Search/Recent Changes
DBTropes
...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Moonraker

 Moonraker
type
TVTItem
 Moonraker
label
Moonraker
 Moonraker
page
Moonraker
 Moonraker
comment
The One where Bond gets launched INTO SPACE!Moonraker is the eleventh James Bond film by Eon Productions, the third and last to be directed by Lewis Gilbert and the fourth starring Roger Moore, coming out on June 26, 1979. The Title Theme Tune was performed by Shirley Bassey, for the third and last time.James Bond is sent to investigate the aerospace industries of magnate Hugo Drax after one of their space shuttles is hijacked mid-transit. Turns out it's all part of an Evil Plan by Drax who, like Blofeld and Stromberg before him, is tired of sharing the world with all those riff-raff. To remedy this, Drax plans to exterminate the world population from the safety of his space station and replace it with "ideal" supermodel specimens. So much for champagne wishes and caviar dreams.Originally, the film following The Spy Who Loved Me would have been For Your Eyes Only, and this was even announced in the final credits of that film. However, after the unexpected and gigantic success of Star Wars less than two months before the release of The Spy Who Loved Me, the producers quickly changed their minds and decided to adapt Moonraker. Because they found the original story by Ian Fleming too mundane, the filmmakers took only the name of the villain, Hugo Drax, and nothing else. Jaws returns as the only henchman to make a second appearance in the series, but his "vicious killer" role disappears.The laser gun shown in the film and its infinite ammo is unlockable it as a cheat in the N64 game GoldenEye (in which the Aztec bonus level is based on this film). The film also got the 2010 GoldenEye video game treatment as one of the segments of 007 Legends, as in reimagined with Daniel Craig's Bond.Notable for being the final Bond film to feature Bernard Lee as M, who was suffering from stomach cancer during filming. By the time production started on For Your Eyes Only he was too ill to participate, being in the terminal stage, and he died shortly before filming wrapped. This was also the last Bond film with sets by production designer Ken Adam.
 Moonraker
fetched
2024-03-06T03:17:14Z
 Moonraker
parsed
2024-03-06T03:17:14Z
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to ActuallyIamhim: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to ArtisticLicenceEngineering: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to ArtisticLicenceGeography: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to ArtisticLicencePhysics: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to ArtisticLicenceSpace: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to CallBack: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to DoubleEntendre: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to GenreBlind: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to InNameOnly: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to LiveAndLetDie: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to OnHerMajestysSecretService: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to SpaceMarines: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to TheMagnificentSeven1960: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to TheSpyWhoLovedMe: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to Thunderball: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to WhereEaglesDare: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Moonraker
processingComment
Dropped link to YouOnlyLiveTwice: Not a Feature - ITEM
 Moonraker
processingUnknown
ActuallyIamhim
 Moonraker
processingUnknown
ArtisticLicenceEngineering
 Moonraker
processingUnknown
ArtisticLicenceGeography
 Moonraker
processingUnknown
ArtisticLicencePhysics
 Moonraker
processingUnknown
ArtisticLicenceSpace
 Moonraker
processingUnknown
GenreBlind
 Moonraker
processingUnknown
SpaceMarines
 Moonraker
isPartOf
DBTropes
 Moonraker / int_13f7da6
type
Instant Expert
 Moonraker / int_13f7da6
comment
Instant Expert: In the novelization, Bond does his jump (including wresting a parachute from someone in mid-air) based on only a conversation he had with a British army parachute team.
 Moonraker / int_13f7da6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_13f7da6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_13f7da6
 Moonraker / int_149bfb3a
type
Improvised Zipline
 Moonraker / int_149bfb3a
comment
Improvised Zip Line: Bond and Holly Goodhead use a chain to slide down a cable car cable.
 Moonraker / int_149bfb3a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_149bfb3a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_149bfb3a
 Moonraker / int_156cad4c
type
Mook Carryover
 Moonraker / int_156cad4c
comment
Mook Carryover: Jaws survives being dropped into a shark tank in the middle of the ocean at the end of the last film. When Chang is killed, Jaws is hired as his replacement. Justified by the implication he was a freelance Professional Killer rather than a loyal minion of Stromberg's.
 Moonraker / int_156cad4c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_156cad4c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_156cad4c
 Moonraker / int_17122b19
type
Exactly What I Aimed At
 Moonraker / int_17122b19
comment
Exactly What I Aimed At: Bond accompanies Hugo Drax on a quail hunt. One flies out at him and he fires, missing the quail. Drax says, "You missed, Mister Bond.", whereupon a thug who had been trying to kill him falls from a tree near where the quail flew out, and Bond answers "Did I?".
 Moonraker / int_17122b19
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_17122b19
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_17122b19
 Moonraker / int_17fc8b9c
type
Storyboarding the Apocalypse
 Moonraker / int_17fc8b9c
comment
Storyboarding the Apocalypse: When Bond and Goodhead follow Drax up to his space station and see most of what's happening, Drax helpfully provides the remaining details.
 Moonraker / int_17fc8b9c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_17fc8b9c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_17fc8b9c
 Moonraker / int_18dd6739
type
Dressing as the Enemy
 Moonraker / int_18dd6739
comment
Dressing as the Enemy: While in Drax's Elaborate Underground Base, Bond and Dr. Goodhead knock out two of Drax's employees and put on their yellow jumpsuits so they can masquerade as astronauts and board one of the space shuttles.
 Moonraker / int_18dd6739
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_18dd6739
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_18dd6739
 Moonraker / int_19add21f
type
Why We Can't Have Nice Things
 Moonraker / int_19add21f
comment
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Bond fights Chang in an Italian glass museum. There had been a tour through the museum earlier, just to establish exactly how priceless each piece was. It goes like you'd expect.
 Moonraker / int_19add21f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_19add21f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_19add21f
 Moonraker / int_1c585ba5
type
Balls of Steel
 Moonraker / int_1c585ba5
comment
Balls of Steel: Bond knees Jaws in the groin while fighting him in the space station. There's a "clang" sound when Bond does so, indicating that Jaws has these, in addition to his steel teeth.
 Moonraker / int_1c585ba5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_1c585ba5
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_1c585ba5
 Moonraker / int_1c6ded94
type
Wicked Cultured
 Moonraker / int_1c6ded94
comment
Wicked Cultured: Drax lives in a fancy villa imported brick brick from Paris and plays Chopin on the piano.
 Moonraker / int_1c6ded94
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_1c6ded94
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_1c6ded94
 Moonraker / int_1d3c92da
type
Failsafe Failure
 Moonraker / int_1d3c92da
comment
Failsafe Failure: The "chicken switch" on the centrifuge. Justified in that we see Chang unplug it before he turns the centrifuge on.
 Moonraker / int_1d3c92da
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_1d3c92da
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_1d3c92da
 Moonraker / int_1d751503
type
Talking Your Way Out
 Moonraker / int_1d751503
comment
Talking Your Way Out: Bond uses Hugo Drax's speech to inspire a Heel–Face Turn in Jaws, who takes notice of how much he and his short, bespectacled girlfriend stick out amongst Drax's future "Master Race".
 Moonraker / int_1d751503
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_1d751503
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_1d751503
 Moonraker / int_1e584efa
type
Cruel and Unusual Death
 Moonraker / int_1e584efa
comment
Cruel and Unusual Death: Getting ripped apart by dobermans certainly qualifies.
 Moonraker / int_1e584efa
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_1e584efa
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_1e584efa
 Moonraker / int_22cf536c
type
Chekhov's Gun
 Moonraker / int_22cf536c
comment
Chekhov's Gun: Three of them. The wrist-activated dart gun Bond uses to escape the gravity trainer and shoot Drax, Dr. Goodhead's "poison pen" Bond takes in Venice and later uses to kill the python in the jungle, and the laser rifle being tested by Q that's later used by the U.S. Marines attacking Drax's orbiting space station.
 Moonraker / int_22cf536c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_22cf536c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_22cf536c
 Moonraker / int_2470d8fd
type
Steel Ear Drums
 Moonraker / int_2470d8fd
comment
Steel Ear Drums: Bond and Goodhead are completely unaffected by the sound of a space shuttle blasting off even though they're only inches away. Never mind being deafened by the noise, in Real Life they probably would have been killed.
 Moonraker / int_2470d8fd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_2470d8fd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_2470d8fd
 Moonraker / int_24f4c82a
type
Semper Fi
 Moonraker / int_24f4c82a
comment
Semper Fi: When the time comes to destroy Hugo Drax's space station, guess which service is sent to do it? And given that the ensuing fight demonstrates the principle "in space, there is no such thing as 'minor damage'", one suspects this is why the film-makers went with the USMC.
 Moonraker / int_24f4c82a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_24f4c82a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_24f4c82a
 Moonraker / int_2bfb1856
type
Beard of Evil
 Moonraker / int_2bfb1856
comment
Beard of Evil: Hugo Drax plans to remake the world to make it a better place to have an evil beard in.
 Moonraker / int_2bfb1856
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_2bfb1856
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_2bfb1856
 Moonraker / int_30a0067b
type
Supervillain Lair
 Moonraker / int_30a0067b
comment
Supervillain Lair: Drax actually gets three: his French château transported brick by brick to California, a Mayan ruin which houses his shuttle launch complex, and the space station in orbit of Earth.
 Moonraker / int_30a0067b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_30a0067b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_30a0067b
 Moonraker / int_30e5809b
type
Phlebotinum-Handling Equipment
 Moonraker / int_30e5809b
comment
Phlebotinum-Handling Equipment: The scientists in Hugo Drax's lab use manipulators for part of their processing of the deadly poison. Unfortunately they use manual manipulation outside a sealed area for the rest, so after James Bond fools around with the vials one of them is knocked down and broken, killing them.
 Moonraker / int_30e5809b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_30e5809b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_30e5809b
 Moonraker / int_32bf17e0
type
Weaponized Headgear
 Moonraker / int_32bf17e0
comment
Weaponized Headgear: During the fight in the glass museum, Chang chucks his Men (kendo helmet) at Bond, causing him to fall into a glass case in an attempt to dodge.
 Moonraker / int_32bf17e0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_32bf17e0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_32bf17e0
 Moonraker / int_3403abfc
type
Mugged for Disguise
 Moonraker / int_3403abfc
comment
Mugged for Disguise: Bond and Dr. Goodhead knock out two of Drax's employees and put on their yellow jumpsuits.
 Moonraker / int_3403abfc
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_3403abfc
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_3403abfc
 Moonraker / int_354f7d1c
type
TheresNoKillLikeOverkill
 Moonraker / int_354f7d1c
comment
There's No Kill like Overkill: The film clearly points out that someone shot with the cyanide-tipped darts in Bond's wrist gun dies in 30 seconds. Yet when Bond shoots Drax with said darts, he follows up by blowing him out an airlock and into space before the dart has a chance to work.
 Moonraker / int_354f7d1c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_354f7d1c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_354f7d1c
 Moonraker / int_357ccbd1
type
Kung-Shui
 Moonraker / int_357ccbd1
comment
Kung-Shui: Bond and Chang's fight in a glass factory results in several priceless artefacts smashed. In fact, the scene had the largest amount of break-away sugar glass in a single scene.
 Moonraker / int_357ccbd1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_357ccbd1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_357ccbd1
 Moonraker / int_38291355
type
Does Not Know His Own Strength
 Moonraker / int_38291355
comment
Jaws himself gets one when he pulls the ripcord to his parachute and it comes off in his hand. He gets another one later when he sees his cable car is about to crash. Then a third one as he's about to fall from the top of the Iguazú Falls.
 Moonraker / int_38291355
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_38291355
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_38291355
 Moonraker / int_391d6577
type
Sequel Escalation
 Moonraker / int_391d6577
comment
Sequel Escalation: How can you top a madman stealing SSBNs to start World War III? A genocidal madman IN SPACE! To date, the films never escalate to this scale again. Instead they have escalated in amount of action sequences, or their Refuge in Audacity (see previous film and the ski jump), or more recently with Brosnan's run, the exception of Carver, ever more physically powerful villains such as Renard and Graves. The Daniel Craig run appears to be flipping it back the other way once again.
 Moonraker / int_391d6577
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_391d6577
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_391d6577
 Moonraker / int_392372f9
type
Actor Allusion
 Moonraker / int_392372f9
comment
Actor Allusion: M asks Moneypenny if Bond's back from a mission in Africa. Roger Moore's previous film was The Wild Geese, which largely took place in South Africa. While testing Q's dart-shooter, Bond shoots a dart into a painting of William III, who was played by Bernard Lee in the 1937 film adaptation of The Black Tulip. No wonder why M is mad at him this time!
 Moonraker / int_392372f9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_392372f9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_392372f9
 Moonraker / int_393a1e86
type
But What About the Astronauts?
 Moonraker / int_393a1e86
comment
But What About the Astronauts?: The whole point of Drax's plot, with him and his master race set to be the only humans left alive after the rest of them on the planet are eradicated.
 Moonraker / int_393a1e86
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_393a1e86
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_393a1e86
 Moonraker / int_3962ed76
type
Take the Wheel
 Moonraker / int_3962ed76
comment
Take the Wheel: Jaws and some mooks are chasing Bond in a speedboat when Jaws takes the wheel a little too literally.
 Moonraker / int_3962ed76
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_3962ed76
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_3962ed76
 Moonraker / int_3a2c615c
type
Shark Pool
 Moonraker / int_3a2c615c
comment
Shark Pool: Hugo Drax drops Bond into a pool with a reticulated python.
 Moonraker / int_3a2c615c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_3a2c615c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_3a2c615c
 Moonraker / int_3ac2a3e3
type
Deadly Gas
 Moonraker / int_3ac2a3e3
comment
A lab facility that involves the handling of a nerve agent that kills in under a minute should any of it leak somehow does not require the lab workers to wear biohazard gear in the event of an accidental spill. There are safety precautions to ensure that the gas doesn't spread outside the room where the leak occurred, but nothing to protect the people in that room.
 Moonraker / int_3ac2a3e3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_3ac2a3e3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_3ac2a3e3
 Moonraker / int_3c0a4666
type
Noodle Incident
 Moonraker / int_3c0a4666
comment
Noodle Incident: M asks Moneypenny if Bond's back from "that African job". Whatever that may be (though it's likely a reference to Moore's previous, non-Bond film).
 Moonraker / int_3c0a4666
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_3c0a4666
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_3c0a4666
 Moonraker / int_3c1bc558
type
Board to Death
 Moonraker / int_3c1bc558
comment
The scream uttered by the Mook Bond kicks away after taking his parachute in the opening teaser skydiving sequence. This scream is commonly heard in the Moore-era Bond films. It's the same one cried out by the guy who wants "no part of it" and is Thrown from the Zeppelin in A View to a Kill.
 Moonraker / int_3c1bc558
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_3c1bc558
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_3c1bc558
 Moonraker / int_3eee0728
type
Captain Obvious
 Moonraker / int_3eee0728
comment
Captain Obvious: Bond almost falls off the roof of the cable car.
 Moonraker / int_3eee0728
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_3eee0728
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_3eee0728
 Moonraker / int_3f0b2f50
type
Make It Look Like an Accident
 Moonraker / int_3f0b2f50
comment
Make It Look Like an Accident: Chang first tries to murder Bond by sabotaging the Zero-G astronaut training he was taking part in (the Bond girl believes something had went wrong with the controls), and later Drax himself tries to have him shot and make it look like a hunting accident. Both attempts take place when Bond was on Drax's property as a guest and, when Bond leaves, later attempts are even more over-the-top but not set-up as accidents. In the Action Prologue / Batman Cold Open, the Pilot henchman shoots out the plane's controls for this purpose.
 Moonraker / int_3f0b2f50
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_3f0b2f50
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_3f0b2f50
 Moonraker / int_40b98588
type
Adaptational Location Change
 Moonraker / int_40b98588
comment
Adaptational Location Change: The book never actually left England, with the climax taking place in Kent. The movie is a globe-trotting adventure that sees Bond visit California, Venice, Rio de Janeiro and outer space.
 Moonraker / int_40b98588
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_40b98588
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_40b98588
 Moonraker / int_440d1d0b
type
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
 Moonraker / int_440d1d0b
comment
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: M is forced by Frederick Gray to take Bond off the case after they're both humiliated by entering the supposed laboratory, now Drax's study, wearing gas masks. However, Bond is able to produce the gas vial he recovered from the lab, showing that he was right. M decides to grant him a "leave of absence" so that he can pursue the lead in Rio.
 Moonraker / int_440d1d0b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_440d1d0b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_440d1d0b
 Moonraker / int_45fe3a2e
type
Utopia Justifies the Means
 Moonraker / int_45fe3a2e
comment
Utopia Justifies the Means: Drax.
 Moonraker / int_45fe3a2e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_45fe3a2e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_45fe3a2e
 Moonraker / int_474e3977
type
You Have Failed Me
 Moonraker / int_474e3977
comment
You Have Failed Me: Drax fires Corinne, accusing her of having revealed the location of his safe to Bond. Then he sics his Dobermans on her.
 Moonraker / int_474e3977
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_474e3977
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_474e3977
 Moonraker / int_48aac61d
type
Chummy Commies
 Moonraker / int_48aac61d
comment
Chummy Commies: General Gogol's conversation with an American General counterpart is fairly benign.
 Moonraker / int_48aac61d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_48aac61d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_48aac61d
 Moonraker / int_49334c8e
type
Coitus Uninterruptus
 Moonraker / int_49334c8e
comment
Coitus Uninterruptus: During the gondola chase scene, a snogging couple continues to make out even as their gondola is cut in half and the portion with the gondolier sinks (and their half will very likely eventually sink also).
 Moonraker / int_49334c8e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_49334c8e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_49334c8e
 Moonraker / int_49d59be9
type
Scenery Porn
 Moonraker / int_49d59be9
comment
Scenery Porn: In addition to natural beauties/cities, there's the space station.
 Moonraker / int_49d59be9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_49d59be9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_49d59be9
 Moonraker / int_49f20c6a
type
Gory Discretion Shot
 Moonraker / int_49f20c6a
comment
Gory Discretion Shot: Incensed when he discovers that his assistant Corrinne has been helping Bond, the villain Drax sets his dogs on her. Pursued by them, she hysterically flees into the woods. Despite running as fast as she can, the dogs keep gaining on her. She lets out one final desperate scream as they leap on her and knock her to the ground … and the camera pans upward to the beautiful, sunlit sky, leaving the rest to our imagination.
 Moonraker / int_49f20c6a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_49f20c6a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_49f20c6a
 Moonraker / int_4a5f2295
type
All Monks Know Kung-Fu
 Moonraker / int_4a5f2295
comment
All Monks Know Kung-Fu: While visiting a monastery outside Rio, Bond finds some Catholic monks practicing martial arts. Of course, since the monastery is actually an MI6 front, the combatants probably aren't really monks.
 Moonraker / int_4a5f2295
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_4a5f2295
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_4a5f2295
 Moonraker / int_4af55b78
type
Credits Gag
 Moonraker / int_4af55b78
comment
Credits Gag: The closing credits says "Shot on Location, Italy, Brazil, Guatemala, U.S.A and Outer Space!" (the exclamation mark is actually in the credits).
 Moonraker / int_4af55b78
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_4af55b78
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_4af55b78
 Moonraker / int_4cecb933
type
Signs of Disrepair
 Moonraker / int_4cecb933
comment
Signs of Disrepair: The ambulance chase culminates into James throwing a mook on a wheeled gurney onto the streets, which then wheels all the way down a slope before crashing into a billboard depicting a tourism ad for Rio. Naturally, the mook's head goes into the mouth of an air hostess on the billboard.
 Moonraker / int_4cecb933
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_4cecb933
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_4cecb933
 Moonraker / int_4ea822ce
type
Songs in the Key of Lock
 Moonraker / int_4ea822ce
comment
Songs in the Key of Lock: Access to Drax's base is controlled by a musically coded keypad. The tune is the same five notes used to communicate with the aliens at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
 Moonraker / int_4ea822ce
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_4ea822ce
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_4ea822ce
 Moonraker / int_4f5fcec2
type
Space Is Slow Motion
 Moonraker / int_4f5fcec2
comment
Space Is Slow Motion
 Moonraker / int_4f5fcec2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_4f5fcec2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_4f5fcec2
 Moonraker / int_4f6d87f7
type
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
 Moonraker / int_4f6d87f7
comment
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Jaws and Dolly. There was some concern about audiences accepting the height difference until Richard Kiel pointed out his Real Life wife is the same height.
 Moonraker / int_4f6d87f7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_4f6d87f7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_4f6d87f7
 Moonraker / int_4f8037fd
type
Mook–Face Turn
 Moonraker / int_4f8037fd
comment
Mook–Face Turn: James Bond tricks Hugo Drax into talking about his plan to exterminate everybody who doesn't fit into his genetically perfect "master race" in front of Jaws, who then turns against the villains. Seeing his bespectacled, short, and somewhat plain looking girlfriend standing beside the supermodel-level women that make up the female half of Drax's group didn't help either.
 Moonraker / int_4f8037fd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_4f8037fd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_4f8037fd
 Moonraker / int_504a1991
type
Body Horror
 Moonraker / int_504a1991
comment
Body Horror: Implied when we see a laser gun in Q's lab being used to melt a mannequin's head; later, we see the same type of weapon being used to shoot people on Drax's space station (though here they just yell and fall down).
 Moonraker / int_504a1991
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_504a1991
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_504a1991
 Moonraker / int_506bf16a
type
Sex Signals Death
 Moonraker / int_506bf16a
comment
Sex Signals Death: Drax' secretary Corrine Dufour is seduced by Bond and is tricked into telling him where Drax's safe is. Drax, apparently thinking she did this deliberately, sets his dogs on her.
 Moonraker / int_506bf16a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_506bf16a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_506bf16a
 Moonraker / int_508d91a2
type
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
 Moonraker / int_508d91a2
comment
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Take a giant step for mankind." Downplayed in that Drax has already been fatally shot by Bond.
 Moonraker / int_508d91a2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_508d91a2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_508d91a2
 Moonraker / int_51640e80
type
Bond One-Liner
 Moonraker / int_51640e80
comment
Bond One-Liner: At Drax's mansion, a sniper hides in the trees, ready to take the shot at Bond, while he's taking a shot at pheasants. Also after killing Chang: "Play it again, Sam." Drax receives three from Bond, in quick succession:
 Moonraker / int_51640e80
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_51640e80
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_51640e80
 Moonraker / int_5178a5b3
type
Glass Weapon
 Moonraker / int_5178a5b3
comment
Glass Weapon: Bond's battle with Chang leads to a museum of glass art. They end up trashing the place and using the various art pieces as weapons. Bond manages to chop Chang's wooden katana in half with a glass-handled rapier.
 Moonraker / int_5178a5b3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_5178a5b3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_5178a5b3
 Moonraker / int_521fb75d
type
Put Their Heads Together
 Moonraker / int_521fb75d
comment
Put Their Heads Together: In the final act, Jaws does this with two underlings when pulling his Mook–Face Turn.
 Moonraker / int_521fb75d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_521fb75d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_521fb75d
 Moonraker / int_52b36340
type
What Measure Is a Mook?
 Moonraker / int_52b36340
comment
What Measure Is a Mook?: Although Bond does kill Drax, Jaws changes sides at the last minute and receives redemption. Meanwhile it is strongly implied (yet pointedly never directly shown on screen) that Drax's "master race" specimens, whose only crime it seems was to be genetically perfect and be on his payroll, are either slaughtered by the US troops who invade the station or are left to die as it breaks up. Keep in mind that this would have also likely included Dolly, Jaws' cute and kind girlfriend (but technically a mook - she even wears the "yellow suit of death") had he not changed sides. Well they were (presumably) willing participants in his conspiracy to kill everyone on Earth.
 Moonraker / int_52b36340
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_52b36340
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_52b36340
 Moonraker / int_53a7089a
type
Pint-Sized Powerhouse
 Moonraker / int_53a7089a
comment
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Dolly might be tiny, but she has no trouble lifting the heavy cable-car wheel that Jaws is pinned under.
 Moonraker / int_53a7089a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_53a7089a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_53a7089a
 Moonraker / int_546e23f6
type
Evilutionary Biologist
 Moonraker / int_546e23f6
comment
Evilutionary Biologist: Hugo Drax, who altered spores that caused sterility to make them lethal.
 Moonraker / int_546e23f6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_546e23f6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_546e23f6
 Moonraker / int_553c27bb
type
Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness
 Moonraker / int_553c27bb
comment
Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness: Somewhere in the middle. It has the grimmest villain, but the most funny (and at times, cutesy) moments.
 Moonraker / int_553c27bb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_553c27bb
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_553c27bb
 Moonraker / int_560e7bc5
type
Chekhov's Exhibit
 Moonraker / int_560e7bc5
comment
Chekhov's Exhibit: There's an entire museum full of glass artefacts. Not thirty minutes later, we get to see the whole lot trashed when Bond fights Chang, a Kendo champion who insists on going after him with a shinai. Bond manages to repel him with a glass-handled sword that was shown earlier.
 Moonraker / int_560e7bc5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_560e7bc5
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_560e7bc5
 Moonraker / int_56352cc6
type
Animal Assassin
 Moonraker / int_56352cc6
comment
Animal Assassin: Drax sets his dogs on Corinne after discovering that she's been helping Bond and later uses a snake to try and kill Bond.
 Moonraker / int_56352cc6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_56352cc6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_56352cc6
 Moonraker / int_56863152
type
Operation: [Blank]
 Moonraker / int_56863152
comment
Operation: [Blank]: Drax's plan to wipe out mankind is called "Operation Orchid."
 Moonraker / int_56863152
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_56863152
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_56863152
 Moonraker / int_5941d75
type
Beta Couple
 Moonraker / int_5941d75
comment
Beta Couple: Jaws and Dolly.
 Moonraker / int_5941d75
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_5941d75
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_5941d75
 Moonraker / int_5a8f3057
type
Hand Signals
 Moonraker / int_5a8f3057
comment
Hand Signals: While the two scientists in Drax's laboratory are preparing the lethal nerve gas containers, one makes a "come here" gesture to the other.
 Moonraker / int_5a8f3057
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_5a8f3057
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_5a8f3057
 Moonraker / int_5b19cc1b
type
Air-Vent Passageway
 Moonraker / int_5b19cc1b
comment
Air-Vent Passageway: Rather implausibly used for an Outrun the Fireball scene.
 Moonraker / int_5b19cc1b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_5b19cc1b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_5b19cc1b
 Moonraker / int_5bdcc85a
type
Disney Villain Death
 Moonraker / int_5bdcc85a
comment
Disney Villain Death: In The Teaser, Bond is thrown out of an airplane with no parachute. He is able to intercept a mook, fight him in midair, and take his parachute, leaving the mook to die on impact. Bond throws Chang through a glass window. He falls to his death by impaling a piano with a loud clang.
