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Birdleson wrote: » For me Bond, as Fleming intended, has always been a Boy's adventure fantasy. Name a female director and honestly I won't bother. I know that is extreme, as opposed to @DarthDimi innocuous stance, but I feel Barbara Broccoli (adm…
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007ClassicBondFan wrote: » NickTwentyTwo wrote: » Going back to Skyfall was only because there was no technology to exploit, and Bond knew the lay of the land. He says as much when they first get in the DB5. It was part of the story insofar a…
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thelivingroyale wrote: » I do find the idea of a 20 something Bond early in his career interesting. It’s one of the very few approaches they haven’t done already. But it would take a very talented writer and director to pull it off. I wouldn’t wan…
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MakeshiftPython wrote: » Linus is at it again. Lol, how (what I presume to be) Brad Pitt's character's house is colored pretty much like Matera. Lot of similar lighting/coloring going on here. That shot of Diego Calva at the end of the …
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MakeshiftPython wrote: » To be fair, there had only been two unusual delays with Craig’s tenure, 2008-2012, and 2015-2021. The first was attributed to MGM going bankrupt, which EON couldn’t have hoped to avoid. They made Bond 23 as fast as they co…
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peter wrote: » There was a lot of activity during Covid-- the main one being: marketing and releasing a successful film that had been sitting in the digital can, losing money on interest alone. Each of the Bond films is its own entity and needs…
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Jordo007 wrote: » I liked the cinematography on NTTD, but at times it did look almost like a dream, which was a bit odd for Bond I thought. It looked a bit surreal, which might have been the intention But I loved most of the cinematography of M…
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I don't think they'll explicitly do remakes, but I think what's more likely is what they've done for ~30 years which is pulling and recontexualizing elements of past films (TND being TSWLM, Skyfall having elements of GE + DAD seeped in more striaght…
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MI6HQ wrote: » Revelator wrote: » patb wrote: » Trouble is, it's all connected with his death. As if his death is not a big enough "thing", they ratchet up the emotion (or try to) with a daughter. They lose this with the above plot idea pl…
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Revelator wrote: » BMB007 wrote: » Because in the context of the story (and this is a larger mythological motif) there is an opposition between "killer" and "life-creator"...So having a kid is the most concrete "creation" one can have. Literal…
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Revelator wrote: » I'm not sure why becoming a father would reclaim one's soul. There are plenty of gangsters, murderers, dictators, and other monsters who dearly love their children and still commit evil outside the home. Loving one's own family …
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The whole last ~hour of the film is Bond earning the title of father, which by virtue of that "reclaims" his soul — the thing he lost in "Casino Royale". That's why there is so much focus on Mathilde's eyes. The eyes are the soul. Her having his eye…
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MakeshiftPython wrote: » I didn’t mind that the Craig films emphasized less on action and more on character and intrigue. To me, that was what was refreshing about Craig’s run after the Brosnan films were overloaded with those set pieces by Vic Ar…
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slide_99 wrote: » BMB007 wrote: » jetsetwilly wrote: » slide_99 wrote: » This is slightly off topic, but can anyone give an example of a non-superhero/non-supernatural character in myth, literature, or film who was killed off but then …
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jetsetwilly wrote: » slide_99 wrote: » This is slightly off topic, but can anyone give an example of a non-superhero/non-supernatural character in myth, literature, or film who was killed off but then brought back without a massive retcon? Bec…
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LucknFate wrote: » TripAces wrote: » LucknFate wrote: » George_Kaplan wrote: » They're definitely not made for children, but they can easily be enjoyed by children. I can't think of anything in any Bond film that would be unsuitable fo…
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MI6HQ wrote: » 007HallY wrote: » The ending is strange for what it's worth, even beyond the fact that Bond dies. I've talked with a few people who saw the film first time and were under the impression that there were things foreshadowing a rev…
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Satorious wrote: » I think the opposite in terms of 'depth' or at least I should say 'colour depth'. Deakins' work has a sharp modern digital clinical clean look (with a more stylized high contrast look) - Sandgren's work has more old-school dream…
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zebrafish wrote: » Birthyear is a bit dodgy (1962 is the birth year of the film Bond series), but I like it. And much in the style of his parents' tombstone. Oh my goodness, that's so cool it's consistent like that.
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zebrafish wrote: » Now, here is a new kind of easter egg for NTTD in real life: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/25/faroe-islands-bond-no-time-to-die The people on the Faroe Island location where Craig's last scene happens have erec…
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Not a single beat, except maybe adding another Safin/Madeleine interaction. But I don't know what I'd cut to justify that so...
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Bueno1694 wrote: » Check out this concept project for NTTD. There's a lot of concept art and design stuff in it, and I think you guys will be amused by this. https://willhtay.myportfolio.com/bond-25-no-time-to-die Glad they didn't do the…
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RichardTheBruce wrote: » BMB007 wrote: » CharmianBond wrote: » BMB007 wrote: » No Time to Die allows Bond to salvage his soul. Bingo. This is the key from the five films (the word "soul" is used or alluded to repeatedly throughout).…
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CharmianBond wrote: » BMB007 wrote: » No Time to Die allows Bond to salvage his soul. Bingo. This is the key from the five films (the word "soul" is used or alluded to repeatedly throughout). He lost something to become 007, and the whole j…
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RichardTheBruce wrote: » BMB007 wrote: » CharmianBond wrote: » Forgive me if this parallel has been mentioned before but I had only realised it from reading Priscilla Page's excellent article on the Craig era, she says: 'There is a beautif…
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CharmianBond wrote: » Forgive me if this parallel has been mentioned before but I had only realised it from reading Priscilla Page's excellent article on the Craig era, she says: 'There is a beautiful symmetry to the beginning and the end of this …
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85 and still singing like that! Dang!
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RichardTheBruce wrote: » BMB007 wrote: » GBF wrote: » Well, Calvin Dyson explained it perfectly. Safin being obsessed by Madeleine makes no sense given the fact that they do not seem to have met for more than 20 years.... Furthermore, Safi…
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GBF wrote: » Well, Calvin Dyson explained it perfectly. Safin being obsessed by Madeleine makes no sense given the fact that they do not seem to have met for more than 20 years.... Furthermore, Safin just used her as a weapon to kill Blofeld.... …
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FoxRox wrote: » peter wrote: » I find him to clearly be an incel. He’s a dangerous little twerp who fell in love with the 12 year old girl he was intending to kill (when he says he never forgot her eyes, it was erotic to him and sickening to a…
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