List of James Bond henchmen in Live and Let Die
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A list of henchman from the 1954 James Bond
novel
and 1973 film
Live and Let Die
from the List of James Bond henchmen.
novel and film Live and Let Die. In the film he was portrayed by Julius Harris
. Tee Hee's name is derived from his tendency to chuckle and snicker to himself very often for little or no reason. As Bond states when he first meets the man: "Funny how the least little thing amuses him."
named Albert. He appears to be either a chief bodyguard or right hand man of Kananga, as he appears in almost all of his employer's scenes regardless of which identity his employer is currently assuming. In his first meeting of Bond at a Fillet of Soul restaurant in Harlem
, New York City
, Tee Hee is informed that Bond is armed by Solitaire
, disarms him and, in a demonstration of his formidable hook, bends Bond's .32 Walther PPK
pistol nearly double. Later on San Monique, he calls to inform his boss's subordinates that 007 and Solitaire have been found on the island. In the French Quarter
in New Orleans Tee Hee is present in Mr. Big's private office below another Fillet of Soul and offers Bond a chair rigged with handcuffs on the armrests to sit down in and activates the mechanism. When James Bond is questioned about the state of Solitaire's virginity, Tee Hee threatens to snip off 007's right little finger and then knocks the secret agent out so that he can be taken to Kananga's crocodile farm where he would intended to be eaten. In their next meeting when Bond awakens at the farm, Tee Hee gives 007 a tour of Dr. Kananga's heroin processing lab and, macabre information about the crocodiles as well. He then strands Bond on a tiny island surrounded by crocodiles and alligators, but Bond escapes by using the backs of the alligators as stepping stones. Bond then sets fire to the laboratory Tee Hee was overseeing. As Bond escapes in a speedboat, Tee Hee orders fellow henchman Adam to go after 007 by car. After Bond foils Mr. Big's plot, Tee Hee returns to attempt revenge. The metal-armed man sneaks aboard a train on which Bond and Solitaire are traveling on and kills the electricity to the pair's cabin. During a fight with Tee Hee, Bond disables his artificial arm by cutting the wires which control the hook with nail clippers. Bond then throws Tee Hee out of the window of a moving train, leaving his metal arm still attached to the window ledge. Bond later throws the metal arm off the train to continue sleeping with Solitaire (though a book states that Bond gave the arm to Q Branch, but the canonicity of this is unknown).
from the James Bond
novel and film, Live and Let Die. In the film, he was a henchman to Mr. Big, and portrayed by actor Geoffrey Holder
. Samedi would later make appearances in the video game GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64
as a villain, and as a multiplayer character and also appeared in Nightfire for the PlayStation 2.
The character is inspired from the loa
, Baron Samedi
, a figure representative of death in the Voodoo religion.
, to be either the Voodoo god Baron Samedi himself or perhaps his zombie
. Mr. Big encourages this belief by keeping a Baron Samedi totem
near his desk.
as being nine feet tall, and holding a cockamame flute
. Holder is 6'6" in reality. Holder at the time was featured in TV commercials for Seven-Up, explaining the difference between cola nuts and "uncola nuts (a lemon and a lime)". The punch line of the first ad was: "Try making that out of a cola nut", ending with the same infectious guffaw of a laugh Holder was to bring with him into the Baron Samedi role.
Baron Samedi is perhaps the most enigmatic villain/henchman the cinematic Bond has ever faced. He is the only henchman that uses occultic acts to kill his enemies. His character is an ambiguous one, and the audience cannot tell if he is the Voodoo god Baron Samedi himself or simply a human who has assumed Samedi's identity. Contributing to the mystery is the fact that Samedi seems to operate as an aide to Doctor Kananga, aka Mr. Big
, but is not entirely under his control. In one scene, for instance, as Kananga interrogates Solitaire (the film's main Bond girl
), Samedi engages in an odd ritual of burning Tarot
cards. The ritual seems to convey a sinister message to Kananga and Solitaire, and although it irritates Kananga, he refuses to put a stop to Samedi's card-burning. Furthermore, the scene demonstrates that he has, perhaps, the same Tarot powers as Solitaire. When Bond and Solitaire are exploring Kananga's "Voodooland", he is the first of the villain's allies to observe the pair and reports this on a flute he is playing after a menacing and polite interaction with them. Solitaire appears to acknowledge him as they walk away. This flute is actually a walkie-talkie, which he reports Bond and Solitaire's movements to Tee Hee.
