At first I thought the movie took place in Russia. (the reason I did that was because of the title.)
However after doing my research I realized it takes place in Turkey.
Why is this movie titled From Russia With Love if it doesn't even take place in Russia? I don't get it.
It makes more sense in the book, where the Russians are behind the plot, but it's a great title.
shareApparently the OP did not watch the movie. There is a very clear scene where M tells Bond that Tatiana has sent MI6 a message stating she will defect to the West with a Lekter decoder, but only if Bond brings her across, because she’s fallen in love with him. Tatiana encloses a photo of herself in her communique, a 1963 version of a Selfie. Leaving his meeting with M, Bond engages in “the customary by-play with Miss Money-Penny” (cf Goldfinger), and shows her Tatiana’s pic. Money-Penny takes out a pen and writes on the photo, “From Russia, With Love.”
It’s not rocket science, OP.
The title also generated a terrific Jack Jones title song.
Not for nothing, the Donnybrook between Connery and Shaw on the train was a Testosterone Molotov Cocktail.
It's probably my favorite Bond movie. And what a perfect title!
shareYou know what? Mine too, on balance. The first 3 films are sublime. Dr. No introduced us to the Bond universe and SPECTRE. Goldfinger had a SUPERB and most improbable bad guy, the best Bond title song to date, the single best line in any Bond movie (“No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE.”) and the Q-ship Aston-Martin DB 5, the most famous car in the world. After that, the gadgets and bad guys started to get more and more silly. The original girl formula (1 good girl who dies, 1 bad girl, 1 good girl) got tossed aside, and then we got the Roger Moore atrocities. From Russia With Love escalated the action from
Dr. No and left no opening for the kitsch that eventually followed. Alfred Hitchcock once described a great movie as “Three great scenes, no bad scenes.” That describes From Russia, With Love.