20 Easter Eggs You Somehow Missed In Quantum Of Solace
2. Funeral In Haiti
It is hard to deny that Sir Roger Moore's first outing as James Bond, Live And Let Die (1973) is one of his best and most colourful adventures in the role.
A lot of that film revolves around voodoo and the concept of death, the latter perhaps best being demonstrated during the exotic funeral processions in New Orleans's French Quarter. Memorably, these parades were used by that film's villain, Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto) as a convenient way of disposing of his enemies and particularly those overlooking the activities at his Fillet of Soul restaurant; the corpses were then carried away in adapted caskets with false bases.
In Quantum of Solace, when Camille mistakes Daniel Craig's James Bond for her contact in Haiti and subsequently gives him a lift in her electric Ford Ka, she notices that they are being pursued by a motorcyclist. Seeking to lose their pursuer, she runs a junction, forcing a lorry to suddenly brake to avoid hitting her. A series of caskets onboard the lorry then spill over onto the road and split open.
Even though it is not quite the same as a coffin being paraded down a street in Live And Let Die, this is one of the few references to the morbid formalities surrounding death to have featured in a Bond film since Roger Moore's debut - peculiar, especially given James Bond has a licence to kill.