Where does Bond go after Craig?

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  • echoecho 007 in New York
    Posts: 6,355
    Genoma of a Plan.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
    Posts: 4,686
    peter wrote: »
    EON don’t seem to know where they want to go with Bond at present.

    Actually it's we who don't know where EoN wants to go with Bond at the moment.

    None of us here know their plan, and because we don't know their plan, we assume there isn't a plan? Not the way these things usually go.

    We know one part of the plan. If Purvis and Wade are writing again, expect Bond to leave MI6 at some point. And then say something along the lines of “I never left.”
  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,511
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    EON don’t seem to know where they want to go with Bond at present.

    Actually it's we who don't know where EoN wants to go with Bond at the moment.

    None of us here know their plan, and because we don't know their plan, we assume there isn't a plan? Not the way these things usually go.

    We know one part of the plan. If Purvis and Wade are writing again, expect Bond to leave MI6 at some point. And then say something along the lines of “I never left.”

    Lol, maybe/maybe not. Although doubtful 🤨, lol
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 16,558
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    EON don’t seem to know where they want to go with Bond at present.

    Actually it's we who don't know where EoN wants to go with Bond at the moment.

    None of us here know their plan, and because we don't know their plan, we assume there isn't a plan? Not the way these things usually go.

    We know one part of the plan. If Purvis and Wade are writing again, expect Bond to leave MI6 at some point. And then say something along the lines of “I never left.”

    Because he said that once? In a film where he never left MI6.
  • edited October 3 Posts: 2,285
    CrabKey wrote: »
    CrabKey wrote: »
    I quite like Connery in DN. He is cold, distant, rough, assured, sensual, and compelling. He is not a dick. That's an inarticulate term that does not describe his character.

    One quote; “Fetch my shoes.”

    Yeah, Connery’s Bond was a dick in that first film. That’s not a put down on him either; if anything it’s a testament to Connery’s skill as an actor that people found the portrayal compelling enough despite that.


    Another quote, but never mentioned:
    When Quarrel hesitates to go to Crab Key, Bond says, "All right, Quarrel. We don’t want to force you to do anything. Leiter and I will go after dark, if you’ll give us the navigational directions."

    Again he tells that same man to go and fetch his shoes. He actively was making fun of Quarrel’s fears and paranoia about Crab Key up until the moment Quarrel dies.

    If you choose to remain ignorant of these blatantly obvious character flaws then by all means please go ahead. It’s not as if anybody here was criticizing Connery himself for this performance rather the way it was written and the attitudes of the day. Yet you seem to be so obsessed with defending every aspect about this performance that you’re actively ignoring the racist/elitist undertones of it.

    It's a movie. An old one by the way.

    Thank you for the clarification @DEKE_RIVERS. For a minute I thought I was referring to a painting….
  • edited October 3 Posts: 4,266
    If P&W write the next Bond film, expect the MI6 team to become the 'Scooby gang' again... even though the MI6 team only directly helped Bond in the field once... and no one outside of these forums actually knows what the hell the 'Scooby gang' actually is in relation to Bond...
  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,511
    CrabKey wrote: »
    CrabKey wrote: »
    I quite like Connery in DN. He is cold, distant, rough, assured, sensual, and compelling. He is not a dick. That's an inarticulate term that does not describe his character.

    One quote; “Fetch my shoes.”

    Yeah, Connery’s Bond was a dick in that first film. That’s not a put down on him either; if anything it’s a testament to Connery’s skill as an actor that people found the portrayal compelling enough despite that.


    Another quote, but never mentioned:
    When Quarrel hesitates to go to Crab Key, Bond says, "All right, Quarrel. We don’t want to force you to do anything. Leiter and I will go after dark, if you’ll give us the navigational directions."

    Again he tells that same man to go and fetch his shoes. He actively was making fun of Quarrel’s fears and paranoia about Crab Key up until the moment Quarrel dies.

    If you choose to remain ignorant of these blatantly obvious character flaws then by all means please go ahead. It’s not as if anybody here was criticizing Connery himself for this performance rather the way it was written and the attitudes of the day. Yet you seem to be so obsessed with defending every aspect about this performance that you’re actively ignoring the racist/elitist undertones of it.

