James Bond: Die Another Day Pitch Meeting

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Before Daniel Craig started his gritty run as James Bond, Pierce Brosnan was the chiseled face of the 007 franchise for years. After GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is Not Enough, Brosnan tackled the 20th Bond movie in the franchise: Die Another Day.
Die Another Day definitely raises some questions. Like what how did those North Koreans drive through a minefield? How did Bond stop his heart AND fight doctors at the same time? Why can’t that guy get the diamonds out of his face? Why is Jinx swimming with a tactical knife? How is Bond better at fencing than an olympian, after more than a year in prison? What’s up with those special effects?!
To answer all these questions and more, step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to Die Another Day! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
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[@ScreenRant]

What movie do you want to see Ryan George do a Pitch Meeting of next?

[@drivesafely7390]

GAAH

[@mrksaccount123]

The Rock

[@reallynow692]

Since you have been one a Transformers fix as of late, why not the film that started it all: "The Transformers: The Movie, a 1986 animated film.

[@nedflanders2943]

Shark Tank. Think about it- A pitch meeting for a show about pitch meetings!

[@caroline0204]

Let There Be Carnage or The Addams Family.

[@CaptChrispy]

"This guy has a bunch of diamonds stuck in his face." "Ok, I feel like those would be incredibly easy to remove." Oh, producer guy! Don't you know that... Diamonds Are Forever!?

[@Cosmiccoffeecup]

Well played.

[@gregsimoes8645]

Good thing that re-heating plan worked, otherwise he'd have had to Live and Let Die

[@carlrood4457]

That's the name of that OTHER movie!

[@Cheesusful]

A doctor tried to remove them but then he said Doctor, no.

[@danielle9237]

Well, that’s the lifestyle On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

[@kaialien9498]

“So you wanna sit and watch pitch meetings all day?” “Yessir I do”

[@thfpt]

Yeah yeah yeah!

[@erisdiscordia5429]

Don't you think it'll be pretty hard to just sit in one place all day long watching the same thing over and over?

[@arc5784]

Actually it's going to be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@AegixDrakan]

Wow wow wow wow!

[@shadowofneo]

I'm going to have to ask you to get all the way off my back about my pitch meeting binge addiction

[@vishalthefirst4140]

"can't let them get away dressed like that" I'm dying 😆😆

[@edenmckinley3472]

Let's just pause a moment and appreciate the ludicrous genius of "oh, a very productive newly British North Korean guy!" This guy is pure gold.

[@acrolly]

"I guess I was saved by the bell" "Who was he talking to?" "Unclear." Some of us have no friends and have to say these things to ourselves for entertainment. 😭😂

[@SchulzEricT]

Yeah, I always hear people complain about how characters in movies or on tv shows talk to themselves, and it's like... I do that all the time. I assumed that's pretty common. I find it weird that other people find it weird.

[@DanDoesStuffs]

@@SchulzEricT I like to imagine my life to be a show for aliens or some higher beings so I like to deliver some punch lines or puns whenever something bad or difficult to deal with happens so they don't get bored

[@onceonly1111]

@@SchulzEricT I grew up watching Bond movies, The Truman Show, watched the very first seasons of Big Brother... But for some reason talking to yourself, and feeling like you're being watched all the time are still considered to be weird, even though my generation was exposed to that idea constantly.

[@ADogNamedStay]

These are facts

[@ADogNamedStay]

@@DanDoesStuffs that's why I masterbate 10 times a day.

[@Deathstroke4200]

"Because his heart isn't pumping blood through his body, he has the element of surprise." LOL

[@kingjamos2422]

Sounds like the start of every zombie movie ever.

[@Charok1]

every bond movie after Dalton is trash

[@booshmcfadden7638]

"That is how things work."

[@ahmaduomar5517]

🤣😂😀

[@CorePathway]

Ok

[@Unlikely_Pirate]

As a Junior Olympian fencer I was very pleased with this extremely realistic depiction of my beloved sport.

[@nickgreen4731]

In movies: MASSIVE SWISHING MOVEMENTS In reality: My buzzer just buzzed - did you even move??!

[@MedlifeCrisis]

Actually that cardiac arrest scene was 100% accurate so I'm going to need you to get all the way off my myocardium about it

[@feynstein1004]

Oh cardiac arrest is TIGHT!

[@oremooremo5075]

I feel some tightness in my chest

[@CamiloGonimaRuiz]

Yeah yeah yeah

[@tweaker1bms]

@@oremooremo5075 Tightness in your chest is tight!

[@PHDiaz-vv7yo]

That’s just sarcomere-tastic!!!!!!

