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Tomorrow Never Dies
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The one where James Bond has that remote control BMW... and beats up a Rupert Murdoch Expy.Tomorrow Never Dies is the eighteenth Eon Productions James Bond film and the second starring Pierce Brosnan, as well as the last one to be released by United Artists. It was directed by Roger Spottiswoode and was released on December 12, 1997. Sheryl Crow performed the opening credits scene, and k.d. lang performed an additional song that was added in the end credits.A British warship and a Chinese aircraft are destroyed off the shore of China, an incident that threatens to ignite all-out war between the two countries. The British claim that their GPS locator showed they were in International Waters, causing MI6 to suspect foul play.The clues point towards the Carver Media Group Network, a worldwide media empire owned by Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce). James Bond is sent to investigate Carver and his organisation to find out if someone is engineering War for Fun and Profit; a task that sees him crossing paths with Chinese secret agent Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh).After the more introspective tone of its predecessor, GoldenEye, the film eases back into the Connery and Moore "classic Bond" formula beat-for-beat, with one-liners galore, a Large Ham villain, and plenty of action setpieces that make full use of the Theme Music Power-Up trope. Brosnan also began to carve his niche as the playful Bond.Followed by The World Is Not Enough. | |
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Bench Breaker: Wai Lin undoes the handcuffs chaining her and Bond together while they are under a shower. She then handcuffs Bond to the shower pipe and leaves. Bond simply snaps the copper pipe and follows her. | |
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Self-Plagiarism: A general named Chang tries to start a war using a stealth ship. Sound familiar? That's because Nicholas Meyer was a ghostwriter for this film. | |
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Creator Cameo: Producer Michael G. Wilson is seen as Mr. Wallace in Carver's videoconference. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Elliot Carver is by admission of the writer a thinly disguised Robert Maxwell (though given how widespread such media moguls are, reviewers compared him to the Australian—Rupert Murdoch—and American—Ted Turner—equivalents). This is made very obvious at the end, when M devises a cover story for his death involving him falling off his yacht and drowning, while the public speculates he committed suicide, echoing Maxwell's death. There's also significant elements of William Randolph Hearst, whose propaganda is sometimes credited for getting the US to launch the Spanish-American War. Carver even quotes him. In addition to taking potshots at NewsCorp, Tomorrow bears more than a slight resemblance to Microsoft. (the script even describes "Jones" as "a young guy looking remarkably like Bill Gates", but for obvious reasons it didn't carry on screen.) Carver beginning a new media enterprise by announcing a "declaration of principles" is possibly a nod to Citizen Kane. Of course, he's already similar to Kane by virtue of being similar to Hearst. | |
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Abnormal Ammo: Carver has buzzsaw torpedoes which can not only cut through the hulls of other ships, but can be guided through said ships and travel upward if necessary. | |
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Shrine to Self | |
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Shrine to Self: Elliot Carver has enough posters of himself prominently displayed in the various offices of his media empire to make your average Soviet dictator feel a bit embarrassed. Naturally, Bond gets a few good quips in at his expense on the subject and destroys several of them in creative ways. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Bond is somewhat mortified when he discovers that M knows about his past sexual encounters (almost like a naughty boy who has been caught by his stern mother), and he even tries to defend his promiscuous behaviour with, "That was a long time ago, M, before [Paris] was married." | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: In the novelization, it is revealed that Stamper has a side business making "snuff porn". He enjoys kidnapping young women and filming them while they're being raped and tortured, and sells the videos on the black market to thrill-seekers. That is why he has a camera man on hand to film the execution of the naval officers. The novelization and the deleted scenes give Elliot Carver's backstory - he is the illegitimate son of media mogul Lord Roverman, whom Carver drove to bankruptcy and blackmails into suicide, later taking over his business. Also, while working as a meteorologist in Hong Kong, he was a Dirty Old Man who sexually harassed his female colleagues, with one of them leaving Hong Kong for good just to avoid him. Carver's remote-controlled drill-torpedo is called the "Sea-Vac." | |
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Title Drop: The film itself doesn't have one, but the Playstation video game does: After being beaten by Bond in their shootout, Elliot Carver' last words before succumbing to his injuries are ironically "Tomorrow never dies." | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Elliot Carver is willing to start World War III just to boost his TV network's ratings and gain broadcasting rights in China. | |
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And This Is for... | |
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And This Is for...: Villainous example by Stamper during the climax: | |
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Weapon Running Time: Bond has to get an aircraft clear from an Arms Fair before a Tomahawk hits the place. | |
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Villain Ball | |
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Villain Ball: Bond may have been suspicious of Carver from the first, but sending goons to beat him up just because Bond made a few statements while fishing for a reaction made it quite obvious that he was the villain. | |
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Unflinching Faith in the Brakes | |
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Unflinching Faith in the Brakes: Bond and Q stand in front of a remote controlled BMW 750i, the remote of which Bond was using for the very first time, steering towards them at at least 30 mph. Bond makes the car brake (break it he does, too, but later) and the two-ton vehicle stops very close to their shins. Makes Q quip: "Grow up, 007!" | |
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Chase-Scene Obstacle Course: One of the land rovers chasing James Bond and Wai Lin drives into a truckload of boxes...containing fireworks, which (of course) proceed to go off from the impact. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: A mook falls into and is crushed to death inside a newspaper press, and Elliot Carver is forced in front of and mulched by his own enormous sea drill. | |
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Mook Lieutenant | |
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Mook Lieutenant: Captain Scott of Carver's Stealth Boat. Carver spends the film around the world, but has as his base of operations a Stealth Boat in the South China Sea. Scott runs the boat on Carver's behalf, and is responsible for delegating orders when missions are run directly from the boat. He's casually gunned down with the rest of the control room during Bond's attack on the boat, however. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: Subverted: after Dr. Kaufman claims, "I am just a professional doing a job!" James Bond replies, "Me too", and just shoots him. The guy had just killed Paris and was clearly a Psycho for Hire. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The usual Q gadgets, including — this time — a remote-controlled BMW 750. Which has a whole host of gadgets that we aren't told about ahead of time, including caltrops, self-reinflating tyres and a wire cutter underneath the BMW emblem, just in case Bond needs to sever a wire at a very specific height. Conveniently, the bad guys put a wire across Bond's path at exactly that height. | |
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If It Bleeds, It Leads | |
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If It Bleeds, It Leads: Carver believes this, to the point that his men actually sink a Royal Navy warship and Sink the Lifeboatsnote Necessary for the plot to work because they had to Leave No Witnesses, but milked for all the moral outrage it's worth anyway, steal a long-range cruise missile (to aim at China) and bring NATO and the Chinese to the brink of war, all for the sake of having a good war to report on; it is strongly implied that he masterminds numerous other crimes and catastrophes for the sake of his business as well solely so that his outlet can get the story first, up to and including the hit he takes out on his own wife in retaliation for her adultery. In his own words: | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Bond walks into his hotel room to find an assassin standing over the body of Paris Carver. He tells Bond that the news will report that the victim's body and that of an unidentified man were found in a hotel room. The assassin was right, as later a news report tells us exactly that - he just made a fatal error as to the identity of the unidentified man. | |
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Dragon Their Feet: Carver is completely alone when Bond takes him out and then Stamper emerges afterward to have the final battle with Bond. | |
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Criminal Convention | |
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Criminal Convention: The opening scene has Bond infiltrating an Arms Fair run by terrorists. | |
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Hitler Cam | |
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Hitler Cam: Carver uses this. With massive posters of his face, and his over the top speech. | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: Elliot's demeanour when he first meets Wai Lin at his party indicates that he finds her very attractive. Considering that he has a Trophy Wife, this is not at all surprising, and Paris herself is even aware that her husband's interest in the Chinese woman is primarily based on lust. | |
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Funny Background Event: Carver's goons grab Bond and take him to a soundproof recording studio to beat him until he talks. As one of them stands watch outside, you can see (but not hear) Bond turning the tables of the fight and beating the goons with the various instruments. At one point in the Motorbike/Helicopter Chase, Bond and Wai Lin crash into a house while the occupants are having sex. They go back to it as soon as they leave. As Jack Wade and Bond are at the Air Force base waiting for Dr. Greenwall to set up the GPS encoder, Bond can be seen eyeing Wade's tacky jungle-themed shirt and shaking his head. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: The movie takes place over only a few days—Bond is given 48 hours to conduct his investigation before war breaks out. | |
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Hurricane of Puns: If you played a drinking game with all of the one-liners, puns and Double Entendres in this film, you'd be in the ER for alcohol poisoning. | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Bond's brief flirting with a Danish lady at Oxford after the prologue, who essentially praises him for his linguistic progress. | |
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Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Bond tricks Dr. Kaufman into electrocuting himself, then shoots him with his own gun, making it look like a suicide. | |
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Lampshade Hanging: Bond lets Carver know that starting World War III for ratings' sake is really quite nuts. | |
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Under the Truck | |
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Under the Truck: James Bond slides his motorcycle underneath a helicopter that has its rotor blades tilted downwards. | |
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Saved by the Platform Below | |
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Saved by the Platform Below: Bond and Wai Lin who are chained together escape the villain by performing a Super Window Jump out of a highrise. It looks like suicide until the next shot when we see them land on a deck one floor below. | |
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Gas Leak Cover-Up | |
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Gas Leak Cover-Up: MI6 covers up the death of media mogul Elliot Carver at the hands of a '00' agent by issuing a press release reporting him lost at sea after falling overboard from his yacht in a suspected suicide, with the implication that this is not the first time they have done something like this.note This was a reference to then recent death of media mogul Robert Maxwell who died after falling overboard from his yacht. Suicide was strongly suspected as after his death it was revealed he was on the brink of financial collapse. | |
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Shoot the Builder | |
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Shoot the Builder: Elliot Carver shooting Henry Gupta dead once Gupta reports the system's complete, depriving Bond of his Human Shield. | |
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Chained Heat | |
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Chained Heat: Bond and Wai Lin are cuffed together when they are brought to Carver. This causes inconveniences during their escape from his clutches. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Psycho for Hire: Dr. Kaufman really seems to enjoy the opportunity that being both a Professional Killer and having knowledge of forensic medicine brings to him, plus noting that torture is a "hobby" for him. Later in the film, it's revealed that this included chakra torture. | |
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False Flag Operation | |
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False Flag Operation: Carver's mechanism to wage War for Fun and Profit. | |
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Deadly Euphemism | |
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Deadly Euphemism: Elliott Carver, after learning that his wife has betrayed him to Bond, says he will "make her an appointment with the Doctor", by which he means hire an assassin to kill her. | |
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I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_2f5790f5 | comment |
