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Or the script is just horrible. I think you are giving Tiffany too much credit as it is, since being all resourceful and competent isn't really her strong suit and instead you would likely find her in a corner picking her nose and staring off into space until Bond gave her an important order she would then try her best to mess up.
Pretty thin.
We are to assume that Bond and Leiter fully brief her to the extent that after telling her of all his crimes for the last 10 years, the fact that he killed Bonds wife etc etc they dont neglect to tell her about the cat? Or that with her 'full access' to Bond, Leiter and Q she drags it out of them with her subtle interrogation techiniques?
Why would they even tell her anyway? Shes not an agent and can they be sure she can be trusted?
Or perhaps the point is they dont want to fill her in properly in case shes still dodgy so they just say if you see a bloke with a cat beware?
But I think you are giving the scriptwriters way too much credit. DAF is very shoddily written is a much more credible theory for this scene.
Granted the fact that I had to puzzle over this for years, suggests the film was lax regarding exposition of Tiffany's sudden ability to spot Blofeld in disguise. But the scene still works quite well. It keeps the film moving. The whole film is a dark-camp spyfy genre fantasy anyway with a twist of the bizarre. Suspension of disbelief is a given towards fully enjoying such films. An actual scene where she was witness to or part of a debrief would have bogged things down.
I do like the way Hamilton puts his movies together. He keeps them moving. He doesn't sweat the details in how he gets from one place to another. If one cares it can be sussed out later, (like on a Bond dedicated message board) after the initial visceral excitement and thrill of the film has subsided.
Ha! It raises a very interesting point.
But we know why Eon "killed off" Bond at the beginning of the film. They did it for dramatic effect, and to have some fun with Fleming title. Plus Harry Saltzman had a thing about "killing" Bond, whenever that device could be worked into the film.
From M's pov also, I don't think he would reasonably think that such a dramatically staged death, could do any more than buy some time anyway. Take some pressure off, as he said.
Bond disguising as Japanese was not related to covering his identity as Bond. It was done so that he could fit in with the other ninjas as they merged with the Ama fishing village. He was disguising his whiteness, not his own identity.
But still a funny little attempt from Cracked. Great to see such a memorable Bond film getting a nod, all these years later.
Yup , as seen in Ninja Strikes Back ;)
Re: Tawanese tycoon......they could've been far out at sea and nobody saw him plunge ;)
About Oddjob in the hotel room......well if Jaws can hide in a tiny plane then anythings possible ;)
My guess,and it's a guess because Hamilton doesn't give us enough to know for sure, is that Oddjob had been stalking Bond and Jill. He was outside the room or maybe lurking inside the suite,if the suite was big enough. He knew they were inside. He was biding his time. I'm guessing when Bond moved to the kitchen area, Oddjob sprung to action, entering the shag room with ninja like speed and grace, gave Jill a quick chop and then calmly chopped down the unsuspecting Bond.
Bond was blathering on about champagne at the time, so his guard may have been down enough that Oddjob could cold-cock Jill without Bond knowing. That's my guess FWIW.
The glitz, the glamour, what a treat.
But was reminded of a part that's always confused me.
When the tour guide in Amsterdam tells the story of "The Skinny Bridge".
"Two sisters wanted to see each other every day, but they ran out of money, so zat is why zey call it ze skinny bridge."
What?
Huh?
http://www.aviewoncities.com/amsterdam/magerebrug.htm
In A View to a Kill Bond discovers that his assistant, Sir Godfrey Tibbet, has been killed by May Day. Bond Is then knocked out and Max Zorin and May Day deliberately try to drown him by sinking his Rolls Royce in a lake.
Does Bond:
(a) Contact the French police and have Zorin and May Day arrested for murder and attempted murder?
(b) Call in some fellow agents and take that genetically-engineered bleach-blond commie-nazi down!
(c) Continue quietly observing Zorin as he goes about his business planning to flood the San Andreas fault.
It actually has repercussions too as Zorin murders all of his employees.
There is no reason for Bond not to take Zorin in before he leaves for San Francisco. It's maybe the biggest plot hole in all of the Bond films.
Its a very good point.
The best I can say is that with his money Zorin would have a very good brief and what actual evidence does Bond have?
