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New Daniel Craig interview — Bond 23 will be a "classic Bond film"

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  • dragonskydragonsky
    Posts: 2,491
    My level of anticipation is rising... Wow!
    same here

    Austin Powers influence? i hope he is talking about the influence that Bond had about Powers not vice versa

    i hope he have the same idea of a classic Bond film as us
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited July 2011 Posts: 15,718
    i hope he have the same idea of a classic Bond film as us
    By classic some are hoping for TB or GF... By classic I visualize the Moore films... :-D
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
    Posts: 11,139
    Classic are the first 4, with emphasis on the 2nd.
  • BondBond
    edited July 2011 Posts: 503
    Austin Powers influence? i hope he is talking about the influence that Bond had about Powers not vice versa
    Have you watched the interview? He's talking about Austin Powers' influence on Bond. The camp/humor elements of classic Bond were so over-parodied in the AP series that it influenced the decision to go with a darker reboot theme in CR and QOS.

  • dragonskydragonsky
    Posts: 2,491
    i hope he have the same idea of a classic Bond film as us
    By classic some are hoping for TB or GF... By classic I visualize the Moore films... :-D
    i hope he dont think same as you
    Austin Powers influence? i hope he is talking about the influence that Bond had about Powers not vice versa
    Have you watched the interview? He's talking about Austin Powers' influence on Bond. The camp/humor elements of classic Bond were so over-parodied in the AP series that it influenced the decision to go with a darker reboot theme in CR and QOS.

    nope it took long to load so first i commnted and then i watched it :)
  • JamesBondJamesBond
    Posts: 669
    Finally, we got classic Bond back. I hope they've built the character properly.
  • CharlesManhattenCharlesManhatten
    Posts: 14
    Any type of artistic-change from QoS should be regarded as a good thing.
  • The_ReaperThe_Reaper
    Posts: 1,092
    Bring it! Can't wait for this film. Most anticipated of 2012, for sure. Dark Knight Rises is close second. Craig really has a handle on how he wants to play this role and how they SHOULD play Bond in this day and age.
  • AgentJM7AgentJM7
    Posts: 421
    Sounds brilliant :) I've always hoped it would be a classic, as have many of us. It looks like we might get it. I can't see the video (yet) thanks to internet limits, but from what I've read from everyone else, it sounds as if we will get a pragmatic but common sense approach to a classic Bond film. Just great!

    PS: Mods, can this please be moved to Bond 23?
  • LudsLuds MIA
    Posts: 1,986
    PS: Mods, can this please be moved to Bond 23?
    Yoink!
  • JBFan626JBFan626
    Posts: 1,497
    I get the impression more or less from Craig's statements, that there will be no Q or any 'gadgets' for that matter in the next Bond. It's been said for awhile now, that people aren't impressed by gadgets anymore. I disagree. The majority of the movie-going public probably doesn't read gadget magazines. So it would be cool to see some interesting, albeit realistic spyware. There's plenty of car magazines, fashion magazines and travel magazines, yet these all still look fresh and exciting in the context of a Bond film, so why not include some really unique gadgets as well?
  • jerome007jerome007
    Posts: 158
    I'm with The_Reaper here. Although I enjoyed QoS,The Dark Knight shaded it for me. Now hopefully the proper order will be restored with a classic Bond in the pipeline. Just finished watching FRWL and can't wait. 15 months to go!!
  • BounineBounine
    edited July 2011 Posts: 2,599
    I hope Craig read some of the posts that were in support of him like mine! :) If I were him I wouldn't be reading the blogs either.