Later on, Bond witnesses Baron Samedi rising from a grave, and shoots him in the forehead; however, it is revealed to be nothing more than an animatronic dummy
. Only minutes later, however, the real Samedi rises from the grave and engages Bond in a machete
fight. Bond kills him again by pushing him into a coffin
full of snakes. But just before the end credits roll, Samedi is seen riding on the front of Bond and Solitaire's speeding train (laughing), suggesting that he either survived falling into the coffin of snakes or that he was not mortal to begin with - that he really is "the man who cannot die". Becuase of this, he is probably the only James Bond 007 character to take on a supernatural basis rather than reality itself.
in response to a letter sent by someone claiming to be Baron Samedi. Additionally, Samedi claims to have possession of Francisco Scaramanga
's golden gun (from The Man with the Golden Gun
). Bond is sent to retrieve the legendary weapon and defeat a cackling Baron a total of three times before completing the mission. (Interestingly enough, though the Golden Gun defeats other enemies in one shot, it takes more than one shot to dispatch the Baron's last incarnation.) Also, Samedi further juxtaposes
the Bond films by attacking Bond with a Moonraker
laser pistol in his final attempt. He also appears to have an army of Russian Infantry at his disposal, as they are the guards in this level. In the cutscene that follows, Bond confidently strides down a corridor of the temple with the Golden Gun in hand, sure that all the villains have been eliminated. After he leaves, Samedi emerges from the shadows and laughs. However, a glitch in the game allows the player to kill him a fourth time. He is also available as a multiplayer character.
Baron Samedi is a playable multiplayer character in the 2010 video game GoldenEye 007
for the Nintendo Wii.
Baron Samedi makes an appearance in the second stage of the 1992 Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
game James Bond: The Duel
. He is found about halfway through the stage and takes several shots to destroy, he then reappears from the ground but does not return after being killed a second time.
Samedi is also an unlockable multiplayer character in James Bond 007: Nightfire
(unlocked either by use of cheat codes or completing the campaign mission "The Exchange" with a high enough medal), James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
, (earning 50 points in Co-Op multiplayer mode) and The World Is Not Enough
(cheat codes or successfully completing the game on the "Secret Agent" difficulty setting).
, is a fictional character in the James Bond
film Live and Let Die. Her character was created for the film, and does not appear in the novel.
In the film, she is a rogue CIA agent who is secretly an underling of Kananga, aka "Mr. Big", who sends her to kill 007. When arriving at a hotel in San Monique, Bond is surprised to learn that "Mrs. Bond" has already booked into the suite. She proves rather inept, reacting in terror to events that leave Bond unperturbed.
After spending the night together, Bond and Rosie head off deep-sea fishing, while they check over the rest of the island. After a picnic where they make love, Bond confronts Rosie, and learns that she is actually in the employ of Kananga and she is to lure Bond to a trap where he would be killed. When Bond threatens to kill her if she doesn't come clean, Rosie runs away in terror, only to be killed moments later by a poisonous dart shot from one of Kananga’s scarecrows. She is one of many henchmen who is killed not by James but by their employer (other examples include Henry Gupta from Tomorrow Never Dies
, Truman-Lodge and Milton Krest from Licence to Kill
, Kronsteen from From Russia with Love
, Quist from Thunderball
, Helga Brandt (Number 11) and Osato from You Only Live Twice
).
Rosie Carver is Bond's first on-screen black love interest. Her character was initially written as a white woman and the lead Bond girl, Solitaire, as black (Diana Ross
being the first choice to play Solitaire) before the producers made the switch. During filming, the producers actually thought about sparing Rosie, but ultimately they went ahead with the original plan and killed her off.
novel and film, Live and Let Die. The character is a burly man with a soft voice that sounds like he is whispering, hence earning himself the nickname. His true name is never revealed. In the film he is played by Earl Jolly Brown.
In the novel, his quiet voice is attributed to a childhood bout of tuberculosis
, from which one and a half of his lungs had to be surgically removed, leaving him with only half a lung with which to breathe and talk. He is in charge of a telephone switchboard
, at which he can receive orders from Mr. Big and pass them on to other operatives as needed. Whisper is arrested in the end of the novel.
He is seen on a number of occasions throughout the film; when Bond travels to meet Felix Leiter
in New York
, when he pulls alongside Bond's cab, he kills Bond's chauffeur by using a poison dart in his car, attempting to kill Bond as well by causing a car accident
. Later, he is seen bringing a bottle of champagne to Bond in his hotel bungalow
on the island of San Monique. Rosie Carver then alerts Bond that Whisper is not on the hotel payroll and should be viewed with caution. He appears at the end of the film in Kananga's lair.
