Motifs in the James Bond film series in the films: the laboratory of Hugo Drax is opened by touchtones that play the tune of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", whilst when Bond and Anya are seen walking across the desert in "The Spy Who Loved Me", the theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" is heard. In most of the films, the main villain often captures Bond and, rather than kill him quickly, attempts a slow and protracted death, from which Bond will always escape. This will often also come with a scene of the villain explaining his master plan to Bond. Goldfinger chained Bond to a nuclear
Karl Stromberg men, to fire their nuclear warheads at each other. Prior to this, however, Stromberg had abducted Bond's partner, the Russian agent Anya Amasova, and escaped to his city-ship, Atlantis. Bond pursues Stromberg, and after two failed attempts by Stromberg to kill him (including the use of an explosive harpoon which ran the length of a dinner table), Bond exercises his licence to kill by shooting Stromberg multiple times in the groin and chest. Atlantis is later torpedoed and sunk, giving Stromberg a burial at sea. Karl Stromberg Karl Sigmund Stromberg is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the