J. W. Pepper in The Spy Who Loved Me

Napoleon Plural

Pepper is in it, in spirit.

He should be sitting alongside Bond in the Lotus chase, yelling out the window jeers at their pursuers, offering our hero constructive support and then, as Bond heads along the jetty, boxes flying everywhere, he should say incredulously: 'You're not thinking of...?' as the Lotus heads off into the water.

Some weird looking exotic fish down below should have Pepper peering out of the windscreen saying 'Man, you is ugly' and the fish squirts the screen with ink in retaliation.

Pepper in the mobile submersible with Bond at the end. Pepper, exultant: 'Well, I've never done THAT before!' Bond: 'Well, neither had I, until now.'

Exceeds Barbara Bach on every level. You know this.

Silhouette Man

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Pepper is in it, in spirit.

He should be sitting alongside Bond in the Lotus chase, yelling out the window jeers at their pursuers, offering our hero constructive support and then, as Bond heads along the jetty, boxes flying everywhere, he should say incredulously: 'You're not thinking of...?' as the Lotus heads off into the water.

Some weird looking exotic fish down below should have Pepper peering out of the windscreen saying 'Man, you is ugly' and the shirts the screen with ink in retaliation.

Pepper in the mobile submersible with Bond at the end. Pepper, exultant: 'Well, I've never done THAT before!' Bond: 'Well, neither had I, until now.'

Exceeds Barbara Bach on every level. You know this.

Ah, thanks for those wondrous mental images, Nap! )

fire and ice

JW's diologue was getting progressively worse, I cringe at the character in TMWTGG.

Joshua

Barbel wrote:

I've said this before. but Pepper is present in LALD to add a degree of balance to the film. Without him, all the major white characters (Bond, Solitaire, Leiter) are shown as heroic while most of the major black characters (Mr Big/Kananga, Tee Hee, Rosie Carver) are presented as villains. There are heroic black characters too, of course (Quarrel and Strutter) but no villainous whites. Most of these characters are present in Fleming's novel.
Pepper isn't a villain but he is a fool and exists to be poked fun at by, well, everyone he meets so that not all of the major white characters are portrayed as fairly flawless.

I think this is correct. I laugh at the sherrif and not with him. People in today can see this and also can laugh at him because of his stupidity in everything.