 Moonraker / int_5bdcc85a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_5bdcc85a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_5bdcc85a
 Moonraker / int_5beef860
type
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
 Moonraker / int_5beef860
comment
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: A real life one for Richard Kiel, as he suffers from acrophobia and was unable to film any of the cable car fight. Hence the numerous shots of Jaws from behind awkwardly intercut with Kiel's face in front of a bluescreen.
 Moonraker / int_5beef860
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_5beef860
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_5beef860
 Moonraker / int_5c613245
type
Thrown Out the Airlock
 Moonraker / int_5c613245
comment
Thrown Out the Airlock: Bond does this to Drax after shooting him with a wrist-dart. This also happens to be the current trope image.
 Moonraker / int_5c613245
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_5c613245
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_5c613245
 Moonraker / int_5f146203
type
Dissonant Serenity
 Moonraker / int_5f146203
comment
Dissonant Serenity: Drax's master race candidates watch Bond in a life-and-death struggle with a python with smiles on their faces, showing they're just as evil as he is. Corrine's vicious death takes place in a beautiful, sunlit forest.
 Moonraker / int_5f146203
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_5f146203
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_5f146203
 Moonraker / int_5f41f8b2
type
Space Base
 Moonraker / int_5f41f8b2
comment
Space Base: The climax takes place in a orbital space station.
 Moonraker / int_5f41f8b2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_5f41f8b2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_5f41f8b2
 Moonraker / int_617f0563
type
Heel–Face Turn
 Moonraker / int_617f0563
comment
Heel–Face Turn: Jaws, after spending most of the film as one one of the main henchmen (and being the main henchman of the previous one), after being forced to choose between his employer and his girlfriend, he chose the latter.
 Moonraker / int_617f0563
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_617f0563
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_617f0563
 Moonraker / int_61e43473
type
Dramatic Space Drifting
 Moonraker / int_61e43473
comment
Dramatic Space Drifting: Hugo Drax, after being ejected by Bond with the classic quip "Take a giant step for mankind."
 Moonraker / int_61e43473
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_61e43473
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_61e43473
 Moonraker / int_62011b2f
type
Centrifugal Gravity
 Moonraker / int_62011b2f
comment
Centrifugal Gravity: Hugo Drax's secret space station spins on its axis, providing gravity to those inside. When James Bond stops the rotation, the station interior goes to zero gravity and everyone starts floating around. However, Drax's space station was not cylindrical, rather it had a roughly spherical central portion with long appendages sticking out. When it "spins up", gravity is uniform everywhere, and directed towards the "floor" of the main area, when in reality it would vary enormously depending on where in the station you were, and would be directed away from the axis of rotation.
 Moonraker / int_62011b2f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_62011b2f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_62011b2f
 Moonraker / int_62a596ce
type
Politically Correct Villain
 Moonraker / int_62a596ce
comment
Politically Correct Villain: Drax may be a megalomaniac who wants to end human civilisation as we know it, but he's no racist — as evidenced by the fact that the beautiful people in his space station are by no means exclusively white.
 Moonraker / int_62a596ce
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_62a596ce
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_62a596ce
 Moonraker / int_62f9d08e
type
Freeze-Frame Bonus
 Moonraker / int_62f9d08e
comment
Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the opening, when Bond is held at gunpoint by the pilot, you can see Jaws sitting in the copilot seat.
 Moonraker / int_62f9d08e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_62f9d08e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_62f9d08e
 Moonraker / int_63d861f8
type
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
 Moonraker / int_63d861f8
comment
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Jaws changes sides primarily to protect his girlfriend. We see two of Drax's "new order" kissing as they head to the station.
 Moonraker / int_63d861f8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_63d861f8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_63d861f8
 Moonraker / int_6400a34
type
Arm Cannon
 Moonraker / int_6400a34
comment
Arm Cannon: This is the only film where Bond doesn't use a Walther pistol of any kind. Instead, he makes use of a concealed wrist mounted dartgun that fires armour piercing and cyanide tipped darts.
 Moonraker / int_6400a34
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_6400a34
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_6400a34
 Moonraker / int_64c38832
type
Inevitable Waterfall
 Moonraker / int_64c38832
comment
Inevitable Waterfall: At the end of a boat chase, Jaws falls afoul of one in The Amazon Rainforest.
 Moonraker / int_64c38832
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_64c38832
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_64c38832
 Moonraker / int_6595b784
type
Animal Reaction Shot
 Moonraker / int_6595b784
comment
Animal Reaction Shot: A pigeon has a Double Take while Bond is driving his gondola through St Mark's Square. Likewise, a dog gets an exasperated expression for the same scene.
 Moonraker / int_6595b784
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_6595b784
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_6595b784
 Moonraker / int_6860368a
type
Mook Horror Show
 Moonraker / int_6860368a
comment
Mook Horror Show: The death scream uttered by the unnamed villain whose parachute Bond steals is one of the most disturbing sounds ever heard in cinema. It was subsequently recycled in Octopussy and The Living Daylights for the deaths of Gobinda and Necros, respectively.
 Moonraker / int_6860368a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_6860368a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_6860368a
 Moonraker / int_692c48c4
type
Navel-Deep Neckline
 Moonraker / int_692c48c4
comment
Navel-Deep Neckline: The Space Clothes worn by The Beautiful Elite have plunging v-necklines that reach their stomachs.
 Moonraker / int_692c48c4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_692c48c4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_692c48c4
 Moonraker / int_698068be
type
"Balls" Gag
 Moonraker / int_698068be
comment
"Balls" Gag: This exchange as Bond enters Q's South American lab to find him testing a new weapon:
 Moonraker / int_698068be
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_698068be
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_698068be
 Moonraker / int_6bda9a30
type
Meaningful Name
 Moonraker / int_6bda9a30
comment
Meaningful Name: Dr. Holly Goodhead. Despite the blatant innuendo (given the nature of many Bond Girl names), Holly is still an intelligent CIA agent and scientist and thus has a good head on her shoulders.
 Moonraker / int_6bda9a30
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_6bda9a30
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_6bda9a30
 Moonraker / int_6c0e5342
type
No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine
 Moonraker / int_6c0e5342
comment
No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: Before Drax is revealed as a villain, he invites Bond to tea.
 Moonraker / int_6c0e5342
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_6c0e5342
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_6c0e5342
 Moonraker / int_6ca9144b
type
Restart the World
 Moonraker / int_6ca9144b
comment
Restart the World: Drax decides to destroy mankind with a nerve toxin, and then repopulate with his own super race preserved on a space station.
 Moonraker / int_6ca9144b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_6ca9144b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_6ca9144b
 Moonraker / int_6d62e259
type
Flapping Cheeks
 Moonraker / int_6d62e259
comment
Flapping Cheeks: This happens to Bond while he is in the Centrifugal Farce machine.
 Moonraker / int_6d62e259
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_6d62e259
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_6d62e259
 Moonraker / int_6dcda37a
type
Organization with Unlimited Funding
 Moonraker / int_6dcda37a
comment
Organization with Unlimited Funding: To have had a space station and fleet of rocket ships over 25 years before NASA and Russia finally got around to creating one, would have definitely been ambitious for Drax.
 Moonraker / int_6dcda37a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_6dcda37a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_6dcda37a
 Moonraker / int_6e8b95dc
type
The Teaser
 Moonraker / int_6e8b95dc
comment
In The Teaser, Bond is thrown out of an airplane with no parachute. He is able to intercept a mook, fight him in midair, and take his parachute, leaving the mook to die on impact.
 Moonraker / int_6e8b95dc
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_6e8b95dc
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_6e8b95dc
 Moonraker / int_6fbe3154
type
Shot in the Ass
 Moonraker / int_6fbe3154
comment
Shot in the Ass: M gets annoyed when Bond test-fires his wrist dart gun into a picture on his wall, specifically the horses' ass.
 Moonraker / int_6fbe3154
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_6fbe3154
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_6fbe3154
 Moonraker / int_6fc21d06
type
Fiction 500
 Moonraker / int_6fc21d06
comment
Fiction 500: Hugo Drax is the world's foremost manufacturer of space shuttles, and not only builds an entire space station, but secretly gets it into orbit, apparently all with his own money.
 Moonraker / int_6fc21d06
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_6fc21d06
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_6fc21d06
 Moonraker / int_7041e520
type
Super Breeding Program
 Moonraker / int_7041e520
comment
Super Breeding Program: Drax plans to do some omnicide, and repopulate the planet Noah's Ark style with pairs of men and women he has determined to be the best specimens of the human race.
 Moonraker / int_7041e520
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_7041e520
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_7041e520
 Moonraker / int_7230cfe
type
Shoe Phone
 Moonraker / int_7230cfe
comment
Shoe Phone: Bond uses four gadgets across the movie. One he was issued by Q, one he borrowed from Holly, and two that came out of nowhere with no explanation. Bond identifies Holly as an allied agent thanks to her "standard CIA equipment", which consists of pen that squirts poison, a diary that fires a dart, a handbag that's a radio and a perfume sprayer that's a Fire-Breathing Weapon!
 Moonraker / int_7230cfe
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_7230cfe
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_7230cfe
 Moonraker / int_7315fd38
type
Covers Always Lie
 Moonraker / int_7315fd38
comment
Covers Always Lie: The film's◊ posters feature Bond in a white space suit. He never wears one such in the film.
 Moonraker / int_7315fd38
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_7315fd38
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_7315fd38
 Moonraker / int_735b4101
type
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
 Moonraker / int_735b4101
comment
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The space marines wear white, while Drax's mooks wear yellow. Justified given the environment they're fighting in, where distinguishing between friend and foe is absolutely crucial and stealth is meaningless.
 Moonraker / int_735b4101
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_735b4101
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_735b4101
 Moonraker / int_740ff9d0
type
Metal Detector Checkpoint
 Moonraker / int_740ff9d0
comment
Metal Detector Checkpoint: When Jaws goes through an airport metal detector his metal teeth set it off. When a guard tries to stop him, Jaws just grins at him and the terrified guard lets him pass.
 Moonraker / int_740ff9d0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_740ff9d0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_740ff9d0
 Moonraker / int_7431b974
type
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show
 Moonraker / int_7431b974
comment
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: This is probably the campiest, most lighthearted film in the franchise. And yet Hugo Drax is possibly the most diabolical villain in the franchise. As a cold, snobbish, understated executive, Drax wishes to exterminate the human race, except for those he considers "superior beings". To this end, Drax captures men and women whom he sees as physically perfect, planning to keep these people in his giant space station while he covers the earth in a rare toxin that will kill every human being on earth.
 Moonraker / int_7431b974
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_7431b974
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_7431b974
 Moonraker / int_753a9ada
type
Centrifugal Farce
 Moonraker / int_753a9ada
comment
Centrifugal Farce: While on a tour on Drax' aerospace facility, James Bond is put in such a machine by Holly Goodhead and given a spin. While he's undergoing this Holly is called away and Drax's henchman Chang took over, turning the dial up and subjecting Bond to multiple gravities of force. Just before falling unconscious, Bond used one of his gadgets to shoot the control panel and turn the machine off. Of course, there is absolutely no reason for the centrifuge to be able to go fast enough to kill people.
 Moonraker / int_753a9ada
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_753a9ada
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_753a9ada
 Moonraker / int_7570a10c
type
Bond Villain Stupidity
 Moonraker / int_7570a10c
comment
Bond Villain Stupidity: Willingly invoked by Drax, who keeps going out of his way to try and eliminate Bond in the most impractical means from their very first meeting. "Stupidity" in the sense that, originally, Bond wasn't even there to investigate Drax and all the murder attempts just made him suspicious. The first couple of attempts were suitably convoluted. Afterwards, he had no problem sending entire kill squads to assassinate Bond in public - which are just as doomed to fail, of course. His explicit justification for not simply having Bond shot is For the Evulz; he wanted Bond's death to be "amusing". Most people he has murdered in the movie actually die quite nasty deaths, especially Corrine, so this is pretty in-character.
 Moonraker / int_7570a10c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_7570a10c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_7570a10c
 Moonraker / int_76933235
type
Depopulation Bomb
 Moonraker / int_76933235
comment
Depopulation Bomb: Drax attempts to use a chemical weapon which would kill all humans on earth (only humans; other animals will be fine), to be repopulated with humans from his space station. With him as their leader, of course.
 Moonraker / int_76933235
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_76933235
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_76933235
 Moonraker / int_77414bc2
type
Action Prologue
 Moonraker / int_77414bc2
comment
Also, regarding the Action Prologue / Batman Cold Open, we are never shown what happens to the stewardess who was working with Jaws and the Pilot henchman to try and kill Bond, though considering we see her putting on her own parachute, she likely bailed out after Jaws did.
 Moonraker / int_77414bc2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_77414bc2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_77414bc2
 Moonraker / int_7bb844ec
type
Villain Decay
 Moonraker / int_7bb844ec
comment
Villain Decay: The film is often criticized for making Jaws more buffoonish than in The Spy Who Loved Me, where he was genuinely menacing. Here, he falls in love, does a Heel–Face Turn and (unlike most Bond villain henchmen) survives.
 Moonraker / int_7bb844ec
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_7bb844ec
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_7bb844ec
 Moonraker / int_7eb73553
type
Bullying a Dragon
 Moonraker / int_7eb73553
comment
Bullying a Dragon: Drax brags about his plan to create a master race where all people are physically perfect right in front of Jaws (who is freakishly tall, and in love with a short girl with glasses), and then snaps at him.
