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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.
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! :)
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.
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
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.
That sounds fun! It'd make more sense than what we got. Bond tends to stretch logic, but as far as I can tell it's the only instance of something in a Bond film that makes no sense whatsoever. I suppose it's meant to be a bit daft though, although I must admit I'm not sure how much of that is intentional, especially watching the film today (I don't think that editing or choreography does Simmons and Connery during the fight - and of course Barry's score - justice. It looks pretty janky at points).
I’m also no fan of the jetpack to be honest. I mean, it could be good, but like the widow there’s no reason for it. Just go down the stairs, James.
And like the widow, I’d say it’s fixable. Just have the chateau be one which has a moat (as in AVTAK) so he has a reason to fly. It feels like that’s why you’d choose a chateau in the first place…?
The alarms go off, James sees the guards raising the drawbridges from a window- he’s trapped. He radios to the lovely French agent in the car outside: “Plan B”- then heads to a door to a turret. She starts the car outside, retracts the convertible roof and pulls away.
We see some guards come rushing along and follow him through the door and up the staircase within: when they’re finally at the top they find Bond dressed in his jetpack- he fires it up and blows them all back down the stairs with the rocket draft.
He flies over the moat, making his escape, and lands on the back seat of the French lady’s moving car. Maybe a baddie car appears, giving chase; Bond drops the jetpack over the back of the car- as they drive to pass it he shoots at it and it explodes, sending the baddie car into the moat, cut to watery titles.
(I do think cutting away from Bond while he’s putting the jetpack on would really help it too: it’s so awkward having to watch him do it all up and pop his helmet on- find a reason to cut to the guys chasing him so you don’t have to see it)
I like all that. Yes, the jet pack is one of those missed opportunities for a great Bond moment.
I disagree; it can have a reason to be there without doing model shots, as it is, it doesn't.