The Science of James Bond by Mark Brake

Author:Mark Brake
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510743809
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2020-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

DIABOLICAL DRAX

Soon Jaws captures Bond and Goodhead. Drax then reveals his plan to destroy human life on Earth by launching the fifty globes that dispense the nerve gas into the atmosphere. It’s a curious decision by Drax. It’s true that the movie follows the novel’s theme of death dealt from the skies above. Whereas Fleming’s book boasts a weapon of mass destruction in the nuclear-armed missile, the movie opts for these metal spheres that contain the nerve gas, and which are launched from low-Earth orbit. But why deal with the complex scientific challenge of aiming and firing the spheres from space when they could be deployed remotely and more effectively on the ground? After all, surely the cost of Drax’s space exploration (multiple shuttles and a space station, for heaven’s sake!) would require a fortune beyond what one corporation could possibly afford (remember that the cost of building and running the International Space Station is a joint project between no less than five participating space agencies: Roscosmos, ESA, JAXA, NASA, and CSA). Drax should have opted for the cheaper ground-based option and spent more time with Blofeld; maybe some of his “angels of death” were still knocking around.

Drax explains that he had transported several dozen genetically perfect young men and women (“a race of perfect physical specimens”) of varying races to the space station in the shuttles. They would live there until Earth was safe again for human life; their descendants would be the seed for “a new super-race.” (“Your offspring will return to Earth and shape it in their image . . . From their first day on Earth they will be able to look up and know that there is law and order in the heavens.”)

Drax, played by French actor Michael Lonsdale, has little humor about him. Some have suggested that his lines are delivered with such obvious boredom that one almost expects Drax to start snoring in the middle of one of his sub-Nazi monologues. The contention is that, since he’s about to murder billions of people, there’d be a bit more glee about him. Even Hannibal Lecter had a sense of humor (though Darth Vader didn’t).

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