Burning the midnight oil, singing along with Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger and smoking too many cigarettes whilst studying advanced mathematics techniques. Trying to calculate a formula and produce a series of graphs to represent the time distribution of events in the James Bond films. To show the spread and average times of the "necessary" scenes that appear in each movie. Making it possible for the obsessive fan to predict the approximate times of key events in future Bond films.

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UPDATE (10/10/07)

Now that the 21st instalment of the Bond series has been released on DVD, here are results (the first release of Casino Royale in 1967 wasn't included in the project because it isn't an official MGM Bond film).

They changed the format more than usual in Casino Royale 2006 – there is no Money Penny or Q/R characters and there is no actual final combat between Bond and the main villain – it's Bond being tortured and then some guy comes in and shoots the villain. There were a number of casino gambling scenes so I chose the first one as the one to count. This was also the longest Bond film ever. Timings below are measured in minutes:

BOND'S FIRST FIGHT/COMBAT SCENE = 14 10 / Casino Royale = 3

OPENING CREDITS WITH SILOUTTED WOMEN = 8 2 / Casino Royale = 4

FIRST SIGHT OF MONEY PENNY = 17 13 / Casino Royale = N/A

TALK OR MISSION BRIEFING BY M = 19 7 / Casino Royale = 24

Q OR R'S GADGET TALK = 33 18 / Casino Royale = N/A

CASINO SCENE = 34 8 / Casino Royale = 33

FIRST VEHICLE CHASE = 47 24 / Casino Royale = 49

FIRST BOND TRAPPED OR 'LEFT TO DIE' SCENE = 67 25 / Casino Royale = 96

FIRST KISS OR SEX WITH ONE OF MAIN BOND GIRLS = 62 23 / Casino Royale = 40

FINAL COMBAT WITH VILLAIN OR HIS MAIN HENCHMAN = 110 14 / Casino Royale = 114

TOTAL RUNNING TIME OF FILM = 120 8 / Casino Royale = 141

Collating this new set of data means that all the predictive variances will eventually have to be re-calculated.