However, Craig's first movie, Casino Royale , rebooted the franchise in So his movies are a self-contained series, and the death of his version of the character closes the loop on that narrative. Goodbye, Mr. If Broccoli and fellow producer Michael G. Wilson are feeling truly daring, Bond's nephew appeared in cartoon James Bond Jr.
Perhaps it's time to bring young Bond out of obscurity? CNET editors pick the products and services we write about. When you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Sean Keane. Daniel Craig's final James Bond adventure has one heck of an ending. Delivered on weekdays. We see a strangely shaped scar on his upper chest, marking the entry point for the depleted-uranium fragments. If so, it seems odd that the stain is so far below that, and so nearly circular at the same time. Less puzzling is the bullet fired by Eve, which hits Bond near his liver as he battles Patrice.
If you watch closely in slow-motion, you can see a second bloody wound in this spot, just before Bond falls from the train. This could be a continuity error. This scene was shot at the Varda Viaduct in southern Turkey, which is feet high. He resisted torture to protect MI6 secrets; he bit into a cyanide capsule in an attempt to kill himself, but it merely disfigured him. Realizing eventually that M had betrayed him, he became filled with a consuming rage that drove him to seek revenge against the agency, and her above all.
Bond, too, has been betrayed by M, in a sense. He knows that she gave the order to shoot to Eve; he was wearing a radio headset at the time. I made the only decision I could and you know it.
You know the rules of the game. We both have. The conflict in his mind between his love for M, whom he sees as a sort of mother-figure, and her order to take a shot which hit him, is exactly the sort of thing a dream might try to resolve on an emotional level.
In the world of dreams, such a conflict might well take the shape of a confrontation between two people, one bent on revenge against M, the other dedicated to protecting her. As Call explains:. What are her motivations for the things she does? For the calls she makes? Would she let him die so easily if it meant protecting and empowering the greater good?
Is he simply a pawn? We know that James hear M announce to Eve to take the shot over the radio, but James is more thrown then jumps when the shot is taken. So it's doubtful that he faked being shot. When James Bond falls into the river he goes over a water fall.
During this sequence he hits the bottom of the water falls and sinks into the water. At this point you can see bubbles coming from his right side ribs. As shown in this image. I've circled the two locations where he has been shot. In the opening credits of the film only one bullet hole is shown for the iconic imagery of Bond. This bullet wound is in the location where he was shot driving the Backhoe. The hole appears several times during the opening credits, in shadow figures of Bond and in a cardboard target of Bond.
In the interview sequence with the bad guy sorry, forget his name, that's a movie joke. We are only shown one bullet wound, but M is blamed for the wound.
So this raises the question. Where is the second bullet wound caused by Eve when she shot him on the train? It appears only once in the film, the moment when he hits the water. You can see two distinct injuries on Bond's right side.
One in his shoulder, and one in his ribs. Later in the film. Eve and Bond are discussing the shooting that went wrong. This happens just after he enters the new underground base for MI5.
He tells Eve the shot only "cost me 3 ribs". Yet, later in the film we see him shirtless without any wound in that area. I always thought that this large wound in his upper body was from Eve 's sniper shot. This wound is also emphasized heavily during the title sequence, which makes sense to me, since it was rather the sniper shot that "killed" him and not those rather small grazing shots from Patrice. I think the shots from Patrice only left some small wounds that healed easily and didn't leave any further scars and you don't see any large blood stain on his upper body after Patrice 's shots.
This could also be the reason why Bond didn't discover those shrapnels earlier, when operating the sniper wound shortly after the shot. They just "got lost" in the more severe injury he received from Eve.
EDIT: As to your updated question, I really like the interresting viewpoint of Bond faking getting shot and your reasoning is not bad. But from the emphasize of this significant wound during the title sequence and no signs of it during the train chase after getting shot at in the crane , I still stand by my answer.
And in the end, don't forget the recoil. Ok, a bullet throwing him away that heavily is probably not that realistic in the first place, but Bond alone doing this? And likewise, whereas I understand your explanation of Bond 's reasons, I would still doubt that he would abort this important mission just because he feels insulted by M. Of course he is upset after actually getting "killed" , but aborting the mission which he was still confident to succeed in and playing dead just because M ordered Eve to shoot without him actually being hit would be a bit too childish from him.
In the end Eve could've just hit Patrice and the mission succeeded, which he wouldn't even realize had he just thrown himself off the train and into a possible death right after hearing the shot.
And he isn't one of the people getting nervous when hearing shots at all. So this renders my theory of the shoulder wound being from Eve 's shot totally wrong. Nevertheless I'll leave my last paragraph as it stands, even if I'm for now a bit more unclear about Bond faking his death and might start to tend to your theory. Although I could not find any evidence to support my answer, I am trying to give the answer as best as I can with my own proofs.
Cross-hair on Bonds body. Now if you look carefully, the cross-hair was meant to be shot on the right side of Bonds body on a height of the chest. In the second scene, we see the right hand of Bond is more bent, as if something has struck hard and the blazer on the right side is more spread to outside. He is intimate friends with the Grim Reaper — both as his willing servant, dishing out grisly demises for a slew of nameless bad guys, and as an observer of his handiwork.
Madeleine Swann serves a similar purpose to Tracy in the novels. He can start to imagine a real life for himself again. But whereas in the novels, Tracy is gunned down by Blofeld and Irma Bunt, Madeleine lives to offer Bond another taste of betrayal and abandonment. Bond immediately shuts down again and goes on the run. But his desire to have a real life is still there. But his nihilism is the point. Bond is a nihilist himself, at least in the personal sense. His life has no deeper meaning beyond what feels good in the moment.
Safin represents the extreme version of that nihilism. He wants to kill lots of people because someone hurt him when he was young.
Madeleine, too, is a victim of extreme childhood trauma thanks to Safin and her pain makes her into a trembling, raw nerve of barely concealed distress at all times. The principal characters in this film are all refracted versions of Bond himself, bent or twisted reflections of his own pain. He might want to be a father. In the end, he only knows himself, and barely, at that.
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