I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: M and Admiral Roebuck have known each other for quite some time. | |
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Distaff Counterpart | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_2fc21a19 | comment |
Distaff Counterpart: Wai Lin is basically a female, Chinese Bond, right down to the flirting, dry wit, and holding a military rank. | |
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Car Meets House | |
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Car Meets House: Bond returns a rental car by remote-control driving it through the windows of the storefront. | |
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Sink the Lifeboats | |
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Sink The Life Boats: On Carver's orders, Stamper shoots the surviving sailors from HMS Devonshire, so that their deaths can be blamed on the Chinese, and the fact that any survivors would contradict his story. | |
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Attack Backfire | |
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Attack Backfire: In the first draft of the script Stamper's insides were rewired so that any intended painful action he receives (such as stabbing with a knife) gives him pleasure. Conversely, any intended pleasuring action he receives (such as tickling) gives him pain. While this was dropped for the final script, the idea of having a villain who didn't feel pain was included in the next movie, The World Is Not Enough. | |
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Sink the Lifeboats | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_3215e25e | comment |
The villain reminds his mooks to shoot the survivors with ammo appropriate for Chinese fighter jets. It is worth noting that the vast majority of fighter jets are armed with cannons in the 20-30mm range. | |
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Black Market | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_327b5216 | comment |
Black Market: The film opens with James Bond infiltrating — and destroying — a terrorist arms bazaar. | |
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Weaponized Headgear | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_32bf17e0 | comment |
Weaponized Headgear: In a fairly prosaic example of this trope, Bond uses his flight helmet to knock out the navigator of the MiG he is stealing. | |
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Beat Still, My Heart | |
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Beat Still, My Heart: Bond is threatened with this. "Save this one till last. When you remove Mr. Bond’s heart, there should be just enough time for him to watch it stop beating." | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_36e63b81 | type |
Rule of Cool | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_36e63b81 | comment |
Rule of Cool: A good explanation for why Bond lights a goon's cigarette (or possible joint) and then punches him. | |
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Rule of Sexy | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_36ed5d0b | comment |
Rule of Sexy: The first few buttons of the blue shirt Bond wears in Saigon are undone, so much of his chest is exposed. Ditto for the black shirt he sports under his combat vest during the final battle. In fact, Bond displays more skin than Wai Lin throughout the entire movie! This is probably the first time in the franchise where 007 is objectified more than a Bond Girl. | |
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Agony of the Feet | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_37d94ed9 | comment |
Agony of the Feet: Bond drops a cruise missile tail-first onto Mr. Stamper's foot during their final fight, pinning it under the rocket's exhaust, which 007 has rigged with explosives. When the countdown reaches zero, it doesn't end well for Stamper. | |
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Take the Wheel | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_3962ed76 | comment |
Take the Wheel: Bond and Wai Lin, further complicated by the fact that they are on a motorcycle and handcuffed together. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_396e1c2a | type |
Face Death with Dignity | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_396e1c2a | comment |
Face Death with Dignity: Paris Carver knew her number was up as soon as she went to help Bond. She spends one last night with him, gives him the information he needs to infiltrate her husband Elliot's secret lab, and leaves, telling James not even he can protect her. The way the scene plays out, Paris seems to know she'll be dead before the day is out, and accepts it. | |
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Irrevocable Order | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_3994d78b | comment |
Irrevocable Order: Info from 007 is what persuades Admiral Roebuck to fire a missile at the arms bazaar. Unfortunately, word comes in too late that there are nuclear missiles at the site, and the missile is out of communications range - thus, it cannot be destroyed mid-flight. This is why 007 has to fight his way to the plane carrying the missiles and fly them out before the missile hits. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: After Bond cuts off the power during Carver's speech, he screams at his assistant that she's fired and is to get out of his sight, humiliating the poor woman for something that's not her fault and that she had nothing to do with. | |
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*Click* Hello | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_3cf10fcf | comment |
*Click* Hello: Bond catches Wai Lin breaking into Carver's office in this manner. Bond enters his hotel room to find the body of his ex-lover Paris Carver (put there in an attempt to frame him for murder). As he approaches her to check for a pulse, we hear a gun cock to announce Dr. Kaufman's appearance in the room. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_3d699462 | comment |
Curb-Stomp Battle: The final battle is between a Royal Navy intelligence officer/commando... and a media mogul who has probably never lifted anything heavier than a microphone in the last twenty years. Naturally, Bond disposes of Carver very easily. | |
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Sexy Scandinavian | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_3ee1eced | comment |
Sexy Scandinavian: Inga Bergstrom is a Danish teacher that has a fling with James Bond and spends her entire appearance wrapped in a bedsheet. | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_3f0b2f50 | comment |
Make It Look Like an Accident: Elliot Carver sends a hitman to kill Bond and his treacherous wife and make it look like a Murder-Suicide- he even had a taped news story made in advance. Bond is too late to save the girl but turns the tables and shoots Dr. Kaufman, at close range, making his death look like the suicide. It's heavily implied that this wasn't the only "suicide" Kaufman was responsible for while working for Carver. | |
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Rental Car Abuse | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_402028bb | comment |
Rental Car Abuse: Played with. The car is technically 007's, but Q is disguised as an Avis rental clerk, and sarcastically offers Bond all the requisite insurance requirements. Bond returns the car by piloting it off of the highest floor of a parking garage and into the window of the local Avis office. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Blatant Lies: Bond's false reassurance to Wai Lin that he "...wouldn't dream of it" after she straddles his lap during the motorcycle chase and warns him, "Don't get any ideas." His playful smile also adds to the insincerity of his comment. | |
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Leg Focus | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_4143f84f | comment |
Leg Focus: The very first shot of Paris after she and Bond have sex is her rearranging her garters. | |
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Love Hurts | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_424d15ad | comment |
Love Hurts: When Bond sees Paris' corpse, he holds her, buries his face in her hair and later caresses it, and finally he kisses the front of her neck sensually before he must continue with his mission. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_4389e368 | type |
Actionized Sequel | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_4389e368 | comment |
Actionized Sequel: Tomorrow Never Dies is arguably the most "conventional action movie" of the entire Bond series. Particularly after the more introspective story and relatively grounded action of GoldenEye, the breakneck pace of Tomorrow Never Dies and its loving adherence to the series formula stands out. | |
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Surrounded by Idiots | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_43a46119 | comment |
Surrounded by Idiots: Kaufman is almost apologetic to Bond when Stamper calls in and tells him that they can't break into Bond's car and they need Bond — who is well-aware he's going to be killed no matter what — to open it. | |
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Incredibly Long Note | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_44cf7d2c | comment |
Incredibly Long Note: k.d. lang's epic finish during the closing credits. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_4583a262 | comment |
Shirtless Scene: Bond under a shower with Wai Lin. And with Wai Lin in a Sexy Soaked Shirt, equal opportunity fanservice! Bond's bare chest can also be seen when he's in bed with the Danish professor and after he and Paris sleep together. | |
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Working the Same Case | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_46ec76fb | comment |
Working the Same Case: Bond and Wai Lin initially are separately investigating Carver on behalf of the British and Chinese governments. | |
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Sexy Soaked Shirt | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_47b152f9 | comment |
Bond under a shower with Wai Lin. And with Wai Lin in a Sexy Soaked Shirt, equal opportunity fanservice! | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_49334c8e | type |
Coitus Uninterruptus | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_49334c8e | comment |
Coitus Uninterruptus: As Bond and Wai Lin flee from the bad guys, Bond drives their motorcycle over the roofs of several buildings, eventually crashing through an apartment. The copulating couple inside keeps right at it, not even looking up, implying that they're so into each other (so to speak) and what they're doing that they genuinely didn't even notice. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_496569e8 | type |
Race Against the Clock | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_496569e8 | comment |
Race Against the Clock: James Bond has 48 hours to stop a global war from starting. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_49f20c6a | type |
Gory Discretion Shot | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_49f20c6a | comment |
Gory Discretion Shot: A Mook is thrown by James Bond into a printing press; all that's seen is the baddie falling through the paper and the ensuing copies coming out stained red. Likewise, Carver's very messy demise via his own sea drill is obscured by equipment. | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_4aaffbd5 | comment |
I Never Said It Was Poison: M becomes suspicious of Carver's involvement in the massacre of British sailors because his paper reports certain details (such as the sailors being killed with the same type of ammo issued to the Chinese Air Force) before British Intelligence was able to confirm them. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_4b0ef86e | type |
Advertised Extra | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_4b0ef86e | comment |
Advertised Extra: Teri Hatcher, who was heavily promoted as the film's Bond girl over Michelle Yeoh, ended up only having two scenes in the film (three if you count Bond finding her body). | |
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Honey Trap | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_4cacfcc3 | comment |
Honey Trap: Bond is under orders from M to "pump" his Old Flame Paris Carver for information about her media mogul husband's organization, which he reluctantly does even though he knows the seduction will put Paris' life in danger. When Paris turns up in his hotel room, Bond's first thought is that her husband sent her. He asks her to leave and just tell Carver she didn't get any information from him. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_4d396c3e | type |
Last Villain Stand | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_4d396c3e | comment |
Last Villain Stand: His Stealth Yacht was burning but Elliot Carver still had a backup plan. Unfortunately, after getting the drop on Bond and holding him at gunpoint, he felt the need to explain this backup plan, giving Bond time to push him into the path of the seadrill. | |
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Old Media Are Evil | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_4d451cc6 | comment |
Old Media Are Evil: Elliot Carver is a poorly disguised version of Robert Maxwell, evident at the end when M says they'll make his death look like he committed suicide on his yacht, which is how Maxwell may have died (he either killed himself or had an accident, but he allegedly- and with some evidence- may have been killed by foreign intelligence agents- Mossad in this case-, just as Carver is killed by James Bond). Carver is worse than any of them, of course, since he brings the world to the brink of war for ratings and has numerous people- including his own wife- tortured and killed, par for the course for a Bond villain. | |
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Post-Climax Confrontation | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_4f828b45 | comment |
Post-Climax Confrontation: After Bond kills Carver, Stamper shows up with Wai Lin as his hostage and tries to drown her and finish him off. Bond traps him in the missile firing mechanism and leaves him to die while he saves her. | |
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Sex Signals Death | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_506bf16a | comment |
Sex Signals Death: Paris Carver is tortured and strangled. Adding insult to injury, her body is planted in Bond's hotel room in an effort to frame him for murder. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_508d91a2 | type |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_508d91a2 | comment |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: What Carver does before offing Gupta. Bond also has one, seen in Hoist by His Own Petard. Carver also gives one to the entire British and Chinese armadas when he, in his stealth ship, orders his men to fire missiles at both to provoke a battle: As Bond is about to execute Dr. Kaufman, who had just killed Paris Carver: | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_51566669 | type |