It is unclear as to whether Whisper actually dies at the close of the movie. He is last seen sitting on a black leather
couch which is inflated by Kananga shooting it with a Co2 cartridge, thus exploding the couch and when Bond escapes the platform that was being lowered into a pool of sharks, he kicks Whisper into an airtight metal drug shipment capsule while trying to warn Kananga of the incident. However, it is strongly suggested given Whisper's condition that he dies from asphyxiation, as the capsule did not have much breathable oxygen, and his quiet voice did not enable him to shout loudly for help.
film, Live and Let Die. He is an underling of Kananga/Mr. Big but mainly receives his instructions from Tee Hee; in some ways he can be considered the latter's (non-mechanical) right hand. He first appears at the airport where Bond and Solitaire are captured and then leads Mr. Big's men in pursuing Bond at the alligator farm. He steals a speedboat from Sheriff J. W. Pepper's brother-in-law Billy Bob (Unknown actor) to chase Bond and at the climax of the chase near an abandoned LST is doused in petrol by Bond. Disoriented by this attack, Bond is able to steer his boat inside the landing ship where he is killed in the subsequent explosion.
film, Live and Let Die. He is portrayed by Michael Ebbin.
Dambala is a voodoo priest of sorts who appears to be a disciple of Baron Samedi. He is first seen during the pre-credits sequence, in which he kills a British agent named Baines with a venomous snake
on San Monique, the third killing within days linked to Dr. Kananga. He later shows up when Bond comes to the island, and he is shot by Bond during the agent's attempts to find the entrance to Kananga's lair.
film Live and Let Die.
This woman is one of the people Bond meets in New York City
while following the trail of assassinations there. Though she seems like a demure occult
shop owner, she is actually in cahoots with Dr. Kananga. After Bond finds evidence in New York City that leads him to Mister Big in Harlem, the clerk puts in a call to Big's henchmen to follow him there. She is later seen in New Orleans wearing the uniform of a stewardess when Mister Big's henchmen have captured Bond and intended to send him "skydiving", a reference to a death flight.
film, Live and Let Die. He is played by Arnold Williams.
The Cab Driver is the driver who helps Bond to tail Solitaire and Kananga's men to Kananga's Fillet of Soul restaurant in New York City. He is overly cheerful and likes to mess with his passengers' minds. After Bond departs into the Fillet of Soul, the Cab Driver is revealed to be a Kananga agent, who informs the restaurant crew about Bond's arrival. Bond is later captured but soon escapes.
After Bond and Solitaire arrive in New Orleans from San Monique, they are driven around town by the same Cab Driver, who traps them in his car and drives them to Kananga's men at a nearby airfield. He comments that New Orleans "sure beats the Hell out of Harlem
", and asks "How's it going, Jim?", making the Cab Driver one of the few Bond adversaries to refer to Bond by a nickname rather than his proper name of James. He then amusingly informs Bond that they intend to send him "skydiving". Bond once again escapes and the Cab Driver is not seen again.
in an uncredited role.
During the film's pre-title sequence, MI6 agent Hamilton is seen observing the Fillet of Soul restaurant in New Orleans. Suddenly, a sorrowful funeral parade appears on the same street, with the Casual Assassin approaching Hamilton's side. He is a short, African-American man with glasses and gray hair, and is largely unassuming, bearing a striking resemblance to that of Haiti
an Dictator
François Duvalier
, who is thought to be the basis of the character Kananga.
When Hamilton asks, "Whose funeral is it?", the casual assassin pulls out a switchblade knife and answers, "Yours," before quickly stabbing Hamilton to death. The fraudulent funeral-goers lower the coffin over Hamilton's body, and when they lift it (and the body) they erupt into jubilant celebration.
After Bond and his friend CIA agent Felix Leiter arrive in New Orleans, Felix sends Agent Harold Strutter to observe the Fillet of Soul at the exact spot where Hamilton was murdered. The same funeral parade appears and the casual assassin shows up again. He grins suspiciously at Strutter, and the scene cuts to Bond and Felix arriving at the restaurant as the once again jubilant funeral march passes them. Strutter is missing. They later go into the restaurant and order drinks. Leiter leaves to take a phone call allegedly from Strutter. Felix then says, "For a moment, I thought Harry was lying down on the job." It is unknown what the assassin's status is after Kananga's demise.
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
novel
Live and Let Die (novel)
Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954, where the initial print run of 7,500 copies quickly sold out. As with Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale, Live and Let Die was broadly well received by the critics...
and 1973 film
1973 in film
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Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die (film)
Live and Let Die is the eighth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman...
from the List of James Bond henchmen.
