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Lovely - hope he does Never Say Never Again next…
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I wish I could embed the sound drop of Zorin saying “I find a computer indispensable” in A View to a Kill that they use on Kill James Bond.
This is the closest I can get, I suppose:
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/cbae08c0-71cd-47e9-9764-60993998a653/
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Spoiler alert for those who haven’t seen the film but it made even less sense than most Bond villains’ schemes:
The villain—a manufacturer of microchips—had a plan to destroy Silicon Valley in an artificially triggered earthquake so he could get rich monopolizing production. The problem with this scheme that was pointed out by contemporaries like Roger Ebert is that Silicon Valley wasn’t (and still isn’t) where the vast majority of microchips are manufactured, it’s where the companies that buy microchips are located. So Zorn’s plan wouldn’t have destroyed his competitors, it would have destroyed his customers. It would be like blowing up Switzerland to monopolize cocoa bean production.
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Stuff like that irritates me. And sometimes I just have to tell myself, “Oh, this isn’t exactly like our world, here they do XYZ instead.”
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I didn’t know Zorin had oil fields in my neighborhood.
He should have destroyed Taiwan instead.
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