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I didn't like the Brosnan era thing of 'a quip before killing'. "She's waiting for you" with Reynard, "Give the public what they want" (or whatever the Carver death quip was), or even "for me" in GE. Oh yea, there was "time to face gravity" or some…
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The movies kind of 'officially' ignored the continuation novels, until SPECTRE. But I suppose a case could be made for nicking the Icebreaker Ice Palace villain's lair for Die Another Day. But it could just as easily be coincidence. And yes Max, it…
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talos7 wrote: » Many attempts were made at developing a script for Jaws, including one done by Peter Benchley, who basically handed in the book. I've got a bit of a tale about that book. I took that book to school when I was about nine or t…
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Locque wrote: » I’ve always felt Octopussy is just a few edits away from being one of the best in the series: just take out all the stupid attemts at jokes - the Tarzan yell, the tennis noises over the rickshaw chase, and that one excruciating sce…
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I wonder what Brozza meant when he said he'd seen Licence to Kill and "what had happened with that". What did happen with that, in his opinion?
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It's true, Bond never had a mullet.
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Denbigh wrote: » Also, no-ones saying you can’t think that, just don’t be annoyed or surprised when someone challenges you about it. . I only get annoyed when it's done in a snide way, as it was on this thread. Not by you of course, you've…
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Denbigh wrote: » And you’ve still not really given me what fundamental changes? Because to me, his bloodline and heritage isn’t important. It’s never even been addressed before until Skyfall (in the films) so how does changing that or even just no…
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Denbigh wrote: » Ok, but what exactly,? What changes? Apart from the colour of his skin? Then he stops being the person that Ian Fleming wrote about, and I agree that for most of the cinema-going audience, that wouldn't matter at all. But t…
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CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: » It would not be a particularly bad thing to do, of course - change is something that happens to everything at some point - but to dress it up as anything other than a massive fundamental change to the character is not real…
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I think they should cast him as close as they can to how Fleming wrote him, as long as it says 'Ian Fleming's James Bond' at the start. I get pretty pissed off at being told I've somehow got dodgy views on race, because of me thinking that.
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AKillToAView wrote: » I'm sorry the idea of a black Bond depresses you. lol Not wanting a black Bond is different from not wanting a black doctor or a black newscaster. Perhaps you can't see that difference, and that's okay. But this has be…
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Yep, everyone expects a 're-boot' as a matter of course. I don't know when the re-boot craze started, but we were quite happy when Bond's age almost halved from Rog to Tim. No-one was concerned about 'same continuity'. It was just a different actor …
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Jeez, this thread's depressing. dad Bond, dead Bond, re-booted Bond, black Bond.... It was all much simpler in the Roger years...
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Dragonpol wrote: » No, it's all about Fleming and the Bond novels. You won't regret ordering it as Chancellor had access to the Fleming archives. Highly recommended! Nice one, looking forward to it all the more. To me, James Bond is in the …
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matt_u wrote: » pattabra wrote: » Fukunaga already confirmed that the film will end with the JB will return card. That's the best news I've seen on this thread for ages!
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How about.... (Spoiler)
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I didn't even know the 'Man and His World' book existed, thanks for putting that up. I ordered it yesterday, thinking it was about the novels, but then I read it was mostly about the films, and I thought about cancelling, then I read it was based o…
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Pierce2Daniel wrote: » MdL wrote: » I would like to see Cillian Murphy take the mantle, he could take the character even more darker than Craig. He's 44, sadly. Which will work against him....however, I totally agree. He would bring a r…
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mtm wrote: » Yeah I always wondered if that was a bit of a weird clanger line unless you knew your Fleming, do you know what I mean? It sort of plays as a joke but the punchline doesn't really work unless you know what he likes already: if you don…
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I started re-reading Moonraker today, and it reminded me of another Flemingism in the Craig era. When Bond says to Vesper, "you're not my type", she says "Smart?" He says "Single". Which ties in the the bit at the start of Moonraker when it says …
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MajorDSmythe wrote: » Got around to knocking out the last 7 chapters of Live And Let Die earler. It hasn't aged well, that said.... I wouldn't want to see it (or any book) censored. You sure picked the wrong week to read that book! Moonr…
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I don't mind if you think I'm thick or closed-minded Denbigh. I do understand the concept of a re-boot. I just think it would be daft to kill him off, then have him return in a few years with no explanation other than "hey, it's okay, it's a re-boot…
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We are perhaps debating fourteen years too late if a Bond reboot is a good thing or not. I'm sorry, I can't remember who said it earlier, but I liked one guy's idea that he thought all the pre-Craig Bonds had had the same adventures, but in their ow…
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No Nick, I wasn't trying to be sarcastic with that last line. I'm sorry if it came across that way. I can see, reading it back how it came across snotty. The four Craig films, are a lot nearer to Fleming than the previous four films, (I started a t…
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NickTwentyTwo wrote: » I've sometimes thought, a franchise with a Bond-like character who, throughout the films/episodes/whatever, died just as often as succeeded. Then, in each entry, you truly wouldn't know if he would get out of his current pre…
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NickTwentyTwo wrote: » Would it make sense for Bond to die at the end of Craig’s tenure and have a new actor come and tell new Bond stories? Why not? Why not? Because in the previous film, erm... James Bond died.
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NickTwentyTwo wrote: » If Craig’s bond dies, that’s just a James Bond story being told. It has no effect on any films before or after, necessarily. It's like I'm Charlton Heston on the Planet of the Apes here today. Does nobody else on h…
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NickTwentyTwo wrote: » If Craig’s bond dies, that’s just a James Bond story being told. It has no effect on any films before or after, necessarily. There are no “multiple universes”. Then any story line with any danger or threat, means noth…
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Denbigh wrote: » You're quoting people wrong @shamanimal, and Craig is a separate character/person. Sorry, I've edited. So if Craig's Bond dies, and then the series carries on, that works in a way that if Connery's Bond died, Roger Moore…
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