Tee Hee Johnson
Tee Hee Johnson is a fictional character in the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
novel and film Live and Let Die. In the film he was portrayed by Julius Harris
Julius Harris
Julius W. Harris was an American actor who appeared in more than 70 movies and numerous television series in a career that spanned four decades.-Early life and career:...
. Tee Hee's name is derived from his tendency to chuckle and snicker to himself very often for little or no reason. As Bond states when he first meets the man: "Funny how the least little thing amuses him."
Film
In the film, Tee Hee works for Mr. Big and has a metal arm, replacing one which was bitten off by a crocodileCrocodile
A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia: i.e...
named Albert. He appears to be either a chief bodyguard or right hand man of Kananga, as he appears in almost all of his employer's scenes regardless of which identity his employer is currently assuming. In his first meeting of Bond at a Fillet of Soul restaurant in Harlem
Harlem
Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands...
, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Tee Hee is informed that Bond is armed by Solitaire
Solitaire (James Bond)
Solitaire is a fictional character in the James Bond novel and film Live and Let Die. In the film, she was portrayed by Jane Seymour. At the age of 22, Jane Seymour became the youngest actress ever to play a Bond girl at the time .-Novel biography:In a relative rarity for the James Bond franchise,...
, disarms him and, in a demonstration of his formidable hook, bends Bond's .32 Walther PPK
Walther PPK
The Walther PP series pistols are blowback-operated semi-automatic pistols.They feature an exposed hammer, a double-action trigger mechanism, a single-column magazine, and a fixed barrel which also acts as the guide rod for the recoil spring...
pistol nearly double. Later on San Monique, he calls to inform his boss's subordinates that 007 and Solitaire have been found on the island. In the French Quarter
French Quarter
The French Quarter, also known as Vieux Carré, is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. When New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the city was originally centered on the French Quarter, or the Vieux Carré as it was known then...
in New Orleans Tee Hee is present in Mr. Big's private office below another Fillet of Soul and offers Bond a chair rigged with handcuffs on the armrests to sit down in and activates the mechanism. When James Bond is questioned about the state of Solitaire's virginity, Tee Hee threatens to snip off 007's right little finger and then knocks the secret agent out so that he can be taken to Kananga's crocodile farm where he would intended to be eaten. In their next meeting when Bond awakens at the farm, Tee Hee gives 007 a tour of Dr. Kananga's heroin processing lab and, macabre information about the crocodiles as well. He then strands Bond on a tiny island surrounded by crocodiles and alligators, but Bond escapes by using the backs of the alligators as stepping stones. Bond then sets fire to the laboratory Tee Hee was overseeing. As Bond escapes in a speedboat, Tee Hee orders fellow henchman Adam to go after 007 by car. After Bond foils Mr. Big's plot, Tee Hee returns to attempt revenge. The metal-armed man sneaks aboard a train on which Bond and Solitaire are traveling on and kills the electricity to the pair's cabin. During a fight with Tee Hee, Bond disables his artificial arm by cutting the wires which control the hook with nail clippers. Bond then throws Tee Hee out of the window of a moving train, leaving his metal arm still attached to the window ledge. Bond later throws the metal arm off the train to continue sleeping with Solitaire (though a book states that Bond gave the arm to Q Branch, but the canonicity of this is unknown).
Novel
In the novel, Tee Hee is an imposing African-American gangster with two normal human arms and normal human abilities. He is killed early in the story when Bond kicks him over a railing and he falls down a stairwell. Tee Hee had previously broken the little finger of Bond's left hand on Mr. Big's orders—giggling as he did so—after Bond was captured in Mr. Big's Harlem nightclub.Baron Samedi
Baron Samedi is a fictional characterFictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
from the James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
novel and film, Live and Let Die. In the film, he was a henchman to Mr. Big, and portrayed by actor Geoffrey Holder
Geoffrey Holder
Geoffrey Richard Holder is a Trinidadian actor, choreographer, director, dancer, painter, costume designer, singer and voice-over artist.-Early life:...
. Samedi would later make appearances in the video game GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64
Nintendo 64
The , often referred to as N64, was Nintendo′s third home video game console for the international market. Named for its 64-bit CPU, it was released in June 1996 in Japan, September 1996 in North America, March 1997 in Europe and Australia, September 1997 in France and December 1997 in Brazil...
as a villain, and as a multiplayer character and also appeared in Nightfire for the PlayStation 2.
The character is inspired from the loa
Loa
The Loa are the spirits of the voodoo religion practiced in Louisiana, Haiti, Benin, and other parts of the world. They are also referred to as Mystères and the Invisibles, in which are intermediaries between Bondye —the Creator, who is distant from the world—and humanity...