 Moonraker / int_7eb73553
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_7eb73553
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_7eb73553
 Moonraker / int_7ed96790
type
Trapped in Containment
 Moonraker / int_7ed96790
comment
Trapped in Containment: James Bond accidentally (or not) causes this to happen to a couple of scientists working for Drax. Whether or not he cares is a different issue.
 Moonraker / int_7ed96790
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_7ed96790
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_7ed96790
 Moonraker / int_7fbb2a3
type
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
 Moonraker / int_7fbb2a3
comment
Drax has time to evacuate his Italian biolab because Bond spends the night bonking Goodhead.
 Moonraker / int_7fbb2a3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_7fbb2a3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_7fbb2a3
 Moonraker / int_85557b38
type
Reality Is Unrealistic
 Moonraker / int_85557b38
comment
Reality Is Unrealistic: One of the most criticised aspects of the movie was how easy it was for the United States to launch a space shuttle with only a few hours notice. Except that this was during the height of the space race, and NASA was expected to have at least one orbital space mission a month. Thus, depending on how close they were to the next launch, its quite possible that a shuttle was indeed prepped enough to pull this off. In short, Moonraker assumed NASA's plans for the (then near-future) space shuttle were accurate. They weren't, but the filmmakers couldn't have known that. In universe, shuttles are being produced at least as readily as low-volume aircraft are. The one that's stolen was stolen because Drax had problems with one of his own, and couldn't reduce the fleet needed for his plan, so he stole back one he'd already sent for delivery. It follows that NASA is doing a lot more launches than in real life. The presence of space-borne combat troops ready to go on short notice is a bit harder to accept.
 Moonraker / int_85557b38
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_85557b38
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_85557b38
 Moonraker / int_85650443
type
Noah's Story Arc
 Moonraker / int_85650443
comment
Noah's Story Arc: Drax created his space station to hold the humans who would repopulate the Earth after the deadly spores killed everyone on the surface. Bond lampshades the story by quoting "And the animals came in two by two." and specifically mentioning Noah's Ark when the two leads see that their space shuttle is carrying a cargo of men and women.
 Moonraker / int_85650443
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_85650443
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_85650443
 Moonraker / int_863fa679
type
What Happened to the Mouse?
 Moonraker / int_863fa679
comment
What Happened to the Mouse?: The "ideal humans" vanish from the narrative once Bond reaches the space station. Whether any actually survive is never revealed. This is actually noticeable as the film takes pains to focus on the fact that the women among them are the same ones Bond sees earlier at Drax's estate and in the glass factory in Venice, yet we never learn their fate and the only people being seen killed on-screen are Drax's male troops. Granted, they could be the male half of Drax's "ideal humans", but that still leaves the question of what happened to the women. Also, regarding the Action Prologue / Batman Cold Open, we are never shown what happens to the stewardess who was working with Jaws and the Pilot henchman to try and kill Bond, though considering we see her putting on her own parachute, she likely bailed out after Jaws did.
 Moonraker / int_863fa679
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_863fa679
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_863fa679
 Moonraker / int_867b1f57
type
By the Hair
 Moonraker / int_867b1f57
comment
By the Hair: Bond fights a mook while Holly Goodhead is strapped to a stretcher. When the mook gets knocked near her, she grabs his hair. He stands up anyway, ripping out a chunk of his hair in the process.
 Moonraker / int_867b1f57
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_867b1f57
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_867b1f57
 Moonraker / int_880e65be
type
No Gravity for You
 Moonraker / int_880e65be
comment
No Gravity for You: Bond disables the station's gravity so that the approaching space shuttle loaded with U.S. Marines can't be attacked and Bond and his allies can escape. The scene is truly impressive when you bear in mind this was filmed pre-CGI.
 Moonraker / int_880e65be
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_880e65be
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_880e65be
 Moonraker / int_88443a8a
type
Establishing Character Music
 Moonraker / int_88443a8a
comment
Establishing Character Music: Drax is introduced playing Frédéric Chopin's Prelude no. 15 in D-flat major (op. 28, "Raindrop") on the piano.
 Moonraker / int_88443a8a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_88443a8a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_88443a8a
 Moonraker / int_88e7f8b8
type
Batman Cold Open
 Moonraker / int_88e7f8b8
comment
Batman Cold Open: The cold opening shows Jaws trying to kill Bond by pushing him from an airplane without a parachute. His 'chute fails but lucky for him (and Bond), there's a nearby circus tent (with a safety net set up for a high-wire act inside).
 Moonraker / int_88e7f8b8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_88e7f8b8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_88e7f8b8
 Moonraker / int_8a07e085
type
Denser and Wackier
 Moonraker / int_8a07e085
comment
Denser and Wackier: A shining example of this from the series, as was the slow Villain Decay of Jaws from genuinely menacing Psycho for Hire to Dumb Muscle and finally outright comic stooge. Drax and his plan, however, avert this, being one of the most monstrous villains in the whole series; here, genocide isn't just an incidental by-product of his plan, genocide pretty much is the plan.
 Moonraker / int_8a07e085
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_8a07e085
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_8a07e085
 Moonraker / int_8b221a63
type
Reed Richards Is Useless
 Moonraker / int_8b221a63
comment
Reed Richards Is Useless: Hugo Drax has built a fleet of space shuttles and a large functioning space station years before the International Space Station, and all the heroes do is blow them up rather than taking them over and using them.
 Moonraker / int_8b221a63
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_8b221a63
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_8b221a63
 Moonraker / int_8c995bfc
type
Zero-G Spot
 Moonraker / int_8c995bfc
comment
Zero-G Spot: James Bond and Holly Goodhead attempt reentry in Moonraker, making Bond both a member of the Mile-High Club and the 100 Mile High Club.
 Moonraker / int_8c995bfc
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_8c995bfc
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_8c995bfc
 Moonraker / int_8d4928da
type
Safecracking
 Moonraker / int_8d4928da
comment
Safecracking: Bond opens the safe in Drax's headquarters with an X-ray device.
 Moonraker / int_8d4928da
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_8d4928da
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_8d4928da
 Moonraker / int_8e9e0284
type
Free-Fall Fight
 Moonraker / int_8e9e0284
comment
Free-Fall Fight: Bond has to fight two mooks in mid-air in the Action Prologue, one of which is Jaws.
 Moonraker / int_8e9e0284
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_8e9e0284
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_8e9e0284
 Moonraker / int_8eb0370f
type
Corporate Conspiracy
 Moonraker / int_8eb0370f
comment
Corporate Conspiracy: Hugo Drax, owner of the aerospace company Drax Industries, is secretly plotting to use Deadly Gas to Kill All Humans so that he can restart civilization with those human beings he regards as "superior".
 Moonraker / int_8eb0370f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_8eb0370f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_8eb0370f
 Moonraker / int_8ec0abf
type
The Voiceless
 Moonraker / int_8ec0abf
comment
The Voiceless: Jaws... until the end: "Well, here's to us."
 Moonraker / int_8ec0abf
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_8ec0abf
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_8ec0abf
 Moonraker / int_8ed5c6e4
type
Asshole Victim
 Moonraker / int_8ed5c6e4
comment
Asshole Victim: The scientists in Venice. They died horribly ... to the nerve gas they had developed and built for Drax to wipe out mankind in favour of his master race.
 Moonraker / int_8ed5c6e4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_8ed5c6e4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_8ed5c6e4
 Moonraker / int_8fa248fa
type
Variable Terminal Velocity
 Moonraker / int_8fa248fa
comment
Variable Terminal Velocity: Bond is thrown out of a plane without a parachute and uses the tucked position in order to catch up with the pilot, who had bailed out earlier and was falling in the boxman position. Bond overpowers him and steals the parachute. Before he can equip it properly though, Jaws catches up with Bond and Bond only escapes being bitten by deploying his parachute in the nick of time, slowing him enough that Jaws plummets away. All of that is reasonably accurate, although they were falling for long enough that they must have started above 25,000 feet, which would require oxygen equipment. However, when Bond detaches the parachute from the pilot, the pilot starts falling faster than Bond for no apparent reason.
 Moonraker / int_8fa248fa
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_8fa248fa
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_8fa248fa
 Moonraker / int_905438eb
type
Recycled IN SPACE!
 Moonraker / int_905438eb
comment
Recycled In Space: Literally. In the previous movie, James Bond works with a female foreign secret agent to stop a Corrupt Corporate Executive (who eliminates a female subordinate by dropping her in a Shark Pool) from destroying the world and creating a new empire in the ocean. In this movie, James Bond works with a female foreign secret agent to stop a Corrupt Corporate Executive (who eliminates a female subordinate by getting her fed to his dobermanns, but also has a Python Pool) from destroying the world and creating a new empire in space. Yes, Moonraker in plot is blatantly copied from The Spy Who Loved Me. Yet the latter film is considered one of the best in the series and of the Moore era, while this one is mostly reviled. And annoyingly enough, both steal from You Only Live Twice, where James Bond works with a female foreign secret agent (Japan, this time) to stop Ernst Stavro Blofeld (who eliminates a female subordinate by dropping her in a Piranha Pool) from causing World War III (i.e. destroying the world) so that another global power can take over. All three plots involve stealing exotic government vehicles of some kind. All three were directed by the same dude, Lewis Gilbert.note Though You Only Live Twice had a different screenwriter, namely Roald Dahl, whereas this and the previous film were written by Christopher Wood All three end with Bond and the girl being "interrupted" by their superiors as well. Gilbert admits this in the The Spy Who Loved Me DVD "making of" featurette. Also borrows from On Her Majesty's Secret Service, in which Blofeld's plot was to decimate the world using a biological warfare agent and included a bevy of beautiful women. And also borrows from Thunderball specifically with a battle between US soldiers and henchmen in an unusual environment. This time in outer space rather than underwater.
 Moonraker / int_905438eb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_905438eb
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_905438eb
 Moonraker / int_9080e641
type
Diabolical Mastermind
 Moonraker / int_9080e641
comment
Diabolical Mastermind: Hugo Drax is a billionare industrialist with his own secret space station who makes shuttles for NASA. The original novel had him as a Nazi who disguised himself as a British businessman, but is actually working for the Soviets.
 Moonraker / int_9080e641
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_9080e641
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_9080e641
 Moonraker / int_9099c21c
type
GPS Evidence
 Moonraker / int_9099c21c
comment
GPS Evidence: Bond knows to search the Amazon jungle for Drax's secret base — it's where the specific orchid used in Drax's neurotoxin came from.
 Moonraker / int_9099c21c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_9099c21c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_9099c21c
 Moonraker / int_91c001
type
Cute Mute
 Moonraker / int_91c001
comment
Cute Mute: Dolly talks even less than Jaws does.
 Moonraker / int_91c001
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_91c001
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_91c001
 Moonraker / int_91e894b4
type
Apocalypse How
 Moonraker / int_91e894b4
comment
Apocalypse How: Drax wants to use a Depopulation Bomb — lethal spores that will eliminate all human beings on Earth — to repopulate it with a select group of people under his leadership.
 Moonraker / int_91e894b4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_91e894b4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_91e894b4
 Moonraker / int_928ca2cc
type
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
 Moonraker / int_928ca2cc
comment
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Drax fully intends to kill all his employees who fail to meet his standards of perfection once his plans are realized. This causes Jaws to Heel–Face Turn when he realizes that his girlfriend - who has less than perfect eyesight - wouldn't make the cut. He also might have realized he probably wouldn't make the cut either, having prosthetic jaws and teeth, plus gigantism.
 Moonraker / int_928ca2cc
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_928ca2cc
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_928ca2cc
 Moonraker / int_932da128
type
Monster Clown
 Moonraker / int_932da128
comment
Monster Clown: When Jaws stalks Manuela in a dark alley during the Rio de Janeiro Carnival, he is dressed as a giant clown.
 Moonraker / int_932da128
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_932da128
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_932da128
 Moonraker / int_957e5fc2
type
Villainous Breakdown
 Moonraker / int_957e5fc2
comment
Villainous Breakdown: Happens after Bond and Dr. Goodhead are captured in the space station when Bond explains the implications of Drax's master race. Jaws begins his Mook–Face Turn when he realizes he and Dolly won't fit in with Drax's perfect people.
 Moonraker / int_957e5fc2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_957e5fc2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_957e5fc2
 Moonraker / int_973ba076
type
Safety in Muggles
 Moonraker / int_973ba076
comment
Safety in Muggles: Jaws is about to strangle Manuela, when he's interrupted by a group of Carnival revellers. Even more fortunate for her, the distraction lasts long enough for Bond to arrive and rescue her, and another group of partiers saves both of their lives when they not only stop Jaws, they sweep him along with them, away from the couple.
 Moonraker / int_973ba076
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_973ba076
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_973ba076
 Moonraker / int_98576799
type
Throw the Dog a Bone
 Moonraker / int_98576799
comment
Throw the Dog a Bone: Jaws get a lot of abuse in this movie, but he not only does get a girlfriend out of it, but he gets to live, unlike everyone else in Drax's employ, and unlike most henchmen who cross paths with 007.
 Moonraker / int_98576799
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_98576799
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_98576799
 Moonraker / int_9979acb2
type
Villainous Plan Inertia
 Moonraker / int_9979acb2
comment
Villainous Plan Inertia: Bond manages to kill Drax and destroy his space station, but even then, he and Holly have to chase down the three poison capsules he successfully launched, which, if not stopped, will kill 100 million people... each.
