10 Movie Scenes Everyone Gets Wrong
8. Bond Isn't Being Callous About Severine's Death - Skyfall
Mid-way through Skyfall, 007 (Daniel Craig) and his contact Sévérine (Bérénice Marlohe) end up in the custody of villain Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem), where Silva shoots Sévérine in the head in front of Bond.
Silva then asks him, "What do you say to that?," to which 007 coolly responds, "A waste of good scotch," before launching into an assault against Silva's men.
At the time of Skyfall's release, many called out Bond's remark as excessively callous, that it was an overly detached, dismissive response to witnessing the brutal death of a woman he'd been intimate with - a woman who, as a former sex slave, has suffered a lot in her life.
Yet this of course ignores the fact that Bond simply isn't giving Silva what he wanted. Silva had been trying to break through Bond's psychological armour and rattle him, but in refusing to react and deflecting him with such a heartless one-liner, he doesn't give Silva an inch.
While the film's treatment of Sévérine as a character is certainly suspect in other areas, this line in of all its context isn't "problematic" at all.