, Baron Samedi
Baron Samedi
Baron Samedi is one of the Loa of Haitian Voodoo. Samedi is a Loa of the dead, along with Baron's numerous other incarnations Baron Cimetière, Baron La Croix, and Baron Kriminel. He is the head of the Guédé family of Loa, or an aspect of them, or possibly their spiritual father...
, a figure representative of death in the Voodoo religion.
Novel
In the novel, Baron Samedi does not make an appearance himself, although many people in Harlem and elsewhere believe the novel's chief villain, Mr. BigMister Big (James Bond)
Mr. Big is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond novel and film Live and Let Die. In the film, Big is portrayed by actor Yaphet Kotto. The novel and film versions of Mr. Big are extremely different, with the film incarnation bordering on being a completely new character...
, to be either the Voodoo god Baron Samedi himself or perhaps his zombie
Zombie
Zombie is a term used to denote an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means such as witchcraft. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli...
. Mr. Big encourages this belief by keeping a Baron Samedi totem
Totem
A totem is a stipulated ancestor of a group of people, such as a family, clan, group, lineage, or tribe.Totems support larger groups than the individual person. In kinship and descent, if the apical ancestor of a clan is nonhuman, it is called a totem...
near his desk.
Film
Baron Samedi is first introduced as an entertainer who does a voodoo dance act for tourists at a hotel restaurant, when Bond arrives at the island on which most of the action takes place. The announcer introduces Samedi as "the man who cannot die", though Bond doesn't seem to think much of it at the time. He is coyly described by Felix LeiterFelix Leiter
Felix Leiter is a fictional CIA agent created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond series of novels and films. In both, Leiter works for the CIA and assists Bond in his various adventures as well as being his best friend. In further novels Leiter joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency and in the film...
as being nine feet tall, and holding a cockamame flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
. Holder is 6'6" in reality. Holder at the time was featured in TV commercials for Seven-Up, explaining the difference between cola nuts and "uncola nuts (a lemon and a lime)". The punch line of the first ad was: "Try making that out of a cola nut", ending with the same infectious guffaw of a laugh Holder was to bring with him into the Baron Samedi role.
Baron Samedi is perhaps the most enigmatic villain/henchman the cinematic Bond has ever faced. He is the only henchman that uses occultic acts to kill his enemies. His character is an ambiguous one, and the audience cannot tell if he is the Voodoo god Baron Samedi himself or simply a human who has assumed Samedi's identity. Contributing to the mystery is the fact that Samedi seems to operate as an aide to Doctor Kananga, aka Mr. Big
Mister Big (James Bond)
Mr. Big is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond novel and film Live and Let Die. In the film, Big is portrayed by actor Yaphet Kotto. The novel and film versions of Mr. Big are extremely different, with the film incarnation bordering on being a completely new character...
, but is not entirely under his control. In one scene, for instance, as Kananga interrogates Solitaire (the film's main Bond girl
Bond girl
A Bond girl is a character or actress portraying a love interest, of James Bond in a film, novel, or video game. They occasionally have names that are double entendres or puns, such as "Pussy Galore", "Plenty O'Toole", "Xenia Onatopp", or "Holly Goodhead"...
), Samedi engages in an odd ritual of burning Tarot
Tarot
The tarot |trionfi]] and later as tarocchi, tarock, and others) is a pack of cards , used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot...
cards. The ritual seems to convey a sinister message to Kananga and Solitaire, and although it irritates Kananga, he refuses to put a stop to Samedi's card-burning. Furthermore, the scene demonstrates that he has, perhaps, the same Tarot powers as Solitaire. When Bond and Solitaire are exploring Kananga's "Voodooland", he is the first of the villain's allies to observe the pair and reports this on a flute he is playing after a menacing and polite interaction with them. Solitaire appears to acknowledge him as they walk away. This flute is actually a walkie-talkie, which he reports Bond and Solitaire's movements to Tee Hee.
Later on, Bond witnesses Baron Samedi rising from a grave, and shoots him in the forehead; however, it is revealed to be nothing more than an animatronic dummy
Mannequin
A mannequin is an often articulated doll used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, and others especially to display or fit clothing...
. Only minutes later, however, the real Samedi rises from the grave and engages Bond in a machete
Machete
The machete is a large cleaver-like cutting tool. The blade is typically long and usually under thick. In the English language, an equivalent term is matchet, though it is less commonly known...
fight. Bond kills him again by pushing him into a coffin
Coffin
A coffin is a funerary box used in the display and containment of dead people – either for burial or cremation.Contemporary North American English makes a distinction between "coffin", which is generally understood to denote a funerary box having six sides in plan view, and "casket", which...
full of snakes. But just before the end credits roll, Samedi is seen riding on the front of Bond and Solitaire's speeding train (laughing), suggesting that he either survived falling into the coffin of snakes or that he was not mortal to begin with - that he really is "the man who cannot die". Becuase of this, he is probably the only James Bond 007 character to take on a supernatural basis rather than reality itself.
