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It does feel as though the 'careless' bit was written in later. It could well have been an attempt at humour/subverting an expectation, but at the same time it's not something that lands for me. With the last line taken out it reminds me of the '…
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » The great thing about Bond as a film series is that it’s a big enough franchise to build up anticipation on it…
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » The great thing about Bond as a film series is that it’s a big enough franchise to build up anticipation on its own. It really doesn’t need a Villeneuve, Nol…
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DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » The great thing about Bond as a film series is that it’s a big enough franchise to build up anticipation on its own. It really doesn’t need a Villeneuve, Nolan, or a Wright (at least for publicity, and ev…
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The great thing about Bond as a film series is that it’s a big enough franchise to build up anticipation on its own. It really doesn’t need a Villeneuve, Nolan, or a Wright (at least for publicity, and even creatively is debatable). Also, what some …
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Yeah, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. There's a BBC spy drama from 2015 called The Game which is quite Le Carre-esque. Brian Cox plays the head of MI5 who's only known by the codename 'Daddy', which is in its own way quite funny.
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NTTD. Smith's voice is terrible in TWOTW but the arrangements are ok. For better or for worse it's a memorable Bond song that has an impact... unlike NTTD for me.
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Best - You Know My Name. It's a toss up between this and SF for me, and I'd say both are memorable and even classic Bond tunes. There's so much energy in this song and harder edged rock tunes are always quite refreshing when they pop up in Bond hist…
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It's rather an odd quirk of Bond's job that he's occasionally ordered to go off and have sex in order to get his mission done. There's that example from FRWL, and M even seems to encourage Bond to 'pump' Paris for information in TND. Both are handle…
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mtm wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » But as was said, the issue is we never really get a sense of what the Nine Eyes can do, and because the threat is so vague and, on the surface, un-dramatic it gets to the point where there's literally a countdown…
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mtm wrote: » Yes, we can't really complain about young pretty boys when Roger was there in the role 50 years ago. True. Even Dalton before his late 30s wasn't far off that. Like I often say, some of the actors just needed to age a little bi…
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SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: » George_Kaplan wrote: » To elaborate on my previous point, I don't think it's so much down to people ageing slower, but that the criteria of what a handsome leading man should look like has changed, and the sorts of f…
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It makes sense that SP wanted a plot about surveillance and the potential issue of some shadowy figure stepping in and completely overhauling MI6 (from what I remember it's some sort of merger between MI6 and MI5, which is actually a pretty big deal…
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Bernard Lee’s actually another one who I feel the retrospective age thing applies to in tandem with his acting. He actually looked relatively young throughout the Bond series when you look past the white hair later on and clothes (or at least relati…
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ProfJoeButcher wrote: » In real life, isn't C the head of the Secret Intelligence Service? I think they use it as an abbreviation of Chief sometimes nowadays. But it comes from the first head of MI6 whose last name was Cummings and signed d…
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shimplyshocking007 wrote: » Richard Vernon in Goldfinger. Late thirties but looked at least late fifties. It’s kinda wild when you learn how old he was (not even 40) and that he played similar types of middle aged characters around that tim…
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SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » I think they'll go slightly less famous for Felix. It kinda makes sense, you don't want a Jake Gyllenhall or even a Jeremy Renner outshining a new Bond actor. I'd go for someone along the lines o…
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Probably the biggest one is going the 'step brother' route (although it's always worth noting they simply knew each other as children, seemingly for a few months, and it's actually a pretty underbaked idea within the context of the film) instead of …
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I think they'll go slightly less famous for Felix. It kinda makes sense, you don't want a Jake Gyllenhall or even a Jeremy Renner outshining a new Bond actor. I'd go for someone along the lines of Boyd Holbrook personally.
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Risico007 wrote: » peter wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » mtm wrote: » I think that’s what Fiennes brought to it too. We’re pretty much told that he was a bit of a hero in the field. It’s there for sure. The issue with Mallory (in my …
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peter wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » mtm wrote: » I think that’s what Fiennes brought to it too. We’re pretty much told that he was a bit of a hero in the field. It’s there for sure. The issue with Mallory (in my opinion) is that he was…
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Colonel_Venus wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » Colonel_Venus wrote: » I just woke up from a dream in which Ralph Fiennes played Bond in Bond 26. Was he any good? All I remember is that he was dead serious as Bond. Absolutely no jok…
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mtm wrote: » I think that’s what Fiennes brought to it too. We’re pretty much told that he was a bit of a hero in the field. It’s there for sure. The issue with Mallory (in my opinion) is that he was, by temperament, much more ‘by the books…
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Well, TND had a notoriously tight schedule/they were writing as they filmed from what I understand. Usually it’s not a situation to aspire to have.
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Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » I agree but I do think that makes sense with his schedule. Announcement James Bond day 2024 "EON producers Barbara and Micheal and pleased to announce Denis Villeneuve will write and direct Bond 26, the film will be released i…
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Colonel_Venus wrote: » I just woke up from a dream in which Ralph Fiennes played Bond in Bond 26. Was he any good?
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Elba or someone like Colin Salmon could be good if they were going for a ‘younger’ M. Both have that element to them that they could have potentially played Bond in alternate universes which is an interesting route to go for a new M.
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Personally, I wouldn’t read anything into… well anything at this point until they actually announce something definitive.
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sandbagger1 wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » It may well be something a bit lost nowadays, but the background that Fleming gave Bond is quite unusual in many ways. While certainly privileged, Bond is educated earlier on in Europe so isn't in that wo…
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bondywondy wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » A balance is needed. The problem with Tom Hiddleston (this is not a criticism of him or him as an actor by the way, just an issue with his Bond potential) is that he is and comes across as a child of publi…
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