{"id":128307,"date":"2015-10-13T23:59:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T05:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/license-to-kill-and-kill-and-kill.html"},"modified":"2015-10-14T07:52:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T13:52:45","slug":"license-to-kill-and-kill-and-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/license-to-kill-and-kill-and-kill.html","title":{"rendered":"License to Kill &#8230; and kill &#8230; and kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A look at all of James Bond&#39;s kills (up until <i>SPECTRE).<\/i>  Though, honestly, there are plenty of cases where the actual kill status is not confirmed (bang-drop is not necessarily a kill, for example) or the numbers involved (e.g., on a space capsule swallowing space capsule) are not clear, or the actual culpability of 007 is not clearly established.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#39;s an interesting survey of how killing(ish) has been handled across the multiple decades of the Bond franchise, both in body counts (some movies have shockingly few from the hands of the man with the License to Kill) and in style (brutal, efficient, showy, improbable).<\/p>\n<p>At the very end there&#39;s a breakdown by cause of death, to a total count (with the caveats above) of 362.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/oneperfectshotdb.com\/2015\/10\/watch-crosshairs-every-kill-in-the-bond-franchise\/\">http:\/\/oneperfectshotdb.com\/2015\/10\/watch-crosshairs-every-kill-in-the-bond-franchise\/<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QQa_4biNkWU' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/8MCDpMTB3p2'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at all of James Bond&#39;s kills (up until SPECTRE). Though, honestly, there are plenty of cases where the actual kill status is not confirmed (bang-drop is not necessarily a kill, for example) or the numbers involved (e.g., on a space capsule swallowing space capsule) are not clear, or the actual culpability of 007 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/license-to-kill-and-kill-and-kill.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;License to Kill &#8230; and kill &#8230; and kill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,411],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-james-bond"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33620,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/movie-review-license-to-kill-1989.html","url_meta":{"origin":128307,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;License to Kill&quot; (1989)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-May-13 8:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The next Bond is a more violent film (though Kay actually liked it a lot), and serves as a good 80s action flick, but not so much as a Bond film. 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