Best Bond Kills

Dutchfinger · March 2016

(I've tried the search option, I guess i'm not to competent with using that, as I couldn't find a similar thread which i'm sure already exists! - sorry if it already does)

I personally like the cold blooded kills Bond makes the best.
These spring to my mind at first instance:
- Bond killing Elektra in TWINE (the only time he directly kills a woman with a gun?)
- Bond killing Dr. Kaufman in TND (Love that scene!)
- Bond making his first two kills in the PTS of CR
- Bond killing Red Grant in FRWL
- Bond killing Vargas with the harpoon in TB
- Bond killing that goon with a harpoon in LTK ("compliments of Sharky!")
- Bond killing Sanchez in LTK with the lighter

And by far my favorite: Bond killing Prof. Dent in DN! ("That's a Smith & Wesson... And you've had your six...") Still brings me chills!

MarcAngeDraco · March 2016

The most gratifying of kills in a Bond film for me would be:

Bond killing Dario (Much credit goes to Del Toro for bringing Dario to life and making me love to hate him. It's so gruesome, yet welcome)
Bond killing Dr. Kaufman (One of Brosnan's darker moments, yet so satisfying)
Bond killing Dent (Connery epitomises cool)

chrisisall · March 2016

We Bond fans are a bloodthirsty lot. -{

Mr Martini · March 2016

One that pops up in my head right away is when Bond kills Stromberg.

Thunderpussy · March 2016

I prefer to concentrate on Bond's charity and humanitarian works.

The killing of Prof Dent. Kicking the car off the cliff.( FYEO)
The killing of Killifer " You keep it old buddie" & " complements of Sharky"
TND " I'm just a professional doing a job " ..... " Me Too !"

Infact far too many to list in full.

Chriscoop · March 2016

Slate in qos, that's a great fight scene and love bonds expression as slate bleeds out.
Agree first two in CR..... "yes considerably"
Most of Sir Seans in tb,
Tee hee in lald,
Red grant and also hinx, in fact just like tp too many to list!!!

Thunderpussy · March 2016

I do take an enormous pleasure when a great villain gets a nasty death.

chrisisall · March 2016

Thunderpussy wrote:

I do take an enormous pleasure when a great villain gets a nasty death.

You were never a fan of Teletubbies, I take it?

Thunderpussy · March 2016

The cert 18 TellyTubbies. Where Lala is "Taken" when on holiday and
Tinky Winky has to get her back. He doesn't care who he hurts. His
bloody revenge over two continents and two hours ....... he puts his
unique set of skills ( Balloon modelling and custard making ) to
their bloody ends.

heartbroken_mr_drax · March 2016

In order:

- Dent
- Grant
- XXXs boyfriend in the PTS
- Stromberg (the look on Roger's face and how many times he shoots him is epic)
- Dude in the tree in MR
- Locque
- Knife throwing twin - "That's for 009!"
- Elektra

MilleniumForce · March 2016

- Oddjob
- Scaramanga
- Drax
- Locque
- Grishka
- Whitaker
- Sanchez
- Dr Kaufman
- Elektra

I also love Bond kicking Sciarra out of the helicopter in SP, it's so quick and sudden you'd miss it.

armenianmovieman · March 2016

Mitchell in Quantum of Solace.

In fact, that entire chase scene: the music, the pace, and of course..... the culmination.

That graceful way he spins into that shot.

heartbroken_mr_drax · March 2016

armenianmovieman wrote:

Mitchell in Quantum of Solace.

In fact, that entire chase scene: the music, the pace, and of course..... the culmination.

That graceful way he spins into that shot.

YES! That scene is absolutely epic. QoS is highly underrated as a tough-as-nails, hardcore Bond flick. So good.

Firemass · March 2016

heartbroken_mr_drax wrote:

In order:

- Dent
- Grant
- XXXs boyfriend in the PTS
- Stromberg (the look on Roger's face and how many times he shoots him is epic)
- Dude in the tree in MR
- Locque
- Knife throwing twin - "That's for 009!"
- Elektra

Superb list. I love it.

I'd also add the tie-swat "what a helpful chap" in TSWLM

Vargas "I think he got the point" in TB

Tee-Hee being tossed out te train window.

