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I remember some posters and electoral propaganda when Ishtmus City is first shown: "¡Vote López, Su Presidente!". I may be wrong though. I'll took a closer look.
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. looks a bit like Juan Valdez, here :)
By the way, welcome back @mattjoes!
Interesting, I’ve never even thought it was the dummy’s gun he fired. I’ve always just assumed that Bond is firing his own gun - I know he dropped it on the scaffolding I assumed he picked it up again at the bottom. Having said any other alternative explanation has never crossed my mind in all the years I’ve watched it, so I’d be interested to see what other people say!
Scaramanga may "only need one shot", but he's still a villain to the core.
I see it like @Max_The_Parrot. I always believed it was the gun Bond dropped before and never thought about another possibility.
Cause Scarmanga is crazy!!! While he was practicing in his fun house he probably wanted it to feel as real as possible so he put a loaded un in the mannequins hand. Or Bond had an extra clip in his pocket that he didn't tell Scaramanga or Nick Nat about. But you would think Scaramanga would search him before the duel.
Question is did Bond knew solitaire would try and hit him so he can get away? Or was Solitaire actually mad at Bond for getting captured and tried to hit cause she was angry?
I agree but did Solitaire know it would only be Bond that would be able to get away? Did she think she would escape too?
I always thought Bond is helluva fast or Scaramanga a bit slow: he has time to :
1 - Find and take the gun from the scaffolding, which looks quite high and moreover would be pitch black at its very bottom (YMMV: maybe he really took the gun from the mannequin).
2 - Take a dummy, hide it, undress it, put on its tuxedo in a way that perfectly fits him, take its exact pose, don't even flinch (the heart rate control alluded on DAD came in handy there, I guess), rotate, aim and shoot. That's Bond for you, Paquito.
Oh and in between all that he has to climb down the scaffolding and retrieve his gun, or take the gun from the mannequin when he take the tie and jacket.
TMWTGG is a fantastical movie and I enjoy it. So I shan't nitpick here. But I do wonder if the gun was in the mannequin or whether it was Bond's pistol. :)
TMWTGG is my second or third fav Bond flick, so I completely share your opinions.
I do prefer to think the gun came with the dummy, myself. Makes Scaramanga more interesting and clever. A cheat, as well, but he's the villain, so no problem there.
In Goldeneye, what the hell is going on in the pre-titles sequence? Is Alec already a bad guy and pretending to be captured/killed? If so, did he arrange for MI6 to send him and 007 to Ouromov? And why do a fake death for the benefit of 007, who is presumably going to be killed? And why does 006's face get messed up? If he wasn't a bad guy, did Ouromov somehow screw up shooting him at point blank range, and then 006 became Ouromov's boss in a new crime syndicate?
It's pretty bewildering, even if it remains a good sequence (as long as I shut my brain off)
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The other one is from Casino Royale, and I have to assume I'm just being dense.
Why does Le Chiffre torture Bond?
What can he do with Bond's PIN? Go to the banker and say, "Hey, I'm not Bond, but can I enter the PIN instead of him?" And then send the money to the account Vesper provided anyway? Wouldn't it be more fruitful to ask Vesper (who is probably more cooperative) to change the account, and let Bond think everything is going normally? What was Le Chiffre's plan here?
Not a terrible point regarding CR, but maybe with Bonds password Le Chiffre could change accounts or do a myriad other things. Also, everything could ostensibly be accessed online, so with Bonds password, le chiffre could log in as Bond online and do whatever he likes with the winnings.
So the shooting was staged for Bond, and then they were going to kill Bond. Odd, but I guess it's one of those YOLT-type things. :-D
But isn't the PIN just for the one-time transfer to the actual bank account?
With Casino Royale, you may have a point, but as with most things of this nature, the speculation doesn’t take me out of the film until someone brings it up on the boards. To your credit, I think you’re correct. But, given that Vesper was working for Quantum under coercion, she likely would have nominated a Quantum bank account for the funds.
In Venice, Vesper withdraws the money from an account seemingly no one knows about except for the basel banker, and hands the money physically over to Gettler. Not sure exactly how it would work, but given Vespers true alliance, it’s likely Le Chiffre could have done more with just the password than Bond could have percepted.
Why do a fake death? Because Alec knows how 007 works. He knows Bond will escape the place. If Bond doesnt its just a added bonus he is killed.
Alecs face was burned cause Bond set the timers for 3 mins. Alec was expecting it to remain at 6.
Exactly. Interesting though that Alec knows Bond enough to know he'll escape, but not well enough to know he'd change the timers.