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Verity: I see you handle your weapon well.

James Bond: I have been known to keep my tip up.

In the scene inside the melting palace Bond smashes the wind screen and saves Jinx. While he's driving around water is pouring down, however no water comes into the car and Bond's face is totally dry. See more...

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Die Another Day (2002) - 40 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

Trivia

Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry were both injured during filming. Brosnan suffered a knee injury in the opening hovercraft segment which prompted the production to stop shooting for seven days. Berry suffered an eye injury when debris from a smoke grenade landed in it. The actress required a 30-minute operation to remove the debris.

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John Cleese says 'I never joke about my work'. Just like Desmond Llewellyn in 'Goldfinger' when he was introducing Bond's first Aston Martin. In that film he said it when Bond couldn't believe it had an ejector seat, and in the new film it's said said again when he can't believe the car has camouflage.

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The article on Gustav Graves that Bond reads as he arrives back in London is written by Gregg Wilson - a reference to Michael G. Wilson's son who worked on the film as script supervisor.

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Whilst filming their love-making scene, Halle Berry choked on a fig and had to be Heimliched by Pierce Brosnan.

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Due to the US blockade of Cuba, the real Havana was out of the question. Cadiz, on the Atlantic coast of Spain, stood in for the Cuban capital.

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Samuel L. Jackson suggested that Halle Berry be given a more Fleming-esque Bond Girl name, such as "Cinnamon Buns". This was a running joke on the set.

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The lasers weaving around Halle Berry, Bond, and the bad guy are a clear tribute to Goldfinger.

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The folding plane from the beginning of 'Octopussy' is visible when Bond's getting his gadgets.

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In Cuba, when James wakes up after the night passed with Jinx, there's an insect walking on the image.

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When Toby Stevens "drops in" they go to the waiting trucks, Land rovers, Same as Carver's men in Tomorrow Never Dies.

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Bond running down the side of the "diamond mine" is a lot like Michelle Yeoh's wire work in Tomorrow Never Dies.

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Most of the scenes of the greenhouse in Iceland were filmed at The Eden Project in Cornwall, including the shots of James Bond zipping up the rope, and running down the side of the building. The opening shots of the beach in Korea were also filmed in Cornwall, at Holywell bay.

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When James Bond is swimming under the ice near the palace, the thing he uses to breathe looks like the one Sean Connery used in Thunderball.

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Bond is in his office in one scene; we haven't seen him in his office since "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".

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There are two references to "Diamonds are Forever". When Bond's reading a magazine on the plane, that line is printed clearly at the bottom of one page. Also, when Graves is talking about his business, he says "Well, diamonds are for everyone", slurred together a bit. Close enough.

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When Bond is with Q on the gadget place, you can see the Bond dummy Scaramanga used to train with in "The Man With the Golden Gun." It has a Roger Moore face, it's undressed and missing its fingers from its left hand.

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There is a clear reference to Goldfinger when a gun is fired, hitting a window, on the plane and the bullet hole causes people to be sucked out. Nearly the same thing happened at the end of Goldfinger.

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Bond plays with Rosa Klebb's dagger boot from 'From Russia With Love' in Q's lab.

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The virtual reality training simulation Bond uses which features a takeover of MI6 is almost a direct copy of the second level on the 007 game 'The World Is Not Enough' even down to the fact that M is held hostage.

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The shot of the missile leaving the warship to destroy the satellite Icarus is exactly the same shot as the missile leaving the warship in the opening sequence of Tomorrow Never Dies.

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