Sex and Guns and Judi Dench — Octopussy — A Reactionary Transcript #1
In the hunt for the finest of the Bond pictures, I must take notes during my viewing. Here are my notes for the first of these case studies; Octopussy.
The results will be posted heeeeeere.
Octopussy spoilers ahead.
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Pervy general watches horse racing but is actually eyeing up some cleavage
Bond’s entire disguise is to make it look like he’s wearing a jumper instead of a shirt and tie
Seriously, that general is staring down her boobs until she disappears, oh, she’s with Bond, who’s disguise is General Toro (sounds like a load of bull, excellent pun) complete with fake moustache
Woman says ‘please be careful’ as Bond goes to his mission
Why is there horse racing next to this weapons facility
Most English Spanish accent ever
Shocker, he’s been found out when actual Toro turns up
As Bond’s been taken away, his lass follows with a horse, trying to flirt with soldiers, underwear are shown
Bond pulls their parachute cord, cos they’re wearing parachutes
First shots fired, we see soldiers drive into chicken coup
Holy shit, it ain’t a real horse, it’s a tiny jet
Squeezes through the weapons facility with it and then blows it up
OH SHIT LOW OF FUEL, pulls up at petrol station — ‘fill her up, please’
Clown tries to escape
Assailant follows trail of big shoe footprints, funny hat and balloon pops
Knife-wielding twins get him as he dismounts into water beautifully
Able to float to the residency of the British Ambassador with another balloon
Crashes through window and dies releasing an egg
Open on a shot on not-Moneypenny’s legs, but it’s her assistant Miss Smallbone
They’re flirting with him, but calling him a womanizer who won’t settle down
The egg is rare but it’s a forgery, try to find the seller
Clown was 009, and in East Germany
General Gogol is getting on with it, but Orlov is like don’t be a lil pansy, I got a shit-tonne of tanks in Russia, Poland and Czech Republic, suddenly wants to dominate Europe as the KGB
Orlov just gets told to shut up, gets a note from somebody…
Orlov meets the forgist and the knife twins, trouble with the lost egg
Auction at Sotheby’s, egg being sold
Bond and auction dude trying to find seller
Lady catches Bond’s eye, she meets a fella, Bond wants some leg, gets told to chill out
Fella with lady is Kamal Khan as he bids a shit tonne
SHIT, Bond outbids him
KAMAL FIRES BACK
BOND’S DONE HIM AGAIN
KAMAL RIGHT BACK IN WITH 5 HUNDY
SOLD
Pretty girl gets in car with Kamal after giving one last look to James, who has ’em followed
M mad that Bond bid
BOND’S SWITCHED THE EGGS
Kamal’s gone to Delhi, and Bond’s following
M’s happy with him really, lil cheeky boy innit
We’re in India, so here’s the Taj Mahal and The Ganges, in case you weren’t sure
Snake Charmer plays the Bond theme, cos that’s Vijay, Bond’s Indian mate
Bond knows everybody, free taxi ride
Kamal Khan is an Afghan prince, Vijay’s backhand has improved
Monsoon Palace is Kamal’s house on’t hill
Kamal plays backgammon like an evil fecker in a hotel casino
Bond gives out his name and is wished a pleasant stay amongst bikini women ‘I’m sure I will’
Bag Girl flirts with him, cos of course
HOLD THE PHONE says James, IT’S THE FITTY FROM THE AUCTION
Into the casino
Kamal’s beating the major, pretends that rolling dice is a skill
Bond meets the fitty introduces himself as the man from the auction ‘You have a good memory for faces’ ‘And figures’ BOOM
She wants none of it and goes to watch sexy Kamal play sexy Backgammon
A sea of white tuxes
Bond steps in for the major when he gets chicken
Kamal rolls double six and Bond doubles again
BOND BETS THE EGG, gets eyes from the room, Kamal says aye
Bond uses Khan’s dice, ROLLS A DOUBLE SIX, BOND WINS
