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Phil Nobile Jr.
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Grieving Bond fan

Personal account; all opinions correct
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A Black man holding a drink A white man holding a golden gun A teen girl from the 90s
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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A what kinda closet
Detail from a blueprint that says huge waxin closet
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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I’m gonna do the miniseries this month
DVDs and Blu-rays of Tinker Taylor, soldier, spy, smiley people, the Ipcress file, the spy, who came in from the cold
December 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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All the Bond movies leave Prime after today so you have to spend December watching these chilly bastards
Richard Burton in THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD Michael Caine in THE IPCRESS FILE Alec Guinness in SMILEY’S PEOPLE Gary Oldman in TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Someone somewhere just scored a screen-used suit from SKYFALL for €152
A listing for a Tom Ford suit that is said to be in fair condition for €152 A detail of the suit showing holes in it A detail of the sleeve showing wear and tear and holes A tag sewn inside the jacket, saying Daniel Craig bond 23
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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(On the Monday after it opened, at any rate.)
A crystal glass with whisky in it
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The property has been having a conversation with mortality since the beginning, and if it were my call, this would have been a huge talking point in the press for NO TIME TO DIE.
A man stands and looks at the sky
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Sciarra’s funeral in SPECTRE, and Vesper’s grave in NO TIME TO DIE.
Ppl at a funeral A man standing at a mausoleum
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The agents’ coffins, Bond’s parents’ grave, and the title sequence in SKYFALL
Flag draped coffins A gravestone A graveyard
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The coffins falling off the vehicle in Haiti in QUANTUM OF SOLACE (this is just Fleming flavor at this point, they didn’t need to do all that) …
Coffins lying in the street and falling off a vehicle
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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King’s funeral in THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH…
Several ppl at a funeral
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Stacey’s grandpa’s ashes in A VIEW TO A KILL? 🤷🏻‍♂️
A woman smashing an urn over a man’s head
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Tracy’s grave in FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
A man placing flowers on a grave
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The Venice hitman’s coffin in MOONRAKER…
A man in a coffin throwing a knife A man in a coffin getting struck by a knife
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Even the pyramids in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME kinda count…
A man at a presentation in front of the pyramids in Egypt
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The New Orleans funeral parade and Samedi’s coffin in LIVE AND LET DIE…
A funeral procession in New Orleans A coffin in a graveyard
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The Slumber, Inc. funeral home in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, with Bond ending up in a casket…
A chapel in a funeral home A funeral director tending to a casket A man in a casket, arms folded
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Bond’s funeral in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE…
Sailors around a flag-draped body about to do a burial at sea
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Jacques Bouvar’s funeral (with a casket marked “JB”) at the beginning of THUNDERBALL…
A funeral with a casket A woman grieving in front of the casket
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This manifests as recurring funereal imagery throughout the film series…

The LaSalle hearse driven by the “three blind mice” hitmen in DR. NO…
A black hearse going over a cliff
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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So Fleming’s James Bond had a running theme of mortality in the novels. Death was always one step away and never far from Bond’s thoughts.
Various book covers with death imagery
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Ian Fleming wrote CASINO ROYALE in the throes of his own mid-life crisis as he was about to settle down and marry. He was 44 and would be dead 12 years later.

His books are full of Bond imagining his own death, vividly speculating on his plane crashing, etc.

From the first chapter of GOLDFINGER:
James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death. It was part of his profession to kill people. He had never liked doing it and when he had to kill he did it as well as he knew how and forgot about it. As a secret agent who held the rare double-O prefix-the licence to kill in the Secret Service—it was his duty to be as cool about death as a surgeon. If it happened, it happened. Regret was unprofessional-worse, it was deathwatch beetle in the soul. And yet there had been something curiously impressive about the death of the Mexican. It wasn't that he hadn't deserved to die. He was an evil man, a man they call in Mexico a capungo. A capungo is a bandit who will kill for as little as forty pesos, which is about twenty-five shillings-though probably he had been paid more to attempt the killing of Bond-and, from the look of him, he had been an instrument of pain and misery all his life. Yes, it had certainly been time for him to die; but when Bond had killed him, less than twenty-four hours before, life had gone out of the body so quickly, so utterly, that Bond had almost seen it come out of his mouth as it does, in the shape of a bird, in Haitian primitives. What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no one. This had been a Mexican with a name and an address, an employment card and perhaps a driving licence. Then something had gone out of him, out of the envelope of flesh and cheap clothes, and had left him an empty paper bag waiting for the dustcart. And the difference, the thing that had gone out of the stinking Mexican bandit, was greater than all Mexico.
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Almost had a real weird and completely accidental Yaphet Kotto double feature of 1987’s THE RUNNING MAN and 1968’s THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR.
Two men in futuristic leotards looking scared as something approaches them Two men in suits, hats and sunglasses one brandishing a gun
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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"Bottom 60%" is a funny way of saying the majority. CBS Evening News The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis.
November 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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US: the Bond catalog leaves Prime in three days. Physical media is best!
A man’s hand holding a cassette that says “World’s Greatest Marches”
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM