FYEO: what happened after Melina saw 007 with Lisl

Higgins

Apart from Melina's lost cylinder, I find another thing quite puzzling:

In the Casino scene, when 007 leaves with Lisl, the camera moves to Melina who seems not to be very happy to see all this happen. I am left with the feeling, that before the final cut, there must have been something following to this, e.g. Melina having a heavy argument with Bond about his behaviour.
Has anyone have more infos regarding this?

actonsteve

Lordy, our Mel was deep..

She kept it all buttoned up inside (the English half of her) but no doubt her emotions were swirlign around. I always felt that it was all hidden with Melina...like Vesper. Shes one of the better Bond girls.

What was she doing at the Corfu casino? Probably to warn the local bike Lisl that a pensioner was after her..:)):))

The Cat

Bondtoys wrote:

In the Casino scene, when 007 leaves with Lisl, the camera moves to Melina who seems not to be very happy to see all this happen. I am left with the feeling, that before the final cut, there must have been something following to this, e.g. Melina having a heavy argument with Bond about his behaviour.
Has anyone have more infos regarding this?

Yes. The scene can be found on the Ultimate Edition DVD. It features Bond and Melina aboard the ship (just after said cylinder accident), where Melina takes some jabs at Bond's overall lifestyle. The scene is about a minute long and I think it was rightly cut, because it's one of those strange moments, when a ****ed woman converts in a very short time. But than again, losing the scene creates this strange minor plot hole, when you expect something to connect to that shot in the casino. That could have been easily avoided if they cut a few seconds of the casino scene, not to reveal Melina was there as well as that's a completely unnecessary sidetrack now.

EDIT: I let you guess what the **** hides, but I assure you, it's not what you think...

Higgins

Thanks, Cat,

I took the occasion to buy the UE DVD and have seen the deleted scene.

I totally agree, leaving out the seconds, where Melina sees, what Roger is doing, would have been better. Because, even in the context with the deleted "joining forces" scenes, the flow still does not make sense to me.
1. Melina sees 007 messing around with Lisl
2. She sees him under water and seems to be pretty happy to see him again (apart from the ugly frogsuit, maybe)
3. She complaints about his sexlife immediately, when they are back on board.

I am asking myself, why she seems to be so happy to see him in 2.
Did she temporarily loose her angryness, or is the warm welcome underwater the result of a kind of diver-sickness?

The Cat

Bondtoys wrote:

I am asking myself, why she seems to be so happy to see him in 2.
Did she temporarily loose her angryness, or is the warm welcome underwater the result of a kind of diver-sickness?

My modes guess is that they shot 1 and 3 first (these are normal shots), but decided to delete 3 before shooting 2, which was a special FX shot, chronologically shot later. Or they simply didn't carer for continuity...