Bond titles - types and origins

[Daltons Chin Dimple]

Following on from the other thread where we are all seeing how tough it is to come up with a decent Bond title I thought it would be worthwhile taking a look at the different types of title :

Villain or character named / related : Octopussy, Dr. No, The Man With The Golden Gun, Goldfinger

Plot or device related : GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, Moonraker, Thunderball, (could also move TMWTGG down to this category if being pedantic)

Based on well known sayings : Die Another Day, Live and Let Die, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds are Forever, The Living Daylights

Service related : For Your Eyes Only, A View To A Kill, Licence to Kill (could be in plot / device I s'pose), On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Misc : The World is Not Enough, The Spy Who Loved Me

So taking these basic categories, are there any I have missed ? And could they be better divided ? By better I mean more simply, not by making yet more categories ?

And does this help us come up with a better Bond title ?

[Kara Milovy]

You might look to the post-Fleming fiction. "No Deals, Mr. Bond" is a fairly unusual (and fairly bad) example.

Also, Fleming titled all his chapters, so there's lots of additional original material to look at.

[Cooper]

The Title Game took off more than I expected. I feel like I created a monster.

But I digress...

How about the worst case of a Bond title being worked into the dialogue of a movie? That HAS to go to A View To A Kill...

Looking at San Francisco, Grace Jones says, "What a view..."
Which Christopher Walken inexplicably follows up with "...to a kill!"

Ouch.

[LeiterCIA]

Random thought:

I think die Another Day is one of the best post-Fleming titles ever. Ironically, I think the placement of the title in the diologue was a missed opportunity. It was Bond who lived to die another day, after Korea... not Moon.

[Kara Milovy]

Random thought:

I think die Another Day is one of the best post-Fleming titles ever. Ironically, I think the placement of the title in the diologue was a missed opportunity. It was Bond who lived to die another day, after Korea... not Moon.
It seemed designed to appear in the previews, Bond in his sexy Icelandic sweater, swiveling back and saying it; you could see them designing that for advertising, y'know?

[Cooper]

1) I agree, Leiter. I thought that line should have pertained to Bond and not the villian.

2) This doesn't really pertain to a Bond movie title but I didn't want to start a whole new thread to ask this question. Has there ever been a curse-word uttered in a James Bond film??

[Boromir006]

As far as I know, the dreaded "S-bomb" has popped up in two Bond movies. On the lips of Mrs. Bell in Live and Let Die and uttered by both Pam and Sanchez in Licence to Kill. Not sure of any others.

[KingVoyeur]

The word "bitch" appeared in DAD, probably in others.

[LeiterCIA]

It seemed designed to appear in the previews, Bond in his sexy Icelandic sweater, swiveling back and saying it; you could see them designing that for advertising, y'know?

I think the better opportunity would have been to use it twice. After all, it WAS an applicable expression. I'd have had General Moon say it to Bond as he was being sent over the bridge in exchange for Zao, then Bond could have said it again to Col. Moon in Iceland.