Sunday, June 15, 2008

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Chase One

This is one of my top five favorite Bond chases.

Bond is in Sardinia with XXX. They had just left Stromberg's underwater lair. They are in a Lotus Espirit, which was just delivered by Q.


Stromberg orders Bond's elimination. First up, a Kawasaki motorcycle with a rocket sidecar.

The sidecar misses Bond's Lotus and hits a Volvo truck carrying mattresses. The feathers disorient the motorcyclist, who falls over a cliff.


Next up, a Ford Taunus with a pistol-wielding Jaws in the front passenger seat. Oil shot out from behind the rear license plate of the Lotus blinds the Taunus. It crashes perpendicularly onto a country house.


Naomi tries to end Bond's career and life with a helicopter equipped with two machine guns. Bond runs out of room on a pier, crashes into the ocean, and converts his car into a sub. He then destroys the helicopter flying overhead with a missile shot from his sub.


Quote of the scene: "All those feathers, and he still can't fly."

CKY

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