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Against M's insistence that Operation Bedlam was dead, he took the initiative in contacting Sir Hillary Bray and the school of heraldry, sought out M at his home, and eventually went against M's orders again with Draco and the "demolition deal."
Disagree with the thesis.
<font color=blue size=7><b>It is unclear whether Ourumov was the one who disguised himself as the admiral or not.</b></font>
Agreed. When I read the GE novelization, I thought it was 006.
Agree. Although I think..
It's not him. When he exists the helicopter at Severnaya, there's barely enough room for him to sit, let alone change out of a disguise. He simply covered his military uniform with the pilot's uniform, which he could have managed off in the chopper.
But he could have just as easily slipped away from the ceremony, taken off the disguise, and waited for Onatopp to kill the pilots and slip on the uniform over his military wear.
Agree. You know Onatopp is one of the pilots, but there is no suggestion that Ourumov is the other.
Agree. Although I've always thought he was the most likely candidate, considering the admiral's age and body shape. But it's definitely unclear as to who it actually is.
Agreed with thesis. I thought he was picked up before they went to Severnaya.
<font color=blue size=7><b>It is never implied that Bond and Paula ever did the nasty in TB.</b></font>
Agree with thesis, as far as I'm concerned their relationship was strictly professional.
While it was never implied, I always assumed that they did. In the scene on the boat she seemed flirtatious; after her death Bond reacted in a similar way to Jill Masterson's death.
It's never implied, but is easily assumed. I mean, with Bond's reputation for the ladies and a beautiful woman he's working closely with who seems interested in him...
TB would have been an extremely virile film then, with no less than four girls bedded by Bond. ;-)
No reason to disagree with this thesis, so i wont! Agree!
Did the nasty?, but I don't think Connery had reached Moore levels of escapades with the women by 1965, so thesis seems accurate. I'll be doing 'the nasty' myself immediately after this..
<font color=blue size=7><b>It makes no sense for Bond to fire torpedoes at the Cigar Girl's boat, only to beg her not to blow herself up a minute later.</b></font>
I think he jumped onto the balloon in a moment of madness, the adrenaline was flowin through him, he didn't think it through.
He didn't have a plan once he was on there, when she was going to blow up the balloon, he didn't plan to roll down the dome and *just* grab on. From where he was standing, it would've looked like he was facing death, so I think he was spouting all that stuff about protection because he was desperately trying to save himself.
So I disagree because in a way, it does make sense. But wether that was on purpose though or whether the script writers didn't think it through, I'm not sure.
Would say disagree. Thelivingroyale pretty much sums it up really.
Disagree
@theLivingRoyale hit the nail on the head on that one.
I disagree with thesis and also agree with TLR on this one. Bond seemed more intent on stop and capture before kill. I don't think he had much of a choice in firing the torpedoes at that point, and probably hoped she tried to escape which she did. If he'd killed her, he would have gotten an earful from M just like Craig's rookie Bond has gotten for the same sort of thing.
<font color=blue size=7><b>From the novel YOLT and the novel / movie CR, it can be deduced that Bond considers suicide cowardly.</b></font>
Although in the novel MR Bond is quite prepared to blow himself up to save Blighty. But then I suppose that can be considered self sacrifice in the service of the country but nonetheless it is an heroic suicide so therefore contradicts the thesis. But in general I would agree.
<font color=blue size=7><b>Arnold scored Jinx' and Bond's rise from the sea (DAD - CR) with unnecessary drama.</b></font>