All of this suggests somebody constantly referred back to Fleming`s other novels to ensure that this one fit in. The Man With The Golden Gun (1965) Ian Flemingâs last full-length novel was published the year after his death. Pretend Felix Leiter speaks those lines in *The Man With The Golden Gun*. [62][60][63], A 1974 AMC Hornet X was used for the "corkscrew" stunt which was first tested as a computer-simulation (the first of its kind) by Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory. [75], The promotion of the film had "one of the more anaemic advertising campaigns of the series"[53] and there were few products available, apart from the soundtrack and paperback book, although Lone Star Toys produced a "James Bond 007 pistol" in gold; this differed from the weapon used by Scaramanga in the film as it was little more than a Walther P38 with a silencer fitted. Compare Cargill`s writing style: “Here again, an answer seems necessary to avoid misunderstandings, for the white or light-coloured Jamaican is often unwittingly provoked by the visitor who asks him whether the “natives” are restless, as if he were a kind of Englishman abroad, carrying the white man`s burden with stiff upper lip while holding down the “natives” with a firm hand. Bond is captured and placed inside Fat's martial arts academy, where the students duel to the death and then are instructed to kill him. The stunt was performed by Loren “Bumps” Willert. The tough faces, as white moons, gazed in supplication up at Bond. "[20] Eon Productions had licensed the stunt, which had been designed by Raymond McHenry. But there was at that time in the club a very pompous and unpopular man called Porter-Hall, and some half-forgotten wholly inconsequent chain of events led a clique of his enemies to believe that they could score off him by insisting that it was derogatory, unjust and cruel to call the hall-porter Porter; he must, they insisted, always be addressed as Hall-Porter. Tucked away in an alcove of what is called, no longer very appositely, the Coffee Room, its dimensions suggest that it was originally designed to fit into the saloon of a moderate-sized yacht. [87] Peary believes that the shootout between Bond and Scaramanga in the funhouse "is the one good scene in the movie, and even it has an unsatisfying finish" and also bemoaned the presence of Clifton James, "unfortunately reprising his unfunny redneck sheriff from Live and Let Die. "[79] The writers "get progressively more naive in their creation of a suburban dream of epicureanism and adventure. Scaramanga sounds rather like Felix Leiter: read the pages in Chapter 7 where Scaramanga tells Bond who`s coming to the meeting. The Man With The Golden Gun was probably an experiment, which explains why so many people doubt it`s veracity. They are merely shocked at the need for such elaborate, flimsy and, to them, unnecessary pretences. With Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams. Perhaps much work was required, perhaps all Fleming left behind was an outline. Perhaps Ian Fleming did write all of it. The website's critical consensus states, "A middling Bond film, The Man With the Golden Gun suffers from double entendre-laden dialogue, a noteworthy lack of gadgets, and a villain that overshadows 007. What have you been doing with the Chinese girl? During the 1990s, when writer Neil Gaiman's Sandman was popular, DC revived Dodds in Sandman Mystery Theatre, a pulp/noir series set in the 1930s. AllMusic. After Bond fends off a final attack by Nick Nack, he romances Goodnight. Professor Loopwith, unable to fit into a thesis, which was then engaging his mind, on “Totalitarianism and the Basket-Dancers of Yucatan”, passed it on to a colleague who, shelving for the moment his work on “Silt as a Factor in International Relationships”, took it up to London and showed it to the Foreign Office. Barry later regretted his decision, thinking the whistle "broke the golden rule" as the stunt was "for what it was all worth, a truly dangerous moment, ... true James Bond style". [24], Originally, the role of Scaramanga was offered to Jack Palance, but he turned the opportunity down. For six decades, âthe man with the golden armâ donated blood â and saved 2.4 million babies James Harrison has been donating blood in Australia for over 60 years. Scaramanga subsequently kills Fat with his golden gun and assumes control of his empire and the Solex. The dreadful stink of The Great Morass assailed their nostrils. Academy Award winner Oswald Morris was hired to finish the job after cinematographer Ted Moore became ill.