For your eggs only

SPECTRE | Bond 24 is loaded with 007 legacy Easter eggs. Here are 33 of ’em to watch out for on your repeat viewing...

001 That classic gun-barrel opening – missing from all of Daniel Craig’s previous outings – is finally back, nodding to all the previous Bonds. 002 The opening Day of the Dead festival in Mexico City recalls the Nassau Junkanoo parade featured in Thunderball (1965) and the equally colourful Rio carnival in Moonraker (1979). 003 The skeletal disguise Bond wears in Mexico pays tribute to Baron Samedi, the otherworldly voodoo lord in Mendes and Craig’s favourite of the series, Live And Let Die (1973). 004 Bond toasts his target in Mexico with the words “Bottoms up!” – the name of the sleazy Hong Kong bar in The Man With The Golden Gun (1974). 005 The SPECTRE octopus logo ring pays its dues to the signet ring seen in Thunderball, the film at the centre of legal wrangles that have prevented Eon from using Blofeld in recent films. 006 No Bond film is truly complete without a cameo from co-producer Michael G. Wilson (he’s appeared in 16 Bond films since Goldfinger). Spot him in the background during a scene with Andrew Scott’s ‘C’. 007 Bond hanging out in a white shirt and gun holster with dark tie, supping a drink during his meeting with Moneypenny, recalls Sean Connery’s relaxed style in his Jamaican hotel room in Dr No (1962). 008 Bond’s bookshelf at home includes the work of Raymond Chandler. He buys a Chandler novel in Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger.

009 M’s porcelain bulldog from Skyfall (2012) can be glimpsed on the coffee table in Bond’s apartment.

0010 Bond’s Aston is intended for 009. An agent with the same number was murdered by knife-throwing twins Mischka and Grischka in Octopussy (1983). 0011 “I expected it back in one piece,” Q tells 007 of the Aston Martin DB10, echoing Desmond Llewellyn’s classic Goldfinger line, “Try to bring it back in one piece!” 0012 Q equips 007 with an explosive watch, also issued in Moonraker, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and Die Another Day (2002). 0013 Bond unzips Lucia Sciarra’s (Monica Bellucci) dress in a shot that pays more than a little homage to Roger Moore cheekily disrobing Madeline Smith with his magnetic watch in Live And Let Die. 0014 Blofeld’s face is initially obscured from us when we first see him in Rome, just like our first glimpse of him hidden behind slats in From Russia With Love (1963).

0015 Franz Oberhauser’s backstory is lifted directly from Fleming’s original

Octopussy short story.

0016 Mr Hinx (Dave Bautista) has only one line of dialogue – he’s cast from the mute, indestructible henchman mould of Jaws ( Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me) and Oddjob ( Goldfinger, 1964). 0017 The Aston Martin has an ejector seat, just like in Goldfinger – but now it’s the driver’s seat that’s rigged. 0018 The alpine clinic where Bond meets Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) references Switzerland’s Piz Gloria, Blofeld’s vertiginous hideaway in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969). 0019 The snowy chase down Austrian slopes and the plane crashing through the barn echoes the bikeski-bobsleigh pursuit in For Your Eyes Only (1981). 0020 Craig rocks a white tuxedo with a scarlet carnation on the train in Morocco – the same combo seen on Sean Connery in Goldfinger. 0021 Bond’s train scrap with Hinx homages locomotivebased smackdowns in From Russia With Love, Live And Let Die and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). 0022 Blofeld’s base in a meteor crater recalls his spectacular volcanic lair in You Only Live Twice (1967). 0023 Bond placing his gun on a tray at Blofeld’s lair evokes Scaramanga putting his titular weapon on Nick Nack’s tray in The Man With The Golden Gun. 0024 Blofeld wears a collarless Nehru jacket, the classically sinister wardrobe choice of the character since You Only Live Twice (and also favoured by original baddie, Dr No). 0025 The cinematic Blofeld is iconically bald but Christoph Waltz plays him with silvery, side-parted hair that recalls Charles Gray’s take on the character in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). 0026 Blofeld’s beloved white Persian cat (previously seen in From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, For Your Eyes Only and Never Say Never Again) is once again present and correct. 0027 When Bond first spots the feline he says, “Hello, Pussy,” which is a cheeky wink to Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. 0028 The torture scene, including the dialogue, is inspired by a passage in Kingsley Amis’ 1968 Bond novel Colonel Sun.

0029 MI6’s Hildebrand Prints safehouse nods to Ian Fleming’s Playboy short story The Hildebrand

Rarity (where Bond goes in search of rare fish).

0030 Blofeld’s facial scarring after Bond’s explosive exit is a callback to Donald Pleasence’s iconic make-up job in You Only Live Twice. 0031 The final scene of cat and mouse in the MI6 building is a reference to The Man With The Golden Gun’s funhouse finale. 0032 The speedboat chase on the Thames recalls the pre-titles of The World Is Not Enough (1999) – and the publicity stunt that unveiled Daniel Craig to the world’s media in 2005. 0033 Bond and Madeleine exiting behind the wheel of a classic Aston Martin recalls Bond driving off with Tracy in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. JC / NSe