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[Judo chop]

Bourne did it first. So Bond kinda has to, y'know?

[Morgan]

Well it's obvious that no one has the answer to how he survives the fall and being shot by Eve. And no bullet wounds other that from Patrice. I guess Eve missed and the hand that we see in the credits is a symbolic hand of fate that he will survive as he always does. Maybe that is Mendes point anyway.

[JimmyBond]

Bond's wearing a bullet proof vest. He mentions later on that he has a few cracked ribs; the result of Eve's bullet hitting his vest.

[Dustin]

Bond's wearing a bullet proof vest. He mentions later on that he has a few cracked ribs; the result of Eve's bullet hitting his vest.

That. I suppose it was explained at greater length in the dialogue but ended up on the cutting room floor.

[Judo chop]

He lands in water and survives. What's the big deal? Good practice for his ice fishing fight later on.

[Harmsway]

Bond's wearing a bullet proof vest. He mentions later on that he has a few cracked ribs; the result of Eve's bullet hitting his vest.

That. I suppose it was explained at greater length in the dialogue but ended up on the cutting room floor.

Yeah, a lot of connective tissue was left on the cutting room floor.

[cory47]

A friend of mine whom I watched SF with had an interesting take on the Bond "train fall" scene. Perhaps Bond actually dies and the rest of film is his dying dream? Hence all the tombstones and skulls during the title sequence and the full-circle ending of Bond with Moneypenny and M in M's office? I don't go along with it but it makes for an interesting scenario!

[plankattack]

A friend of mine whom I watched SF with had an interesting take on the Bond "train fall" scene. Perhaps Bond actually dies and the rest of film is his dying dream? Hence all the tombstones and skulls during the title sequence and the full-circle ending of Bond with Moneypenny and M in M's office? I don't go along with it but it makes for an interesting scenario!

Like Bobby Ewing in Dallas?! - a reference that only middle--aged CBnrs would get!!!!

I said on another thread, Bond survives in the same way that Gustav Graves survived at the start of DAD! And that would be...........DNA gene replacement therapy!!!!

[Dustin]

A friend of mine whom I watched SF with had an interesting take on the Bond "train fall" scene. Perhaps Bond actually dies and the rest of film is his dying dream? Hence all the tombstones and skulls during the title sequence and the full-circle ending of Bond with Moneypenny and M in M's office? I don't go along with it but it makes for an interesting scenario!

Like Bobby Ewing in Dallas?! - a reference that only middle--aged CBnrs would get!!!!

Thanks for calling me middle-aged. Usually people just call me old...

[Iceskater101]

I don't know why there is a thread for this, he is James Bond! Seriously. That is all.

[JazzyBond]

I concur! He's James Bond! I mean really for all of DAD's faults I never heard one disparaging remark about Graves surviving the hovercraft waterfall crash. A hovercraft he was pinned to!! So no I don't have a problem with Bond surviving and them not showing it. Like I mentioned on another thread, Mendes next shows Bond after the fall partaking in his favorite pastime of fornicating with a local village girl. So as to tell the audience that our man is still alive and on the "job".

Edited by JazzyBond, 16 November 2012 - 11:15 AM.

[thecasinoroyale]

I've always thought for situations like this, in James Bond films, he is the only hero I can watch to see him come out of pretty much anything with either a scruffy suit, wounds or blood. He's allowed to survive anything, but he has to let us know he had a hard time doing it! He's 007, and that's how he survived.

He's been to outer space and the depths of the ocean and surived everything else in-between, so this was just another uncomfortable ride he had to make.

Hell, god knows he he survived falling down a rocky ravine face underneath an 18-wheeler filled with gasoline, but he did and we see that he had a hard-time doing so, as with the 'Skyfall' PTS.


"Don't think, just let it happen."

[stromberg]

A friend of mine whom I watched SF with had an interesting take on the Bond "train fall" scene. Perhaps Bond actually dies and the rest of film is his dying dream? Hence all the tombstones and skulls during the title sequence and the full-circle ending of Bond with Moneypenny and M in M's office? I don't go along with it but it makes for an interesting scenario!

Like Bobby Ewing in Dallas?! - a reference that only middle--aged CBnrs would get!!!!

Thanks for calling me middle-aged. Usually people just call me old...

Beat me to it. Both of you.

[jamie00007]

Not seeing the issue. Many movies have people jumping from ridiculously improbably heights into water and surviving. In the world of movies, water saves you from any height. Not seeing the problem in a movie series where people can survive jumping out of a plane without a parachute and landing on a circus big top.

[PPK_19]

I see his surviving as no more ridiculous than the last-second parachute deployment in QOS. Of course he survived, his hobby is resurrection.