[42] Morris was initially reluctant, as he did not like his previous experiences taking over other cinematographers' work, but accepted after dining with Broccoli. Projects for enlarging the bar at Black`s, though periodically and enthusiastically mooted, really come within the purview of Major Foxley-Ebbe`s section of MI5; they aim at upsetting the balance of nature in England.” [“The Sixth Column”, by Peter Fleming, 1951, Chapter 10], (The careful reader will have noticed the similarities to Chapters 3 and 4 in Fleming`s novel “Moonraker”.). A longer bar would mean a longer casualty-list, a quicker turnover of members; and though there would be no difficulty in filling the gaps in the ranks, new members – apart from being undesirable phenomena *per se* – would scarcely have the absorptive capacity of the Old Guard whom they replaced; so that capital expenditure on a new bar would have result which, while undesirable socially, would be of doubtful and perhaps diminishing value from a purely economic point of view. A few months later he had almost finished it, and still later “He had completed it.”. There`s as much evidence supporting this ⦠Maybe enough's enough. [51] While an actual wax figure of Roger Moore was used, Moore's stunt double Les Crawford was the cowboy figure, and Ray Marione played the Al Capone figure. Even their guns were gone. Caligari. `Gun` moves at lightning pace, prose as taut as Bond`s reflexes. See my point? (Chapter 7) Fleming`s Goldeneye maid Violet claimed that Fleming`s Jamaican friend, politician and journalist Morris Cargill wrote it (Fleming gave him an off-page cameo in Doctor No; he also appears as a judge in “The Man With The Golden Gun”). "[33] The gun was "one of the more memorable props in the Bond series"[35] and consisted of an interlocking fountain pen (the barrel), cigarette lighter (the bullet chamber), cigarette case (the handle) and cufflink (the trigger) with the bullet secured in Scaramanga's belt buckle. The trailers featured some of the cut scenes. [34], Two Swedish models were cast as the Bond girls, Britt Ekland and Maud Adams. [Chapter 8]. "[77] Tom Milne, writing in The Observer, was even more caustic, writing that "This series, which has been scraping the bottom of the barrel for some time, is now through the bottom ... with depressing borrowings from Hong Kong kung fu movies, not to mention even more depressing echoes of the 'Carry On' smut. "[77] There was some praise from Malcolm, although it was muted, saying that "Christopher Lee ... makes a goodish villain and Britt Ekland a passable Mary Goodnight ... Up to scratch in production values ... the film is otherwise merely a potboiler. Ian Flemingâs James Bond series has been up to now written with a Clint Eastwood terseness of expression interspersed often with existential emo angst. "[70] The Man with the Golden Gun was also the first to drop the distinctive plucked guitar from the theme heard over the gun barrel opening. The biggest gun ever designed could have put Iraq at the centre of space exploration, but its story is one of unfulfilled genius, military secrets and murder. […] While the peasant woman in Jamaica is not in the least hesitant about having sexual intercourse with a man who attracts her, she believes strongly that these affairs should be conducted in privacy and with due regard to modesty. The film was set in the face of the 1973 energy crisis, a dominant theme in the script. Scaramanga eventually retrieves his golden gun and shoots the gangster. [64][57] The story was illustrated by Kelly Freas in its original publication. A million.”. Mr Scaramanga, the undefeated, the undefeatable, had said so. There he was! “I was. Ekland had been interested in playing a Bond girl since she had seen Dr. No, and contacted the producers about the main role of Mary Goodnight. Roger Moore as 007 and Britt Ekland outside The Peninsula hotel in Hong Kong in The Man with the Golden Gun. 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James Bond is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin, while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope. There`s the other telephone again. The television programme Top Gear attempted to repeat the stunt in June 2008, but failed. “Fleming`s genius for imaginative gadgeteering would have reached its climax in a simple man`s guide to the manipulation of locks by oceans instead of by keys.” (Richard Hughes, *Foreign Devil*, Chapter 28, “Sayonara To James Bond”), James Bond Fan Events Calendar: 2021-2023, Our New Youtube Channel Has tons of Content, a look back at our 2013 James Bond Cruise, La Spectre che mi amava – Protocollo Bond, State of Excitement. An older couple walked over to intervene, the man telling Jones, âA gun grab is something that nobody in this country wants.