Three Bond Movies, One Bond Ending
Le Samourai
Honolulu, HIPosts: 573MI6 Agent
It just occurred to me that three Bond films in a row—DAF, LALD, and TMWTGG—have essentially the same ending:
• Bond defeats the main villain (Blofeld/Kananga/Scaramanga).
• Soon thereafter, Bond finds himself on a slow form of transportation (boat/train/boat) with the Bond girl (Tiffany Case/Solitaire/Mary Goodnight).
• Bond is ambushed by the main villain’s henchmen (Wint and Kidd/Tee-Hee/Nick Nack).
Now, it’s common knowledge that Bond movies can be formulaic and repetitive, but this strikes me as a particularly egregious example.
• Bond defeats the main villain (Blofeld/Kananga/Scaramanga).
• Soon thereafter, Bond finds himself on a slow form of transportation (boat/train/boat) with the Bond girl (Tiffany Case/Solitaire/Mary Goodnight).
• Bond is ambushed by the main villain’s henchmen (Wint and Kidd/Tee-Hee/Nick Nack).
Now, it’s common knowledge that Bond movies can be formulaic and repetitive, but this strikes me as a particularly egregious example.
—Le Samourai
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11- TB. 12- OP. 13- LALD. 14- TMWTGG. 15- FYEO. 16- YOLT. 17- TND. 18- QoS.
19- TWINE. 20- AVTAK. 21- MR. 22- DAF. 23- DAD.
in the first ones and DAD Bond fights with the villain in/on an airship, in LTK on a running tanker truck.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
I would disagree, although only half-way. The only component they share is being caught in a high-speed vehicle trying to get thrown off it. Remember, in OP, Kamal actually lands the plane but is unable to throttle down in time or alternately throttle back up (I'm guessing he underestimated his remaining engine's power or simply went for the second engine in a bit of a panic). Kamal crashes likely due to his own unfamiliarity with flying with a prop feathered while Bond saves Octopussy, who is dangling from a huge height.
In AVTAK, Bond never actually boards the blimp. Rather, Zorin tries taking him out at high altitude on a bridge. Likewise, Stacy manages to get clear of the blimp (though she is saved at a huge height). However, the blimp is lost due to clumsiness on the part of an otherwise-competent individual.
In LTK, Pam isn't in (much) danger. Sanchez damages one of her aircraft's tail surfaces, forcing her down, but she maintains control of the aircraft. Bond, meanwhile, is hanging onto a truck. Still, once Pam lands, I don't really think you have much of an aerial component there. Likewise, Pam finds one of the abandoned rigs and attempts to provide backup for Bond. Can we really say that about OP or AVTAK? You might as well throw in Casino Royale since Bond was in a point of extreme danger of falling off a vehicle at high speed while there was a huge danger of something exploding.
I do get where you're going in DAD, but unlike Kamal's twin-engined plane or Zorin's blimp, Moon's Antonov is lost because the pilots are killed. Also, unlike either Kamal or Zorin, Moon DOES at least have some self-preservation instincts, grabbing a parachute as he prepares to abandon the aircraft. Bond likewise is never hanging on for dear life; instead, he gets a helicopter that has some issues starting up. Likewise, Jinx doesn't panic. Ironically, though I despised this entire sequence, it actually does make some basic sense in that the villain figures Bond will go down with the disintegrating aircraft and he doesn't have the whole "you must die by my hand even if it kills the both of us!" thing going (although you could argue the same for Sanchez, who would have no logical reason to know about the lighter, and quite frankly even Kamal, who probably would have recovered from his dive with a second engine on full throttle [something he didn't have, but may have gone for in a Pavlovian response]).
Pretty much also accounts for TSWLM too. Bond defeats Stromberg, is on a boat (well almost a boat
And TND too.. Bond defeats Carver, then is ambushed by Stamper... all happens on the stealth boat (though obviously the other 4 films are in a row wheras TND came out years later). I'm sure there's probably more too
1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
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#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
Hmmm I don't recall that ending. Jaws simply swam away.
Although, I would say that TSWLM and MR had a nearly identical ending.
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK