James Bond - Live and Let Die

• Year: 1973
• Song: Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney
• Running Time: 4:45

Live and Let Die, a Bond I've always liked, for two reasons:

1. Roger Moore becomes Bond, I reckon this is mostly an age thing, but I think Roger Moore is a great bond, I liked the dry wit he brought to the role.
2. A great song!

This is another one of the intros where we don't see Bond, it's purely an intro to set the scene, but a scene that is rather loosley related to the main plot it has to be said!

We start off in the UN building, in New York city, the delegates look very bored! The here is a main performing a translation of the speech, an unkown assailant sends a fatal pulse via the earpiece of the UK UN envoy. He drops dead. Rather amusingly, nobody notices for a few seconds. Ahhh.. the UN!

We move to Louisiana, a funerla procession marches along the street, past a man in a suit, who is clearly watching a bar across the road. There are some fantastic fros. Then a short man stabs the watcher, and the coffin is placed on his body to pick him up... then the funeral procession, still with casket, becomes a party, classic!

We move again to 'San Monique - An island in the carribean'. There is another party going on here, this time it's to kill a man, currently unknown to us, who is tied to a pole. A poisonous snake is the means of murder.

Cut to song....

"When you were young and your heart was an open book..."

Bond does not appear, and this intro creates lots of intrigue. we have no idea what any of these events mean... in my mind, that is a good first 4 minutes and 45 seconds of film. It draws you in, and you start wondering who these people are, and why they were murdered, and by whom, and how does it all tie together?