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Yuk :-P. Don't start talking about that scene hehe. But I do think Hinx has the potential to become a formidable henchman.
Personally, I think the 1960s films are all quite gory, with Thunderball the most gory - both actual and relative to it's era. The shark attacks, throttling, spear gun, drowning deaths are pretty gruesome - but the mass underwater knife and spear gun fight at the climax features plenty of blood and guts e.g one guy gets stabbed in the eye through his face mask.
They make the A-team shoot outs of later films (check out the sterile Dalton gunfight at the beginning of LTK, or the majority of Brosman's gunfights) look like children's TV
:)) I like that last line hehe. I don't know about the Brosnan gunfights though. In my opinion he was emptying his PPK way too fast and way too soon. For instance in TWINE. It made Brosnan at times look like the lead character of "Die Hard".
I prefer the shoots where Bond is first confronting the villain with his dirty work, then he shoots one time with a silencer, and "BAM" dead. Like in DN and CR. I find that way more menacing and chilling.
Sorry, Walther P99 :-P
He did in the first half of TND. He used it at Carvers factory.
And speaking of Die another day
Zao's death was quite gory.
I still love this piece of gore though:
Lovely signature kill? Let's see :-)
Perhaps....the film is way more violent now Mr Hinx is in the film ;-)?
I remember reading somewhere (I can't remember where) that an earlier cut of the movie (or the submission screenplay) showed Bond dropping him into a quarry rock crusher amidst a fountain of blood and gore, followed by a comment along the lines of "Sorry for ruining the line of your suit." I believe that this was thought to be too strong for audiences of the day, so it was cut from the movie. Also because the producers wanted to leave Blofeld's fate open for future movies.
No idea.
The saliva of komodo dragons is actually very poisonous. Once they bite you and their saliva gets into your bloodstream...you will suffer from terrible slow necrosis of tissue material. Could take for days.... And there are no antidotes for this saliva.
Well, it was a long time ago I read this. I apologise if I got the one-liner wrong, but it would probably have taken a lot the sting out of a pretty gruesome scene, no matter how it was delivered.
No need to apologize, that's the first I heard of that one liner and it makes sense. I had also read about the scripted alternate ending to DAF from several sources and what you wrote jives with I heard. Apparently Blofeld was to escape in his bath-o-sub and Bond was to give chase via weather ballon before winding up at the salt mining plant. There was to be a chase across the salt dunes and then into the plant where Blofeld was to fall into a crusher/grinder, possibly a call back to OHMSS and the skier in the snowblower.
The idea then was going to be a coffee plantation and grinder in LALD which turned into the alligator farm. The grinder/crusher idea wasn't used until LTK. Just sharing some gory trivia.
LTK is still the overall winner in this category, I think.
Is that ok?
I still reckon this scene at the SPECTRE-table will be the equivalent of Silva's William Tell game and him showing his prothesis jaw to 'M'. I still find that picture scary to death.....
I really hope people in cinema, me included, get a bit....'afraid' of that Mr Hinx. I love it when a sinister henchman makes people afraid....or loathe from fear :-).
I remember very well three years ago with my mum and dad. My mum sad during that William Tell scene in "SkyFall": "My. God. What a basterd :-(. What a psychopath! :-< !!
And a few moments later when Silva took out his jaw: "Eeeewhh, I'm gonna close my eyes Gert X_X !!"
At those moments you know that the combination of exquisit acting, scary costumes, a good story, and some age 16+ horror/gore really works on screen. I loved to see my mum suffer hehehe >:) .
see Mr Hinx handing out some punishment. :)
Overall I would have to agree, which is a shame because the film had a lot of potential based off some of the leaked stuff in the scripts but they never really did get things to work quite right, especially the third act. I wish the film had just a little bit more guts, if you know what I mean. The base escape is probably one of the laziest action scenes in the whole franchise. It's like the film briefly turns into a fps game.
They had several interesting ideas in the various scripts about how Bond and Madeleine and in some drafts Bond and Q set about to destroy the facility and even a classic deathtrap with the Solar Furnace idea to burn Bond to death and then having them later repositioning the furnace mirrors to overheat the facility's cooling systems and in another version Q helped Bond from his apartment to hack into and sabotage the bases's systems but in the end they kind of just cheated and got rid of the solar furnace and a dinner scene and instead had a generic torture scene with a few lines from Colonel Sun and the whole place just blows up after shooting a couple of tanks.
The pacing and staging of the finale in London was also very different from how it read in the script. There was less involvement from the rest of the MI6 crew and it also felt a bit more tense when read on the page than how it turned out in the film. Yes, bland indeed. Such a shame really.
But Forster & Co. cleverly suggest blood subliminally, by using broken shards of red glass.
The balcony door is smashed in the fight, leaving shards of red glass scattered on the floor, where we see Slate's (virtually bloodless) body lying as he bleeds out.