[@MyNameIsBucket]

"Oh, I forgot to mention: that's the name of the movie." "THAT'S THE NAME OF THE MOVIE!!"

[@adrianestrada5736]

"It is." "Wow wow wow....Wow."

[@Deathstroke4200]

Reminds me of an older Family Guy episode. Peter at the movies "He said it!"

[@blacknature]

@@Deathstroke4200 to me it reminds me of Movie Mistakes and when they mention the movie the host says 'Rooooll credits!'. I live for those moments :)

[@alggerman]

"What? The woman with a tacticall knife under her bikini wasn't a normal civillian?" I love you Ryan, thank you for this! LOL

[@JamKyt9]

That knifes gonna get rusty always going into water

[@antoinepetit7172]

Just a casual observation of something which would be really weird in a real life

[@giantWario]

@@JamKyt9 Not if it's stainless or galvanized steel.

[@carlrood4457]

You mean like Honey Rider?

[@alm2187]

Though that wardrobe is an homage to what Honey Ryder wore. Granted she was an exceptionally capable person (not just a normal civilian) but she wasn't a secret agent. The knife was for hunting purposes, right? Also probably doubled as a self-defense implement.

[@Chronocrits]

“A very productive newly British North Korean guy” My god, those words sing to me 😂

[@weareharbinger914]

"Oh a very productive newly British North Korean guy." Its almost like they're saying becoming genetically british makes you innately amazing.

[@nemo6686]

It was indeed inane, even if you meant 'insanely amazing'.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

It's definitely the exposure, not the genetics, which makes British people so insanely amazing.

[@TharosTheDragon]

I thought he meant innately amazing

[@AtheistOrphan]

I’m British and I’m not at at all amazing.🇬🇧

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

@@AtheistOrphan press x to doubt

[@DrFOJ]

"Being tortured to Madonna music is tiighhht!" OMG 🤣

[@darkrayane9298]

I didn't get that. Is it like bdsm stuff?

[@ScottThePisces]

had me rolling🤣🤣

[@FirestormX9]

@@darkrayane9298 I didn't get it either.. :|

[@toptenguy1]

@@darkrayane9298 Probably something like that... Or enjoying ANY kind of torture to ANY music.. Why would it be tight? I don't know lol

[@alm2187]

The joke would be that Bond is captured and tortured at start, then it goes into the usual trippy title sequence over a Madonna number, @@FirestormX9. If the music were diegetic, it'd imply that her music is part of the torture.

[@MichaelM-ik7nz]

He perfected his expression and tone over the years. Pure excellence at this point!

[@CashCowz962]

Yeah..ITS TITE!!..🤣

[@sohambanerjee417]

Been watching some of the old ones and it's amazing how much funnier he has got over the years!

[@ebayseller6040]

barely an inconvenience

[@JeroenBaxexm]

"IT IS"

[@LomusMcBardman]

Completely agree - the “in order of timeline” compilations can be jarring when it switches between more recent and years old ones

[@iceman00behave]

"Yeah, you know, just some light breaking and entering to have intercourse on some blood diamonds. It's very romantic." Hahaha, Ryan continues to give us gold with this series.

[@AdamSmith75th]

The opening to Die Another Day was amazing. Sets up would looked like it could be Brosnan’s best film yet. Great action, great set up……………..and then it’s like a 10 year old took over and made the rest of the film

[@nelsoj11]

Well to be fair 12 year old me freaking loved that movie.

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

Maybe early Sean Connery movies aside (and Dalton's), campy, over-the-top, and unpretentious fun is a James Bond tradition. Daniel Craig's era ruined that.

[@random-jn8ec]

@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 next one will have a tough time. Craig was a good realistic bond, others were illogical over the top bonds. Connery was the best, idk what will they do next, DC has retired from the franchise.

[@lastgunman5270]

yeah, that's absolutely right. Such a great opening and then such a mess

[@1zebbe3]

@@random-jn8ec "realistic Bond" lol

[@Polymathically]

The sad thing is, Die Another Day started off with a lot of potential. James Bond being captured and exchanged, having to escape MI6, and going rogue to clear his name could've made for a really cool movie. But then it just devolved into... well, you know.

[@tifforo1]

Sounds like a Mission Impossible plot

[@denimchicken104]

My thoughts exactly. At the start of the pitch meeting I thought, “hey this seems like a cool movie.” By the end it was like, “this seems like a cool movie for all the wrong reasons.”

