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James bond licence to kill movie2/28/2024 ![]() She knows that “he’s hell-bent for destruction,” and, despite his fear and confusion, she knows there’s nothing she can do. She just sit there as the night grows stillĪccording to Dylan, this woman is a passive observer to the exalted doom of man. The choruses are focused on a woman, who lives “on my block.” This woman is described in each chorus in different ways: The verses are devoted to the doomed ways of men. The final words in the last verse clinch it:Īs said above, the song is divided in half. In “License to Kill,” Dylan is holding the church responsible for our shared destruction by upholding our own selfishness and exaltation. Dylan’s own disillusionment with the church was hinted at in “The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar” (see Recliner Notes post here), one of the last songs recorded in Dylan’s “born again” phase before this new album Infidels. Remember that this song is on an album called Infidels, named after those who are unbelievers and have disavowed religion. With the words “altar of a stagnant pool,” Dylan is gesturing clearly at the church. ![]() It’s a horrific, circular conceit that we are being mismanaged through our own mismanagement. Man is seeing his own reflection, training himself for this life of purposelessness and exalting in it. ![]() He is saying that man exults before an altar, seeking out divine guidance, but there’s nothing there other than brackish water. Now he worships at an altar of a stagnant poolĪnd when he sees his reflection, he’s fulfilled.Īh yes, now we’re getting to it! Dylan is shooting off a cannon of cynicism. With death, he’s stripped for parts and celebrated and exalted by burying him “with stars.” When considering this verse, it needs to be asked: Who are “they”? Who is it that’s rigging this game and mismanaging life “with great skill”? Dylan answers these questions in the last verse by singing: Groomed for life and set on a path that leads to nothing but disease and decay. Now, they take him and they teach him and they groom him for lifeĪnd they set him on a path where he’s bound to get ill We can jump back to the second verse to see how this was arranged: Dylan says that the mismanagement of man’s thoughts and direction has been purposeful. Dylan is saying that man has been trained to believe what he sees, but when there is deceit and dishonesty everywhere you look, there’s nothing else to see and nothing else to believe. Now, he’s hell-bent for destruction, he’s afraid and confusedĪnd his brain has been mismanaged with great skill In the verses, Dylan shares his extreme pessimism for man’s direction as seen in the opening line: “Man thinks ’cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he pleases.” The hopelessness of man and our shared community continues in the third verse: There’s a professional sound to this song, not many musical interludes, as Dylan must have wanted to keep the song dry for his singing and to emphasize the words.ĭylan has created two halves to this song, a male half and a female half. The first sound heard in the song is the kick drum of Sly Dunbar, who, along with his partner Robbie Shakespeare on bass, provide the rhythm section for the song and the entire album (see the “Jokerman” post for more on these two giants). The song “License to Kill” was performed by Gladys Knight for the film: He was the fourth person to play Bond on film, and because of the darker tone of the movie and mixed reviews, the box office returns were poor, “making License to Kill the least financially successful James Bond film in the U.S., when accounting for inflation.” This was Timothy Dalton’s last appearance as Bond on screen.Īs we know from other James Bond movies, there is always a big pop music song featured during the opening credits, usually accompanied by dizzying graphics depicting events from the movie. In the James Bond film series, a movie called License to Kill was released in 1989 with Timothy Dalton playing Bond. One of which is a license to kill, or, in Bond’s words: “You’ve had to kill a chap in cold blood in the course of some assignment.” This “00” section – of which Bond is “007” – has many special permissions. In the first James Bond novel, 1953’s Casino Royale, Fleming introduces the “00 Section” of MI6, Britain’s secret service. The origin of that device is commonly thought to be from the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming. The concept of having a “license to kill” is popular in espionage fiction and films.
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