20 James Bond References You Might Have Missed In Die Another Day
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Drowning is a frequent way of trying to dispose of a Bond Girl, dating back as early as the prospective fate of Ursula Andress's Honey Ryder in Dr. No.
In Tomorrow Never Dies, Götz Otto's Stamper, desperate to avenge himself against Pierce Brosnan's Double-0 Seven for killing Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) and Dr. Kaufman (Vincent Schiavelli), chains up Bond's ally, Colonel Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh) onboard Carver's stricken stealth ship, which is rapidly being destroyed by the Royal Navy. Dumping Wai Lin into the ocean far below, Stamper almost succeeds in drowning the Chinese People's External Security Force agent, but James Bond dives after her, giving her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation whilst Stamper and the stealth ship explode overhead.
In Die Another Day, Gustav Graves melts his ice palace using the Icarus beam whilst Jinx is trapped inside. The room in which she is trapped rapidly fills with icy water and she actually does drown before Bond can reach her. Reasoning that the freezing water must have kept Jinx alive, Bond races to a hot spring next to the bio-domes that house Graves's lair and manages to revive her with the heat.
Even though the method of resuscitation is slightly different in the two Brosnan-led Bond films, both villains try to drown the main Bond Girl and both very nearly succeed.