Auction of Evil | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_51566669 | comment |
Auction of Evil: The film opens with James Bond infiltrating a weapons bazaar where various military grade weapons are being sold to terrorists. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_51640e80 | type |
Bond One-Liner | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_51640e80 | comment |
Bond's Bond One-Liner about backseat drivers becomes this when he literally becomes one. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_517266f6 | type |
Kiss of Life | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_517266f6 | comment |
Kiss of Life: An underwater variation where Bond uses mouth-to-mouth to save the life of Wai Lin, who was just on the verge of losing consciousness due to drowning. | |
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Abandon Ship | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_51c7574c | comment |
Abandon Ship: The crew of HMS Devonshire, and later the crew of the stealth ship. | |
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Drowning My Sorrows | |
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Drowning My Sorrows: Bond does this with vodka in his hotel room after he shuts down the power at Carver's party. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Dr. Kaufman. He's here to kill James but treats him as a colleague, even letting off some steam about their chosen profession. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Mr. Stamper, Carver's right hand man. | |
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Cavalry Betrayal | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_54616909 | comment |
Cavalry Betrayal: Carver has the survivors of the Devonshire machine-gunned while they paddled up to his ship hoping for rescue. | |
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Guns Akimbo | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_548bd053 | comment |
Guns Akimbo: Used largely for suppressive fire, unless the baddies are pretty much at point-blank range. | |
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I Work Alone | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5571b706 | comment |
I Work Alone: When Bond suggests to Wai Lin that they hook up during their Shower Scene, she gives this trope and leaves him handcuffed to a pipe. As always, they end up working together anyway. | |
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Insecurity Camera | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_561fc6cf | comment |
Insecurity Camera: Lampshaded. There's a scene where Bond Wai Lin are breaking into Elliot Carver's stealth ship. Carver is discussing something with one of his subordinates when he then notices Lin on the security cameras in the corner; the person manning the station is not paying attention to the screens. Carver walks over to him and yells "what the hell do I pay you for?" | |
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Women Are Wiser | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_565106b3 | comment |
Women Are Wiser: Bond, of all people, invokes this when he informs Mr. Stamper, "Never argue with a woman; they're always right" after Wai Lin tosses the detonation fuses to him and insists that Bond complete their mission at the expense of her life. GoldenEye had already established that Bond carries a deep psychological need to Always Save the Girl, so by respecting Wai Lin's wishes, he's also respecting her as a fellow soldier. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5969d512 | type |
Computer Voice | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5969d512 | comment |
Computer Voice: The guidance system in James Bond's BMW. ("Don't let her push you around.") Q even comments that hopefully James will pay attention due to the voice being female. | |
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Backwards-Firing Gun | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5bc36262 | comment |
Backwards-Firing Gun: The taser in Bond's phone has the prongs come from the bottom of the phone, not the top as one might expect, meaning Bond has to flip the phone over to use the feature. This comes in handy when he needs to trick Kaufman into shocking himself. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5bdcc85a | type |
Disney Villain Death | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Disney Villain Death: Bond punches a mook off a catwalk, and he falls into a printing press. "They'll print anything these days." | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5c99b642 | type |
War for Fun and Profit | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5c99b642 | comment |
War for Fun and Profit: Elliot Carver attempt to start a war between the United Kingdom and China, by sinking a British frigate sent off-course into Chinese waters, while shooting down a Chinese fighter plane sent to investigate. China wouldn't grant him broadcast rights, you see. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: The dangers of an irresponsibly powerful and unchecked tabloid media. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5d269b12 | type |
Handy Remote Control | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5d269b12 | comment |
Handy Remote Control: Bond uses his remote control, which allows him not only to control his gadget car without being exposed in the driver's seat, but also to see where he's going in the device's video screen. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5d716d61 | type |
Ground by Gears | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_5d716d61 | comment |
Ground by Gears: During the fight in Carver's headquarters in Hamburg, Bond tosses one of Carver's goons into a running printing press; resulting in the papers coming out black and white and red all over. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_608bf5a0 | type |
Shoot the Hostage | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_608bf5a0 | comment |
Shoot the Hostage: A villainous example when Bond has taken Henry Gupta hostage, Carver combines this trope with You Have Outlived Your Usefulness and shoots Gupta once he's confirmed that he no longer needs his immediate help (he can always hire another IT guy later). | |
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Ejection Seat | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_6319dea1 | comment |
Ejection Seat: Bond uses an ejector to eject an unwanted co-pilot from his stolen fighter jet, downing another plane in the process. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_64edb99c | type |
Always Save the Girl | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_64edb99c | comment |
Always Save the Girl: Subverted when Mr. Stamper threatens to drown Wai Lin. Although Bond had promised her twice that they would survive the mission together, she reminds him that it's his duty to destroy the missile, so he focuses on the task at hand. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_65163c3a | type |
Evil Tower of Ominousness | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_65163c3a | comment |
Evil Tower of Ominousness: Elliot Carver's building in Saigon, which dwarfs everything else and has a giant poster of his face on the side. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_658f7193 | type |
Lack of Empathy | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_658f7193 | comment |
Lack of Empathy: Carver is willing to ignite World War III just to get broadcasting rights in China and jack up his TV company's ratings. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_6bd689ca | type |
Meaningful Echo | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_6bd689ca | comment |
Meaningful Echo: Paris says to Bond, "Don't argue with me, James." Bond would later be thinking about her when he tells Mr. Stamper, "Never argue with a woman; they're always right." | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_6d56cebf | type |
Chess Motifs | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_6d56cebf | comment |
Chess Motifs: In the pre-title sequence, the codenames are all based on chess pieces. The terrorists are pawns, Bond himself is a knight, the HMS Chester is a bishop, HQ is a rook, and the Admiral is a king. | |
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Today, X. Tomorrow, the World! | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_6ea8ff42 | comment |
Today, X. Tomorrow, the World!: "The front pages today, tomorrow the world!" | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_6eef5fc6 | type |
Temporary Substitute | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_6eef5fc6 | comment |
Temporary Substitute: Michael Kitchen was unable to return as Bill Tanner, so his role was assigned to Colin Salmon's Charles Robinson. Curiously, they both appear in the next film. | |
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Fiction 500 | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_6fc21d06 | comment |
Fiction 500: Elliot Carver is noted by supplemental materials to be the most powerful man in the world at the time of the film. His media empire can send a government crashing down with a single news story. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_6fdd991c | type |
Overt Operative | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_6fdd991c | comment |
Overt Operative: Zizagged; Bond is working undercover as a banker, but Gupta sees through it because it's too perfect, as it's a created intelligence 'legend' instead of someone's real life. However with a short deadline Bond isn't trying to be subtle, with the way he drops meaningful hints to Carver on their first meeting. | |
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Giving Them the Strip | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_70b840b6 | comment |
Giving Them the Strip: Bond cuts himself free from his tactical vest to escape when Stamper dangles him in front of the soon-to-fire missile's exhaust vents. | |
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Just One Little Mistake | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_710f3133 | comment |
Just One Little Mistake: Carver was so eager to get the news out fast that his newspaper printed them… before the recovery of the bodies had even been done, let alone had gotten out info to the authorities. Bond and M figure it out when Bond contacts MI6's station at the country that recovered the bodies, which makes Carver a person of interest, and well… you can guess what follows. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7204fa60 | type |
George Jetson Job Security | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7204fa60 | comment |
George Jetson Job Security: Bad Boss Elliot Carver sacks his PR woman for not being able to explain what caused a power outage. As the outage was caused by James Bond, there is no way she could have known the cause. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7286e96d | comment |
Idiot Ball: The Admirals, who just witnessed the 'terrorist supermarket' with even nuclear torpedoes for sale and Gupta buying an American GPS encoder, still decide to potentially go to war with China over the Chinese apparently murdering their sailors even though M flat-out tells them someone was messing with the GPS signal. They might have been a bit more open-minded if she'd let them in on Carver's involvement, but it's still incredibly reckless. One assumes Admiral Roebuck was asked to leave the Queen's service shortly after the ending of the events of this film. His behaviour throughout the film was unacceptably impulsive for a senior Admiral. Even though he's a secret agent, Bond wastes no time questioning Carver on the nature of his network activities when trying to probe him for information upon their first meeting—though with a short deadline, he's clearly hoping to provoke Carter into a Revealing Cover-Up. Sure enough, after this conversation Carver sends his two of his henchmen to beat up Bond for answers. And on top of that, when the henchmen ask Bond to come with them, Bond doesn't seem prepared in the least for the possibility that they might be taking him somewhere quiet to beat him up. He does proceed to mop the floor with them, but they still get the drop on him a little too easily. Bond notes that Carver had already put the murder of the sailors across the headlines before the British or Vietnamese authorities had even verified their deaths, which only serves to make Carver look even more suspicious after it was determined his satellite network had tapped into the GPS system. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_729c69f3 | type |
Politically Incorrect Villain | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_729c69f3 | comment |
Politically Incorrect Villain: Carver mocks Wai Lin by making exaggerated karate-chop/kung-fu moves and yelling Kiai, all the while gloating about his Evil Plan. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_740f0e9e | type |
Wronski Feint | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_740f0e9e | comment |
Wronski Feint: Bond does this to destroy some missiles fired at him by a pursuing fighter, though the fighter itself manages to pull away in time. Pretty ordinary for Bond, right? Only at the time he was piloting by holding the joystick with his knees, because he was trying to stop himself from being garotted by the mook in the rear seat of his own fighter. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7570a10c | type |
Bond Villain Stupidity | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7570a10c | comment |
Bond Villain Stupidity: Instead of shooting Bond once he's made him sit on the bed, Dr. Kaufman gets into a conversation with Bond. His delay turns out to be opportune, as Bond's car is invincible and Stamper calls in to get Kaufman to torture Bond into opening it moments before Kaufman would have killed him. Bond says his phone controls the car, but Kaufman seems to know it could be a weapon that Bond would use against him. However, it turns out that operating the phone himself was no better, as instead of unlocking the car, Bond gives him a combination that causes Kaufman to shock himself. | |
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Stocking Filler | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7598fec1 | comment |
Stocking Filler: Paris Carver is first shown having them when Bond strips her down and she's shown Topless from the Back. The very first shot of her after she and Bond have sex is her rearranging her garters. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_786bf97f | type |
Real Life Writes the Plot | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_786bf97f | comment |
Real Life Writes the Plot: The plot was supposed to be about the reunification of Hong Kong and China, but someone realised they wouldn't be able to get the film done in time, resulting in rewrites that caused the last act to be all action and barely any plot. | |