Cheeky Bond wants cash insetad of cheque
Khan openly threatens Bond
Bond gives Khan his dice back, but Gobinda just crushes them and walks away
Vijay bumps into Gobinda and nearly dies
Bond gives some Indian bloke his winnings, says ‘That’ll keep you in curry for a few weeks’
Gobinda rides with a shotgun through the streets in a Tuk-Tuk taxi, chasing Bond and Vijay in another one
No wait, it’s feckin knife ninjas, not the twins from before
One stabs him, then dives off, but it hits the money in his jacket ‘thank god for hard currency’
Bond nearly kills a local
Vijay fights off an actual ninja with a tennis racket
Gobinda fires a FECKIN BLUNDERBUSS in the town centre
Tries to lose Gobinda (who has lovely eyes) in the crowd
Runs over hot coals in shoes and squirms, throwns ninja on bed of nails
Takes a fire juggler’s fire and sword swallower’s sword to fight with, sets some ninjas on fire
Back in’t Tuk-Tuk, Gobinda comandeers another
James throws Rupees to the locals, creating aroadblock
Bond and Vijay drive through a poster, that then becomes another fixed one to fool Gobinda ‘It pays to advertise’
IT’S Q
Q’s magic rope doesn’t work — ‘having trouble keeping it up, Q’
Q’s also working on a door that smushes people
Q puts a microphone in the egg
Gives him a pen full of ink that dissolves metals, also attached to same pen is an earpiece
A TV camera that he literally uses to zoom in and out on boobs
One of Q’s assistants literally stitches Bond’s jacket
Bond’s got a table reserved, even though he didn’t ask for one
The guest is the fitty
She says Kamal wants a trade ‘an egg for a life’ ‘i know the price of eggs had gone up’
Someone takes a photo of them, charges James for it, it’s for the fitty, they then have dinner and drinks
After they clink glasses, we immediately cut to them drinking in bed — ‘I need refilling’
Tattoo of octopus on her back, what is it? That’s my little Octopussy, Bond gives funniest look of all time
They get to it
Gobinda comes by
Bond is now asleep with fitty getting ready to go, fitty tries to take the egg
Bond starts the mic and lets her away with the egg before fitty ropes herself down the balcony with her clothes, underwearing it into Kamal’s car
Gobinda knocks him out
Kamal’s getting rowed by a boatful of ladies, maybe one of them Indian
Goes into his garden of more ladies
Kamal takes the egg to yet another lady
Kamal describes Bond as an Englishman with a fondness for eggs and dice
Bond wakes up at the Monsoon Palace, locked in his room
Goes for dinner with Kamal and fitty
Fitty’s name is Miss Magda
James don’t wanna give any answers
Khan discusses torture with Bond — his choice is permanent brain damage
Dinner is stuffed sheep’s head
Khan eats one of the sheep’s eyes
BEDTIME
Asks Gobinda for a nightcap, but na
Uses his pen to melt jail bars on his window
Literal pigeon jumpscare that got me pa
Spies on MIss MAgda’s window a bit for good measure
Helicopter flies in, it’s Orlov, here we go
Bond climbs into Magda’s window
No rapey, just escapey
Ooo, Magda’s seen Bond escape
Listens in to Orlov and Khan
Magda’s hairdryer messes with the feed
Khan has given Orlov a load of counterfeit jewellery
Orlov smashes the fake egg, Khan finds the mic
Bond walks into a room with a few dead guards on meat hooks, just by their clothes mind
Orlov fecks off in the most soviet helicopter ever
They find out Bond has escaped, send a load of villagers with pitchforks to get him, while Khan and Gobinda get guns on the back of elephants
Bond pretends to be a dead body to escape, spooks some guards with a literal ‘BOOOOO’ and then runs off being shot at
Runs into feck off spiders and smushes one
Gets roared at by a tiger, tells it to sit and runs
All hunters convene in the middle, Bond is just hidden in a bush, needs to be quiet, snake crawls on him whispers to it to ‘hiss off’