    It's a movie. An old one by the way.

    Thank you for the clarification @DEKE_RIVERS. For a minute I thought I was referring to a painting….

    And a new painting, at that. Not one of those old ones. Man, I was confused too 🤔!!
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
    Posts: 4,686
    mtm wrote: »
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    EON don’t seem to know where they want to go with Bond at present.

    Actually it's we who don't know where EoN wants to go with Bond at the moment.

    None of us here know their plan, and because we don't know their plan, we assume there isn't a plan? Not the way these things usually go.

    We know one part of the plan. If Purvis and Wade are writing again, expect Bond to leave MI6 at some point. And then say something along the lines of “I never left.”

    Because he said that once? In a film where he never left MI6.

    I’m sorry. I meant to say where M says he’s the best person for the job. But they’ll only say it to his face once. When one of them is dying.
    007HallY wrote: »
    If P&W write the next Bond film, expect the MI6 team to become the 'Scooby gang' again... even though the MI6 team only directly helped Bond in the field once... and no one outside of these forums actually knows what the hell the 'Scooby gang' actually is in relation to Bond...

    I blame Sam Mendes for that. Surrogate families are one of his trademarks.
  • peter wrote: »
    CrabKey wrote: »
    CrabKey wrote: »
    I quite like Connery in DN. He is cold, distant, rough, assured, sensual, and compelling. He is not a dick. That's an inarticulate term that does not describe his character.

    One quote; “Fetch my shoes.”

    Yeah, Connery’s Bond was a dick in that first film. That’s not a put down on him either; if anything it’s a testament to Connery’s skill as an actor that people found the portrayal compelling enough despite that.


    Another quote, but never mentioned:
    When Quarrel hesitates to go to Crab Key, Bond says, "All right, Quarrel. We don’t want to force you to do anything. Leiter and I will go after dark, if you’ll give us the navigational directions."

    Again he tells that same man to go and fetch his shoes. He actively was making fun of Quarrel’s fears and paranoia about Crab Key up until the moment Quarrel dies.

    If you choose to remain ignorant of these blatantly obvious character flaws then by all means please go ahead. It’s not as if anybody here was criticizing Connery himself for this performance rather the way it was written and the attitudes of the day. Yet you seem to be so obsessed with defending every aspect about this performance that you’re actively ignoring the racist/elitist undertones of it.

    It's a movie. An old one by the way.

    Thank you for the clarification @DEKE_RIVERS. For a minute I thought I was referring to a painting….

    And a new painting, at that. Not one of those old ones. Man, I was confused too 🤔!!

    I’m still confused @peter but I guess some mysteries should never be solved..
  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,511
    peter wrote: »
    CrabKey wrote: »
    CrabKey wrote: »
    I quite like Connery in DN. He is cold, distant, rough, assured, sensual, and compelling. He is not a dick. That's an inarticulate term that does not describe his character.

    One quote; “Fetch my shoes.”

    Yeah, Connery’s Bond was a dick in that first film. That’s not a put down on him either; if anything it’s a testament to Connery’s skill as an actor that people found the portrayal compelling enough despite that.


    Another quote, but never mentioned:
    When Quarrel hesitates to go to Crab Key, Bond says, "All right, Quarrel. We don’t want to force you to do anything. Leiter and I will go after dark, if you’ll give us the navigational directions."

    Again he tells that same man to go and fetch his shoes. He actively was making fun of Quarrel’s fears and paranoia about Crab Key up until the moment Quarrel dies.

    If you choose to remain ignorant of these blatantly obvious character flaws then by all means please go ahead. It’s not as if anybody here was criticizing Connery himself for this performance rather the way it was written and the attitudes of the day. Yet you seem to be so obsessed with defending every aspect about this performance that you’re actively ignoring the racist/elitist undertones of it.

    It's a movie. An old one by the way.

    Thank you for the clarification @DEKE_RIVERS. For a minute I thought I was referring to a painting….

