Skyfall's nods to other Bonds

Having seen Skyfall for a second time, I've had a chance to spot more of the references to other Bond films. There are undoubtedly more - please let me know of any I've missed - but these are the ones I've spotted; some are more tenuous (or wishful thinking/overanalysed!) than others. WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!



Dr No

• Severine having a Beretta
• That closing scene in M's office
• Q equipping Bond with a Walther

From Russia With Love

• Tanner's reference to rats in a tunnel
• Silva's blond locks are surely a nod to Red Grant (and all his later imitations)

Goldfinger

• Eve's blue dress a la Lois Maxwell
• The Aston
• Bond's "you must be joking" to Q
• Bond shaving (and Live and Let Die)

Thunderball

• The notion of an ageing Bond having to prove himself is drawn from the health spa scenes (perhaps more so in Never Say Never Again)
• Bond nonchalantly proving his markmanship skills (to Kincade, like with Largo)

You Only Live Twice

• Bond 'dying'
• Bond's obituary is lifted from the novel

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

• As Bond and M drive into Skyfall, I'm sure I heard the score used in OHMSS when Bond drives into M's grounds
• The leading female character reciting poetry
• Bond cradling his dead leading lady in his arms

Diamonds Are Forever

• 'Room service' being used for ulterior methods

Live and Let Die

• Stepping on the komodo dragon - using it like a crocodile
• Bond shaving (and Goldfinger)

Spy Who Loved Me

• Bond disappearing from sight amid flashing lights - like Jaws at the show in Egypt

Moonraker

• Silhouetted opponents fighting high up a building
• Silva's dental plate hints at Jaws's

For Your Eyes Only

• A Bond family headstone
• Bond being handed his mission file at the end is much like in FYEO

Octopussy

• Fight atop a train

A View to a Kill

• Clambering about in a lift shaft

Licence to Kill

• The signature gun
• A Bond girl with a gun strapped to her thigh
• Eve smashes out the windscreen like Dalton does
• Bond aquiring a criminal's case of cash

GoldenEye

• The exploding pen gag
• Helicopters creeping in from nowhere on the island (like at the end of GoldenEye)
• Reference to Bond's parents' death
• Killing a man with your thigh sounds familiar...

The World is Not Enough

• MI6 HQ exploding
• The case Bond gets at the casino is the same as the one he takes from the banker at the start of TWINE
• M having 'betrayed' the main villain

Die Another Day

• A bearded Bond
• Playing about on ice
• Silva's 'copter looks like the one at the start of DAD
• Bond referring to an unused Tube station
• Q's "Put your back into it" is a direct lift of a Brosnan line

Casino Royale

• Digger on top of train reminiscent of the one he drives in the Royale building site chase scene
• Opening shot of light across Bond's face is drawn from the Royale title sequence
• Severine wears Eva Green's red dress
• Bond creeping into a shower to 'comfort' a girl

Quantum of Solace

• Bond drowning his sorrows