Why doesn't Bond bleed (in the pre-Craig films)?

Doctor WhoDoctor Who Posts: 62MI6 Agent
in The James Bond Films
Outside of FRWL and LALD, I can't think of any time Bond is actually made to bleed during a fight with a baddie...

Anyone know why Broccoli et al opted to make Bond a sort of Superman?

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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Low red blood cell count ?
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  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    *ahem*

    TTTTTTHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLL
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    OHMSS.
    LTK.
  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,535MI6 Agent
    There's another Connery film, but I can't put my finger on the scene. Dr No maybe.
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  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,458MI6 Agent
    For your eyes only, when Bond is dragged through the coral. brozzer even bled when xenia onatop bit his lip.
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,458MI6 Agent
    Asp9mm wrote:
    There's another Connery film, but I can't put my finger on the scene. Dr No maybe.
    I'm pretty sure connery ends up with a bloodied torso in Dr No
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • zaphod99zaphod99 Posts: 1,415MI6 Agent
    Chriscoop wrote:
    Asp9mm wrote:
    There's another Connery film, but I can't put my finger on the scene. Dr No maybe.
    I'm pretty sure connery ends up with a bloodied torso in Dr No

    He did. His shirt has blood stains on it.
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  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    edited July 2017
    I'm not sure but Brozzer in Die Another Day?
    During the torture?

    I don't seem to recall a scene in FRWL where he bled.
    Maybe you're thinking of Kerim Bey in the gypsy camp shootout (an easy mistake to make, they both use PPKs).
    Off-screen, the scar from a jealous woman also must've had blood when he first got it.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    One of Q's rules .... " Never let them see you bleed !" ;)
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  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 SwitzerlandPosts: 870MI6 Agent
    Bond never bleeding is a bit of a myth really. But sure compared to Craig it seems not much.

    With Craig they introduced the running, sweating, looking exhausted and beat up Bond. It's what Craig's best at too :D
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    One of my favourite little "bits of business" in CR, are the fight marks on Bond's hands
    After the stairwell fight sequence. Only my opinion but I think the mix of Bond the fighter and
    Bond the suave agent was just about perfect there.
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    One of Q's rules .... " Never let them see you bleed !" ;)

    You beat me to it, TP! :))
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  • walther p99walther p99 NJPosts: 3,416MI6 Agent
    Bond's face is bloodied and beaten looking at the end of Tomorrow Never Dies.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    No Brosnan always looked like that ! :p Sorry an obvious joke.

    But yes at times Bond has taken one hell of a Beating. -{
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  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 SwitzerlandPosts: 870MI6 Agent
    Brosnan is as badass as they come. Just watch how he disposes of the big guys in the control room in Carver's media center.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I always love the look Brosnan gives the camera in the pts
    Of TWINE in the lawyer's office. He really looks a killer.
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  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,750Chief of Staff
    BondJasonBond006 wrote:
    Brosnan is as badass as they come. Just watch how he disposes of the big guys in the control room in Carver's media center.

    Yeah...he doesn't really convince me at all in that scene...
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  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    Have you ever noticed that Brosnan does something with his face everytime he fires a gun? He pulls off some really funny expressions.
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    You call Dalton wimpy, yet Brozzer looks like he's about to take a huge dump everytime he has to fire a gun.
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  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 SwitzerlandPosts: 870MI6 Agent
    :)) ha ha, at least Brosnan HAS facial expressions...
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  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    I think we have discovered...the original duckface?
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  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 SwitzerlandPosts: 870MI6 Agent
    the duckface still looks more Bond than what came after Brozza :D :D
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  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    BondJasonBond006 wrote:
    the duckface still looks more Bond than what came after Brozza :D :D
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  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 SwitzerlandPosts: 870MI6 Agent
    :)) yes maybe, but LeChiffre is dead 30 seconds later :D
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  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    Well, if I'm Le Chiffre...then you must be Mr Whyte.

    Doesn't end well for you, I'm afraid :p.
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  • PPK 7.65mmPPK 7.65mm Saratoga Springs NY USAPosts: 1,253MI6 Agent
    In FRWL Bond actually cuts his hand when the window in the train compartment breaks during his fight with Red Grant. However the blood does disappear and then reappear in several shots during this scene, so I would not be surprised if this did confuse some viewers.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    BondJasonBond006 wrote:
    the duckface still looks more Bond than what came after Brozza :D :D

    You're so right, Mr Bond.

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  • FiremassFiremass AlaskaPosts: 1,910MI6 Agent
    Great scene in TSWLM where Bond is bleeding after his fight with Jaws on the train.
    Suggests using Anya's nighty as a bandage. :)
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    1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
  • FiremassFiremass AlaskaPosts: 1,910MI6 Agent
    The henchmen and villains also die without getting bloody. It's not a matter of making Bond a super hero, but rather to keep the films PG and provide good clean fun.

    Although we do see an occasional spray of blood like in OHMSS and TND.
    My current 10 favorite:

    1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
  • Matt SMatt S Oh Cult Voodoo ShopPosts: 6,610MI6 Agent
    Firemass wrote:
    The henchmen and villains also die without getting bloody. It's not a matter of making Bond a super hero, but rather to keep the films PG and provide good clean fun.

    I appreciate the ways they can kill Bond villains where we wouldn't see blood in any case, like with Goldfinger, Drax, Kamal Khan and Zorin. Henchmen like Odd Job, Chang, Erich Kreigler, Gobinda and Necros die legitimately blood-less deaths too.
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  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 SwitzerlandPosts: 870MI6 Agent
    Not seeing blood on-screen is ok. Bond (for me) never was action/thriller that has to be graphically brutal with blood and gore.

    And there are enough "subtle" quite horrendous on or off-screen deaths in the series imo.

    I don't want Bond to be as brutal frequently as it is in LTK. I love the film, but back in the day it was the element that made it almost impossible to watch for me.

    SPECTRE uses subtle horror too, I prefer that much to bloody stuff like in QOS.
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