He didnt see Tibbet being killed and he was unconscious when they pushed the car in.
All the authorities would have is Bonds word. A decent barrister would rip it to shreds:
'So to sum up Mr Bond could not see either of my clients actually kill the deceased because he was not there. He could not see either of my clients attempt to kill him because at the time he was unconscious. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury this case is a farce and hangs on the evidence of a man who was either not present or not awake at the time when both the alleged crimes took place. If this man is the best the prosecution can offer you have no option but to acquit my clients.'
The best they could ever get is if May Day left some DNA on Tibbet and forensic cold prove she did it. Zorin walks every time though.
Although as you say after the 'enemy action' of killing Tibbet why doesnt M issue an assasination order and let Bond just take Zorin out? Why the need to find out what hes up to. Hes outside the law but they cant prove it so Bond should be allowed to use his licence to kill.
Plus, neither Bond or M could be sure that Zorin acted on his won here. Was he the main baddie, or a pawn in somebody else's employ ? And what was the plan anyway ? And couldn't it happen without Zorin being present ? Questions that had to be answered before taking actions.
He hardly fled. He was flying around in a airship with his name emblazoned on it, making appointments with politicians and visiting his business interests.
I don't think the police would refuse to investigate a murder, particularly when there is a body, just because the witness was involved in a bunch of traffic incidents. Indeed, as the traffic incidents occurred due to Aubergine's murder and one of the Tibbet suspects matched the description of the Aubergine suspect, it would make Bond's story far more credible.
Plus, it's MI6 - they could always just go with my option B.
Why does that matter? Zorin could be taken in and then Bond could continue investigating anyway. With the added bonus that MI6 have two key individuals in the case in custody and ready for interrogation and have enough dirt on the two of them to - at least potentially - convince them to talk.
It's a common problem in Bond plots that the baddie doesn't just kill Bond when he has the chance, as Scott Evil famously pointed out, but this is the only incident I can think of where Bond could have and should have taken the bad guy in but just decided to let him carry on.
(Just to be clear, these plot holes and continuity errors don't ruin my enjoyment of the films at all. If anything, I quite enjoy them.)
I guess, the Mi6 Bond method we see on display here, is basically to stay on the villain's trail and see what can be learned and ultimately thwarted. If they lose an agent or too, along the way, such is the spy game.
Zorin may also have used his considerable influence and status though to get out of the country, even via airship. Mi6 wouldn't necessarily have the clout to roust him up before he could leave.
Absolutely. I'm just having fun with it. Every Bond film (hell, every action / adventure film) has plot holes like this. I just thought this one was particularly interesting because it's unique - it's usually the villains who miss the opportunity to dispense with Bond, rather than vice-versa.
My only thought is that they're emergency lights.
I think Bond was launched from a torpedo tube because they wanted him to swim ashore, so the tube was simple way to get him into the water.
But maybe more to the point, it served as a suitably dramatic visual-worthy cinema scene. ;)
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I have a question re LALD. Rog receives the Queen of Cups card after his first night with Rosie Carver in San Monique.
The card seems to tip Bond to the possibility that Rosie, or someone, might not be who they seem.
Who are we to believe slipped him the tarot card? Solitaire maybe? Not likely. She wasn't in Bond's thrall yet, and Kananga kept a tight leash on her, I think.
Possibly a friendly intelligence ally from CIA, that knew Rosie was a double?
Indeed, why not? Now, that's a good reason for the spacejacking, aside from the cinematic aspect that thrilled me when I saw YOLT the first time when I as a kid. But, anyway, you've convinced me.
:D
Bond was blathering on about champagne at the time, so his guard may have been down enough that Oddjob could cold-cock Jill without Bond knowing. That's my guess FWIW.
That doesn't answer the following question - why didn't Oddjob kill both Bond and Jill Masterson in that Miami hotel in GOLDFINGER?
Why didn't Goldfinger use some kind of truth drug on Bond to learn what the latter really knew about his Fort Knox operation, back in Switzerland?
Why did Bond kill Professor Dent in that stupid manner, when it would have been smarter to tranquilize the man, remove any cyanide pills from his body and interrogate him?
Why did Quarrel have to pick up Bond's lousy shoes?