Escapey Bond again
Moore george of the jungles himself outta dodge complete with sound effects
Then burns a leech off his chest
CROCS NEXT
Casually wades away from one
Bond takes refuge on a tour boat and sails away
‘Mr. Bond is a rare breed soon to be made extinct’
The ‘Octopussy’ tattoo is a blue ringed octopus — the sign of an old secret order of female bandits and smugglers
No-one knows who Octopussy is apart from a powerful woman
Bond sneaks onto the all woman island under the fakest lookin alligator of all time
Back into the garden of women
Full on woman bum and boob
Bell goes, all the women wander off
Bond goes into Octo’s room, Ock’s seen him coming
Ock’s the daughter of a former secret service bloke who betrayed England
KHAN’S BACK
Tells Ock that Bond’s out
Bond just wanders in, mocks Kamal
Kamal goes
All of Ock’s girls are now dressed as Shazam
Ock’s dad was an Octopus expert and gave her the pussy nickname WHAT
Ock invites him to stay for a few days
Kamal and Gobinda pay off hitmen to get to Bond
SOme henchman uses a retractable spinny razor to cut up a photo of Bond, very threatening
Ock discovered she had a knack for smuggling diamonds
Reformed the Octopus Clan with all these lasses
Shipping, Hotels, Carnivals and Services
Q leaves Vijay fishing by the river
Ock gets all pissy about Bond leaving, even though she’s feckin off for a week
Storms after her and kinda forces a kiss before settling into the idea
Vijay fishing in the dark, keeping an eye out, hears noises, gets attacked
Gets spinny-razored at Gobinda’s command
Bond senses trouble, leaves Ock in bed
Load of watery assassins turn up
Ooo, spinny razor’s on the balcony over the bed, but his sweaty nature tops off Bond
Nice fruity, spinny razor, garotte fight
One bloke gets Octopussed
Bond and some dude dive into the water
CROCS
Get one bad dude, Ock thinks it to be Bond
Bond actually somehow returns to shore within fake croc to find Q, who’s found Vijay
Oh no, so sad
Bond gaas to Berlin
The jewellery is the tip of the tentacle apparently
Bond has to pretend he’s from Leeds
Goes into East Berlin
German Circus — any bigger oxymoron
Blindfolded spinny knife trick — textbook
Orlov and Khan front-row seats of course, best of the best
Miss Magda’s in the bloody circus now
Made to watch the cannon man by some angry soldiers, he’s pretty good
Khan and Godinda go backstage to meet the stars
Khan, Gobinda and Orlov meet in a tiny carriage
Gogol visits the forgist, they smash somet
Carriaged bad guys load some jewels into a bomb looking thing on the train
Hang on, Ock’s with ‘em
Train fecks off, Bond’s hanging on underneath
There’s another bomb in another train
They’ve lost me a bit
SO the jewellery’s real and they’re just trying to smuggle it over the border on the train, got it
The bomb is… We’ll get there
Bond tries to salvage jewellery, but in the reflection of a jewel, one of the knife twins attacks him with fire
Bond drops a cannon on knife twin’s head = death
Bond openly nicks a jewel
Starts wearing one of the knife twins’ clothes
Jewels get over the border to Orlov
Bond takes Orlov hostage
So when the bomb goes off, folk will assume it’s an American one gone off accidentally due to it being a US Air Force base, prompting Europe to disarm everything, leaving them defenceless
Bond shoots a couple of machine gun baddies on his way off the train, but Orlov escapes
Bond’s tires come off so he gets it on the train tracks
German folk shocked by this, as you would be
Bond gets an umbrella on the accelarator and jumps to the train, sending his car into the river to injure fisherman
Other knife boy is just practicing throwing
Orlov’s jewellery has been found in Bond’s crashed car
Bond hides from knifey boy and Gobinda in a gorilla suit