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New Old Flame | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7a21fc07 | comment |
New Old Flame: Apparently in addition to all the lovely ladies from his adventures, Bond has ex-girlfriends we haven't even seen. Rumours have circulated she was intended to be an established character, possibly Natalya Simonova or Sylvia Trench, but this was nixed due to fearing the bad reception that would come from killing either of them off. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7c0bfb83 | type |
Obviously Evil | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: Carver. Not so much in public as when he's talking to his subordinates. His entire organization is based on engineering catastrophes and profiting from them, and he revels in it. Carver is so blatant in his villainy it's a wonder he's only being investigated now. As Bond points out, Carver released news of the dead sailors so early that there's no way he could have learned of it from any official military or government sources. When he tries to have Bond killed, he's already produced a segment to report on it which will be on the air an hour after Bond has died. | |
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Laughably Evil | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7c9933de | comment |
Laughably Evil: Carver is so hilariously and cartoonishly over-the-top that he is often at least as humorous as he is frightening, if not more so. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7d53bc0b | type |
Hollywood Silencer | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7d53bc0b | comment |
Hollywood Silencer: Averted on the stealth ship, where Bond's suppressed Walther P99 sounds probably just a little less loud that it would without the suppressor. As soon as he pulls the trigger, all the goons in the room hear it and open fire on him. Doesn't help that it's a ship and sounds echo. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7d89315b | comment |
M, of all people (especially this particular M after her comments in the previous film), with her orders to Bond regarding information on possible CMGN involvement in the stray warship: Then Moneypenny chimes in. | |
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Shower Scene | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7eccbb3d | comment |
Shower Scene: Bond and Wai Lin end up under an outdoor shower during their Chained Heat sequence. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Against M's protests, Admiral Roebuck orders a premature missile strike against the terrorist base Bond is presently infiltrating. Bond refuses to withdraw, and by the time they realize it's because there are a pair of nuclear torpedoes on site, the missile is too far out of range to be aborted. If not for Bond, they would've inadvertently triggered a nuclear disaster on the edge of Russia. Even worse, thanks to the Admiral jumping the gun, Bond was forced to let Gupta get away with the encoder, leading to the main events of the movie. Bond had successfully infiltrated Carver's company and stole the encoder. Just as he was leaving, however, he hears Wai Lin drilling through a door, which triggers the alarm, blowing Bond's cover. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_8042e814 | type |
Actually Pretty Funny | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_8042e814 | comment |
Actually Pretty Funny: Wai Lin can't help but smile at Bond's torture gag. Carver's favourite newspaper cover regarding the crisis he engineered is one that was printed by a rival newspaper, because it has a Pun/Shout-Out (both to Star Wars, a Call-Back to an actual headline printed during The Falklands War and an actual cover of a British military crisis) that he finds exquisite. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Carver wants to start a global war just to jack up his TV company's ratings. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Jonathan Pryce's magnificently over-the-top performance as Elliot Carver is one of the most memorable things about this movie. Same goes for Vincent Schiavelli's Dr. Kaufman, who knows he's a Bond henchman, and milks it for all its worth. | |
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Pun | |
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Carver's favourite newspaper cover regarding the crisis he engineered is one that was printed by a rival newspaper, because it has a Pun/Shout-Out (both to Star Wars, a Call-Back to an actual headline printed during The Falklands War and an actual cover of a British military crisis) that he finds exquisite. | |
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Disposable Woman | |
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Disposable Woman: Paris Carver appears for three scenes at most before being killed by Carver for aiding Bond, which makes the whole affair very personal for Bond. | |
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When Harry Met Svetlana | |
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When Harry Met Svetlana: Significantly downplayed: the film takes place in a moment of fairly amicable relations between China and the West, and Bond and Wai Lin's task boils down to maintaining these. | |
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Sympathetic Adulterer | |
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Sympathetic Adulterer: Bond sleeps with Paris Carver, an old girlfriend who is now married to Elliot Carver. Paris comes to him to warn him that her husband is onto the fact that he is a spy, and the next morning gives him information even over his protests, despite believing that her media baron husband will find and kill her wherever she goes if she doesn't go back to him. Unknown to her, Carver has already decided to have her killed for not telling him that she knew who Bond was, and when Bond gets back to his hotel room she has already been murdered by one of his assassins. | |
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Badass Biker | |
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Badass Biker: The director admitted that after Bond drove a tank in the previous movie, he couldn't go any bigger and thus went for a smaller vehicle with a motorcycle. And Bond does incredible things in a bike, handcuffed to Wai Lin, no less! | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: Kaufman claims he will shoot Bond and make it look like a suicide. Bond says that at that distance they'll be able to tell the shot didn't come from Bond (goading Kaufman to get close enough to disarm). | |
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Arms Fair | |
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The Admirals, who just witnessed the 'terrorist supermarket' with even nuclear torpedoes for sale and Gupta buying an American GPS encoder, still decide to potentially go to war with China over the Chinese apparently murdering their sailors even though M flat-out tells them someone was messing with the GPS signal. They might have been a bit more open-minded if she'd let them in on Carver's involvement, but it's still incredibly reckless. One assumes Admiral Roebuck was asked to leave the Queen's service shortly after the ending of the events of this film. His behaviour throughout the film was unacceptably impulsive for a senior Admiral. | |
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Misguided Missile | |
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Misguided Missile: In a variation on the theme, a Tomahawk missile is launched at an Arms Fair in the Pre Titles Sequence. After it's fired, Bond manages to communicate that one of the planes there is armed with a nuclear torpedo, and if the Tomahawk blows that up it will make the fallout from Chernobyl look like spring rain. When the Royal Navy are unable to self-destruct the inbound Tomahawk, he nicks the plane. | |
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Truth in Television | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_875615dd | comment |
Truth in Television: If you thought a media company wouldn't really engineer a war for ratings, you'd actually be wrong. Back in The '60s, CBS subsidized a planned mercenary coup of Haitian dictator Francois Duvalier for the purpose of shooting a television documentary. The FBI foiled the invasion plot and CBS was chewed out by the FCC and the House Commerce Committee over the incident. | |
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Deadly Dodging | |
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Deadly Dodging: When being "interrogated", Bond shifts sideways from a punch and Mook #1 ends up punching Mook #2 instead, giving Bond the opening he needs to beat up the numerous baddies. | |
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Deadly Escape Mechanism | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_8894d9e2 | comment |
Deadly Escape Mechanism: When Bond steals the Aero L-39 Albatros from the illegal arms bazaar, he knocks out the co-pilot. Later, during the dogfight, the co-pilot re-awakes and tries to strangle Bond with a headphone cable. Struggling to keep the jet stable, Bond activates the ejector seat switch for the rear seat and sends the unfortunate co-pilot out of the plane, right into the fuselage of the enemy plane, causing it to explode. | |
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Cool Car | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_8a295a46 | comment |
Cool Car: Bond has a rocket-firing, fully loaded BMW 750iL that he can drive by remote control. Yes, that's as awesome as it sounds. | |
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Super Multi-Purpose Room | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_8ac0d4f6 | comment |
Super Multi-Purpose Room: Wai Lin has a run-down bike repair-shop which transforms into a full-blown spy lair. | |
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Forced Friendly Fire | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_8dd4b19f | comment |
Forced Friendly Fire: Bond does this to Doctor Kaufman to make his death look like a murder-suicide. | |
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Corporate Conspiracy | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_8eb0370f | comment |
Corporate Conspiracy: Corrupt media mogul Elliot Carver, owner of the Carver Media Group Network, plans to foment war between the US and China to boost his ratings. And because China wouldn't give him broadcasting rights, of course. | |
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Diabolical Mastermind | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9080e641 | comment |
Diabolical Mastermind: Media magnate Eliot Carver, who uses money from his media empire to create tomorrow's headlines. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: Carver meets his end at the hands of the very sea drill he used against the Devonshire to kill its entire crew. Dr Kaufman dies of the "self-inflicted gunshot" he intended for Bond when sent to fake his suicide. | |
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Nothing Personal | |
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Nothing Personal: Dr. Kaufman has murdered Paris Carver and tries to kill Bond as well. When Bond gets the upper hand, the villain pleads: | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_928ca2cc | comment |
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Gupta reports that the missile aimed at Beijing is ready for launch, Carver says "Then it seems you have outlived your contract." before shooting him dead. This is done partially to deny Bond his hostage. | |
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Revenge | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_92f674e5 | comment |
Revenge: Wai Lin asks Bond if he's interested in peace or revenge, and he replies that he wants to stop a war. However, the audience knows that he's also driven by his hatred towards Elliot for ordering Paris' murder. | |
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The Big Damn Kiss | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9438e550 | comment |
The Big Damn Kiss: Although Bond is ostensibly giving air to Wai Lin so that she can breathe underwater, the way his mouth closes over hers for an extended period of time and the manner in which he holds her face look exactly like a passionate French kiss. The sweeping music, their flowing hair (the ocean current creates an effect which appears similar to wind), the warm colouring and lighting of the shot leave absolutely no doubt that this scene is epically romantic. Cue the collective swooning of Pierce Brosnan's fangirls. | |
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Warhawk | |
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Warhawk: Carver tries to trigger warfare between the United Kingdom and the Republic of China so that his news network can broadcast all the gruesome fighting and monopolize the industry. | |
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Commanding Coolness | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_94c99d9c | comment |
Commanding Coolness: James Bond's rank, of course. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_95b7c400 | comment |
Faux Affably Evil: Stamper tries to approach the warmth of his mentor, Dr. Kaufman, but it's all superficial. Under the calm exterior he's shallow and mean, unabashedly taking glee in the pain of his victims. It ends up being his undoing. | |
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Guns Do Not Work That Way | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_95ff52c7 | comment |
Guns Do Not Work That Way: When Carver orders Stamper to Sink The Life Boats, he reminds him to use the same type of ammunition carried by Chinese fighter planes. Since the 1950s or so, fighter planes have primarily carried autocannons firing 20mm (or larger) explosive shells, which would be all but impossible to load and fire from any gun small enough for a single person to carry. | |
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Big Bad | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_970c790a | comment |
Even Elliot Carver gets off a clever one when he thinks Bond is dead. | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate: Averted, although technically speaking the PRC General Chang would be just as important to the scheme as Carver's contributions. The former is Demoted to Extra, appearing onscreen for a total of five seconds as Bond and Wai Lin are escorted past him. | |
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As You Know | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9843be73 | comment |
As You Know: The first stealth-ship scene starts with a literal Captain Obvious reminding his men that the British will believe they're in international waters due to the manipulated GPS signal. Anyone who at this point in the operation didn't know that very definitely had no business being there—but then again, a penchant for summarizing and giving exposition at every possible opportunity may have been an entrance requirement for a job in Carver's corporation. Of course, Carver later indulges in it himself. | |
