5 Clues That Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond Dies In Die Another Day
4. The Ridiculous Entire Film
In a later scene, on another hospital bed, Bond has one final dream of his 14 month hellish time away, which ends with flat-lines, cardiac arrests, panicking doctors and other film-esque death stuff. Bond then supposedly reawakens to assume the mantle of action hero in Die Another Day, which just so happens to nothing but unhindered science-defying ludicrousness from start to finish.
After the well-balanced grit of the previous Brosnan Bond films, the insane theatrics of diamond-faced villains, invisible cars, jetpacks, buildings made of ice and surfing on doors are over-the-top even for a Bond setting. But if you picture all of this as a Bond-conjured dream-state as he crosses over to the afterlife, then it becomes a lot more palatable, even symbolic.
It is, in fact, his time as an MI6 agent exaggerated to unrealistic proportions. The ice palace, a large centerpiece of the film, may also be a representation of his cold dead state as well as his time in torturous captivity, not to mention that ridiculous scene with the lasers.
The betrayal at the hands of his seemingly innocent fling, Rosamund Pike is the recollection of treacherous ex-lover, Paris Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies and two-faced tyrant-enabler, Elektra King from The World is Not Enough. Jinx Johnson's impossible high-water dive is remarkably similar to Bond's bungee jump in the opening scene in Goldeneye. The intensive arguing with M is the culmination of all the disagreements the two had in previous films.
These and many more moments can hint at this story being a hi-definition retrospective of this particular Bond's short-lived career as 007 in the previous three films.
His life-to-death episode finalizes with the dream-within-a-dream closure of his platonic/continuous flirtation with Moneypenny, a final symbolic pang of denial perhaps. It then finishes as a good Bond retirement should, with 007 falling cosy in a bed of diamonds with an altogether outgoing lady. Fade to black, and our tragic hero is finally done and done in every sense of the word, and ready to sleep for good.