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We know what happens in the scene, it's just that no normal person would find that funny in that circumstance! :) Which is fine when Bond says that sort of thing to himself, but Tracy isn't quite the hardened psycho that he is :D
I don't think Tracy was going to shed many tears over an incompetent homicidal Spectre henchman getting his just desserts, especially when he was trying to kill her as well as Bond. So she probably wouldn't be offended by Bond making light of his death. Maybe she would have been amused by her potential killer getting killed instead. Had it been an innocent person who got killed, Bond's remark would have come off as plain nasty (the way Blofeld's remarks about Campbell are), but in a Bond film a Spectre henchman is a lower form of life. I can see why some might dislike Lazenby's delivery, since it's the opposite of throwaway, but he's shouting the line to someone else while skiing, so subtlety wasn't an option.
I never thought of it this way - I think it's not too much of a stretch to imagine Tracy appreciating that kind of humour considering her upbringing, her personality, and her state of mind when we first meet her. She's certainly not a normal person, anyway!
On a sidenote, I always liked:
They'll print anything these days.
Normal people don't think like that, no. Shock and horror would be the reaction, no matter who it happens to.
I know she's the daughter of a gangster, but by all appearances he's kept her out of all that.
Yikes: OHMSS has suddenly become the tale of two psychos! :D
I think it's got competition.. I'd put TMWTGG up there (I love the 'hold your piece' line), DAF has some lovely lines, MR at times (although some of them get a bit naff)... and actually NSNA is pretty witty too! "You're all wet!" "But my martini is still dry" is up there on my list of top Bond lines I think, and possibly the suavest thing he's ever said! :)
Cracking a joke whenever you kill someone sure is an unusual reaction, but I don't understand why OHMSS is different to all the other films in that regard?
But i think Moore's "What a helpful chap..!" from TSWLM is a personal favourite.
Well as I said, it's a much more gruesome death than he usually deals with, he makes a joke that draws attention to the fact that the guy's insides have been turned inside out and sprayed everywhere, and he's making the joke to someone who has never hurt a fly. I would say that it's a bit worse than something like him pinning Vargas to a tree, because although that's undeniably shocking for Domino, it's a pretty clean death and weirdly his joke could even reassure her that he's got everything under control (although there's a danger of thinking he's a dick! :D ). In the OHMSS gag all he's doing is saying 'That guy just died horribly! Lol' which is maybe not the most sensitive and supportive reaction to your girlfriend having to witness a man getting blended ;)
I think it's more, "the guy who was trying to kill us got killed instead, and how!" Humor in the early Bond films was not just puns for puns sake but a way of calming audiences after especially violent action ("shocking, positively shocking"). Gallows humor is how people deal with potentially traumatic material. I've seen OHMSS in the theater twice, and the "guts" line got a good laugh out of the audience both times.
Happy to read that. They were my 2 favorite nominees from that list. Also, each of them constitute 1/3 of 2 of my favorite female triads from series, i.e. Volpe/Domino/Paula from TB and Solange/Vesper/Ocean Club Receptionist from CR.
"Mind if my partner sits this one out...she's just dead" and "I think he got the point" from TB are my 2 favorites here. While I prefer Volpe to Vargas in the villainy department I case my vote for "I think he got the point" since it is so direct and indeed to the point.
Please excuse me but it seems a certain @Max_The_Parrot is hell bent on avenging no Roger nominees. I shall fly off for a bit as I don't think we need a bird fight! LOL!
Strangely, the "she's just dead" line never had an effect on me. My mom liked that one and pointed it out when I was still rather little and the irony never caught me then and it still hasn't the way other certain others have as I've gotten older - like every other joke in DAF. Connery gives it a weird delivery and puts an emphasis on "just" rather than "dead."
Shocking, positively shocking is another classic, as is the DN line.
"Yes, considerably" doesn't seem like a quip so much as sarcasm, less jokey than the others and somehow qualifies differently in that sense.
Yeah it’s never been my favourite mostly because.. well it’s not really a common phrase, is it? You don’t really say someone’s ‘dead’. I thought Arnie improved on this one in Commando when he said the guy sat next to him on the plane was ‘dead tired’. That’s a more common figure of speech! :)
Not sarcasm, surely? He actually means it! :)
I guess generally we’re looking for puns :)
Where's Drax?
Oh he had to fly
Pure Bond class
The rest of the voting shows the following:
A member of our esteemed academy had put forth a category for a Bondie and Ihad neglected putting it forward. I hope @R1s1ngs0n can forgive this bird brain for not putting this up sooner! We've voted on best song, but lets look at the lyrics of the songs and award a Bondie to best lyrics in a song!
The nominees:
Lets hear it from the songbirds on the academy. What song has the best lyrics?
Yes, agreed.
My favourite song of the series. Beautiful lyrics.