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[The Quartermaster]

I've just watched Licence to Kill again and it got me thinking: when has Bond been closest to death?

Personally I think it's in licence to kill when Bond's stuck on the conveyor belt of drugs leading into the grinder, but I wanted to see what you guys thought.

[Qwerty]

I'm imagining it might be said: "When Brosnan got the role."

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I think Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever. When he is placed in the coffin by Wint and Kidd and then left and stuck in there to die, there really seems to be nothing he can do to free himself. It all comes by the lucky help of someone else.

[Tarl_Cabot]

Icebreaker...being tortured by submersion into freezing water?

[Qwerty]

Oh, are we doing the books also?

If so, then it might be Casino Royale.

[Tarl_Cabot]

The films don't exactly put our hero in harms' way.

[Righty007]

Maidens Tower in The World Is Not Enough.

[Qwerty]

The films don't exactly put our hero in harms' way.

Um...certainly not like the books do, but there are the select scenes in the films.

[Tanger]

Depends how you count it. For example in the Goldfinger Bond is close to death because of the buzzsaw/laser. In say, torture, Bond is clsoe to death becausee of his physically/mentally diminished state.

[Qwerty]

Maybe he is closest to death then, because of his mental state. The opening of You Only Live Twice perhaps?

[SnakeEyes]

I'm going for the laser table in GF. Bond really is about to die untill he suddenly comes up with a last ditch bluff that he knows more about 'grandslam' than its name.

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

I'd say in the end of the book YOLT right after he escapes Blofeld's castle and falls into the sea, Casino Royale is pretty close too.

[MillesGloriosus]

I've just watched Licence to Kill again and it got me thinking: when has Bond been closest to death?

Personally I think it's in licence to kill when Bond's stuck on the conveyor belt of drugs leading into the grinder, but I wanted to see what you guys thought.

I'd say he was closest in Goldfinger.

Goldfinger stops the lazer on a whim with seconds before 007 would have became 003 1/2. James Bond was helpless.

[Dr. Tynan]

One time is when he was nearly shot by that fool in LTK on the plane, but stops the bullets with the dough. Lucky man.

[00-FAN008]

When Bond was being strangled in The World Is Not Enough, I was on the edge of my seat!

[BONDFINESSE 007]

i think it was in the opening of tomorrow never dies when bond was being strangled in the plane after taking off with the bombs


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[freemo]

I'm going for the laser table in GF. Bond really is about to die untill he suddenly comes up with a last ditch bluff that he knows more about 'grandslam' than its name.

Ditto. Great scene. Bond desperately trying to silver tongue his way out, and Goldfinger happy enough for him to die until the very last moment. Very well done, one genuinely fears for Bonds life here, something that doesn't happen too often.

Also in Tomorrow Never Dies where Carver and Stamper talk about the torture that Stamper is soon planning to inflict on Bond. Brings out the tools, etc. Okay, nothing actually happens there, but I felt uncomfortable for Bond, like it was really going to happen.

[00Twelve]

In Fleming, it HAS to be the end of From Russia With Love.

In the films, I'm tempted to say the 14-month torture in DAD (because he literally had to learn how to stop his heart), or I could go with From Russia With Love, just before Grant saves him at the Gypsy camp.

[Genrewriter]

Fleming: Definitely the end of FRWL.

Film: Torture chair, laser table, one could also make an argument for Octopusst. He does just barely get the bomb defused as it hits zero.

[Kristatos]

Genrewriter: Thats a good point!

I would like to say Moonraker, when he is captured in this centrifuge.

[Cabainus]

It has to be LTK

Bond has destroyed the drugs shipment, in the Wavekrest and is pursued by a number of divers.

He is caught, where upon he has his breathing apparatus cut, and is held tightly, with little or no oxygen.

He is apparently done for before wriggling free and firing a harpoon at a drug lords plane, to be lifted to safety.

[SnakeEyes]

That scene in LTK is really good, but I never feared for his life, just his safety. Although I guess they wouldn't be capturing him for questioning...

Same with the OP bomb scene, it's a tense moment for sure, but there's alot more than Bond on my mind when I think of what the bomb would do if it went bang

[trs007]

I think Bond is closest to death when he is helpless and needs help (not his wits or a gadget) to get out of the situation:

1. Traction table on Thunderball--nothing to do but cry for help and fortunately, it arrived.

2. Coffin in DAF--lucky for Bond those diamonds were fake. No quick wit or gadget was happening there.

[Buck]

I'm with Tanger. Definitely Goldfinger

Buck

[Qwerty]

1. Traction table on Thunderball--nothing to do but cry for help and fortunately, it arrived.

2. Coffin in DAF--lucky for Bond those diamonds were fake. No quick wit or gadget was happening there.

At least in the coffin scene, all the crying and yelling wouldn't do a thing.

[Double-Oh-Zero]

I'd say Bond was closest to death in both the novel and film of FRWL.

At the gypsy camp in the film, the thug was about tto kill Bond while his back was turned, but it was only by Grant's hand that Bond was saved. Additionally, Bond was pretty blimmin' close when he was fighting Grant on the train (the knife saved him), and also while fighting Klebb (if the chair wasn't there, one nick from the knife and he would have been a dead man).

Still, GF was also pretty damn close, too. He was completely at the jolly fat man's mercy there. Not Santa Claus, BTW.

I've just watched Licence to Kill again and it got me thinking: when has Bond been closest to death?

Kind of ironic, innit?

Perhaps not.

[License To Kill]

I'm gonna say DAF in the coffin. There might be others but that somehow came off the top of my head first.

[Qwerty]

Has anyone mentioned when he starred in The World Is Not Enough?

[Goldfinger007]

Has anyone mentioned when he starred in The World Is Not Enough?

You mean, because the movie was terrible or because of what happened to Bond in the movie?

[Qwerty]

Has anyone mentioned when he starred in The World Is Not Enough?

You mean, because the movie was terrible or because of what happened to Bond in the movie?

Was a joke by me about the movie.

[Goldfinger007]

Has anyone mentioned when he starred in The World Is Not Enough?

You mean, because the movie was terrible or because of what happened to Bond in the movie?

Was a joke by me about the movie.

Ahhh... I get it... since TWINE is not that well liked on these boards...