The film's US-centric cartography deprives its evil genius of the usual large-scale world map that would represent the scale of his ambition. True, he does have a globe, but what we see of it shows the Americas, and specifically the United States:
There are six maps in this spy spoof, all of them of the United States or parts thereof. What they lack in topographical breadth they make up for by varieties of form. At headquarters a set of sliding maps shows first California then a panel with Arizona and New Mexico: The film's US-centric cartography deprives its evil genius of the usual large-scale world map that would represent the scale of his ambition. True, he does have a globe, but what we see of it shows the Americas, and specifically the United States: A map of the US is shown as part of the ordinary décor of a gas station, but when the seemingly ordinary manager turns out to be an agent of the evil genius, the map reminds us that the danger is localised: The plot to detonate explosions is exactly mapped in a control room seen through cctv monitors, with a close up localising the danger spot (the local here means specific nuclear test sites): The finest map moment is this overhead view of the region concerned, followed by a close up in which the evil genius releases a red liquid to illustrate his plan: The climax is the thwarting of the plan by an attack on the control room (no longer viewed through cctv) and the adjustment of a missile's trajectory:
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