Throwing Cha thru the window. "Play it again Sam"

Bond whirling around and shooting the Russian guard in the forehead in OP.

Dr. Kaufman in TND. "So am I"

also one of the most underrated, is Bond killing two guards with one spear in TSWLM.

IanT · March 2016

Locque - definitely Moore's best kill
The fight in the bogs in CR - Craig's best kill
Professor Dent - Connery's best kill
Killifer - Timmy's best kill
The man strangled with a ski- Lazenby's best kill
Dr Kaufman - Brozzer's best kill

Peppermill · March 2016

The thing is, but correct me if I'm wrong, in the Fleming novels Bond never kills someone in cold blood. It is always either in a fight or when the villain gets a knife out or something like that. Bond usualy hesitates just long enough to give the bad guy a chance to attack him so it isn't a cold blooded murder (for instance Wint and Kidd, Scaramanga).

So while the movie Bond is being portrayed as a cold blooded assassin right from the start, Dent in Dr No, in the novels he never kills an unarmed man.

Charmed & Dangerous · March 2016

I think there are one or two exceptions - off the top of my head:

To earn his licence to kill, Bond shot a Japanese cypher expert at long range, through a plate glass window if I recall (that may be a JOhn Pearson detail)

And didn't he also kill Von Hammerstein atong range, or wast planning to, in FYEO?

(I will have to read them all again! )

Peppermill · March 2016

Charmed & Dangerous wrote:

I think there are one or two exceptions - off the top of my head:

To earn his licence to kill, Bond shot a Japanese cypher expert at long range, through a plate glass window if I recall (that may be a JOhn Pearson detail)

And didn't he also kill Von Hammerstein atong range, or wast planning to, in FYEO?

(I will have to read them all again! )

The first one is from the John Pearson bio. Von Hammerstein is killed by Robina Hood.

Charmed & Dangerous · March 2016

I stand corrected :007) Although the Japanese cypher clerk kill was authorised by M I believe so still counts as a cold- blooded kill...

Peppermill · March 2016

Charmed & Dangerous wrote:

I stand corrected :007) Although the Japanese cypher clerk kill was authorised by M I believe so still counts as a cold- blooded kill...

Except for the fact that Fleming never explains the way these people die, who knows, it might be during a fight. The only thing Fleming gives us is:

"Bond frowned. 'It's not difficult to get a Double O number if you're
prepared to kill people,' he said. 'That's all the meaning it has. It's
nothing to be particularly proud of. I've got the corpses of a Japanese
cipher expert in New York and a Norwegian double agent in Stockholm
to thank for being a Double 0. Probably quite decent people."

Firemass · March 2016

Peppermill wrote:

Except for the fact that Fleming never explains the way these people die, who knows, it might be during a fight. The only thing Fleming gives us is:
"Bond frowned. 'It's not difficult to get a Double O number if you're
prepared to kill people,' he said. 'That's all the meaning it has. It's
nothing to be particularly proud of. I've got the corpses of a Japanese
cipher expert in New York and a Norwegian double agent in Stockholm
to thank for being a Double 0. Probably quite decent people."

There's more:

"The first was in New York - a Japanese cipher expert cracking our codes on the 36th floor of the RCA building in the Rockefeller centre, where the Japs had their consulate. […] a couple of Remington thirty-thirty's with telescopic sights and silencers. […] I got the Jap in the mouth as he turned to gape at the broken window."

The next time in Stockholm wasn't so pretty. […] I chose the bedroom of his flat and a knife. And, well, he just didn't die very quickly"

As you can see, the first two kills in the movie Casino Royale are kinda similar in tone, but not the same. LTK's assassination attempt on Sanchez is closer to the Japanese cipher clerk.

Jellyfish · March 2016

Peppermill wrote:

Charmed & Dangerous wrote:

I stand corrected :007) Although the Japanese cypher clerk kill was authorised by M I believe so still counts as a cold- blooded kill...

Except for the fact that Fleming never explains the way these people die, who knows, it might be during a fight. The only thing Fleming gives us is:

"Bond frowned. 'It's not difficult to get a Double O number if you're
prepared to kill people,' he said. 'That's all the meaning it has. It's
nothing to be particularly proud of. I've got the corpses of a Japanese
cipher expert in New York and a Norwegian double agent in Stockholm
to thank for being a Double 0. Probably quite decent people."