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Ladykiller in Love | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_99404851 | comment |
Ladykiller in Love: Downplayed with Bond as he is still afraid of commitment when it comes to romantic relationships, but he is in love with Paris Carver. | |
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Villainous Plan Inertia | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9979acb2 | comment |
Villainous Plan Inertia: Killing Elliot Carver doesn't stop the countdown on the cruise missile he has aimed at China. | |
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Hand Stomp | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9a9eb4dd | comment |
Hand Stomp: Stamper stomps on the hand on the British sailor trying to pull himself up on to the stealth boat after the Devonshire sinks. | |
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Rapid-Fire Typing | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9ab240e4 | comment |
Rapid-Fire Typing: Elliot Carver writes news stories, controls video-conferences and basically runs his entire empire by flailing madly at a small, hand-held computer console. This is one of the few instances where you can actually see words coming up on the screen as Elliot types, though he is still typing far too fast. Could be explained logically, in that Carver's company is also partly an evil parody of Microsoft, meaning he may have his own special "evil villain" control software that interfaces entirely through rapid fire typing. | |
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Character Tics | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9ae8eea9 | comment |
Character Tics: Elliot Carver tends to outstretch his arms in a "You See" motion when making his grand speeches. | |
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Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9aebded4 | comment |
Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow: Subverted because Wai Lin is definitely not subservient to Bond. She is a highly skilled agent whose primary role in the story is being his ally when they attempt to stop Elliot Carver from instigating a war between China and the United Kingdom. | |
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What the Fu Are You Doing? | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9c3a9415 | comment |
What the Fu Are You Doing?: Carver does this in front of the captured Wai Lin, making lots of karate chop moves and yelling Kiai all the while. He's supposed to be showing how "pathetic" her moves are, but it comes across as invokedNarm. Which is kinda the point; he's mocking her since his Mooks have, y'know, guns. | |
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Weaponized Exhaust | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9c842299 | comment |
Weaponized Exhaust: Bond traps Stamper's foot on the missile gantry so he gets caught in the backblast as the missile prepares to fire. | |
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Toplessness from the Back | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9cede50e | comment |
Toplessness from the Back: Paris Carver is seen this way. For bonus points, she combines it with Stocking Filler. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: During the debriefing, M mentions that Carver's satellite will give him the ability to reach every single human being on the Earth - except the Chinese, who refused broadcast rights. This becomes an important plot point. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: This movie continues two threads that Alec Trevelyan had brought up in GoldenEye. Firstly, Bond's constant attempts to atone for the women whose lives he failed to save manifests itself as a strong personal need to keep Wai Lin safe after he was unable to protect Paris Carver. Secondly, we get a reversal of "The girl or the mission?" because in GoldenEye, Bond chose to save Natalya Simonova's life (a civilian) over executing Trevelyan. However, this time around, he gives priority to his duty over Wai Lin's life (a fellow soldier) during the climax, although he does rescue her the first chance he gets. | |
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Camera Abuse | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9dd2329c | comment |
Camera Abuse: At the end of the pre-credits sequence, the exhaust from Bond's stolen fighter jet shatter the picture into a million pieces as we fall into the opening credits. | |
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Gag Dub | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9f240209 | comment |
Gag Voice: The female voice in the BMW with the comical German accent. Perhaps a little Take That! on the BMW Product Placement over a British marque. | |
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Welcome to Evil Mart | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9f92c3e2 | comment |
Welcome to Evil Mart: In the Cold Opening, James Bond infiltrates one of these. Cue Stuff Blowing Up and an escape in a fighter jet. | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_9fbf8969 | comment |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Elliott Carver controls one of the most influential and powerful media empires in the world — and that's before he goes to the trouble of trying to kick-start a war between Britain and China in order to increase his (already large) share of the market. He could've also made a fortune by selling his stealth ship technology to the highest bidder. | |
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It's Personal | |
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It's Personal: Wai Lin asks Bond if he's interested in peace or revenge, and he replies that he wants to stop a war. However, the audience knows that he's also driven by his hatred towards Elliot for ordering Paris' murder. | |
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Revealing Cover-Up | |
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Even though he's a secret agent, Bond wastes no time questioning Carver on the nature of his network activities when trying to probe him for information upon their first meeting—though with a short deadline, he's clearly hoping to provoke Carter into a Revealing Cover-Up. Sure enough, after this conversation Carver sends his two of his henchmen to beat up Bond for answers. And on top of that, when the henchmen ask Bond to come with them, Bond doesn't seem prepared in the least for the possibility that they might be taking him somewhere quiet to beat him up. He does proceed to mop the floor with them, but they still get the drop on him a little too easily. | |
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Techno Babble | |
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Technobabble: Subverted. When Elliot Carver comes in to ask Henry Gupta about Bond, he stops him before he can go into a longwinded explanation. He even uses the trope name. | |
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Spy Catsuit | |
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Spy Catsuit: Wai Lin wears a wetsuit for the final battle on board a warship, but then again so did Bond. | |
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General Ripper | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_a67b86a7 | comment |
One assumes Admiral Roebuck was asked to leave the Queen's service shortly after the ending of the events of this film. His behaviour throughout the film was unacceptably impulsive for a senior Admiral. | |
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MacGuffin | |
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MacGuffin: The GPS encoder. | |
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Shoot Out the Lock | |
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Shoot Out the Lock: Bond uses both variants. He first fries a code lock to open a door (toward Gupta's bureau), then shoots another lock on a ceiling hatch to seal it so Carver's minions can't pursue him. The door was about to lock itself anyway; Bond shot the lock so that the bad guys couldn't open it from their side. | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_a796d2a6 | comment |
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Bond uses his P99 in conjunction with a captured MP5K-PDW SMG for suppressive fire. A good portion of the climax is him and Wai Lin forcing the baddies to keep their heads down. | |
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N.G.O. Superpower | |
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N.G.O. Superpower: The Carver Media Group Network already had great influence due to its media prowess. But its megalomaniacal leader wanted more, so he influenced a war between China and Britain for his gambit. To help, Carver funds a small army and builds a stealth boat. | |
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Like a Son to Me | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_a8adc5a0 | comment |
Like a Father to Me: Stamper says this word-for-word about Dr. Kaufman. | |
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Dead Star Walking | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_a8c1433e | comment |
Dead Star Walking: While Teri Hatcher was featured in the advertising campaign as much as (if not more than) Michelle Yeoh, Paris Carver is the requisite secondary Bond Girl who dies halfway through, as per tradition. In the original cut, she had much more screentime, but test audiences' reactions to her role were largely negative, so much of it was omitted. Total scene count for Paris in a two-hour film: three. | |
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Hero Insurance | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_a9667a3b | comment |
Hero Insurance: A scene between Bond and Q show him actually getting hero insurance for his car. | |
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Hollywood Skydiving | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_aaa48538 | comment |
Hollywood Skydiving: Averted, as the HALO jump (High Altitude, Low Opening) is an actual military practice. | |
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Rousing Speech | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_aaece264 | comment |
Rousing Speech: Carver was in the middle of one before being taken off the air by Bond. | |
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ArtisticLicenceNuclearPhysics | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_ab291b4c | comment |
Artistic Licence - Nuclear Physics: Averted. A missile is going to be fired at Bejing in less than a minute. Since James Bond doesn't have enough time to delicately disarm, he just attaches some explosives to the tail end of the missile so when the missile ignites to lift off, the flames detonate the explosives, safely blowing the missile to hell. However, the movie does play the trope straight at the beginning, when the top brass is talking about some Soviet nuclear torpedoes detonating or spreading plutonium from their missile strike. | |
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Red China | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_ab3f1c2b | comment |
Red China: This is probably the only film thus far which uses the Red and Rich version of the trope. To be sure, China exists as a possible enemy, but agent Wai Lin and Bond never really discuss or debate politics, and they do collaborate to uncover the evil plan of the week. Both China and the UK were being manipulated into war by a third party, and in the end the villain was exposed, his own forces destroyed, and everyone just went home. | |
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Fatal Flaw | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_aba8065b | comment |
Fatal Flaw: Elliot makes note of Bond's weakness as he holds Wai Lin hostage. Carver's narcissism is a major problem for him, going so far as to decorate his headquarters and other places pertaining to his media empire, with tapestries and over sized banners that bear his visage. His Evil Plan to have China and the United Kingdom go to war against each other just to arrange a broadcasting deal with the new Chinese government shows his selfish behaviour. More immediately, his decision to release the story about the HMS Devonshire being sunk through his newspaper before the authorities themselves learned about it causes him to come under immediate scrutiny by MI6, purely because he wants his media empire to be first to report the incident. | |
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Concealing Canvas | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_ac8b2810 | comment |
Concealing Canvas: The safe in which the GPS encoder is stored is hidden behind a painting in Carver's office. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_acf33d00 | comment |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Carver prints and distributes the story of the sailors' deaths within barely three hours of their actual recovery by Vietnamese authorities. Carver certainly got the reaction he was counting on from the British, but he also attracts the attention of MI6 who hadn't even gotten wind of the murders when the story broke out. Not helping Carver is the fact that MI6 discovered one of his satellites interfering with the GPS system when the vessel was reported lost. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: Bond has this reaction as he's walking back to his hotel room and listens to a news report playing in his room, which states that Paris Carver has been found dead in a hotel room, murdered by an unidentified man who was found there with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This is also the reaction in the situation room during the prologue when everybody realises exactly why Bond was trying to warn them about what the parked jet was carrying. The American military personnel giving Bond a lift to HALO drop and then dive to the sunken British naval ship get a minor one when they realize that the ship is in neither Chinese nor international waters but actually in Vietnamese waters, and both Bond's parachute and diving gear will have American military insignia on them, which if he would be caught by the Vietnamese military would go poorly. Luckily nothing comes of it. | |
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Weaponized Car | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_ad295cc3 | comment |
Weaponized Car: Bond's BMW 750iL. It has missiles, caltrops, bulletproof armour, self-sealing reinflating tyres, and can be remote-controlled. | |
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Far-East Asian Terrorists | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_ad5d1f12 | comment |
Far East Asian Terrorists: A fugitive Aum Shinrinkyo cultist named Satoshi Isagura, wanted for the Tokyo subway attacks in 1995, shows up in an arms deal monitored by MI-6. | |
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Avenging the Villain | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_af5f2180 | comment |