[@MusicoftheDamned]

To be fair, this movie simultaneously foreshadows that it would be crap by opening with an especially crappy Madonna song after Bond's rather BS capture in the prologue. Also to be fair, _Die Another Day_ is hardly the only story to implement a decent idea (extremely) poorly. I'm not saying you were saying it was, but I've seen *way* too many people try to use "this piece of media had a decent idea" as an excuse to defend subpar pieces of media. Oh well. Maybe another movie will use that idea far better another day since _Die Another Day_ sure as hell didn't.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

The plot and action were + they just went to 11 & got crazy CGI, stuff that looks tacky 5yr later.

[@button9]

@@DavidLLambertmobile 5 yrs later? more like opening night. It was bad day 1

[@yowatchie]

I will never get tired of him meekly saying "I don’t know" to preposterous plot points being questioned.

[@alm2187]

You misspelled "cheekily," maybe. ;-)

[@ShiningHourPop]

It makes me laugh every time! It sounds more indignant to me like he’s annoyed about being asked such a ridiculous question.

[@zenergetic_8299]

This and “I don’t know I don’t care” get me every time

[@krisinsaigon]

That is one of my favorite bits too

[@casedistorted]

I want to upvote you but you’re at 69 likes. Nice.

[@phaldaz]

6:00 that lil jump from Bond to the water is pure top tier comedy

[@HurricaneDDragon]

Writer: “And now Gustav, he’s dressed like a Power Ranger…” Me: “Don’t insult Power Rangers like that.”

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

He's dressed like a Running Man stalker.

[@MichaelCravith]

"Yeah, see, cause his heart isn't pumping blood through his body, he has the element of surprise." Right, no more open casket wakes ever again for me.

[@lnsflare1]

Just make sure that the corpse isn't wearing a bikini with a tactical knife.

[@slyasleep]

@@lnsflare1 🤣

[@gingy30]

@@lnsflare1 Corpses wearing a bikini with a tactical knife are tight!

[@MusicoftheDamned]

@@lnsflare1 Note to self: stay away from corpses in bikinis with tactical knives, especially if they just arose from the sea doing a silly sexy walk.

[@lucasvandecasteele9904]

jotaro did it first

[@Ihadknowidea138]

"A very productive newly British North Korean guy."

[@CaptChrispy]

I teach ESL to Koreans, the one thing he didn't mention is that even the most super-focussed students would not lose their accent that quickly.

[@oskarhenriksen]

@@CaptChrispy Maybe he'd honed his accent for years, just in case ..

[@DonVinny]

@@oskarhenriksen lmaooo

[@wingnut5404]

Face Diamonds are TITE!

[@GawrGurasBathTubPizza]

6:30 funny ryan talks about symbolism yet asian guy turning himself white so he could blend in wasn't. Remember this wasn't normal plastic surgery

[@silkoth69]

You really nailed the differences in tone and reflection this time. Extremely well done. One overly optimistic and one just barely skeptical before pleasantly accepting the pitch. Now this is a winning combination.

[@manolocorp]

The bad guy electrocuted himself, just like Emperor Palpatine at the end of every Star Wars Trilogy

[@andreasstenner5510]

That's how force lightning works 😅👍

[@EntropyKC]

Ooh electrocuting yourself is TIGHT

[@vanillajack5925]

Whoopsie!

[@HariSeldon913]

You forgot Bison, and on a Tuesday no less!

[@alexbilik]

It’s like poetry…. It rhymes

[@JDillander91]

Oh not having to wait for this pitch meeting to premiere live is tight.

[@GDSK09]

Agreed

[@coolnerdlll6053]

Screen Rant actually made something better? What kind of world are we living in?

[@rippt530]

Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow.

[@favoritemustard3542]

Yeah it's super easy, barely an inconvenience! Yes really.

[@karatefella]

Yeah, I thought we were gonna have to wait a year and a half for this !

[@ShempDavidNiven]

_Never_ stop making these. Even if you've got to go back to silent movies to keep 'em coming. *NEVER!*

[@xOscarAx]

i dont understand how you can still be so ON POINT with the humor after all these years

[@georgesel-hage4545]

I’m surprised you let the whole hovercraft thing slide

[@leovk5779]

Solid joke. I approve I decided.

[@bobbyfeet2240]

It's full of eels.

[@edrice2621]

:: rim shot ::

[@jackcoleman5955]

Ohh...making hovercraft puns is TIGHT!

[@priscillajimenez27]

Well crafted

[@williamyoung2613]

The "tortured while listening to Madonna" "That's tight" was the hardest I've ever laughed at one of these

[@MisterCasket]

My favorite still remains "Manholes are tight!" from the dark knight Rising pitch :)

[@malcolmcox18]

@@MisterCasket 😂😂😂 both lines had me going like I could barley focus on the rest of the pitch

[@sandraday6955]

did she sing or just speak in her fakey british accent?

