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It’s kind of a boring poster, isn’t it? For me, the classic James Bond Poster should be painted and have Bond standing suavely, wearing a tuxedo and holding a gun, all in front of a strangely arranged montage of elements of the film (semi-naked women, explosions, helicopters etc…)
I think that my favourite is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, where Bond appears to doing a ski-jump while looking suave, wearing a tuxedo and holding the gun. That shows us that Bond is just a brilliant multitasker.
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Craig’s era feels like it has lasted forever, so I’m quite ready to move on to something new.
Casino Royale came out in 2006 – it will be 14 years old by the time his final film comes out.
(Compare it to Pierce Brosnan’s era, which ran for four movies but only lasted from 1995-2002, half the length of the Craig era.)
I hope he goes out on a good movie, but I’m also hopeful that they move forward with a new era soon after.
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Looking at the box office, these are now films that make the same sort of money as superheroes and big fantasy films; $800m to $1bn so, IMO, we’re not going to see any major changes beyond recasting the lead role, which is a big enough change in itself.
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They’ll stay contemporary and they’ll stay in cinemas.
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Bond stealthily entered the hotel suite of the man he was here to kill. But first he needed information, and he knew just how to get it. If he was right, the crook’s innocent young bride should be the only person in the suite at this hour.
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From the bathroom, he heard the sound of the shower, and a brief glance showed him lacy lingerie lying on the bathroom floor. He smiled impishly, and slowly loosened his bow tie.
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Then he sat down at the computer and typed,
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It’s a silly idea. It immediately suggests that Felix Leiter must also be a cover name passed from agent to agent because we’ve seen him as several different people (complete with miraculously regenerating limbs). And that basically implies that everybody else in every intelligence agency in the world must be at least in on the trick, if not actively swapping names, and the whole thing becomes pointless on its own terms.
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The font for the title is the same as the one for The Love Boat:
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Her brother looks like he’s auditioning for a reboot of Daredevil.
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That’s plenty of time to die.
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“He was pounding the table, saying you’re the best James Bond, I wanna do James Bond”
By Esquire Editors
20/04/2020
On last night’s live watchalong of GoldenEye, Pierce Brosnan – the Bond with the kindest eyes – revealed much about the Nineties-era 007, and it seemed everyone wanted in on the star’s turn on the Walther-PPK. Even Quentin Tarantino.
Long after the 1995 Bond hit wrapped production, Brosnan revealed that the director’s people got in touch with his people to talk about a spy film that never came to fruition. But several rounds of martinis did.
“It was after Kill Bill Vol. 2, and he wanted to meet me, so I went up to Hollywood one day from the beach, and I met him at the Four Seasons,” said the 66-year-old. “I got there at 7pm, I like to be punctual. 7:15 came around, no Quentin, he was upstairs doing press. Someone sent over a martini, so I had a martini, and I waited till 7:30, and I thought, where the heck is he? Word came down, apologies, so I thought, okay, I’ll have another martini.”
Eventually however, the Pulp Fiction writer did turn up, at which point Brosnan admits he was “fairly smokered” – and Tarantino decided to top the actor up with more apple martinis. Soon enough, “we were [both] fairly smokered”.
“He was pounding the table, saying you’re the best James Bond, I wanna do James Bond, and it was very close quarters in the restaurant and I thought, please calm down, but we don’t tell Quentin Tarantino to calm down,” said Brosnan.
“He wanted to do James Bond, and I went back to the shop and told them but it wasn’t mean to be. No Quentin Tarantino for James Bond.” Instead, Brosnan finished his tenure on Die Another Day. Which, under the guiding hand of the Inglourious Basterds auteur, may’ve meant samurai swords, an air hostess-turned-world saver and a Bond far too foul-mouthed for the tender ears of Judi Dench.
“That would be a good one to watch,” said Brosnan. We’re inclined to agree.
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I am absolutely delighted that never came to fruition.
I kind of feel that way about the Tarantino Star Trek movie.
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I kind of feel that way about the Tarantino “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” movie.
I don’t understand what people like about that movie, Apart from the acting (Leo, especially) and a technical skill that made it at times pleasing to look at, I found it entirely uninteresting and over-indulgent, even for Tarantino. Read some reviews after watching it and the consensus seems to be that it was pretty good if not excellent. I really, really don’t see it.
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I was fine with the runtime; wouldn’t have carted if it had gone on longer. It wasn’t about the plot, it was a portrait of a time and place. A mythological 70s Hollywood that was innocent and beautiful. With the ending and corruption of it all ever edging closer; a feeling of dread for what we know is coming.
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I was fine with the runtime; wouldn’t have carted if it had gone on longer. It wasn’t about the plot, it was a portrait of a time and place. A mythological 70s Hollywood that was innocent and beautiful. With the ending and corruption of it all ever edging closer; a feeling of dread for what we know is coming.
And then that ending which pulls the rug out from under you, and emphasises that feeling even more.
I enjoyed the movie a lot – it might be Tarantino’s best since Jackie Brown.
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I was fine with the runtime; wouldn’t have carted if it had gone on longer. It wasn’t about the plot, it was a portrait of a time and place. A mythological 70s Hollywood that was innocent and beautiful. With the ending and corruption of it all ever edging closer; a feeling of dread for what we know is coming.
Except that Hollywood was never innocent and beautiful. So it’s mythologizing a place that never existed (and treats the only POC in the film as an arrogant idiot who a aging white stuntman can go toe to toe with in a fight) and does away with any dread by reducing the threat to that mythology into a bunch of bumbling losers.
