Happy birthday 007! Moneypenny is currently sticking 50 candles into the Bond franchise’s cake, Q branch have provided a flamethrower (disguised as a pen) to light them but the man himself is probably elsewhere either saving the planet or practicing his cunning linguist skills. So, 50 years, 23 (official) films, $5 billion in box office and a small fortune on STD creams later, we’ve selected the finest 50 Bond movie moments for you to enjoy… and no doubt argue about. What, no Quantum Of Solace..?
A View To A Kill might disprove the theory that any movie can be made interesting by simply adding Christopher Walken to its cast, but at least he gets one moment of oddness: losing his grip on The Golden Gate Bridge, his psychotic Max Zorin offers a little guffaw in the face of imminent plummeting. Or maybe he finally read the script.
Blofeld does for nearly as many henchman as Bond, executing all those that disappoint him – and that’s most of them – in a variety of nasty ways. His Oriental adventure sees him fail to tolerate the failure of Helga Brandt, triggering the walkway trapdoor as she clips across it, sending her in as elevenses for his pet piranhas. Somewhere Dr. Evil was taking notes.
“Can you bounce on the trampoline a little more?” Surely the best job in movies would have been Maurice Binder’s assistant: helping create the sensual, titillating title sequences that have become a Bond signature. The best? Well, Thunderball not only finds Binder hitting his sexy stride, but also was the first to use genuine naked models. If we weren’t looking closely before, we were now.
Diamond smuggler Peter Franks gets the big shaft, as Bond – looking to impersonate him - intercepts Franks in an Amsterdam elevator. With both the actors and the cameras restricted by space, this is our last flash of Connery’s hairy-chested Bondage as he and Joe Robinson tear down the lift from the inside. Going down, sir?
The first rule of the Bond baddie: why just kill 007 when you can try a more-cumbersome, easily escapable technique? Exhibit A: Dr Kananga – or is that Mister Big? – going for the old lowering Bond into the shark tank trick, only to find himself facing off against the freed superspy in the beast-infested water. Bond bungs a shark pellet in Kananga’s cramhole causing the villain to balloon with air, eventually painting his lovely new underground lair a new shade of crack baron.
Source : ign[dot]com
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