20 Easter Eggs You Somehow Missed In Quantum Of Solace

11. Falling From A Rooftop

Quantum Of Solace Easter Eggs
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At the opera house in Bregenz, Austria, Daniel Craig's James Bond is intercepted by a Special Branch operative (Derek Lea) who is protecting UK government adviser and discreet Quantum member, Guy Haines (Paul Ritter). However, Bond gets the drop on the agent and leads him to the edge of a rooftop where the agent tries to fight back, but loses his balance.

He grabs onto the lapel of Double-0 Seven's dinner jacket, but Bond knocks him off the rooftop. Miraculously, his fall is broken by the bonnet of Dominic Greene's Jaguar XJ8, but the hapless agent is then shot by Greene's driver (Carl von Malaisé), implicating Bond in the murder.

This scene is a remake of a sequence in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) in which Roger Moore's James Bond fights with Stromberg's henchman, Sandor (Milton Reid) on a rooftop in Cairo, Egypt.

Bond eventually manages to get Sandor to the edge of the rooftop, overlooking a sheer drop to the street below, but Sandor grabs hold of Bond's necktie to keep himself from falling. Although Sandor may well drag them both off of the rooftop, Bond extracts the information that he needs from the thug, before knocking Sandor's hand away from his tie. The bad guy then falls to his death in the street below with Bond noting "what a helpful chap" he was.

Unfortunately, Daniel Craig is not quite as forthcoming with dry quips as Sir Roger was.

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