[@samuel5591]

Secret monster holes being tight from Godzilla (iirc) was the winner for me

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@noxlupa2996]

"Ohhh where's that ice palace?" "In Iceland." "Don't you mean Greenland?" "Ice isn't green ya silly producer." "Well yes it's not but--" "Unless your freezing kale or green jalapeno peppers which I would just _not_ recommend at all!" "I mean you're not wrong but you do realize that Iceland isn't--" "So anyways--" _"Okay then."_

[@yourmum69_420]

there is a lot of ice on iceland

[@ahadmrauf]

4:50 The story of the newly British North Korean guy seems like a very interesting story! I'd honestly love that as a spinoff, maybe even more than the Bond movie itself 😂

[@DrFOJ]

You just gotta love both characters in these pitch meetings!

[@vascowilton4420]

Yeah Ryan and the other guy are tight

[@jdxsr85]

Great chemistry between these two.

[@Jason-uw9ex]

I like Ryan.. not the other guy

[@caosisaac]

@@jdxsr85 unfortunately i hear they don't get along very well off set.

[@DS-tv2fi]

@@caosisaac Yeah, all 3 of them hate the other 4.

[@markallen7215]

“No, they just drove jeeps right across the minefield” 🤣🤣🤣 I will never be able to watch the beginning scene of Die Another Day again without thinking about that!!! 👍

[@djdomain]

The trades were being made in the de-militarised zone, and he was fleeing back to the north when Bond was chasing him, so I assume that he was in northern territory when he 'died'.

[@jonathanallard2128]

Well, it's not because there's a minefield that there can't also be a road that leads to the same place. Nothing inconsistent here. The mines ''guard'' the open fields, leaving only a narrow road to defend. It makes perfect sense. It's not like the camp would be COMPLETELY boxed in with mines. They still have to use trucks too at some point.

[@fellowkrieger457]

I have to say, Halle Berry popping out of water in slow motion wearing a bikini perfectly checks out for me on a storytelling perspective.

[@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human]

"I guess I was saved by the bell" "Who was he talking to?" "Unclear." To be honest I totally get that. If I'm alone and I think of something funny to say, I'll still say it. I talk to myself quite a lot. It's sorta like the steam vent on a saucepan. I talk a lot when I'm with people, when I'm by myself I still have to vent that stuff so I talk to myself.

[@ChillDude1313]

Talking to yourself is just thinking outloud. It's not that weird when you really think about it. Lol

[@michaelanderson6394]

“A very productive newly British North Korean guy” might be my new favorite variation of that running gag.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Making whitewashing literally part of the plot is tight!

[@rebeccahicks2392]

"Because his heart isn't pumping blood through his body, he has the element of surprise." "That's.......okay." I had to stop the video here and recover.

[@MrHawger]

Heh!

[@rinpaisys]

Did you have a heart attack?

[@Cymes]

I mean , it worked against DIO.

[@andrewjackson5127]

Absolutely your best James Bond pitch meeting. Wow wow wow! Hilarious. I had to be taken to the emergency room because I laughed so hard but it was certainly worth it! LOL.

[@chrisfitch972]

I read that the greatest artistic geniuses throughout history have all followed a similar path: a period of wild experimentation followed by years-long commitment to perfecting one specific style. I immediately thought “Oh, like Pitch Meetings.”

[@MARCUSK298]

I love how he says “unclear” lmao

[@stuartcodd3568]

I like that too. Also whenever he says “Yes sir I do” in a very proud tone

[@kraljevo8]

My wife and I both do that when we either don't have an answer for something or something doesn't make sense. It fits a surprisingly large number of situations.

[@alm2187]

It's reasonable to suppose Bond said "saved by the bell" into his tiny earpiece, though. There may be mission monitors who appreciate the joke.

[@slyasleep]

It‘s the conviction that does it

[@LuisGarcia-dq9nm]

Having long running jokes is "TIGHT"!

[@raydunakin]

Being forced to listen to Madonna music while being tortured? That's just gilding the lily!

[@smhmyhead8017]

Icing on the cake, more like cake-ing on the ice

[@greyhawk1734]

Sauce for the goose, Mr. Saavik.

[@heyokaikaggen6288]

I don't know, I think the physical torture might just count as a very welcome distraction.

[@kayjacoby290]

Being forced to listen to Madonna music while being tortured is redundant.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

It was so nearly a tolerable song, except for the excessive sampling, and.... staccato... delivery...

[@adoredpariah]

"When your opponent takes a knife in the chest and still lives, kicking it fancily should do the trick." - Sun Tzu or whatever.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

"When there is a book in your path, you must push through your obstacle." -Sun Tzu, 'The Art of Stating the Obvious'

[@davidjsaul]

Both these quotes have enriched my life

[@abhiprakash74999]

What's it a symbolism about ?

