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The top 10 James Bond deaths


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#1 quantumofsolace

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Posted 18 December 2014 - 01:01 PM

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#2 thecasinoroyale

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Posted 18 December 2014 - 01:51 PM

All pretty spot-on in their own way.

 

I'd have thought Alec Trevelyan would have been in there...that was pretty nasty; survive a huge fall and be wracked with pain and THEN watch the whole structure collapse on your face.

 

Ouch.



#3 Call Billy Bob

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Posted 18 December 2014 - 02:39 PM

Agreed. I'd put Alec and Xenia both on there myself... but good list.



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Posted 18 December 2014 - 02:45 PM

Actually, another one I think was pretty nasty was Franz Sanchez being burned alive. Eeeesh.

 

 

This all goes to show you can't beat a good Bond death. But you look now to the Craig era and how we've lost our main villains:

 

Le Chiffre - One bullet to the head

Mr White - Shot (off-screen)

Silva - Knife in the back

 

 

Mm. Not exactly going out with a BANG are they. We need 'Spectre' to give us something epic!



#5 Call Billy Bob

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Posted 18 December 2014 - 02:47 PM

Also, where's the chair electrocution from TB?!?



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Posted 18 December 2014 - 03:37 PM

Is this a list for best deaths or most gruesome? If it's most gruesome, then it's a fairly decent list. Except that I agree with you tcr, where is Sanchez being burned alive? Or Dr. No drowning in the boiling, radioactive water whilst trying to grasp the metal bars with his metal hands?



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Posted 18 December 2014 - 03:56 PM

In the body of the article, they seem to be going for "disturbing," so the title is very vague...



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Posted 18 December 2014 - 05:22 PM

I remember utter hilarity in the playground, the morning after Goldfinger was first shown on tv, at the fat guy being sucked out of the plane. Jeez, children can be nasty little blighters!

Blofeld's piranha pool gave me nightmares as a kid, as did Fekkesh and Kalba getting the Jaws treatment in TSWLM.

 

As an adult, I still find Obano's death in the stairwell in Casino Royale fairly disturbing



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Posted 18 December 2014 - 10:17 PM

I think Greene's death in QOS is one of the most prolonged and painful. Walking in the desert for hours, actually drinking the engine oil (possibly hallucinating at this point) and when the organisation finally catch up with him, they shoot him putting him out of his misery.



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Posted 18 December 2014 - 11:45 PM

I always found Corinne Dufour's death in Moonraker to be disturbing. It scared the hell out of me as a kid and still makes me flinch. The way the scene was composed with the suspenseful music and the light streaming through the trees, and the fact that nothing was left to the imagination (you saw the chase and the capture of Corinne) was fairly full on and grisly. That such a scene was in one of the most outlandish Bond films makes it all the more confronting.



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Posted 19 December 2014 - 04:34 AM

I always found Corinne Dufour's death in Moonraker to be disturbing. It scared the hell out of me as a kid and still makes me flinch. The way the scene was composed with the suspenseful music and the light streaming through the trees, and the fact that nothing was left to the imagination (you saw the chase and the capture of Corinne) was fairly full on and grisly. That such a scene was in one of the most outlandish Bond films makes it all the more confronting.

 

I agree. The music is beautiful. The scene belongs in a 1970's horror film.



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Posted 19 December 2014 - 09:36 AM

When I was a wee lad watching TB on TV, I was always scared and disturbed when Angelo gets his air tube cut in the submersion scene.



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Posted 19 December 2014 - 06:30 PM

When I was a wee lad watching TB on TV, I was always scared and disturbed when Angelo gets his air tube cut in the submersion scene.

It always bothered how much of an idiot he was when trying to undo his belt buckle just before that.



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Posted 19 December 2014 - 09:44 PM

 That such a scene was in one of the most outlandish Bond films makes it all the more confronting.

 

I think that's probably the biggest issue with that scene.  Corinne's death scene belongs in a film like Licence to Kill or Quantum of Solace, but when the audience has been given the usual Moore punchlines and eyebrow raises for the time leading up to that moment and then for the rest of the film after, that scene is just out of place.  

 

That said, it's a very effective scene and very well done by the filmmakers.



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Posted 20 December 2014 - 07:03 AM

Perhaps not the "top" one, but Milton Krest's has always freaked me out the most. That would be excruciating.

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Posted 21 December 2014 - 11:44 PM

Perhaps not the "top" one, but Milton Krest's has always freaked me out the most. That would be excruciating.

 

And the whole set-up is very Shakespearian. Bond dupes Sanchez to the point he has no idea who he can trust.



