New 007 character lacks logic and is superficial

[rc444]

Hi everyone,

I have two questions and was wondering if anyone could shed a light on it:

1) There's a scene in the middle of the film when Bond is in a station wagon and they stop at a checkpoint. For some reason, that old man is in the boot of the station wagon. Why is he in there? Was Bond trying to smuggle him safely past the border as a stowaway?

2) Directly afterwards, that old man is shot by Cuban police. Bond then holds him and they exchange a heartfelt man-to-man last words discussion. After the old man dies, Bond just chucks him in a dumpster. I don't understand the logic of why he does that.

I can understand where the new filmmakers are going by making the new Bond more cold-hearted, but the logic in that scene made no sense to me whatsoever.

rc444

 

[Richard J. Johnson]

The old guy in the trunk is not the same guy that is shot by the cubans. Right after he tossed him in the bond girl asks him why he did that and Bond said the "He (the old man) would not have cared" So Bond did not care either. He was dead. the end. That is what I took from it.

 

[Evan S]

They're in the business of killing people. How can you not be cold? Everyone he knows has gotten killed.

 

[Billy Pilgrim]

I thought that was hilarious when he chucks him in the dumpster. You go from this sad scene to this really abrupt cut of Bond tossing him in the dumpster like a bag of garbage. The timing was very comical.

 

[TwistedLincoln]

I thought that was hilarious when he chucks him in the dumpster. You go from this sad scene to this really abrupt cut of Bond tossing him in the dumpster like a bag of garbage. The timing was very comical.

I think the only think I laughed at more was thirty seconds before the heartfelt goodbye, when Bond basically uses him as a human shield...

 

[Dvader]

Hi everyone,

I have two questions and was wondering if anyone could shed a light on it:

1) There's a scene in the middle of the film when Bond is in a station wagon and they stop at a checkpoint. For some reason, that old man is in the boot of the station wagon. Why is he in there? Was Bond trying to smuggle him safely past the border as a stowaway?

2) Directly afterwards, that old man is shot by Cuban police. Bond then holds him and they exchange a heartfelt man-to-man last words discussion. After the old man dies, Bond just chucks him in a dumpster. I don't understand the logic of why he does that.

I can understand where the new filmmakers are going by making the new Bond more cold-hearted, but the logic in that scene made no sense to me whatsoever.

rc444

Lol funny how you make a comment in your thread title as you ask a question where the answer refers to the opposite and as you seem to lack a little logic yourself...the two guys not being the same people and Bond actually tells the audience "he wouldn't have cared" so therefore we know its not a cold hearted thing to do.