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The academy votes show an interesting result!
Very interesting! Lets swing back to the Bondie side of things. Bond kills in cold blood and then often breaks the tension with a quip or line. Sometimes these fall flat and cause an audience grimace, but then there are those magic times when it lands perfectly! I present to you the nominees for best quip after a kill! Here are the nominees:
Interesting that the nominees are from the earlier films. Maybe if I could freshen my mind I can think of some from the modern era. I will allow the members of the academy to write in an honourable mention in their vote!
Okay dear academy members, which is best quip after a killing?
Favorite one liner in the whole series
But yeah, it's got to "I think he got the point": not sure they've quite topped that yet :)
It s up there, but I am going for " Shocking".
"She s just dead" is just bad taste.
From the list though, "Shocking.... positively shocking" is one of many iconic quotes from Goldfinger. So will go with that.
Can I have a "before the kill" quip...?
Last Rat Standing, from Skyfall.
No one delivered this type of quips quite like Connery. I also love his “Bon appétit” from YOLT.
Without redeeming features? I think it's those features that make her golddigging actually make sense..
Not the story per sé.
And noow for the vote:
It's a very, very difficult choice. The top two in my mind are 'shocking, positively shocking', and 'I think he got the point', both for their every day use possibilities. I think I'll go for the latter, as it fits the moment and Bond says it inquite a harsh way, in a way he definately meant it.
"What a helpful chap" and "all those feathers and he still can't fly" are other good ones.
Your write in nominee is a good one too! I love that whole sequence with Kerim deciding to do the deed.
"Shocking,...positively shocking!" Beautifully delivered.
Regarding before-the-kill quips, I have a soft spot for Bond’s “bottoms up” just before he blows up an entire building in the Spectre PTS
"She's waiting for you" with Reynard, "Give the public what they want" (or whatever the Carver death quip was), or even "for me" in GE. Oh yea, there was "time to face gravity" or something in DAD. It's like there was a blueprint to follow for the screenwriters where they had to give a little taunt to the main villain before they were ;dispatched'.
He does toss out the line in a beautiful casual manner, doesn't he?
Roger does get some cracking lines, but I can't quite think of an Arnie* that he has to match Sean's best at the moment.
* the best way I can think of to describe a post-killing pun. Bond may have started the trend but Arnie refined it into an uber-cheesy art form and made it his own :)
Lazenby had a couple but I don't think they were delivered in the right manner:
Dalton had the one line which I always loved:
During Brosnan's time it became almost groaner territory and yes lots of taunts of those he was about to dispatch.
Craig really hasn't done much of this. The CR one at the start of the movie is clearly well done and that's why I put it in the nominees.
Weird, none of them are quite as good as I imagine Roger's lines being.
That's a weird one, isn't it! :) I was thinking that the other night when it was on telly. Your girlfriend -fiancee- is with you, helping you escape from baddies, a guy gets horrifically eviscerated in front your eyes and you make a disgusting joke about it? She's not a secret agent like you James you psychopath: she's never seen someone get killed before! :D
Yes the lots of guts line is a bit of a weird one.
Heh! Yeah it would be fine if it were to Felix or someone, but to say it to Tracy is massively insensitive and makes him seem like a casual murderer! :D
There are so many to choose from, this question could have made for an excellent Elimination Game.
Given the choices at hand, however, I’ll go with “Shocking, positively shocking”, since it sets the tone for GF right from the start. And of course, Connery’s delivery is flawless.
"They'll print anything these days" is quite a smart line as well.
They cut a lot of suggestive lines of course, but the weirdest was Bond's "Wait till you get to my teeth" after Domino says "What sharp little eyes you've got" in TB. Was that offensive?
It's gallows humor. For the audience it relieves tension after a gruesome scene. For Bond and Tracy it signifies relief that one of the people sent to kill them got what he deserved.