Eventually Samedi falls silent and does not move anymore, and Bond believes him dead.īond then uses the machete to hit the tombstone three times.
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He then takes the machete from the tombstone and engages Bond in a short fight, but Bond hits him in the stomach and knocks him back, causing Samedi to fall into the coffin full of poisonous snakes, where he is bitten multiple times. Bond ignores him, deeming him another impostor, but Baron Samedi then opens his eyes widely and starts to laugh. After fighting more henchmen, another motionless Samedi rises from either another grave or the same one as the mannequin. After shooting the body multiple times it becomes clear that it wasn't the real Samedi, but just a clay figure. When shooting Samedi in the head, the head simply breaks. At this point Bond reveals himself and shoots Kananga's henchmen, including the one holding the snake, before cutting the ropes holding Soltaire in place. Samedi blinks, indicating a go-ahead for killing Solitaire. After two women drag on the tombstone with a machete three times and ring a bell, Samedi rises from the grave, with the hat on his head. A man with a hat then approaches a tombstone nearby and leaves it on the grave. Though it initially seems that Solitaire is to be killed by the bite of a poisonous snake, the henchman holding the snake backs of in the last moment.
Samedi is encountered again when Kananga orders Solitaire to be executed during a voodoo ceremony, a fate that befell Baines. This is then followed by Kananga also declaring there is one proper time to administer it, and on cue, Samedi draws another tarot card, this one the card 'Midnight'. The villain says that there is only one appropriate way to deal with this betrayal, to which Samedi draws the tarot card 'Death', laughing maniacally. Kananga angrily smacks the medium to the ground, telling her that in proper time he would have given her love and that she knew that. Bond and Solitaire continue their journey and after they are out of sight, Samedi warns Kananga with a radio built into his flute, telling the drug lord that "they're heading for the hill".Īfter Bond has been captured in New Orleans and been brought to the crocodile farm, Samedi, now dressed in a black suit, meets with Kananga while the latter confronts Solitaire for her betrayal as he wants to know why she betrayed him although he gave her everything and she lacked for nothing. He gives the appearance of a friendly native, playing a flute and telling the couple he feels it is going to be a beautiful day for them. There, Samedi, now without makeup, coat and hat, sits on a tombstone and greets the two. While on the way to Kananga's heroin fields on San Monique, Bond and Solitaire stumble across a small abbey in the woods. The announcer introduces Samedi as an "immortal", though obviously neither Bond nor the viewer seem to think much of it at the time. 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.īaron Samedi is first introduced as a so-called entertainer who does a voodoo dance act for tourists, fatly laughing multiple times, when Bond arrives at the island on which most of the action takes place. In one scene, for instance, as Kananga interrogates Solitaire (the film's main Bond girl), Samedi engages in an odd ritual of burning Solitaire's Tarot cards. Big, but is not entirely under his control. Contributing to the mystery is the fact that Samedi seems to operate as an aide to Dr. The character is an ambiguous one, and the audience cannot tell if he really is the Voodoo god Baron Samedi himself, or simply a mortal who has assumed Samedi's identity. Big encourages this beneficial belief by keeping a Baron Samedi totem near his desk.īaron Samedi is perhaps the most enigmatic villain/henchman the cinematic Bond has ever faced. Big, to be a manifestation of Samedi himself or perhaps his zombie. No such character appears in the novel, although many people in Harlem and elsewhere believe the novel's main villain, Mr. In the novel Live and Let Die, Baron Samedi is described as the voodoo spirit of darkness and death.