[@dizmatt1]

I feel like this should be a haiku Evil on a plane A vicious, dying side kick at the perfect book

[@dizmatt1]

also, the evil sidekick gets killed by the good sidekick, using a side-kick.... that's poetry!! :P

[@blaustein_autor]

6:02 "The cold kept you alive." *Glacier mummy Ötzi has left the museum*

[@lucasstoneking1776]

My God Ryan, please never stop making these.

[@NekoHibaCosplay]

There are infinite movies to pitch for Going on indefinitely will be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@leroylowe5921]

Guess he'll have to... Die Another Day

[@totallyrandomofficial]

i'm giving up on life if he does

[@lucasstoneking1776]

In all seriousness, I check every night when I get home from work for a new Pitch Meeting, and it's always the highlight of my day when the new one arrives.

[@OC-CPA]

Can just imagine Ryan still doing these in his 90s.

[@technocore1591]

Wait he escapes from MI6 almost instantly but was stuck in an NK prison for 14 months? Oh, inconsistent prison escaping abilities that scale inversely to the technology involved are tight!

[@leovk5779]

I mean, this is not that far-fetched (in the bizarre context of the movie I mean). In North Korea, he had a lot of armed guards that would not hesitate to shout him on sight if he fled, he is constantly watched and tortured, and a whole over-militarised hostile country around him anyway if he managed to escape the bunker-prison. The MI6, on the other hand, think he is done for and broken since he started leaking info, so they have him lightly guarded, those guarding him have no weapon (they don't consider he will be hostile) and are more here to heal him than to keep him locked, and they keep him on a fairly small boat at swimming distance of a friendly place. The incoherence is more that the MI6 is behaving stupidly by thinking that their most dangerous 00 agent is now broken and useless (just because they think he started talking after 14 months of constant torture... even if it were true, cut him some slack!), therefore allowing for an easy escape, than James Bond being able to escape.

[@leovk5779]

tl;dr: Woaw woaw woaw woaw.

[@gamebawesome]

Escaping from MI6 was super easy, barely an inconvenience

[@shikhar.awasthi]

Don't remember correctly but I guess M and her assistant orchestrated the escape.

[@alm2187]

Yea, how does it "scale inversely to the tech," Techno Core?

[@guywhocantgrowabeard]

I LOVE Pierce Brosnan's Bond movies, but Die Another Day was too much for me 😂😂 it was too ridiculous. Please do Tomorrow Never Dies. That is my most favorite bond movie ever.

[@Trisjack20]

Flipping love Tomorrow Never Dies

[@guywhocantgrowabeard]

@@Trisjack20 it IS amazing 🤩🤩🤩

[@birdup8585]

These pitch meetings never get old!

[@drpoolshooter]

LMAO "He has the element of surprise" "That's.... ok" shakes head.

[@lockwoodthexton]

I love how he sounds so offended when he says “I don’t know.” Like “why are you wasting my time with such obvious questions.”

[@jonathanallard2128]

Yeah, the writers do seem to expect people to gobble up their nonsense without question. How dare you ask questions!? Shut your brain off like everyone else and get off my back!

[@itsd0nk]

That’s exactly the joke lol

[@MikeBNumba6]

The "I don't know" trope in this series is easily my favorite joke lol. Gets me everytime

[@plasmacannon1198]

This will forever be my favourite James Bond movie. Mostly cos it was the first one I watched with my late grandpa when I was 8ish

[@essjayole]

Oh my lord. Was already a big fan but I’m pretty sure that was top tier and possibly your most on-point movie diss. I will put that video in my top ten of this year. Keep up the good Work, mate!

[@killerwal4387]

"People Saying Barney Stinson has the most catchphrases" Writer and Producer Guy:

[@twesiimealex5833]

SUIT UP

[@THECaseyTroutman]

Legendary

[@hoon_sol]

Wow wow wow wow wow. Wow.

[@schattentaenzerin]

Oh, having catchphrases is TIGHT!

[@jasonm.6442]

I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about catchphrases.

[@guardrailbiter]

"He gets his double-O status revoked." Sooo... James Bond is no longer 007. He's now just SEVEN!

[@robertlaw4073]

Didn't that already happen in license to kill?

[@GreatOne0815]

@@robertlaw4073 Wasn't it the story for the last 3 movies? I think in every one he was already dismissed from duty just to work on his own.

[@RickMyBalls]

@@GreatOne0815 You're off the case, Bond!

