The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Curd Jürgens: Stromberg

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• James Bond : Don't you miss the outside world?

  Stromberg : For me, this is all the world. There is beauty... there is ugliness... and there is death.

• Stromberg : I've been expecting you.

• Stromberg : Well gentlemen, now that the moment has come to bid you farewell, I congratulate both you, Doctor, and you, Professor, on your brilliant work in the development of the submarine tracking system. Thanks primarily to you, I am happy to say that the first phase of our operation has met with considerable success. I have instructed my assistant to have paid into your Swiss bank accounts the sum of ten million dollars each.

  Prof. Markovitz : Thank you, sir.

  Dr. Bechmann : Thank you indeed.

  Stromberg : And that, I think, concludes our business. Before you go however, I very much regret to inform you that a dangerous development has recently been brought to my notice. Someone has been attempting to sell the plans of our tracking project to competing world powers; someone intimately associated with the project.

• Stromberg : Observe, Mr. Bond, the instruments of Armageddon.

• James Bond : Where's Anya?

  Stromberg : Well, well... a British agent in love with a Russian agent. Détente, indeed.

• James Bond : [Bond, posing as a marine biologist, examines a model of Atlantis]  An underwater city. Well, everyone needs to have their dreams.

  Stromberg : No dream, Mr. Sterling. Soon a reality.

• [With Bach playing in the background, Stromberg drops his beautiful-but-disloyal assistant from an elevator into a water tank, the sole occupant of which is a large tiger shark. The shark moves in to attack] 

  Stromberg : [on loudspeaker]  It was you who betrayed me. You had access to all the information. Now you will pay the penalty.

  [looks on from several view-screens as the girl swims for her life, in vain] 

• James Bond : ...I said, where's Anya? Your time's running out, Stromberg!

  Stromberg : Yours, too, Mr. Bond... and faster than you think.

  [shoots an explosive bolt from his "table gun", just missing 007, who then aims his own pistol up the table] 

  James Bond : You missed, Stromberg. Should've checked your barrel.

  [fires back into Stromberg's weapon; the far end of the table explodes in the villain's face, with lethal results] 

• Stromberg : Were they the two on the train?

  [Jaws nods] 

  Stromberg : James Bond. And the woman is Major Amasova, a Russian agent. Let them get to shore... and then kill them.

• Stromberg : By noon, the submarines Ranger and Potemkin will have reached their designated firing positions. Within minutes, New York City and Moscow will cease to exist. Global devastation will follow, and a new era will begin.

  James Bond : All right, Stromberg; you've made your point. Now, how much do you want?

  Stromberg : How much of *what*, Mr. Bond?

  James Bond : What's your price for NOT launching those nuclear missiles?

  Stromberg : [chuckles]  Mr. Bond, I'm not interested in extortion. I intend to change the face of history.

  Major Anya Amasova : By destroying the world?

  Stromberg : By *creating* a world, a new and beautiful world beneath the sea. Today's civilization, as we know it, is corrupt and decedent. Inevitably, it will destroy itself. I'm merely - accelerating the process.

  Major Anya Amasova : That rationalizes thermonuclear genocide feebly at best.

  Stromberg : For that, Major, I will accept the judgement of posterity.

  Major Anya Amasova : [CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR-LINE]  I can give it to you here and now: "Karl Stromberg was a mass murderer who made Joseph Stalin seem like a common playground hooligan."

  James Bond : [CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR-LINE]  Well said, but I suspect he's heard it all before.