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*** Banks keep reserves of foreign currency. He can steal a lot of it directly, even if he's only stealing from London banks.
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*** It really doesn't matter WHAT year it is. Every internet connection can be severed by pulling a power cord or a data cable somewhere. Now in the case of public WiFi or mobile wireless, that connection could be not known or inaccessible. However, any office (private or government) will have cords that can easily be pulled kill any connection. This is different from a police trace in that they are looking for the general location of where the call is routed (i.e. your house, not a specific phone in your house).
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*** It really doesn't matter WHAT year it is. Every internet connection can be severed by pulling a power cord or a data cable somewhere. Now in the case of public WiFi or mobile wireless, that connection could be not known or inaccessible. However, any office (private or government) will have cords that can easily be pulled kill any connection. This is different from a police trace in that they are looking for the general location of where the call is routed (i.e. , your house, not a specific phone in your house).
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* Not that supervillain lairs haven't been built underwater before, but how did Trevelyan build that satellite dish in Cuba where Jack Wade explicitly points out that you can't light a cigar without the [=CIA=] knowing about it?
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* Not that supervillain lairs haven't been built underwater before, but how did Trevelyan build that satellite dish in Cuba where Jack Wade explicitly points out that you can't light a cigar without the [=CIA=] CIA knowing about it?
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* How is Bond, driving a DB5, [=DB5=], able to keep up with Xenya, Xenia, driving a Ferrari 355? On the roads upon which they were driving the Aston Martin would likely have been outpaced by a Mazda MX5, [=MX5=], let alone a supercar capable of going from 0-60mph in 4 seconds.
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*** Err, nope. This would be filed under BloodlessCarnage. They don't have to show blood spreading in every single shot. You can even do a frame by frame and see there is indeed a bullethole in the soldier's chest. Of course Oruomov would kill this underling for putting the lives of all the other soldiers, himself, and Trevelyan at risk.
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*** Err, nope. This would be filed under BloodlessCarnage. They don't have to show blood spreading in every single shot.shot with a bullet wound. You can even do a frame by frame and see there is indeed a bullethole in the soldier's chest. Of course Oruomov would kill this underling for putting the lives of all the other soldiers, himself, and Trevelyan at risk.
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*** Err, nope. This would be filed under BloodlessCarnage. They don't have to show blood spreading in every single shot. You can even do a frame by frame and see there is indeed a bullethole in the soldier's chest. Of course Oruomov would kill this underling for putting the lives of all the other soldiers, himself, and Trevelyan at risk.
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* When Bond and Xenia arrive at the statue graveyard, she's disheveled, as one would expect as she had to hurriedly dress at gunpoint. Bond, however, [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished is as impeccably dressed as ever]]. How did he manage that while holding a gun on her?
** The novelisation suggests that once she was done dressing, Bond bound her arms and legs while in his hotel room.
** Or alternatively, the other way around; he binds her arms and legs with towels at the sauna, gets dressed, then makes her get dressed at gunpoint.
* Ouromov fakes shooting Trevelyan at the beginning of the film with presumably blank cartridges, but moments later he shoots a guard dead for nearly setting off the flammable gas tanks. Did he load only a single blank into his gun?
** Ouromov and Alec clearly had a deal beforehand, otherwise there's no reason Alec would still be alive, so yes. One blank for Alec, live rounds otherwise.
** The guard was never hit by anything, as evidenced by the lack of blood. The backflip of 'death' was more out of shock.
** Alternatively, Ouromov could have intentionally missed Trevelyan rather than using a blank. He wasn't pointing the gun directly at Trevelyan's head and it cuts away before he pulls the trigger.
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* When Bond and Xenia arrive at the statue graveyard, she's disheveled, as one would expect as she had to hurriedly dress at gunpoint. Bond, however, [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished is as impeccably dressed as ever]]. How did he manage that while holding a gun on her?
** The novelisation suggests that once she was done dressing, Bond bound her arms and legs while in his hotel room.
** Or alternatively, the other way around; he binds her arms and legs with towels at the sauna, gets dressed, then makes her get dressed at gunpoint.
* Ouromov fakes shooting Trevelyan at the beginning of the film with presumably blank cartridges, but moments later he shoots a guard dead for nearly setting off the flammable gas tanks. Did he load only a single blank into his gun?
** Ouromov and Alec clearly had a deal beforehand, otherwise there's no reason Alec would still be alive, so yes. One blank for Alec, live rounds otherwise.
** The guard was never hit by anything, as evidenced by the lack of blood. The backflip of 'death' was more out of shock.
** Alternatively, Ouromov could have intentionally missed Trevelyan rather than using a blank. He wasn't pointing the gun directly at Trevelyan's head and it cuts away before he pulls the trigger.