    And a new painting, at that. Not one of those old ones. Man, I was confused too 🤔!!

    I’m still confused @peter but I guess some mysteries should never be solved..

    😂…!!!
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
    edited October 3 Posts: 8,429
    One thing is absolutely certain, if P+W are involved the villain will have a familial connection to one of main cast, despite them not actually being related.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited October 3 Posts: 16,558
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    EON don’t seem to know where they want to go with Bond at present.

    Actually it's we who don't know where EoN wants to go with Bond at the moment.

    None of us here know their plan, and because we don't know their plan, we assume there isn't a plan? Not the way these things usually go.

    We know one part of the plan. If Purvis and Wade are writing again, expect Bond to leave MI6 at some point. And then say something along the lines of “I never left.”

    Because he said that once? In a film where he never left MI6.

    I’m sorry. I meant to say where M says he’s the best person for the job. But they’ll only say it to his face once. When one of them is dying.

    And how many times did that happen again...?

    I think if we're finding issues with the idea of M thinking Bond is good at his job then the whole series may as well go in the bin.
  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,511
    One thing is absolutely certain, if P+W are involved the villain will have a familial connection to one of main cast, despite them not actually being related.

    Like Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies, right? Oh, wait…
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited October 3 Posts: 13,887
    Yeah that was my thought we can't know any plan Eon have.

    On Felix Leiter in the CIA they are international like MI6. The way the FBI and MI5 are domestic.

    But of course Felix and Bond end up working in the US. And Bond worked London and the UK. With Felix in the books believe most of that was post-CIA when he was with Pinkerton Detective Agency.

  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,511
    mtm wrote: »
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    EON don’t seem to know where they want to go with Bond at present.

    Actually it's we who don't know where EoN wants to go with Bond at the moment.

    None of us here know their plan, and because we don't know their plan, we assume there isn't a plan? Not the way these things usually go.

    We know one part of the plan. If Purvis and Wade are writing again, expect Bond to leave MI6 at some point. And then say something along the lines of “I never left.”

    Because he said that once? In a film where he never left MI6.

    I still don’t get the hate for these two. The way these things go:

    They have meetings with a bunch of creatives. A creative TEAM.

    They collectively zero-in on the story they all agree will be the one they want to tell.

    The writers go off with those notes and create an outline.

    The team will read the outline.

    Then writers will receive notes and adjust the outline accordingly.

    Once the outline is done, the writer go off and pound out a draft.

    More meetings. More notes.

    The writers take the notes and proceed on a second draft.

    More meetings, more notes.

    The writer takes these notes and do a third draft. I assume they get at least a three step deal. If so, they start showing this script to potential directors.

    Directors will read. Directors will have meetings to discuss their vision based off of the script and where they want to go.

    The director that wins the job will have a whole pile of notes and these notes will be given to the original writers, or, at this time, more writers will come on board.

    This writer or writers will pound out a new fourth draft based off of the directors notes.

    More meetings. More notes.

    The writers will take the notes and do draft five.

    More meetings more notes. But now, the creative team is asking for more action.

    A new writer or script doctor is brought on board. They will be hired for about three weeks work and they’ll focus on action. The new draft is submitted.

    The creative team goes over this new draft and feel that character is lacking, so another writer or doctor comes on board and they will work on the new draft focusing on character work.

    The creative team assesses the new script, and the director now dislikes the third act.

    Either writers they’ve used in previous drafts will be brought back, or a new doctor will be hired to fix the third act for them.

    And so on….

    How anyone can pinpoint what P & W do and don’t do is a wild guess at best. And everything they, and others, write, are based on creative notes, from a team, from Day One until the film is locked.

    I will never understand the dislike directed at these two. Anyone writing for movies of this scope are all, off the charts, talented…
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    Posts: 6,355
    But...but...but...@peter, you're overlooking that Barbara Broccoli is a complete ditz! She was so enamored with Craig for decades that she just let P&W write whatever they want while she was just backing her bikini bottom into the Solex!
  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,511
    echo wrote: »
    But...but...but...@peter, you're overlooking that Barbara Broccoli is a complete ditz! She was so enamored with Craig for decades that she just let P&W write whatever they want while she was just backing her bikini bottom into the Solex!

