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Which is why it should've been the DB5 from CR. Mendes dropped a boll-, er, clanger, there.
It’s also not his fault that Campbell, for whatever reason, had the DB5 with the drivers seat on the wrong side in CR.
Rather a good metaphor for the inclusion of SP/Blofeld in SP, come to think of it...
Bond won it in CR whilst investigating Le Chiffre's plans; although he was 'rogue' at the time I can imagine that MI6 retrospectively said he was on a sanctioned mission (especially given that they had to get him out of custody at Miami Airport), so it's also quite imaginable that they said any benefits he accumulated whilst on the mission (i.e. the Aston Martin) were Government property and not his.
That's a way you can make it work anyway! :)
Yeah, I must admit I kind of presumed this was the case... it's been a while since I've seen SP too...
(PS it would be fun to have Bond perhaps walk by a silver DB5 parked in the street and hesitate/glance for a fraction of a second) and then jump into his Lotus.
TLD worked fine with it's new Aston back in 1987, without the need for any DB5 popping up too.
We could see Bond checking his tie in the wing mirror of a silver DB5 to trick us and then he just turns his back on it and walks away. It's hard to draw a line between a "cheeky nod" and something that just takes you out of the movie.
I was starting to fantasize about some Q section scene, where they present a large number of old Bond cars "You really have the pick of the litter, 007", cut to Bond driving a Lotus Evija or an Audi e-tron GT or a current model AM, or a 2CV or whatever the hero car will be down a winding country road, but then I remembered all the tortured allusions to previous Bond films in DAD and a shiver goes down my spine...
It's like the idea of having Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy, Tom Hiddlestone, Tom Holland, Emily Blunt, Idris Elba and Clive Owen sit in a semi-circle TB-style as the other 00s. Cool idea for about half a second and then just too fanboyish.
Re: The TB circle in a new film - Cool idea ! Until the audience realizes how interesting they find those other actors, in comparison with (whomever) portraying Bond. Thanks for remembering to include a lady, by the way, for those of us who remember a lady double-0 appeared in TB. In fact, the other agents were a somewhat diverse lot of men, apparently from various parts of the world.
A homage to DAF? ;)
Good on that, @CrabKey.
And I'd greatly enjoy a silver Saab 900 Turbo used in any way in a Bond film. Background or otherwise.
Easier said than done at this point. Please recall the budgets for these films are partially covered by sponsorships. EON does not include Aston Martins only because they fit Bond's story. They did not include the %^*&-ing non-British BMW's during Brosnan's run because they fit the story. Remember the overwhelming presence of boring, fleet-car Chevrolet in LALD ? There were many Fords for years but they were nice cars - Mustang convertible in GF and TB, Lincoln convertible sedan in TB, Lincoln-Mercury Cougar in OHSS, Mustang in DAF, Lincoln Mark # in LTK, even the retro-T-bird in DAD - and were not over-represented and fit the stories. Would Lotus now want to get their cars into Bond films ? Would it make any artistic sense ? Do the present Lotus vehicles - much as I gladly would have one - look Bondian ? Do they look like a Bond actor could even fit in one ? (Other than, of course, the young and slight boys some folks on here promote for the next Bond actor.) Could they have Bond drive a classic - sadly, yes, the term now applies - Lotus Esprit as his person stashed-away car, while driving an Aston from work ? Perhaps not, depending on the terms of the agreement with Aston. In GE, Bond had a classic Aston, but, for work, he drove - no, not the tank - actually, they avoided the question, since the BMW convertible was so new it barely made it into the film, and Bond's American buddy - portrayed by the same actor - shades of YOLT and DAF - who played one of the villains in a film (TLD, which lacked a clearly identified primary villain) - drove it away. But after that, BMWs all over. Not over-represented, and they fit (though the BMW motorcycle in TND was a bit of an anamoly. Certainly the sedan and the convertible - now exceedingly valuable - in TWINE fit. Aston made it back into the films in DAD...even if the audience did not get to see it much (wink, wink).
That is one way for Bond to move forward: take ideas from continuation authors. It’s the ideas that could be changed, for better or worse.
Maybe that will change now that Amazon is fronting the money, so Eon doesn’t need to court another dealership to bring in the money/publicity. We’ll see. The signature car had become such a main staple for Brosnan/Craig, it’ll be surreal.
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