007HallY
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I think it's best to start afresh. The goal with a new Bond anyway is to introduce them in a way which makes the audience forget about the previous actor. Referencing NTTD would be a much more elaborate version of how they introduced Lazenby in OHMS…
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peter wrote: » I like the idea of using Fleming’s TMWTGG. It’s an interesting book with Bond being forced to prove himself to M (and M in turn having to prove how useful his best agent still is) by assassinating an enemy of MI6. There’s a gr…
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peter wrote: » @007HallY , if you haven’t already, try and get your hands on the Nocturnal script. The character ATJ played pops off the page, and yes, it’s a dynamic role which had the potential to be the highlight of the film. But ATJ took a …
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Torgeirtrap wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » Torgeirtrap wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » I think what’ll be important to EON is that the actor is seen as James Bond by audiences. They certainly don’t have to be unknown (none of the Bond actors we…
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I agree about ATJ. It's a bit of a shame as I thought he had a lot going for him in Nowhere Boy and Kick Ass. I thought he was great in those films. Since then though he's had so many roles which should have been much more memorable. Godzilla, Av…
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Torgeirtrap wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » I think what’ll be important to EON is that the actor is seen as James Bond by audiences. They certainly don’t have to be unknown (none of the Bond actors were except for Lazenby, as all had prior experie…
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While I’d say I don’t think having a brainwashed Bond try to kill M is a good idea (it’d be a very odd way to introduce a new Bond, and I think it’s better to put distance between Bond 26 and the Craig era/just start afresh) I like the idea of using…
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I'm very mixed on Suter, although worth saying I don't think I've seen him in enough beyond individual scenes of things like Victoria and Vikings, and I'm not too sure if they're things I'd watch anyway. I've just not seen anything from him that get…
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Reflsin2bourbons wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » It’s a bit of a paradox, but I think in order for Bond to be as escapist as it is it needs to have one foot in the door with reality. You can’t really have FRWL, TSWLM or TLD without the Cold War, GE…
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mtm wrote: » I guess it's quite stylised; it has that repeating thing with overhead shots introducing new locations; plus we get a couple of shots where Bond is in one part of the frame, the camera pans, and then Bond jumps impossibly to another p…
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I do think NTTD is quite an impressionistic Bond film. It feels very 5 minutes into the future with the nanobot tech for me (almost like it’s too out there to be realistic, but related enough to our own time to feel real). You get some wonderfully s…
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I’d say the equivalent today is someone like Rege Jean Page. But then again I don’t think he’s suitable for Bond nor does he have Brosnan’s charisma or star quality.
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I think what’ll be important to EON is that the actor is seen as James Bond by audiences. They certainly don’t have to be unknown (none of the Bond actors were except for Lazenby, as all had prior experience) but they can’t be too famous. Cavill …
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It’s a bit of a paradox, but I think in order for Bond to be as escapist as it is it needs to have one foot in the door with reality. You can’t really have FRWL, TSWLM or TLD without the Cold War, GE without the fall of the Soviet Union, or CR witho…
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Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » mtm wrote: » Also don’t forget that Bond wasn’t interested in Felix’s request until M and Nomi warned him off, way too aggressively. That puts his back up and actually provokes him into action. So he’…
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007ClassicBondFan wrote: » Maybe the next 007 adventure should have Craig’s Bond in the afterlife having to answer for all the killing that he’s done. It could be done in the style of a jukebox musical with poorly done renditions of previous Bond …
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mtm wrote: » Also don’t forget that Bond wasn’t interested in Felix’s request until M and Nomi warned him off, way too aggressively. That puts his back up and actually provokes him into action. So he’s irritated with M to start with. And then once…
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Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » To be fair @peter is right. In the context of this film it's what gets Bond back to MI6. He's angry about Leiter's death and needs to confront M/MI6 directly…
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Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » To be fair @peter is right. In the context of this film it's what gets Bond back to MI6. He's angry about Leiter's death and needs to confront M/MI6 directly because things have gotten to that point. Othe…
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To be fair @peter is right. In the context of this film it's what gets Bond back to MI6. He's angry about Leiter's death and needs to confront M/MI6 directly because things have gotten to that point. Otherwise as said it'd be a case of Bond and Leit…
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mtm wrote: » Ha! Yes indeed, it's blinking really. Don't forget the hand to the mouth. That's how you know he's sad. 007ClassicBondFan wrote: » I don’t find Craig’s Bond to be overly depressed in SP, not in the way he could be describe…
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mtm wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » mtm wrote: » It’s interesting that you mention it as I’m not sure I’d noticed before, but you’re probably right that it’s not really quite in the gritty (ish) world of CR. Would the CR Bond have jumped off th…
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Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » Anyway, rant aside, it's also a very cartoonish film, which Bond films don't necessarily tend to be even if they're heightened or have individual gags. As I said it's also a very deconstructive film abo…
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Off topic, but I thought Barbie was one of the most cynical (and quite frankly one of the weirdest) films I've ever seen. I think what a lot of people liked about it was the idea that it 'deconstructed' what Barbie was and pointed out the 'negative'…
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mtm wrote: » It’s interesting that you mention it as I’m not sure I’d noticed before, but you’re probably right that it’s not really quite in the gritty (ish) world of CR. Would the CR Bond have jumped off that bridge and smacked into the wall wit…
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I love the idea of the tonal jumps in the film. The opening with Safin is like something from a horror film, and reminds me of those darker moments you get in older Bond movies (stuff like 009’s death in OP, or Connie being mauled by dogs in MR). It…
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If we’re going from recent cinema trends (which isn’t always useful when predicting Bond, or at least can get us to some odd conclusions) it’s not so much a case of anything gritty and dark being ‘out’ and lighthearted bubblegummy fare ‘in’. If that…
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I genuinely don’t know what that could have looked like. Oldman tends to go big with some of his villains, and I think Waltz’s Blofeld was missing a bit of much needed madness in the performance. Then again he can also be really understated when he …
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CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: » I think the reason why Bond appeals to kids is because Bond has never really made a conscious point of really appealing to kids. I'm sure that most people here are like myself in that they probably watched their first B…
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We’ll see either way. Like I said though I think he’s a really great actor (one of the best young ones around, at least in the UK). And hey, if he doesn’t get it this time round there’s a chance he could do it ten years down the line. But we’ll see …
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