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I guess. I prefer to think he was guided by some superior spirit.
Max is actually 005. Deep undercover.
This is in fact a running joke of the Bond films. 005 appears undercover on every EON film, often as an animal or inanimate object. For instance, in Dr. No he's disguised as the business card Bond gives to Sylvia Trench, and is meant to be keeping an eye on Bond's dailiances in case one turns out to be an enemy agent. In LALD, one of his most dangerous assignments, he is disguised as Albert and is meant to protect Bond from the other crocodiles. The real Albert is in fact knocked out by 005 off-screen and hidden behind the trees. 005 experiences great fear during the mission since at any moment the other crocodiles could turn on him, but ultimately he survives by keeping his mouth open and pretending to be hungrier than the other animals. Contrary to popular belief, unlike in FYEO, in TLD he is not disguised as the parrot, but as the glasses of the gasworks technician who gets his face buried between Rosika Miklos' breasts. That, however, was not an assignment. He was just feeling lonely.
In SP he is disguised as an explosion.
Actually he was disguised as the crater. He just had really bad gas that day. =))
Bond has that all the time, due to his drinking problem. They should address it in the next one.
Skyfart
From Morocco with Burp
I'll cut it out now.
Hmm. Maybe someone around here could help.
@QBranch @bondjames Any thoughts?
Although, looking at some of the selections on Google, they're almost very similar, but there's something that tells me it's not what we're looking for.
I love TLD and will defend till my last breath if need be. However something struck me earlier and I’m not sure if I missed it, or if it’s sloppy story telling.
When Necros kills Saunders and the Prater park fun fair, how did Necros know that Bond or Saunders would be there?
I don't know if Koskov was aware that Bond was on to him at the time, but if you think that he was you could view the "Smiert Spionam" balloon as a taunt instead of a ploy to confuse when viewing it through Bond's eyes.
That is one scenario. And could work. However Koskov has just defected to the West (as far as the KGB and mother Russia know) it's unlikely he'd be able to contact any KGB friends for assistance. Necros may have contacts to assist.
A small scene to show this would've made this spy thriller even more cloak and dagger if we were given a few more details here and there. Rather than, they just knew how to find them.
They deleted a scene where Bond has a small transmitter device punched into his wrist. But they liked the idea so much they brought it back in the Craig era...twice. ;)
After it serves no useful purpose in CR (even in the poison scene doesn't he shove a needle in so they can see what has poisoned him?) they brought it back in SP where it served even less of a purpose.
In a long lost of things I hate about SP I'd probably have the smart blood just above the DB5 returning but below the '00 program'.
I don't think the concept of smart blood was wacky or too far out considering what franchise this is, and it's one of my favorite parts of the film idea-wise. One day we could see something like that tech invented considering how many advancements scientists are already making with nanotechnology even now, which is quite exciting when you think of how we could live to see a day where microscopic tech performs surgery or fends off disease in the human body.
I just wish the smart blood idea had more relevance in SP beyond Bond being tracked by Nine Eyes and Mallory keeping watch, the latter creating a fun moment between Bond and Q, as it could have served a grander and more interesting purpose. For example, I would have liked to see Bond purposefully get himself punched so that he could spit out some blood at Blofeld's headquarters, broadcasting his location to MI6 for backup or something to that effect. Or simply have another way of Bond using his blood strategically, like wiping some blood from his wound in the torture chair on Blofeld to track him to London after he escapes, etc.
In CR, it makes sense for me to have the chip installed in Bond’s arm, especially if they were going to keep tracking of him and where he was with all that money. They can’t fully trust him with all that millions, after all. Not just yet.
In Spectre, it was supposed to play a large part and was to be accessed to by Blofeld who would have intimidated Bond with it with the claim he could get to anybody. But, after too much cutting off from the script, we got an inconsistent film that hardly makes sense. And yes, smart blood isn’t a far fetched concept, if it doesn’t already exist in the hands of the government.
So if they cut the payoff why not cut the set up as the smart blood (despite your chaps eloquent defence I still hate the concept) served no purpose whatsoever except Q being able to track Bond?
Watch the TND deleted scenes and even a journeyman like Spottiswoode realises these film making basics when he cut Ricky Jay's card throwing trick.
But obviously you have already answered the question why it's still in there - SP's script is a shambles and this is hardly the worst of it's crimes.