Written by Mr. Mouseburger 4th Jun 2005
Uninspiring death of the foxiest villainess ever to have graced the screen!
Bond, chases Elektra, up to the top of the palace she is staying in, and holding her at gunpoint asks her to call off the nuclear attack that Renard (q.v.) is about to launch at her behest.
Doubting that Bond could possibly hurt her, she refuses and tells Renard to proceed. The last thing to pass through her mind (apart from Bond's bullet) must have been to not try and hinder the hero in a Bond film!
"the foxiest villainess ever to appear on the screen" is a rather disputed title!
What about "Former Friends"? They did seem to be rather "friendly" with each other until the whole "foxy villainess" thing.
Agreed, even after Bond shoots her, he still seems sorry have done it.
They could have at least drawn it out a bit more. Just having him shoot her in the chest and "bang" she's dead was too quick. Maybe in the belly or something where it would've taken a while and she could've had some dying words.
The coldness and quickness was the point. It's to show that Bond has to dispatch his enemies ruthlessly, even if, as in this case, they were ex-lovers.
True, though the quickness just made for an unsatisfying end to such a great villainess. Just the way she managed to play him better than anyone previously had would make one hope she'd get a more memorable end.
Well, the circumstances was really against her. Bond has to not give anyway his position, so he shoots her. That's the reason. Renard thinks Bond is dead or being tortured, so when Elektra tries to, in a last ditch effort, reveal Bond's escape, Bond does the only thing he could do. Note also how Elektra still plays the innocence card long after she forfeits it - she pretends to be vulnerable when Bond catches her, but Bond's after the mission.
What I found baffling is how Renard didn't hear the unsilenced gunshot over the radio...
I think we need to add the category of Lover here. Bond and Elektra were having more than a bit of a flirt at each other...
Matt Wrote:
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> Well, the circumstances was really against her.
> Bond has to not give anyway his position, so he
> shoots her. That's the reason. Renard thinks Bond
> is dead or being tortured, so when Elektra tries
> to, in a last ditch effort, reveal Bond's escape,
> Bond does the only thing he could do. Note also
> how Elektra still plays the innocence card long
> after she forfeits it - she pretends to be
> vulnerable when Bond catches her, but Bond's after
> the mission.
>
> What I found baffling is how Renard didn't hear
> the unsilenced gunshot over the radio...
I do agre that this doesn't deserve the unsastisfying title because that was sort of the point of this whole scene.
As for the unsilenced, meh Renard is having his senses killed off one at a time. He's probably half-deaf.