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Keeping the British end up, sir.
— The Spy Who Loved Me • 1977
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is the Roger Moore era in one innuendo: a patriotic phrase doing double duty, delivered with total calm in front of three senior officials. Where Connery's Bond got away with a look, Moore's gets away with a pun and a curtain. The gag was good enough that Moonraker staged its own version of the ending two films later.
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In context
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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), the closing scene. Bond (Roger Moore) and the KGB agent Anya Amasova have escaped Stromberg's Atlantis in an escape pod, which is picked up by a British naval vessel. M, the Minister of Defence Sir Frederick Gray and the Soviet General Gogol open the pod to find the two agents in the middle of a romantic evening. Gray demands to know what Bond thinks he is doing, and Bond answers with this line before drawing the curtains closed.
Sources (3)
- Wikiquote: The Spy Who Loved Me (film)Dialogue section, final sceneReference checked
- James Bond Wiki: The Spy Who Loved Me (film)Plot summary, endingReference checked
- Springfield! Springfield! transcript: The Spy Who Loved MeFinal scene before the end songReference checked
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