 Moonraker / int_9979acb2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_9979acb2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_9979acb2
 Moonraker / int_9af54b9d
type
Double Take
 Moonraker / int_9af54b9d
comment
Victor Tourjansky as the "man with the bottle" in St. Mark's Square who does a double take on seeing Bond drive by in a gondola. in the previous film he was the man on the beach who does a Double Take seeing Bond's Lotus drive out of the water.
 Moonraker / int_9af54b9d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_9af54b9d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_9af54b9d
 Moonraker / int_9c842299
type
Weaponized Exhaust
 Moonraker / int_9c842299
comment
Weaponized Exhaust: Hugo Drax attempts to do this to James Bond. At the start of the movie the stolen shuttle does this to its carrier aircraft during its getaway.
 Moonraker / int_9c842299
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_9c842299
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_9c842299
 Moonraker / int_9d17b859
type
Made of Iron
 Moonraker / int_9d17b859
comment
Made of Iron: Continuing the trend started in the previous movie, Jaws survives a fall from an airplane in the cold-open (he falls through a circus tent and lands in the trapeze artists' safety net, which should still have killed him). Then, he emerges unscathed from a cable car that crashes through a wall (and shortly before that, he bites through a thick cable, the story ignoring the fact that the inside of his mouth is made from soft skin that would not like the jagged bits of metal fraying as he bit), falls over Iguazu Falls without suffering any injury, and, in the climactic scene, the dialogue implies that he and his girlfriend survive falling from low-Earth orbit in a part of the space station that breaks off and is shown zooming away. By the end, Bond acknowledges Jaws' invulnerability, reassuring Dr. Goodhead that "it's only a hundred miles to Earth" and therefore Jaws will be fine (though he actually survives by hitching a ride with the Marines in their shuttle).
 Moonraker / int_9d17b859
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_9d17b859
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_9d17b859
 Moonraker / int_9d39440e
type
Right-Hand Attack Dog
 Moonraker / int_9d39440e
comment
Right-Hand Attack Dog: Drax has some Dobermans that only eat on his command, as he demonstrates to Bond. Later he uses them to eat Corrine on his command.
 Moonraker / int_9d39440e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_9d39440e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_9d39440e
 Moonraker / int_9fbf8969
type
Cut Lex Luthor a Check
 Moonraker / int_9fbf8969
comment
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Drax has succeeded in not just planning but building a fully-functioning space station with a built-in radar-jamming cloaking device which renders it undetectable from Earth. Were he not a psychopath intent on wiping out humanity and creating his own master race out of the people on the space station, he could've made a fortune from the cloaking device alone by selling it to NASA (for whom he makes space shuttles, so he already has legitimate and doubtless lucrative business links with them).
 Moonraker / int_9fbf8969
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_9fbf8969
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_9fbf8969
 Moonraker / int_a036d3df
type
Sarcastic Confession
 Moonraker / int_a036d3df
comment
Sarcastic Confession: Bond tells Moneypenny he's late because he fell out of an airplane, then gets miffed when she laughs. The next time he meets her, Bond starts to tell how he fell off a mountain in a cable car, then gives up at her "Yeah right!" look.
 Moonraker / int_a036d3df
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_a036d3df
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_a036d3df
 Moonraker / int_a1b0c1c2
type
Revealing Cover-Up
 Moonraker / int_a1b0c1c2
comment
Revealing Cover-Up: Bond wasn't interested in Drax until Drax started trying to have him killed.
 Moonraker / int_a1b0c1c2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_a1b0c1c2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_a1b0c1c2
 Moonraker / int_a2484b0e
type
The Beautiful Elite
 Moonraker / int_a2484b0e
comment
The Beautiful Elite: Drax' Evil Plan is to destroy all human life on Earth so it can be repopulated it with only genetically perfect specimens that he selected.
 Moonraker / int_a2484b0e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_a2484b0e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_a2484b0e
 Moonraker / int_a30a7977
type
Highly-Conspicuous Uniform
 Moonraker / int_a30a7977
comment
Highly-Conspicuous Uniform: Hugo Drax's mooks wear yellow Latex Spacesuits, even on earth. You could say the same for the US marines astronauts, though they do wear suits resembling real astronauts (though with US flag insignia on it).
 Moonraker / int_a30a7977
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_a30a7977
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_a30a7977
 Moonraker / int_a44cd048
type
Meet the New Boss
 Moonraker / int_a44cd048
comment
Meet the New Boss: Drax is very similar to Stromberg from The Spy Who Loved Me. There are a few differences, and he's arguably a lot more sinister and dangerous. Stromberg is more or less an Orcus on His Throne, mostly just sitting around Atlantis all day, pressing buttons when he wants something done (or someone killed), and leaving Bond's fate mostly up to his minions. Drax does a lot more globetrotting, comes up with amusing deaths for Bond and others who have displeased him, and has a far more evil plan: at least Stromberg didn't try and select which members of the human race he was going to spare. Drax is far more egomanical, ruthless and controlling, a much more evil bastard.
 Moonraker / int_a44cd048
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_a44cd048
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_a44cd048
 Moonraker / int_a4c37cbe
type
Mood Whiplash
 Moonraker / int_a4c37cbe
comment
Mood Whiplash: As pointed out in the James Bond Encyclopedia, the scene where Corrine is pursued and attacked by Drax's Dobermans is genuinely chilling, and stands out from the outlandishness of the rest of the film. Drax and his evil plan to commit genocide also stands in contrast to the rest of the silliness.
 Moonraker / int_a4c37cbe
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_a4c37cbe
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_a4c37cbe
 Moonraker / int_a536f3a3
type
Gender-Blender Name
 Moonraker / int_a536f3a3
comment
Gender-Blender Name: When Bond first meets Dr. Goodhead [Holly], his reaction is a surprised "A woman!" Her response is quick and sarcastic. Note that by this point (in 1979), Bond has met any number of capable women in positions of (relative) power. Humour of the 1840s, indeed. Just goes to show you how Genre Blind Mr. Bond can be.
 Moonraker / int_a536f3a3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_a536f3a3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_a536f3a3
 Moonraker / int_a6cda066
type
Rule of Three
 Moonraker / int_a6cda066
comment
Rule of Three: Three globes are ejected and have to be destroyed by Bond and Goodhead in a laser-armed shuttle. Naturally the first two are destroyed easily while the last presents all kinds of problems like the laser malfunctioning, requiring him to make three attempts to destroy it.
 Moonraker / int_a6cda066
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_a6cda066
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_a6cda066
 Moonraker / int_a814671b
type
N.G.O. Superpower
 Moonraker / int_a814671b
comment
N.G.O. Superpower: Hugo Drax has his own personal space program, with a highly-advanced space station. Though somewhat implausible at the time, commercial space operations are not uncommon nowadays. Drax's operations were at least partially funded by selling equipment to governmental space agencies.
 Moonraker / int_a814671b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_a814671b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_a814671b
 Moonraker / int_a8559a9f
type
RealLife
 Moonraker / int_a8559a9f
comment
That said, it is possible to launch a shuttle from the shuttle-carrier aircraft, and the technique was done several times in Real Life as part of the testing and development of the space shuttles. Rather than firing the rocket engines, the launch is performed by releasing the docking clamp holding the shuttle to the carrier, and having the carrier plane simply descend out from under the gliding shuttle.
 Moonraker / int_a8559a9f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_a8559a9f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_a8559a9f
 Moonraker / int_a8dcb1d7
type
Love at First Sight
 Moonraker / int_a8dcb1d7
comment
Love at First Sight: Random civilian Dolly helps Jaws extract himself from the wreckage of the cable car, they silently smile at one another and practically skip off hand in hand. With Tchaikovsky's love theme from Romeo and Juliet playing, to boot.
 Moonraker / int_a8dcb1d7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_a8dcb1d7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_a8dcb1d7
 Moonraker / int_a9ea3c3c
type
Warrior Monk
 Moonraker / int_a9ea3c3c
comment
Warrior Monk: Spoofed with two monks doing martial arts. After flipping his opponent, the winner blesses his opponent by performing the sign of the cross over him.
 Moonraker / int_a9ea3c3c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_a9ea3c3c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_a9ea3c3c
 Moonraker / int_aaa48538
type
Hollywood Skydiving
 Moonraker / int_aaa48538
comment
Hollywood Skydiving: Jaws fails to deploy his main chute, diving in free fall into a circus tent, and somehow surviving by falling onto a trapeze safety net. In Real Life he could have simply deployed his reserve chute when the main chute failed.
 Moonraker / int_aaa48538
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_aaa48538
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_aaa48538
 Moonraker / int_aba8065b
type
Fatal Flaw
 Moonraker / int_aba8065b
comment
Fatal Flaw: Hugo Drax's tendency to gloat, and his need to make people suffer instead of killing them immediately.
 Moonraker / int_aba8065b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_aba8065b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_aba8065b
 Moonraker / int_ac33492
type
Destroy the Product Placement
 Moonraker / int_ac33492
comment
Destroy the Product Placement: Happens twice, in two back-to-back scenes. A cable car station is clearly adorned with a huge banner for 7-Up. After Jaws fails to kill Bond, his car not only does ram through the station, but it also clearly damages the 7-Up signs in front, as seen here After that, Bond and Goodhead are captured by henchmen dressed as paramedics, but Bond escapes a fight in the ambulance; Bond and an enemy henchman fall out of the back on a gurney and roll down a hill. Bond falls off, the henchman continues down and eventually hits and is stuck in a billboard for British Airways, causing some damage.
 Moonraker / int_ac33492
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_ac33492
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_ac33492
 Moonraker / int_ace5eb40
type
Clock Tower
 Moonraker / int_ace5eb40
comment
Clock Tower: Bond fights Chang in a clock tower in Venice.
 Moonraker / int_ace5eb40
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_ace5eb40
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_ace5eb40
 Moonraker / int_ad1db87c
type
Oh, Crap!
 Moonraker / int_ad1db87c
comment
Oh, Crap!: Bond's usual reaction upon seeing that Jaws is after him again. Jaws himself gets one when he pulls the ripcord to his parachute and it comes off in his hand. He gets another one later when he sees his cable car is about to crash. Then a third one as he's about to fall from the top of the Iguazú Falls. Bond when he sees that an enormous, man-eating python has just entered the same pool he's in.
 Moonraker / int_ad1db87c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_ad1db87c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_ad1db87c
 Moonraker / int_ad4f656
type
Transhuman Aliens
 Moonraker / int_ad4f656
comment
Transhuman Aliens: The James Bond franchise itself weirdly enough jumps onto the extraterrestrial species train since Drax's plot involves the creation of a humanoid master race native to space via genetically perfect breeding on the space station Moonraker and said species taking planet Earth for themselves. This alien race never comes to be since Drax is stopped, but it is still strange nonetheless space dwellers are teased in the series, albeit they are a more logical and justified variation of alien tropes.
 Moonraker / int_ad4f656
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_ad4f656
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_ad4f656
 Moonraker / int_ae3d6438
type
Deadpan Snarker
 Moonraker / int_ae3d6438
comment
Deadpan Snarker: Drax gets many amusing quips throughout the film. For instance, as Bond attempts to lead M and Gray to Drax's lab as described in It Was Here, I Swear!: Bond, of course, is a master at this. Goodhead too, especially when she first meets Bond.
 Moonraker / int_ae3d6438
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_ae3d6438
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_ae3d6438
 Moonraker / int_ae69516f
type
Artificial Gravity
 Moonraker / int_ae69516f
comment
Artificial Gravity: The film uses the centrifugal method (except when travelling between modules, apparently) but when the station rotation halts we're treated to the most ambitious (at that time) zero-gee sequence on film.
 Moonraker / int_ae69516f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_ae69516f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_ae69516f
 Moonraker / int_af35d39
type
Plot-Demanded Manual Mode
 Moonraker / int_af35d39
comment
Plot-Demanded Manual Mode: In the climax, James Bond and Holly Goodhead use a laser-armed space shuttle to locate and destroy three globes filled with nerve gas. As per Rule of Three, the first two are destroyed easily, but as the shuttle enters the atmosphere the automatic targeting starts to malfunction from the heat and vibration, so Bond has to aim it manually using a fold-out joystick.
 Moonraker / int_af35d39
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_af35d39
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_af35d39
 Moonraker / int_b1a7cd14
type
Tap on the Head
 Moonraker / int_b1a7cd14
comment
Tap on the Head: A tram operator was knocked out by being hit on the back of a head with a wrench and two Drax employees are knocked out by a punch and a metal container. Bond is knocked out by fake paramedics who capture him and Holly.
 Moonraker / int_b1a7cd14
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_b1a7cd14
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_b1a7cd14
 Moonraker / int_b1b865f7
type
Royal Rapier
 Moonraker / int_b1b865f7
comment
Royal Rapier: During Bond's fight with Chang in Venice, Bond briefly uses a rapier to cut Chang's shinai in half, knock the weapon out of his hand, then make several stabs at him.
 Moonraker / int_b1b865f7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_b1b865f7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_b1b865f7
 Moonraker / int_b26cc887
type
Just Between You and Me
 Moonraker / int_b26cc887
comment
Just Between You and Me: Hugo Drax lampshades this trope, and then says he's not going to follow it. But when Bond and the Bond Girl follow Drax up to his space station and see most of what's happening anyway, Drax helpfully provides the remaining details before ordering them Thrown Out the Airlock. It comes back to bite him when Jaws realizes that he and his girlfriend will have no place in Drax's new world.
 Moonraker / int_b26cc887
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_b26cc887
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_b26cc887
 Moonraker / int_b479b298
type
Spy Cam
 Moonraker / int_b479b298
comment
Spy Cam: Bond use a small camera to take snaps of Drax's blueprints.
