Scenes where Bond is generally scared
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Do you think there should be more Moments where Bond generally appears scared and confused?
1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
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I heard the director of Goldeneye specifically didn't want Brosnan to ever appear frazzled or worried. Obviously, audiences don't want to see Bond constantly second guessing himself however I like to see Bond a little shaken every now and then.
Roger changed his shirt like every 10 minutes in India to avoid looking sweaty. Should they have just let him sweat it out?
Some good scared/confused moments that come to mind:
A View to a Kill- Finding Tippet dead in the back of the Rolls. Wondering why the bad guys are getting up after being shot. Uneasy collaborating with MayDay to remove the bomb.
Octopussy - Confronting Orlov about the bomb. Being pinned down by knives against the door. Race to disarm the bomb at the circus.
Moonraker - Centrifuge gone awry. Visiting Drax with M in the "laboratory" and looking foolish.
For Your Eyes Only - Trapped in the helicopter. Watching his Lotus blow up. Being kicked off the cliff.
OHMSS- Lazenby gazing out the window thinking of Tracy
Goldfinger - The laser scene
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
Similarly, Bond was quite distressed when faced with Goldfinger’s bomb.
See also:
Bond in a stolen coat, sitting by the ice skating rink in OHMSS.
Bond facing incineration in the eco-hotel in QoS.
“Don’t blow us up!” in TWINE.
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1. GoldenEye 2. Goldfinger 3. Skyfall 4. OHMSS 5. TWINE
Re Goldeneye, he appears worried on a few occasions - certainly when counting the number if times Boris clicks the Parker pen, he looks nervous as hell!
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You mentioned one of my favourites. The OHMSS scene is fantastic, really understated, Bond is washed up, had it, out of energy and out of hope,just waiting for the inevitable end. He looks up and there is Tracy...a series highlight for me.
My problem with this scene is twofold: 1. Tarantulas aren't especially poisonous. 2. The glass separating Connery from the spider is all too obvious. You can see in this still how the spider seems to be sort of levitating.
As an aside, in the novel it was a centipede, not a spider. I once woke up to find a centipede crawling on my back. Talk about being generally scared...
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The laser scene in Goldfinger is fine because he's totally out of options at that point but the reason that scene is so great is because it only happens once. You wouldn't want him to keep ending up in situations like that or you'd be like "why is this guy so clumsy all the time?"
1. GoldenEye 2. Goldfinger 3. Skyfall 4. OHMSS 5. TWINE
That was real fear. As I understand, a plexiglass partition was placed into the water. It was meant to separate Sean Connery from the sharks. But the partition was not long enough to cover the whole pool and a shark managed to swim through the gap and got very close to Connery.
Yes, there was always an element of John Gardner's Boysie Oakes to James Bond; he did feel fear, he did bleed. I think that Lazenby and Brosnan brought out this element of vulnerability in the filmic James Bond the best of the lot IMHO, but Craig seems to be doing a rather fine job too. -{
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"In the case of A View to a Kill, a film where Bond's actions are often rendered ineffective, seeing the worry materialise in those amiable eyes is tremendously engaging and reaches a peak as Bond clings to the suspension cable. At the same time, those worried eyes, along with Zorin's dismissals and May Day's dynamism, steal some of the triumphalist zing."
and here is McNess' note about Goldeneye:
Martin Campbell noted that his essential task in directing was making sure he "never looks panicked or flustered" On the one hand, fear and panic held in check may represent more authientic and realistic behavior froma secret agent, a man who is required to kill. And in the short term this cool and controlled behavior can be quite arresting for a cinema audience to watch. But are we shortchanging ourselves in the process?
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
A pamphlet, then, is it? )
Only kidding, I like the film.
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It's a self-published book of over 100 pages - buy it and read it. It's great - it'll win you over!
Dalton gets startled a lot thanks to John Glen's trademark. There's the monkey in Gibraltar, then the birds outside of Whitaker's house in Tangiers, then in LTK when he rappels down outside of Sanchez; Casino in Ithsmus City.
Moore shows a bit of an edge in "TSWLM" They've dodged two attempts on their lives after leaving Stromberg's laboratory, and when the helicopter appears shooting at them, there's a definite tenseness when Moore says, "Ever get the geeling that somebody doesn't like you??"
Connery was superb at it, and I'm sure Craig could pull it off very well if he stopped being 'terminator Bond' for a second.
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