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On to another theory about our favourite secret agent.
Lets dive back to FRWL, a great film and one scene jumps out at me. Bond gets Tatiana to give up the secrets of the LECTOR. The tape is played for M and various government officials. At one point Bond starts to relay a story of a time when M and him got into mischief in Tokyo.
I wonder what is your theory behind the story? Is Bond making this up to impress Tatiana about his hijinks? Or did M and Bond really have a wild time in Tokyo?
What is your theory did Bond and M really have a wild time in Tokyo once?
Well said, agreed.
Of course they did. Bond also had some fun times with the Minister of Defence. I understand Amazon is preparing a spinoff film about that. It's called FIFTY SHADES OF GRAY. They're Keen to start filming.
"You've hardly distinguished yourself, have you? You were supposed to record Miss Romanova, not discuss what I do in my own time. And that experience in Tokyo was certainly a one-off. What do you know about prostitutes? Not cheap, high class."
"I know one when I see one."
"Meet me here at 7:00. Black tie."
M seized the opportunity to visit the Daimyo Clock Museum (大名時計博物館) for its display of Japanese clocks from the Edo period. Then a circuit through lepidoptera viewing locations at the Tama Zoological Park Insectopia, the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno Park, and the Fabre Insect Museum. Rounding out the series at the University Museum of the University of Tokyo for its extensive collection of butterfly specimens.
A thrilling sumo wrestling event was pursued but denied--they had the wrong date and time. (The Museum of Maritime Science made a suitable substitute.) Relaxing (but platonic) visit to a geisha house. "Late night" dining on carefully prepared (and potentially poisonous) blowfish.
Caught up in the spirit of adventure, M had a nightcap: "Electric Brandy", a sweet, spicy cocktail made with brandies and liqueurs. (Bond regretted trying a "Tokyo Tea": a cocktail with a mix of gin, melon liqueur, rum, tequila, triple sec, vodka, sweet and sour mix, and club soda.) Then back to the Imperial Hotel before curfew.
Just kidding. Bond and M did not have a wild time in Tokyo.
Bond had, and as M was the first face he saw when he came round, and M was wearing some ladies'underwear on his head, he'd presumed M had awild time too. Truth is, M walked in whilst Bond was - very drunkenly- doing a stripshow in lingerie borrowed from one of the ladies he was entertaining, and the reason he remembered is because M slapped him in the face to get his focus back. The knickers just landed on M at the same time.
Lets move on to the next one, I put this one out there with some hesitation. The film in question is MR. The villain in question is Drax. I have never quite got my head around why Drax would want harm to come to Bond upon first meeting each other? By harming him, isn't he inviting suspicion to himself? Bond is there to merely investigate the theft and if Drax doesn't harm him wouldn't Bond have no leads? Instead he harms Bond who then seduces Corinne and the movie unfolds from there.
Why does Drax harm Bond when they first meet in MR?
This might be a case of lazy scriptwriting by Wood, but maybe there is a theory out there that can give some thought to why Drax did this deed.
I could see Drax looking forward to complaining to M (who travels the chateaux to apologize in person) that the agent they sent put everyone on the compound in danger because he was followed by assassins. Assassins trying to kill the British agent. What was that all about.
Then he'd offer M a cucumber sandwich.
Yes, I think so too. The centrifuge wasn't such a bad idea after all. Bond's heart could have unexpectedly failed during the try-out. It would not have been too suspicious.
I always found Zorin a lot clumsier. With only a few days until Main Strike, he should have treaded more carefully. Cheating at horse racing, killing a low-level private investigator in plain sight and driving the escape boat himself, trying to take out two MI6 operatives and a CIA agent, infuriating the KGB, and setting fire to San Francisco city hall seems like a lot of hubris for even a man like Zorin. Plus, his is not a post-Apocalyptic world to return to. People may still discover his involvement in the geological disaster that has struck Silicon Valley, especially with all the red flags he enjoys waving in everyone's face.
Drax has less to lose, I suppose. Once he's in space, he can direct his obliteration of mankind from there and not have to worry about secret services looking into it.
Also, Drax asked Chang that some harm come to Bond and just maybe Chang took his sadistic side a bit too far. It was the Corinne seduction that solidified trying another attempt on Bond. That one was much worse in terms of keeping the suspicion on him. Again, it's his arrogance and people like Frederick Grey more worried about saving face later on that make Bond and M keep the investigation going.
What I'd really like to know is who he is calling regarding Jaws and why in this good earth does he think Jaws, Jaws, would be a useful asset.
Yeah, I'd agree with that. That and he wanted to kill Bond in an amusing way so planned out elaborate ways of doing so...
It's very much like most of MR's logic - it kinda makes sense but only in the narrowest possible way.
Yeah there does seem to be some sort of henchman employment agency you can call up doesn't there. "Oh well if you think you can get him.."
In the novelization of MR Wood fleshes it out and says the plane attack was the remnant of Stromberg's organization and that is why Jaws is there to finish Bond off. But the film leaves this ambiguous and Bond seems non-plussed that an old foe has returned to knock him off. Course we also don't know if MR is right after Spy or whether 2 years has passed.
Who is Jaws working for in the PTS of MR?
Is he in business for himself? Did he hire the pilot and flight attendant to help him with this plan? Or was he under orders of someone else?
Would love to hear theories on who Jaws is working for in the PTS of MR.
Yet Stromberg is dead at the end of Spy, Drax has Chang has his henchman at the beginning of MR. That is until Bond disposes of him in Italy.
So who was Jaws working for in the PTS of MR? Drax hadn't hired him yet and Stromberg was dead. Did he go freelance and hire the pilot and flight attendant? Or were the three of them hired by someone else to knock off Bond?
I haven't watched MR for a long time, but Alare we sure he hadn't been hired yet by Drax? And surely Drax can have more than one henchman. My bet: he's been fairly recently hired by Drax, he told him MI6 will most likely send Bond when the shuttle disappears, so Drax tells him to kill Bond even before he starts his mission. Even if Jaws failed in the PTS, nobody could fault his commitment, or his work ethic.
No we can be fairly certain he isn't in the employ of Sir Hugo yet.