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Miranda Frost: He'll light the fuse on any explosive situation, and be a danger to himself and others.

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Die Another Day (2002) - 39 trivia entries

Directed by Lee Tamahori, starring Colin Salmon, Halle Berry, John Cleese, Judi Dench, Pierce Brosnan, Rick Yune, Rosamund Pike, Toby Stephens (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

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In the training sim, Bond refers to the virtual M's seemingly fatal wounding as "just a flesh wound." He makes this remark to John Cleese who said the same thing in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" after having all his limbs removed by king Arthur.

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When Gustav Graves parachutes in, the Union Jack Parachute is a reference to "The Spy Who Loved Me" when Roger Moore skis off the snowy cliff and floats to safety with his Union Jack parachute.

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When Jinx is coming out of the water in Cuba, it looks very much like the Ursula Andress scene from Dr No.

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In the room full of archives from previous films the magic levitating rope that failed to work properly in Octopussy is seen on the bottom shelf of the center rack.

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During the fight with Miranda Frost, Jinx runs up a wall and jumps off to land behind her; Michelle Yeoh does the exact same move in "Tomorrow Never Dies".

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The jet pack Bond triggers when talking to Q is the one he used from Thunderball.

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The "Players Navy Cut" poster in the tube station behind the "Vanish" is a reference to one of the Fleming books where the female character falls "in love" with the image of the sailor on the packet. Sorry can't remember which book though.

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After Bond enters the secret passageway to the DNA lab in Cuba, the rotating mirrors are a tribute to the mirrors used in the climax of 'The Man With The Golden Gun'.

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With all those tributes to past Bond movies, they didn't use the one line Bond keeps saying 'Shaken, not stirred'.

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The camouflage crocodile from 'Octopussy' can be seen in the background just after he plays with the jetpack.

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Halle Berry was the first Oscar winner to play a Bond girl. While Kim Basinger holds both honors, she won her Oscar fifteen years after her Bond appearance, whereas Berry won hers while "Die Another Day" was still in production.

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Next to Rosa Klebb's shoe in the Q scene you can see the suitcase from From Russia With Love, although in this one the knife comes out blade first, rather than handle first.

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When the Ice Palace is melting, and Zao has just fallen in, when Bond shoots down the chandelier, it mirrors the fate shared by Alex Travelyn in Goldeneye.

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The sunglasses Bond takes off the guy at the start are in fact Pierce Brosnan's own sunglasses - at the time of filming he'd had them for 3 years and fancied wearing them during the scene.

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When Q gives Bond his new watch he mentions that it is the twentieth watch he has had, a reference to the fact that this is the twentieth (official) Bond film.

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The name of the hotel that Bond visits in Hong Kong is The Rubyeon Royale Hotel. "Ruby" for the 40th anniversary of the James Bond series; "Eon" for EON Productions, producers of the series; and "Royale" for Casino Royale, the first Ian Fleming James Bond novel.

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In Dr No the famous gun barrel sequence features a strange beeping sound instead of the Bond theme. In this film the same sound effect can be heard in Bond's hospital room as he walks out.

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Bond reads from "Birds of the West Indies", which has the author's name scratched out. That's a real book, and was written by a man called James Bond - Ian Fleming used the name for his novels.

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Roger Moore's daughter, Deborah Moore, makes a brief appearance in the film as an Air Hostess on the British Airways flight.

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When Miss Moneypenny is typing her report at the end of the film, you can see "OHMSS" (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) written on a CD on her desk.

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