 Moonraker / int_b479b298
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_b479b298
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_b479b298
 Moonraker / int_b47d95be
type
No OSHA Compliance
 Moonraker / int_b47d95be
comment
No OSHA Compliance: By rights the Moonraker shuttle should have been shipped unfuelled, both to prevent accidents caused by the engine lighting off and because it would have made the flight lighter and safer. Bond turns off the artificial gravity of Drax's space station with the flip of a switch. Drax's astronaut training centre has a centrifuge that apparently has a 'kill' setting for no reason. There is a kill switch, but if that doesn't work (or someone disconnects it), the person inside the centrifuge is dead meat. A lab facility that involves the handling of a nerve agent that kills in under a minute should any of it leak somehow does not require the lab workers to wear biohazard gear in the event of an accidental spill. There are safety precautions to ensure that the gas doesn't spread outside the room where the leak occurred, but nothing to protect the people in that room.
 Moonraker / int_b47d95be
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_b47d95be
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_b47d95be
 Moonraker / int_b54ea73
type
Cable-Car Action Sequence
 Moonraker / int_b54ea73
comment
Cable-Car Action Sequence: A fight between Jaws and Bond happens aboard the gondola leading to Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro.
 Moonraker / int_b54ea73
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_b54ea73
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_b54ea73
 Moonraker / int_b5b4b24e
type
The Ark
 Moonraker / int_b5b4b24e
comment
The Ark: Drax created his space station to hold the humans who would repopulate the Earth after the deadly spores killed everyone on the surface. When the two leads see that their space shuttle is carrying a cargo of men and women:
 Moonraker / int_b5b4b24e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_b5b4b24e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_b5b4b24e
 Moonraker / int_b5ba2c2b
type
It's Raining Men
 Moonraker / int_b5ba2c2b
comment
It's Raining Men: In the pre-credits scene, Bond, Jaws, and a mook parachute from a plane and fight in mid-air.
 Moonraker / int_b5ba2c2b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_b5ba2c2b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_b5ba2c2b
 Moonraker / int_b6538f4f
type
The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires
 Moonraker / int_b6538f4f
comment
The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires: Just for starters, the movie depicts the Amazon as terminating in a waterfall. The location depicted, Iguazu Falls, is nowhere near the Amazon. In fact, the falls aren't even in the Amazon watershed (they ultimately drain into the Río de la Plata, which divides Argentina and Uruguay).
 Moonraker / int_b6538f4f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_b6538f4f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_b6538f4f
 Moonraker / int_b892dd2d
type
Girl of the Week
 Moonraker / int_b892dd2d
comment
As far as plot goes, there's one more connection: both have Drax trapping Bond and the Girl of the Week in a room where they can be barbecued with rocket exhaust.
 Moonraker / int_b892dd2d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_b892dd2d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_b892dd2d
 Moonraker / int_b9f472b
type
Storming the Castle
 Moonraker / int_b9f472b
comment
Storming the Castle: The film ends with an assault on Drax's space station by U.S. Marine astronauts with laser weapons. Bond was already inside the station when it occurred.
 Moonraker / int_b9f472b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_b9f472b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_b9f472b
 Moonraker / int_bb01ad0e
type
Cool Boat
 Moonraker / int_bb01ad0e
comment
Cool Boat: Two, no less. The tricked-out hydrofoil/gondola/car thingy in Venice, and the awesome speedboat (equipped with torpedoes, mines, bullet shield and hang glider no less) used by Bond to explore the Amazon Basin.
 Moonraker / int_bb01ad0e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_bb01ad0e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_bb01ad0e
 Moonraker / int_bb99411d
type
It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans
 Moonraker / int_bb99411d
comment
It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans: Bond's visit to Rio is of course during the thick of Carnival.
 Moonraker / int_bb99411d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_bb99411d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_bb99411d
 Moonraker / int_bce728ca
type
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
 Moonraker / int_bce728ca
comment
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Drax is explaining his master plan, which involves exterminating everyone on earth who isn't "perfect" - including his own less than perfect employees once he no longer needs them. Jaws overhears this, and is worried since he is a giant with metal teeth (and it's implied he isn't exactly firing on all eight cylinders intellectually), while his girlfriend is short and wears glasses. So, while on the station, Jaws helps Bond escape a sticky situation and gets physical with some of his former allies.
 Moonraker / int_bce728ca
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_bce728ca
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_bce728ca
 Moonraker / int_bd79d896
type
Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
 Moonraker / int_bd79d896
comment
Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Disappearance of a space shuttle -> a plot to kill all humans on Earth.
 Moonraker / int_bd79d896
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_bd79d896
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_bd79d896
 Moonraker / int_bea84606
type
Pain to the Ass
 Moonraker / int_bea84606
comment
Pain to the Ass: Downplayed, as Bond tests his wrist dart gun in M's office by firing a dart into a painting of William III and his horse.
 Moonraker / int_bea84606
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_bea84606
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_bea84606
 Moonraker / int_c0d106a8
type
Wrecked Weapon
 Moonraker / int_c0d106a8
comment
Wrecked Weapon: Bond cuts Chang's Shinai in half during their fight in the glass museum.
 Moonraker / int_c0d106a8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c0d106a8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c0d106a8
 Moonraker / int_c12f0c4
type
Outrun the Fireball
 Moonraker / int_c12f0c4
comment
Outrun the Fireball: While crawling through an air vent.
 Moonraker / int_c12f0c4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c12f0c4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c12f0c4
 Moonraker / int_c181a846
type
Dies Differently in Adaptation
 Moonraker / int_c181a846
comment
Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the novel, Drax perishes when his submarine is blown up by the Moonraker rocket. In the film, Bond shoots him with a cyanide dart and blows him into space.
 Moonraker / int_c181a846
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c181a846
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c181a846
 Moonraker / int_c1b2c63f
type
Dull Surprise
 Moonraker / int_c1b2c63f
comment
Dull Surprise: Dr. Goodhead on numerous occasions, including when the shuttle they are riding is at risk of burning up on reentrynote This last could be justified; she's a trained CIA agent and shuttle-qualified pilot, neither of which you become if you go to pieces easily. She's holding herself under control to keep the shuttle aimed at the last globe, in order to prevent hundreds of millions of deaths.
 Moonraker / int_c1b2c63f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c1b2c63f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c1b2c63f
 Moonraker / int_c232dbff
type
Perfection Is Impossible
 Moonraker / int_c232dbff
comment
Perfection Is Impossible: Hugo Drax's fatal error; he uses Jaws as a henchman, but when Jaws realizes that he and his love interest will be disposed of as imperfect he helps Bond foil Drax's plan.
 Moonraker / int_c232dbff
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c232dbff
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c232dbff
 Moonraker / int_c2ecf3b8
type
Show Some Leg
 Moonraker / int_c2ecf3b8
comment
Goodhead smiles at a mook guarding the prisoners in the ambulance while Bond slips his bonds.
 Moonraker / int_c2ecf3b8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c2ecf3b8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c2ecf3b8
 Moonraker / int_c335b9ec
type
Irony
 Moonraker / int_c335b9ec
comment
A bit earlier, Bond kills an assassin who was hiding in a coffin, which is then scraped off the gondola it was being transported on and dropped into the canal. A heavily-coughing smoker sees the coffin floating from under the bridge in front of him and throws away his cigarette, clearly viewing it as an omen.
 Moonraker / int_c335b9ec
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c335b9ec
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c335b9ec
 Moonraker / int_c36cba70
type
Mooks
 Moonraker / int_c36cba70
comment
Drax Industries' logos are everywhere, from the side of his space shuttles to the belt buckles of his mooks.
 Moonraker / int_c36cba70
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c36cba70
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c36cba70
 Moonraker / int_c3963bc4
type
No Place for Me There
 Moonraker / int_c3963bc4
comment
No Place for Me There: Deliberately triggered by Bond. During Drax's Motive Rant, Bond asks if Drax will keep his new human race perfect by purging anyone with imperfections. When Drax confirms it, Jaws and his glasses-wearing girlfriend realize that applies to them, prompting a Heel–Face Turn.
 Moonraker / int_c3963bc4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c3963bc4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c3963bc4
 Moonraker / int_c3be5b90
type
Sic 'Em
 Moonraker / int_c3be5b90
comment
Sic 'Em: "Look after Mr Bond. See that some harm comes to him." Not to mention poor Corrine...
 Moonraker / int_c3be5b90
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c3be5b90
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c3be5b90
 Moonraker / int_c4286511
type
For Doom the Bell Tolls
 Moonraker / int_c4286511
comment
For Doom the Bell Tolls: Drax's Sexy Secretary Corrinne is set upon by his dogs. As they leap on her and knock her to the ground, we hear the solemn tolling of a church bell (though this is technically because the next scene is set in Venice, it is clearly meant to symbolize her death).
 Moonraker / int_c4286511
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c4286511
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c4286511
 Moonraker / int_c515d358
type
America Saves the Day
 Moonraker / int_c515d358
comment
America Saves the Day: The NASA forces who provide the Big Damn Heroes backup for Bond and Dr. Goodhead during the assault on Drax's space station.
 Moonraker / int_c515d358
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c515d358
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c515d358
 Moonraker / int_c5237d05
type
Slow Laser
 Moonraker / int_c5237d05
comment
Slow Laser: They're noticeably faster than many other fictional lasers, and they have no apparent recoil, but they are also noisy, very bright, and don't leave any visible wounds on those they kill during the battle on the space station.
 Moonraker / int_c5237d05
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c5237d05
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c5237d05
 Moonraker / int_c54d550d
type
Novelization
 Moonraker / int_c54d550d
comment
Novelization: Christopher Wood novelised his screenplay as James Bond and Moonraker, which combined elements of both the film and the original novel. More details here.
 Moonraker / int_c54d550d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c54d550d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c54d550d
 Moonraker / int_c5dd0ab1
type
Stronger Than They Look
 Moonraker / int_c5dd0ab1
comment
Stronger Than They Look: After Jaws fails to kill Bond in the cable car scene he is trapped under a very large wheel or gear. He can't lift it off of himself. Who can? Dolly, a five foot nothing girl with big glasses and pigtailsnote Partly justified by leverage; Jaws is unable to stand or bring his full strength to bear on the wheel, while Dolly can put her full body weight and strength into pushing it off, not to mention Jaws is helping her as best he can.
 Moonraker / int_c5dd0ab1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c5dd0ab1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c5dd0ab1
 Moonraker / int_c6a9c7bd
type
Sea Mine
 Moonraker / int_c6a9c7bd
comment
Sea Mine: Bond's Amazon boat has a number of these in its arsenal, which Bond releases to blow up a pursuing boat.
 Moonraker / int_c6a9c7bd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c6a9c7bd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c6a9c7bd
 Moonraker / int_c6c86cd
type
Collapsing Lair
 Moonraker / int_c6c86cd
comment
Collapsing Lair: Drax's space station, due to battle damage.
 Moonraker / int_c6c86cd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c6c86cd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c6c86cd
 Moonraker / int_c75df49a
type
Shout-Out
 Moonraker / int_c75df49a
comment
Shout-Out: Opening an electronic lock creates musical tones from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Also, Bond's gaucho ride is scored by The Magnificent Seven theme. Jaws jumping from one cable car to another is inspired by a similar scene from Where Eagles Dare.
 Moonraker / int_c75df49a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c75df49a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c75df49a
 Moonraker / int_c8c00dc9
type
Obvious Stunt Double
 Moonraker / int_c8c00dc9
comment
Obvious Stunt Double: During the opening aerial fight scene, the stuntman playing Jaws looks nothing like Richard Kiel.
 Moonraker / int_c8c00dc9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c8c00dc9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c8c00dc9
 Moonraker / int_c8e3e074
type
Removable Steering Wheel
 Moonraker / int_c8e3e074
comment
Removable Steering Wheel: Jaws and some mooks are chasing James Bond in a speedboat when Jaws takes the wheel a little too literally.
 Moonraker / int_c8e3e074
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_c8e3e074
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_c8e3e074
 Moonraker / int_cd2b8aa3
type
Space Is Noisy
 Moonraker / int_cd2b8aa3
comment
Space Is Noisy: Averted until everyone starts shooting at each other.
 Moonraker / int_cd2b8aa3
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Moonraker / int_cd2b8aa3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_cd2b8aa3
 Moonraker / int_ce1c73e2
type
Just Plane Wrong
 Moonraker / int_ce1c73e2
comment
Just Plane Wrong: During the sequence in which a space shuttle blasts off from the aircraft carrying it. The shuttle is never carried with fuel or live batteries, due to weight considerations and the obvious danger of strapping a live rocket to a plane. Even if Drax used Offscreen Villain Dark Matter to acquire a superplane able to lift the load and ignored the safety concerns, without its external fuel tank the shuttle is basically a rocket-steered glider: The shuttle's main engines are shut off once the external tank is emptied, and the OSM engines powered by the internal tank take over. These smaller engines are intended only for orbital adjustments and initiating re-entry using carefully timed burns - effective and efficient in a vacuum, but nearly useless in atmosphere. That said, it is possible to launch a shuttle from the shuttle-carrier aircraft, and the technique was done several times in Real Life as part of the testing and development of the space shuttles. Rather than firing the rocket engines, the launch is performed by releasing the docking clamp holding the shuttle to the carrier, and having the carrier plane simply descend out from under the gliding shuttle.