Video games
In the video game, GoldenEye 007, Samedi appears as a boss in an unlockable mission separate from the main plot. In the game, Bond is sent to the ancient el-Saghira temple in the Valley of the KingsValley of the Kings
The Valley of the Kings , less often called the Valley of the Gates of the Kings , is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom .The valley stands on the west bank of...
in response to a letter sent by someone claiming to be Baron Samedi. Additionally, Samedi claims to have possession of Francisco Scaramanga
Francisco Scaramanga
Francisco Scaramanga is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film and novel The Man with the Golden Gun. The film was so named because it described Scaramanga's possession of a golden gun....
's golden gun (from The Man with the Golden Gun
The Man with the Golden Gun (film)
The Man with the Golden Gun is the ninth spy film in the James Bond series and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond...
). Bond is sent to retrieve the legendary weapon and defeat a cackling Baron a total of three times before completing the mission. (Interestingly enough, though the Golden Gun defeats other enemies in one shot, it takes more than one shot to dispatch the Baron's last incarnation.) Also, Samedi further juxtaposes
Contrast (linguistics)
In semantics, contrast is a relationship between two discourse segments. Contrast is often overtly marked by markers such as but or however, such as in the following examples:# It's raining, but I am not taking an umbrella....
the Bond films by attacking Bond with a Moonraker
Moonraker (film)
Moonraker is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Clery, and Richard Kiel...
laser pistol in his final attempt. He also appears to have an army of Russian Infantry at his disposal, as they are the guards in this level. In the cutscene that follows, Bond confidently strides down a corridor of the temple with the Golden Gun in hand, sure that all the villains have been eliminated. After he leaves, Samedi emerges from the shadows and laughs. However, a glitch in the game allows the player to kill him a fourth time. He is also available as a multiplayer character.
Baron Samedi is a playable multiplayer character in the 2010 video game GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007 (2010 video game)
GoldenEye 007 is a 2010 first-person shooter video game developed by Eurocom and published by Activision for the Wii video game console, and the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is a reimagining of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, and the 1997 Nintendo 64 video game GoldenEye 007...
for the Nintendo Wii.
Baron Samedi makes an appearance in the second stage of the 1992 Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Sega Mega Drive
The Sega Genesis is a fourth-generation video game console developed and produced by Sega. It was originally released in Japan in 1988 as , then in North America in 1989 as Sega Genesis, and in Europe, Australia and other PAL regions in 1990 as Mega Drive. The reason for the two names is that...
game James Bond: The Duel
James Bond: The Duel
James Bond: The Duel is a James Bond video game released for the Sega Master System, the Sega Game Gear and the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It is loosely based on the spy films featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, 007....
. He is found about halfway through the stage and takes several shots to destroy, he then reappears from the ground but does not return after being killed a second time.
Samedi is also an unlockable multiplayer character in James Bond 007: Nightfire
James Bond 007: Nightfire
007: NightFire is a first-person shooter video game featuring the character of the British secret agent James Bond and a sequel to Agent Under Fire, published by Electronic Arts in ....
(unlocked either by use of cheat codes or completing the campaign mission "The Exchange" with a high enough medal), James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
007: Everything or Nothing is a third-person shooter video game, where the player controls James Bond. Bond is modeled after and voiced by the former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, making it his final performance for the character in game and film...
, (earning 50 points in Co-Op multiplayer mode) and The World Is Not Enough
The World Is Not Enough (video game)
The World Is Not Enough is a 2000 first-person shooter video game based on the James Bond film of the same name. The game was published by Electronic Arts and released for the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation console systems in 2000. The Nintendo 64 version was developed by Eurocom and the PlayStation...
(cheat codes or successfully completing the game on the "Secret Agent" difficulty setting).
Rosie Carver
Rosie Carver, played by Gloria HendryGloria Hendry
Gloria Hendry is an American actress. She is sometimes credited as "Gloria Henry."-Career:Hendry began her acting career in the 1968 Sidney Poitier film For Love of Ivy....
, is a fictional character in the James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Live and Let Die. Her character was created for the film, and does not appear in the novel.
