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Inktober 24 - Blind

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Day 24: Blind #inktober #inktober2017 #sakurainktober #blind #mouse #mice #threeblindmice #daredevil #costume #cosplay #halloween #halloweencostume

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Plotting Illogicalities

Minute 35: Three Blind Mice — why do they give up so easily?

Having been set up as sinister agents of evil at the very beginning of the movie (they’re even a part of the title sequence, and have their own musical cue), the Three Blind Mice killers disappear somewhat from the plot. They take out Strangways, his secretary, and steal his information on Dr. No successfully, prompting MI6 to investigate more closely. They instigate the entire plot, in that sense. The next we see of them is a failed attempt to kill Bond upon his arrival at the hotel — a car passes, obscuring the line of fire. Then it appears they give up. It clashes with what we’ve seen of them up until this point — why would a group of confident, employed killers give their task up after missing a chance to shoot Bond outside his hotel? It robs them of legitimate threat in the car chase up the mountain, and makes their fiery demise less satisfying than it should be (their presence in that sequence should also be more clearly shown to us).

It is an odd illogicality, essentially undermining the film’s quirky assassins (a staple in the Bond cannon). But it could be fixed. Even if after one of the ‘Mice’ miss Bond from a street corner, another could be waiting at the door, coin cup at the ready, in character. Bond could pass, give him some money, and increase tension, only for another guest to arrive. We know there are three — so where is the other? Bond returns to his hotel room, and spots the hair has been removed from the cupboard doors. An opportunity for a tense scene arrives — we know who must be in there, and this is the final chance to overcome the obstacles. A fight scene between one of the Mice and Bond would increase the stakes, and provide the Mice with genuine malice and dedication to the cause.