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Yes, I agree with that, but I think even with a character study Mendes is tapped out as far as Bond. Just my opinion.
I want to see Mendes get back to making Mendes films and not Bond.
Mendes like Apted are two directors I admire but both didn't completely translate well to Bond.
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It's no secret: Naomie Harris would like to see Daniel Craig return as James Bond in the next installment of the long-running spy franchise. "I am in love with Daniel," she tells ET while promoting the new film, Moonlight, in which she plays a drug-addicted mother.
[...] But when the conversation turns to Craig, there's no doubting that Harris is a staunch supporter of the 48-year-old actor. "He is incredible," she says. "I think he's the best Bond we've had in so long, so I want him back."
[...] While Harris says she's into the various possibilities, she doesn't want "to put labels on anything."
"I hate when people talk about black Bond or gay bond or what have you. It's not about that," she says. "We just want someone who inhabits all the qualities of Bond, right? We just want that mysterious quality. That kind of man we all want to be with and whoever the actor is who is able to do that, I'm happy with that."
And for the record, don't consider Harris for the part. "She retired," she says of Moneypenny. "I like the idea that she's deskbound. But anything can change, anything can happen."
You hit the nail on the head. The story desperately needed some stakes in the form of a sacrificial lamb (I don't care who--Lucia, Tanner, Swann, or someone else entirely).
It is interesting that one of the scripts contained an Irma Bunt and that Bond's last line was originally "We have all the time in the world."
It makes you wonder what fate they had planned for Swann, and may still...
Yes, I think Mendes even knows he's done. He's a wealthy and highly intelligent man. I don't think there's enough money to have him do another nine month shoot (waaaaay too long, IMO).
I sincerely enjoyed SP as being a failed experiment. I said this long ago, but I found each scene to be its own story, and, for the most part, mesmerizing and interesting (although I could cut C out all together and not miss he, nor his B-plot), but as a whole, the film absolutely failed. It's a beautiful failure.
Denis Villeneuve is the man I'd love to see behind the camera for a DC 007 story. The man can weave suspense and thrills and character, in perfect balance, as seen in SICARIO and PRISONERS...
During this protracted (?) downtime, one can only hope that they are looking for a top-notch screenwriter.
I don't want to see another director deal with that baggage and I don't want to see Mendes come back and ditch all the story set-up in SP. He left things in a strange way. It's open ended to continue and yet it's also a closed book on Craig's tenure and time for a clean slate.
Mendes has given everything he had.
But a skilled director/writing team can take those ingredients and make a gourmet feast.
The next story needs heart. An "emotional" spine to the story (and no, that doesn't mean more digging into Bond and his step brother; but goes back to lots of stakes that actually mean something)
I always liked the look of QoS, what bothered me more was the editing and shaky cam work. When we finally have as physical a Bond as Craig, I wanted to actually see what he was doing during the action set-pieces.
The film as a whole has grown on me, since, after all these years, I've pieced together who is now doing what!
LOL!
Hinx is dead, unless we're headed back into Jaws territory.
I agree about QoS. Setting aside the shaky cam (please!) and rating on a bit of a curve because of the writer's strike, the movie is solid up until when they arrive in Bolivia. Oh, and Craig doesn't get nearly enough credit for his humor as he and Fields switch hotels (snobbery!). But from that point forward, it's pretty rocky,
DC is amazing when he's being snobbish (from saying he hoped Vesper gave her parents hell for naming her); to the dark humour in the LeChiffre torture sequence; to mocking Mathis in QoS (he's already forgotten)... DC handles that type of humour with ease and coolness.
There has always been humour in the DC era.
Exactly right. The humour comes from the character and the way he is dealing with a given moment. It's natural and isn't overdone.
That is the refreshing thing with the Craig era; No cheesy one liners.
A poster on here the other day reckoned DAF had the best dialogue of all the Bond films!
Maybe if you're around 9 years old...
Perhaps, but it's not a humorous one liner which is what I was talking about.
Cheese factor 10 and the rat talk and flirt with Silva in SF is even worse.