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Women tended not to be walking signposts for equality and political correctness. Stories were stand alone. MI6 wasn't in constant turmoil.
Time to remember the Bond that started it all.
And SP is Craig's TB
Then B25 will be Craig's YOLT?
I like YOLT :D
Let me tell you, I can not wait for the next time 2 armies will fight again in a Bond film. It has been far to long if you ask me. :!!
Would be nice. They need the female audience though so some things are here to stay I suspect.
Shame.
Barry Nelson?
Alright then. ;)
I can't agree. Bond should always move forward MI6 the BSS which was aligned to the navy no longer exists having been replaced by SIS it's own standalone agency. You simply couldn't get away with Bond placing his hands over women, forcefully kissing them and treating them as sex objects anymore. The franchise has been rejuvinated because Dan's Bond is human, believeable and have drawn in a new audience as a result. Fans who never previously enjoyed Bind films but enjoyed franchises like Bourne and Taken are now Bond fans. The films are breaking records, getting bigger budgets and attracting A list Oscar winning actors. Why would you fix something that is not broken?
There is no way in hell Bond will go back to be the chauvinist he was, yes he'll always be a bit sexist but not on the level he was in the Connery - Moore era.
Plus he's not a museum piece, the character has to move with the times. These directions that the character has taken have paid off in dividends, just because some Dalton fans aren't happy with the short blond, ugly actor that is playing their hero now is not a gauge of the success of the character.
Some of you need to realise that maybe this will never gravitate back to what you once liked about the character, it's painful I'm sure but maybe Bond is just not for you anymore the way's it's presented now.
Why are Dalton fans being singled out? I don't like Craig in the role, which i'm pretty sure isn't a crime, but every other Dalton fan here does like Craig, I think.
Why not have a few genuine damsels in distress, a good old fashioned temptress, and some serious rounded female characters as well. That has the potential to satisfy everyone.
Camille in QoS was pretty damn close.
The last "real" woman we got was Vesper in CR.
She was assertive without resorting to being (to use the F word) feisty. She wasn't a karate chopping kick-ass daddy-wanted-a-boy amazon that could shoot the eye out of a target at a hundred metres while doing the splits and juggling chainsaws. No, she drew strength from her vulnerability and used her beauty as a weapon more effectively than any man could use a gun. Not only this, her main strength was her intelligence and spirit.
In my opinion, this puts her above Bond in terms of strength of character and that is one of the over-riding themes of CR, which is Bond learning from Vesper that it's not all about knowing how to kill -- it's about knowing how to live.
CR was a success in part down to the fact that it successfully delivered the very human message to women that it's okay to be vulnerable and feminine, because in many ways this is far superior to violent physicality. After CR, women wanted to be more like Vesper -- she was a new feminine role model.
It's a pity that Eon didn't see fit to elaborate on this and incorporate it into later movies, preferring instead to resort to the old "feisty and kick's ass along with Bond" cliché.
What transpires as far as feminine role models in SP remains to be seen, but on the information we have today, I'm not holding my breath.
Domhnall Gleeson already been cast as first red hair Bond and his father wil play a villian in his 3th Bond film.
What do you think you won as Harry Potter actor from Daniel (Radcliffe) playing part of James Bond ?
Of course, Bond will never be blond as well.
If Barbara has the hots for a ginger next time, he'll get the role.
Slash the budget at least in half.
Focus on character interactions. Dialogue.
Put the next director in a room and force him to watch FRWL, DN & CR on loop for a few days. Then let him out and get him to work.
This wont happen if Craig is doing one more.
Yep.
Is it wrong of me that I watched a dodgy Liam Neeson flick recently (Run All Night or something) and actually really enjoyed it and thought "the dialogue and acting in this is actually better than your average Bond movie"? I guess it did have Ed Harris in it, so something had to work.
I'd love to see a stripped back, relatively low budget Bond movie. Focus on locations, one or two nice sets and minimal CGI. But with an excellent story and script and tight direction. Not too long. Something that moves along at a decent pace and doesn't outstay it's welcome.
Good strategy.