    You're right @echo . I have no excuses for that bimbo. She's driven the franchise into the ground. Once she took over, the fandom and box office dwindled way below that of AVTAK and LTK. Just shameful. And sooo obvious that she hates James Bond (unless of course it's her lovetboy wearing the tux)!

    She's an embarrassment and this franchise is rudderless!!! They have no clue where to go next.

    Idiots!
  • edited October 3 Posts: 2,285
    peter wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    EON don’t seem to know where they want to go with Bond at present.

    Actually it's we who don't know where EoN wants to go with Bond at the moment.

    None of us here know their plan, and because we don't know their plan, we assume there isn't a plan? Not the way these things usually go.

    We know one part of the plan. If Purvis and Wade are writing again, expect Bond to leave MI6 at some point. And then say something along the lines of “I never left.”

    Because he said that once? In a film where he never left MI6.

    I still don’t get the hate for these two. The way these things go:

    They have meetings with a bunch of creatives. A creative TEAM.

    They collectively zero-in on the story they all agree will be the one they want to tell.

    The writers go off with those notes and create an outline.

    The team will read the outline.

    Then writers will receive notes and adjust the outline accordingly.

    Once the outline is done, the writer go off and pound out a draft.

    More meetings. More notes.

    The writers take the notes and proceed on a second draft.

    More meetings, more notes.

    The writer takes these notes and do a third draft. I assume they get at least a three step deal. If so, they start showing this script to potential directors.

    Directors will read. Directors will have meetings to discuss their vision based off of the script and where they want to go.

    The director that wins the job will have a whole pile of notes and these notes will be given to the original writers, or, at this time, more writers will come on board.

    This writer or writers will pound out a new fourth draft based off of the directors notes.

    More meetings. More notes.

    The writers will take the notes and do draft five.

    More meetings more notes. But now, the creative team is asking for more action.

    A new writer or script doctor is brought on board. They will be hired for about three weeks work and they’ll focus on action. The new draft is submitted.

    The creative team goes over this new draft and feel that character is lacking, so another writer or doctor comes on board and they will work on the new draft focusing on character work.

    The creative team assesses the new script, and the director now dislikes the third act.

    Either writers they’ve used in previous drafts will be brought back, or a new doctor will be hired to fix the third act for them.

    And so on….

    How anyone can pinpoint what P & W do and don’t do is a wild guess at best. And everything they, and others, write, are based on creative notes, from a team, from Day One until the film is locked.

    I will never understand the dislike directed at these two. Anyone writing for movies of this scope are all, off the charts, talented…

    Great post @peter. If I had to hypothesize, I guess so many people hate on P&W because they see them as a microcosm for everything they find wrong with the series these days. TWINE and DAD aren’t that popular amongst the fans as it is; I imagine the Craig era and some of those choices would only add to that fire. Regardless I think they’ve got quite the grasp on the character/series (perhaps even more than Maibaum.)


    On a side note, having recently watched the 1949 version of “The Great Gatsby” with Alan Ladd (and directed by Mr. Maibaum), I can firmly say that nothing P&W have put on the screen have come close to boring me in the way Maibaum’s Gatsby has.
  • slide_99slide_99 USA
    Posts: 698
    007HallY wrote: »
    If P&W write the next Bond film, expect the MI6 team to become the 'Scooby gang' again... even though the MI6 team only directly helped Bond in the field once... and no one outside of these forums actually knows what the hell the 'Scooby gang' actually is in relation to Bond...

    That doesn't strike me as a P&W trope, since they've been writing these movies since the 90s and we only got that in the last three films, none of which were written exclusively by them. It seems more like a byproduct of the producers putting known/semi-known actors into secondary MI6 roles, therefore requiring more screen time for them.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
    edited October 3 Posts: 4,686
    peter wrote: »
    echo wrote: »
    But...but...but...@peter, you're overlooking that Barbara Broccoli is a complete ditz! She was so enamored with Craig for decades that she just let P&W write whatever they want while she was just backing her bikini bottom into the Solex!

