Time For 007

James Bond movie musings. 007 words, 007 sentences. Twice daily at 10:07 AM/PM UTC.
You Only Live Twice (1967)

Rubbish. Bond is alive.

This is one of Blofeld’s most revealing lines in You Only Live Twice, precisely because of how irritated he sounds. He becomes visibly fed up with incompetence and, more pointedly, with James Bond’s relentless refusal to die.

That irritation curdles almost immediately into punitive action when Blofeld feeds Helga Brandt to the piranhas. It’s a brutal punctuation mark to his bitterness and intolerance for excuses. His ruthless natures shines through his frustration, and only enflames his desire to defeat Bond once and for all. It’s one of my favorite flippant remarks from a James Bond villain.

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January 24, 2026 – 10:07 AM UTC

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