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As I am not in the film industry, I suppose I am an average man on the street. (Maybe being a Bond fan exempts me from completely AMOTS.) A Bond film making money is important to me, otherwise films will stop being made.
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As we have heard nothing from BB, I'm not ready to credit her with being shrewd. She could easily be flummoxed. As for Nolan, is he that big with the 20 somethings and younger film goers?
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I mentioned in an earlier post being on a flight with a couple of hundred film selections and it was almost impossible to find a film I wanted to see. Many I had seen already and of the things I hadn't it was F&F, Marvel, DC, kids animation, and…
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talos7 wrote: » Which is why I hope the veer away from another ballad for the title song. I know the last three Bond songs won Oscars, but please! Enough of the depressing ballads. We need something explosive again like LALD, AVTAK, and CR.
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I would like to see the stereotypes avoided. No way this woman is an old toad. She's not lusting for wealth. She was born into it. She's had her parents murdered to take over the family empire in order to get power and control. She's a relatively yo…
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Regarding Peter's female villain. Does she have to have a dark past in which she has been exploited and victimized? I get the motivation. But isn't that what we've come to expect of female characters? That she must have that horrible past to justify…
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I don't have the impression anyone is calling for Bond to remain in the fifties. The sixties, maybe. OHMSS was written in 1962 during the filming of DN, which explains Fleming's mention of Ursula Andress. Setting the literary stories in the 60s keep…
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Contemporary for the times in which the novels were written. Had mobile phones been available during the period of the first six films, how different would those films have been? Mobile phones and GPS would have significantly impacted the plots of t…
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Perhaps this is where the title Property of a Lady needs to be used. Lady being intentionally ironic.
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@Peter - Clearly you have much to share about script writing. As this discussion is about where Bond goes after Craig, perhaps you could start a separate discussion about script writing. I am not being facetious.
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@Peter and @mtm - I prefer not to see M and Bond get into another conflict, argument, spat, disagreement, whatever you want to call it. Why that triggers a lengthy response about the nature of conflict in script writing eludes me. As talos7 said, ot…
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talos7 wrote: » CrabKey wrote: » I daresay most of us here recall Aristotle's Poetics. Not for a second would I consider M a robot if he or she did not get crossways with Bond. Obviously the conflicts occur elsewhere within the story. R…
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I daresay most of us here recall Aristotle's Poetics. Not for a second would I consider M a robot if he or she did not get crossways with Bond. Obviously the conflicts occur elsewhere within the story.
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RichardTheBruce wrote: » It would be odd if M does not express frustration with 007. Therein lies the challenge of reinvention and originality.
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Agreed, We don't need anymore conflicts between M and Bond. Been there, done that. If you're going to reinvent then reinvent. And that goes for stitching together a new Bond film with bits and pieces of old films and novels. I've seen two versions o…
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I, as a few others who visit this site, have been with the Bond films since DN was released in 1962. There has been a great deal of change both good and not so good throughout. My generation was the first to experience the trauma of a casting change…
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The consistent message in this thread is only two people know what they are talking about. Other opinions need not apply.
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@mtm - I am glad you clarified your last century statement. I have no problem with a Bond in the present. But I am not a fan of original films and Bond films in title only. Somehow they don't capture the feel of Fleming for me. Others don't share…
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Wasn't this written during Fleming's final days and Amis finished up the novel. Does someone have something more accurate?
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@Peter -I thought it an odd way to refer to the source material. You disagree, fine.
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Huge cinematic event sounds bloated and overly expensive with impossible to deliver expectations.
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@mtm - I also don't think the producers should feel limited to only reproducing the life experiences the character had in his 14 books in the last century, otherwise they can't really go anywhere. For me, half the enjoyment of a long-running charact…
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Haven we ever been given a reason why MI-6 keeps spending untold sums on rebuilding Bond's car?
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@Peter - We're not brawling. Nothing to cool.
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Isn't practically everything on this site an exercise in frustration? This thread for example, Where does Bond go after Craig? Why have the thread at all? I see no difference between speculating about the possibilities of a future Bond than a dozen …
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Peter, I understand the brand and no I don't think he will be unrecognizable. As this is a discussion forum, I am hoping for some of that. Looking for some speculation. The same but different offers me nothing. That's a variation of Bond always chan…
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As one who has written about the reinvention of Bond, I need to take a step back and wonder if that's what I actually mean. Have I been saying reinvention when all I really want is another Bond film. Reinvention is the action or process through whic…
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The DB5 doesn't have to be a Bond car in the next film. Just a nod is fine. I could imagine Bond and a colleague sitting at an outside cafe. Across the street is another outdoor cafe and close by a DB5 is parked. Bond's colleague notices Bond has…
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As a one and done Bond, Lazenby seems unlikely to be a the top of the list as favorite Bond. But he's not at the bottom of my list. He rates as my fourth favorite Bond. How he would have been in the future or in a particular scene is pointless specu…
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No matter how much technology has evolved, how things and attitudes have changed, Connery remains the best Bond period. Call it generational whatever, he is simply the best hands down. His Bond has a look, style, charm, and ease on screen that none…
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