Die Another Day

Trivia: 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. (01:03:25)

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Trivia: 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. (01:16:20)

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

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.

Trivia: 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. (01:51:00)

Trivia: 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. (01:19:50)

Trivia: The folding plane from the beginning of 'Octopussy' is visible when Bond's getting his gadgets. (01:01:55)

Trivia: 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. (01:00:30)

Trivia: When Bond infiltrates the Cuban island hospital, as he enters through a patient's room he grabs a grape from a bowl on the bed-tray. This references a scene from Thunderball when Bond grabbed a grape as he left a baddie's bedroom after looking around.

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Trivia: 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.

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

Trivia: 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. (01:43:15)

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Plot hole: In the pre-title sequence, James Bond travels in a hovercraft along the dirt road, which is full of landmines. Soon after reaching the waterfall at the end, trucks drive up along the road he just drove in on to capture him. As there was only one road into the waterfall complex, the landmines must have all disappeared, as earlier on in that sequence, we are informed that the only way that the North Koreans can avoid the mines along that road is by hovercraft. (00:12:05)

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James Bond: Vodka martini, plenty of ice... If you can spare it.

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Question: Towards the end of the film when Graves has been revealed to be Korean, why is he still using an English accent?

Answer: By this stage, it's become a habit.

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