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I think it's likely the next film will have a high action quotient to showcase the new (young) Bond, particularly if the new guy is Sope and his athleticism is part of what landed him the role. I'd expect some serious emotional scenes, too, of cours…
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DarthDimi wrote: » mtm wrote: » Would you want less action than Skyfall had? Because it didn't have very much. Good question, @mtm. I guess SF doesn't really qualify as a big action Bond. Perhaps that is also part of the reason why the …
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It's not the shootout at the collapsing house I object to so much as Vesper's choosing of a fairly horrible-looking death by drowning whilst her lover looks on helpless, as opposed to the original ending of Vesper choosing to end her life painlessly…
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It would be great to have a villain as iconic as Terrance Stamp's Zod in the next movie.
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Colonel_Venus wrote: » Univex wrote: » Mathew Vaughn has said Eon wouldn’t touch him with a stick, IHO. Nor should they, IMO. Agreed. I really hope that this Vaughn rumour is either completely made up or orchestrated misdirection by EON…
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I think much of the decision will be based on money - if Aston are offering the top price then I imagine that will override anything else. Not every car company will want their image tied to Bond, at least not for the money Aston has been paying I w…
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In the UK Bond will continue to be popular because he is our only contemporary iconic hero; I really don't know how he'll fare worldwide, though. I think having an epic title-track by a popular artist is a big part of the winning formula and helps m…
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007HallY wrote: » peter wrote: » matt_u wrote: » Like it or not the most successful Bond ever was directed by an auteur. Not saying Bond needs an A-list director every time, but Nolan would make the next release the biggest Bond event sin…
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Goldeneye's freefall to the plane, and the tank chase through Moscow defined Pierce's Bond as a larger-than-life hero capable of outrageous things, and that was cool, it was what the audience wanted at the time, but it did come at the expense of him…
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Casino Royale gave Bond a credibility and depth he didn't have in the Brosnan era, where he was awesome but cartoony. I'd been watching Bond at the cinema since The Spy Who Loved Me, but I hadn't gone out and bought a Bond DVD until Casino Royale ma…
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It was the era when space was everything. America had just put a man on the moon and Bond was trying to be relevant to the trend (yet again).
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The script was much sharper than usual. The way that Bond was constantly aware of his surroundings and used them to his advantage was excellent, and unfortunately something that they dropped. I heard that the aborted Jinx film script was a big influ…
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Jordo007 wrote: » One thing I hope they get right in Bond 26 is Bond's dry wit. I love CR and QOS's one liners, they are few and far between but they're so memorable. I'd rather they have less quips, but when they happen feel organic and intell…
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peter wrote: » You’re right @sandbagger1 , DH never should have been made into a series of films, although I still love no.3. Yes, 3 was good, and I think part of that was because they broke out of the Die Hard framework of one guy caught by …
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Univex wrote: » @peter, my friend, I am Jungian as much as Freudian ;) and I believe archetypes and archetypical narratives will always exist. I’d ad the Iliad and Odyssey as somewhat the amalgamation of heroic journeys. But I don’t think this …
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peter wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » MakeshiftPython wrote: » delfloria wrote: » peter wrote: » delfloria wrote: » peter wrote: » Do you know one of the top three questions a producer will ask in a meeting is: what are the p…
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MakeshiftPython wrote: » delfloria wrote: » peter wrote: » delfloria wrote: » peter wrote: » Do you know one of the top three questions a producer will ask in a meeting is: what are the personal stakes, and/or what is the internal/…
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DarthDimi wrote: » While I don't need Bond psycho-analyzed like Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, I agree that without at least some personal stakes, a modern Bond film would feel a bit stale. I'm not asking for a deep Bond-centric sto…
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CrabKey wrote: » What is a concept-crutch? I just mean some concept that will make the film feel significant in the series regardless of whether the film is actually any good. Comic book events from Marvel and DC have been doing it for deca…
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mtm wrote: » sandbagger1 wrote: » mtm wrote: » Have they been doing ‘high concept crutches’? Just seems like stories to me. Sure they have: we've had Bond before he's Bond, grieving revenge-driven Bond, past-it Bond, Bond meets long…
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mtm wrote: » Have they been doing ‘high concept crutches’? Just seems like stories to me. Sure they have: we've had Bond before he's Bond, grieving revenge-driven Bond, past-it Bond, Bond meets long lost evil Brother responsible for everyth…
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classic I'd like to see them do a film without any high-concept crutch to lean on, just focus on doing the basics really well.
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Yeah, it bores me rigid and just feels incredibly underwhelming. Good ideas though, it just didn’t work on screen. I often look at films that don’t work and feel that if I was a movie exec I might well have green-lit the thing expecting it to be …
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Oh, undoubtedly. And whilst it is easy to be clever in hindsight, a lot of ideas that didn’t work probably would have worked with a certain amount of fine-tuning. I think there is often a really great Bond film lurking in some of the franchise’s …
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I liked Reynard in concept, just not the execution.
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Speaking of superhuman henchmen, I would like to see Bond take on someone more like Grant, someone who would be more than just muscle and have a Roy Batty/Kurgan style presence in the film.
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HarmonyRockets wrote: » I'm still rooting for Park Chan-wook. Yes, me too.
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Honestly, I don’t need to see the Union Jack every film. We’re not a country where people display the flag like they do in the U.S.
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MakeshiftPython wrote: » A more accurate term for less successful Bond films is “underperformed”. OHMSS, TMWTGG, and LTK were all considered under performers that made Eon take a course correction. There’s also special cases like MR, DAD, and Q…
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I’m sure the critical and commercial success of Oppenheimer will put Nolan high on Eon’s wish-list of directors, but will it put him outside of Bond’s price range for a director? I have no idea how this works in the industry, could Nolan choose to k…
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