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"A mistress cannot serve two masters."
― Scaramanga after killing Andrea when he discovered her treachery[src]

Andrea Anders was the fictional mistress of professional assassin Francisco Scaramanga. The character appeared in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun and was portrayed by Swedish actress Maud Adams. Andrea also appeared in the James Bond 007 tabletop role-playing game.

Biography[]

Background[]

TMWTGG - Andrea in the Macau casino

Miss Anders collects Scaramanga's gold bullets in Macau.

At the start of the film, Andrea is seen with Francisco Scaramanga, a famous assassin, on his private island in Red Chinese waters, first helping him dry off after a swim and then sunbathes with him. After the pre-title sequence, the plot for the story becomes clear: James Bond has been sent a note from Scaramanga, with a golden bullet engraved with '007'. As the plot unfolds it becomes clear that Miss Anders sent the note and the bullet hoping Bond would come and eventually kill Scaramanga. She considers Scaramanga a "monster" but she cannot just leave him because, according to her, people just don't walk out on him as he would kill her or have her killed.

Hong Kong[]

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Anders startled in the shower.

After watching the mysterious Miss Anders collect a shipment of Scaramanga's custom-made gold bullets from a casino in Macau, Bond follows her back to her hotel in Hong Kong and walks in on her as she showers. Startled, she opens the shower door and points a Beretta at him (Bond quips 'a water pistol?'). Demanding a bathrobe she escorts him out of the bathroom at gunpoint.

As she makes a call to the reception desk, Bond lifts and opens the cigarette packet containing Lazar's bullets. Unnerved, she orders him to give them to her. He obliges and as he passes her the packet, he knocks the weapon from her hand and pins her to the bed. Bond proceeds to interrogate Andrea about her connection with Scaramanaga, threatening first to break her arm if she refuses and then slapping her when she proves uncooperative. She eventually reveals that she is his mistress and divulges his location for that evening; the Bottoms Up Club.

Later that evening, after assassinating British scientist named Gibson, Scaramanga returns to his Junk moored in Hong Kong harbour. Andrea is in bed awaiting him looking uncomfortable. Drawing the golden gun from his jacket pocket, he sensuously caresses her arm and lips with the weapon, eliciting a fearful and repulsed response from the girl.

Final meeting and Death[]

Later, while romancing fellow agent Mary Goodnight, James Bond was visited by Anders in his hotel room, where she said that she wanted Francisco Scaramanga dead and she says that Bond can have anything that he wanted as long as he killed him. Bond considered the Solex Agitator, and Anders said that he can have it and her as well, noting she is not unattractive. She then changed into a light blue bathrobe which Bond admitted was charming, and Anders turned off the light. Bond and Anders kissed, and 007 said that sending the Golden Bullet to MI6 was an inspiration. He then opened up her bathrobe, and dropped it. It fell to the floor leaving her completely naked and the two of them engage in sex.

That night, Anders went back to Scaramanga on his junk, on the pretense she has been to the cinema. Scaramanga demandingly asked where she had been, to which she replied it was a double feature, still claiming she was at the cinema. As she put away her jewelry inside Scaramanga's safe, she saw the solex agitator and thought of Bond. Suspecting she was up to something, Scaramanga enquired what she was doing, and her reply is that she was putting her jewelry away.

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Bond sits by Anders, unaware she is dead.

The next morning, Bond met Anders at a Thai kick boxing match to pick up the solex, but upon arriving and finding that she was not replying, Bond found that she had already been shot and killed after Scaramanga discovered her deceit. Scaramanga had shot her in such a manner that the bullet struck her heart but the entry wound was partially concealed by her jacket. Obviously searching for the solex after her murder, Scaramanga failed although Bond noticed once Scaramanga came and sat next to him that the solex had fallen out of her purse onto the floor, and Bond carefully guided it with his foot as Scaramanga said that they should forget the girl, as she was replaceable.

In the end, Anders got her wish when Bond gunned Scaramanga down during a duel on his island.

Personality[]

Though having loved Scaramanga, Andrea became fearful of him and loathed his trigger-happy enjoyment of killing. She was willing to do whatever it took to rid herself of this "monster" forever even if it meant deceiving others, which is why she set up Bond to kill Scaramanga in the first place, as in her opinion, simply leaving her former lover would only make her his next target. However after feeling guilty for setting Bond up, she willingly agreed to help in his mission if it meant he would kill Scaramanga for her.

Behind the scenes[]

Maud Adams described the role as "a woman without a lot of choices: she's under the influence of this very rich, strong man, and is fearing for her life most of the time; and when she actually rebels against him and defects is a major step."[1] The Man with the Golden Gun was the first of three Bond films in which Maud Adams appeared; in 1983, she played a different character, Octopussy, in the film of the same name. She would also later have a cameo as an extra in Roger Moore's last Bond film, A View to a Kill.[2]

Gallery[]

Andrea Anders/Gallery

Trivia[]

  • Throughout the film, the character is simply known as "Miss Anders".
  • Andrea is the eighth woman that Bond fails to protect from death.

References[]

  1. Maud Adams. The Man with the Golden Gun audio commentary. The Man with the Golden Gun Ultimate Edition, Disk 1: MGM Home Entertainment.
  2. Maud Adams. Inside A View to a Kill [VCD/DVD]. MGM Home Entertainment Inc. Retrieved on 11 August 2011.

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