It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
Ah, so James Bond meets Halloween III: Season of the Witch. ;)
Yes sir. It never got off the ground during that long six year wait between LTK and GE, but there were some interesting concepts in there. I'm including a few links with some info on it.
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/bond_17_elements
http://www.007.info/the-007-film-that-never-was-daltons-third-bond/
Did that work?
That was really interesting! I wish we could have gotten to see that film. Thanks for the links.
@peter, that jpg file didn't work. You can't post it like that. It either has to be a web link or hosted somewhere (like at imgur.com) and then the link enclosed in the img tags.
Errrr DAD
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/us-billionaire-mercer-helped-back-brexit
Let's get at least some sense back before that happens.
Never seen that video before. Craig's responses were great.
Even today, politics are always present in Bond, and it makes sense that it would be. Bond is a national agent, after all, and represents a specific world culture that is very traditionalist, as he is. In his job the governments of the world and the politics they express must be intertwined, as it'd be impossible for them not to. It's a scary world, but the films can depict a different side to that fear, and possibly show that for all the unrest in the world stability can be created just as EON were able to show that the Soviets and the west could find common ground in the 70s and 80s in the name of self-preservation.
Just my piece on this, but like I said, I don't want to linger due to the understandable sensitivities of some users.
Aged? It was a snapshot of a crisis of the day, just as the Cold War of the earlier decades was. It's one of my favorite statements that TLD makes.
What's your issue? I think I already know, but I don't want to presume.
Bond films last forever and are watched forever by multiple generations. They aren't forgotten like other 'classics'. Therefore it's incumbent upon the producers to do their best to ensure their films remain fresh for as long as possible.
That doesn't mean they can't touch on politics, like they did more recently with North Korea and China during the Brosnan era. They handled it reasonably well in those films by focusing on 'rogues', and I find that's where Bond operates best.
Politics CAN be a part of Bond. In fact some of the best Bond plots were politically motivated. Government cutting the water supply to Bolivia? Coups? Defection? (Political asylum would make for an interesting topic in a Bond film) Perfect Fleming-esque plots.
HOWEVER what I don't want to see in a Bond film is leftwing or rightwing crap or Trump bashing. Not even a light satire of Trump. Nor do I want to hear about Brexit in a positive or negative light.
Bond plots should revolve about politics but it should never be opinionated.
+1
On the contrary, Trump is America's best hope for survival. In electing him, we derailed--at least temporarily--the suicide train. Brits did the same with Brexit and France is preparing to do likewise with Le Pen.
What's outlandish is replacing a generally peacable, law-abiding populace with hordes of rapists, terrorists and fellow travelers, and Islamic supremacists. If B25 must go political, let it limn this phenomenon.