    For me, a good, classic Bond film would still be dark with the gritty realism we have been getting in the Craig era but with Money Penny and Boothroyd who are introduced in a natural way that doesn't resort to cheese. Or they should just be there like with Tanner in QOS. Also, a surreal, exotic fortress belonging to the villain that isn't blown up 30 seconds after first seeing it. I would like the quartermaster to just look over guns with Bond at the firing range in the bowels of the SIS. It would have good dialogue like in QOS (one of the few things I liked about this film) and natural humour that is in the right place, once again like in QOS. Of course it would atleast have the same action to dialogue ratio of OHMSS - no more action than what is in this film accompanied with the nice character movement. Perfectly realistic for today’s audiences. Pigs might fly too. :)
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
    Posts: 8,217
    Humor can be subtle. In CR, I find the way Bond tosses the keys, after posing as a valet, really humorous. I can see that, and now that I think about it the entire sequence, being done by Sean. It is classic Bond.
  • BounineBounine
    edited July 2011 Posts: 2,599
    I think the dialogue and humour in QOS is well superior to that of CR. Having said this, CR is by far the better film. I don' really like QOS because it has way, way too many action scenes. Horrible. Still, it's better than the Brosnan films. It isn't too hard to achieve this though.

    You know something else they should do is give M back her old office. You know, how it appears in the Brosnan instalments and CR. That white sanitary decor in QOS is awful.

    Little things they should do is have Bond scuba diving, having dinner with the villain, talking to May in his flat, playing Baccarat off the job and introduce some dialogue that briefly refers to Bond's intolerance for shoe laces. It's little things like this that add to Bond's personality.

    On the 25th of this month I achieved my goal of going one year without watching a single Bond film. Now, I'm going to watch them all in reverse chronological order this time. I'll probably do the same with the Rocky films.
  • JunkoJunko
    Posts: 2
    I hope they get the balance between fantasy and realism a bit better this time. For me, it was a slight disappointment when they made Bond too 'real' and into 'gritty' Bourne-like action territory, I mean... Bond is also a kind of superhero, no? I don't want a return to the OTT Moore days, but I can only take so much of this sympathetic only 'human' Bond! I would at least like a return to a swanky, suave Bond (maybe with a Barry-ish music score) maintaining the new physicality and gritty violence.
  • jonhjonh
    Posts: 7
    The should make a James Bond movie that has a little kid in it . Other movies have little kids in it like Star Wars and Indiana Jones . There should also be a James Bond movie when James Bond movie when he loses . He should be chained to a wall . A bad guy named Zoue would take out his gun and get ready to shot him . Then the little boy get a whip and whip Zoue ....
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited July 2011 Posts: 15,718
    The should make a James Bond movie that has a little kid in it . Other movies have little kids in it like Star Wars and Indiana Jones . There should also be a James Bond movie when James Bond movie when he loses . He should be chained to a wall . A bad guy named Zoue would take out his gun and get ready to shot him . Then the little boy get a whip and whip Zoue ....
    I'll give you 20,000 Bahts to write the script !!

  • VirageVirage
    Posts: 1,856
    On The MI6 article is it just me or dose it look like DC is wearing mascara?
    You'll have to me more specific... which MI6 article? Where?
    The One WIth this interview on it!

  • SeveSeve The island of Lemoy
    edited August 2011 Posts: 422


    As for the one liners I can take them or leave them. I thought "that last hand nearly killed me" in CR was good and delivered really well, as were many of the lines in TB ("Wait until you get to my teeth"). But a lot of the one-liners in the Brosnan years (and, from what I hear, the Moore years) were ones that caused you to groan instead of laugh. Those I can do without.

    I prefer to take them rather than leave them, but you are right, they need to be of the former caliber rather than the latter, no groaners please
    The should make a James Bond movie that has a little kid in it . Other movies have little kids in it like Star Wars and Indiana Jones . There should also be a James Bond movie when James Bond movie when he loses . He should be chained to a wall . A bad guy named Zoue would take out his gun and get ready to shot him . Then the little boy get a whip and whip Zoue ....
    Yeah Baby, Yeah! (and Bond should have a dog too, and earlier Zoue could kick the dog, so the audience would know he was really bad)


  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    Children in no way shape or form should appear in a Bond film. More importantly, why would a kid follow a secret agent around on deadly missions? Hopefully George Lucas never gets to helm a Bond film, or we'll soon be seeing a grown Short Round fighting villainy with Bond. I have to stop..too horrible a thought..... #-O
  • BounineBounine
    edited August 2011 Posts: 2,599
    As has been said, Craig/Brosnan are told to say all these wonderful things about each movie. It happens everytime and each movie since the Dalton era, excluding CR, has turned out to be pretty much a disaster. I won't believe any of it until I see it. For me though a classic Bond film isn't a very light hearted film (atleast no less dark than FRWL, TLD, OHMSS and CR). I loved the tone of QOS and its level of humour. The dialogue was superior to CR too. CR is a much better film overall though as QOS is merely a non-stop action romp.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,976
    The should make a James Bond movie that has a little kid in it . Other movies have little kids in it like Star Wars and Indiana Jones . There should also be a James Bond movie when James Bond movie when he loses . He should be chained to a wall . A bad guy named Zoue would take out his gun and get ready to shot him . Then the little boy get a whip and whip Zoue ....
    I'll give you 20,000 Bahts to write the script !!