Avenging the Villain: Stamper attempts to kill James Bond with a Taking You with Me at the end of the film, in retaliation for Bond killing both his employer, Elliot Carver, and his mentor Dr Kauffman. | |
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Malevolent Mugshot | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_aff674af | comment |
Malevolent Mugshot: Elliot Carver has his face displayed on as many banners all over the place as your average Soviet dictatorship. Bond gets a few good digs in at his expense on the subject and manages to destroy one or two in creative ways over the course of the film. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Paris Carver becomes this once Bond strips her down to her black panties. Also Inga Bergstrom, one of the most revealing Bond girls. | |
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Black Helicopter | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_b0cbdcb1 | comment |
Black Helicopter: Bond is menaced by such a helicopter, and at one point he evades it by jumping over the spinning rotors in Slo Mo with a motorcycle. | |
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Tap on the Head | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_b1a7cd14 | comment |
Tap on the Head: While stealing a fighter jet, Bond knocks out the navigator in the rear seat. Unfortunately he revives shortly afterwards, and tries to garrote Bond just as they've being fired on by a second fighter plane. | |
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Suspiciously Clean Criminal Record | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_b2011cae | comment |
Suspiciously Clean Criminal Record: Gupta is able to quickly figure out that James Bond's not a banker but a government spy this way. | |
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Static Stun Gun | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_b2441a13 | comment |
Static Stun Gun: Bond's mobile phone includes, besides its signature ability to remote-control his BMW, a two-pronged electroshock weapon activated by pressing the Recall button. In a memorable case of this, Bond overcomes Dr. Kaufman by tricking him into zapping himself with it. | |
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Just Between You and Me | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_b26cc887 | comment |
Just Between You and Me: Mild inversion—the Evil Plan turns out to be less heinous (though still heinous) than what the heroes thought it was (they thought Carver was trying to start World War III For the Evulz and for ratings; he's actually in a Big Bad Duumvirate (of sorts) aimed at installing a new Chinese government via nuking the old one and blaming it on the British, with his ally emerging as a Villain with Good Publicity when he takes over the country and negotiates a truce (Carver is still after ratings). Also a perfect example of how Bond movies subvert this trope—they were already trying to foil his plan before he even explained it. | |
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Bottomless Magazines | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_b2cdd776 | comment |
Bottomless Magazines: Averted in the case of our heroes: when Bond is escaping from the CMGN facility in Hamburg, viewers who pay attention will note he fires exactly 8 shots from his PPK (the real-life limit: 7 in the mag + 1 in the chamber) before putting it away and not using it anymore. Wai Lin near the end tosses away an empty MP5 and only has two rounds left in the other, and shortly afterwards, Bond drops his P99 after firing all the rounds from it and has to reload his MP5K-PDW sub-machine gun. Played straight in the case of Carver's mooks, unfortunately. | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_b47d95be | comment |
No OSHA Compliance: A number of mooks end up crushed by newspaper printing presses. Later, we see Carver's ship, in which both the Sea Drill and a nuclear missile are stored and launched in the same space as the crew's workstations. There doesn't even appear to be any means of venting exhaust from the rocket motor. | |
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Internal Homage | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_b545453b | comment |
Internal Homage: Bond wonders how Dr. Kaufman will make his death look like a suicide if he shoots him from across the room. A question many Bond-fans have pondered after seeing Red Grant threaten to shoot Bond multiple times from across a train compartment in From Russia with Love, even though his superiors had told him to make it look like a suicide. | |
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It's Raining Men | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_b5ba2c2b | comment |
It's Raining Men: Bond does a HALO jump, officially the most badass aerial insertion method to be used in Real Life. | |
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Touché | |
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Touché: Bond kills time before his backup plan activates by getting Carver to rant about how Bond won't be able to beat him, in the midst of which Bond kills the mook trying to sneak up on him overhead. | |
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"Hey, You!" Haymaker | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_b628db4c | comment |
"Hey, You!" Haymaker: Bond sneaks up behind a Mook, lights up a cigarette for him, then punches him out, saying, "Filthy habit." Possibly a Shout-Out to the fact that Pierce Brosnan was (at the time) the first Bond actor not to smoke on screen (unless you count Die Another Day). And again, except without a lighter; he merely pantomimes lighting the cigarette. | |
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And Show It to You | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_b807624a | comment |
And Show It to You: Stamper planned to do this to James Bond. Bond escapes before he can, obviously. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: Jack Wade doesn't play nearly as big a role in this film as he did in the last one. | |
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Cool Bike | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_bb0197af | comment |
Cool Bike: The BMW R1200C that Bond and Wai Lin ride around, through, and over Saigon together on. | |
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Cool Boat | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_bb01ad0e | comment |
Cool Boat: The stealth ship. The fact it's invisible to radar raises the stakes considerably! | |
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Cool Guns | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_bb040b01 | comment |
Cool Guns: Bond gets a Walther P99 from Wai Lin's armoury. He later fits it with a suppressor and dual-wields it with an MP5k during his assault on Carver's stealth boat, until it finally runs dry. FAMAS can be seen amongst many other guns on a rack. Carver's troops wield Heckler and Koch MP5s. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: Delivered by the normally cool and in-control Carver. | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_bcd27e37 | comment |
Improbable Aiming Skills: Doctor Kaufman claims to possess this, boasting that he could shoot James Bond from the other end of the room and make the bullet wound look like Bond had committed suicide. Bond outwits and kills him before he has a chance to demonstrate his technique. Kaufman claims that his experience as a professor of forensic medicine is how he is able to make a far-away shot look like suicide. How that helps his hand-eye coordination is unclear, although, presumably, he could add powder burns after the fact. | |
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Ominous Multiple Screens | |
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Ominous Multiple Screens: Elliot Carver has a room like this — fitting for a villain who's a media baron. | |
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot | |
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: An unusually fast newspaper article on a ship sinking → starting a war to gain exclusive media rights in China. | |
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Fleeting Demographic Rule | |
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Fleeting Demographic Rule: Wai Lin is another "Bond girl as Bond's equal", portrayed again as the first time ever, not counting Anya Amasova and arguably Pam Bouvier. Would be repeated in 5 years with Jinx. | |
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Helicopter Blender | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_bf01bda2 | comment |
Helicopter Blender: Quite a silly example, as it takes forever for it to carve through the narrow streets of Saigon to get to the cycle Bond and Wai Lin are riding. | |
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Don't Ask | |
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Don't Ask: | |
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Trophy Wife | |
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Trophy Wife: Paris Carver is one for Elliot. And once he finds out Bond is taking advantage of her... | |
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Outrun the Fireball | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c12f0c4 | comment |
Outrun the Fireball: Bond flies a jet through the fireball. The example is slightly more plausible than the usual fare - assuming that it was a (relatively cold) kerosene/gasoline fire from the trucks and aircraft that were in front of him, and he was flying fast enough, it is entirely possible that James could fly through with no or few ill-effects. It is the same principle as quickly moving one's hand through a (yellow!) bunsen or candle flame. So long as you do it fast enough, you'll be fine. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c2d5b652 | type |
Playing Both Sides | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c2d5b652 | comment |
Playing Both Sides: This is exactly what Elliot Carver's plan is. He intends to use the impending war between Britain and China to gain exclusive broadcast rights in China for himself, deliberately amping up the tension himself the entire time. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: When Bond discovers Paris Carver's corpse in his hotel room, a news broadcast states that she was found dead along with an "unidentified man who apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound." It is at this point that Bond encounters Dr. Kaufman aiming at him with a gun and who tells him that story will be on the air in an hour. Of course, Bond overcomes Dr. Kaufman and turns his own gun upon him so that the crime scene does in fact appear as the newscast states. | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c3648b87 | comment |
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Played with; after Bond and Wai Lin are captured by Carver's goons, he's eager to be her ally, but she is resistant to the idea at first. She later accepts being his partner after they determine what Elliot's Evil Plan might be at her safehouse. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c36cba70 | type |
Mooks | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c36cba70 | comment |
After punching out a mook while offering him a light, Bond quips "Filthy habit." It's his very first line in the film, by the way. | |
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Sic 'Em | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c3be5b90 | comment |
Sic 'Em: "Mister Stamper, would you please kill those bastards?" | |
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Backseat Driver | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c48667d9 | comment |
Backseat Driver: Played With thrice: Bond escapes the arms bazaar at the beginning by flying a fighter jet out, only to have a terrorist in the backseat try to strangle him. "Backseat driver" is literally the Bond One-Liner when he ejects the bad guy! Needing a quick escape, Bond is forced to dive into the rear seat of his BMW and drive it from a cell phone screen. Later, both he and Wai Lin are handcuffed together and must jointly ride a motorcycle, complete with bickering. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c4942576 | type |
Cunning Linguist | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c4942576 | comment |
Cunning Linguist: Subverted when Bond is completely bamboozled by Wai Lin's keyboard. (It's meant as a joke, by the way; Chinese computers [or Mainland China ones at least] either use Pinyin or Wubi [a system of four-digit codes to stand for characters] for word input and processing). | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c4c4004a | type |
Treachery Cover-Up | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c4c4004a | comment |
Treachery Cover Up: M orders the coverup of Elliot Carver's death as a "boating accident", a bit of karmic irony considering his mass-media manipulation based plan. (What had actually happened is that Bond killed Carver with his giant drill.) | |
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Novelization | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c54d550d | comment |
Novelization: This was the first of three films to be novelised by Raymond Benson. The screenplay is suitably expanded, and includes some nods to past Bond films, including the suggestion that Bond was lying when he said he had taken a course in Oriental languages in You Only Live Twice. The book is styled more after Ian Fleming's novels as opposed to the film with detailed backstories given to characters such as Elliot Carver, Stamper and Paris Carver, missing from the film, which gave the characters more depth. Wai Lin's activities in China tracking General Chang before she travels to Hamburg (omitted from the film) are also included. Carver suffers from temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ disorder) due to stress and takes regular painkillers as a result. Carver's backstory reveals that he was the illegitimate son of the British newspaper baron Lord Roverman and a German prostitute. His mother died in childbirth, and his father paid a Hong Kong family to take him in. His foster father revealed on his deathbed who Carver's father really was. Carver went on to become a TV anchor in Hong Kong until he went to England to notify his father that he knew who he was, and his father tried to bribe him into never coming back. Carver then met Stamper and had him follow his father, and Stamper discovered that Lord Roverman was having an affair with an American prostitute and that he enjoyed dressing up in a Catholic school-girl's uniform while she spanked him. Carver tortured his father with this information until Lord Roverman re-wrote his will to make Carver his sole heir. Roverman then went back to America to find that Stamper had already murdered his mistress. Stamper then gave Roverman a gun and pressured him to commit suicide which he subsequently did. Roverman's wife and daughter tried to contest his will as they did not even know of Carver's existence, but Carver won in court and inherited his father's fortune. Paris grew up in New York and attended university to become a teacher before leaving to become a model. One night she met Bond at a high-profile cocktail party and the two started a relationship. He left her behind after two months in (ironically) Paris, however, because his job was too dangerous for a real relationship. General Chang is a high ranking official who, before he defected, stole a large amount of stealth material. This is what Wai Lin is investigating. It's also revealed that he's working for Carver rather than with him. His fate is revealed, stating he was found by the police in Beijing, hiding inside a cubicle in a women's restroom. | |
