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The boy is nothing in comparison, really. Bond was being chased and he clearly didn't have the money to pay him. Keeping him on the boat would have put him in danger.
Yes, you could argue that he was saving the elephant boy.
And I'm always surprised in the film how quickly he admits it to her.
I'm always surprised that after he tells her she doesn't slug him in the jaw! I'll take duping Solitaire too.
So he has to push the boy off the boat to keep the boy out of the firing line, and similarly in LALD he needs to find out more about Kananga’s organisation somehow and tricking Solitaire is a quick and efficient way to do that. Quicker than waiting for a romance to blossom naturally, anyway.
Also, in QOS we don’t know what happens after he’s made a quip and walked off screen, for all we know Bond phoned for an ambulance for Camille or something.
And also, we don’t know anything about Dink. Perhaps Dink has already told JB that she likes being slapped on the bottom? Or perhaps it’s an in-joke between JB and Dink, referring to a conversation they had earlier. Who knows? Yes it’s desperate stuff I know but remember that Bond is not here to present the case for his defence :))
I can’t think of any mitigating circumstances for his behaviour towards the MR hotel bell hop though. It seems so unnecessary on every level. It does not befit a gentleman at all. So I vote for MR bell hop.
My vote goes to Dink.
Bond in FRWL has a male bell hop
Bell Hop "anything else sir?"
Bond "No just this" (slides money in the jacket pocket)
Bell Hop (looking at the tip) "Thank you sir."
Not really, she'd already seen that card and didn't tell Mr. Big. She knew what was coming and played along anyway. The way he does it may be questionable, but she'd made up her mind way before they meet.
Indeed, and even more being Moore's Bond.
So, yes, I'm voting MR.
Now, given @dove’s selected choices, I’ll pick:
James takes away the "power" of Solitaire by duping her with a stacked deck of cards from LALD
Oddly the Dink scene from GF has never really upset me. Maybe, because that scene comes across as playful and not egoistical.
vote goes to LALD
When Bond turns over the first "lovers" card in NY, it's genuine. Solitaire knows what her future holds.
Not only is it creepy, but Bond didn't need to stack the deck.
The bit where he puts her in the cupboard and makes her listen to him shagging Anders is pretty twisted too! There's something really wrong with Bond in LALD and TMWTGG: in the latter he's even a bit pathological about hunting down and killing Scaramanga even though the guy hasn't done anything to Bond or Britain. I think Guy Hamilton must've been in a bad place in the early 70s...
Thank heavens Roger Moore was playing 007 otherwise I think he might have come across as properly unlikable!
I think the film itself is more homophobic than Bond in that sequence: Bond comes across as weirdly rude although I think he's trying to be charming, but the film presents us with a standard UK 70s sitcom OTT camp character for no reason at all really. I think it's supposed to be funny just that he's camp? And why is he British? It's a very odd little scene and I'm not really sure what they're trying to do with it.
• Bond tells Quarrel to "fetch his shoes" in DN
• Bond smacks Tania around in FRWL
• Bond forces himself upon Pussy in GF
• Bond blackmails Patricia for sexual sevices in TB, "I suppose my silence could have a prize"
• Bond Strangles a girl with bikini straps in DAF
• Bond beats Andrea in TMWTGG
• Bond hides Goodnight in the closet all night while having sex with Andrea, also in TMWTGG
• Bond is shocked that Dr Goodhead could be a woman in MR
• Bond sleeps with Colombo's wife in FYEO
• Bond sneaks in unanounced on a previous child prostitute and sex trade victim in SF
Some of these are worse than any of the nominees in my opinion.
Of the nominees I'll go with Solitaire
Which begs the question; what were the writers thinking when they added the boy to the scene in the first place? For what purpose? Was it supposed to be funny? I find it quite disturbing to be honest...