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NO TIME TO DIE - Questions Thread

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  • ColonelAdamskiColonelAdamski UK
    edited 12:08pm Posts: 1,206
    Jordo007 wrote: »
    Funnily enough I remember when the production was in Italy there was local reports the Bond crew filming a wedding on a beach somewhere. It was in Italy but away from Matera. It was around the same time the title "Genoma of a Woman" was mentioned.

    Perhaps Bond and Madeleine were going to be married initially, but it was cut for time or maybe it made Bond seem too cruel to put his wife on a train and leave her.

    That would make sense of the hotel manager's weird quip. It'd also make their lovey-dovey stuff in the car and at the hotel more understandable if they'd just got hitched on the beach.
    Imagine the car ride and the whole "do you like the view" and OHMSS soundtrack malarkey coming directly after a short beach wedding scene.

    It'd also make better sense Bond's "my family" quip in a way.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited 2:32pm Posts: 3,384
    Good points here from Jordo and the Colonel. Yes, all of those things would resonate more if they'd originally followed a 'short beach wedding scene.' One of the reasons that EON scrapped Paul Haggis's Sleep of the Dead script was because BB and MGW had a fundamental objection to Bond leaving Vesper's child at the Romanian orphanage and just driving away. So it's plausible that, as ColonelAdamski says, they might also have disliked the idea of Bond walking away from his wife just after the marriage.
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