â Jones got in the manâs face, hands gesticulating, chest puffed out. Fleming was in poor health, both physically and emotionally (see Andrew Lycett`s biography for specifics). "[79] Robinson was equally damning of the changes in the production crew, observing that Ken Adam, an "attraction of the early Bond films," had been "replaced by decorators of competence but little of his flair. After development in simulation, ramps were built and the stunt was tested at CAL's proving ground. Sex, to her, is something to be enjoyed, not to be dangled around in public. Britain had still not yet fully overcome the crisis when the film was released in December 1974. [82], Jay Cocks, writing in Time, focused on the gadgets such as Scaramanga's flying car, as what was wrong with both The Man with the Golden Gun and the more recent films in the Bond series, calling them "Overtricky, uninspired, these exercises show the strain of stretching fantasy well past wit. James Bond was uncomfortably aware of that, for the past hour, he had been driving into limbo and that his nearest contact was a girl in a brothel thirty miles away. The film was met with mixed reviews, and some critics described it as the lowest point in the canon up to that time. The film became famous for two vehicle stunts, one which made the Guinness Book of Records. Part of the film is also set in Beirut, Lebanon, but it was not shot there. The poison and the quick doctor recalls the transition from “From Russia, With Love” to “Doctor No”. This was to have been a holiday. The mad ones forsake the chess and the mathematics and become gamblers. The sun beat down. These enlightened bodies have long realized that the bar is too small and that to construct a bigger one would – by enabling members to drink as much as, instead of slightly less than they feel inclined to drink – increase the amenities of the club and strengthen its financial position. He had wanted to see first hand how the canal locks worked, but family obligations, then later ill-health, intervened. A sample from one of the songs, "Hip's Trip", was used by The Prodigy in the "Mindfields" track on the album The Fat of the Land. It`s obvious from Peter Fleming`s 1951 novel *The Sixth Column* (and I strongly recommend that you read it) that the Fleming brothers had much in common as writers. The strange dialogue, even Bond`s persona which is so different, bolsters the argument that somebody else wrote parts. Bond follows the shipment carried to Hong Kong by Andrea Anders, Scaramanga's mistress. As was his custom he wrote the first draft while in Jamaica but cut down on his daily word count because of increasing ill health. Louie Paradise`s voice was cracked and dry with terror. Notice also that Cargill has a sense of humour which Fleming generally lacked. Many agree that the Chapter 11 scene where Scaramanga confronts Bond and Mary Goodnight sounds nothing like Fleming (and is extremely jarring): “Unless, that is, you were screwin` her.” He raised one eyebrow. The producers chose the latter title, with Sean Connery returning as Bond. Fleming was arguably poor at beginnings: compare OHMSS`s bloated and overwritten beginning with “The Man With The Golden Gun`s” taut opening. Whilst profitable, the film is the fourth lowest-grossing in the series, and its relatively modest returns by comparison with those of Live and Let Die (1973) reportedly placed the continuation of the franchise in jeopardy. [17] Bond's duel with Scaramanga, which Mankewicz said was inspired by the climactic faceoff in Shane, was shortened as the producers felt it was causing pacing problems. The cyanide gun is from “The Property Of The Lady”. She directs Bond to the Bottoms Up Club where Scaramanga snipes Gibson when he steps outside, and Scaramanga's dwarf assistant Nick Nack steals a small device called the Solex Agitator off his body. Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman intended to follow You Only Live Twice with The Man with the Golden Gun, inviting Roger Moore to the Bond role. "[24] Tensions between Mankiewicz and Guy Hamilton[25] and Mankiewicz's growing sense that he was "feeling really tapped out on Bond" led to the re-introduction of Richard Maibaum as the Bond screenwriter. Perhaps Fleming wrote an outline and somebody else filled in the blanks. Tony Bramwell, who worked for Harry Saltzman's music publishing company Hilary Music, wanted Elton John or Cat Stevens to sing the title song. [10] The destruction of the facility was a combination of practical effects on the set and destroying the miniature. Bond discovers Scaramanga driving off and steals an AMC Hornet from a showroom to give chase, coincidentally with the holidaying J.W. Not a major flaw, but they are disconcerting. But who cares as