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Casino Royale directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring PB. How would it have turned out?

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  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    Well he is on the Graham Norton show friday night! Maybe a Bond question will be slipped in? Who knows?
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    RogueAgent wrote:
    Well he is on the Graham Norton show friday night! Maybe a Bond question will be slipped in? Who knows?

    Graham and Quentin on the same stage? Oh, hell yes!
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
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    My brain exploded just reading the title of the thread.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Kerim wrote:
    My brain exploded just reading the title of the thread.

    I thought you were Kerim, not Krest. ;)
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
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    It was more Kananga style.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    RogueAgent wrote:
    Well he is on the Graham Norton show friday night! Maybe a Bond question will be slipped in? Who knows?

    Graham and Quentin on the same stage? Oh, hell yes!

    Got it recorded so will watch it tomorrow! Looking forward to it! :-bd
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    LicenceRevoked wrote:
    I don't know, I really don't rate Tarantino as a director tbh. I mean narratively movies like Pulp Fiction are kind of innovative, but other than that his movies (to me) seem to have more in common with a 13 year old with loads of his moms red food coloring and a super-8 camera making movies with friends. The whole retro vibe thing doesn't really do it for me but to each their own. I don't think it would be a good fit for Bond, I really don't.

    I think QT can be good, but he is often too full of himself to be honest. Judging by his interviews about CR, I don't think he would have made a good job. I can see him directing adaptations of many books, King Suckerman by George Pelecanos for instance, which seems to have been written for him, but not James Bond.
  • NapoleonPluralNapoleonPlural
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    I'd have loved to have seen it. To me, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill Vol 1 are two movies that totally capture the original feelings I had about the 1960s Bond movies, and which the actual films haven't given me for a long time. PF feels like an action film, because there is always something going on, the dialogue is great - but actually, there isn't much action, if any, of the Bond or Die Hard kind, no car chases or whathave you. What you have is perpetual one-upmanship between male rivals (or female rivals in KB) that the Bond films used to have, before they left the casting of the villain to the very last minute.

    And scenes from Inglorious B would be perfect in a Bond film, in particular the shoot out in the basement bar, when one of the imposter Germans has a red wine with fish moment.

    That said, I never quite saw how QT would do Casino Royale with an ageing Brosnan, I think most likely he was just using that book because it was available or seemed to be. This is a guy who can dash off a script and then just redo it on a whim, he's quite hypermanic so he probably wasn't gutted that the film didn't go ahead. He's got a crazy backlog of ideas, and Django Unchained is getting great reviews.
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