In the film, she is a rogue CIA agent who is secretly an underling of Kananga, aka "Mr. Big", who sends her to kill 007. When arriving at a hotel in San Monique, Bond is surprised to learn that "Mrs. Bond" has already booked into the suite. She proves rather inept, reacting in terror to events that leave Bond unperturbed.
After spending the night together, Bond and Rosie head off deep-sea fishing, while they check over the rest of the island. After a picnic where they make love, Bond confronts Rosie, and learns that she is actually in the employ of Kananga and she is to lure Bond to a trap where he would be killed. When Bond threatens to kill her if she doesn't come clean, Rosie runs away in terror, only to be killed moments later by a poisonous dart shot from one of Kananga’s scarecrows. She is one of many henchmen who is killed not by James but by their employer (other examples include Henry Gupta from Tomorrow Never Dies
Tomorrow Never Dies
Tomorrow Never Dies is the eighteenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Bruce Feirstein wrote the screenplay, and it was directed by Roger Spottiswoode. It follows Bond as he tries to stop a media mogul from engineering...
, Truman-Lodge and Milton Krest from Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
, Kronsteen from From Russia with Love
From Russia with Love (film)
From Russia with Love is the second in the James Bond spy film series, and the second to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Released in 1963, the film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1957 novel of the...
, Quist from Thunderball
Thunderball (film)
Thunderball is the fourth spy film in the James Bond series starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham...
, Helga Brandt (Number 11) and Osato from You Only Live Twice
You Only Live Twice (film)
You Only Live Twice is the fifth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fifth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name...
).
Rosie Carver is Bond's first on-screen black love interest. Her character was initially written as a white woman and the lead Bond girl, Solitaire, as black (Diana Ross
Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
being the first choice to play Solitaire) before the producers made the switch. During filming, the producers actually thought about sparing Rosie, but ultimately they went ahead with the original plan and killed her off.
Whisper
Whisper is the name of a character in the BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
novel and film, Live and Let Die. The character is a burly man with a soft voice that sounds like he is whispering, hence earning himself the nickname. His true name is never revealed. In the film he is played by Earl Jolly Brown.
In the novel, his quiet voice is attributed to a childhood bout of tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...
, from which one and a half of his lungs had to be surgically removed, leaving him with only half a lung with which to breathe and talk. He is in charge of a telephone switchboard
Telephone switchboard
A switchboard was a device used to connect a group of telephones manually to one another or to an outside connection, within and between telephone exchanges or private branch exchanges . The user was typically known as an operator...
, at which he can receive orders from Mr. Big and pass them on to other operatives as needed. Whisper is arrested in the end of the novel.
He is seen on a number of occasions throughout the film; when Bond travels to meet Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter is a fictional CIA agent created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond series of novels and films. In both, Leiter works for the CIA and assists Bond in his various adventures as well as being his best friend. In further novels Leiter joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency and in the film...
in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, when he pulls alongside Bond's cab, he kills Bond's chauffeur by using a poison dart in his car, attempting to kill Bond as well by causing a car accident
Car accident
A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...
. Later, he is seen bringing a bottle of champagne to Bond in his hotel bungalow
Bungalow
A bungalow is a type of house, with varying meanings across the world. Common features to many of these definitions include being detached, low-rise , and the use of verandahs...
on the island of San Monique. Rosie Carver then alerts Bond that Whisper is not on the hotel payroll and should be viewed with caution. He appears at the end of the film in Kananga's lair.
It is unclear as to whether Whisper actually dies at the close of the movie. He is last seen sitting on a black leather
Leather
Leather is a durable and flexible material created via the tanning of putrescible animal rawhide and skin, primarily cattlehide. It can be produced through different manufacturing processes, ranging from cottage industry to heavy industry.-Forms:...
couch which is inflated by Kananga shooting it with a Co2 cartridge, thus exploding the couch and when Bond escapes the platform that was being lowered into a pool of sharks, he kicks Whisper into an airtight metal drug shipment capsule while trying to warn Kananga of the incident. However, it is strongly suggested given Whisper's condition that he dies from asphyxiation, as the capsule did not have much breathable oxygen, and his quiet voice did not enable him to shout loudly for help.
Adam
Adam is a character in the BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film, Live and Let Die. He is an underling of Kananga/Mr. Big but mainly receives his instructions from Tee Hee; in some ways he can be considered the latter's (non-mechanical) right hand. He first appears at the airport where Bond and Solitaire are captured and then leads Mr. Big's men in pursuing Bond at the alligator farm. He steals a speedboat from Sheriff J. W. Pepper's brother-in-law Billy Bob (Unknown actor) to chase Bond and at the climax of the chase near an abandoned LST is doused in petrol by Bond. Disoriented by this attack, Bond is able to steer his boat inside the landing ship where he is killed in the subsequent explosion.
