>>212878957That's what makes it genius. Like, somehow this obvious low hanging fruit was never used. It's perfect Mike Myers.
Again, the idea is AP1 was pretending to be a somewhat sincere Bond parody (watch Diamonds Are Forever to see how non-outrageous AP really was).
One of the most iconic elements of early Bond movies were the kick-ass sets especially from Ken Adams. The Incredibles riffed on this.
There's this idea that the entire genius of some madman villain, both terrifyingly genius, but insane, is reflected in the evil lair infrastructure. Purposeful, a mad purpose, but more efficient, more deadly than anything the public has access to. In a way it captures the dark side of modernism perfectly. It's Uncle Ted coded.
So you have that, and then Mike Myers' charming observational humor is like, what if there was a like a "HALT one way, U-Turn VERBOTEN" situation and AP as a "man of mystery" just fucks it all up, and then there's the 3-point turn vibe, drawing on real life fear and frustration that connects to deep right brain shit for all of us, it's just perfect.