Talk:The Living Daylights/Archive 1

message: Is Nekros the only villian (or, in this case, main henchman)to realize that Bond had the upper hand and the intelligence to beg for his life once he realized he was going to die?  I always thought Nekros was the most intelligent of the villian henchmen; for sale for the right price, but not willing to die for somebody else.  It also had the side-effect of helping establish Timothy Dalton as the Bond who most reflected Fleming's novels as a killer, one who killed without remorse.  Not with humor, not with thought, not with pleasure, just as a needed part England's security.
:Locque seems to beg for his life in FYEO, even though he still doesn't speak. However, in TLD Dalton is really trying to get rid of the great weight pulling on his foot rather than deliberate murder. For my mind, Brosnan shooting the chandelier and killing Zao in Die Another Day was probably the most ruthless and cold-blooded execution in any of the movies. Totally unnecessary. Scott197827 21 Nov 2005
The prize for the most blatant begging-for-one's-life must surely go to Blofeld/Bald Villain in wheelchair in the pre-title sequence of FYEO prior to being dropped down a chimney stack.
Olaf Legend 19:57, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification

message: This article has a long plot summary. Not having seen the film, I didn't read this. For all I know, it's excellent. Much of the remainder is in lists. The longest list is of what's titled "trivia".
Wikipedia purports to be an encyclopedia. Trivia lists aren't encyclopedic. If this stuff really is merely trivial, delete it. If it isn't, retitle it, move it somewhere else, or both.
When I examine this "trivia", some of it seems potentially interesting. Here's a sample:
:The principal artwork for this film — a woman in a sheer white dress, holding a pistol as James Bond stands in the gun barrel pose — was controversial in some parts of the world, with complaints raised that it glorified violence against women (though no such action occurs in the film). A student newspaper at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada was nearly shut down, sparking debate about censorship and images of violence against women, after it refused to run the advert when the film was scheduled to play at the university's student cinema.
Which parts of the world? What are the sources for this? Who or what "nearly shut down" this U Saskatchewan mag? (Revolting students? Lack of rashly depended-upon advertising revenue?) What's the title of this student mag, and what's its significance? What are the sources for all of this? (An authoritative newspaper article? A slightly hysterical or dope-fueled student newspaper article? Hazy memories of some TV news story some WP editor watched almost two decades ago?) Hoary 06:37, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconded, and I've failed the article. It's not great prose, it doesn't cite sources, excessively sized trivia section. No doubt you have the makings of a GA here so please don't be disheartened - improve it and try again. It's not there yet, though. -kingboyk 10:03, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivial (or so we are told), and unsourced

message: Should a translations section being incorporated to the article? David Pro 00:19, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translations