[@mrinalkantinath1271]

David fincher could have sued him

[@random-jn8ec]

@@mrinalkantinath1271 and brad pitt

[@sclark615]

"I'mma need you to get ALLLLLLLLL the way off my back" My new way of checking my boss.

[@derpstorm23]

I am thoroughly convinced that everyone involved in making this movie were time travelers from a Screen Rant fan club.

[@JeanPierre7788]

"What? The woman with a tactical knife on her bikini wasn't a regular civilian?" Lmao!

[@alm2187]

Though that wardrobe choice is an homage to what Honey Ryder wore. Granted she was an exceptionally capable person (not just a normal civilian) but she wasn't a secret agent. The knife was for hunting & shucking purposes, wasn't it? Also probably doubled as a self-defense implement.

[@carlrood4457]

In Dr. No, she WAS a civilian

[@Rodutchi]

Ryan making professionally written movies look childish is super easy barely a inconvenience.

[@LuisSierra42]

Well, professional doesn't mean it is good tho

[@Rodutchi]

@@LuisSierra42 I agree.

[@bait5257]

This movie is professionally written?

[@madwibble]

Professional in this case means someone paid for this turkey.

[@joeynathan6073]

I mean someone got paid to write it so yea technically it’s professional I guess

[@richardgadberry8398]

7:06 "Light breaking and entering to have intercourse on some blood diamonds" is my personal kink.

[@_cabalcade_4194]

1:00 its times like these that makes me wonder which of them is the more sane one

[@stormcrow1970]

"Oh, that sounds like symbolism for something. I'm almost sure of it!" "I mean it's gotta be, right?" LOL

[@rakkasaniron1696]

I can't stop wondering what the hell the real writer thought that moment was meant to symbolize. Like, don't get me wrong, Sun Tzu's The Art of War remains shockingly relevant to this day, thousands of years after it was written. But I can't really think of a single observation from the book, or an overarching theme of her character that connect in any way that would make a knife getting stabbed through it and her actually mean anything. But the pitch meeting is right, they clearly meant it to symbolize something, maybe, I guess. *shrug*

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

@@rakkasaniron1696 You're looking into it too deeply. Sun Tzu always stated the obvious, such as not letting a book stop you from stabbing your opponent or something.

[@jackkatz8604]

"Because his heart isn't pumping blood through his body, he has the element of surprise." Pretty sure the writer wrote this after having cardiac arrest, because a good chunk of his brain must've died from oxygen deprivation

[@edgymix9109]

5:23 “dats da name of da moovie!?” “Itis” “wow wow wow” XD

[@erich6860]

No matter how many times I hear "oh my god" or "super easy barely an inconvenience" it is hilarious.

[@Cannonhead]

You know, when you think about it, the electrocute-self button must have had a lot of engineering put into it. Like, the user pressing it would obviously just electrocute themselves, but the button and surrounding area must have been made of rubber or something non-conductive, because Bond could press it safely. It makes me wonder who built the suit, and if Graves even knew that button was there. Well, I guess we need a Rogue One-style spin off to explain who built that obviously fatal flaw into the suit. Sorry Hollywood, it's the only way.

[@3hutp]

I guess it was made by Gustav's nerdy right-hand guy as a revenge of sorts for constantly being bullied

[@MusicalMangoGames]

It wasn't a self-electrocute button, he just zapped himself because he was holding on to the metal of the plane with both hands.

[@MaiAolei]

@@3hutp Sounds like a crossover opportunity: Galen Erso put that button there.

[@Ye4rZero]

I love how excited and totally amazed Producer guy gets whenever the name of the movie is said in the movie *OR* when there's a returning character and *"He's from the other movie!"*, and each time it's like the best idea he's ever heard.

[@jonathanallard2128]

He's imitating the public sarcastically, who seems to very much enjoy these tropes because they do, work.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

@@jonathanallard2128 No he's imitating producers who love to milk these.

[@jonathanallard2128]

@@TheReaverOfDarkness Yeah yeah yeah I get that. But the reason producers love it is because so does the public. They're on the same page on that.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

@@jonathanallard2128 No, it's not quite that simple. After all, why are we hating on it if the public simply loves it? Are we just strange? No. (Well I am, but that's separate.) Part of the public loves it, enough to sell it. And because it's a cheap trick, it doesn't take as much love to justify its cost. So why do we and so many others dislike it? Because it's over-used. The first time we saw it, we were young and easily amused. The third time, it was eh. The eighth time, we started to feel like victims of a cheap marketing strategy.

[@jonathanallard2128]

@@TheReaverOfDarkness I'm sure that we are a minority, us who are critical of movie scripts, yes. You don't have to be strange to be a minority at something. The public does like, or at the very least, they don't mind of these tropes, in GENERAL.

