closest to death

A_Water_PistolA_Water_Pistol Posts: 21MI6 Agent
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what's the closest Bond has ever come to being killed?
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  • Q_Branch84Q_Branch84 Posts: 8MI6 Agent
    Goldfinger with the laser, Die Another Day, Licence to Kill with the coke grinder, For Your Eyes Only when he's being draged through shark infested water.
  • Nikolai_Diavolo 05Nikolai_Diavolo 05 Posts: 125MI6 Agent
    GF, the laser table. Goldfinger had him, and almost had him killed anyways (even when Bond warned him 008 knew eevrything and would resume the mission). If it had gone even the slightest bit differently, Goldfinger would have been the 3rd - and final - Bond movie.
  • Tee HeeTee Hee CBT Headquarters: Chicago, ILPosts: 917MI6 Agent
    edited November 2005
    I would say the coffin scene in DAF. If Shady Tree and Morton slumber didn't need Bond alive to get the real diamonds, he'd be toast...literally. :))
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  • Myk_Myk_ LondonPosts: 13MI6 Agent
    edited July 2019
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  • darenhatdarenhat The Old PuebloPosts: 2,029Quartermasters
    The cremation was definitely close. I also think he was close to being a goner when he was trying to defuse the nuclear bomb in GF. He had no clue how to stop it, and nowhere to run.
  • ShangasShangas Posts: 1MI6 Agent
    First post in these forums. Have always loved the James Bond movie series.

    I think that Bond came closest to death in GoldFinger as some people have already said. He could easily have been sliced in two in that movie...
  • Tilly Masterson 007Tilly Masterson 007 UKPosts: 1,472MI6 Agent
    Bond and Dario in LTK when Bond's legs are almost sliced off.
  • WOOD AlexWOOD Alex Posts: 5MI6 Agent
    Goldeneye: Bond and Alec's fight; when 'mad little Alec' kicks Bond down the ladder.

    Very close indeed.
  • ScorupcoScorupco Posts: 86MI6 Agent
    As already mentioned by some in here, I'd have to say the cremation bit in DAF myself. Along with the two laser scenes in GF and DAD, the coke shredder in LTK, and perhaps in AVTAK when he was holding onto the rope which Zorin's blimp was attached to (if he'd lost his grip he would've been a goner).
  • The CatThe Cat Where Blofeld is!Posts: 711MI6 Agent
    Definately the cremation, because he is simply saved by a convenient plot device... uhm... I mean his luck.
  • sampile2005sampile2005 Posts: 56MI6 Agent
    I'd say in GF and LTK. There always seems to be a need to keep Bond alive. The villains have so many chances to kill him but they never do, and he ends up getting them! In real life, he'd be brown bread long ago!
  • A_Water_PistolA_Water_Pistol Posts: 21MI6 Agent
    what about in TLD when he has just killeed whittaker and then one of whittaker's guards comes in and is about to shoot a weaponless bond when he is saved by pushkin's men?
  • Bill TannerBill Tanner "Spending the money quickly" iPosts: 261MI6 Agent
    Has to be the film of Moonraker.

    I'm amazed that the franchise ever survived that travesty.
  • Dan SameDan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent
    Bill Tanner wrote:
    Has to be the film of Moonraker.

    I'm amazed that the franchise ever survived that travesty.

    The first half wasn't that bad. But the end was indeed an utter disaster.

    Anothr candidate would be DAD, another travesty.
    "He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
  • TonyDPTonyDP Inside the MonolithPosts: 4,307MI6 Agent
    edited November 2005
    Don't forget the spine stretching machine in Thunderball. If Patricia hadn't come to his rescue he would be 6 inches taller...and dead.

    TonyDP
  • one night standone night stand Posts: 127MI6 Agent
    Bill Tanner, you beat me to the line.

    Anyway, another close moment was when Bond's life was in the decision of a spider in DN.
  • miles meservymiles meservy Posts: 2MI6 Agent
    Don't forget the Bomb in Occtopussy.
  • A_Water_PistolA_Water_Pistol Posts: 21MI6 Agent
    forgot about that one, very close.
  • GeorgiboyGeorgiboy Posts: 632MI6 Agent
    I think he was closest to dying in Goldeneye when he is in the helicopter with the girl. A few more seconds and it would have been all over for Mr. James Bond.