    You're right @echo . I have no excuses for that bimbo. She's driven the franchise into the ground. Once she took over, the fandom and box office dwindled way below that of AVTAK and LTK. Just shameful. And sooo obvious that she hates James Bond (unless of course it's her lovetboy wearing the tux)!

    She's an embarrassment and this franchise is rudderless!!! They have no clue where to go next.

    Idiots!

    Rest assured @peter she is not Kathleen Kennedy. And sometimes, even KK's hate is overblown. As for P & W, they have made some comments that don't make them look good for the future. Like saying that the Bond villain has become a reality with certain political figures. While not wrong, that didn't fill me with confidence, as Bond should be easier to write with that pure evil in the world. And while I'm actually thankful that they have worked on the franchise, nothing needs to change more than the writing of Bond. They're not a**holes to other creative people on Bond like Richard Maibaum, and most things are truly NOT their fault (their QOS script was better, Marc Forster and the writer's strike can be blamed mostly for that). They saved SP probably, Brofeld WAS NOT their fault, as proven. Their freshness on TWINE was ruined by others, I imagine. DAD wasn't their fault. But when Martin Campbell wanted them fired for not having strong enough material, it makes me wonder who really wrote CR (other than Fleming and Paul Haggis). So, in some ways they can be seen as favoritism for EON as much as Craig. So, while by far NOT the worst writers for Bond, (I know that there are MANY more candidates for that position, books, movies and video games), it's just I feel it's simply time for a change.

    On a happier note, today I talked to a younger man (mid 20's) who was a Bond fan (he said OHMSS was his favorite, points right there)! It's always nice to talk to younger generations about Bond, as it's proof that he will never go away. He's asking the same questions that we are now. That's enough hype for the future for me.
    slide_99 wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    If P&W write the next Bond film, expect the MI6 team to become the 'Scooby gang' again... even though the MI6 team only directly helped Bond in the field once... and no one outside of these forums actually knows what the hell the 'Scooby gang' actually is in relation to Bond...

    That doesn't strike me as a P&W trope, since they've been writing these movies since the 90s and we only got that in the last three films, none of which were written exclusively by them. It seems more like a byproduct of the producers putting known/semi-known actors into secondary MI6 roles, therefore requiring more screen time for them.

    Yes, the MI6 family doesn't feel like them. I think EON might honestly cut back on the MI6 family just a bit for at least the next Bond's first movie.
  • Posts: 4,266
    slide_99 wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    If P&W write the next Bond film, expect the MI6 team to become the 'Scooby gang' again... even though the MI6 team only directly helped Bond in the field once... and no one outside of these forums actually knows what the hell the 'Scooby gang' actually is in relation to Bond...

    That doesn't strike me as a P&W trope, since they've been writing these movies since the 90s and we only got that in the last three films, none of which were written exclusively by them. It seems more like a byproduct of the producers putting known/semi-known actors into secondary MI6 roles, therefore requiring more screen time for them.

    This is true (although increasingly with the films they'd written you see more of M/the others, likely for the reason you just gave). It was more me being sarcastic/trying to make the point you can blame pretty much anything on them.
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    echo wrote: »
    But...but...but...@peter, you're overlooking that Barbara Broccoli is a complete ditz! She was so enamored with Craig for decades that she just let P&W write whatever they want while she was just backing her bikini bottom into the Solex!

    You're right @echo . I have no excuses for that bimbo. She's driven the franchise into the ground. Once she took over, the fandom and box office dwindled way below that of AVTAK and LTK. Just shameful. And sooo obvious that she hates James Bond (unless of course it's her lovetboy wearing the tux)!

    She's an embarrassment and this franchise is rudderless!!! They have no clue where to go next.

    Idiots!

