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Is it Sanchez in LTK? Or maybe Scaramanga? Blofeld turns up pretty quickly in DAF.
I'd say Scaramanga too.
Red Grant appears early in FRWL in the pts as well.
Yes, I concur. It surely has to be Scaramanga.
cut my superfluous papilla off and call me
Bwana if I'm wrong ! ;)
Red Grant's feet are seen earlier, but his face only appears around 25s (from a distance).
I can’t think of any other film that has such an occurrence.
Its the longest time jump so far.
Skyfall has three months (pts to post titles),
NTTD has, I believe, a jump of 5 years.
I cant think of any others where they have a noted time jump.
So GE, DAD and SF all feature this element of time jumps to varying degrees of length. So it's a pretty recent development in Bond films, perhaps indicative of a trend in filmmaking of the last quarter of a century? I don't really know for sure, but it could be.
Honestly, I think Scarpine is one of the worst henchman. First of all: "Scarpine". I get it, "unusual" name. In a film that also features the alien name "Zorin" from planet Zorg. A five-year-old would come up with these ridiculous names.
Secondly, I don't think Bauchau is doing good acting here. I've seen him in smaller parts in other films where he does a lot better. When he first meets Bonds, his line-reading is flat and there's a strange pause at some point during which he seems to be thinking about what else he had to say according to the script. His line-reading is also terribly wooden. Moore keeps looking at him with a smile that seems to hint at either irritation or a prank being cooked in his mind.
Bauchau does a little better during the rest of the movie, though he always moves to the back. He's demoted to the level of thug, albeit the one that Zorin keeps in his inner circle. But he's just a dude in a suit, doing nothing especially different than Zorin's jockeys, girls, engineers. I like the crazy moment when he and Zorin maw down everyone (for absolutely no reason) but even then, he's just the guy next to Zorin. Not that any of this is Bauchau's fault; rather, I'd say he's underused and never lives up to his ominous name (which, I must repeat, is stupid.) The thing with the dynamite is the five-year-old writing the script again. I mean, an evil German with a monocle and a fistful of cartoonish dynamite in a Zepelin is--look, I can't even begin to describe the sheer stupidity of this clownish, childish stuff in my Bond film.
I know this is a matter of taste but I don't think Scarpine looks particularly handsome either. Is he wealthy? I don't know. I guess Zorin takes good care of him.
And Mortner, like I said, looks like the kind of "evil" only a child's mind can come up with. Fleming would've hated these characters, or so I'm inclined to think because I can't presume to know what the master would have thought, of course. ;-) Just to press the issue; this is a film that features a stereotypical French PI named after a vegetable, a monocle-wearing evil German doctor--only the moustache-twirling is lacking--and two blokes with names from a Saturday-morning cartoon. So unfortunately, I cannot join you in your excitement for these guys, but I'm glad you enjoy them, @MakeItWorkforYou! :-)
I hope someone can shed light on this. I've thought about this before and it beggars belief. What am I missing here?
"Is he wealthy" , not compared to his boss but perhaps good for a mill or 2 , thats not peanuts in my eyes. Im sure hes paid a lot more than most security men , the more ruthless the better is good in Zorins mind.
"Fleming would've hated these characters" , thats like saying Presleys career wouldve died in the 80s , its just guessing
They kill the men so they wont report to authorities Zorins evil scheme (Howe prolly in Zorins pocket though so he will deny Zorin up to no good) , they cannot be sure the flooding will kill all the men
"Dance into the fire" , refers maybe both to Zorins madness as well as City Hall fire and hints that perhaps this time Bond has met his match
The subject of when Vesper 'turns' has been debated at length before, because it's not entirely clear. There seems to be evidence that she is corrupt from the start, and other evidence seems to suggest she 'turns' after the torture scene when Mr White arrives.
What? I've never heard this. Why do some people think Vesper turns only when Mr White arrives? Do they also think Mathis is a traitor? Because he would have to be in this scenario.
Things get more complicated when Bond buys back in via other methods, wins, and she starts to fall for him. Hence the deal to hand over the money, and knowing “she was going to her death”.
This is probably the best explanation.
Yes indeed, it has been talked before! I think no matter how you look at it, it doesn't make sense! :D My take is that maybe his gun was loaded with real bullets, but he shot to the left side of Alec's head - making it look like he shot at his head to Bond. But even if that's right, when did they come to their little agreement? In the couple of seconds that Alec is out of Bond's sight? Otherwise, if they both want Bond to die, why didn't Alec just shoot him the second he saw him?
I guess it being a private arrangement between Alec and Ouromov (and not between Alec and the Russian Army- so he wanted to avoid them) kind of explains it... but not really :D
I guess it's up there with 'how come Bond keeps going down under that dam to get into the Russian complex but ends up on top of a cliff?' :D