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Final fight between Bond and Scaramanga. Some things I don’t get...

posted 10 years ago by Riding46
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Forgive me if I’ve got this wrong, but Bond steps outside the sound stage of the duelling arena with Scaramanga but during his descent down the sound stage he drops his gun, I got that bit correct?
So he is unarmed and then he does a quick change of clothes with the mannequin of himself that Scaramanga has. Ok, I can just about buy that as the clothes on the mannequin should fit him...though how he does this without being detected is beyond me. Then he shots Scaramanga with a gun, but where does he get this from? He’s lost his and I would hardly expect the gun the mannequin is holding to be a real one and loaded too.
But did I miss something did he find his gun again before swapping clothes with the mannequin?

[–] kurt7825 10 years ago

i don't get it either

[–] falseprophet616 10 years ago

I read in the trivia section that the final duel was meant to go on for much longer, which may have explained how Bond gets a gun and also gets back out from under the whole fun-house (which you don't see either).
It probably would have addressed many people's complaints about how the battle didn't get time to build tension or show a tug-of-war between the leads.

It's my conclusion that the cutting of the scene to account for 'pacing' was one of the worst decisions they made with this movie.

[–] Irishdrummer007 10 years ago

"I read in the trivia section that the final duel was meant to go on for much longer, which may have explained how Bond gets a gun and also gets back out from under the whole fun-house"

Never knew that. Now that does make sense.

"It's my conclusion that the cutting of the scene to account for 'pacing' was one of the worst decisions they made with this movie."

I think we can all agree on that. It is a shame cause the gun fight at the end was a letdown. That was suppose to be the big showdown in the film.

[–] Gonsaro 10 years ago

For me, the final duel was a bit of a letdown. Scaramanga is just camping at the end of the fun house. Bond camps as well and kills him. When I first saw it, I thought: "Oh, so that was it? Scaramanga is dead?" It seemed too easy to me. I thought the duel in the pre-title sequence was better. The final duel doesn't do justice to John Barry's music which sounds really great. The moment just before Scaramanga's death sounds ultra-dramatic.

[–] james-664 9 years ago

Didn't the Bond dummy hold a gun? That would explain how Bond got another one after losing his. I assume that Bond would be carrying spare ammunition on him so he could reload.
Admittedly there is a certain amount of artistic licence as how would you be able to quickly take the jacket and tie off the dummy, get rid of the dummy behind a partition and assume a static position without anyone seeing. Apart form the explosions, the showdown was disappointing.

[–] loveagoodstory 9 years ago

I don't think Bond had any more ammo' on him. He'd earlier said to Scaramanga at dinner, "Hardly seems fair, does it: my six bullets to your one?". A duel is supposed to be a one-shot fight and he doesn't know about Scaramanga turning it into a hunt.

We could say that maybe Nick Nack gave it to him but at that point we could make up anything that wasn't in the film to make a bad plot plausible.

You're right that the showdown was a let-down. That film always leaves me feeling a bit aimless rather than upbeat.

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[–] bond322 9 years ago

Before the duel, Did Nick Nack mean it when he said to Bond "If you kill him, all this will be mine". He seemed to be assisting Scaramanga in the duel.

another point, Seeing as he was the chef for Mr 3 nipples, he could have offed him at any time he wanted

[–] millsey72 (9763) 2 years ago

Don't feel bad. No one gets them. They are plot holes