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  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
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    Yeah I took it that the angels could get closer to the animals without suspicion. The mind control was needed otherwise they would likely wish to destroy the planet.

    I have wondered how the small amounts that he gave them would wipe out or damage thousands of crops and animals. But as Blofeld states "the methods of great pioneers have often puzzled conventional minds."
  • GerardGerard
    Posts: 6,235
    I have wondered how the small amounts that he gave them would wipe out or damage thousands of crops and animals. But as Blofeld states "the methods of great pioneers have often puzzled conventional minds."

    History has shown us that great epidemics alway start with one virus.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited September 28 Posts: 19,189
    Reflsin2bourbons wrote: »
    I think the point was all the girls were farmer girls and so they'd have easy inside access to all the animals and crops; plus they'd raise less suspicion than a lot of blokes.

    I guess, but it’s not like there’s only one chicken farm in the UK, say. How much damage can she do to the entire industry? And Blofeld has found girls who happen to be allergic to everything he’s targeting?
    Most of these aren’t exactly high security things, I do tend to think sending a henchman to creep into a chicken farm at the dead of night is probably less work intensive than finding, recruiting and hypnotising a girl who happens to live(?) on one. He wouldn’t exactly have to be dodging the machine guns towers to get in!
    I know it’s kind of pointless poking holes in these plots, but this one is probably the silliest in all of the films! :)
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited September 28 Posts: 6,000
    I suppose we have three options...

    1) Blofeld's mad and has far too many resources available to him to enact his crazy plans.

    2) Blofeld has found some sort of theoretical reason as to why just sending men out to plant the virus would be more risky than going the lengths he does.

    3) It's what the book/script said and it'd be a much less interesting story without it ;)

    Now my random question (which I've never found a real explanation to): why in TB does Jacques Bouvard dress as his own widow to attend his fake funeral? Seems a bit stupid unless I'm missing something, and it's the only time I'[ve really been taken out of a Bond movie.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited 12:06am Posts: 19,189
    I think that’s one of those where there isn’t an answer, and we have to get into the realms of fan fiction and writing our own!
    The logical reason for faking your death and attending the funeral in disguise is that you’re trying to smoke someone out, in this case the only person who turns up and seems to want to cause Bouvar harm is James Bond, but weirdly Bond seems to be attending for the same reason, so it’s kind of like the writers have got confused. In a way it might have worked better if Bouvar had caught Bond in a trap of some sort, but instead Bouvar seems taken by surprise which kind of makes it nonsensical.
    Mind you, there are plenty of henchmen there, so perhaps capturing Bond or something similar was the plan. Maybe he was intending to romance him! Everyone knows Bond likes the ladies after all :D
  • Reflsin2bourbonsReflsin2bourbons
    Posts: 528
    mtm wrote: »
    Reflsin2bourbons wrote: »
    I think the point was all the girls were farmer girls and so they'd have easy inside access to all the animals and crops; plus they'd raise less suspicion than a lot of blokes.

    I guess, but it’s not like there’s only one chicken farm in the UK, say. How much damage can she do to the entire industry? And Blofeld has found girls who happen to be allergic to everything he’s targeting?
    Most of these aren’t exactly high security things, I do tend to think sending a henchman to creep into a chicken farm at the dead of night is probably less work intensive than finding, recruiting and hypnotising a girl who happens to live(?) on one. He wouldn’t exactly have to be dodging the machine guns towers to get in!
    I know it’s kind of pointless poking holes in these plots, but this one is probably the silliest in all of the films! :)

    I think Blofeld wanted to the girls to show up at the local animal fairs or something; in the novel the first part of the plot is carried out and one of the girls sets off the virus at a poultry show.

    If one is being charitable to Fleming's plotting, they could say that its a continuation of the theme of Blofeld's snobbery and also his want for recognition; the same reasons he calls Bray into the middle of his criminal operation. He uses innocent British/international girls to strike because it'd be more devastating than some simple man in black sneaking into some farm.

    If one is being realistic however, then probably Fleming did not consider the logistics of finding all of these allergic girls.
  • mattjoesmattjoes
    Posts: 7,269
    Does Sir Hilary bray?
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 19,189
    Thinking on it more, the Bouvar TB PTS should perhaps have been more like the banker bit in the TWINE PTS, with Bond walking into a trap but realising it beforehand (with the car door thing) and having a pre-planned way of turning the tables in his favour, as with Brosnan’s glasses/gun flashbang thing. Have Bouvar’s goons close in behind him (or the widow surreptitiously draw a gun or something), fire off the gadget or whatever, then do the car door line. There needs to be a trap element to make sense of the disguise.
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