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.... and it may also serve to distance us as viewers from that unfortunate 'Bro-feld' business just one movie back. As does the line, "thank God you're not really related" (or similar), as spoken by Q earlier in NTTD.
It also reminds me of the line, "I got a brudder," as congenially spoken to Bond by one of the thugs in DAF, though that can't have been intended ...
She is really Blofeld s .
Because if you're the mother of a child then you'll do anything to protect that child, especially from an absent father of five years who also happens to bring trouble to your door and has a habit of being a heartbreaker.
That's just my take on it.
... and he would have had no moral (or legal?) ground to stand on.
"You kicked me out of your life five years ago, you bastard! And now you just show up and want to pretend that we're one happy family!? Go f*** yourself!"
That might have been my reaction. Madeleine doesn't actually play it that way, of course (she's too cool & still loves Bond), but my take is that she was establishing right away that Bond has no moral claim to their child, one that she had raised alone.
Of course, she never does unambiguously acknowledge that Madeleine is his child. But that's probably not how we understand her final words to Bond, "She does have your eyes."
Either:
Safin does, and then somehow makes it all the way down the stairs and into the garden to shoot Bond, who hadnt made it that far away.
...or...
Bond’s random flipping of the switches, and not waiting for Q’s correct method, caused them to only open temporarily and not permanently. So Bond is more responsible for his fate.
I appreciate it is probably the first one, but the second is more interesting.
I found him a tad out of place in this movie, seeing how they're playing him as a fairly cartoonish, moustache-twirling evil scientist. Luckily, he's still lightyears removed from the insulting caricature of Dr Mortner. He does have a few funny moments, and it helps that he's briefly paired with the lovely Paloma. Other than that, the serious tone of this movie is such that there's very little room for one single character to pull all the silly jokes towards him. Reminds me of the Q scenes in LTK, which I also consider out of place.
I thought because they were blast doors, they're only set to stay open for a short window of time.
Of course with the intention of them staying open, but isn't it possible he didn't fully understand how they worked?
He knew how to open them quickly, but I don't think him being surprised by them closing means that Safin closed them (if this is what happened I think they would have showed it), or that Bond messed up when he opened them.
If anything I think the latter explanation is more likely.
Either way, any explanation works here: Safin closed them, Bond opened them 'wrong' causing them to close early, or these particular blast doors are only meant to be open for a short time. Narratively speaking, all that matters, is that Bond opens them and then is surprised that they begin to close before he's escaped.
I appreciate he may be busy with the approaching buyers but at no point does he instruct his team to “hunt them down and kill them” (them being Bond and Nomi).
Or a motorcycle... Because the writer's wanted to show the Aston Martin a bit longer and this way it looks like Nomi is helping a bit more. It doesn't make sense storywise but looks good on the screen.
I don't know, he got lost ... haha?
Also, I think her line of dialogue is "She's not yours." Which on the face of it means "you are not the biological father" but also means "I don't expect you to take care of her" or going even further "she is not yours to control or decide over. Don't pull her into your life."
It's impossible to know what Madeleine at that point thinks the future of their relationship could be. She has to think there is at least a possibility of it going the way her parent's relationship went. Her mother and her locked away in the cabin while Mr. White is out on missions until his deeds come home to haunt them. So she is apprehensive. Also, he shoved her aside pretty cold-heartedly once before.
On the other hand, she obviously loves him and wants to test the waters a little bit in what she thinks to be a safe space.
Going off of that: Why does Safin go after M&M? She more or less did as he asked. Blofeld is dead because of her. I think it would be reasonable to assume that Bond at least would cease his pursuit of him (arguably at that point he doesn't even pursue Safin at all) and he could do as he pleases on his little island. MI6 would probably have sent Nomi at some point, but the abduction makes it a much more urgent problem and given how close the timing at the end there is, I think Safin would have easily been able to sell his weapon before MI6 got a mission off the ground. Safin of course doesn't know this, but Q didn't even have time to change out of his pyjamas, that's how slapdash of an operation that whole thing is in the end. I would bet they would have been a bit slower in their response had their not been a literal kidnapping involved.
Safin is infatuated with her. He loves her. He says so to Bond directly. I dont think he has much interest in Mathilde beyond a bargaining chip to get rid of Bond (again, an offer he makes him) and hence why he easily lets her run off.
Almost definitely a continuity error, but the best "explanation" I can offer is that because of Madeleine's trauma, she lies to Bond in SP about what happened to her mom saying it was just a divorce. At that point she didn't know him that well yet.
Thank you @FoxRox, thought it was probably an error but just wanted to see if was missing something - I like your "explanation" though!
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