[@buzz092]

Okay I actually choked laughing, thanks a lot Ryan. This one was pure gold

[@Gkhanx]

"...which is how electricity works!" Made my day, bro! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Frawriest]

This might be my favorite pitch meeting so far. So much gold.

[@vt_sandman3392]

You mean diamonds?

[@brandonbennett2776]

The best is Face/Off, but this one is pretty great too.

[@tastemyhammer2757]

So you like watching pitch meetings? Yes sir I do!

[@EMurph42]

My favorite in reference! The others are too easy…

[@tastemyhammer2757]

@@EMurph42 ...barely an .aye I see what you did there😊

[@anthonybutters]

4:40 probably my favourite “fair enough”

[@cipher136]

As a kid.....this made way more sense one of few James Bond movies I had on VHS I would watch over and over. Now this movie looks so silly lol. I still love it though. The camouflaging Aston Martin was my biggest enjoyment

[@shanesullivan460]

Considering how prevalent anxiety disorders are these days, "he thinks himself into cardiac arrest" is one of the more believable parts of this film.

[@HariSeldon913]

Lucky for him the prison had a doctor who didn't know you can't shock asystole.

[@utkarsh2746]

I'm pretty sure the parts of the nervous system that control the heart are mostly separate. You can't think yourself into a cardiac arrest through prolonged stress might start to affect your health in other ways that lead to a cardiac arrest.

[@robertlaw4073]

The idea was used a Biolinic Woman episode called "Biofeedback", so, like most things in Hollyweird, it's not original to this film.

[@setcheck67]

@@utkarsh2746 The heart literally beats on it's own. The brain only controls various molecular signals that will slow the heart down or speed it up. Makes sense that evolution wouldn't allow a living creature to willingly manipulate it's own heartbeats.

[@bghoody5665]

It's been a while since I've seen Die Another Day so I thought maybe Ryan got some detail wrong about Bond faking cardiac arrest (I've seen guys use a squash ball under the armpit which blocks the artery that's used to take a pulse reading, so I thought Bond did something like that) so I loaded up the scene and sure enough Bond wills himself into cardiac arrest. This movie is worse than I remember it being, which isn't saying much because I didn't think it was that great to begin with. Except for Rosamund Pike, she's just lovely.

[@SuperBC1975]

To Die Another Day is Super Easy, Barely An Inconvenience. Not dying today is tight!

[@CaptChrispy]

Oh REALLY?!

[@MachineChrist6]

It's the "I don't know" that gets me every time.

[@andyharris3084]

Great video Ryan. I do so look forward to these pitch meetings and the sketches on your own channel.

[@NikoBellic04]

Goldeneye is a must to do a pitch meeting for.

[@leovk5779]

Yes! My favorite James Bond movie. Pretty over the top too, but in all the good ways!

[@leovk5779]

@Karthik Narasimhan I understood that reference (and no, it's not the recent animated super-hero series)! XD

[@bryanlariviere5702]

@Karthik Narasimhan she always loved a good squeeze.

[@bryanlariviere5702]

@@leovk5779 me too.

[@NostraDavid2]

@Karthik Narasimhan I still think the frantic pen spinning and clicking the guy did was too cool for that movie.

[@eltorpedo67]

"Why did he build a suit with a function that electrocutes himself?" "Unclear." "Fair enough!"

[@alisaurus4224]

“…And put a button for that function on the outside of the suit where either his enemy or himself could easily hit it accidentally during a fight?” “VERY unclear!”

[@matthewmiller8297]

Ryan's chemistry with himself continues to improve...

[@The-Rest-of-Us]

I knew this was going to be good. I was not disappointed.

[@MrMackay64]

How have you not done Moonraker yet?! “You know Star Wars?” “Oh sure, I know Star Wars, it made a lot of money” “Yeah so I was thinking we could do.. you know, that”

[@robertodell9193]

I think it went something like this: PRODUCER: What should we do for our next Bond movie? WRITER: Remember "The Spy Who Loved Me"? PRODUCER: You mean the Bond movie we just made that earned more money than all previous Bond films combined? WRITER: Yeah. Let's just do that. Again. Only with space shuttles instead of submarines. PRODUCER: Replacing submarines with space shuttles is tight!

[@LordRae]

The only realistic part of this movie and the only science they got even remotely right is that drowning in ice cold water does make it slightly more survivable than a regular water drowning. It’s usually more effective on kids though.

[@Foggfjw]

Oddly specific

[@76reliant]

ummmm...yeah, so um...just off the cuff, um, what do you do for a living?