    I'll give you 20,000 Bahts if you can make this thing go faster.

  • BounineBounine
    edited August 2011 Posts: 2,599
    I wonder if they'll mess this up again. If this film does contain all the classic ingredients then they shouldn't just be thrown in there for the sake of having them. Such scenes have to fit in naturally within the overall film otherwise they'll just feel out of place like they do in the terrible Brosnan installments.
  • DoubleOhhSevenDoubleOhhSeven
    Posts: 1,778
    The should make a James Bond movie that has a little kid in it . Other movies have little kids in it like Star Wars and Indiana Jones . There should also be a James Bond movie when James Bond movie when he loses . He should be chained to a wall . A bad guy named Zoue would take out his gun and get ready to shot him . Then the little boy get a whip and whip Zoue ....
    I'll give you 20,000 Bahts to write the script !!

    I'll give you 20,000 Bahts if you can make this thing go faster.

    "Bloody Toursit! 20,000 Bahts"

    I know that line doesn't come after but it's hilarious. I guess some kids could work in Bond films provided they have less than a minute worth of screentime and have funny diologue.

  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    edited August 2011 Posts: 8,266
    I guess some kids could work in Bond films

    @DoubleOhhSeven Child labour in a Bond film. hmm, no. He should take up smoking first.
    Anyway, you can hardly expect Craig to tell his audience the next film is going to be she*t, now can you. Allthough I am hopefull thanks to that ' classic' remark.
  • BounineBounine
    edited August 2011 Posts: 2,599
    I wouldn't be surprised if by a classic Bond film they partly mean that Bond will end up with the girl at the end. If I were writing the film I would have the girl sitting beside Bond's side in a hospital holding his hand or embracing him from behind while he sits on a chair on the lawn nursing his wounds or something like that, similar to the end of some of the Fleming books. I'd stay away from the cliched kiss with Bond seducing the girl either in a bed or god knows where else.
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    I can understand It's not all entirely Craigs fault, but the last 007 movie really was crap, it may just have killed the entire franchise for some, I know a few who said they would never watch another Bond after the last entry, was it going for a garbage star with Moonraker and You Only Live Twice?

    Casino Royale was quite good, I enjoyed it, nice intro music, even if the teaser was about 15 seconds long

    but a blonde Bond who looked like he should be working for WWE, not playing some super spy and jumping from tall buildings and having his testicles abused by some Danish card player, I have to stop..

    but still a fun movie, I'll give it that

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,976
    No offense, @Baltimore_007, but that's really sad if the people you talked to have vowed to never watch another Bond film because of one film out of 22. Very sad, indeed.

    Granted, people that usually say that end up doing the exact opposite. Come October or November of 2012 next year, they will probably be in line at some point to see Bond 23.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    No offense, @Baltimore_007, but that's really sad if the people you talked to have vowed to never watch another Bond film because of one film out of 22. Very sad, indeed.

    Granted, people that usually say that end up doing the exact opposite. Come October or November of 2012 next year, they will probably be in line at some point to see Bond 23.
    The sad thing @Creasy, Is that Craig Bond haters will go into the theatre and expect crap, and even tell themselves it was horrid even if it was critically on match with CR. It is sad, but an evil that cannot be stopped. It's amazing that a man's hair color almost ruined a franchise. And people are wondering about having a colored Bond? If fans got outraged over hair color, what would they do when skin color changed? No matter what brilliance Craig puts forth, some will always hate it, and openly purge it, even if inside they like it. We just have to give Dan all the love we can(no homo) and trust his talent and ability.
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