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but if you want a real crotch shot - go pop in TND, and rewatch the scene with Bond and the Danish teacher - the shot where Bond is looking for his phone, right after you hear her say "just ignore it." - total t**t shot.....
.... but i don't hear anyone barking up Roger Spotiswood's tree..
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OMGzz JUST KIDDING!!! lol
it is really time to put that scene to rest though - it was an upskirt shot, yes.. but it was not intentional, and she clearly had underwear on..... that's it...
the end...
plus..... in a character psychology way - it was a chance for Camille to save a woman from the same fate that her mother (and sister?) were dealt at the hands of that man.... that's how i view it.
1) He knows that the two cops he kills in the street are corrupt. He doesn't want Rene Mathis to be tied up as an associate of them and have his named smeared again. On a somewhat related note, by this point in the film, it is obvious that Mathis no longer cares whether he lives, and is instead trying to find a place to die. Undignified as having his body thrown in a dumpster might be, Mathis death does have meaning for Bond; that meaning is more important than the cause.
2) He has to split the crime scene up. La Paz's finest will concentrate on the two dead bodies in the street, and they may not be too concerned with the dumpster to begin with. Even if they find Mathis' body straight away, they would treat it as two separate crimes - especially when they find Mathis has apparently been robbed. They would treat the deaths of the two officers as the priority case.
3) He needs to buy time. Even if moving Mathis' body only gets Bond and Camille ten extra minutes before Quantum start hunting them down, that's ten minutes that they would not otherwise have. To compound the problem, Bond does not have long to decide what to do - the last thing he wants is for the police and Quantum to find him standing in the middle of the street, still trying to figure out what to do.
Of those reasons, number three is perhaps the one the film comes closest to acknowledging. Bond needs to buy as much time as he can. He is starting to realise just how dangerous Quantum really is, and needs whatever comes his way. He is not visibly uncomfortable with the act, but he is well aware that in his line of work, he has to do things that might be distasteful. This is all a part of Bond's metamorphasis: ever since Vesper's death, he has started looking at the big picture. Mathis' death is just a detail, and one that he cannot afford to get hung up on.
And there is, of course, the possibility that Mathis was a part of Quantum all along. We never actually see any evidence that he is innocent, and given what we know about Quantum, it is entirely possible that its agents operate in cells, unaware of the others. The whole thing reeks of indecision on the part of Paul Haggis, as if he changed his mind about Mathis' guilt or innocence halfway through, but we only ever have Mathis' word that he was innocent all along. MI6 might have given him the tower at Talamone as repatriation, but for all we know, M was never convinced of his innocence and stationed agents (hell, even Gemma could have been an agent) to watch over him before Bond arrived. Because Camille is planning on killing him in cold blood. In order to compensate, the audience needs to see that Medrano is completely deserving of it so that we feel Camille is justified in killing him. Especially since the actual scene played out in such a way that Camille was defending herself when she killed him. Prior to that scene, we only have Camille's word that Medrano did those things to her mother and sisters. The only thing we've actually seen from Medrano is that he's sleazy and has no remorse, but he doesn't really do anything villainous. It's also been established that sexual predators are creatures of habit; if Medrano has committed rape once before, there is a chance that he has done it since. It would be somewhat out of character for him not to do it.
It may also be a commentary on critics who claim Bond is not simply a womaniser, but misogynistic; a case of "this is what actual misogyny looks like".
I felt dumping Mathis in the bin was not necessary and un-Bond like. You can give me all the reasons about why this scene happened, it will not change my views on it. I can name some reasons on why the slide-whistle happened in TMWTGG, doesn't mean you'll suddenly like it.
No I wasn't lol.... I'm merely having fun - a slide turns the frowns of any scene upside down...... like when Bond finds Della dead in LTK - a slide whistle really could've lifted the mood a bit... :)
After Craig's tenure is over, however, I would have appreciated had they killed off Mathis anyway. There's a certain chemistry between actors and we can't always generate that same chemistry when one of both is replaced. E.g. Perdo Armendáriz and Connery worked almost like brothers on screen but somehow I can't see the first working equally well with Moore. As for David Hedison, he managed quite well with Moore but I didn't see the whole 'brother' thing in LTK all that clearly.
Having said that, the line about Mathis not be a very good cover name was terribly unclear. I took it to be why give an Italian man a French cover name? But I like the ideas above much better.