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Precisely. And Connery:Bond didn't exactly come out of the Train fight unscathed. And of course, TB, where Bond was shot in the lower calf. Bond has bled throughout the films, they just didn't shout from the rooftops about it until the Craig era.
No fans asked for a rushed and pathetic love story, the Scooby Gang, rehasing half of Skyfall score and the "daddy loved you more" story angle, though. As @bondsum said, we have no baring on Bond movies.
However, I do not want to see another Bond film like it again. That's what you get with four friggin writers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/8ohahk/benedict_cumberbatch_in_bond_25/
This is very likely BS.
the character development is not that neat IMO.
Any way looking forward to the mental health issues in B25
He has also mentioned Golshifteh Farahani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golshifteh_Farahani
Personally I like Benedict much more then Angelina Jolie
yeah that's now crossed the line for me into 'he must be trolling'
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/969023/James-Bond-25-villain-Helena-Bonham-Carter-Angelina-Jolie-Daniel-Craig
(inb4 someone mentions how 'PC-pandering' this casting would be)
https://cbr.com/james-bond-25-helena-bonham-carter-rumor/
But there is a big mistake in the news :
" Although both Naomie Harris and Judy Dench has been female powerhouses in the latest era of the franchise, there is yet to be a woman to face off against Bond in any form of villainous capacity."
Really ? What about Fiona (TB), Helga Brandt (YOLT) Rosa Klebb, Irma Bunt, Elektra, Xenia, and so on ? Granted, the male to female ratio of Bond villains is more to the side of the males, but that doesn't mean that female villains have not been present.
The quote says "latest era of the franchise," so none of those count.
Also, highly doubt the Cumberbatch thing too. It comes from CashleyPersia so I automatically doubt it highly.
interesting casting. she seems Boyles type as well
interesting casting. she seems Boyles type as well.
young enough to be Craig's daughter practically. are we starting to stray into Rog territory now. will Dan cook her a quiche?
or maybe he doesn't sleep with her at all. imagine that lol
She's 34, turning 35 in a month, and Craig is 50. That's a 15-ish year difference. According to this, 12 films had an age difference equal to or greater than 15 years.
I think the problem with CR/QoS/SF is that they all have the same basic character arc. Bond becoming, or getting back to being, the Bond we know. Cue tired 2006 arrangement of the Bond theme. What I really liked about SP is how they did some interesting character stuff without repeating that. Bond is as skilled, professional and self assured as he was in any of the Connery to Brosnan movies, but the character stuff came from him questioning the path he'd gone down by being reminded of the man he used to be by the Vesper tape.
I thought it worked really well. Reintroducing the classic Bond stuff and making him more like the original cinematic version could have been really jarring, going from staring at himself in the bathroom mirror wondering what he was doing after killing a man to cracking one liners about it a few films later. But imo they made it work by drawing attention to this change and turning it into a character point.
That's unusual for this series. I can appreciate how fans of his like it. If one is engaged in his 'arc', then one buys into it. If one isn't on the other hand, then I hope folks can understand that it becomes rather tiresome for others.
What works on the written page in terms of character development is less easy to translate into the cinematic screen over a 13 to 14 year timeframe (which is quite long by any standards). If they'd churned these out a little quicker with the narrative continuity or arc (say four films over a seven year period like they did with Brozza, three films over a seven year period like they did with the Bat trilogy or even three films over a six year period as was done with the original Bourne trilogy) then I perhaps could have bought into it more readily but the gaps have unfortunately led me to lose interest in the character progression.
I can understand that others are still fully engaged and that's fine.