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Movies and Backgammon /Trivia Contest

Posted By: Dale Kerr
Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009, at 1:51 p.m.

In Response To: Movies and Backgammon /Trivia Contest (jdg)

Octupussy Trivia at imdb ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086034/trivia ):

Many production and story ideas and elements not used in the movie Moonraker (1979) ended up being utilized for this film. These included the knife throwing twins, the casting of 'Louis Jourdan (I)' as the villain and the Acrostar Bede jet sequence. The backgammon game was originally intended to take place in Max Kalba's club in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

Octopussy on wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopussy )

Bond defeats Khan in a game of backgammon while exposing him using loaded dice that always rolled a double-six and, assisted by his ally Vijay (Vijay Amritraj), foils Khan's bodyguard Gobinda's (Kabir Bedi) attempts to kill them.

and

The scene where Khan tries to cheat at backgammon is adapted from the Bond novel Moonraker, where Hugo Drax cheats at contract bridge. A line where Khan tells Bond to spend his money quickly is also a direct quotation from this novel (However, Drax addresses Bond as "Commander Bond" and Khan calls him "Mr. Bond").

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• Movies and Backgammon
  Seth -- Monday, 14 September 2009, at 11:45 p.m.
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    Seth -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 1:13 p.m.
    • Movies and Backgammon /Trivia Contest
      jdg -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 2:29 p.m.
      • Movies and Backgammon /Trivia Contest
        Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 3:05 p.m.
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          jdg -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 5:32 p.m.
          • Movies and Backgammon /Trivia Contest
            Seth -- Tuesday, 15 September 2009, at 10:59 p.m.
            • Movies and Backgammon /Trivia Contest
              jdg -- Wednesday, 16 September 2009, at 1:43 p.m.
              • Movies and Backgammon /Trivia Contest
                Dale Kerr -- Wednesday, 16 September 2009, at 1:51 p.m.
                • Movies and Backgammon /Trivia Contest
                  Seth -- Wednesday, 16 September 2009, at 10:52 p.m.
                  • Movies and Backgammon /Trivia Contest
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                • Here is James Bond playing BG ;-)
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                  • Here is James Bond playing BG ;-)
                    Chuck Bower -- Friday, 6 November 2009, at 3:14 p.m.
                    • Here is James Bond playing BG ;-)
                      eXtreme Gammon -- Saturday, 7 November 2009, at 12:01 a.m.
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                        Bob Koca -- Saturday, 7 November 2009, at 9:00 p.m.
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                          Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 7 November 2009, at 10:35 p.m.
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      Dale Kerr -- Wednesday, 16 September 2009, at 1:56 p.m.
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