12 Things You Learn Rewatching The Man With The Golden Gun

9. Nick Nack Was A Wasted Opportunity

One of the movie's most memorable characters is unquestionably Nick Nack (Hervé Villechaize), Scaramanga's dwarf servant who assists the supervillain in his various schemes.

Unsurprisingly, the film follows the early Bond tradition of taking a rather insensitive approach to a minority character, by treating Nick Nack as a bit of a joke and having characters derisively refer to him as a "midget" on numerous occasions.

To his credit, Hervé Villechaize's entertaining performance manages to scrape back some of the character's dignity, but Nick Nick's small morsels of character development only hint at a far more interesting end for the sidekick.

When the final showdown between Bond and Scaramanga begins, Nick Nack takes delight in informing 007 that if Scaramanga is killed, he will inherit his master's entire wealth.

Even though this does technically happen, Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland) soon after accidentally destroys the island complex, dashing Nick Nack's dreams. He then attacks Bond in vain, of course, and ends the movie locked in a wicker cage atop Bond's boat like an animal.

Given the hints that Nick Nack would love to be free of his master's servitude, it would've been way more interesting if he was left alone on the island to inherit Scaramanga's wealth, his fate uncertain. Instead, he's once again turned into a goofy comic relief role as little people so often are. Shame.