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Standing on the bottom rung at the time. :D
I know there wouldn't be much of a movie if it were more realistic, but she must be the worst agent in the history of espionnage. Not only did she shot her ally (OK, it can always happen), but she didn't bother to take a second shot to kill Patrice. She had a good 10 seconds before he disappeared, but she just froze. A lot of people say Bond villains are idiotic for not killing Bond immediatly, well this is MI6's own version of such scenario. This IMO is maybe the most contrieved sequence in the entire franchise, because had Eve been a more professional agent, she would have fired at Patrice, thus the entire plot would be over at that point.
The fall never really bugged me as it's clear Bond will survive, but this I agree with. It really got my goat. So she's a rookie, but decent enough to tag along with a now seasoned agent in 007 on a mission we presume is of the utmost importance? You'd think her training would be enough for her to react to the situation, but it's clear that she's there purely to service her own unnecessary back story and not the plot. I've heard people say, 'she was in shock', obviously not enough to give two shits, as she's hardly grovelling on Bond's return. It's swept under the carpet pretty much. I genuinely thought there would be more friction rather than immediate flirting given that her incompetence nearly killed him.
In a different universe, I often wondered if that set up would have been a neat twist on the Q character rather than MP. Have him working alongside Bond in the field and thrown into a situation, because of Bond's single-mindedness, for which he has no real experience. It would have made logical sense that he'd not think to shoot Patrice and it would have added a frisson to their relationship, plus Bond would always have that 'bloody shot' in his arsenal when verbally jousting with Q. Anyhow, I do like Q as we got him, just wish MP had either been done differently or not at all.
This is pretty much the entire problem. The plot hinges on supposedly smart people making completely idiotic decisions and the villain being omnipotent.
While it added dramatic tension to the scene, I may have frozen too if I had to put up with her constant annoying nagging.....I'm not excusing MP's obvious incompetence, but attempting to explain it.
Shock. She'd just killed James Bond ........ and as we know you don't hang
about waiting for the cops to arrive, when you do that. ;)
I think most of us will agree that MI6 in earpieces is just not necessary and in the case of SF undermines one of the central themes, as it stinks of the kind of the bureaucracy that M is seemingly fighting, yet they continue to use them throughout. I do hope there's less of that this time out.
I always loved the opening of TND as they're in contact with 007, but primarily observing and the fact we don't hear Bond reinforces the idea he's his own man and not a puppet.
-the Helga Brandt "defection" sub-plot leading to Bond trapped in a plane without a pilot in YOLT
I think that we should all agree that this one is very contrived in nature!
Go in the Book, then I'm more than happy to see it in the film. ;)
I don't think any of the chase sequences in OHMSS are contrived. They all actually add to and are parts of the narrative.
Most of the chases in the Moore films are contrived, big time. Why does Bond have to go full boar after a suspected assassin. The PTS of TWINE though entertaining and long as a giraffe's neck, the scene was a throwback to the lesser elements of the Moore era.
Watching that video makes me enjoy the sequence even more.
I don't think we'll get confirmation in SPECTRE as to whether the collars and cuffs match.
So on the one hand we have bad guy super-incompetence (Oddjob crushing the car before removing the gold) and bad guy super-competence (knowing exactly where you will be imprisoned).
Faced with those two, a little bit of rookie fallibility in the take the shot scene seems like hyper-realism.
That video is funny watching Pierce and Jimmy make fun of Roger on ski's. We all know Pierce never had his naff back projection moments ;)
That was certainly not my intention when I started the thread as Skyfall is no. 2 on my list and if you read my article linked in the OP you will see that I cite the Silva underground train carriage crash as a "Drax's Gambit" type of action sequence, which are not contrived but use the situation to the best of their advantage.
http://www.thebondologistblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/kingsley-amis-draxs-gambit-and-reform.html
@Dragonpol: I know it wasn't.
Thanks, friends.