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After the recent Jason Bourne, I really hope not. I don't want them to ever use that as a title.
"Daniel Craig as James Bond in James Bond." What?
DANIEL CRAIG
as Ian Fleming's
JAMES BOND 007
in
JAMES BOND
Doesn't quite work for me.
I doubt he tries to kill M but I could see the "big idea" being Bond actually working against the government. He gets sent on a mission, sees something he doesn't like and has his whole for queen and country mindset challenged. Boyle's quite liberal so I think something anti establishment like that wouldn't be too far fetched, it'd also explain London as a location, and if the female protege rumours are true then maybe she's the one sent after him.
I've bitched about Bond going rogue a lot before but this would actually be interesting imo. Not just "Bond goes rogue but he's just finishing the mission really and MI6 realise that in the end". Bond actively working against the government, turning traitor for moral reasons. Could be an exciting way to end the Craig era.
I understand he loves Bond, but he doesn't shoot action well. Compare his OHMSS homage to the original. Hunt and Glen did it a better.
Perfectly said.
LOL. No. But I find a lot of the camerawork and art direction in CR to be lacking. The film has not aged well at all. This is mostly true in the first half of the film. When we get to Montenegro, things click a lot better.
Does any of this matter? Not really. I still count CR as one of my top 4 Bond films. It's solid, overall. But if we focus in, solely on some of Campbell's work in this film, it's quite underwhelming, tbh.
I have discussed this before, elsewhere. The embassy scene is dreadful, starting with the somersault, and the ridiculous mid shot on DC's face coming out of it. Then Campbell resorts to odd close-ups of pained faces, of a siren, of a video camera. watch this sequence with the sound off. It's not good. And it is the fakest set in the DC era. (That part may not be Campbell's fault.) Then we get the Ford car commercial. The attempt to double Prague as Miami. The overly-long airport chase, punctuated by DC looking constipated while trying to stop a refueling truck.
It settles down on the train, with Vesper.
I also wonder why MC edited the PTS, to not include Bond following Drefus's contact. It was highly effective...(at the 1:30 mark)
But again? None of this mattered much, overall. But there are good reasons for not wanting Campbell back.
Pretty much agree with lots of this. I am a Campbell sceptic. GE is massively overrated and large chunks of CR are really quite ropey.
"I have no armour left, you've striped it from me!"
co-written. Could have been Mankiewizc....
I can't remember the context but sounds ropey.
having said that DAF is full of lots of good dialogue.
How can you not remember that scene?
‘Small world’.
I'm one of the very few who liked that line.
+1
Same here.
+2. I once used a variation of that with a person I truly cared about.
Having said that, coming up with new and original set pieces is just getting harder and harder.