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  • LucknFateLucknFate 007 In New York
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    Everything But The Girl

    Nothing Left To Lose
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Return Fire.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited April 2023 Posts: 15,012
    With thanks to @SIS_HQ, Ian Fleming's maxim for life no.13:

    Live Until You're Dead
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    mtm wrote: »
    With thanks to @SIS_HQ, Ian Fleming's maxim for life no.13:

    Live Until You're Dead

    That recalls You Only Live Until You Die which I think was a Bond spoof novel or film title.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited April 2023 Posts: 15,012
    Yeah it's a bit too trite and sounds a touch 'live, laugh, love', but the Fleming connection makes it interesting.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited April 2023 Posts: 17,830
    mtm wrote: »
    Yeah it's a bit too trite and sounds a touch 'live, laugh, love', but the Fleming connection makes it interesting.

    It's certainly a decent sounding title and coming from Fleming helps to give it the royal seal of approval, as it were. I think it's increasingly hard, some 70 years on from the beginnings of Bond, to come up with a really original title that hasn't been used by a Bond spoof or other spy novel or film.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    This thread has come up with some good ones so far. Some of my favourites are (apologies as I don't remember who came up with them):
    With One Eye Open
    When All Else Fails
    Ask Questions Later
    I Only Need It All
    Forever Hold Your Peace
    Next To Nothing
    Nothing Else Matters
    Every Second Counts
    Everyone Dies Solo
    Once And For All
    Perchance To Die
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Return to Sender

  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    There is a slightly more famous song by that name too :)
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Yeah could work.

  • LucknFateLucknFate 007 In New York
    edited April 2023 Posts: 1,439
    I really like Return To Sender. It's going on the list.

    One's True Colors
    Best Served Cold
    No Rhyme Or Reason
    Put Away Wet
    Into The Sunset
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    I think it's safe to say that we've given those monkeys with typewriters a run for their money in coming up with the perfect title for Bond 26. ;)
  • LucknFateLucknFate 007 In New York
    edited April 2023 Posts: 1,439
    Return To Sender very close to another on my list from this thread:

    Return To Service. I think I prefer the former, but the latter is "fun" for a new Bond's first or second film. It also would work for NTTD.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    To double down on it, RTS opening along the lines of The Man with the Golden Gun with
    007 brainwashed and trying to assassinate M. Then he's sent back at those evildoers.

    Still that already treads into With a Mind to Kill territory.

  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Back in Business.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    The Work of the Devil.
  • BennyBenny In the shadowsAdministrator, Moderator
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    mtm wrote: »
    This thread has come up with some good ones so far. Some of my favourites are (apologies as I don't remember who came up with them):
    With One Eye Open
    When All Else Fails
    Ask Questions Later
    I Only Need It All
    Forever Hold Your Peace
    Next To Nothing
    Nothing Else Matters
    Every Second Counts
    Everyone Dies Solo
    Once And For All
    Perchance To Die

    Every Second Counts?
    I cannot read this, and not see Paul Daniels...
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  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    The Man with the Cloven Hoof.

    The Cloven Hoof.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited April 2023 Posts: 15,012
    Really going for the Devil ones? :)
    How about When The Devil Drives (usually preceded by 'Needs must')? But really Faulks got the best one.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    mtm wrote: »
    Really going for the Devil ones? :)
    How about When The Devil Drives (usually preceded by 'Needs must')? But really Faulks got the best one.

    Oh, yes. It must've been deep in my subconscious as I didn't even realise the theme! :)
  • BennyBenny In the shadowsAdministrator, Moderator
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    Since the Fleming titles (for the most part) have dried up, have there been any really great titles from any of the continuation novels that would be suitable for a movie?
  • TheSkyfallen06TheSkyfallen06 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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    The Dried Heart
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited April 2023 Posts: 15,012
    Yeah, 'Heart' definitely feels like a Bondy word to me. It's a target, an emotional state, a suit in cards...
  • LucknFateLucknFate 007 In New York
    edited April 2023 Posts: 1,439
    I'd offer The Weeping Heart but we had a weeping eye in CR already.

    Shot Through The Heart? And you're too late? You Give Love A Bad Name
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Jon Bon aside, I don't mind it! :)

    I always feel like Cross My Heart or Cross Your Heart should work (it's half of a vaguely Bondy phrase).
    Another Bleeding Heart maybe.
  • LucknFateLucknFate 007 In New York
    edited April 2023 Posts: 1,439
    mtm wrote: »
    Jon Bon aside, I don't mind it! :)

    I always feel like Cross My Heart or Cross Your Heart should work (it's half of a vaguely Bondy phrase).
    Another Bleeding Heart maybe.

    Crossed Hearts is also good. I also have Heart Of The Matter and Heart, Service, And Gold on my lists.

    Kiss Of Death
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited April 2023 Posts: 15,012
    That's nice.
    I was just reading about how Skyfall was called Nothing Is Forever for a little while.

    Not bad but a touch derivative perhaps. And y'know, contradicts what we know about diamonds.
  • LucknFateLucknFate 007 In New York
    edited April 2023 Posts: 1,439
    mtm wrote: »
    That's nice.
    I was just reading about how Skyfall was called Nothing Is Forever for a little while.

    Not bad but a touch derivative perhaps. And y'know, contradicts what we know about diamonds.

    I liked that prospective title until you made the point about Diamonds.. hadn't though about that contradiction! Reminds me of one off my list again: Seven To Forever

    The "seven" is of course 007 but otherwise completely arbitrary. To me it sounds like a dinner date that leads to love or death. "Meet at seven, and then forever."
  • TheSkyfallen06TheSkyfallen06 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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    Forever To Serve
  • mattjoesmattjoes
    edited April 2023 Posts: 6,754
    Speaking of Return to Sender...

    It's Now or Never
    Hearts of Stone
    Only the Strong Survive
    Hound Dog
    A Little Less Conversation
    Jailhouse Rock
    Paradise, Hawaiian Style
    Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
    A Big Hunk O' Love
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