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Who Still Has a Difficult Time Getting Into Craig?

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  • 007HallY007HallY
    Posts: 6,272
    I like the priest line. I’d also say the Craig films only really managed to nail M’s dialogue in SF.
    ColonelAdamski wrote: »
    The line from CR that I never understood is the "I'll shoot the camera next time"
    And M says "or yourself"
    I suppose it means that the consequences of Bond breaking into M's flat is, he'd be shot. Is that how others see it?

    I suppose she’s saying Bond may as well just have shot himself so that MI6 wouldn’t have to deal with the fallout caused by his actions. It’s an inelegant line, but in hindsight it’s sort of a ‘just kill yourself’ joke.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 19,532
    007HallY wrote: »
    I like the priest line. I’d also say the Craig films only really managed to nail M’s dialogue in SF.

    Yeah I don't mind that one: she says body, he says soul: it at least flows and starts from 'body', a usual word in that circumstance. As opposed to 'monk' in CR, which kind of comes out of nowhere and jars (for me, anyway).
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited 2:18pm Posts: 3,390
    007HallY wrote: »
    there’s that very strange line about florists (why would a florist ever use the expression ‘we have people everywhere’? It’s so strange, as if it’s trying to be witty but comes off as stilted.
    It's a play on Interflora's old advertising slogan: 'Flowers within hours, worldwide.' They had networks of florists in most countries, so someone in the UK could have flowers delivered to someone in, say, Australia. Have to say, I did understand the quip first time, but then I'm old enough to remember when Interflora used to advertise on tv, so...!
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited 2:58pm Posts: 6,272
    Venutius wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    there’s that very strange line about florists (why would a florist ever use the expression ‘we have people everywhere’? It’s so strange, as if it’s trying to be witty but comes off as stilted.
    It's a play on Interflora's old advertising slogan: 'Flowers within hours, worldwide.' They had networks of florists in most countries, so someone in the UK could have flowers delivered to someone in, say, Australia. Have to say, I did understand the quip first time, but then I'm old enough to remember when Interflora used to advertise on tv, so...!

    That’s a strange reference. Can’t say I’ve ever gotten it. Surely even then florists can simply deliver anywhere, not that they have people everywhere? I thought the joke was it was a random profession and may as well have been used car salesmen or accountant. Shows what I know I suppose!

    It’s an oddly written scene though. M seems uncharacteristically outwardly shaken, and for some reason the script feels the need to hit us on the head with this on the nose dialogue. It’s very ‘tell, don’t show’ - all this info about how long he’s been M’s bodyguard and all the polygraphs etc. It never even gives us a sense of why he’s done this - is it ideological or is it financial? I’d say ironically all the scene needed was for Bond to have looked around the flat and have said something like ‘nice place for a body guard on MI6’s payroll’ and maybe a brief exchange after, and that would have given us all we needed to know.

    The gags are a bit strange too - why would M have gifted Mitchel an ashtray if he didn’t smoke? Just seems random.
  • sandbagger1sandbagger1 Sussex
    Posts: 1,156
    Yeah, the writers strike did that script no favours.
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