long as she's using her perfect bikini bottom to muck things up? Fleming's original text was completed by April and, as had become routine in the preparation of his books, he had âclean' copies typed up for editing. Bond eventually outwits and kills Scaramanga by posing as his mannequin. As the Arabs say when a great sheik has gone, has removed his protection, “Now there is no more shade! [19], The novel is mostly set in Jamaica, a location which had been already used in the earlier films, Dr. No and Live and Let Die; The Man with the Golden Gun saw a change in location to put Bond in the Far East for the second time. [44], The corkscrew stunt made the Guinness Book of Records as the first "astro spiral" jump on film. Impressions of Kuwait by Ian Fleming – 2:48AM – Everything Kuwait. [21], Tom Mankiewicz wrote the first draft for the script in 1973, delivering a script that was a battle of wills between Bond and Scaramanga, who he saw as Bond's alter ego, "a super-villain of the stature of Bond himself. Until minutes before, his golden gun had backed up his world. There arenât many great opening sequences from Bond movies that donât feature Bond himself, but The Man with the Golden Gun is sort of the exception to the rule. Or did the real author hope nobody would notice? However, by this time the producers were taking turns producing the films; Albert Broccoli—whose turn it was to produce—rejected Bramwell's suggestions. Perhaps somebody, Peter Fleming, Cargill, Amis, whoever revised, re-wrote Fleming`s first draft. THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, the bestseller on which Otto Preminger based his magnificent motion picture, is "a true novelist's triumph." Lazar: My relationship with a client Mr. […] Jamaicans are not shocked at the need for these alliances. Barry composed the music for most of the James Bond movies from 1962-1987, many of which he wrote with Black. The Man with the Golden Gun, ... "Skyfall is one of the best Bonds in the 50-year history of moviedom's most successful franchise," James Adams wrote in ⦠[18] The resulting legalities over the Bond property delayed production of the next Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, for three years. [50] The scene where Scaramanga's Matador flies was shot at Bovington Camp, with a model inspired by an actual car plane prototype. [60] It was not airworthy, so a 1 m (39 in)-long remote controlled model, built by John Stears, was used for the aerial sequences. The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom In fact Scaramanga`s “talking” style changes as though somebody else wrote parts. The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual," while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." There`s also much more humour – which should have been a tip-off – especially in the beginning: we`re led to believe that the steak-and-kidney pudding detail ultimately convinces the British that Bond is who he says he is. [17], While Live and Let Die had borrowed heavily from the blaxploitation genre,[29] The Man with the Golden Gun borrowed from the martial arts genre[30] that was popular in the 1970s through films such as Fist of Fury (1972) and Enter the Dragon (1973). Saltzman sold his 50% stake in Eon Productions's parent company, Danjaq, LLC, to United Artists to alleviate his financial problems. The action culminates in a duel between them that settles the fate of the Solex. Their callow speculations do less than justice to the wisdom of successive Committees. “The Man With The Golden Gun`s” writing is sharp. Bond, who had pulled out his pistol outside the club, is arrested by Hong Kong police lieutenant Hip. [35] The crew was small, and a stunt double was used for James Bond. Fleming wrote 'The Man With The Golden Gun' at his Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye, in the early months of 1964, as was his custom. [54] The Golden Gun ranked sixth in a 2008 20th Century Fox poll of the most popular film weapons, which surveyed approximately 2,000 film fans. Captain Walker said to James Bond, “Damn! [15] On Her Majesty's Secret Service was produced instead with George Lazenby as Bond. [57][58] The flying car was the newly introduced AMC Matador Brougham Coupe in the Oleg Cassini edition,[59][60] used by Francisco Scaramanga, along with Nick Nack, to kidnap Mary Goodnight. The host was greeted either as “Pistol” or “Mr S” except by Mr Hendriks, who called him nothing. Fleming`s brother Peter`s writing style is also suspiciously close to many of the earlier, more fluid passages. Any letters?” “Good morning, General. Felix`s pest control speech recalls Rene Mathis`s Red Indians observations from “Casino Royale”. [39] The scene during