[@funkoxen]

Information we can all make use of , for sure

[@Sparemaniac]

“They’re not dead until they’re warm and dead” - Canadian doctors

[@natewasserman2559]

This is information I have heard as well. Borders on the line of absolutely mind blowing. Read about it in the USCG Boatswains manual lol

[@FaceFamous]

6:23 love the way he say Electricity (Al-lectricity) 🤣

[@briancherry8088]

Logical inconsistencies aside I absolutely LOVE the intro and first act of this movie. It blew my mind to think how Bond could be captured and lose a year of his life in that place. Then he has to escape his own agency. He has to go to Cuba to meet up with a cold-war contact. It is gritty and Bond at his best. And face-diamonds was more unique than most of the relatable bad-guys of late (russian officers, a drug lord, more russians and a media mogul - Renard could have been amazing but they forgot about his power). Then there's a light mask and it all starts falling apart. Don't even talk about the suit. We dont talk about the suit.

[@IllustriousCrocoduck]

"And they hook up several seconds after meeting..." Producer, in every other movie pitch: "Why would two strangers do that so quickly?" Producer, for a Bond movie: yep, that tracks

[@thepubknight6144]

As someone who's dated since I was a teen that's actually the only realistic thing about this film

[@IllustriousCrocoduck]

@@thepubknight6144 weird flex, but okay

[@Baeraad]

Yeah, I mean... it's James Bond. Hot chicks who want to do him just spontaneously materialise wherever he goes. There's no use questioning it at this point.

[@Rubiecat]

@@thepubknight6144 "As someone who's dated since I was a teen" so you're just introducing yourself as someone who is like the vast majority of people on this planet then...

[@LaughBoys]

Real big missed opportunity by early 2000's fashion brands: The "Swim and Stab" swimsuit set would have been killer.

[@imakeadifference2011]

This is probably the wildest pitch meeting and I've seen them all

[@VerdaTal]

Brosnan is still my favorite Bond era. He looked like he actually knew how to fire a gun, and they were still cheesy and fun.

[@hyperion112]

Every time a Pitch Meeting comes out for a movie I haven't seen I quickly go watch it, so I can fully appreciate all the work screenwriter guy has put into his pitch.

[@fallingintofilm]

Haven’t seen the movie and the camera crew “spying” from the closet is hilarious

[@MichaelNNY]

Fun fact: Hovercraft hover by shooting air at the ground at high pressure, thus would set off any mines instantly.

[@_Stormfather]

I was a kid when I first saw this movie, and even then I was confused how he managed to stop his heart and be totally fine. If even a child can't suspend their disbelief for your movie, you've really done something wrong.

[@sentientmlem727]

'Pitch Meeting' is the best movie parody series on the internet change my mind.

[@kabouterwesley83]

Honest trailers is quite good too

[@cea6770]

@kabouterwesley84 imo honest trailers has higher highs but also lower lows. I also like longer videos so watch honest trailer commentaries which helps my enjoyment, while there is no pitch meeting equivalent.

[@Equalitro]

I dont know what its about or why but everytime I hear "So, you have a new *something* for me" I get a bit happier.

[@sicparvismagna9370]

I found about this Pitch Meetings this year in May. Glad that i did. Now i seen them all. Made me laugh a bunch of times. Keep up the good work, Ryan!!! Now please, please, please Edge of Tommorow Pitch Meeting.

[@scarlettmi]

I need one of these for every Bond movie

[@tobiasthederp]

Ryan- “The newly Transformed British North Korean fencing champion who was recently knighted is now dressed like a power ranger who can electrocute people while being unharmed.” WELL OKAY THEN!

[@Rymeths]

It's called a Faraday cage and it's pretty old by now. At least the concept for that would be a Faraday cage... What he wears doesn't quite classify

[@amankg7]

Not to mention there is a self electrocuting button

[@bdnnijs192]

@@amankg7 I always assumed the suit was basically short-wiring to itself, since he was holding on to the (metal) plane with both hands.

[@cea6770]

@Rymeths Faraday cages were new maybe in the early 1800s. 'pretty old' is an understatement.

[@malcolmcox18]

That is a busy 14 months though 😂😂

[@doomy_mcdoomerson]

Could we get a Pitch Meeting for Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters?

[@smorange7]

This

[@madwibble]

Yes you can

[@theyellowlightsaber3193]

I thought you wouldve made more of the fact Bond was conceivably detained for over a year when on any other occassion his escapes from capture are easy and barely an inconvenience

[@vishalnarayanasamy8767]

It portrayed James Bond being a Vulnerable Character

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

This man's eyes are the happiest upside down smiles on the internet