The Bond films have given us some pretty memorable deaths over the years. But for me, one death stands out above all others as a truly awful fate, especially as it happens to a character who really didn’t deserve it.
I’m talking about the astronaut on a space walk at the beginning of You Only Live Twice. When the big spaceship swallows the small one, his lifeline is cut, leaving him to drift off into space. From there, he presumably dies a slow death by suffocation as he runs out of air, all while drifting alone in the endless black void.
Dario going into the grinder in Licence to Kill was pretty gnarly, but at least it was quick.
Not sure why this was on my mind, but I thought it was worth a discussion.
I always thought that was a really appropriate way for Bond to deal with Greene and totally in keeping with the themes of the film… even if it was lifted straight out of The Eiger Sanction.
I also wouldn’t think that Fekesh getting his neck broken by Jaws bite was a nice way to go. This actually made me have nightmares about Jaws back then.
But I was also afraid of vampires which Jaws kind of is the natural successor to.
How about the “live targets” Morzeny says they use on SPECTRE Island? Including, apparently, their own trainee agents for at least the games of “flame-thrower dodgeball.”