fillet-of-who?

Hello friends! Ok I’m going to appologize right now because I have a feeling that my next few posts are going to be jointly themed. The theme is simply “wordplay”. That is to say that I expect to be producing some “fun-with-words” type situations and I hope (and sad to say highly doubt) that you will be tickled by my silly little word games as much as I am. That said…

Today our subject is Bond… (yes James Bond) and specifically the titles of his movies which I have generously provided below.

- Dr. No
- From Russia with Love
- Goldfinger
- Thunderball
- You Only Live Twice
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Diamonds are Forever
- Live and Let Die
- The Man with the Golden Gun
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- Moonraker
- For Your Eyes Only
- Octopussy
- A View to a Kill
- The Living Daylights
- Never Say Never Again
- Licence to Kill
- Goldeneye
- Tomorrow Never Dies
- The World is Not Enough
- Die Another Day
- Casino Royale
- Quantum of Solace (coming soon)

You might have noticed that through the clever use of color I have singled out some specific words (and even some words within bigger words… but don’t worry I have everything under control). Now to say that all 007 movie titles are formulaic would certainly be a hasty assumption. There are however, a handful of keywords that seem to pop up more than once in the 21+ 007 films. As you can see for yourself these words are “Love“, “Gold“, “Die“, “Kill“, “You/Your“, “Never“, “Only“, “Day“, “Live“, and “Eye“.

I present for your consideration The Ultimate James Bond Movie Title:

Ian Flemming’s
James Bond 007
in
YOUR EYES ONLY LOVE GOLD THE DAY YOU KILL TO LIVE AND DIE

But wait! There’s no need to stop there. There is still much fun to be had with the mix-and-match game! Using any choice of words found within 007 movie titles, create your own new one! Here’s a few examples:

NEVER MOONRAKER TWICE A DAY
YOU NEVER VIEW GOLD AND DIAMONDS WITH NO DR. LICENCE
SERVICE YOUR MAN’S THUNDERBALLS TOMORROW
GOLDFINGER HER MAJESTY’S OCTOPUSSY ONLY
NO GOLD, NO SERVICE
SAY NO TO “KILL DAY”
VIEW WITH YOUR EYES, NOT WITH YOUR LOVE GUN

Well I’ll be Jenkins’d if I didn’t just now create a new line of 007 themed fortune cookies! Now you try!
(Make me proud and tell your friends)