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It was exactly on par with what the part required. Nothing more, nothing less.
Okay on to another category! This one comes to us from @NickTwentyTwo who has created the following category...Best and most dangerous Villainous Plot (taking into account Plausibility and Greatest Effect)
Here are your nominees:
Obviously all have holes and would be difficult to pull off, but for the sake of some fun lets just think and reflect on this villains and their dastardly plans! Time for the academy to vote!
Thunderball: Stealing nuclear warheads, holding the world ransom. with GF's plot a close 2nd.
However I think my favorite is the unnominated OP Cold War-era one where a nuclear bomb "accidentally" explodes on a US military base in West Germany in the hopes of total disarmament by the West resulting in a Soviet Russian invasion led by my accomplice in crime General Orlov.
The other ones are all a bit dull, aren't they? Just ransoms or thefts, not even hugely inventively.
QoS's plot is actually quite realistic as well. There are quite a few islands on which water is supplied by one private company..
Ooh yeah, good call. I regret at the time I thought it was a bit silly and far-fetched, but the older I get the more I realise how truthful it was, and barely even in a satirical way. As you say, it has happened before, and the amount of power someone like Murdoch wields, placing Prime Ministers and Presidents in power, is terrifying. It seemed somehow petty in the film, that he's doing it to expand his media empire, but it's actually a great depiction of who the real Bond villains are right now.
Yeah, that's another good, solid clever plan. And also: James and all of the main cast are right next to the bomb too- it's way tenser than Thunderball!
I'd easily put Octopussy and Tomorrow Never Dies above most of those nominated. What's interesting about GoldenEye? It's just computer hacking to steal money.
Octopussy was such a good plot of course that Frederick Forsyth nicked it for The Fourth Protocol! :D
Well, the novel came out the year after the film, but the plots are so similar it's hard not to wonder if the writers were at least talking to each other.
I'll also echo the appreciation for Tomorrow Never Dies. I know it could be argued that it's diluted by the bullets and explosions but Carver's scheme is certainly a standout in comparison with the norm.
I don't have a problem with the others listed - a simple plot can be extremely entertaining, but I'll certainly give bonus points for originality.
Since this category wasn't created by me I shall weigh in with a vote! Of all the nominees I will go with Goldfinger's plot. As Bond himself said "It's an inspired deal". Course breaking into the worlds largest bank wasn't going to be a walk in the park.
I also like TB plot but I agree with @mtm that we never really feel any danger for anybody. We never get a countdown or anything to suggest that a bomb going off is imminent. Also why Miami Beach? Because it allows for the underwater action. They blackmail Britain but threaten a US city? Or did England get the tape and it was also delivered to the President of the USA?
So TB for me please.
Second choice is GF, a very clever idea, although someone did point out here recently that economically the plan doesn’t work.
Yeah the lack of a countdown is weird, isn't it? Why else do you have a bomb as a threat?
"Just what his Service and all the other intelligence services in the world had been expecting to happen. The anonymous little man in the raincoat with a heavy suitcase---or golf bag, if you like. The left luggage office, the parked car, the clump of bushes in a park in the center of a big town. And there was no answer to it...And this was the first blackmail case. Unless SPECTRE was stopped, the word would get round and soon every criminal scientist with a chemical set and some scrap iron would be doing it. If they couldn't be stopped in time there would be nothing for it but to pay up."
There is no ticking bomb scenario because finding the bomb in situ will be impossible. Your only chance is to catch the bomb maker before he strikes, and this time he's not with the Soviets or an enemy country. He's part of a private entity with the power to bring governments to its knees. This type of nuclear proliferation was one of the great nightmares of the Cold War. And it could be the nightmare of our future--what happens if a state like Pakistan loses control of its arsenal? What future SPECTRE will swoop in to create global instability and threaten global panic? In Thunderball urgency is provided by keeping the viewer informed of the looming deadline as Bond and Leiter struggle to determine the bomb's location. In the book Fleming makes it clear that if Largo is not stopped during the underwater battle he'll hide the bombs, so it's now or never (the film does not convey as much urgency). TB might not be the most dramatic villain's plot, but conceptually it's the best, in my book at least.
And the plan is just: 'ransom'. As mentioned above, it's not as clever or calculating as the plans in OP or FRWL.
Among the nominees, it's clearly GE for me, followed by GF.