I watched that film the other day. Forsyth (see also Day of the Jackal) is very good on interweaving two stories - the pursued and the pursuer. I will check that bit you mention!
I think the bit where Pierce Brosnan is assembling the bomb and seducing the girl simultaneously is brilliantly done. High tension charged with sexual innuendo .... the suspense just builds and builds.
Brosnan made a shed load of money out of being Bond BUT IMHO diminished himself as an actor doing so.
I also did security on a couple of Bond movies but they were so scared of H&S with all those special effects I seldom got onto the actual sets.
BTW going back to Superman .... The flying is "real" and in Superman II the buildings that he flies round, in and out of etc and the Daily Planet Office are in fact the Railway Station, The Inland Revenue Offices above the station and what were then two empty office blocks that form a pedestrian square outside of the Milton Keynes Railway station. It is a large car park now but one of my jobs was to prevent the public from parking there. And how does Christopher Reeve fly? They suspended him from a huge crane (Hired from Sparrows Crane Hire) and the crane driver maneuvered the jib as directed to make Superman move through the air. He was certainly 100 feet from the ground whilst doing this stunt, used no double (so credit to him for that) but was so disliked that the crew, on one occasion, went to lunch leaving him up there for almost an hour.
