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That is good. Can I change my response?
It depends on the wronged person. Would they like the protagonist to get revenge? Or is it a case of "live and let live"? (Metaphorically speaking, of course, as the wronged person is usually kinda not alive)
Until they learn it’s not worth it. ;)
At least that’s the lesson Bond lears in QoS.
And in FYEO... not counting the PTS... and Bond knocking Locque off the cliff. But Melina can't do it. Because she has to be prepared to dig two graves. That very same moralistic Bond is, by the way, the very same guy exacting gruesome revenge on Sanchez and tons of other people in his organisation. I mean, that's what some folks here cling to, the notion that it's all the same Bond. ;-)
1969:
Tracy is killed.
Two years later:
Bond is clearly over it because, hey, Blofeld, nice seeing ya. Yeah, making mudpies, good joke. And something about the wrong pussy. Oh, and I'm not going to kill you, I'm just going to drop you in the ocean in something built to... work in the ocean. May I live to kill you another day.
Another six years later:
don't mention Tracy! It still hurts.
Another four years later:
FINALLY, I get to kill Blofeld. "Oh, you... wanna get off?" *Smile, smile*. Because now it's a laughing matter again. Except that vengeance isn't. Melina, it's wrong. Be a good girl and don't attempt any vendetta. It's just wrong. Because it is.
Another eight years later:
See this face? I am PISSED, y'all! And I'm going to EF this organisation and Sanchez up like a tornado high on bloodlust.
Another decade or so later:
For England? No, for me. Revenge is a philosophical matter.
Yes, same Bond. \sarcasm
Response of the day! Well done old man. :))
Oh but he can't be, you see. He's Fleming's Bond, you see. And Cubby's, yes, Cubby's too. It's unfair that the guy who smacked a girl's bottom in 1964 can no longer do so in 2021. Because it's the same Bond, you see.
Funnily, after QOS they somehow preferred to ignore him, he only gets a short mentioning in SP, but they decided to make the late Silva the more important villain. Understandably.
Couldn't you say the same about the likes of Largo, though? Kronsteen & Klebb (in the film)?
You make it seem as if that was the plan all along, when it's blatantly obvious SF was a stand alone Bond film until they had the bright idea to shoehorn a non-existent link between Blofeld and past villains in SP.
The scene where their pictures are blutacked to the wall in MI6 has to be the stupidest in the Craig era.
I agree!
And the fact that they're clearly photos that wouldn't be on file anywhere, merely shots freeze-framed and printed from the films themselves. It's hilarious.
Incredibly. Toss in the fact (that's a little more explainable) that Bond is led to MI6 by two goons, yet has the way painted for him inside with little pictures on display throughout. What if Bond hadn't tried to escape? It would've made the prospect of Blofeld and his guys scurrying about, taping up photos even more ridiculous.
The big difference is that he wasn’t using them to get to his real target like he was with Greene. Once Bond got what he wanted out of Greene he ditched him in the dessert.
Fair point. At least Greene had a tasty last meal! ;)
Suppose Bond had said, "screw it, let the bitch die!", and walked away to grab a BLT and a beer in the nearest night shop. He could have then sat on a bench while the building exploded and said, "yo, Alec, I guess I'll need another Martini to silence this scream."
This would have been so much more farfetched than anything else in the Craig era.
A 24 hour BLT place? Please.
Blofeld obviously had bought the Bond 50 boxset.
That ending sounds much better 😄
I did not make it to seem... And, for the record, I also considered SF a standlone (and still prefer to take it as a standalone), until some genius (Logan? P&W? Mendes?) had the brilliant idea making Silva a SPECTRE agent instead of a former MI6 agent seeking revenge for believing that he had been betrayed by M.
Yepp. But then, in SF the identities of the MI6 agents can be uploaded on YouTube...
That might have worked a tad better, then what we got in the end. And maybe he then should have gone to a Karaoke bar and sing all the past Bond theme songs...
In 1967 one could lock on to satellite imagery from a car to watch another car dropped into an ocean. Technology is so amazing.
When SPECTRE is involved, there are cameras everywhere :-)
As undeniably idiotic as that moment in SPECTRE is, if there was any fictional character who I think could take down a helicopter with a pistol shot, it would be James Bond.
Also, @coloneladamski why would he want to shoot down a helicopter with Madeleine and Mathilde on it?