I think I saw on an interview on Ellen, that one time Pierce Brosnan was flying somewhere and the pilot was kind enough to bring him into the cockpit. The pilot then asked if Brosnan wanted to try his hand at flying it, to which he replied yes thinking that there was an auto-pilot or something on. Apparently, the pilot thought that since Bond could fly planes, Brosnan automatically could too. So for a brief 45 minutes (or so), a normal man who never had a flying lesson was flying a passenger plane. You can watch the interview here. Now my thoughts drift and wonder if Brosnan can actually drive a tank through the city streets in Russia. Is there anything Bond can't do?
That scene was pretty corny. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I especially liked the winged horse statue that landed (and didn't even dent the tank) and rode triumphantly through the streets. Who leaves tanks just unlocked and poorly guarded? Apparently the Russians. It was blatant and in your face: Bond is riding the winged Pegasus in victory like Bellerophon attempting to defeat the chimera. The scene is just dripping with patriotism. Nothing could stop the determination of Bond behind a large tank as he crushed cars and smashed the walls of buildings. He was going to save Natalya and the audience knew it.
As I mentioned in class, I love the Q Branch aspect to the Bond franchise. The fact that Alec and Boris were brought down by a simple pen is truly funny. "The writing is on the wall," and "The pen is mightier than the sword," Bond quips after Q tests the device. In this case, yes it was. My only qualm is that the pen exploding was purely accidentally. Boris had to mistakenly pick up the pen, and then have the urge to click it multiple times in order to set it off. This scene is rooted in luck. As the movie opens, Alec tells Bond that mission are rooted in two things: luck and fate. And this scene was a mixture of both. In Skyfall (Spoiler) the new Q makes a snarky comment on the lack of gizmos and comments on what was Bond expecting, "An exploding pen?" (End Spoiler)
Remember how we talked in class about Goldfinger's kink of painting his lovers gold? Well, Onatopp takes her kink to a whole new level. She literally gets off by torturing her victims. In the spa scene where her and Bond are fighting, it seems like she almost climaxes. Everything about her fighting is very similar to having sex. For goodness sakes, she squeezes men between her thighs in a position similar to the Girl on Top Cosmo recommends ha ha. Kudos to her Thigh Master!
I also enjoyed the star studded cast: we got Ned Stark, and Hagrid and Nightcrawler. Oh my!
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