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Bond's Best Kill?

The_Preacher711The_Preacher711
edited May 2011 in Bond Movies Posts: 139
Another question for the Community, spawned (as always) by a Bond-geek chat on the train ride to work.....

What's you favourite kill carried out by Mr Bond?

For me, it's a tie between Stromberg in TSWLM & Locque in FYEO.

Both for the same reason- very seriously done, and for Moore's Bond excessively brutal.

You?
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  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
    Posts: 7,582
    Cripes, that one will take some considering. Time to start going through each film in my head...
  • Jazz007Jazz007 Minnesota
    Posts: 257
    Dent in DN.... Sanchez in LTK.... Locque in FYEO.... Stromberg in TSWLM.... Drax in MR....
  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
    Posts: 7,582
    Red Grant. His best fight against a worthy adversary.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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  • dragonskydragonsky
    Posts: 2,491
    i agree with @NicNac
  • j7wildj7wild Suspended
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    Dent comes to mind right away although it's not as good as Red Grant.

    Why Dent?

    It was the first Bond movie my Dad took me to see in 1969, when I was 4, in Rome Italy, they were having a Bond marathon: DN, GF and FRWL.

    I still remember seeing those 3 films, one per day over 3 days.

    My memories of those 3 films from that 3 days marathon will always be:

    for DN, not Honey Ryder but Bond shooting Dent a 2nd time when he was down already and the Tarantula scene.

    for GF, not the naked Gold Woman but the hat throwing bad guy, that scared me

    for FRWL, not the girl fight scene but the fight scene on the train and someone getting shot coming out of a girl's mouth and the cool attache case

    strange the things you remember from your youth.

    Thank You, Dad for introducing me to the Bond movies!

    :*
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    Professor Dent, Red Grant, Locque and Sanchez I think are my favourites.
  • LudsLuds MIA
    Posts: 1,986
    I'll admit Oddjob's kill is pretty cool, and has been a favourite since I first saw it.
  • Jazz007Jazz007 Minnesota
    Posts: 257
    @Luds Good call on Oddjob, that would definitely be one of my top picks for best kill - I can't believe I forgot that one!

    http://screenmusings.org/Goldfinger/pages/Gf_784.htm
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited May 2011 Posts: 11,189
    I do rather like Bond's killing of Carver in TND - in terms of sheer gruesomeness.

    Also there's the one in CR where Bond attaches the bomb to the terrorist's trousers at the airport. That is so...badass - and Craig's grin is the icing on the cake :)
  • Alan007Alan007
    Posts: 406
    Dent, and Elecktra. Really like those two, also the man in the PTS in GF shocking, postively shocking
  • chuck007chuck007
    Posts: 172
    Fisher (CR) : cruel and dramatic killing

    and Onatopp (GE) :smarts killing and very cheesy
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
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    I think all of Daniel Craig's kills have been fairly impressive, you really get the sense that each one deeply effects Bond in a way that none of the other actors have managed to convey, but the best kill for me is when he shoots Mitchell in QOS , the adversary is a worthy victim, the kill itself is an impressive edge of your seat situation and he uses his trusty Walther PPK in a classic Bond one shot kill.
    Honorable mentions go to Dents death, Locque's fall and Dr Kaufman's 'assisted suicide' in TND.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,183
    Remains Dent for me. Clean, ruthless shot, beautifully concluded by Bond as he blows the silencer clean. Stoically prepared and executed - perfect!
  • JBFan626JBFan626
    Posts: 1,497
    Fisher and Dryden in CR: The intensity of this whole sequence is unmatched
  • The_ReaperThe_Reaper
    Posts: 1,092
    I like the TB one where Connery shots the guy with the harpoon gun. "I think he got the point." Freaking awesome delivery, great, shocking kill. And Odd Job, Red Grant, Locque, Dent. Man, Connery had the best ones overall, I think. Lot of good ones.
  • MoonrakerMoonraker
    Posts: 60
    Kanaga "inflating" to death, because it's so realistic ;))
  • bekkibondbekkibond
    Posts: 15
    I am with Darth Dimi, the killing of Professor Dent is the result of a beautifully laid trap
    'That's a Smith & Wesson 45. And you've had your six.' Simple statement of fact before a cold kill
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    edited May 2011 Posts: 2,629
    Let's review them all:

