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Jun 20 06: bad:good:: ignorance:strength
I’m watching Die Another Day at the moment on Spike TV (“the Star Trek, Ultimate Fighting, and Poker-Playing Babes Network”).1 The opening montage shows Bond in North Korea. His mission gangs seriously aglee—there’s a mole somewhere! Bond is Exposed! Capture by the Bad Guys! Aieeee!
So anyway, cut to the opening montage, backed by that horrible Madonna song. They spend the opening credits driving home the point that the North Koreans are eeeeevil. And how do they do it? Well, they begin with a shot of Bond’s face being held in a tub of icy water. And from there? Oh, you know, the usual: beatings, electricity, burnings, dangerous animals. In this case, scorpions.2
In the Bond world circa 2002, the easiest way to demonstrate that your villans were a nation of irretreivably bad guys was to show that they tortured their prisoners.
I feel ill.
1 My chest is getting hairier as we speak.
2 I think we can assume that Bond could not hear the Madonna song, but we can’t rule it out. That would be evil, wouldn’t it?