Superfluous Characters?
DavidJones
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I wonder if there have been any characters in the series who add nothing to the plot or action?
Mr Bullion in TWINE, maybe?
Mr Bullion in TWINE, maybe?
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-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
How about Aziz Fekkesh from TSWLM? Hossein tells Bond, "To get to Kalba, you must first contact Fekkesh", but it's not like Kalba keeps a low profile, wearing a dinner jacket and watching the entertainment at his own club. Fekkesh seems like a middleman with no real purpose other than to give Bond a set piece in which to kill Sandor and to stage a cool scene at the Pyramids.
In some films, she's more useful than in other films. For example in LTK, she goes behind M's back to contact Q branch so that he can give Bond some gadgets for his mission. And in LALD, she was a substitute for Q.
In Moonraker, in the scene in Brazil, she didn't even need to be there. She only told Bond where M was. There was none of the typical flirting or anything.
I don't think Stamper is
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J.W.'s brother who works in another parish?
As stupid as he is, he serves a purpose in Live and Let Die, but definitely not in The Man with the Golden Gun.
Definitely. He sums up everything that is wrong with DAD.
At the end of the fight you knew Mr. Kil wasn't going to appear in future installments of the Bond movies.
That's exactly the one character I was thinking of too, when I first saw this thread title.
I'm also not very keen on Rosie Carver from LALD either. I think she's a very badly written character and one that we could probably have done without, although I suppose she does perform a function in the film.
At Bond‘s sea burial, there‘s a scene showing a man reading Bond‘s obituary whilst observing the funeral with binoculars. You‘d assume he‘d be some SPECTRE agent or otherwise relevant to the plot hence this extra scene but he‘s never to be seen again...
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Perhaps he was there just to show how even insignificant people were aware that Bond had died.
That's actually a very good explanation, Matt S. I guess I'd always just assumed it was a SPECTRE agent or other interested party checking to see if Bond really was dead like the newspapers said.
This whole bit of plot-structure is very similar to the parade-date in Thunderball, where Domino was also identified as Largo's protégé.
Also during the climax it is Bibi and her trainer who lead Bond and his team through Kristatos's hideout.
So she is annoying I agree but is needed at least twice to make the plot work.
There's lots of walk-on characters who contribute only "comedy" or good looks, especially during the 1970s films.
Sherriff Pepper, in his second appearance, is only there because he was about to testdrive a car when that sekurt agent feller needed to commandeer a vehicle. After which all he contributes is dumb dialog. Bond could have just as easily commandeered any random vehicle in the street and the subsequent chase scene would have worked exactly the same without his old buddy.
There a lot of fabulous babes during the Moore era who just stand around and look pretty while he waggles an eyebrow at the camera like Benny Hill. In the Spy Who Loved Me for example, the harem girl and the hotel receptionist both get gratuitous oggling closeups without actually doing anything. Still, sometimes it's not all about advancing the plot, is it? the posters of the era promised plenty of babes so they gotta get them in the story one way or another.