This curious line in The Man With the Golden Gun arises during Bond’s conversation with Andrea Anders about her relationship with Scaramanga. When Bond asks whether they are lovers, she explains that intimacy occurs only before Scaramanga kills. Bond’s response likens the ritual to bullfighters sharpening their “eye,” and means to sound clever and psychologically revealing.

Yet the comparison collapses under some scrutiny, since a quick Google of bullfighting traditions shows that many matadors reportedly practice celibacy before a fight, the opposite of what the line suggests. That discrepancy raises an obvious question: is the script simply wrong, or was the line inserted purely to mythologize Scaramanga as a predator who romanticizes violence?

Either way, the moment and the entire scene with Bond and Anders in the hotel room lands awkwardly.