Bond coffin scene in Diamonds are forever
Andy007
Posts: 100MI6 Agent
Ok can someone explain the coffin scene where Bond is unconscious, then wakes & panic -as he's on the verge of being scorched to death. yet someone lifts the lid & he gets out as if nothing happens! was he not in the furnace at all? And furthermore what is the point of this scene? This scene has puzzled me over the years.
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Bond wasn't chasing jaws, jaws pushed him out of the aircraft
I admit both sequences r fairly silly however the moonraker 1 is better executed IMO. We can actually understand how bond managed to escape.
We're supposed to infer that enough time elapsed while Bond is struggling for the coffin to be taken out of the furnace and for it to cool enough to be opened, even if we're not shown all of the moments that lead up to that point -- the same way we're supposed to infer that when Matt Damon's Jason Bourne lands a kick or a punch, he actually threw it to begin with. We're also supposed to infer that Tree realizes the diamonds are fake, goes to Slumber, demands to know where "Franks" is, and then orders the furnace to be turned off.
These moments must have happened in order for the action to make any sense, just as Damon must have thrown a punch in order for it to ultimately land.
The music in the Diamonds are Forever scene is what makes it especially further troublesome because people watching the scene want to follow it as though it is encompassing of all of the action of that moment, as opposed to simply what we are shown. In this, it seems the music is "complete" while the action on screen is not, if that makes much sense.