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Discussion: bond wanted dead
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Anonymous |
bond wanted dead
Dec 8 2007, 10:50 AM EST who wanted bond dead in man with the golden gun 1 out of 4 found this valuable. Do you? |
 alexberg |
RE: bond wanted dead
Dec 8 2007, 11:36 AM EST Scaramanga Do you find this valuable? |
 JustinAtheropinion |
RE: bond wanted dead
Dec 12 2007, 3:32 PM EST Well, now, even that's not so simple an answer. The Secret Service is sent a gold bullet with "007" stamped in it (Man, the security was lax in the 70's!), and it is assumed it's Scaramanga, but it was really sent by Andrea Anders, to put Bond on Scaramanga's trail to kill him. Scaramanga really had no quarrel with 007, but did see him as a "coup de grace," hence the "007" figure in his practice range/funhouse Do you find this valuable? |
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Anonymous |
RE: bond wanted dead
Dec 14 2007, 9:49 PM EST MR Secaramungr 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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JustinAtheropinion |
RE: bond wanted dead
Dec 17 2007, 2:30 AM EST "Eh?" Do you find this valuable? |
 mkfreeberg |
RE: bond wanted dead
Jul 11 2008, 9:48 PM EDT Okay, this is the thing I was talking about in that other thread. In (just about) every Bond movie, it happens like clockwork -- Bond meets with M, finds out what the assignment is, flies off to the "trailhead" to get his first batch of clues or meet his MI6 contact. Once he arrives, he is attacked by whoever wants him killed. And it happens here, in Saida's dressing room. These are the greasy looking guys who ambush him, causing him to swallow the golden bullet she has stuck in her navel. Problem: Andrea Anders sent the bullet so that she could proposition Bond to kill her master, Scaramanga. Which means at this point in the film, nobody wanted him dead! So who were those greasy guys in the Beirut cantina? What was their quarrel with Bond? They couldn't have had one, because nobody else in the film had one. Do you find this valuable? |
 Green-Arrow |
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Jul 11 2008, 10:13 PM EDT "So who were those greasy guys in the Beirut cantina? What was their quarrel with Bond?"I'll take a stab at this one: They were local mobsters who were out to rough up Bond for nothing more than putting the moves on the boss's girl. Or, they were local mobsters who recognized Bond and were out for revenge for previous, unrelated grievance. True, the attack in the dressing room had nothing to do with the Scaramanga plot. But then, everywhere Bond goes someone tries to kill him. There's always *someone* who wants Bond dead. Do you find this valuable? |
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mkfreeberg |
RE: bond wanted dead
Jul 11 2008, 10:41 PM EDT "I'll take a stab at this one:But that's what the pre-title-sequence is for! Naw, really, I guess your explanation makes just about as much sense as anything else. That's what really bugs me about that scene. It could be explained away with just about anything...just plain bad storytelling. Do you find this valuable? |