Orlov sees his train feck off as Gogol pursues, gets shot for crossing the border
Bomb crosses into the American sector with Bond on it
Bond Gorilla checks watch as Khan, Gobinda and knifey boy set the bomb
Gobinda chops the gorilla suit in half, but Bond is out and on the roof of the train ducking under bridges, Gobinda pursues through the train
Gobinda tells Khan
Bond’s just hanging on on the side of a train
Knocks on nekkid Ock’s window, Khan sees and shoots
Nice little rooftop fight from Bond and Gobinda
Knifey boy sees that his brother’s been offed
COme off the trian with knifey boy, who pins Bond to the door by his silk shirt
Bond turns the table and stabby stabs
Street Circus Parade now, I assume Germany, cos the bomb’s in the street circus now
Bonb cant’ hitch so just starts running back to the bomb
Some young lot slow down for him, but then drive off when he gets close, fuckers
Ock thinks it’s jewellery in the cannon
Bond gets a lift of some folk who offer him wurst and beer, I wonder if they were german
Circus is back in the top
Bond wants to make a call, but some bint is on the phone, so he nicks her car
Goes to fast, cops are after him
50 minutes ont bomb
Cops try for a moment to reverse after Bond
Gobinda and Khan go to escape in their Ford Cortina
They see Bond going past them, but let him go and get blown up
Magda steals the general’s wallet for a magic trick
Bond needs a circus pass to get in but just barges through
‘He’s wearing a red shirt’ feckin commie
Bond’s in
SNeaking around the circus caravans
Evading coppers
Bond disguises himself as 009 clown
Tries to clown his way out of bombing
Informs the general of the bomb, he’s got 90 seconds
Tells Ock it ain’t jewellery, it’s bomb
Circus performers start spinning around the police
Ock opens it with 15 seconds to spare
Everyone just looks
Bond defuses it with 0 seconds left
OCK IS PISSED
Khan and Gobinda are plotting an escape
Gobinda gets mad at prostitutes
The prozzies are actually Ock’s girls
Some of them are acrobatting themselves into Monsoon Palace still dressed as Shazam
They beat up everyone and they’re in
Ock confronts Khan with a gun
Khan begs her off, sez it wont him
Gobinda sees the lasses, goes to help Khan
Khan’s guards and the lasses fight it out
Q flies Bond in ever so nonchalantly on a hot air balloon
Bond swings into Khan’s quarters
Exchnages a glance with a tiger rug
Bond slides down the bannister with a mchine gun, shooting folk, then the end of the bannister as well, so he don’t hurt his nuts
Gobinda just chops Ock to shit and knocks her out, as he and Khan escape on horseback
Q takes out a gunman with his hot air balloon, saving some lasses, who like Q
Khan and Gobinda take Ock onto their plane and feck off, Bond still on horse trying to catch up
He’s going
He’s going
He’s nearly there
THEY’RE IN THE AIR
HE LEAPS
HE’S ON THE BACK OF THE PLANE
The horse disappears
Bond tries to open the door, Khan knows he’s about, dipping the plane about, trying to shake him
Upside down, side to side, Bond’s fine, but Khan thinks he’s got im
Gobinda sees Bond, who pulls some wires out of the wing
Khan tells Gobinda to go get him, he’s like ‘really?’ but he does, but not before backhanding Ock
Plane top knife fight, with Gobinda the only one with a knife, Bond flicks the car aerial at Gobinda’s face, sending him sprawling
The plane has lost power, goes over a mountain, Bond and Ock jump out, Khan crashes into mountain
Gogol denies all incidents on behalf of the KGB
Gogol and M are cool with each other
They reckon Bond is injured and can’t travel
Bond is on a boat being rowed by lasses in an arm and leg cast, shakes ’em off and fecks Ock’s brains out
The last line is an orgasmic ‘James…’
FIN
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Keep it streets ahead,
CLR