    Rest assured @peter she is not Kathleen Kennedy. And sometimes, even KK's hate is overblown. As for P & W, they have made some comments that don't make them look good for the future. Like saying that the Bond villain has become a reality with certain political figures. While not wrong, that didn't fill me with confidence, as Bond should be easier to write with that pure evil in the world. And while I'm actually thankful that they have worked on the franchise, nothing needs to change more than the writing of Bond. They're not a**holes to other creative people on Bond like Richard Maibaum, and most things are truly NOT their fault (their QOS script was better, Marc Forster and the writer's strike can be blamed mostly for that). They saved SP probably, Brofeld WAS NOT their fault, as proven. Their freshness on TWINE was ruined by others, I imagine. DAD wasn't their fault. But when Martin Campbell wanted them fired for not having strong enough material, it makes me wonder who really wrote CR (other than Fleming and Paul Haggis). So, in some ways they can be seen as favoritism for EON as much as Craig. So, while by far NOT the worst writers for Bond, (I know that there are MANY more candidates for that position, books, movies and video games), it's just I feel it's simply time for a change.
    .

    I'm not sure if Campbell could have gotten them fired even if he'd wanted to. From what I've always gathered it was a case where he brought Haggis on to polish things up and do later drafts. It actually sounds pretty typical of the entire process to me.
  • Posts: 2,017
    @007ClassicBondFan - Thank you for your permission to remain ignorant. That comes as a great relief. I thought I had written only a few sentences. Imagine my surprise to discover that I obsessively defended every aspect about this performance while actively ignoring the racist/elitist undertones of it.






  • Posts: 387
    peter wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    EON don’t seem to know where they want to go with Bond at present.

    Actually it's we who don't know where EoN wants to go with Bond at the moment.

    None of us here know their plan, and because we don't know their plan, we assume there isn't a plan? Not the way these things usually go.

    We know one part of the plan. If Purvis and Wade are writing again, expect Bond to leave MI6 at some point. And then say something along the lines of “I never left.”

    Because he said that once? In a film where he never left MI6.

    I still don’t get the hate for these two. The way these things go:

    They have meetings with a bunch of creatives. A creative TEAM.

    They collectively zero-in on the story they all agree will be the one they want to tell.

    The writers go off with those notes and create an outline.

    The team will read the outline.

    Then writers will receive notes and adjust the outline accordingly.

    Once the outline is done, the writer go off and pound out a draft.

    More meetings. More notes.

    The writers take the notes and proceed on a second draft.

    More meetings, more notes.

    The writer takes these notes and do a third draft. I assume they get at least a three step deal. If so, they start showing this script to potential directors.

    Directors will read. Directors will have meetings to discuss their vision based off of the script and where they want to go.

    The director that wins the job will have a whole pile of notes and these notes will be given to the original writers, or, at this time, more writers will come on board.

    This writer or writers will pound out a new fourth draft based off of the directors notes.

    More meetings. More notes.

    The writers will take the notes and do draft five.

    More meetings more notes. But now, the creative team is asking for more action.

    A new writer or script doctor is brought on board. They will be hired for about three weeks work and they’ll focus on action. The new draft is submitted.

    The creative team goes over this new draft and feel that character is lacking, so another writer or doctor comes on board and they will work on the new draft focusing on character work.

    The creative team assesses the new script, and the director now dislikes the third act.

    Either writers they’ve used in previous drafts will be brought back, or a new doctor will be hired to fix the third act for them.

    And so on….

    How anyone can pinpoint what P & W do and don’t do is a wild guess at best. And everything they, and others, write, are based on creative notes, from a team, from Day One until the film is locked.

    I will never understand the dislike directed at these two. Anyone writing for movies of this scope are all, off the charts, talented…

    No notes at all on any of this.

  • CrabKey wrote: »
    @007ClassicBondFan - Thank you for your permission to remain ignorant. That comes as a great relief. I thought I had written only a few sentences. Imagine my surprise to discover that I obsessively defended every aspect about this performance while actively ignoring the racist/elitist undertones of it.






    Glad to help @CrabKey! I look forward to seeing more childish behavior from you in the future!

    Boy I remember when I was 12….