the boxing match used an actual Muay Thai fixture at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium. Lazenby's next Bond film, Saltzman told a reporter, would be either The Man with the Golden Gun or Diamonds Are Forever. The train stretched out its iron stride towards nowhere they had ever heard of before. [47] Composer John Barry added a slide whistle sound effect over the stunt, which Broccoli kept in despite thinking that it "undercouped the stunt". More songs from Lulu More songs used in movies [36] The major part of principal photography started on 18 April 1974 in Thailand. Scaramanga welcomes and shows Bond the solar power plant facility that he has taken over, the technology for which he intends to sell to the highest bidder. [45][46] The stunt was shown in slow motion, for the scene was otherwise too fast. But while demonstrating the equipment, Scaramanga uses the solar-powered energy beam to destroy Bond's plane. [61] With the wings, the stunt car was 9.15 m (30 ft) long, 12.80 m (42 ft) wide, and 3.08 m (10 ft) high. Wizard Magazine ranked Wesley Dodds among the Top 200 Comic Book ⦠With âPut a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now heâs deadâ heâs dead, the straight person he was originally. Escaping with the aid of Hip and his nieces, Bond speeds away on a motorised sampan along the river, and reunites with his assistant, Mary Goodnight. Bond retrieves the Solex unit just before the plant is destroyed, and they escape unharmed in Scaramanga's Chinese junk. The song was composed by John Barry and Don Black and ⦠In fact, it reads more like a product of the author of The Spy Who Loved Me. He didn`t know that he had frowned and he wouldn`t have been able to explain why he had done so.” (Chapter 1), The first law for a secret agent is to get his geography right, his means of access and exit, and assure his communications with the outside world. Perhaps Ian Fleming did write all of it. He traces the bullet to a gun maker in Macau, and forces him to reveal how he ships the bullets. [52], Three Golden Gun props were made; a solid piece, one that could be fired with a cap and one that could be assembled and disassembled, although Christopher Lee said that the process "was extremely difficult. [21] It was initially conceived at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (CAL) in Buffalo, New York as a test for their vehicle simulation software. Use the HTML below. Some passages sound exactly like Fleming: Bond rose carefully. ]” [Chapter 14], “Next to him, and behind him, the three gangsters gazed up at James Bond with whipped eyes. A loose adaptation of Ian Fleming's posthumously published 1965 novel of the same name, the film has Bond sent after the Solex Agitator, a breakthrough technological solution to contemporary energy shortages, while facing the assassin Francisco Scaramanga, the "Man with the Golden Gun". [71], The Man with the Golden Gun was premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on 19 December 1974,[72] with general release in the United Kingdom the same day. This was written by John Barry, with lyrics by Don Black. They were covered with guns from the front and the rear. Who knows? The funhouse was designed to be a place where Scaramanga could get the upper hand by distracting the adversary with obstacles,[10] and was described by Murton as a "melting pot of ideas" which made it "both a funhouse and a horror house". Scaramanga arrives and introduces himself to Bond, but Bond is able to smuggle the Solex to Hip, who passes it to Goodnight. This item: The Man with the Golden Gun (James Bond (Original Series)) by Ian Fleming Paperback $11.99 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (James Bond (Original Series)) by Ian Fleming Paperback $11.99 You Only Live Twice (James Bond (Original Series)) by Ian Fleming Paperback $11.69 Customers who viewed this item also viewed The last two chapters recall “Thunderball” and “Casino Royale”. He shouted, with the anger of tremendous relief[. To her, there is something both indecent and unnecessary about the flaunting of a rather phoney sexuality such as one sees in so many motion pictures, or in American quasi-pornographic magazines, or in the parks of London. The Man with the Golden Gun is a 1974 spy film and the ninth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The Tour Director had left them to fend for themselves. [6] Arthur Thirkwell, writing in the Sunday Mirror's sister paper, the Daily Mirror, concentrated more on lead actor Roger Moore than the film itself: "What Sean Connery used to achieve with a touch of sardonic sadism, Roger Moore conveys with roguish schoolboy charm and the odd, dry quip. The script was written by Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz. Playing mahjongg?”