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Very much agree @CraigMooreOHMSS .... I see no other way for EoN. I also think it will give them more creative choices without a rigid compliance to template/formula.
I think so too..I hope they don't go with by-the-number formula and keep taking risks.
Exactly. . .
Bond being a womaniser (that is in the past along with Bond smoking sadly)
A Fluid timeline (I doubt it will relate to Craig or the other 5 Bond's, hopefully it's better planned than the Craig arc)
No mention of Vesper (I think you've got more chance of Bond meeting another Tracy than another Vesper in the next era. HopefullyGala Brand will be a love interest)
I have to say I'd hate that. The codename theory.
It's never bothered me that each Bond is the same guy. Has loose continuity from Connery to Brosnan. Bond has always been James Bond. It's not a codename, it's never been. Fleming never mentioned it. Thus, it's not cannon and a moot point as far as I'm concerned.
At the end of the day, the audience don't care. Fans care, but the general public do not.
I've never heard anyone call out Connery in YOLT, when he tells Henderson he's never been to Japan before. Yet in FRWL, he comments about a time when he was with M in Tokyo.
Or in OHMSS when Bond and Blofeld come face to face...again. Surely he would recognise Bond from their meeting in YOLT and the hollowed volcano lair.
Or the fact that Daltons Bond in LTK was married once, but that was a long time ago. Meaning Dalton would've been in his early 20's at the time. Not inconceivable, but doesn't really add up. My point is, Bond has always been the same character, even if he does get an update with each successive actor. The general audience will go along with it, and accept it. It's just us fans that will be a little nit picky and dissect it.
But there's nothing wrong with that at the end of the day. Afterall, we put a lot of time into the series we love. Sometimes though, I think we have to give Bond some artistic licence and a little leeway.
Yeah I think he'll be a lot less creepy about it from now on, but I don't think we'll especially notice. He's way less creepy in NTTD than he was in Skyfall even (he's stopped hitting on his colleagues for example), but he still felt like Bond.
I actually felt it was quite refreshing when he didn't try on it on with Paloma.
Yeah I've never even been hugely sure if I believe some of the films exist in a continuity or not. Does the Bond in Octopussy remember killing Mr Big? Does the guy throwing the ATAC off St. Cyrils remember punching Jaws in his metal groin? I'm not sure he does really, they're just adventures. Roger's Bond could have been rebooted with each of his three directors and we wouldn't know.
From now on I'm sure they will have continuity, and I quite like that too. It's how sequels should work after all- it would be odd if Riggs & Murtaugh weren't acting as if the earlier films had happened.
My friend was telling me about how he took his son to see NTTD as his first Bond though, and I did kind of wonder if it's the film which is likely to get you hooked on Bond or not, I'm not sure it would. Hopefully the next one will.
But, under different circumstances, would have with no hesitation 😉
I think he still will be, but women will be more assertive. Think more Solange and less Solitaire.
We’ll see. To me, even though I can let it slide since it’s part of the love plot, NTTD made it look like the series is transitioning to “fit the times,” with no casual sex or sexy women in the title credits. They already took away Bond’s smoking, so taking away his sexual lust isn’t at all a far fetched idea, especially since in the eyes of many he’s evil and misogynistic just for having casual consensual encounters.
Bond hasn't stopped having consensual encounters: that's what he thought he was getting with Nomi in Jamaica. For the rest of the film he's in a relationship with Madeline so it would be at odds to the story being told if he went around shagging anyone he saw.
A) “Dancing” isn’t specifically what I referred to. Just the women silhouette styles there the last three films before NTTD.
B) I acknowledged the NTTD story.
I think if there's a lack of evidence then there's no reason to think he'll stop being a womaniser.
You Only Love Twice.
Yes it seems likely, doesn't it? It is hard to think of anything which hasn't been done at this point: as per usual I find myself not envying the choices Eon have to make.
How I wish it were true.
This!
If they take the best bits of all three of these, we'd have a top tier Bond entry on our hands
Very true.
I'm not sure the plot would make much sense though :P
Smoking is no longer seen glamorous and hasn't been for a long time though. Except maybe cigars. Maybe. Which is why they make an appearance in NTTD, albeit Bond doesn't smoke one. Seduction, providing it's not done in a sleazy or creepy manner, is still seen as sexy and part of an hedonistic living. There's a very good reason why it was seriously toned down in NTTD: it would have cheapened the relationship between Bond, Madeleine and Mathilde. Otherwise, when Bond is single in Jamaica and unaware of the existence of his daughter, he seems as womanising as he was before his relationship with Madeleine. Or at least he seems eager to sleep with Nomi.
To me, the scene reads like he hasn’t done this in quite some time and is more going along with it than actually instigating anything.