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They've been doing that for a while now with both the continuation novels and Fleming. I would definitely prefer a wholesale, modernized adaptation of one of the books in the vein of Casino Royale. While the Easter eggs are cool, there's also something unsatisfying sometimes about seeing a part of one of the books alluded to for a snippet of a conversation or the setting of an action sequence. It just feels like not enough.
YES!
True.
I still think some deserve the chance to get a screen adaptation. In particular, at this point, they’d probably be better than a original screenplay by P & W and some Oscarbait writer. Take a minor risk EON.
Agreed 100%. Gardener and Benson have some great titles at least to their names.
They could also show us Bond's usual snarky charisma while being on the field, but when he is alone, we see him broken, crying and miserable.
Also revealing he is a secret agent just for the sake of boosting up his confidence.
Ok, that's just depressing.
I bet they will be more modest about drinking as well.
The way you phrase it makes it sound like womanizing doesn’t involve consent between two parties.
I’m sorry I forgot how to spell consent. My mistake.
What if there were a running gag where he carries a cig holder but never smokes? It could be useful to be/hold a gadget.
Could extend it to he never quite gets to light one... either he gets interrupted, or they're wet, etc. Like the code trade in FRWL (I use a lighter... better still... until they go wrong.)
And I think if anything they'll only be more cavalier with drinking. How many aggressive swigs did Craig take? At least one a movie.
Smoking cigarettes is something I doubt we’ll see Bond doing again. This has been the case since the Brosnan era, and actually the Moore one as well (save for the odd cigar, which might happen) so it’ nothing new.
I suspect Bond will still be a womaniser as well, but scenes like the one where he randomly kisses Patricia or the infamous barn scene with Pussy Galore won’t be seen. Again though, not having such scenes has essentially been the case for a very long time in Bond. So yeah, I don’t think these aspects are the ones Broccoli is invested in ‘reinventing’.
That’s pretty disingenuous of them. I think the last time we saw Bond “slapping a woman” was Goldeneye, and even that hasn’t been seen since TMWTGG.
The scene in Spectre where Lucia slaps him and he throws down the champagne flutes was so great.
Can he have a Man Bun and Hipster Glasses too? And Keds filled with a poison tipped dart?
I also want him to conquer and thwart the villain's schemes by the film's end.
Imagine missing women being slapped in films.
I’m all for him smoking again though.
I like that scene a lot too.
Come to think of it, I think Bond has been slapped by women more than he’s slapped women in the films. Even the scene in FRWL isn’t made to make him look heroic but being clouded by anger somewhat.
True, though I felt he clearly had an issue with it in SF too - visually displayed during the bar scene and the bit where he breaks into M's flat, then Silva mentions it later on when reading Bond's results.