  • Posts: 2,017
    @007ClassicBondFan - Recall Bond gives Quarrel the option not to go to Crab Key, as he is obviously fearful. Yes, Bond makes light of Quarrel's fear of the dragon, as he does of Honey as well. Making fun of one's fear is not racist. At the point Quarrel is killed, he turns to his deceased friend to pay his respects, but one of the men from the dragon vehicle stops him and says, "We ain't got no flowers." An obvious acknowledgment of Bond mourning Quarrel's death.

    The fetch my shoes line is abrupt, but I don't regard it as a smoking gun of racism that permeates the film. Not a line one would hear today, but Bond saying it was a command, the same as "Cover the boat." Bond is in charge. He gave a command. The moment was tense. I suppose he could have said, "Quarrel, will you please fetch my shoes. Thank you." Had Quarrel not been Jamaican, would the line have been more acceptable?
    I recognize that racism is often subtle. But I don't think there's an underlying subtext of racism and elitism in DN. This was a film that featured multiple races as main characters. Actually quite inclusive, even if the main character was a Chinese played by a Caucasian.
    Is the absence of actors of African origin in FRWL racist?

    Racism is real and worthy of talking about. That I don't share your view about DN doesn't make you right and me ignorant. If you want to have a conversation about racism, then have it without attacking those who disagree with you. It is conversation that can be had. We don't have to dance around it. And it might go into areas that make some uncomfortable.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited October 4 Posts: 16,558
    So you’re saying you didn’t defend every aspect of the performance? :D
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    peter wrote: »
    echo wrote: »
    But...but...but...@peter, you're overlooking that Barbara Broccoli is a complete ditz! She was so enamored with Craig for decades that she just let P&W write whatever they want while she was just backing her bikini bottom into the Solex!

    You're right @echo . I have no excuses for that bimbo. She's driven the franchise into the ground. Once she took over, the fandom and box office dwindled way below that of AVTAK and LTK. Just shameful. And sooo obvious that she hates James Bond (unless of course it's her lovetboy wearing the tux)!

    She's an embarrassment and this franchise is rudderless!!! They have no clue where to go next.

    Idiots!

    Rest assured @peter she is not Kathleen Kennedy. And sometimes, even KK's hate is overblown. As for P & W, they have made some comments that don't make them look good for the future. Like saying that the Bond villain has become a reality with certain political figures. While not wrong, that didn't fill me with confidence, as Bond should be easier to write with that pure evil in the world. And while I'm actually thankful that they have worked on the franchise, nothing needs to change more than the writing of Bond. They're not a**holes to other creative people on Bond like Richard Maibaum, and most things are truly NOT their fault (their QOS script was better, Marc Forster and the writer's strike can be blamed mostly for that). They saved SP probably, Brofeld WAS NOT their fault, as proven. Their freshness on TWINE was ruined by others, I imagine. DAD wasn't their fault. But when Martin Campbell wanted them fired for not having strong enough material, it makes me wonder who really wrote CR (other than Fleming and Paul Haggis). So, in some ways they can be seen as favoritism for EON as much as Craig. So, while by far NOT the worst writers for Bond, (I know that there are MANY more candidates for that position, books, movies and video games), it's just I feel it's simply time for a change.

    I don’t remember reading that Campbell wanted them fired, it just seems part of the process to get a script worked on. I don’t think they’re sole writers on any of the films, are they? Might be wrong.
    I don’t really understand the political figure point either; what’s wrong with that?
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    Yeah, I’m not sure where the Campbell wanting P&W fired thing comes from. It’s a bit tricky firing writers who have already done their job. Maybe he wanted Haggis and others to take over later drafts, but that’s not quite the same as getting them fired.
  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,511
    But I don't think there's an underlying subtext of racism and elitism in DN

    Telling anyone to “fetch” anything is elitist.

    That it was ordered to a man of colour, may not be racist to you, but it was the casual racism that did exist.
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    OP and LALD are more racist.

    Bond treats Rosie Carver like shit.
  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,511
    OP and LALD are more racist.

    Bond treats Rosie Carver like shit.

    Nice descriptor @DEKE_RIVERS . Keep it up.

    (And Carver was under suspicion, and had nothing to do with her race)…
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