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I can kind of imagine CraigBond encountering some sort of situation like that where it's quite clear how whatever-it-is is possible, and it'd be quite refreshing.
I think it's much more likely that Amazon will play it safe to avoid offending half of their audience.
True, a bit of ambiguity is a good thing. Lets the mind run wild instead of having everything spelled out. A bit like when Bond deals the tarot cards and it foresees him and Solitaire escaping in 'the chariot' (bus) in the next scene. Did Bond add those specific cards to the top of the loaded deck or is the power of the Obeah at play?
How about if the 'fortune-telling' quantum computer is destroyed in the finale. The villain stares at Bond's smoking silencer and with their dying breath says something like, "That thing will do more harm than good". And in the next movie Bond gets it caught in his waistband.
LALD had an equaliser with Quarrel Jr; the local
who knows the Baron is a con. His pop thought dragons were real, after all.
Hopefully. The less nationalism, the better.
Alternatively, it's the Euro 28 final. Germany 1 England 0. Last minute penalty. Wembley holds its breath. Can James Bond send the country wild with relief?
No. He's English, so he misses. The Sun calls Amazon 'woke' and is bought out and burned down by an irate Bezos.
No offense but if you're against any form of patriotism then you've backed the wrong franchise. The brits love their Bond, and that's not about to change.
Nationalism isn't patriotism. I actually live in Britain and find the distinction telling. I'd noticed it growing up in the north of Ireland, too, during the troubles.
I'd hope not.
I think such symbolism ought to be taken within the confines of the plot. It works in TSWLM as it encourages the oneupmanship between Anglo-Soviet relations. Bond keeps the British end up by doing the right thing.
Entries like DAD and Skyfall are different. Being British is the right thing to do in those. 'Pathetic love of country' is the moral.
Eh?
-- Harry "mattjoes" Saltzman
Don't overlook the fact that Sinners is written and directed by one of the best and most succesful mass market directors around at the moment. Yes, I agree, people want originality. But great films by great filmmakers find their audience. And horror seems to be one of the genres that still routinely gets people into theatres. So it's a very specific combination that I'm not sure a Bond film could emulate.
Welcome to the post-Covid world, my friend. There's nothing left.
There was something smart about seasoning NTTD with horror.
What an obnoxious post
Accurate, too.
It wouldn't work unless Bond fights a shark
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
Warming to the idea of setting a reboot in the past, as it doesn't look as though an actor can carry the can like Craig.
Sixties-era for a film or two with an unheralded actor?
Since things are being shaken up anyway, why not? Period Bond seems wrong and right at the same time. I'm simply not sure it would have any sort of commercial appeal.
Would this be a skydiving shark or one in the water upon landing from a skydive ? Are you - gasp - proposing a Bond-Nado film ? That would be too much excitement in one movie and, let's face it, people could die...in the audience, I mean. Not in the film. In the film it would be make-believe.
Agreed.
If they could replace Connery successfully they should be able to replace Craig successfully too with the right actor.
They just need someone with charisma and good looks. If he is sexy enough there will be no problem.