    DN: Professor Dent
    FRWL: Red Grant
    GF: Oddjob
    TB: Vargas
    YOLT: Fake Samuari in training scene
    OHMSS: Blofeld's Skiier that goes over
    DAF: Peter Franks
    LALD: Kananga
    TMWTGG: Scaramanga
    TSWLM: Anya's Boyfriend
    MR: Chang
    FYEO: Locque
    OP: Mischka and Grischka
    AVTAK: Zorin
    TLD: Necros
    LTK: Sanchez
    GE: 006
    TND: Kauffman
    TWINE: Electra
    DAD: Let's say Zao
    CR: Dryden
    QOS: Mitchell

    Sanchez's death is my personal favorite.
  • AgentJamesBond007AgentJamesBond007 Vesper’s grave
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    The man on the other side of the gunbarrel *hehehe* :-))
  • jaguar007jaguar007
    Posts: 638
    Technically Bond did not kill Fiona Volpe, but the way he turned her so she was killed is one of my favorites.

    For one that Bond actually killed, from the same movie the death of Vargas.
  • Whitaker1987Whitaker1987
    Posts: 172
    I did like how 007 despatched Whitaker. I mean if it weren't for the key ring would he have just pushed the statue onto Whitaker? should have been a longer scene anyway.

    Locque & Red Grant were also classic not OTT deaths like Kananga's.

  • Seamaster007Seamaster007
    edited May 2011 Posts: 14
    I know it's silly but I LOVE the duel with Scaramanga. It builds suspense, and having Bond up against a character who resembles him in several aspects makes it all the more interesting to watch. The cleverness of it all (Scaramanga with his little funhouse, Bond swapping clothes with the mannequin, it ending with just 1 well placed shot) enhanced it as well.

    Also just the terrific weirdness of that whole climax - Scaramanga's island, the 70's-ness of it, Nic Nac, and the black guy they had keeping watch over the liquid nitrogen tanks who was hitting on Goodnight - where the hell did he come from?
  • H007MERH007MER
    Posts: 136
    I like the way Craig's Bond dispatches his villains in Casino Royale. The smile after the bomber explodes off-screen was priceless and the pat on the cheek he gave to Dimitrios was fantastically cold-blooded too. As far as the classics go I concur with those who mentioned Connery offing Dent.
  • connerybondconnerybond
    Posts: 163
    Red Grant any day. Still remember the day when I watched the first release of FRWL in early 1960s.
  • forgotmyusernameforgotmyusername
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    Oddjob, Grant and the best - the creepy crawly in Dr.No - nice bit of slipper action.
  • MoonrakerMoonraker
    Posts: 60
    How about in "Moonraker" when Bond throws a knife at a would be assassin? The assassin falls into a coffin, and then some chronic smoker tosses a cigarette butt at the coffin as it floats away! That's one of many great touches in that epic gondola scene! :-j
  • gregdaultongregdaulton
    Posts: 49
    This is a hard one:

    Loque from FYEO
    TeeHee in LALD
    Red Grant from FRWL
    Dr. No
    Sanchez in LTK
    Anything from OHMSS
    006 from GE
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,183
    How about in "Moonraker" when Bond throws a knife at a would be assassin? The assassin falls into a coffin, and then some chronic smoker tosses a cigarette butt at the coffin as it floats away! That's one of many great touches in that epic gondola scene! :-j
    I must admit I've never liked that scene. It presents a moment in the film where my mind tells me I should laugh and yet I'm unable to. The attempts are there, but they don't quite connect. Then again, I'm hard to please in the comedy department, taking things way too seriously at times. Either way, MR has a lot going for it, but the attempted comedy sometimes bugs me. The circus drop, the pigeon/gondola moments, the monastery kung-fu... Nope, not for me. Hence, the coffin kill strikes me as both unimportant and unimpressive. Never have I felt Bond to be in any danger at all and neither was I convinced of the other man's professionalism. Therefore I wasn't, in a word, scared. Grant feels like a threat, Bond killing him feels like a challenge, like the odds weren't entirely in his favour. Tension was built, and the fatal strike was original and powerful. The gondola scene, I'm sorry to say, didn't come close. But hey, just IMHO. :)

  • MoonrakerMoonraker
    Posts: 60
    The "Gondola Scene" no doubt is polarizing, as are many elements in the Bond series. Your opinion is fine by me. :-D
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