In the final scene, after they've kissed, Pam asks "Why don't you wait until you're asked?" (echoing what he said in their first encounter after the fight at the Barrelhead Bar.) Bond replies with what she said at the time, "Well, why don't you ask me?" and they continue kissing. He follows Pam to the swimming pool and jumps in the water, pulling her in with him. After kissing Bond for all his help, Lupe suggests that he stay there with her, but Bond excuses himself when he sees Pam run off in tears after witnessing their kiss. Several days later, while at a party being hosted by Lupe Lamora, Bond is seen in a brief phone conversation with Felix, who tells him that he's soon to be discharged from the hospital and informs Bond that M called, saying he may have a job for Bond (hinting that M wants him to return to 00 status). Just then, Pam drives by in Bond's abandoned cab and gives Bond a ride back to the city. On fire, Sanchez stumbles into the wrecked truck, blowing up both it and himself. Bond suddenly flicks the lighter toward Sanchez, and the flame ignites his gasoline-soaked clothes. As Sanchez prepares to swing the machete, Bond slips from his pocket the engraved cigarette lighter presented to him by Felix and Della on their wedding day and asks, "Don't you want to know why?" Sanchez pauses mid-swing, noticing the engraving. Bond crawls away from the truck, but Sanchez suddenly appears soaked in gasoline and wielding a machete. Originally the producers of the Bond franchise turned in-house to a tireless stalwart of Bond music, Vic Flick, to compose the title song. The screenplay was subsequently novelized by John Gardner.Īs Bond and Sanchez battle it out on the back of the oil tanker, now rolling out of control, it runs off the road and down a hillside. 16 Gladys Knight - Licence To Kill MI6 readers voted in their thousands during 2012 to rank all the James Bond title theme songs. The remainder of the film is from an original screenplay crafted by American screenwriters Michael G. Krest's weapon of choice-a stingray tail used as a whip-was given to the film's villain, Sanchez. The character of Milton Krest ( Anthony Zerbe) and his yacht the Wavekrest was featured in "The Hildebrand Rarity", a short story in For Your Eyes Only (1960), a collection of five James Bond short stories. Also, in the original novel, the villain (an Afro-Caribbean spymaster working for the Russians) is smuggling recovered pirate treasure instead of drugs. In the book, however, Leiter loses his arm as well as parts of his leg, and in subsequent books, he has a prosthesis. The scenes with Felix Leiter being fed to a shark, Bond's revenge against the man most directly responsible for maiming Felix, and Franz Sanchez and his minions hiding smuggled drugs inside fish tanks were taken from the original novel of Live and Let Die (1954). Although Licence to Kill is the first Bond film not to take its title or overall storyline from an original James Bond story, there are some elements of Fleming's works in the movie. All of the James Bond movies from 1962 until 1990, and again from 2006 onward, are based, in some part, upon novels or stories by British author Ian Fleming.
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