Dambala
Dambala is a character in the BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film, Live and Let Die. He is portrayed by Michael Ebbin.
Dambala is a voodoo priest of sorts who appears to be a disciple of Baron Samedi. He is first seen during the pre-credits sequence, in which he kills a British agent named Baines with a venomous snake
Venomous snake
"Poisonous snake" redirects here. For true poisonous snakes, see Rhabdophis.Venomous snakes are snakes which have venom glands and specialized teeth for the injection of venom...
on San Monique, the third killing within days linked to Dr. Kananga. He later shows up when Bond comes to the island, and he is shot by Bond during the agent's attempts to find the entrance to Kananga's lair.
Oh Cult Voodoo Shop Clerk
Oh Cult Voodoo Shop Clerk, played by Kubi Chaza, is a fictional character in the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Live and Let Die.
This woman is one of the people Bond meets in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
while following the trail of assassinations there. Though she seems like a demure occult
Occult
The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...
shop owner, she is actually in cahoots with Dr. Kananga. After Bond finds evidence in New York City that leads him to Mister Big in Harlem, the clerk puts in a call to Big's henchmen to follow him there. She is later seen in New Orleans wearing the uniform of a stewardess when Mister Big's henchmen have captured Bond and intended to send him "skydiving", a reference to a death flight.
Cab Driver
Cab Driver is a character in the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film, Live and Let Die. He is played by Arnold Williams.
The Cab Driver is the driver who helps Bond to tail Solitaire and Kananga's men to Kananga's Fillet of Soul restaurant in New York City. He is overly cheerful and likes to mess with his passengers' minds. After Bond departs into the Fillet of Soul, the Cab Driver is revealed to be a Kananga agent, who informs the restaurant crew about Bond's arrival. Bond is later captured but soon escapes.
After Bond and Solitaire arrive in New Orleans from San Monique, they are driven around town by the same Cab Driver, who traps them in his car and drives them to Kananga's men at a nearby airfield. He comments that New Orleans "sure beats the Hell out of Harlem
Harlem
Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands...
", and asks "How's it going, Jim?", making the Cab Driver one of the few Bond adversaries to refer to Bond by a nickname rather than his proper name of James. He then amusingly informs Bond that they intend to send him "skydiving". Bond once again escapes and the Cab Driver is not seen again.
Casual Assassin
The Casual Assassin is a minor character in the James Bond film Live and Let Die. He is portrayed by Alvin AlcornAlvin Alcorn
Alvin Alcorn was an American New Orleans jazz trumpeter.Alcorn was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He learned music from his brother, though not much is known about his youth. He played freelance in New Orleans in the late 1920s and early 1930s; he appears with Armand J. Piron's Sunny South...
in an uncredited role.
During the film's pre-title sequence, MI6 agent Hamilton is seen observing the Fillet of Soul restaurant in New Orleans. Suddenly, a sorrowful funeral parade appears on the same street, with the Casual Assassin approaching Hamilton's side. He is a short, African-American man with glasses and gray hair, and is largely unassuming, bearing a striking resemblance to that of Haiti
Haiti
Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
an Dictator
Dictator
A dictator is a ruler who assumes sole and absolute power but without hereditary ascension such as an absolute monarch. When other states call the head of state of a particular state a dictator, that state is called a dictatorship...
François Duvalier
François Duvalier
François Duvalier was the President of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971. Duvalier first won acclaim in fighting diseases, earning him the nickname "Papa Doc" . He opposed a military coup d'état in 1950, and was elected President in 1957 on a populist and black nationalist platform...
, who is thought to be the basis of the character Kananga.
When Hamilton asks, "Whose funeral is it?", the casual assassin pulls out a switchblade knife and answers, "Yours," before quickly stabbing Hamilton to death. The fraudulent funeral-goers lower the coffin over Hamilton's body, and when they lift it (and the body) they erupt into jubilant celebration.
After Bond and his friend CIA agent Felix Leiter arrive in New Orleans, Felix sends Agent Harold Strutter to observe the Fillet of Soul at the exact spot where Hamilton was murdered. The same funeral parade appears and the casual assassin shows up again. He grins suspiciously at Strutter, and the scene cuts to Bond and Felix arriving at the restaurant as the once again jubilant funeral march passes them. Strutter is missing. They later go into the restaurant and order drinks. Leiter leaves to take a phone call allegedly from Strutter. Felix then says, "For a moment, I thought Harry was lying down on the job." It is unknown what the assassin's status is after Kananga's demise.