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Precisely. I don't want a director pretentious enough to sacrifice the gunbarrel, for instance for the sake of an artistic blurry opening shot of Craig.
I thought Tamahori was an interesting choice at the time - how wrong I was. I think I was if the view that nothing could be worse than TWINE- on that at least I think I was actually right.
I also thought Forster was a potentially good choice and for me at least he did a decent job of it, especially considering he was handed an unfinished script.
Villeneuve seems like an all round good fit. I hope we get a little less of the portentousness we had in Arrival and Sicario. But if Craig is going out on a faithful YOLT adeptation, may be Villeneuves signature style is the right one.
I was only questioning your choice of words to describe it.
Same here.
Give me a tightly wound, visceral intelligent thriller over all that OTT bullets ballet nonsense.
He can work within an existing framework. It will all depend on Craig and Babs. They will point him in a certain direction and he will do their bidding. The upside is I think he will be able to do it better than Mendes could. I'd expect a blend of SF/QoS. So a little more grit, but certainly some pomposity and themes as well.
As I said somewhere recently (perhaps it was here), this director has a tendency to make films where the central character faces a moral dilemma. Should he get Bond, I expect such a scenario to confront Craig's Bond.
B26 is where the real shakeup occurs tonally, for better (in my view) or for worse.
and will end my daytime dream wishing Denis Villeneuve a happy birthday for he is turning 50 years old today :)
Agreed. Also, are your private messages not working @Clark?
Give me Zimmer over Newman any day. He's one of the outstanding composers of his generation - seems fitting he should have a crack at Bond. Can't be worse than the SF-SP recycling.
Martin Campbell's not from the UK.
The M:I theme was quite prominent in M:I 2.
And it was awful. That screechy rock guitar version was in insult to that theme.
True! But it was there. And he didn't use 'The Plot' which is another great Lalo Schiffrin theme.
I can imagine if he used it, it would sound like his Wonder Woman theme. =))
Black Rain is the only score he's done that I think is great and memorable. But that was 1989 Zimmer and he's not coming back.
Correct - he's a Kiwi. So is Lee Tamahori and ) Spottiswoode was born in Canada.
Forster is the only one not from the British Commonwealth though.
Terence Young was also born in China and Guy Hamilton was born in Paris :)
@bondjames This is one of the things that has really frustrated me about this era. They are completely shackled to one style and tone.
The series always worked better when we had regular shifts in tone, it helped keep things fresh. FRWL-GF. YOLT-OHMSS. MR-FYEO...I think you get my drift. To have four, and now most likely five films that all roughly have the same tone is too much.
What felt fresh as a daisy in 2006 with CR now feels very, very stale.
Marc Forster, Sam Mendes and a bit Martin Scorsese.
With Lee Smith, Dennis Gassner return. I like to see van Hoytema return or Russell Boyd as dop, but mabey even with Deankins. I prefer film or atleast daylight scenes look more like Spectre. I only think Mexico City scene was to short or atleast much effect by repeat of music.
My expections we will get Germany and Spain as locations. I prefer limited use of England/mabey even ignored till the end after one view and whant a return to l' American to pick up Vesper video.
More screentime for Felix, Camile in/and the story more inportent then Moneypenny, M, Q or Astin Martin.
It was an interesting conversation, not at all controversial, but I suppose could have been moved to the controversial thread since we were heading a little off topic here.
Did I miss something after I left the discussion? Was something untoward launched?