Spectre: 23 Easter Eggs & References You Need To See

18. The Train Fight

Bond film-makers clearly like trains. The sequence opens with Bond and Madeleine discussing their lives over cocktails (for some reason Bond instructs the waiter to "leave here" as if there's any other option for a server), which is very much reminiscent of the similar scene between Bond and Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale. And then, when Hinx appears to rain massive muscular hell on Bond and Madeleine's dinner date, the fight sequence feels like a heavy reference to both From Russia With Love and The Spy Who Loved Me, particularly the brutal close quarter fighting.
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