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A Close Look at 'A View to a Kill'

Andrew McNess

The James Bond film series is a worldwide box-office phenomenon, with cultural reference points including cars equipped with ejector seats, heroines equipped with suggestive names, and henchmen wielding steel-brimmed hats. The escapist series can nevertheless accommodate more subtle and understated...

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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

It was mentioned as a James Bond film, with a discussion about the awkward insertion of its title into dialogue and a playful reenactment of a scene.

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And there's actually a scene, I think in the last Bond movie, and it might be View to a Kill. It is. Which by the way, has the most awkward insert of the name into the dialogue that you've ever seen i...

— Episode: 16.5 Jessie Gaskell and Mike Sweeney

Episode: 16.5 Jessie Gaskell and Mike Sweeney

It was mentioned as a James Bond film, with a discussion about the awkward insertion of its title into dialogue and a playful reenactment of a scene.

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And there's actually a scene, I think in the last Bond movie, and it might be View to a Kill. It is. Which by the way, has the most awkward insert of the name into the dialogue that you've ever seen in any Bond movie. Most Bond movies, they call it Casino Royale, or they call it Thunderball, but they never say Thunderball. In A View to a Kill- We can reenact it right now. Christopher Walken is in this Zeppelin that's going to destroy the world, and he's with Grace Jones. And someone says, they go over this mountain and they look at the city they're going to destroy, and someone says, what a great view. And Christopher Walken says, yes, A View to Kill.

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