In Casino Royale, chapter 20, "The Nature of Evil", Bond describes the kills. One is with a long-range rifle shot and the other is with a knife.

Peppermill · March 2016

Jellyfish wrote:

In Casino Royale, chapter 20, "The Nature of Evil", Bond describes the kills. One is with a long-range rifle shot and the other is with a knife.

Woops! Thanks a lot, I stand corrected!

Firemass · March 2016

IGN made a good top 7 countdown of the "Coldest Bond Kills"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VRfLxfzGGY

However, "coldest" does not necessarily mean "best" :007)

Charmed & Dangerous · March 2016

Peppermill wrote:

Charmed & Dangerous wrote:

I stand corrected :007) .

Woops! Thanks a lot, I stand corrected!

I guess we're even now

) -{

I also guess this proves that these are exceptions - very few Bon kills are in cold blood.

MarcAngeDraco · March 2016

Firemass wrote:

Peppermill wrote:

Except for the fact that Fleming never explains the way these people die, who knows, it might be during a fight. The only thing Fleming gives us is:
"Bond frowned. 'It's not difficult to get a Double O number if you're
prepared to kill people,' he said. 'That's all the meaning it has. It's
nothing to be particularly proud of. I've got the corpses of a Japanese
cipher expert in New York and a Norwegian double agent in Stockholm
to thank for being a Double 0. Probably quite decent people."

There's more:

"The first was in New York - a Japanese cipher expert cracking our codes on the 36th floor of the RCA building in the Rockefeller centre, where the Japs had their consulate. […] a couple of Remington thirty-thirty's with telescopic sights and silencers. […] I got the Jap in the mouth as he turned to gape at the broken window."

The next time in Stockholm wasn't so pretty. […] I chose the bedroom of his flat and a knife. And, well, he just didn't die very quickly"

As you can see, the first two kills in the movie Casino Royale are kinda similar in tone, but not the same. LTK's assassination attempt on Sanchez is closer to the Japanese cipher clerk.

This is why I've always liked the Bond vs Slate scene in QOS, and one of the reasons I enjoy QOS more than CR - "he just didn't die very quickly" seems to be alluded to when Bond looks away as Slate passes.

Barbel · March 2016

MarcAngeDraco wrote:

This is why I've always liked the Bond vs Slate scene in QOS, and one of the reasons I enjoy QOS more than CR - "he just didn't die very quickly" seems to be alluded to when Bond looks away as Slate passes.

Totally agree, that scene is very Flemingesque- but there's huge chunks of CR which are even more so and as a long-term Fleming reader I was delighted to see them onscreen, which is one of the reasons (well, the main one) I prefer CR06 to QoS.

Firemass · March 2016

Barbel wrote:

CR06 to QoS.

It's time for Bond fans to completely disown the 1967 Casino Royale. There's only one CR as far as I'm concerned.

MarcAngeDraco · March 2016

Barbel wrote:

MarcAngeDraco wrote:

This is why I've always liked the Bond vs Slate scene in QOS, and one of the reasons I enjoy QOS more than CR - "he just didn't die very quickly" seems to be alluded to when Bond looks away as Slate passes.

Totally agree, that scene is very Flemingesque- but there's huge chunks of CR which are even more so and as a long-term Fleming reader I was delighted to see them onscreen, which is one of the reasons (well, the main one) I prefer CR06 to QoS.

Even with the premise of the film and a handful of characters, CR really isn't "Flemingesque"... Point out to me where in the novel that Bond storms embassies, breaks into M's apartment, sucks Vesper's fingers, makes crass jokes whilst getting his balls thumped and where M's secretary is in the male form of Villers and we'll start talking!

Matt S · March 2016

Firemass wrote:

Barbel wrote:

CR06 to QoS.

It's time for Bond fans to completely disown the 1967 Casino Royale. There's only one CR as far as I'm concerned.

Me too. It's the 1954 version. By far the best Le Chiffre!

Charmed & Dangerous · March 2016

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