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10 Ways Bond Uses Brain Over Brawn
Skyfall Special: 10 Ways Bond Uses Brain Over Brawn
In Hollywood’s ongoing parade of McBain-esque action heroes, James Bond has always stood out as the thinking man’s choice; the one sharp drinker in a room full of oafish bouncers.
While you might suspect that it comes down to nothing more than the Aston Martin and the South Kensington drawl, we think that 007’s record reveals a more complicated and subtle ingenuity. Interspersed between the gunfights, the fisticuffs and the explosions are the many situations in which Bond’s mastery of gamesmanship, mechanics and even rhetoric surfaces to save the day.
Read on for our top 10 scenes in which James Bond chooses brain over brawn.
Skyfall opens in Australian cinemas on the 22nd of November.