    The near cremation and being dragged across the coral reef were really close too.
  • actonsteveactonsteve Posts: 299MI6 Agent
    Surely its the poisoning in Casino Royale.

    I mean his heart had stopped beating. He was literally "dead".
  • JennyFlexFanJennyFlexFan Posts: 1,497MI6 Agent
    Forgot about the cremation! It's definitely that, the laser in GF and the Moonraker centrifuge!

    And no, John Drake, getting into bed with Mayday is NOT one of them. ;)
  • Dan SameDan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent
    edited August 2007
    My vote would be for the cremation, followed by the the laser. However since they have already been taken, I will nominate the final scene involving Xenia in GE, in which Bond was facing the distinct possibility of being squeezed to death. (Not necessarily a horrible way to go. ;))
    "He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
  • cosmo_kramercosmo_kramer Duluth, MinnesotaPosts: 24MI6 Agent
    In the standoff scene in TMWTGG, all Scaramanga had to do was be unsportsmanlike and turn around to shoot 007 in the back of the head. I mean it's not the manliest way to do it, but at least you'd get rid of Bond, and prevent your own immediate death.
  • LazenbyLazenby The upper reaches of the AmazoPosts: 606MI6 Agent
    edited August 2007
    I love it when these cool threads get reincarnated from the depths. {[]
    Bill Tanner wrote:
    Has to be the film of Moonraker.

    I'm amazed that the franchise ever survived that travesty.

    Umm Moonraker was one of the most successful films (fiancially) of the whole series. It would have taken miracle for there not to have been another film in its wake. Also, it's a great Bond movie; haters begone. In actuality I think the closest the franchise ever came to being canceled was following the Dalton era.

    In the spirit of what the original poster was asking I will cite the close calls Bond escaped from in FRWL (Grant had him right where he wanted him and could have easily finished the job were it not for Bond's quick thinking and coolness under pressure in what just might be the best scene in any Bond film), Domino shooting Largo right as he pulled a gun on Bond, and when Tracey saved his a$$ on the ice rink in OHMSS.
  • Dan SameDan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent
    Lazenby wrote:
    In the spirit of what the original poster was asking I will cite the close calls Bond escaped from in FRWL (Grant had him right where he wanted him and could have easily finished the job were it not for Bond's quick thinking and coolness under pressure in what just might be the best scene in any Bond film), Domino shooting Largo right as he pulled a gun on Bond, and when Tracey saved his a$$ on the ice rink in OHMSS.
    I agree about FRWL and TB, but why do you think that Bond was closest to death in the ice rink scene in OHMSS?
    "He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
  • SurrieSurrie Surrey, UKPosts: 79MI6 Agent
    I would have to go with the Laser Scene in GF.
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    cosmo_kramer wrote:
    In the standoff scene in TMWTGG, all Scaramanga had to do was be unsportsmanlike and turn around to shoot 007 in the back of the head. I mean it's not the manliest way to do it, but at least you'd get rid of Bond, and prevent your own immediate death.

    Unlikely that Scaramanga would have been tempted. He's already told Bond: "I could have shot you down on the beach but that would have been ridiculously easy."

    I go along with the CR poisoning and the DAF cremation... and also, Bond would have been killed at the FRWL gypsy fight if it wasn't for the good marksmanship of Grant, his SPECTRE "guardian angel".

    But for me, Bond died on the day (not on another day) when, in Die Another Day, his lascivious chat-up scene with Jinx by the beach in Cuba turned my stomach. (!!)

    Shady Tree
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • LazenbyLazenby The upper reaches of the AmazoPosts: 606MI6 Agent
    Dan Same wrote:
    why do you think that Bond was closest to death in the ice rink scene in OHMSS?

    He's all alone on top of an icy mountain surrounded by gunmen. Were it not for Tracy's timely appearance he would have been done. This was on of the very few times in the series that Bond actually looked seriously worried and didn't know what to do.
  • JamesbondjrJamesbondjr Posts: 462MI6 Agent
    How about the plane crash in Goldeneye? His plane is hit by a missile and he crashes into the jungle. I'm suprised he was able to walk away from that one, albeit after a bit of a sleep under the jungle canopy with Natalya!
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  • Sweepy the CatSweepy the Cat Halifax, West Yorkshire, EnglaPosts: 986MI6 Agent
    Definetly the coffin scene in DAF for me.
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