 Moonraker / int_ce1c73e2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_ce1c73e2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_ce1c73e2
 Moonraker / int_cf92fea8
type
Cassandra Truth
 Moonraker / int_cf92fea8
comment
Cassandra Truth: Every time Bond runs into Moneypenny he tells her why he's late, but as the explanations are along the line of "I fell out of an airplane without a parachute" or "I just fell off a mountain", she doesn't believe him.
 Moonraker / int_cf92fea8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_cf92fea8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_cf92fea8
 Moonraker / int_d026cad8
type
Sigil Spam
 Moonraker / int_d026cad8
comment
Sigil Spam: "007" is on the miniature camera Bond uses to photograph documents, with the lens in the middle "O". Drax Industries' logos are everywhere, from the side of his space shuttles to the belt buckles of his mooks.
 Moonraker / int_d026cad8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_d026cad8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_d026cad8
 Moonraker / int_d112f7ec
type
"Oh, Crap!" Smile
 Moonraker / int_d112f7ec
comment
"Oh, Crap!" Smile: James Bond gives a hilariously wan little grin when he first runs into Jaws.
 Moonraker / int_d112f7ec
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_d112f7ec
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_d112f7ec
 Moonraker / int_d2c0e2ed
type
Schmuck Bait
 Moonraker / int_d2c0e2ed
comment
Schmuck Bait: A beautiful blonde beckons Bond across a bridge in Drax's Amazon base. No doubt thinking of his experience in You Only Live Twice, Bond gives her a "Yeah right" look and walks around the side of the pool, only to be flipped into it by a tilting rock.
 Moonraker / int_d2c0e2ed
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_d2c0e2ed
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_d2c0e2ed
 Moonraker / int_d397657d
type
Hoist by His Own Petard
 Moonraker / int_d397657d
comment
Hoist by His Own Petard: Bond kills a knife-throwing assassin with one of his own knives. It looks like Drax has 007 cornered and is about to have him Thrown Out the Airlock. Guess what happens instead...
 Moonraker / int_d397657d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_d397657d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_d397657d
 Moonraker / int_d4690452
type
ArtisticLicenceBiology
 Moonraker / int_d4690452
comment
Artistic Licence – Biology: Drax designs a chemical that will kill humans but not animals or plants. Humans actually are animals and a huge chunk of animals roaming the world have similar respiratory systems, meaning that they'd be killed too. The only way a chemical like that would only harm humans would be if it was gene-based (like the weapon from No Time to Die), but Moonraker has no indication that it is.
 Moonraker / int_d4690452
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_d4690452
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_d4690452
 Moonraker / int_d820f28
type
Reaction Shot
 Moonraker / int_d820f28
comment
Reaction Shot: The Gondola Scene derives much of its humour from this.
 Moonraker / int_d820f28
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_d820f28
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_d820f28
 Moonraker / int_d842e380
type
Love Redeems
 Moonraker / int_d842e380
comment
Love Redeems: Jaws is redeemed after falling in love: the realization that Drax's plan to exterminate anyone not fitting the image of his "master race" would include tiny, glasses-wearing Dolly is what prompts him into his Heel–Face Turn.
 Moonraker / int_d842e380
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_d842e380
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_d842e380
 Moonraker / int_d98f92
type
Bring Him to Me
 Moonraker / int_d98f92
comment
Bring Him to Me: Happens to Bond and Holly, but it was probably more Jaws' idea, since that's just where Drax happens to be.
 Moonraker / int_d98f92
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_d98f92
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_d98f92
 Moonraker / int_d9cf40fa
type
Screw This, I'm Outta Here
 Moonraker / int_d9cf40fa
comment
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Novelization only - in stark contrast to the Love Redeems angle of Jaws' defection in the movie, it's portrayed as Jaws abandoning Drax after realising that a "freakish mutate" like himself would have no place in Drax's Nazism-inspired "genetically perfect world". Likewise, though he does take a woman with him, Bond cynically notes that it's most likely a scientist who realised that Jaws wasn't Too Dumb to Live and who played on her beauty to make him take her with him.
 Moonraker / int_d9cf40fa
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_d9cf40fa
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_d9cf40fa
 Moonraker / int_dae5c997
type
Action Girl
 Moonraker / int_dae5c997
comment
Action Girl: Dr. Goodhead, although for a CIA agent with proper spy equipment, she sure doesn't get a lot of action (pun not quite intended) until the finale.
 Moonraker / int_dae5c997
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_dae5c997
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_dae5c997
 Moonraker / int_dae7053d
type
Sexy Stewardess
 Moonraker / int_dae7053d
comment
Sexy Stewardess: Unfortunately she turns out to be a Femme Fatale.
 Moonraker / int_dae7053d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_dae7053d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_dae7053d
 Moonraker / int_daef39ee
type
Elaborate Underground Base
 Moonraker / int_daef39ee
comment
Elaborate Underground Base: Drax's launch facility in the Amazon jungle. Where the water table is generally within no more than a few tens of feet from the surface at the very most, and in many places less than ten feet.
 Moonraker / int_daef39ee
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_daef39ee
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_daef39ee
 Moonraker / int_dcbe8a6e
type
Chekhov's Gunman
 Moonraker / int_dcbe8a6e
comment
Chekhov's Gunman: The people shown working out at Drax's estate at the beginning of the film, and at the glass factory in Venice, are later revealed to be the same people intended by Drax to seed his "master race". Bond and Manuela walk past several giant masked figures while winding their way through a carnival parade. One of them turns out to be Jaws.
 Moonraker / int_dcbe8a6e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_dcbe8a6e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_dcbe8a6e
 Moonraker / int_de0df7a0
type
Stock Scream
 Moonraker / int_de0df7a0
comment
Stock Scream: The scream uttered by the Mook Bond kicks away after taking his parachute in the opening teaser skydiving sequence. This scream is commonly heard in the Moore-era Bond films. It's the same one cried out by the guy who wants "no part of it" and is Thrown from the Zeppelin in A View to a Kill. Another butchered Wilhelm Scream can be heard in the latter part of the film, during the boat chase down the River Amazon when a speedboat driven by one of Drax's mooks gets blown up.
 Moonraker / int_de0df7a0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_de0df7a0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_de0df7a0
 Moonraker / int_e0ecb7b3
type
Space Station
 Moonraker / int_e0ecb7b3
comment
Space Station: Drax's main lair at the end. It rotates to provide simulated gravity, even though it seems to be more of a star shape rather than the traditional wheel.
 Moonraker / int_e0ecb7b3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e0ecb7b3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e0ecb7b3
 Moonraker / int_e26d8285
type
Explosive Decompression
 Moonraker / int_e26d8285
comment
Explosive Decompression: Averted when Bond expels Drax out an airlock. He seems to freeze quickly, but doesn't explode. Considering how thoroughly the laws of physics are violated in the movie, it's surprising that they didn't go with that trope as well, though the Squick potential might have been a factor.
 Moonraker / int_e26d8285
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Moonraker / int_e26d8285
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e26d8285
 Moonraker / int_e2f7ab99
type
Assassin Outclassin'
 Moonraker / int_e2f7ab99
comment
Assassin Outclassin': Chang sabotages the centrifuge simulator, which Bond disables with his dart device. Drax places a sniper in the trees during the grouse shoot. Bond misses the birds, but hits him instead. Some assassins in boats come at Bond in the canals of Venice with knives and guns. Bond kills the knife-throwing assassin by throwing one of his own knives back at him, then escapes in his motorised gondola. Chang attacks Bond with a kendo stick, but Bond dispatches him after breaking a lot of glass. Jaws returns and fails to eliminate Bond before switching sides.
 Moonraker / int_e2f7ab99
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e2f7ab99
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e2f7ab99
 Moonraker / int_e38c48c5
type
Road Runner vs. Coyote
 Moonraker / int_e38c48c5
comment
Road Runner vs. Coyote: Jaws keeps trying to catch Bond, fails every time and ends up crashing in things in ways that would kill normal men without so much as an injury, this time with an Oh, Crap! face when plummetting without a parachute, being in a gondola at full speed with an inevitable crash and facing the Inevitable Waterfall. And he keeps coming back.
 Moonraker / int_e38c48c5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e38c48c5
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e38c48c5
 Moonraker / int_e43b42ea
type
We Need a Distraction
 Moonraker / int_e43b42ea
comment
We Need a Distraction: Dr. Goodhead pulls this on one of the henchmen in the ambulance.
 Moonraker / int_e43b42ea
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e43b42ea
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e43b42ea
 Moonraker / int_e5421161
type
Expy
 Moonraker / int_e5421161
comment
Expy: Drax is basically Stromberg from The Spy Who Loved Me, complete with his own private army and plans for destroying the world and creating a new one from the ashes. Like Stromberg, Drax is also an expy of Blofeld and his game plan involving biological agents is similar in concept to Blofeld's in the original novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
 Moonraker / int_e5421161
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e5421161
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e5421161
 Moonraker / int_e66e9bfb
type
New Era Speech
 Moonraker / int_e66e9bfb
comment
New Era Speech: Hugo Drax, to his assembled minions on the space station:
 Moonraker / int_e66e9bfb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e66e9bfb
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e66e9bfb
 Moonraker / int_e6b3e4f2
type
Chain Pain
 Moonraker / int_e6b3e4f2
comment
Chain Pain: Chang fighting Bond in the clock tower, then later Bond fighting Jaws on top of the cable car.
 Moonraker / int_e6b3e4f2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e6b3e4f2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e6b3e4f2
 Moonraker / int_e78e4ba1
type
Black Site
 Moonraker / int_e78e4ba1
comment
Black Site: Bond discovers a secret laboratory in Venice that synthesizes nerve gas. By the time Bond can get MI6 on the scene, Drax has eradicated all traces of the laboratory, and welcomes the Brits to what is ostensibly a summer villa. The lab was moved to another secret base in Rio de Janeiro.
 Moonraker / int_e78e4ba1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e78e4ba1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e78e4ba1
 Moonraker / int_e82bc849
type
Milkman Conspiracy
 Moonraker / int_e82bc849
comment
Milkman Conspiracy: Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle programme wants to wipe out humanity and start over with a race of ubermenschen astronauts.
 Moonraker / int_e82bc849
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e82bc849
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e82bc849
 Moonraker / int_e83f211c
type
O.O.C. Is Serious Business
 Moonraker / int_e83f211c
comment
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Bond is terrified during his experience in the centrifuge, so much so that after disabling it, he can't even crack one of his usual one-liners.
 Moonraker / int_e83f211c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e83f211c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e83f211c
 Moonraker / int_e8b656fc
type
Wooden Katanas Are Even Better
 Moonraker / int_e8b656fc
comment
Wooden Katanas Are Even Better: Subverted. James Bond and Chang engage in a fight in Venice that eventually leads them into a glass shop (which Bond had toured earlier looking for his contact). Initially, his opponent (an apparent master of Kendo) had the advantage with the Shinai, until Bond picked up a glass-handled Rapier and sliced it in half. This wasn't what won the battle, though, as he soon lost the weapon himself.
 Moonraker / int_e8b656fc
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Moonraker / int_e8b656fc
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e8b656fc
 Moonraker / int_e9269f72
type
It Was Here, I Swear!
 Moonraker / int_e9269f72
comment
It Was Here, I Swear!: Bond discovers a lab where Drax is constructing satellites with deadly chemical agents. When he brings M and Frederick Gray back there, everything is gone. The lab is replaced with a huge, opulent office. No explanation is ever given for how this happened. The lab was smaller than the office, so presumably one had been kit-assembled inside the other. Luckily Bond did have a vial of the nerve gas that the lab was working with.
 Moonraker / int_e9269f72
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e9269f72
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e9269f72
 Moonraker / int_e993da98
type
Equal-Opportunity Evil
 Moonraker / int_e993da98
comment
Equal-Opportunity Evil: Say about Drax what you want, but he doesn't discriminate by gender or race. The number of women and non-whites in his ranks is impressive - especially for 1979. Even more impressive that this also counts for the crew of his space station.
 Moonraker / int_e993da98
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e993da98
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e993da98
 Moonraker / int_e9a3a1ed
type
Never Learned to Read
 Moonraker / int_e9a3a1ed
comment
Never Learned to Read: Corrinne claims this while Bond is trying to seduce her. It's not clear if she's serious or just flirting with him.
 Moonraker / int_e9a3a1ed
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e9a3a1ed
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e9a3a1ed
 Moonraker / int_e9e35e8f
type
Exact Words
 Moonraker / int_e9e35e8f
comment
Exact Words:
 Moonraker / int_e9e35e8f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_e9e35e8f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_e9e35e8f
 Moonraker / int_eaa3f1a5
type
Helpless Window Death
 Moonraker / int_eaa3f1a5
comment
Helpless Window Death: James Bond accidentally (or not) causes a couple of scientists working for Drax to be Trapped in Containment when a vial of nerve gas he moved rolls off a bench and shatters. He watches as through the lab window as the scientists succumb to the gas.
 Moonraker / int_eaa3f1a5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_eaa3f1a5
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_eaa3f1a5
 Moonraker / int_eaf5a1ac
type
Groin Attack
 Moonraker / int_eaf5a1ac
comment
Groin Attack: Bond knees Jaws in the groin while fighting him in the space station. There's a "clang" sound when he does so, indicating that Jaws has balls of steel just like his teeth.
 Moonraker / int_eaf5a1ac
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_eaf5a1ac
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_eaf5a1ac
 Moonraker / int_eba911fd
type
Dark Messiah
 Moonraker / int_eba911fd
comment
Dark Messiah: This was suggested with Hugo Drax, given the loyalty of his followers.