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* On that note, Mishkin calls for the guards just before Ourumov shoots him. No one comes, despite two gunshots. Yet when Ourumov comes up with his plan and calls for the guards himself, suddenly they hear?
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** Sometimes the most apparently simple hints can be misleading enough. Along with the context about Natalya's misunderstanding, if one's head is in the gutter, they might also try "dildo" (along with "penis") and quite possibly end up stumped. Also, the fact that it's only a five character password does not help someone trying to guess it if they do not know that fact (as is almost certainly the case) or if they're under extreme time pressure to guess it. Even the question about it being in English, might be accounted for if we presume TranslationConvention could be in play.
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** Sometimes the most apparently simple hints can be misleading enough. Along with the context about Natalya's misunderstanding, if one's head is in the gutter, they might also try "dildo" (along with "penis") and quite possibly end up stumped. Also, the fact that it's only a five character password does not help someone trying to guess it if they do not know that fact (as is almost certainly the case) or if they're under extreme time pressure to guess it. Even the question about it being in English, might be accounted for if we presume TranslationConvention could be in play.
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*** When Wade meets up with Bond and Natalya in Cuba to give them the airplane. He says that the giant satellite dish the pair are looking for doesn't exist, because the CIA watch Cuba far too closely. That the dish was hidden underwater proves him wrong but also explains why the CIA never found it.
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* Goldeneye is practically founded on highlighting the flaws of James Bond, to which Natalya contributes in this scene... so why does Natalya act like it's OK for him to force a kiss on her afterward? She even reciprocated, like Bond's behavior towards women ''hasn't'' been in question.
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*Goldeneye is practically founded on highlighting the flaws of James Bond, to which Natalya contributes in this scene... so why does Natalya act like it's OK for him to force a kiss on her afterward? She even reciprocated, like Bond's behavior towards women ''hasn't'' been in question.
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** Heavily-modified cars are a staple of the series, to the point where RL auto manufacturers compete to have their cars featured in the films.
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** Heavily-modified cars are a staple of the series, to the point where RL auto manufacturers compete to have their cars featured in the films.films - and, as is mentioned throughout these pages, the BMW Z3 Roadster product-placement deal was finalized fairly late in the production and it didn't get to play, so they had to stick with a "traditional" Bond car for this sequence.
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*** The Cuban Missile Crisis happened because the USSR was shipping nuclear weapons into Cuba. The United States obviously cares very deeply about that, but they likely cared a bit less about what was, so far as they could tell, basically a satellite tracking station.
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** They're Bond's back-up, if needed. They're waiting there because it's presumably their rendezvous point; it's a flat clearing perfect for helicopter dispatch and retrieval. They don't do anything because Bond doesn't call them in, and Bond doesn't call them in because, well, he doesn't need them, he's James Bond. They weren't there waiting for Bond specifically, but yes, it's a coincidence that Bond and Natalya happen to end up there (though not a wholly implausible one; again, it's a good place to land a helicopter if needed). And they don't do anything on their own authority because they're US soldiers on a secret mission in an unfriendly country, and going hot without being properly authorisedcould potentially lead to negative repercussions. They're the last resort and would rather Bond sort things out himself under the radar if necessary.
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** They're Bond's back-up, if needed. They're waiting there because it's presumably their rendezvous point; it's a flat clearing perfect for helicopter dispatch and retrieval. They don't do anything because Bond doesn't call them in, and Bond doesn't call them in because, well, he doesn't need them, he's James Bond. They weren't there waiting for Bond specifically, but yes, it's a coincidence that Bond and Natalya happen to end up there (though not a wholly implausible one; again, it's a good place to land a helicopter if needed). And they don't do anything on their own authority because they're US soldiers on a secret mission in an unfriendly country, and going hot without being properly authorisedcould authorised could potentially lead to negative repercussions. They're the last resort and would rather Bond sort things out himself under the radar if necessary.possible.
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** They're Bond's back-up, if needed. They're waiting there because it's presumably their rendezvous point; it's a flat clearing perfect for helicopter dispatch and retrieval. They don't do anything because Bond doesn't call them in, and Bond doesn't call them in because, well, he doesn't need them, he's James Bond. They weren't there waiting for Bond specifically, but yes, it's a coincidence that Bond and Natalya happen to end up there (though not a wholly implausible one; again, it's a good place to land a helicopter if needed). And they don't do anything on their own authority because they're US soldiers on a secret mission in an unfriendly country, and going hot without being properly authorisedcould potentially lead to negative repercussions. They're the last resort and would rather Bond sort things out himself under the radar if necessary.
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*** Presumably he'd be relying on Ouromov to lead the government investigation as to what went on - he turns up at the interrogation pretty quickly, after all - and Ouromov would be able to say 'it was a malfunction'; if they were also able to identify Bond, the bigger question would suddenly be a more political one of 'why is this British intelligence agent in Russia with a missing programmer and a stolen NATO helicopter?'
