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Relevant scene in lovely quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONtHT-aVNFE
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Party Boat posted:Relevant scene in lovely quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONtHT-aVNFE Yeah, I see why I missed it now. I'm also the guy that has seen The Dark Knight a bunch but has yet to remember to keep looking for Two-Face to get in the car with the mob boss.
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Party Boat posted:Relevant scene in lovely quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONtHT-aVNFE OneThousandMonkeys posted:Yeah, I see why I missed it now. I suppose, in fairness, she does just sort of slump over instead of exploding in a spray of blood. In fact there's no blood at all, so you'd have to pick up on the fact that the glass fell to the ground, meaning she jerked forward from the bullet. So it's understandable that someone could blink-and-miss and then wonder where she went. Also, rewatching Bond's "waste of good scotch" line, you can really tell he was doing that as a distraction. A typical Bond one liner that he wasn't really putting his heart into...but it worked anyways.
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When I saw it I thought she faints or slumps over from fright, and Silva just takes it as a win. The lack of Bond misery afterwards and his pithy one-liner ("A waste of good scotch") probably didn't help clarify what happened.
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Well Silva foreshadows it by saying he discards what he doesn't need. And hitting the girl makes the glass fall, and she's an easier target. It was pretty obvious to me. So was Bond's quip being a distraction, not evidence he hates women. He's regressive, not a MRA.
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effectual posted:Well Silva foreshadows it by saying he discards what he doesn't need. And hitting the girl makes the glass fall, and she's an easier target. It was pretty obvious to me. So was Bond's quip being a distraction, not evidence he hates women. He's regressive, not a MRA. They have established an undercurrent of misogyny as a real part of Bond's character for three movies now, as opposed to a running "joke."
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:They have established an undercurrent of misogyny as a real part of Bond's character for three movies now, as opposed to a running "joke." I saw it as due to Vesper he can no longer trust them. He can not trust them since he thinks they will betray him so he just uses them and leaves them, however I saw that he sees men in the same way and he is unable to form attachments.
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Seriously, rewatch the clip and watch Bond's facial expression. Craig does a good job of showing Bond feels saddened/distressed, he distractedly ponders a little bit to think up a one-liner only to IMMEDIATELY use it as a distraction.
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His voice cracks a tiny bit as he delivers the line, it's perfect.
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bobkatt013 posted:I saw it as due to Vesper he can no longer trust them. He can not trust them since he thinks they will betray him so he just uses them and leaves them, however I saw that he sees men in the same way and he is unable to form attachments. I'm not saying it's not written well, it's just that he almost literally says "From now on I'm a cold bastard and women are my tools, if anything." Which is sort of how he deals with the fact that he's an emotional wreck. Daniel Craig Bond is really awesome.
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| # ? Mar 14, 2013 22:53 |
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On Her Majesty's Secret Surface.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:I'm not saying it's not written well, it's just that he almost literally says "From now on I'm a cold bastard and women are my tools, if anything." Which is sort of how he deals with the fact that he's an emotional wreck. He literally says that, but then he spends the entire next film avenging Vesper, and film 3 is about him risking everything to protect another woman who has betrayed him, M.
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I heard "Feeling Good" today and thought, "Wow, I wish Nina Simone had done a Bond theme." And it turns out she did Casino Royale (1967). I guess there was such a thing as a shoe-in Bond singer even 46 years ago.
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