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Professional Killer | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c601fc37 | comment |
Professional Killer: Both Kaufman and Bond claim to be such—see above. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c6538cc6 | type |
The Dulcinea Effect | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c6538cc6 | comment |
The Dulcinea Effect: After Bond fails to save Paris' life, he becomes extremely protective towards Wai Lin even though she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself, and she initially rejects his help. He even promises her not just once, but twice that they will survive their confrontation with Elliot together. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: After Bond and Wai Lin are captured (first time for Lin, second for James), Carver shows them all the newspaper headlines mentioning the impending conflict. The last one reads, "The Empire WILL Strike Back!" "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK" was the actual headline on an April 1982 issue of Newsweek during The Falklands War. A crazed man is going around sinking other ships with an unusual piece of technology. Captain Nemo would be proud...and jealous of that diamond-tipped drill thing. | |
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Renegade Russian | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c7eaae49 | comment |
Renegade Russian: General Chang was to be conveniently delayed by traffic when Beijing was to be struck by a cruise missile previously stolen from a British warship, whereupon he would launch a coup and take command of the Chinese government. (In the novelization, the Chinese government sends their agent to find Chang, since he stole a high-tech radar system. He is later arrested for the theft and treason.) | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Carver may be the ultimate example in the Bond saga. As James Bond puts it, he forgot the most important role of media, which was to give the public what they want. | |
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Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better | |
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Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: In this case because the British frigate which comes to Bond's aid in the climax can see the Stealth Ship, but there isn't a strong enough radar return to use its missiles. Her captain smoothly defaults to the use of the main gun, declaring he'll "(have to) do this the old-fashioned way". | |
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This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_cce399 | comment |
This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Bond's car has a cable cutter built into the hood ornament that has an extremely narrow range. As a man who has a recreation of it put it: "If there's a rope across your path anywhere between, say, 27 and 29 inches high, you'll be able to cut right through it." Of course, in the film, Bond ran across such a cable. | |
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Colonel Badass | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_cd23ee7d | comment |
Colonel Badass: Wai Lin's rank, as revealed in the ending. | |
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Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_cd3a1755 | comment |
Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Two: one during Bond's infiltration of Carver's building, in which a minor mook just laughs after two punches to the face (but falls with the third). | |
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Antagonist Title | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_cde51255 | comment |
Antagonist Title: Tomorrow is the name of Elliot Carver's newspaper, and much of the plot centres around him writing articles covering catastrophic, attention grabbing events for future papers in advance, and then causing said events to happen. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_ce1c73e2 | type |
Just Plane Wrong | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_ce1c73e2 | comment |
Just Plane Wrong: The Chinese planes that attack the stray British ship are repeatedly described as "Chinese MiGs". Although China does have MiGs, these aren't them; the aircraft are clearly recognizable as Q-5s, an indigenous Chinese type (admittedly partly based on MiG-19 technology, but very different in appearance). Apparently a case of the special effects department doing better research than the scriptwriters. And a Qian-5 that drops a torpedo would be an extraordinary beast. They should have used the Chinese Harbin-5 bomber, based on the Ilyushin-28. The villain reminds his mooks to shoot the survivors with ammo appropriate for Chinese fighter jets. It is worth noting that the vast majority of fighter jets are armed with cannons in the 20-30mm range. In the teaser, when the Royal Navy frigate fires the cruise missile at the terrorist "flea market", M tells 007 he has four minutes to get clear. The target is 400 miles from the ship. A Tomahawk cruise missile (as shown) has a top speed of about 550 miles per hour. It should have taken the missile about 43 minutes to get there. The novelization blows it even more thoroughly, with a Harpoon missile being launched, and travelling 800 miles in 4 minutes 8 seconds. First of all, a Harpoon (an antiship missile) has a maximum range of less than 100 miles, and second, it travels at about the same (determinedly subsonic) speed as the Tomahawk. To do 800 miles in 248 seconds, it would have needed to achieve about 11,600 miles per hour, or about 3.2 miles per second - about half of Earth's escape velocity. Also, any object travelling that fast at low altitude would burn up like a meteor hitting the lower atmosphere - plus what the shock wave effects would do to anything along its path on the ground. | |
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Porn Stash | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_cfbbd075 | comment |
Porn Stash: Bond breaks into Gupta's safe and finds heroin and porn magazines, in addition to the encoder. | |
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Never Suicide | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_cfbd1467 | comment |
Never Suicide: Doctor Kaufman, a professor of forensic science, claims to be a master of making it look like a suicide. (He claims he specializes in celebrity overdose cases.) He is also an expert in torture, but he calls that a "just a hobby".) | |
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Caltrops | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_d1d2754b | comment |
Caltrops: Bond's BMW has the ability to drop a whole bunch of these to pop enemy tyres and mess up pursuit. See Tropes Examined By The Myth Busters for a report on how well that would really work. Bond gets double points for driving over his own caltrops, and fixing and reinflating the tyres with just the press of a button! | |
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Prevent the War | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_d3701aea | comment |
Prevent the War: Bond and Wai Lin try to stop Carver from manipulating the United Kingdom and China into war for better ratings and exclusive media rights in the latter. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_d397657d | comment |
Bond also has one, seen in Hoist by His Own Petard. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_d3aad64a | type |
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_d3aad64a | comment |
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Kaufman, naturally. Affably Evil but sadistic and cruel underneath. A professor of forensic science, who can zhoot you from Stuttgart und still create ze illusion of suicide. He is also an expert in torture, but he calls that a "hobby". | |
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Blasphemous Boast | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_d3f33049 | comment |
Blasphemous Boast: | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_d45c0b86 | type |
Refuge in Audacity | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_d45c0b86 | comment |
Refuge in Audacity: While cavorting with his party guests, Carver laughs off rumours that he engineered the Mad Cow Disease scare because a British beef magnate lost a £10,000 bet and refused to pay him, and that the French paid him to continue running the stories. After seeing the dirty tactics he uses to spin exciting headlines, one suspects these are more than just rumours. | |
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Absence of Evidence | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_d4f5426 | comment |
Absence of Evidence: Gupta sees through Bond's cover story of being a banker and deduces he's a government agent, based on the lack of any black marks on Bond's falsified records. | |
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Dress Hits Floor | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_d6901d5a | comment |
Dress Hits Floor: Bond slips Paris Carver's dress off her shoulders, which then leads to a cut to a Toplessness from the Back shot. | |
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Gun Struggle | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_d73ecb18 | comment |
Gun Struggle: Happens between Bond and Dr. Kaufman. Bond quickly gets control and points the gun at the villain's head, resulting in this exchange: | |
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You're Insane! | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_d7ecbd57 | comment |
You're Insane!: Bond to Carver. Carver shrugs it off. | |
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Immoral Journalist | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_d84b22a5 | comment |
Immoral Journalist: Carver is using yellow journalism just to get broadcasting rights in China via the Lurid Tales of Doom, If It Bleeds, It Leads (deliberately sink a British warship in the South China Sea so the Chinese can be blamed) and Media Scaremongering (use jingoism and paranoia so the public will clamor for war against China) tropes. In fact, he's done it many times just to jack up his TV company's ratings and get an upper hand on his enemies. It's Just One Little Mistake that draws Bond's attention towards him — Carver prints a detailed article about the ship's sinking in his newspaper, which includes info that the authorities didn't reveal yet, meaning he could've only known about them if he was involved. | |
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Leave No Survivors | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_da19c62a | comment |
Leave No Survivors: The number of survivors from the sinking of the Devonshire reaching Carver's ship very neatly matches the number of dead he reports as washing up on the beach. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Wai Lin. Chinese government agent, Colonel Badass, martial artist and fan of submachine-Guns Akimbo. | |
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Torture Technician | |
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Torture Technician: Dr. Kaufman and his protege Mr. Stamper have a whole torture system involving chakras, the point being to torture the person to death as slowly as possible. Dr. Kaufman describes it as his hobby, and has a record of keeping someone alive during it for 52 hours. | |
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Hairpin Lockpick | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_dc47ceda | comment |
Hairpin Lockpick: Wai Lin's earring is able to unlock the handcuffs that have her and Bond tied together. | |
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Just Following Orders | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_dca97045 | comment |
Just Following Orders: Dr Kaufman protests as much after Bond gets the drop on him. 007 is suitably unimpressed. | |
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ArtisticLicence | |
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Artistic Licence: Chinese keyboards do not show Chinese characters - they use the QWERTY keyboard, as the words are typed in Pinyin (Romanised Chinese), which are then converted to the relevant symbol. | |
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Worst Aid | |
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Worst Aid: Wai Lin spends quite some time in the water before Bond dives in and gives her a Kiss of Life while still submerged. | |
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Underwater Kiss | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_dfc19f42 | comment |
Underwater Kiss: After trapping Stamper and leaving him to his doom, Bond dives after Wai Lin to give her some air mouth-to-mouth. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e022585 | type |
Television Geography | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e022585 | comment |
Television Geography: The scene with the chase in the parking-house next to the Hotel Atlantic ends with the car crashing through the wall and falling several stories into Mönckebergstraße - at a spot which is actually several hundred metres away from the hotel. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e150c4c7 | type |
Manchild | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e150c4c7 | comment |
Manchild: Bond fears commitment in a romantic relationship because he abandons his girlfriend Paris when he realizes that he's falling in love with her. Witness his childish glee as he "drives" his remote-controlled car during the multi-level parking lot chase scene. After Wai Lin compliments Bond on his motorcycle skills, his reply invokes this trope: "Well, that comes from not growing up at all." Q utters "Grow up, 007!" in exasperation. | |
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Assassin Outclassin' | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e2f7ab99 | comment |
Assassin Outclassin': Carver orders an Affably Evil assassin named Dr. Kaufmann to kill both his wife and James Bond and make it look like a double suicide. When his colleagues can't open Bond's armoured car to get an item they need, he is ordered to get the information from Bond. This allows Bond (who is of course a government assassin) to get the upper hand by using an electric charge in his phone to knock Kaufmann out. | |
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To the Pain | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e482cfa7 | comment |