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*** Considering that his plan is going into its final stages in the next couple of days, he doesn't need a scenario that makes ''total'' sense; Trevalyan just needs something that causes enough confusion that by the time the investigators realise they should be focusing on something else, he's achieved his goal and they're more focused on the current financial collapse.
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*** What's the story, in that case? The helicopter thieves accidentally shot themselves with their own missiles? Isn't that a really hard thing to do? You'd think that if someone knows how to fly a helicopter, they'd also know not to fire their own missiles directly at themselves.
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** He's setting Bond and Natalya up to look like the helicopter thieves (helped by Bond being on the scene in Monte Carlo), and presumably the Severnaya attackers, too. Shooting Bond would leave traces and evidence of a setup.
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* After defeating the evil scheme, Bond and Natalya kiss in a random clearing. Then Baker shows up and it turns out that the entire clearing is full of marines in camouflage. What were those guys ''doing''? Did somebody order them to hang out in this random clearing and do nothing for awhile, just ''waiting'' for Bond to coincidentally show up? Speaking of marines, Baker had told Bond that they'd be available as backup, so why didn't Bond call them in during the mission? Heck, why didn't the marines just make an assault on their own authority once the obvious enemy base revealed itself?
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* After defeating the evil scheme, Bond and Natalya kiss in a random clearing. Then Baker Wade shows up and it turns out that the entire clearing is full of marines in camouflage. What were those guys ''doing''? Did somebody order them to hang out in this random clearing and do nothing for awhile, just ''waiting'' for Bond to coincidentally show up? Speaking of marines, Baker Wade had told Bond that they'd be available as backup, so why didn't Bond call them in during the mission? Heck, why didn't the marines just make an assault on their own authority once the obvious enemy base revealed itself?
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* After defeating the evil scheme, Bond and Natalya kiss in a random clearing. Then Baker shows up and it turns out that the entire clearing is full of marines in camouflage. What were those guys ''doing''? Did somebody order them to hang out in this random clearing and do nothing for awhile, just ''waiting'' for Bond to coincidentally show up? Speaking of marines, Baker had told Bond that they'd be available as backup, so why didn't Bond call them in during the mission? Heck, why didn't the marines just make an assault on their own authority once the obvious enemy base revealed itself?
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* After defeating the evil scheme, Bond and Natalya kiss in a random clearing. Then Baker shows up and it turns out that the entire clearing is full of marines in camouflage. What were those guys ''doing''? Did somebody order them to hang out in this random clearing and do nothing for awhile, just ''waiting'' for Bond to coincidentally show up? Speaking of marines, Baker had told Bond that they'd be available as backup, so why didn't Bond call them in during the mission? Heck, why didn't the marines just make an assault on their own authority once the obvious enemy base revealed itself?
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* Trevelyan meets Bond in the graveyard and takes him out with a sleeping dart. Next he puts Bond and whatshername in a helicopter which he's rigged up so that it'll fire missiles at itself. Bond, of course, wakes up just in time to hit the eject and evade the missiles. Is there ''any'' reason, besides BondVillainStupidity, why Trevelyan doesn't just shoot Bond with a gun in the first place?
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* Trevelyan meets Bond in the graveyard and takes him out with a sleeping dart. Next he puts Bond and whatshername in a helicopter which he's rigged up so that it'll fire missiles at itself. Bond, of course, wakes up just in time to hit the eject and evade the missiles. Is there ''any'' reason, besides BondVillainStupidity, why Trevelyan doesn't just shoot Bond with a gun in the first place?
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** Bond did ''not'' think Alec was dead when he set the timers for three minutes. He saw that Alec had been captured, then he set the timers for three minutes, ''then'' he saw Alec get shot, and then he made his escape. By setting the timers for three minutes, he boosted the odds that the mission would be completed (since the bad guys would have less time to disable the charges), but at the same time he reduced the odds of saving Alec (since he'd have less time to come up with some way to save him). Alec is pissed off that Bond put the mission above their friendship, even though the entire thing was secretly fake.
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** Whoever said he had to keep the money in pounds? He could steal a bunch of money, transfer it to overseas accounts, convert it all into other currencies, and ''then'' fire the GoldenEye. If he's got it all planned in advance, the transactions could be completed in a matter of minutes.
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*** Trevelyan must have spent years feigning friendship with Bond and hating every minute of it. It would be have been bad enough to put up with that for so long, but then to have Bond turn around and shorten the timers, and realise that Bond didn't are enough to give him enough time after all must have made things even worse.
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*** Trevelyan must have spent years feigning friendship with Bond and hating every minute of it. It would be have been bad enough to put up with that for so long, but then to have Bond turn around and shorten the timers, and realise that Bond didn't are care enough to give him enough time after all must have made things even worse.
