunately the police thought it might be considered dangerous under certain conditions. Her mum was placated by us buying her a new Rover 75. Which my girlfriend and i later turned in to a banger racer. Her mum was then placated when we bought her a new Skoda falacio. Which by girlfriend and I later turned in to a builder's van...................
I have got a movie DVD of this Jet flight pack with Sean Connery as 007 James Bond in Thunderball in the TV commercial about Cinch and I saw Dwight Shultz as Murdock flew one in a episode in The A Team as I am dedicating this jet flight pack to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris Marie and Hester from Billyxxxx
After Goldfinger, the gadgets went from "Oh, that could be something an agent would actually use" to becoming more and more cartoonish devices. I'm surprised Q didn't put an "ACME" label on them.
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OH yeah, those always triggered my imagination since so long time ago. To bad those were just not really working props though 🤨Nevertheless, your compilation brought back very cool memories, so thanks for posting that video. 😁
1:49 Nice idea, Q, but you seem to have forgotten that the rest of Europe, except Ireland, Malta and Cyprus, drives on the right side of the road. If you were to send Bond to those countries or to Japan, India or Jamaica, it would make sense.
1:06 Smart. Quite realistic. 7:42 Didn't they have jet skis in the 1970's? 13:04 "Having problems keeping it up Q?" Ha Ha Ha 27:59 Purposeful and efficient 29:57 Better than a microchip
I'd love if each new thing from all of bonds cars, astn martin or bmw or whatever, was also in the batmobile. Alfred used to be in mi 6 and Wayne ind. Is a military supplier, so Alfred could be feeding Bruce ideas from his own memory of q.
My favorite gadget in both 007/spy kids is a tie between the spider grip from island of lost dreams and the prosthetic nipple in man with the golden gun don’t get me wrong I like Machete’s electro shock gumballs too
