All The Clues To James Bond’s No Time To Die Ending
All The Clues To James Bond’s No Time To Die Ending
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Despite the shocking climax of No Time To Die, Daniel Craig’s James Bond tenure is littered with references to and foreshadowing of how it ends.
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WARNING: Spoilers for No Time to Die ahead.
When the shock factor of No Time To Die’s landmark ending wears off, it becomes clear the clues to James Bond’s demise were hidden within the Daniel Craig era all along. No Time To Die is largely typical in its approach to Craig-era Bond installments, with 007 returning from retirement to thwart Rami Malek’s villain Lyustifer Safin, a scientist-turned-terrorist hellbent on establishing a new world order through dystopian technology. No Time To Die breaks new ground with its penultimate sequence as Bond 25 delivers the first concrete death for any 007 in the movie franchise’s illustrious history.
The Bond franchise has certainly teased deaths across its 58-year span before, with the most prominent being an obituary letter that No Time To Die poignantly recycles. In Ian Fleming’s seminal novel, You Only Live Twice, MI6 alludes that Bond has passed away, quoting in a newspaper obituary: “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” This Jack London quote is repeated in No Time To Die, with M (Ralph Fiennes) reading the same passage aloud as agents pay homage to James Bond.
As it currently stands, though, No Time To Die is the first Bond franchise installment to kill off Bond overtly. Yet despite the shock of seeing the often seemingly immortal 007 finally perish, Daniel Craig’s Bond tenure has been laying the breadcrumbs that point to Bond’s impending death for years. Here are all the clues to James Bond’s No Time To Die ending.
Blofeld Predicted Bond’s Death In No Time To Die
Despite limited screen time in No Time To Die, Christoph Waltz’s Blofeld delivers perhaps the most prescient line in the entire Daniel Craig run regarding Madeleine Swann’s (Spectre’s Léa Seydoux) life-changing secret. Blofeld prophetically goads bond at the start of No Time To Die by stating: “When her secret finds its way out, it will be the death of you.” Taken in its most literal sense, Blofeld’s ominous message suggests that he somehow knows that Madeleine’s secret would lead to Bond dying at the end of No Time To Die, acting as a grim prophecy for the face of 007.
More likely, though, is that Blofeld’s message is designed to unsettle Bond, knowing that the eventual revelation of his daughter will rock the MI6 agent to the core. In this way, Blofeld’s portent certainly holds more weight, with 007’s eventual sacrifice at the end of No Time To Die made in service to protect those he loves. Whatever the truth behind Blofeld’s ominous line, No Time To Die’s grim death foreshadowing inevitably comes to pass, with Bond perishing in an airstrike.
Bond’s “Suicide Mission”
One of the more overt nods to Bond’s demise in No Time To Die comes in the form of a throwaway line from one of Obruchev’s (David Dencik) scientists. After Nomi (Lashana Lynch) and Bond rescue Madeleine and her daughter, the pair realize Bond must stay behind to open the island’s blast-resistant silo doors and call in a missile strike from HMS Dragon to destroy the factory. Overhearing their conversation, a scientist states that staying on the island is “a suicide mission,” plainly stating the overwhelming danger accompanying their plan. While Bond is ultimately persuaded to stay on the island and die honorably due to the movie’s nanobot technology coursing through his veins, the high-risk strategy he employs to save the world foreshadows his eventual death on Safin’s island.
James Bond’s Own Character Traits
No Time To Die is not the only Daniel Craig installment to foreshadow 007’s death, with almost the entirety of the Craig era pointing toward his eventual demise. As early as Casino Royale, Craig’s Bond is shown to be much more reckless than his predecessors when it comes to protecting those he loves, with Bond rolling his Aston Martin to avoid running Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) over. The most prominent example of Bond’s emotions foreshadowing his eventual death arrives in Skyfall, with Bond risking life and limb without hesitation to protect the mother-like figure of M (Judi Dench). Bond takes M to his childhood home in what is surely designed to be a glorious last stand, with Bond himself admitting to M they are both likely to die. Bond’s willingness to put his life on the line for his loved ones across the entirety of the Daniel Craig era aptly foreshadows Bond’s eventual decision to trade his life for that of Madeleine and his newly found daughter.
The Title Of No Time To Die
Despite stating the obvious, No Time To Die’s title serves as a signpost to foreshadow Bond’s eventual death. While on the surface a red herring, No Time To Die poignantly picks up on the idea of mortality, or, more specifically, the notion that people rarely feel it is their time to die even when confronted with death. James Bond’s death in No Time To Die holds to this idea, with Bond fighting to overturn insurmountable odds almost to his last breath before finally conceding defeat. Prophetically, the title No Time To Die encapsulates the sentiment of the prior 24 Bond installments, which did not dare kill off 007 while also cleverly foreshadowing Bond’s eventual death at the end of the film.
Daniel Craig’s Portrayal Of Bond
It could also be said that Daniel Craig’s entire Bond tenure acts as a setup for 007’s eventual death at the end of No Time To Die. Craig revolutionized the stuffy Bond franchise in 2006 with his explosive emergence in Casino Royale, bringing gritty fight sequences and a modern approach to the Bond continuity. Daniel Craig’s timeline as James Bond is characterized by his very human portrait of the iconic MI6 agent, who is emotionally and physically hurt in a way previous laissez-faire Bond portrayals were not. This human touch from Craig’s Bond smacks of inevitability when looked at retroactively, with such a tangibly human character always likely to meet a realistic end. There has always been a tangible fatalistic quality to Craig’s Bond, with his vulnerability lending him an air of the inevitable from the start. In this way, No Time To Die acts as a coda to Daniel Craig’s entire Bond tenure, which delivered crunching realism to a franchise in desperate need of new perspectives before his inclusion.
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