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One of many possible solutions the creative team could have come up with to solve the nanobots problem; the thing is, what was more important to them was to tell this story, and narratively speaking, the nanobots had to be "eternal" for them to tell the story they wanted to tell.
Wish they had kept it as a biological weapon rather than a technological weapon. Was it because of COVID that they changed this?
Nanobots are microscopical robots that get into the body through the skin or just breathing. But they're an artificial thing. Contrary to regular bio weapons, or plain old regular bacterias and microbes, they just can't replicate. If you get some amount of nanobots at some point, just like a bank account, when you "share" some of them with somebody else, you lose some inside your body. And eventually you'd run out of your stock.
Besides, if they're microscopical, they won't stay in your blood forever. They'll go the way any water from your body eventually goes within weeks, through your kidneys and into urine. Or as sweat.
Then, as nanobots are robots, they need a source of power, unless Obruchev found some way to keep them active forever (and to avoid any filtering from the human body). As Nick just posted, it was just some technobabble way to get Bond cursed forever, as he's a threat to the life of Madeleine and Mathilde.
There are at the moment conspiracy theories about the Covid vaccines featuring 5G microchips that monitor anybody who gets the shot. These are some of the most non-sensical theories possible. First of all, given the state of technology, the size of the smallest chip that can be produced these days, especially if it needs to have some kind of antenna, would be much larger than the diameter of the needle. Then, the microchips would be "eliminated" within weeks just by going to the little boys (or girls) room. And naturally, it would be incredibly contrived and useless to put together such a plan, when you can just monitor mobile phones due to their unique IDs.
I'm getting Fantastic Voyage-Tron-Matrix vibes from this pitch.
Yeah @NickTwentyTwo, in line with that I've got what I call the Charly Gordon approach to film viewing.
Solution:
THAT THAT IS NOT, IS NOT.
IS THAT IT? IT IS!
Biology and technology can be merged, and is. It is a tecnocratic dream to include humanity in this .
Fair enough!
I think she just wanted him out of the house.
My guess is to throw the body into the lake or bury it in the snow — get it out of the house.
Well, she thought he was dead...
Was Bond technically dead for a few seconds in the poison scene in CR? The noise in the background sounded like his heart flatlined. If so, this plus NTTD gives a whole new meaning to “You Only Live Twice!”
Nice of her to let him keep the gun... ;) but as you say, she thought he was dead.
And also Safin keeping the gun is what saved her life.
He is revived with a defibrillator and if I recall my last first aid course correctly, those only work with ventricular fibrillation (at least that's what the internet tells me is the translation of "Kammerflimmern") where the heart muscles just quiver around a bit instead of fully pumping, but aren't totally stopped yet.
The defibrillator de-fibrillates the heart by basically stopping it in the hope that it restarts on it's own and in a working rhythm. I don't know if that counts as being technically dead.
And if I understood all of that correctly, it would actually be a gaffe if we heard or saw a flatline, because that isn't treated with a defib (and a modern defib wouldn't release a shock if it can't measure a shockable rhythm, even if you press the button).
PSA: Do first aid. Go to a course. If you are able to whithout endangering yourself, help people who are hurt or unconcious. If they are not breathing, try to clear their airways, make sure their chin doesn't fall on their chest to keep airways open. Do CPR. Even if you can't/don't want to do mouth-to-mouth, do the chest compressions. The blood still has oxygen in it that needs to reach the brain. As the teacher in my course said: If in doubt, press on them. If they are concious after all, they'll tell you to stop on their own. Screaming means breathing, which is good. If you have a defibrillator available: Use it. The modern things will tell you how to do CPR and measure themselves if a shock is needed or not.
Even if you can't do any of that, call first responders if you find somebody unresponsive and make sure the professionals can get to the person in need as quickly as possible.
I can’t say I see much similarities between the two films, but then again, but I’d need to see NTTD again to confirm that.
He’s on that dingy, and then that huge British (presumably) vessel finds him; the V8 is back in London in Bond’s personal garage.
For clarity: he’s never on a boat with the Aston.
It’s an interesting transition, I like it a lot but some don’t.
I'm of the thought that not everything needs to be over explained (I avoid using the term "fully explained", because I didn't think it was missing any necessary explanation). IMO it was clear enough how it was done; hopefully you'll feel the same way on your second viewing.
The one transition that always trips me up is the Jamaica to Cuba transition.
No problem! And welcome to the forum!
The images in the end I thought looked quite similar, with the water and the tunnels and everything. There's also that thing about killing millions that remind me of Harry Lime's speech in the Ferris wheel.
But it reminds me that in the cheerful cynicism & self-justifying charisma of the villain so memorably portrayed by Orson Welles, we missed out on an actor who might have made a great Bond villain himself.
Auric Goldfinger: Hah. American motorists kill that many every two years.
A very Harry Lime line if there ever was one!
Yeah, he could be a good Le Chiffre, I think.