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So an interaction with commoners can serve as a reality check for both Bond and the audience. A confrontation feeding good storytelling hopefully.
Plenty doesn’t know anyone involved, does she?
Eh... no. It´s Sam, a Casablanca reference.
Yeah, I always thought it was a (borderline racist) pun on that line. 'San' because he's Japanese (it's kind of the equivalent of 'Mr' in Japanese) and it sounds a bit like 'Sam' which is the name in the Casablanca line. Bond tends to go in for puns when he kills people! :)
Maybe I'm wrong but it sounds like 'San' to me.
Aha. You have just hit upon the main reason I am looking into this. I am working on a paper about functionalism. :)
A good example of this is the conversation with the young taxi driver in the novel of Thunderball. Bond proves that he's able to relate to a working class youth.
Then you might wish to include hotel staff as his treatment of them varies and in some cases is outright mean. Think of how he treats the bellhop in MR. Or the way he grabs the keys of the woman in GF and pulls her to the door. But then in films like FRWL the bellhop is impressed by the tip given. We don't see this side of the character in the recent films.
True.
Precisely. DC's Bond is known for his polite "thank yous" at every opportunity.
"Hey, oh That's that's Mr. Golfinger's suite".
"Yes, I know. You are very sweet."
From Russia with Love scene
"Anything else sir?"
"No just this"
"Thank you sir!"
Bellhops are not a thing in the hotels I frequent. But I think the tip he gives in FRWL is so damn cool.
You know it is a big tip when the Bond Theme starts playing! ;)
In QoS he does (generously it would seem) tip the bellhop in the hotel in Bolivia, and in CR he does tip the poker dealer at the end.
I read that it was one of Cubby's rules that Bond would never put the public in danger. That was my only gripe with SP's PTS.
That's one rule that has certainly been broken time an again over the series' run, even when he was in power.
It seems like in SP he was putting in a great deal of effort to keep the public out of danger. Sciarra was planning to kill everyone in the stadium, and Bond pursued him to stop him to every extent he could.
Not sure trying to hijack a helicopter whilst it's spiralling out of control over a crowd of thousands really qualifies as keeping the public out of danger.
But then you look at something like the Eiffel Tower car chase in AVTAK: he jumps his car over a coach filled with people! Plus he barely misses quite a few pedestrians as well as actually crashing into someone else's car: he could have killed quite a lot of people! :)
I guess I find QoS a bit worse because innocent people actually do get hurt and we see it, unlike in Spectre or AVTAK where they just sort of are magically protected :)
Yes! This scene has always annoyed me too, because it's so completely unnecessary and dangerous. I know it's supposed to be funny but it just doesn't work for me at all.
Yes! I do remember watching that at the time and thinking it was a bit out of character for Bond.
I'm glad they chopped out the scene where he went and inspected the damage and joked "I left the keys in the car" because that would have made it even worse, like he finds it funny that he nearly killed the people who work in the shop and destroyed their business(!).
Exactly. It's a fine line. Bond has so many skills and can presumably control any situation--but the crumbling building and the helicopter spiraling out of control were two steps too far for me.
I kinda get the crumbling building as a quick way of getting Bond down to ground level, but again that could've been handled better (and cheaper) by having him either make his way down a fire escape quickly, or giving him a repelling device to get down the side of the building quickly.
But the sofa gag is one of the best laughs in it! :)
His mission was to kill Sciarra, and that led him into the helicopter. Was he meant to just let the Spectre pilot do what he wanted with Bond in the chopper?
Yes, people in the streets were in danger, but Bond wasn't arbitrarily putting them in danger himself.
I don't think his job is to ever "keep the public out of immediate danger at all times"... the public will be in danger around Bond, due to the nature of his work. His job is to think and act less in the short term, and more in the long term. Sometimes Bond's job brings him in the realm of the public, and there is always danger involved. It's an occupational hazard.
Anyways, this is all off topic.
I found that rather jarring in QOS was that clearly some police officers died in that car chase in the PTS.
For sure, DC's Bond seems to have more of a track record of recklessness, with innocent civilians placed in danger: the Mollaka chase in CR, the forementioned PTS scenes in QoS and SF. There was also potential for casualties in Mexico City. With CR and SP, at least, Bond was reprimanded by M.