 Moonraker / int_eba911fd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_eba911fd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_eba911fd
 Moonraker / int_ec4bc520
type
Snake Pit
 Moonraker / int_ec4bc520
comment
Snake Pit: Hugo Drax throws James Bond into a snake pool—a swimming pool where slithers a gigantic reticulated python. Python reticulatus is an excellent swimmer.
 Moonraker / int_ec4bc520
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_ec4bc520
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_ec4bc520
 Moonraker / int_ecac4c42
type
Why Won't You Die?
 Moonraker / int_ecac4c42
comment
Why Won't You Die?: "Mr. Bond, you persist in defying my efforts to provide an amusing death for you." There's a very good chance that Bond himself is thinking this about Jaws, who seems unkillable.
 Moonraker / int_ecac4c42
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_ecac4c42
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_ecac4c42
 Moonraker / int_ed07a226
type
No More for Me
 Moonraker / int_ed07a226
comment
No More for Me: While Bond is driving his gondola on the street of Venice, one onlooker suspiciously inspects his bottle of wine. A bit earlier, Bond kills an assassin who was hiding in a coffin, which is then scraped off the gondola it was being transported on and dropped into the canal. A heavily-coughing smoker sees the coffin floating from under the bridge in front of him and throws away his cigarette, clearly viewing it as an omen.
 Moonraker / int_ed07a226
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_ed07a226
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_ed07a226
 Moonraker / int_ed43de19
type
Hunting "Accident"
 Moonraker / int_ed43de19
comment
Hunting "Accident": Drax tries to arrange this for Bond, but the assassin gets shot by Bond instead.
 Moonraker / int_ed43de19
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_ed43de19
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_ed43de19
 Moonraker / int_ee481121
type
Bringing in the Expert
 Moonraker / int_ee481121
comment
Bringing in the Expert: Drax orders Chang to kill James Bond. Chang fails repeatedly and Bond finally kills him. Drax then hires Jaws to finish the job.
 Moonraker / int_ee481121
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_ee481121
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_ee481121
 Moonraker / int_f0001923
type
Fire-Breathing Weapon
 Moonraker / int_f0001923
comment
Bond identifies Holly as an allied agent thanks to her "standard CIA equipment", which consists of pen that squirts poison, a diary that fires a dart, a handbag that's a radio and a perfume sprayer that's a Fire-Breathing Weapon!
 Moonraker / int_f0001923
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_f0001923
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_f0001923
 Moonraker / int_f10d3363
type
Distracted by the Sexy
 Moonraker / int_f10d3363
comment
Distracted by the Sexy: A couple snogging don't even notice when a speedboat with machine gun-toting mooks cuts their gondola in half. Drax has time to evacuate his Italian biolab because Bond spends the night bonking Goodhead. Goodhead smiles at a mook guarding the prisoners in the ambulance while Bond slips his bonds. General Gogol gripes that he can't sleep because of his job. Problems, problems, problems! Then we see there's a beautiful blonde in his bed. Go go Gogol!
 Moonraker / int_f10d3363
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_f10d3363
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_f10d3363
 Moonraker / int_f1e6402d
type
Suddenly Speaking
 Moonraker / int_f1e6402d
comment
Suddenly Speaking: Jaws finally breaks at his silence at the end, when he says one line, "Here's to us", while proposing a toast with Dolly.
 Moonraker / int_f1e6402d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_f1e6402d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_f1e6402d
 Moonraker / int_f2d8e3c2
type
Evil Plan
 Moonraker / int_f2d8e3c2
comment
Evil Plan: Hugo Drax's plan involves the annihilation of the human race in order to repopulate the world with his own "ideal" specimens. Given that the original villain of the novel was a Nazi, this shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
 Moonraker / int_f2d8e3c2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_f2d8e3c2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_f2d8e3c2
 Moonraker / int_f2e4d683
type
Stealth in Space
 Moonraker / int_f2e4d683
comment
Stealth in Space: The orbiting colony station is concealed by a radar jamming device, until our heroes disable it, instantly exposing the space station to NASA. However this still doesn't explain why no-one noticed the numerous shuttle launches and space construction required to build the thing, not to mention something that big being visible to the naked eye.
 Moonraker / int_f2e4d683
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_f2e4d683
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_f2e4d683
 Moonraker / int_f511ea9b
type
Product Placement
 Moonraker / int_f511ea9b
comment
Product Placement: Yes, we all know that all James Bond movies have it, but this one goes a little nuts with the 7-Up billboards. A British Airways billboard is prominently featured. Lampshaded and inverted when Bond suggests Q put one of his deadly gadgets into the stores for Christmasnote And if you're wondering, no they did not make a Real Life tie-in toy of this gadget that could have been in stores.
 Moonraker / int_f511ea9b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_f511ea9b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_f511ea9b
 Moonraker / int_f594c8a9
type
Fed to the Beast
 Moonraker / int_f594c8a9
comment
Fed to the Beast: Drax sends his dobermans to kill poor Corinne once he learns that she assisted Bond in finding his blueprints. Bond falls into a pool when a man-eating python slithers in. After Bond kills the snake, Drax is disappointed that he wouldn't succumb to "an amusing death".
 Moonraker / int_f594c8a9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_f594c8a9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_f594c8a9
 Moonraker / int_f6800554
type
Battle Bolas
 Moonraker / int_f6800554
comment
Battle Bolas: Bond checks in with Q at an MI6 base in Brazil where several weapons are being tested for near-future use. One of these is a bolas modified with balls that, once wrapped around a test dummy, explode on impact.
 Moonraker / int_f6800554
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_f6800554
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_f6800554
 Moonraker / int_f688816f
type
Priceless Ming Vase
 Moonraker / int_f688816f
comment
Priceless Ming Vase: Bond and Chang are fighting in a Venice glass museum where they smash just about everything in the exhibition. At one point during the fight Bond picks up an item, hears the alarm that reminds him that it's "priceless", and carefully replaces it; seconds later, Chang smashes it.
 Moonraker / int_f688816f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_f688816f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_f688816f
 Moonraker / int_f6c3d469
type
Fanservice Extra
 Moonraker / int_f6c3d469
comment
Fanservice Extra: Used for Chekhov's Gunman. While investigating Drax's worldwide enterprises, Bond runs into the usual highly-attractive extras as receptionists and so forth. Then he encounters the same people in Drax's Supervillain Lair. Turns out Drax's Evil Plan involves a Master Race involving physically perfect people from throughout the world, and these are the people he's recruited.
 Moonraker / int_f6c3d469
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_f6c3d469
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_f6c3d469
 Moonraker / int_f79e76ea
type
Makeup Weapon
 Moonraker / int_f79e76ea
comment
Makeup Weapon: Dr. Holly Goodhead has a perfume atomiser that is actually a miniature flamethrower.
 Moonraker / int_f79e76ea
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_f79e76ea
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_f79e76ea
 Moonraker / int_f8b8f119
type
We Don't Need Roads
 Moonraker / int_f8b8f119
comment
We Don't Need Roads: Bond's gondola transforms into a hovercraft, allowing him to drive it onto the streets of Venice.
 Moonraker / int_f8b8f119
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_f8b8f119
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_f8b8f119
 Moonraker / int_f9f2c33
type
Running Gag
 Moonraker / int_f9f2c33
comment
Running Gag: Victor Tourjansky as the "man with the bottle" in St. Mark's Square who does a double take on seeing Bond drive by in a gondola. in the previous film he was the man on the beach who does a Double Take seeing Bond's Lotus drive out of the water. Bond with the girl at the end, being interrupted by his superiors trying to get in touch with him. This was a common gag for the Moore films, only two of which did not include it.
 Moonraker / int_f9f2c33
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_f9f2c33
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_f9f2c33
 Moonraker / int_fc45bac0
type
Wouldn't Hit a Girl
 Moonraker / int_fc45bac0
comment
Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Prior to the final space battle, Drax's crew is shown to include men and women, both uniformed and civilian. But once the battle begins - and it is strongly implied that the space soldiers slaughter everyone on Drax's side - no female combatants are shown. We don't see another woman until after the battle and Jaws' girlfriend comes out from hiding - maybe with all the other women on board?
 Moonraker / int_fc45bac0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_fc45bac0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_fc45bac0
 Moonraker / int_fc4f5f19
type
Go-Karting with Bowser
 Moonraker / int_fc4f5f19
comment
Go-Karting with Bowser: Frederick Grey mentions that he has played bridge with Drax, a nod to the card-playing sequence in the original novel.
 Moonraker / int_fc4f5f19
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_fc4f5f19
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_fc4f5f19
 Moonraker / int_fd4f8299
type
Well-Intentioned Extremist
 Moonraker / int_fd4f8299
comment
Well-Intentioned Extremist: The novelisation gives Drax a Motive Rant where he claims the world is doomed through overpopulation and ozone depletion, so he's just doing what's necessary to save humanity and its achievements.
 Moonraker / int_fd4f8299
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_fd4f8299
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_fd4f8299
 Moonraker / int_ffd816e7
type
Everything Trying to Kill You
 Moonraker / int_ffd816e7
comment
Everything Trying to Kill You: Although the point of most Bond films is the actions by 007 to avoid death, this film takes this trope up to eleven. In every locale and virtually every scene something or someone is trying to kill him.
 Moonraker / int_ffd816e7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_ffd816e7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_ffd816e7
 Moonraker / int_name
type
ItemName
 Moonraker / int_name
comment
 Moonraker / int_name
featureApplicability
1.0
 Moonraker / int_name
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Moonraker / int_name
 Moonraker / int_name
itemName
Moonraker

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

 MoonRaker
sameAs
Moonraker
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Action Genre / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Adaptational Location Change / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Adaptational Nationality / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
All Monks Know Kung-Fu / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Animal Assassin / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Animal Reaction Shot / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Antagonist Title / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Appeal to Familial Wisdom / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
"Balls" Gag / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Balls of Steel / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Batman Cold Open / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Battle Bolas / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Beard of Evil / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Becoming Part of the Image / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Big Red Button / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Break Out the Museum Piece / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Bring Him to Me / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Bringing in the Expert / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
But What About the Astronauts? / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
By the Hair / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Cable-Car Action Sequence / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
California Doubling / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Centrifugal Farce / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Centrifugal Gravity / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Chain Pain / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Chekhov's Exhibit / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
City of Canals / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Clock Tower / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Concealing Canvas / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Cool Boat / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Corporate Conspiracy / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Cut Lex Luthor a Check / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Dark Messiah / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Deadly Gas / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Decomposite Character / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Denser and Wackier / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Depopulation Bomb / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Destroy the Product Placement / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Diabolical Mastermind / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Dodge by Braking / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Double Take / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Dramatic Space Drifting / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Dressing as the Enemy / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Equal-Opportunity Evil / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Establishing Character Music / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Evilutionary Biologist / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Exactly What I Aimed At / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Failsafe Failure / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Fake Nationality / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Fed to the Beast / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Fiction 500 / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Flowery Insults / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
For Doom the Bell Tolls / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Free-Fall Fight / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Glass Weapon / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Hand Signals / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Hazmat Suit / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Helpless Window Death / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Highly-Conspicuous Uniform / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Hollywood Skydiving / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Hunting "Accident" / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Improvised Zipline / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Inevitable Waterfall / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
International Coproduction / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
It's Raining Men / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Kill Sat / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Kung-Shui / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Ladder Tipping / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Make It Look Like an Accident / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Makeup Weapon / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
MegaCorp / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Metal Detector Checkpoint / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Milkman Conspiracy / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Minion Shipping / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Modesty Bedsheet / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Monumental Battle / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Mook Depletion / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Mook–Face Turn / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Mugged for Disguise / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
N.G.O. Superpower / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
New Era Speech / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
No Gravity for You / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
No More for Me / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
No Place for Me There / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Noah's Story Arc / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Noun Verber / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Novelization / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Obvious Stunt Double / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Oddball in the Series / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
"Oh, Crap!" Smile / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Omnicidal Maniac / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Operation: [Blank] / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Organization with Unlimited Funding / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Pain to the Ass / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Phlebotinum-Handling Equipment / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Plot-Demanded Manual Mode / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Porn Names / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Priceless Ming Vase / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Rarely Performed Song / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Reaction Shot / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Red Right Hand / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Reed Richards Is Useless / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Removable Steering Wheel / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Restart the World / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Right-Hand Attack Dog / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Safecracking / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Safety in Muggles / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Same Language Dub / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Sea Mine / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Semper Fi / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
'70s Hair / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Sex Signals Death / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Shark Pool / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Ship Out of Water / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Signs of Disrepair / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Smooch of Victory / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Snake Pit / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Songs in the Key of Lock / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Sore Loser / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Space Base / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Space Episode / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Space Marine / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Space Station / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Spaghetti and Gondolas / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Spy Cam / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Steel Ear Drums / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Storming the Castle / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Suddenly Speaking / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Super Breeding Program / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Take Over the World / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Take the Wheel / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Talking Your Way Out / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Tap on the Head / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Tea Is Classy / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Tempting Fate / int_3d5d290e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
The Ark / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
The Danza / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
The Pen Is Mightier / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
The Place / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
The Social Darwinist / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Thrown Out the Airlock / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Title Scream / int_3d5d290e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Toyline-Exclusive Character / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Transhuman Aliens / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Utopia Justifies the Means / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Vacation, Dear Boy / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Variable Terminal Velocity / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Vehicle Title / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Villainous Plan Inertia / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
We Don't Need Roads / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Why We Can't Have Nice Things / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Friendly Target / int_3f20192e
 Moonraker
hasFeature
Hot Scientist / int_3f20192e