From Russia with Love: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"Let his death be a particularly unpleasant and humiliating one."''|'''Ernst Stavro Blofeld''', head of SPECTRE}}

 

 

 

Notable scenes in this film:

* [[Ready for Lovemaking|Tatiana's seduction of Bond by entering his hotel room and getting into his bed]]. [[Fetish Fuel|Wearing only a black ribbon around her neck and a pair of black stockings]].

** The love scene used for screen-testing Bonds.

* A [[Cat Fight]] between two gypsies, sometimes removed from TV broadcasts, which serves nothing more than to have two scantily-clad women fighting each other.

* A helicopter chase.

* A boat chase that ends with a wall of fire.

 

The film was also adapted into a videogame for 6th-generation consoles, almost 50 years later, with Sean Connery reprising his iconic role for the first time in decades.

 

* [[Bad Boss]]

* [[Belly Dancer]]: In the gypsy camp.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: Bond tells Moneypenny he'd never look at another woman.

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Red Grant is one of the iconic ones.

** Grant led to this trope being used over and over again in the Bond series in the form of the muscular blonde brute henchman.

* [[Cat Fight]]: The fight between two Gypsy girls.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Kronsteen, who is a literal chessmaster.

** In the book, scenes from his point of view feature him thinking of everyone as chess pieces.

** Sylvia Trench reappears, once again denied a romance with Bond as he's called away on a mission. This was meant to be a [[Running Gag]] throughout the series, but the character was dropped after this film. One could argue that Moneypenny played out that gag, in her own way.

* [[Deadly Training Area]]: A villainous example:

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* [[The Dragon]]: Red Grant is one for Rosa Klebb, who in turn is one for Blofeld.

* [[Evil Gloating]]: Lampshaded, by the gloater himself no less.

* [[The Faceless]]: Blofeld. According to ''[[Lucky Number Slevin]]'', this is what makes him the best Blofeld - "That's when the villain is most effective - when [[Nothing Is Scarier|you don't know what he looks like]]." The credits even refuse to tell us the actor's name, and simply feature a question mark. For the record, the body is Anthony Dawson (Professor Dent from the previous film) and the voice was Eric Pohlmann.

** [[The Big Bad]]: Blofeld

** [[The Dark Chick]]: Rosa Klebb

* [[Honey Trap]]: Tatiana's purpose. Of course, [[Even the Guys Want Him|because it's James Bond]], she [[Sex Face Turn|falls in love with him anyway]].

* [[Hot Gypsy Woman]]: Two of them. They end up together in James's bed.

* [[Kneel Before Zod]]: Grant orders Bond to be on his knees when he has him at his mercy.

* [[The Lancer]]: Kerim Bay, to Bond.

* [[Lzherusskie]]

* [[MacGuffin]]: The Lektor.

* [[Nebulous Evil Organization]]: SPECTRE.

* [[One Last Smoke]]

* [[Orient Express]]

* [[Red Scare]]

* [[Revised Ending]]: The original novel had Bond struck by Rosa Klebb's poison-stained stiletto due to his Beretta [[Shur Fine Guns|jamming on him]] and brought to what was his death until Ian Fleming wrote ''Dr. No''. The film has him survive and has Tatiana do away with Klebb, and ends with Bond and Tatiana riding triumphantly down Venice's Grand Canal. This was arguably for the better, to avoid a maudlin [[Downer Ending]].

* [[Shooting Gallery]]

* [[Sniper Rifle]]

* [[Surprise Checkmate]]: [[The Chessmaster]] Kronsteen doesn't quite manage checkmate, but his opponent has his king pinned down to a single square. He sees that it's hopeless and surrenders.

* [[Title Drop]]: Bond writes "From Russia, with love" on the photo of Tatiana that he gives to Moneypenny.

* [[Unbuilt Trope]]: The film was made before the conventions of the series had become rote, and as such has a very different feel to later Bond films. The big [[Trope Codifier]] for the Bond films was the next film: ''Goldfinger''.

 

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