When Henderson hands Bond his drink, he tells him it's stirred not shaken and asks him if that's right. Bond says it is. Was this a mistake or Bond just being polite about the mistake?
shareI've wondered this myself.
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being vodka it doesn't matter if it's stirred or shaken.
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I took it as him just being polite as well. He wanted to humor him by making him think he'd nailed it and really knew his stuff.
A note about the shaking vs. stirring debate. It's a fact that shaking flows more vodka over the ice's surface area than stirring. A shaken drink will be colder faster. So a stirred drink really is an inferior drink. I saw this come up on a TV show on the food network where they had their drinks served by a robot bar tender.
Vigorously shaking a cocktail results in many more microscopic ice shards, hence more H2O, not to mention tiny air bubbles, as well as a noticeably cloudier appearance, than gently stirring it.
shareI always got the impression that Mr. Henderson got Bond's favourite drink mixture wrong (and he came across as somewhat bumbling and pretty pompous in the short time we see him).
shareWhen I heard that I thought to myself that that shows that Bond is an easy to get along with guy and doesn't sweat the small details.
However from the commentary it's revealed to have been a mistake.
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It was an error by Charles Gray and it got past the editing team. In the context of the film we can just assume Bond was trying to be polite. Kind of like how later Tanaka offers him Vodka Martini and Bond rejects saying he "likes sake"
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