To the Pain: Carver shows off his antique chakra torture tools to Bond and Lin, with the intent of having them used on them. | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e50987a9 | type |
Reconstruction | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e50987a9 | comment |
Reconstruction: This was the first film since A View to a Kill to turn it’s focus away from the characters and return to a more familiar format of a Hammy megalomaniac villain, multiple women, tons of action, and gadgets galore. | |
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And Mission Control Rejoiced | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e528c7b4 | comment |
And Mission Control Rejoiced: MI6 breaks out into relieved laughter and cheers as he escapes the missile strike with the nukes in The Teaser | |
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| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Stamper, of Red Grant, and he's not the first time. | |
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Gorn | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e542d889 | comment |
After shoving a henchman into a printing press, causing his blood to smear all over the printed papers: "They'll print anything these days." | |
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Hate Sink | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e5fd8bc2 | comment |
Hate Sink: Elliot Carver is played by the wonderful Jonathan Pryce in full scenery-chewing Large Ham mode, but his sullen, sociopathic associate Herr Stamper and craven Torture Technician Dr. Kaufman both exist to be hated and then killed. The novelization goes as far as singling out Kaufman in particular as one of only a handful of people Bond has felt no remorse killing whatsoever. | |
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Old Flame | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e6132e31 | comment |
Bond is under orders from M to "pump" his Old Flame Paris Carver for information about her media mogul husband's organization, which he reluctantly does even though he knows the seduction will put Paris' life in danger. | |
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Death Dealer | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e658f2a8 | comment |
Death Dealer: Deleted scenes had a techno-terrorist Henry Gupta (played by Ricky Jay) throwing playing cards as weapons. | |
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New Era Speech | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e66e9bfb | comment |
New Era Speech: Elliot Carver gives one to Bond. Bonus points for including the phrase "new world order". | |
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Divide and Conquer | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e7bfdba | comment |
Divide and Conquer: Carver tries to start World War III between the UK and China, just to get broadcasting rights in the latter. | |
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Borrowed Biometric Bypass | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e8123047 | comment |
Borrowed Biometric Bypass: A harmless version. Bond uses a cell phone gadget that scans the print of whoever used the device last and the shows the phone display to the thumbprint scanner. | |
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Milkman Conspiracy | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e82bc849 | comment |
Milkman Conspiracy: Elliot Carver's Media Group blackmails a President, is implied to orchestrate global floods, riots and plane crashes, sells buggy software (to force people to upgrade it for years), sinks a British Destroyer, massacres the survivors, steals one of its cruise missiles, plans to use said missile on Beijing to set up a new Chinese government friendly to its interests (i.e., broadcasting rights) after bringing Britain and China to the brink of nuclear war, and employs terrorists, torturers and professional assassins, plus the average Carver Media Group employees, who based on the evidence, are Always Chaotic Evil and whose uniforms always come with machine guns. All for the sake of its ratings. Carver also apparently faked the Mad Cow disease scare of 1997 because a British beef baron owed him money (from a poker game, a mere £10,000) and refused to pay... then the French paid him to run the stories for another year. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e83f211c | comment |
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After Paris is murdered, Bond calls Elliot Carver by his given name instead of his surname as a sign of disrespect and of how much more personal the conflict between them has become because Bond had truly loved Paris. He had only done this once before with a villain (Alec Trevelyan, who used to be his best friend). | |
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Ramp Jump | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e96e7845 | comment |
Ramp Jump: Bond jumps from one building to another on a motorcycle... over a helicopter full of bad guys with guns which is hovering in the street... while he's handcuffed to Wai Lin. There is a nod towards reality when Bond asks said agent to move further back to balance the bike. Not much, but... | |
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Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_ea7e3be8 | comment |
Dramatic Gun Cock: When Bond finds Paris lying dead in her bed, he hears a gun cock from behind. Turning around he sees Dr. Kaufman pointing a gun at him. Later attempted but subverted during the motorcycle chase. The helicopter's door gunner is given a cutaway shot, showing him doing the HK Slap on his SMG, clearly indicating the Real Trouble has arrived. The problem is that he slaps the wrong side of the gun; the charging handle he's supposed to be slapping isn't even visible, making it an absurd gesture for anyone knowledgeable of the manoeuvre. | |
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Concealment Equals Cover | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_ea92aeb0 | comment |
Concealment Equals Cover: Averted during the battle on the stealth ship when Bond shoots a Mook above him through the floor. | |
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Parking Garage | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_ebee7b3a | comment |
Parking Garage: Bond has a car chase/gunfight inside a parking garage in Hamburg. It culminates in Bond driving his car (via remote control) off the roof, sending it crashing into the front of a rental car office. | |
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Spotting the Thread | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_ec0ce986 | comment |
Spotting the Thread: Gupta immediately uncovers Bond's secret identity. He calls it "Gupta's Law of Creative Anomaly", and explains that anyone's personnel record is bound to have errors and flaws. Bond's fake banker profile is too perfect, meaning he's obviously a government agent. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_f10d3363 | comment |
Distracted by the Sexy: Bond is so distracted by Wai Lin's Sexy Soaked Shirt that he doesn't notice she's unlocking her end of the handcuffs behind her back, so he's completely caught off-guard when she handcuffs him to a nearby pipe. | |
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Smoking Is Not Cool | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_f1462f0b | comment |
Smoking Is Not Cool: Bond calls smoking a filthy habit. | |
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Wrote a Good Fake Story | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_f2082f42 | comment |
Wrote a Good Fake Story: Inverted. When Bond hints that he knows Carver was behind the Devonshire sinking, Carver quips that Bond has a vivid imagination "for a banker," and that Carver should commission him to write a novel. | |
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Evil Plan | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_f2d8e3c2 | comment |
Carver's narcissism is a major problem for him, going so far as to decorate his headquarters and other places pertaining to his media empire, with tapestries and over sized banners that bear his visage. His Evil Plan to have China and the United Kingdom go to war against each other just to arrange a broadcasting deal with the new Chinese government shows his selfish behaviour. More immediately, his decision to release the story about the HMS Devonshire being sunk through his newspaper before the authorities themselves learned about it causes him to come under immediate scrutiny by MI6, purely because he wants his media empire to be first to report the incident. | |
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Sealed with a Kiss | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_f3aa6298 | comment |
Sealed with a Kiss: Bond declines rescue from the Royal Navy in the South China Sea so he can continue to make out with Wai Lin. | |
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Product Placement | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_f511ea9b | comment |
Product Placement: For Avis car rental; Q actually disguises himself as an Avis agent when he meets Bond in Hamburg (and, hilariously, makes him sign an insurance form). Bond ends up crashing the BMW into the Avis storefront later; a deleted bit had him informing the stupefied employees the keys are inside. | |
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The Cracker | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_f5c505db | comment |
The Cracker: Henry Gupta, who is described as a "techno-terrorist." | |
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Priceless Ming Vase | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_f688816f | comment |
Priceless Ming Vase: Bond overheard a conversation between Gupta and some mooks talking about a satellite standing in the middle of a room, which was explicitly stated to be worth $300 million. Naturally that was the first thing he broke when he was escaping from said mooks. | |
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This Is a Drill | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_f910567 | comment |
This Is a Drill: A drill torpedo is used by Carver to sink the Devonshire — and later by James Bond to kill Carver. | |
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Faking the Dead | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_f9876f7e | comment |
Faking the Dead: Bond does this twice in the film. The parking garage car chase ends with Bond secretly bailing out and continuing to control the BMW with his remote. With the mooks continuing to drive after it under the belief that he's still inside, Bond remotely drives it off the roof of the garage, leaving the henchman to think he's dead and allowing him to escape Hamburg with the encoder intact. On the stealth boat, Bond kills a mook and then holds his body out in the line of fire. As it's nighttime and they're outside the boat, the other mooks can't tell who they're shooting, allowing Bond to drop the mook and make it seem as if they killed him. | |
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Distressed Dude | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_f9e16ef | comment |
After Bond and Wai Lin are captured (first time for Lin, second for James), Carver shows them all the newspaper headlines mentioning the impending conflict. The last one reads, "The Empire WILL Strike Back!" "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK" was the actual headline on an April 1982 issue of Newsweek during The Falklands War. | |
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Deadly Doctor | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_fc1ee7d5 | comment |
Deadly Doctor: Dr. Kaufman, a hitman who uses his forensic medicine expertise to cover his tracks. | |
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China Takes Over the World | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_fd41610f | comment |
China Takes Over the World: Possibly as a deliberate subversion of the early years of the series, China almost enter a war with the United Kingdom... but only because of the actions of Carver, who knows that such a war would be good for ratings. | |
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Minor Major Character | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_fd69ea80 | comment |
Minor Major Character: General Chang is Elliot Carver's inside man in the Chinese government and is referred to throughout the film as plotting with Carver to become President of China via eliminating everyone ahead of him in a missile strike on Beijing; in exchange for supplying said nuke, Carver would gain exclusive control of China's media once Chang took over. Their relationship is suggested to be a Big Bad Duumvirate... except Chang is only in one scene, where he's seen leaving a meeting with Carver to finalize the plot. This may be down to Chang being a villain of another story; Bond meets Wai Lin as he works Carver's case and she works Chang's, and they team up upon discovering they're Working the Same Case. | |
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With Friends Like These... | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_fdbd6162 | comment |
With Friends Like These...: Bond had already snuck into Carter's office when Wai Lin breaks in, which sets off the alarm. As Bond is shot at by SMG-toting mooks, he looks up and sees Lin climbing down a wall while cheerfully waving at Bond as he draws off the men who'd normally be chasing after her. He even takes a moment to grimace at Lin in irritation before he scurries off. | |
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Brick Joke | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: Bond's Bond One-Liner about backseat drivers becomes this when he literally becomes one. Bond gets his BMW 750iL from Q, who is using an airport's Avis car rental booth as a front. Come time for Bond to 'return' the car, he does so by crashing it into the local Avis office in Hamburg. | |
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Real Name as an Alias: Bond poses as a banker named James Bond and actually has a fake employment record, but is given away as a spy because it is too perfect to be true, and because he is asking too many questions, not because of his name. Of course, making a number of blatant references about Carver's actions to his face doesn't help his case... | |
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Evil is Petty: It would not be an exaggeration to state that Carver is one of the most powerful people on the planet, both obscenely rich and influential. When China refuses him broadcast rights, he decides to nuke the country. There's also the Mad Cow Scare, which he engineered because a guy wouldn't honour a poker bet. | |
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Strawman News Media: Carver wants to start a war between Britain and China so he'll get exclusive broadcast rights in China and jack up his TV company's ratings. | |
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