. [20] After considering Beirut, where part of the film is set,[21] Iran, where the location scouting was done but eventually discarded because of the Yom Kippur War,[22] and the Hạ Long Bay in Vietnam, the production team chose Thailand as a primary location, following a suggestion of production designer Peter Murton after he saw pictures of the Phuket bay in a magazine. Yet Andrew Lycett`s Fleming biography (“Ian Fleming: The Man Behind The James Bond”) stresses that the book had been completed and that at least one other person had read the completed manuscript (Fleming`s editor, the distinguished author and poet William Plomer); though it also says that Fleming was dissatisfied with the manuscript and wanted to rewrite it. However, Fleming`s incomplete short story “Zographos”, started shortly before he died, disputes this: …”It was like this, Mr Bond.” Zographos had a precise way of speaking with the thin tips of his lips while his half-hard half-soft Greek eyes measured the reaction of his words on the listener… “The Russians are chess players. "[78], David Robinson, the film critic at The Times, dismissed the film and Moore's performance, saying that Moore was "substituting non-acting for Connery's throwaway", while Britt Ekland was "his beautiful, idiot side-kick ... the least appealing of the Bond heroines. Tracking Goodnight's homing beacon, Bond flies a seaplane to Scaramanga's island in the Red Chinese waters. [10], Filming commenced on 6 November 1973 at the partly submerged wreck of the RMS Queen Elizabeth, which acted as a top-secret MI6 base grounded in Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. He wouldn`t have been able to show himself earlier for fear of Bond`s gunfire. Anything wrong with that? The canted sets such as the funhouse and the Queen Elizabeth had inspiration from German Expressionist films such as The Cabinet of Dr. The typescript is undeniable proof that the Fleming had finished a complete draft and was hand-correcting it before his death. Christopher Lee's portrayal of Scaramanga as a villain of similar skill and ability to Bond was praised, but reviewers criticised the film as a whole, particularly its comedic approach and the performances of Moore and Britt Ekland. It sounds dead on for Leiter. Since few members of Black`s deem it prudent to ingest a meal without taking beforehand two, or three, or even four glasses of some beneficent cordial, the smallness of the bar means, so to speak, that a very large force has to attack on a very narrow front, which causes overcrowding, frustration and delay and often results in people deciding not, after all, to have another large pink gin but to go into luncheon before the cold salmon has been annihilated by the abstemious. Shan`t be a minute.” He picked up the green telephone. [10] Hamilton decided to put Marc Lawrence, whom he had worked with on Diamonds Are Forever, to play a gangster shot dead by Scaramanga at the start of the film because he found it an interesting idea to "put sort of a Chicago gangster in the middle of Thailand". An American gangster visits famed crack shot hitman Francisco Scaramanga to try to kill him to collect a bounty, but he is directed into a funhouse section of the estate where there are mannequins of gangsters. [23] During the reconnaissance of locations in Hong Kong, Broccoli saw the wreckage of the former RMS Queen Elizabeth and came up with the idea of using it as the base for MI6's Far East operations. It was the first and only one of his full ⦠Anders reveals to Bond that she sent the bullet to London. ... [Youâre] so beautiful cousin!â one of Clineâs family members wrote on Facebook in 2012, eight years before her murder. [89] The Times put Scaramanga as the fifth best Bond villain in their list,[90] and Ekland was the third in their list of the top 10 most fashionable Bond girls. Kingsley Amis reportedly did some editorial work on the manuscript (though I`m not as sure it`s as much as some claim – he was only paid 36 Pounds, 15s for it), and parts do sound like him: “James Bond frowned. She is, in fact, convinced that foreign women are immodest and rather indecent, and her visits to the motion pictures give her a strange idea of the habits of foreign white men. When Goodnight follows Nick Nack to place a homing device on Scaramanga's car, Scaramanga traps her in the car's boot. Shall I tell you what`ll be the main dish on the menu in the canteen? Although the thirteenth novel, 'The Man with the Golden Gun', published under Flemingâs name is posthumous, it is based on a draft manuscript found after Fleming's death.
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