Written by Mr. Mouseburger 2nd Jun 2005
Scaramanga is the greatest assassin in the world; Bond is the greatest secret agent in the world. who will win? (Bond of course!)
The end scene is a duel between the two on Scaramanga's island. Who will win? (Bond of course!) The tension is unbearable as the loveable midget, Knick-Knack, counts out the paces. Bond is the first to turn and fire, but Scaramanga is gone. Bond now has to hunt down Scaramanga.
The action moves into Scaramanga’s house, which is crammed full of cutting edge 70s gadgets. The house also doubles as a chamber of horrors, complete with waxworks, which serve to disorientate our hero.
However, when Scaramanga appears in a room which has a waxwork of his nemesis in, he is completely unaware that Bond has switched the mannequin and is standing in its place. Turning around, Scaramanga has just enough time to pull a surprised expression before a bullet from that famous Walter PPK enters his body.
This could go under Mirrors. After all, it was really the movie cliche where you shoot what seems to be a person, but is really their reflection on a mirror; only it was a waxwork and not a mirror reflection Scaramanga shot.
Not only this, but Scaramanga (Scaremonger?) really had a pretty intricate hall of revolving mirrors set up.
he doesnt really have a hall of mirrors, more a strange theme park room which aims to disorient Bond (and that hitman at the beginning).
For deaths involving mirrors, see Han from Enter the Dragon
A lot of people found this unsatisfying due to the simple "Shot" death of a villain that many found one of Bond's greatest adversaries. I was reminded that as Scaramanga was "bond's evil twin" the only way to satisfyingly kill him was a well-placed shot from the Walther PPK! Although, the lead-up could have been better, I would've liked some suspense to balance out the heavily-comedic film.
You know there's actually a lot of suspense here: not even remotely unsastisfying. Apparently the movie makers were hoping 70s audiences were good counters. Earlier on Bond remarked that in the duel it would be his 7 bullets against Scaramanga's one. Throughout the demented funhouse duel Bond fires at stuff he thought were Scaramanga jumping out. By the time he killed Scaramanga he had only one bullet in the PPK as well. So it's quite suspenseful since if Bond missed Scaramanga would've won and Bond couldn't have done nothing.