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Indeed.
I'm going to pretty much go with all the other comments here and say no. I would not like to see that.
I'll throw a question back to you though and ask why you would want to see that?
What does it bring to the film seeing someone get killed in a graphic way?
Im more interested in the film just being good.
There should always be a level of violence to the Bond films, but I think it should always come with a level of censorship and class. Sometimes the imagination can make things much more intense than giving it all away on screen.
I'm typically fine with graphic violence but that just doesn't work in the Bond franchise.
But looking at it from the franchise point of view, I totally understand limiting the graphic violence in order to retain a wider audience. It's a tightrope they have to walk in order to please all types of viewers.
Honestly though I think people need to understand and expect certain things when they go see a Bond movie. There will be guns, violence, sexual situations, and language in some films.
Look, a brutal, ass kicking Bond like Craig in the CR PTS never fails to entertain me. But gore and splatter in a Bond would cheapen things up beyond repair. This isn't a Michael Bay film or Saw: the 007 edition. Violence can be functional, even Fleming worked from that truth, but visceral extremities can serve no purpose unless they have nothing to offer at all, in which case I'd prefer they simply didn't release the film.
Yep. I'll elaborate.
Gratuitous violence is when Bond punches a bartender for no reason.
Graphic violence is when Bond punches a bartender, breaks his nose and blood is squirting out from the bartender's nasal cavity.
Now, gratuitous sex and violence is when Bond punches a bartender, causing the bartender to strategically spill Bond's vodka martini on a rather voluptuous woman wearing a skin tight white dress or blouse. The woman not wearing a bra goes without saying. Bond immediately takes the woman back to his hotel room, to um, help dry her off.
And this my friends is the difference between gratuitous violence, graphic violence and gratuitous sex and violence.
I think that scene is the most violent I have seen in any Bond film.