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Posted 22 December 2014 - 03:53 AM

 

Perhaps not the "top" one, but Milton Krest's has always freaked me out the most. That would be excruciating.

 

And the whole set-up is very Shakespearian. Bond dupes Sanchez to the point he has no idea who he can trust.

 

 

That's the reason I love the film so much- Bond extracting revenge by turning Sanchez paranoid, and manipulating him into killing his own allies.



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Posted 22 December 2014 - 04:43 AM

"You left this with Ferrara, I believe?" Bond tosses Locque the Dove pin with which he tried to frame Columbo, and then kicks the precariously balanced car off the cliff in For Your Eyes Only.  Not the most gruesome death, but definitely iconic in the Bond repertoire.

 

I'm also suprised they missed Kurylenco shot in the back in From Russia With Love while trying to escape. 

 

And Sanchez is the best villain death they've had.  Dominic Greene's probably the most Flemingesque. 

 

Elliot Carver's?  Please.  That's not even the best death in the movie (chilling to think what Dr. Kaufman did to Paris.)



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Posted 22 December 2014 - 04:47 AM

I'd love to know what Patrice's thoughts were in Skyfall just before he died.

 

Probably - "But I thought you were dead!"



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Posted 26 December 2014 - 06:11 PM

Great list.

All pretty spot-on in their own way.

 

I'd have thought Alec Trevelyan would have been in there...that was pretty nasty; survive a huge fall and be wracked with pain and THEN watch the whole structure collapse on your face.

 

Ouch.

 

 

Agreed.

 

I think Greene's death in QOS is one of the most prolonged and painful. Walking in the desert for hours, actually drinking the engine oil (possibly hallucinating at this point) and when the organisation finally catch up with him, they shoot him putting him out of his misery.

Plus the axe wound to the foot.



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Posted 27 December 2014 - 12:27 AM

Greene's death would be terrible. I hate being thirsty, let alone being hot under the collar. That and Alec's death would be my pick. Both surviving long enough to feel a high level of pain before the coup de grace. But yes, stuff like Krest's head popping, or Dario being munched aren't the stuff of fairytales either.

Edited by sharpshooter, 27 December 2014 - 12:31 AM.


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Posted 27 December 2014 - 02:21 AM

Greene's death is, for my money, the best one in the entire series.  It's very well done, using the audience's imagination as its tool for making it more horrific than they probably could have put down on film. 

 

Plus, it's a fitting end to a weasel of a villain who never got his hands dirty and instead just wanted to have other people do his dirty work for him.



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Posted 08 January 2015 - 10:59 AM

Agreed about Greene - as Edmund Blackadder once said "A fate worse than a fate worse than death!" ;)

 

OHMSS - unnamed skiing henchman into snowplough - "He had lots of guts!"

 

YOLT - Helga Brandt and the piranha pool - she'd have a moment's realisation of horror before those fish finished her off.

 

TB - Fiona Volpe - not so much her demise as Bond's comment "You don't mind if my partner sits this one out, she's just dead."

 

DN - the doctor's demise, trying to grapple with now useless metal hands before being boiled alive (As a kid I always thought it was an acid bath he died in, but the heavy water reactor would have been bad enough.)

 

If deaths of characters in general rather than just villains, the two iconic ones - Jill Masterton in GF and Tracy's in OHMSS.

 

Most amusing demise of a villain - if it can be called as such? -Mr Wint in DAF. His reaction just before Bond throws him overboard. (Kidd's demise by contrast is quite gruesome.)

 

And LTK - we're spoilt for choice here. It seemed to be a contest to find the most inventive ways for Bond or Sanchez to get rid of assorted hapless henchmen and traitors before Sanchez himself flames out. I suppose Krest's death is the stand out, but they also found awful ways to finish off Dario, Heller and Killifer.



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Posted 08 January 2015 - 04:11 PM

 

 

"Most amusing demise of a villain - if it can be called as such? -Mr Wint in DAF. His reaction just before Bond throws him overboard. (Kidd's demise by contrast is quite gruesome.)"

 

I hate Mr Wint's death. Not because it is gruesome, but because, in a film admittedly full of cheap laughs, the gay man squealing with delight at having something shoved between his legs is just....awful...

 

 



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Posted 13 January 2015 - 10:27 AM

OHMSS.

The 2 SPECTRE men that Bond throws off the cliff. It looks a long way down and the long, agonising drawn-out screams suggest that they have plenty of time to realise what's happening to them.

The flame-thrower in the tunnel, during the assault on Piz-Gloria. Seriously nasty!