The surrealism of Bond walking into the Spectre meeting.Even more disturbing is that the bigwig meeting is basically just, essentially, a stockholder meeting as they discuss how much money they're making with a massive criminal empire. And when Blofeld quips that he and C are visionaries, Bond simply corrects him by saying that "psychiatric wards are full of them". ![]() Their foray into such barbaric crimes against humanity is what forced Mr. Even Bond looked very disgusted by the way the Spectre bigwigs casually discussed about the progress reports on their illegal activities: including slavery, regime change, narcotics, and terrorism.What's even worse is that they've managed to compromise British intelligence and cultivate an asset who would be able to hand them the crown jewels of the world's intelligence services on a silver platter, namely the collective intel gathered by all of them, information that they have the capability to act on and utilize regardless of who gets destroyed in the process. The new version is a properly cut-throat organization dabbling in everything from human trafficking, regime change, counterfeit pharmaceuticals and utilizing a massive network of well equipped agents to do its bidding from behind the scenes. The general atmosphere that Spectre in this film gives off.White kills himself and Hinx reaches his cabin, we have a delightful shot of ravens feasting on the face of Mr. Is it any wonder why Bond gives him a quick, easy way out? What makes it even worse is that this was very likely inspired by a real-life assassination, namely that of Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in his tea. Giving him radiation poisoning via his cell phone so that he dies not a quick death, but slowly, watching his own body deteriorate, not to mention any pain he ends up going through. White certainly qualifies as nightmare fuel. White: He is everywhere! EVERYWHERE!! He's sitting at your desk, he's kissing your lover, he's eating supper with your family! just in time for him to escape and lead us excited for the next chapter. Whether that's a standoff or the thwarting of a much bigger option, it should shatter Bond's world. It always has a final set piece that feels massive. He's usually faced with hard choices and comes to the brink of losing, before defying the odds to kill the villain or capture them. The third act of every James Bond movie features our hero in a sort of terrifying predicament. Or how about when Goldfinger takes off in his helicopter toward Fort Knox? And who can forget the return of Alec Trevelyan from Goldeneye? when Rosa Klebb captures Bond (we need more female Bond villains). MI6 might be shot up or in trouble, and we even have a hint that the villain might win. This is also where he meets people who might betray him later.Īs we move into the moment before the third act of a Bond film, we get the consequences for his pursuit of the villain. We see that he's a CIA man, and Bond and he get along, can team up, but take each other and the threats around them seriously. ![]() ![]() In recent versions, we meet Jeremy Wright's character here. ![]() We also see this is the time he convinces other people on the team it's time to act. This is where Bond orders his martinis, goes to the ski slopes, and attends fancy parties. I love seeing Bond go through the early scenes in Act Two because we get to see his interaction with people out in the world. It can be a ring, a word, something someone said, an old nemesis, a poker tournament, but it draws him deeper into the underworld. His reason forward is almost always a clue. No matter what, Bond is tracking the clues that take us in that general direction. Whether it's the terrorist game in Skyfall or The Spy Who Loved Me, where the villain wanted to send the world to nuclear war while fleeing to his underwater city. Once we have revealed the villain, Bond movies always divulge the consequences.
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