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A tarantula has a much greater impact on the audience. Size matters on screen, that's just the way it is. And most people are able to look past the fact that they are technically not deadly.
I suppose the scene in LALD where a snake is released to try and kill Bond suffers from the same problem as the DN scene, imo, in that the use of some animal as a means to kill just seems, well, a bit childish. It just seems incredibly cliched.
Even the most realistic Bond has fantasist elements, and it's an inaccuracy like there are in many genre movies or stories, but takes nothing away from the scene. Deadly poisonous spider is sent in Bond's bedroom, his gun can't help, his fighting skills can't help him, he's in a very vulnerable position and facing a potential horrible death. It works very well for me.
Oh and a black widow's bite is not lethal either. So either way they would have been inaccurate. What matter is that in the movie it is lethal.
:D
In the book of Doctor No, he uses a giant poisonous centipede, maybe the filmmakers thought a big hairy bastard spider was scarier, a lot of people have an irrational fear of spiders, including Connery the big wuss who insisted on the glass plate between him and the offending arachnid!
Not without CGIs. Which would irate a lot of people. I always wondered what would have happened had Ray Harryhausen done it.
There would have had... But with another Harryhausen monster made up and added up to the story for the sake of it. And maybe with a different Bond actor. Actually, DN would have been filled with critters: giant crabs, a tarantula in stop motion, etc.
You could say he was trying to...Get...a...grip! ;)
I don't get why so many people despise that space sequence. It has high production value, very good special effects and is simply fun to watch.
And why should an agent not enter a space shuttle? I've seen dumber things in movies like falling out an airplane and open the parachute 1 second before impact and having no scratch whatsoever.
They way it was depicted in the movie. NOPE
Again, James Bond and Camille not only deploy one parachute for both of them, but they do so two feet off the ground and while rolling through the air, a move which would be certain to kill them both in real life. But they're perfectly unharmed.
One of the most ridiculous parachute scenes I've ever seen in a movie.
He does? @thunderfinger
I do too. :)