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Except that Hollywood was never innocent and beautiful. So it’s mythologizing a place that never existed
I think that’s what Christian meant by “a mythological 70s Hollywood that was innocent and beautiful”.
It’s pretty clearly not striving to be a realistic depiction of that era, and if that wasn’t clear for most of the movie then the ending makes it pretty explicit. It’s a love letter to an idealised imagined version of that era of Hollywood, and the magic of the movies.
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I was just looking to the James Bond Thread, but I seem to have stumbled into the Tarantino thread. I’m obviously lost. Carry on…
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So it’s mythologizing a place that never existed (and treats the only POC in the film as an arrogant idiot who a aging white stuntman can go toe to toe with in a fight) and does away with any dread by reducing the threat to that mythology into a bunch of bumbling losers.
The dread Christian was talking about is in the contrast between the fantasy of the movie and what we know actually happened. The ineptitude of the killers is part of the fantasy.
The ending is really haunting to me, it really does feel like a dark fairy tale. And it drives home the tragedy of Sharon Tate’s death in a different, perhaps more moving way than a conventional retelling would.
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James Bond Should Drop One Tradition After No Time To Die
Daniel Craig is confirmed to be quitting as James Bond after No Time To Die, but the series should break tradition and recast everyone else too.
by Craig Elvy
Apr 22, 2020
The James Bond franchise should break from tradition and recast all of its supporting characters after No Time To Die. The twenty-fifth film in the James Bond franchise has endured a lengthy and troubled production. After heavy speculation over whether Daniel Craig would return for another stint as 007 (mostly fueled by the actor himself), Danny Boyle departed as the film’s directed over a clash of creative vision against Bond’s long-standing producers. After finally gaining a semblance of stability, No Time To Die was one of the first movies to be pushed back due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, and will now release in November 2020 instead of April.
Daniel Craig has already confirmed that No Time To Die will be his final James Bond film, and the race for a new 007 will soon begin. But Bond has a tradition whereby the arrival of a brand new leading man doesn’t necessarily mean other characters are also recast. For example, Judi Dench originally appeared as M during the Pierce Brosnan era, even though most fans prefer her more recent performances. Similarly, Desmond Llewelyn played MI6’s Q for over 30 years, outliving many an incarnation of 007. While this practice is part of Bond’s DNA, it makes sense to stop after No Time To Die, and recast all of the recurring supporting characters such as M, Moneypenny, Q and Felix.
Firstly, Daniel Craig’s tenure as James Bond has been a largely self-contained affair, telling a single, overarching story from Casino Royale to No Time To Die. Fans have followed this iteration of Bond from a rookie 00-agent to a veteran being dragged out of retirement for one last mission, whereas previous versions of the character would appear fully-formed and disappear without explanation, free from the same connectivity Craig’s movies have been bound by. Because of this, it would be jarring if Ralph Fiennes’ M or Ben Whishaw’s Q appeared in Bond 26 and failed to acknowledge that their dashing top secret agent no longer looked like Daniel Craig.
More importantly, the mindset of a movie audience in 2020 is very different to that of the 1960s. When James Bond began, the departure of Sean Connery wasn’t an automatic reason to recast Llewelyn as Q, or Bernard Lee as M, for example. If the supporting cast were happy to stay and performing well in the role, then the switching of Bonds was no cause for further cast upheaval. But ever-evolving trends and tastes mean this no longer applies in 2020. The franchise is king in the modern movie industry, with shared universes becoming increasingly common, and this means an audience is actively looking for connectivity between films more than ever before, struggling to suspend their disbelief if something doesn’t logically add up. This phenomenon is not exclusive to James Bond either. Michael Gough served as Alfred across 3 separate incarnations of Batman in the 1980s and 1990s, and few eyebrows were raised. But if Michael Caine or Jeremy Irons had been cast as the famous butler in The Batman, fans undoubtedly would’ve had questions.
The same is true of Bond’s supporting characters. The only way the iconic franchise can properly move forward into a new post-Daniel Craig era is to completely recast the key MI6 roles. Of course, that isn’t to say the Daniel Craig Bond films haven’t featured some amazing supporting talent. Fiennes, Dench and Whishaw have all left a legacy as M and Q, respectively, while Naomie Harris as Moneypenny and Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter have helped redefine their characters for modern times. Despite standout performances across the board, however, No Time To Die should mark the final appearances of each, giving the next James Bond an entirely fresh start.
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Yeah, it’s the fan thing again, like the occasional debate that starts, “What if ‘James Bond’ is actually a code name????”
Actors stay on with the franchise because the producers like them, and it’s a nice regular job that keeps their profile that bit higher.Audiences are fine with that.
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So, apparently, there were rumors that Harry Styles was in line to be the next 007, which, apparently, he’s denied.
But still, who looks at Harry Styles and thinks James Bond?
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But still, who looks at Harry Styles and thinks James Bond?
Pre-teen girls. All of them.
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So, apparently, there were rumors that Harry Styles was in line to be the next 007, which, apparently, he’s denied.
But still, who looks at Harry Styles and thinks James Bond?
Honestly nothing has a higher bullshit count than ‘rumours’ about James Bond casting (well maybe Doctor Who casting).
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John CenaMeryl Streep could do both and still make it home in time for supper.ftfy
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Bond 25: MGM Shopped Film to Streamers with $600M Price Tag
Yeah, not sure I can see a single movie being worth that to anyone.
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If I had 600M too much I would buy it.
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Warner immediately buy it and give Snyder another $600m for reshoots…
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Sean Connery has died.
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