"M" in "The Man With the Golden Gun"

L Jones

Did "M" have a burr up his ass in "The Man With the Golden Gun"? After a recent viewing of the film, I'm beginning to think he did. I'm a little puzzled by why he was so hostile toward Bond, following the assassination of that scientist named Gibson in Hong Kong. The assassination wasn't Bond's fault. Bond had followed M's order to discover who had sent him a golden bullet with his OO number carved into it. Bond had traced the bullet to Scaramanga in Hong Kong. He was simply at the wrong place and at the wrong time, when Scaramanga killed Gibson. So, why was "M" so hostile to Bond, acting as if the incident was the latter's fault?

AlphaOmegaSin

Bond also seemed to be very 'Angry' in that film as well.

Silhouette Man

Yes, this film is renowned for its irritable Old Firm crew - not sure why they were all so ill-tempered?

Jarvio

I posted a thread similar to this, but instead of M, I mentioned bond, and then from other posts, soon realised that many people seem angry/pissed off in this film. Bond himself, M, Q, and Moneypenny all seem fed up in this film...

JohnMasterson

Jarvio wrote:

I posted a thread similar to this, but instead of M, I mentioned bond, and then from other posts, soon realised that many people seem angry/pissed off in this film. Bond himself, M, Q, and Moneypenny all seem fed up in this film...

Well, it was a good thing that Man With The Golden Gun was Guy Hamilton's swan song, because Guy was obviously just one of those Bond directors who had a one-hit wonder and the rest of his Bond motion pictures were mediocre at best and God-awful at worst.

And Guy was dragging the Bond series down by the time we got to Man With The Golden Gun so it was time for a change of pace, otherwise the Bond series would've died in the 70's.

James Suzuki

I think Bond was a bit pissed off because of Solitaire not returning and everyone else kind of followed suite, and anyone hanging around Mary Goodnight for too long would need anger management courses.

osris

JohnMasterson wrote:

Jarvio wrote:

I posted a thread similar to this, but instead of M, I mentioned bond, and then from other posts, soon realised that many people seem angry/pissed off in this film. Bond himself, M, Q, and Moneypenny all seem fed up in this film...

Well, it was a good thing that Man With The Golden Gun was Guy Hamilton's swan song, because Guy was obviously just one of those Bond directors who had a one-hit wonder and the rest of his Bond motion pictures were mediocre at best and God-awful at worst.

And Guy was dragging the Bond series down by the time we got to Man With The Golden Gun so it was time for a change of pace, otherwise the Bond series would've died in the 70's.

I think he was good when it came to the car and boat chases in DAF and LALD, though he probably left the actual direction of those to the second unit director. But if they were his conception, then I rate him highly.

lueth2048

M and Bond had a weird relationship in all of the Hamilton/Mankiewicz collaborations.